BULLS IN PARLIAMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, 22 July 1916, Page 3

BULLS IN PARLIAMENT

Vnder the title, "The Bull Ring at Westminster," 'Sir Henry Lucy contributes to "Printers' Pie" some specimens of the quaint things he has seen and heard of.

O'Connor Power, in the early 'seventies, was guilty of this:—"Since the Government have let the cat out of the hag there is nothing to be done but take the bull by the horns." Mr Spurgeon'once told Sir Henry tli3t for bulls candidates for the ministrycould match politicians. He quoted from letters he had himself received these :

"Let us gird> up the loins of our mind that we may receive the latter rain."

"I hope the widow's mite (a small boy i.-i an orphanage) may root and spread its branches until it becomes a- Heivules in your hands." "We thank Thee for this spark of grace ; water it, Lord." It was in connection with an -industrial difficulty, says :Sir Henry, that an hon. member, fresh from the city, reported to an entranced House of Commons how, at a meeting of sharehoulders. one attempted to "throw a bombshell at the board. ">But," he triumphantly added, "the chairman knocked it into a cocked liat long before it was brought forward."

The prize for pre-eminence in "bulling" Sir 'Henry will not award, but gives high place in the competition to Sir William Hart-Dyke for remarking,

"I confess my right hon. friend has gone to the top of the tree audi caught a very large fish."

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