" Mr. LAW smilingly disclaimed the coinage of this appetising
phrase.
Mr. MILLS, the new Member for Dartford, is credited with being "very hot
stuff" (a cadet, I am told, of the _Moulin Rouge_ family), but he looked
much too trim and spruce for a real revolutionary as he walked up, amid the
plaudits of his Labour colleagues, to take the oath and his seat. In fact
Mr. GREENWOOD, the new Coalition-Unionist Member for Stockport, who
followed him, has much more the air of an _homme du peuple_. As for Mr.
FILDES, his Coalition-Liberal colleague, I don't wonder that Stockport
favoured a candidate whose genial countenance so strongly resembles that of
Mr. Punch.
[Illustration: MR. PUNCH GREETS HIS DOUBLE.
MR. FILDES OF STOCKPORT.]
The debate on the Civil Service Estimates furnished Mr. HOPKINS with an
opportunity of delivering an appeal, doubtless cogent but mainly inaudible,
for the restoration of the exchange value of the pound sterling. Mr. A.M.
SAMUEL, on the other hand, was more audible than orthodox.
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