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In the Commons, Major Hamilton, who moved the Address, spoke

indistinctly, and without much appearance of interesting even himself, except perhaps on the Army question ; while Mr. Samuel Morley, who looked very quaint in his Deputy Lieutenant's uniform, spoke with a good deal of ease and earnestness and decided success, though why he indulged in the traditional " upas tree " and metaphorical " clouds" of young speakers, feeling, as he evidently did, that those time-honoured bits of eloquence were a little out of place, and should be passed over as lightly as possible, it is hard to say. He was very cautious and pacific, and loudly cheered for being so.

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