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 reseated himself after the ladies had retired. "He must;" and he looked at his brother, whose return had in a great degree been secured by crying that Poor Law down.

"It is impossible," said Charles, fresh from the hustings, and speaking from the card of Taper, for the condition of the people was a subject of which he knew nothing.

"We will carry it out," said Lord Marney, "you'll see, or the land will not support him."

"I wish," said Sir Vavasour, "we could manage some modification about out-door relief."

"Modification!" said Lord Marney; "why there has been nothing but modification. What we want is stringency."

"The people will never bear it," said Egremont; "there must be some change."

"You cannot go back to the abuses of the old system," said Captain Grouse, making, as he thought, a safe observation.

"Better go back to the old system, than modify the new,' said Lord Marney.

"I wish the people would take to it a little