Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Homeopathy, Medical Treatment, Government, Politics

    Discusses the revelation by the radical politician Thomas S Duncombe that he had conversed with Thomas Egerton (2nd Earl of Wilton) about racing and homeopathy, rather than the government's Reform Bill. Considers this claim to be 'irresistibly facetious' and stresses that 'It is in everybody's mouth that the government Reform Bill will most likely be the most infinitesimal of measures, and in any conversation upon matters homeopathic the globule which Lord Derby is concocting must be mentioned'.