Sir Stafford Northcote also made a querulous little speech at
Weymouth on Thursday. He congratulated the town on Mr. Gladstone having paid it a visit, without having done it any damage at all. He could not help thinking that if, in passing through Weymouth, Mr. Gladstone had heard of that meeting, he would have been inclined to take 80111.0 strong measure in the way of bombarding Weymouth. He assailed Mr. Glad- stone's Government for having done so little, after having had. its "full swing" with Parliament for three years,—a phrase which seems to show that Sir Stafford Northcote can never have had the control of a swing in his life, or he might as well speak of a man with his feet in the stocks having had his full swing, And then he renewed his charge that what the Liberals thought contrary to the moral law when they were out of power, they thought quite consistent with it when in power,— which is very like saying that a man who objects to robbing his neighbour as an act quite inconsistent with the moral law, changes his mind because he thinks helping his neighbour to resist the robbery of another to be quite consistent with it.
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