Representing the spirit in which the Leaders of the Respective Parties approached what was expected to be the decisive date.
October 11th, 1873.
No. 19.
REHEARSING FOR THE 23rd INSTANT.
M—K—zie—“I WILL FIGHT HIM UPON THIS THEME UNTIL MY EYELIDS WILL NO LONGER WAG!”—Hamlet, Act v., Scene 1.
John A.—“WHAT DO I FEAR?”—Richard III., Act v., Scene 3.
No. 20.
“Will he get Through?”
The question which was on all lips during the interim between the prorogation of the House of Commons on the 13th of August and the day fixed for its re-assembling, October 23rd. The prophecy conveyed in the unreasonable smallness of the hoop in the clowns hand, was duly realized.