BULLS AND BLUNDERS.
(To ma Emma or ms aremsvoz."1
Snt,—I send you a few more specimens :- 1901, April 19th.—In the Church Times a Dover correspondent writes of a Church Association meeting that "it must have been very disappointing to those who were working the oracle" to find that the movement "is a false exotic which has been worked from London, and that the people of Dover value the bubble at its true eorth."
1002. July 17th.—Mr. T. W. Russell warned the Henze of Com- mons that, by "letting in the thin, end of the wedge of land
nationalization, the Government were laying on all sides seeds of disease which would in the future bring down the whole edifies about their heads.'
(Date not recorded).—General Sir William Butler, lecturing on Cromwell, maintained that "Cromwell% little finger had lain more heavily on the Irish people than King Charles% loins had ever
lain."
1907, April 18th.—At the dinner given by the Eighty Club to the Colonial Premiers, Mr. Haldane observed that " Liberty was the breath of their nostrils which held them all together." 1909, ApriL—Principal Thomas declared that "the evidence given before the Welsh Church Commission had shattered many of the parrot-cries uttered up and down the country."
1909, June 12th.—Lord Morley at Oxford said that "Indian reforms had at length come to the birth, after being for many months on the anvil.
1910, January 9th.—The New York correspondent of the Times, under date of December 24th, writes: "In the results of the house- cleaning process it is to be regretted that only the small fry have been caught."
(? 1911, date of the railway strike).—A strike leader declares that the Chairman of a great railway company can be convicted of a gross misstatement "off his own bat." 1912, July 7th.—The Miamir discusses the admission of Liberal Unionists into "that hub of Conservatism," the Carlton Club.
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