LABBYISMS
Every oqe just now is telling stories of Labouchere and reminding themselves of the innumerable incidents "of his career that never failed to produce a ripple of. national laughter. It ia remembered that upon one occasion no moved to discontinue the practice of reading prayers to the House of Commons'. "For five hundred years," he said, "we have been praying for the divine guidance- and aid and Her Majesty's present Ministers are tho result. It would surely be well to stop these Erayers lest some worse" thing befall us." luring the 1 famous Bradiaugh discussion he referred to himself in the House of Commons as "the Christian member for Northampton" as distinguished from his colleague, Mr. Bradiaugh, and upon another occasion he described Gladstone as "not only holding the fcrtmi{j card up his sleevo, but insisting; that, the Almighty put it there.'"
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 19
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