Sir John Holker is a curious contrast to Sir Henry
James in the manner as well as in the matter of his oratory. A. lawyer of undoubted ability, and one of that class of Conservatives who have a sort of pleasure in brow-beating popular ideas and feelings, he rarely speaks without manifesting a personal hos- tility to Russia, and a sort of thirst for war with Russia which we can hardly understand. Really and truly Russian Con- servatism, is much more of the typo of sir
John Holker's Con- of the Conservatism of Lord servatisra than it is of the type
'Beaconsfield or Lord Cairns. In his 'Wednesday's speech at Preston, the Attorney-General's rage against Russia was almost inarticulate. You would suppose that he desires to sweep Russia rp
from the earth,—which is not an enterise at all in the ordinary spirit of an Attorney-General. Sir John biker's politics re- main to us a problem. They are certainly not the politics of a fliers legal official.
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