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Of Lord Mayo's dreary and verbose statement we have spoken

at length elsewhere. Mr. Horsman described it rather felicitously when he said that Lord Mayo appeared to be looking everywhere for his policy without being able to find it. "lie was very busy with his books, but it was not there. He fumbled among his papers, it was not there. Ile turned and looked inquiringly in the face of the Prime Minister,—it was not there." In the mid- dle of Lord Mayo's speech,—say, about three hours after he had commenced it,—Mr. Disraeli really, we believe, imparted some- thing to him, greatly to his confusion and embarrassment. Pro- bably it was an admonition to get on to the point of the statement/ —that Government had no remedy to propose.

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