His variegated crew.
Mr. Punch certainly kept his eye on Lord Haldane to good purpose—witness the stanzas "To the Cabinet (suggested by a recent doctoring of Hansard)":—
The judgment of the People's "Yea" or "Nay"
Wherefore should virtuous men like you shun?
You are—or so you confidently say—
Prepared for Dissolution.
Then snatch a hint from Haldane's little fake,
Who glanced with eye alert and beady at
His speech in proof, and, for appearance' sake
Added the word "immediate."