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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[March 27, 1880.

at the Elections. They had not taken the country into their con-
fidence, and the country would retort. But he felt no doubt (who
does?), that, whatever Government came back from the country,
would maintain England’s honour and England’s unity.

Lord Beaconsfield replied, that Lord Stratheden and Campbell’s

speech was. made up all along of assumptions varnished with local
colour. His conclusions might be sound, if his assumptions had had
a base, which they had not. His policy began and ended in war. The
object of the Government had been all along, and was still, mot to go
to war. Lord Campbell had asked for a copy of a letter from Sheee

THE LAST DROP!

Alt to the Sultan, which was an impudent forgery, and known
to he so. Tet on that rotten peg had been hung not only Lord
Stratheden’s impeachment of the Government policy, hut Lord
Granville’s “ amiable remarks on public affairs.” Government
had good and sufficient reasons for dissolving, Mr. Cross’s Water

Bill not being one of them. Had Lord B. thought water could have
washed away a Parliament, he would have felt that the country was
in danger ! His Dublin letter had been well weighed and sincerely
felt. The policy of the late Government had embarrassed the Ad-
ministration, and the language of some of the Opposition present