1 JUNE 1867, Page 3

Mr. Mill made a speech last Saturday at St. James's

Hall which was not at all in his true line. It was against Mr. Disraeli's clauses about the (then dying) Compound Householder, and his speech wars an attempt in the direction of rough-and-ready agitation. It ex- pressed his resolve "to be a precious great distance out of the wood before I holloa in future," and contained other idiomatic vulgarisms of that kind. It is more painful to see Mr. Mill studying this style of speaking than it ever was to see Burke cutting blocks with a razor. His style is naturally refined, acute, discursive, above all things, intellectual. And there is consequently a hollow ring about his mob-style, as well as a painful contrast between it and. that which really belongs to him.