“. . . We had a rum go of it in the H. of Commons last night in our division and minority about issuing the Liverpool writ. I never saw such feeble devils as our young Cabinet Ministers. . . . Lord Sefton is again very unwell and confined to the house. Halford, who had seen him to-day, is himself very unwell with this grippe, and he says the way he is hunted after by a succession of invalids under the same complaint, is really beyond!”
