1 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 16

MR. LOWE'S ORATORY.

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sru,—Will you permit me to correct a misunderstanding, due, no doubt, to the ambiguity of my language ? In saying that Mr. Lowe was, what he still is, the finest orator of the great ones of his generation, I merely meant to compare him with the celebrated Unionists of the IV) kehamite period,—Lord Selborne, Mr. Card-

well, and Archbishop Tait. Without depreciating them or ignoring his defects of style, I doubt whether any one who remembers those wonderful anti-Reform speeches of '66 will grudge him this distinction.—I am, Sir, &c., EDWARD B. NrcuoLsox.