alliance."--_Lord Salisbury at Birmingham._

"Now I neither look for nor desire reunion" (with the
Gladstonian Liberals.)--_Mr. Chamberlain at Birmingham._]

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AIR--"_YE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND_."[1]

Ye Gentlemen of England,
Who follow SALIS-BU-RY,
How little did you count upon
Assistance from J.C.!
Give ear unto his speeches old,
And they will plainly show
Once he'd scorn to be borne
Where the Tory breezes blow,
Where the Lilies and Primroses bloom,
And the Tory zephyrs blow.

If once he did oppose you,
To-day he is at war
With GLADSTONE and his Items.
Faith, JOE has travelled far!
The Primrose Dames shall teach him
True patriot "form" to know.
He is leal, and will kneel
To the "Lilies" in fair row;
To the pretty, winsome Primrose girls,
Who buttonhole Brum JOE.