The positive tone was evidence of the complications of running in a multicandidate field where an attack on one candidate could have the effect of driving voters to a third.

He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

Out of this incident comes a stirring confusion, and some Armenophobic correspondents of European papers, in a spirit of unqualified cowardice, telegraph to their papers that the Armenians have blown up the Moslem mosques.

to play cannon upon a fortification