"That very superior person," as Mr. Disraeli called him, Mr.
Florsman, addressed his constituents at Liskeard on Thursday. The style of his address may be judged from his statement that" he was not a friend who flattered,"—a remark always made in the spirit of the old Evangelical lady who "thinks it her duty to tell you of your faults," and accordingly does your enemies' work without your enemies' excuse. Mr. Horsman ran over the usual list of charges against the Ministry, of which mankind is getting a little weary, and added the new one that it was about to limit the rights of the minority, and so "throw upon the House the reponsibility for which the Ministers were alone responsible." He declared that "a Liberal Govern- ment had passed a Conservative Education Act, and was false to the Liberal party," but "he made the remark in no spirit of unfriendliness." The Ministers had used the Prerogative in a way for which "Ministers in other days had lost their heads," but "he made the remark in no spirit of unfriendliness." It must be a pleasanter thing to be Mr. lIorsman's enemy than his friend,—f or the first may know what is coming, may expect his sentence to the block, and take measures accordingly.
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