Mr. Trevelyan's able speech was ably delivered, with perhaps- a
shade too much of that hard unsympathetic voice and manner which seems to express limitation, and which laid him a little open, to the satire of Mr. Bernal Osborne, who had evidently carefully prepared himself to smite by studying Mr. Trevelyan's provincial speeches, and also—quite as carefully—prepared that unprepared manner in which smiting like his is most effective. Mr. Osborne affected to have thought that the House was in committee on the Army Estimates, —yet he had evidently been out of it for a very short time, and had treasured up all the points available for his speech. He affected to pity Mr. Trevelyan—" a rising young man, —of extra- ordinary ability,—extraordinary energy,—extraordinary industry,"' who had been "starring it in the provinces," for having suddenly found the ground cut from under his feet by the Minister of War. Mr. Osborne had read his speech on three previous occasions. The jokes had been made before and carefully retailed by Mr. Trevelyan. to the House; and so forth. Mr. Osborne said nothing really, and had. nothing to say, except that he believed fervently in the Duke of Cambridge, and did not believe in Mr. Trevelyan,—whom, how- ever, he by no means put down, though the House evidently enjoyed Mr. Bernal Osborne's raillery, especially when he attacked Mr. Anderson (Mr. Trevelyan's seconder), and congratulated him on having so much larger " a congregation " than on the previous occasion on which his speech had been delivered.
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