text:  men vastly inferior in talents and attainments after all to the Gironde of whom they are the _imitatores servum pecus_; whilst these again "give place" on the pressure from without of the one-idea endowed tribe of Repealers of Unions and Corn-Laws--the practical men of the Mountain genus--the O'Connells Cobdens and Brights who not yet so fierce as their predecessors of the Robespierre and Clootz dynasty are so far content with patronising the "strap and billy roller" in factories instead of carting aristocrats to the guillotine which may come hereafter if as they say appetites grow with what they feed on