When the new member is chosen, he is called upon by his supporters to thank them in a speech. He rises to do this, and, bowing, says, "I am powerless to express my grateful sense of the honour. _Free and independent voters_"--at this moment a half-drunken supporter of the defeated man gives the signal. The rotten egg has fairly hit the new member in the face; the crowd on the one side and on the other rush in _pell-mell_; the stage is broken down; stones, sticks, clubs, brickbats, are used and fly about freely; noses bleed; heads are cracked; oaths and yells arise! The new member, surrounded by his supporters, finally conquers; and, placed in a chair, is lifted by strong arms to the shoulders of sturdy men, who bear him to his illustrious house, where his exalted wife and noble friends receive him with delight. The tumultuous crowd are feasted by the Servants; and, finally, yelling and shouting for _my Lord_--the new member--he appears at a lofty window above them, thanks them once more, and disappears. The rabble leave the place, the gates are closed, and my lord and lady can congratulate themselves and be congratulated that the _farce_ is over. Power and influence remain with them--_the indignities are all washed off_--it is merely English humour. In these Hustings the Illustrious wives and daughters, as well as all male relatives, take part, and are obliged to take their share of the _indignities_. The dirty child of a low-caste (who happens to have a right to _hustle_) will be taken upon the silken lap of _my Lady_, and feel boldly in my Lady's pocket for pennies; and the daughter of my Lady sits down upon the stool and feeds the hungry _old hag_ of aged poverty. The old hag being ill, and mother to the _hustler_. In this way, and on these rather infrequent occasions, the bold Englishman of Low-Caste vindicates his manhood and shows his power in the State. But it is a mere form. The High-Castes understand the Barbaric temper, and consider this mode of amusing it the cheapest and least inconvenient. There is a struggle sometimes for the new membership between individuals, but these are always of the High-Caste connection and order. Actual power does not exist in the hustling rabble--_that_ is in the High-Caste. Nevertheless, sometimes the _Hustlers_ can determine which of two shall be sent; and, therefore, it is necessary, when more than one desires to go, to submit to the _hustling_. Nearly all the worst _indignities_ are omitted when only one person is named. In this case, all the hustlers being of a mind, they do not inflict more than the _accustomed_ indignities, which are moderate in comparison; though one would think sufficiently humiliating.