Gentlemen bound to support the Government, when they perceived that there was comparatively but little to do, and that that little might be easily done, became careless, and, perhaps, a little contemptuous.

So that the great popular orator, Mr.Turnbull, found himself compelled to rise in his seat, and ask whether the noble Duke at the head of the Government thought himself strong enough to rule without attention to Parliamentary details.

The question was asked with an air of inexorable severity, and was intended to have deep signification.

Mr.
Turnbull had disliked the Coalition from the beginning; but then Mr.
Turnbull always disliked everything.

He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.