At Hawarden, on Wednesday, a dinner was given to Mr.
W. H. Gladstone, the new member for Chester, to his father the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Sir Stephen Glynne, Lord Lyttelton, and indeed the whole family party, and the speeches were rather of a domestic character. Mr. W. H. Gladstone made a cheerful and amusing speech on the various placards which had been put out against him during the Chester election, the central idea of which was that he ought to be regarded as " a very small child." He expressed his admiration for his father, and his father expressed, with simplicity and warmth, his confidence in him, certified that he was a tall and worthy youth, and was determined at all events to side with the electors of Chester against his father on the subject of bridging the Dee. Mr. W. H. Gladstone indeed seems manly enough, and quite well able to stand alone. Would it not be judicbus in the Chancellor of the Exchequer to let him do so, and give the world a little less of the affectionate Parlia- mentary papa ?
