The Liberal Members who are talking out of Parliament have,
as a rule, nothing to say, and the Tories have not much more.. Mr. Clam Read has made a sensible speech at Walsham, which we have analysed elsewhere ; but Sir C. Adderley, who spoke at Newcastle-under-Lyne, on Thursday week, did not utter a sen- tence of interest ; Mr. Lopez, at Froine, only observed that it' was hard work to be a member, that his patronage was all gone, and that he liked Friendly Societies ; Lord Eustace Cecil, at Hatfield, only said the Henry-Martini rifle was a capital rifle, that. it would cost half-a-million to change it, and that he hoped it. would not be changed, while Sir Selwin Ibbetson, at the same place, urged with some courage the claim of the labourer to better' wages, and with some canniness that of the farmer to compensa- tion for unexhausted improvements. Nothing is said on the Tory- side to which anybody can object, and very little in which a poli- ' tician can take the smallest interest.
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