That body has come to such a pass as would seem to indicate the final bankruptcy of the governing genius of England.

All the penalties of political gluttony have accumulated on it.

Parliament, to put the truth a little brutally, has broken down under a long debauch of over-feeding.

Every day of every session it bites off far more in the way of bills and estimates than it even pretends to have time to chew.

Results follow which it would be indiscreet to express in terms of physiology.