IN AND OUT OF PLACE.
LORD ALTHORP has carried away some half-a-dozen prizos at the Northamptonshire cattle show for fat pigs and oxen. Tile of the animals " bred by himself" were far more sat i,favtury to the Northamptonshire graziers, than those of the Cabinet do ritip- the last session were to the people of England. He cut a much betto. figure at the dinner-table at Chapel 13rampton, than on the fluor of the House of Commons. He commits no blunders in crammin cattle. There was no need of a STANLEY' to testify to the genuine- ness of his " long-wooled shear hogs:' Ile had no occasion to " explain his meaning," in describing the points of excellence in the animals exhibited. How well his holiest, good-humoured face, matched with the bluff and bronzed countenances of tile graziers ! When he returned thanks for his health being drunk, how diffe- rent Were his sensations from what he feels in rising to propound or defend a measure in the House! Tired as he must be of speeches, this one must have been a pleasure to him. He " de- clined all allusion to politics:" well he might—lie has had enough of them for a while. With what naivete he expressed himself " happy " that the rules of the society precluded the introduction of such topics! Ile seems to have been eminently successful in his " Durham steers." If Lord Durham had' not steered out of the Cabinet, Lord ALTHORP might perhaps have been less unfor- tunate in his Parliamentary course. We wonder that the cattle- breeder Cinch) natus suffers himself to be torn from his " long-wooled hugs." He is safer: among his " short horns " than upon the lung horns of a political dilemma.
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