Tricoloured Witches”--Grey, Durham, and Brougham--Althorp and Russell--A tub to a whale--“A Tale of a Tub, and the Moral of the Tail”--Renovations at the King’s Head: “Varnishing--A Sign (of the Times)”--“The Rival Mount-o’-_Bankes_; or, the Dorsetshire Juggler”--Root-and-branch reform--“LINEal Descent of the Crown,” a hint from Hogarth’s works, 1832--Hobhouse in office--“The Cast-off Cloak”--Radicalism over-warm--“Mazeppa” (William IV.): “Again he urges on his wild career”--“Ministers in their Cups” 343 CHAPTER XIV. John Doyle, a Tory Caricaturist--The Tories out in the cold--“The Waits,” 1833--Grey and the king--“Sindbad the Sailor and the Old Man of the Sea,” 1833--Parliamentary reform not carried far enough--Burdett, Hume, and O’Connell: “Three Great Pillars of Government; or, a Walk from White Conduit House to St. Stephen’s,” 1834--“Time running away with the Reform Bill”--General election, 1834-5--Party competition--“The Opposition ’Busses”--“Original Design for the King’s Arms, to be placed over the New Speaker’s Chair,” supporters, Burdett and Cobbett--“Inconveniences that might have arisen from the Ballot”--Bribery and violence discounted--General election of 1835--Broadside squibs on the Windsor election--Tory view of the decline of the British constitution, “A New Instance of the Mute--ability of Human Affairs,” 1837--Appeal to the Constituencies in 1837--“Going to the Fair with It: a cant phrase for doing anything in an extravagant way”--Contortions of statesmen to keep in place: “Ins and Outs”--“Fancy Ball: Jim Crow Dance and Chorus,” 1837--Conversion of Sir Francis Burdett from Radicalism to Toryism--“A Fine Old English Gentleman, one of Olden Time,” 1837--A bye-election for Westminster--Burdett opposed by Leader--“Following the Leader”--“May-Day in 1837”--Whig gambols--Sir Francis Burdett invites the verdict of his Westminster constituents upon his change of front--Thackeray’s pictorial squib on the event--“The Guide”--“The Rivals; or, Old Tory Glory and Young Liberal Glory,” 1837--Sir Francis Burdett re-elected--His valedictory speech at the Westminster hustings, 1837--His quarrel with Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator--Defeat of Leader--“The Dog and the Shadow”--“Race for the Westminster Stakes between an Old Thoro’bred and a Young Cock-tail; weight for age. The old ’un winning in a canter,” May, 1837--“Taking up a Fare: All the World’s a Stage”--Burdett’s attack on Democracy--“The Last and Highest Point at which the unheard-of Courage of Don Quixote ever did, or could arrive, with the Happy Conclusion”--“An Old Song to a New Tune”--“The Raddies”--Fate of Leader--“A Dead-horse: a sorry subject; what was once a Leader in the Bridgwater Coach”--“The Three Tailors of Tooley Street.