Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Vulcanology, Amusement, Government, Agriculture

    Responds to the suggestion of George J Finch-Hatton (Viscount Maidstone) that the downfall of the protectionist ministry of Edward G G S Stanley (14th Earl of Derby) would be followed by a deluge, or that Vesuvius was its 'only possible successor'. Thinks the 'mock lava of the mimic mountain' of the volcano at the Surrey Zoological Gardens is better than 'the unmeaning palaver of the pseudo-Protectionist ministry'.