the display likely to be made by Titmouse, when it came to his turn to address the electors:--so he added in _rather_ a subdued tone)--It was true that they might not have, in Mr. Titmouse, a magpie in the House, (_laughter_,) a mere chatterer--much cry and little wool; they had had enough of mere speechifiers at St. Stephen's--but they would have a good working member, (_cheers;_) one always at his post in the hour of danger, (_cheers;_) a good committee-man, and one whose princely fortune rendered him independent of party and of the blandishments of power. In the language of the ancient _poet_ (_!_) Mr. Mudflint would exclaim on such an occasion; '_Facta, non verba quæro_,' (_great cheering._) And now a word for his opponent, (_groans._) He was a mere puppet, held in the hands of some one out of sight, (_laughter,_)--it _might_ be of a base old boroughmonger, (_groans_)--who sought to make Yatton a rotton borough, (_hisses,_) a stepping-stone to ascendency in the county, (Cries of 'Will he though, lad, eh?') who would buy and sell them like slaves, (_hisses,_) and would never rest satisfied till he had restored the intolerable old vassalage of feudalism, (groans and hisses here burst forth from that enlightened assemblage, at the bare idea of anything so frightful.) He meant nothing personally offensive to the honorable candidate--but _was_ he worthy of a moment's serious notice? (_great laughter._) Had he an opinion of his own? (_loud laughter._) Had he not better, to use the language of a book that was much misunderstood, _tarry at Jerusalem_ (_!!!_) _till his beard was grown_? Was he not, in fact, a nonentity unworthy of a reasonable man's attention? Was he not reeking from Oxford, (_groans,_) that hotbed of pedantic ignorance and venerable bigotry, (_hootings,_) surrounded by a dismal and lurid halo of superstition?" (_groaning and hooting._)