A Pocketful of Sixpences (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Pocketful of Sixpences Kept 'the Prime Minister and his colleagues out of bed a good deal oftener than they liked. An All night Sitting, as a method of testing the relative strength of Government and Opposition, became one of the institutions Of Parliament. In 1877 the South Africa Bill was debated from four on a Tuesday afternoon to on Wednesday. In 1878 the project of bringing Indian troops to Europe was debated from the afternoon of one day to half-past nine next morning, and in 1879 a Public Works Loan Bill was discussed till 7 am. This curious art of affecting the decision of the-house otherwise than by argument - the phrase is Mr. Gladstone's - was more commonly called Obstruction, and it reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.