25 FEBRUARY 1837, Page 11

The Standard this evening is particularly funny at the expense

of poor Mr. WALTER of Berks. " Unpretending, temperate, candid, clear, and forcible," are the epithets which our ironical contemporary bestows on WALTER. That everybody will laugh at the juke—at least all who have waded through the mass of hackneyed and 'confused stu- pidity which Mr. WALTER poured forth last night—the Standard anticipates. " With a perfect consciousness," says the Standard, " of the impertinent criticiam to which we will be exposed, and of all the downright falsehoods and absurd exaggeration by which it will be attempted to justify that impertinent criticism after our words shall have been forgotten, we do not hesitate to de. clam truly, that the speech of Mr. Walter, last night, fulfils our conception of the clan', style of Parliamentary eloquence."

This is rather too bad. Mr. WALTER did his best. How can muddle-headed squires be clear or concise? or weak men be forcible ? or passionate politicians be temperate ? How could Mr. WALTER avoid reading his speech, since, with all his industry, his memory failed, and he could not recite it? The Standard should have some mercy. Mr. WALTER made himself sufficiently ridiculous last night ; there was no occasion for this second "showing up." The "last rose of summer" might surely be left to wither alone.