Mr. Mill's election has been a bitter trial to the
Morning Advertiser and the Record. The former paper, in an article almost inarticulate with the intellectual stammering of excessive rage, reiterates and reduplicates, in sentence after sentence, each of the same import as the last, with that feebly forcible reiteration sometimes noticeable when anger has struck a brain suddenly with verbal sterility, the assertion that Mr. Mill can no longer speak of his intellectual independence, but must rank henceforth as the mere hanger-on of the Grosvenor family, by whom he has been forced on a reluctant constituency. The Record, as in duty bound, bears its crosses with more dignity. It hopes that the election of Mt. Mill may still be " over-ruled for the good " of his associates: who will learn in time " to blush " for their connection with him. In short it delivers over Westminster to this philosophical Satan-Tor the destruction of " the flesh," if by chance their spirit maybe-. saved, and ejaculating " Shouldst thou help the ungodly, or love them that hate the Lord?" washes its hands of the " unholy alliance " between the " wealth of the noble House of Grosvenor" and the great modern thinker. Perhaps the Record is incapable of believing in our seriousness, when we say most seriously, that we believe the only true "ungodliness" and "hate of the Lord" manifested during this contest has found expression in its own pages. Even the Morning Advertiser has probably been quite innocent of anything worse than profound ignorance and stupidity.
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