The leaders of our two great parties are to each other exactly as are the two champions of the ring who knock each other about for the belt and for five hundred pounds a side once in every two years.

How they fly at each other, striking as though each blow should carry death if it were but possible! And yet there is no one whom the Birmingham Bantam respects so highly as he does Bill Burns the Brighton Bully, or with whom he has so much delight in discussing the merits of a pot of half-and-half.

And so it was with Mr.Daubeny and Mr.Mildmay.

In private life Mr.Daubeny almost adulated his elder rival,--and Mr.
Mildmay never omitted an opportunity of taking Mr.Daubeny warmly by the hand.

It is not so in the United States.