19 OCTOBER 1861, Page 1

The remaining speeches spoken since our last issue have been

of 'little importance. The Marquis of Bath has talked agriculture, and Mr. Ewart, at Dumfries, spoke discursively about Indian tenures and the late hours of the House of Commons ; but the party leaders maintain a singular silence. Mr. Disraeli abstains from Aylesbury, and the Cabinet from politics, while the smaller Members of Govern- ment universally adopt Carlyle's apophthegm, that silence is better than speech. Nobody even commits a convenient indiscretion, and the papers, pushed to the brink of despair, are reporting Dr. Cumming's lectures, and seeking, in speculations on a future world, relief from the tedium which at present distinguishes this.