Apart from the public) privation which engrosses thought, the only
striking occurrence in the political world at home is the me- teoric appearance of Mr. Robert Lowe at Kidderminster. At the time of classifying the new Parliament, Mr. Lowe was usually reckoned among the "Derby Free-traders," but his outburst at Kid- derminster has removed that supposition. It has been his fortune to outrun expectation. To those who remember the young suc- cesses of "Bob Lowe" as an orator at Oxford, the fact that, by favour of Kidderminster, he has really attained "the dream of his -life" and got into the House of Commons, will have an especial interest. The Sydney public whom he charmed by his classic utterance of Colonial ideas, will be astonished to see the ready banded statesman of their training pass from the field of Co- lonial to that of•Itaperial politics. The Law Reformers, who reckon upon one of their own organized body in Parliament, have yet to ascertain the extent to which their expectations are to be fulfilled. At Kidderminster he did not fatigue his hearers with technicalities, but entertained them by lively comments on The passing topics of the day—Free-trade and "Democratic pro- gress —in a way to hit the notions both of employers and of carpet weavers. Among the herd of lawyers, whose advent to the House of Commons we have not in every 'instance viewed with unmixed satisfaction, Mr. Lowe must be distinguished as one of singular cleverness and versatility.
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