A. A strait is a narrow passage which connects two broad principles as Wakley’s Straits, which join Radicalism and Conservatism.
Q. What is a lake?
A. A lake is any small portion of Honesty, entirely surrounded by Self, as Peel’s Politics.
Q. What is a river?
A. A river is a Tax-stream which rises from the Treasury, and runs into the pockets of the Ministerial party. The People are the source of the stream—the Ministry is the mouth. When the mouth is very wide, it is called a Tory mouth. The right or left banks of a Tax stream are the Treasury or Opposition benches, to the right or left of the Speaker when he has his back to the source.
Q. How are tax streams divided?
A. Into salaries and pensions.
Q. What is a conflux?
A. Any place where two or more salaries or pensions are united, as The Duke’s breeches-pocket.
Q. Is there any other peculiarity attending a tax stream?