With but few exceptions one can tell where to look for the supporters and where for the opponents of one measure or of another.
Meetings are called in this or in that public hall to assist or to combat the Minister of the day, and men know what they are about.

But now it was not so.

It was understood that Mr.Daubeny, the accredited leader of the Conservatives, was about to bring in the bill, but no one as yet knew who would support the bill.

His own party, to a man,--without a single exception,--were certainly opposed to the measure in their minds.

It must be so.