Lord A. Clinton's Amendment Was So Long As To Be
almost a speech in itself, but the noble hero of the Strand Theatre so quickly betook himself to his MS. that it would have been better if he could, after the American fashion,......
News Of The Week.
R. DISRAELI'S first act as Premier has been to write a letter to the newspapers in answer to Lord Russell's charge against his Edinburgh speech. This was a mistake of Mr.......
Mr. Mill Made A Good But Rather Too Abstract Speech,
which was heard with considerable impatience. He called the Ministerial proposals "a beggarly account of empty boxes," and held that a Conservative Government which affected to......
Mr. Lowe Spent The Greater Part Of His Telling Speech
in reinforcing Lord Mayo. He said, "We get into this vicious circle,—Ireland is miserable because capital can't be brought into it to take the people from the cultivation of the......
He Was Followed By Mr. Neate, Who Represented The Irish
land- lords as the salt of that unhappy land,—a salt for which he pro- phesied an increasing, not diminishing, savour,--and characterized Mr. John S. Mill as a great deal more......
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.......
Mr. Maguire Introduced The Irish Debate On Tuesday In A
speech not without ability, but much tainted with declamation. He described how the country was now held, —gunboats in every river and harbour ; police offices easemated with......
The Adjourned Debate On Thursday Was Languid, Though Con-...
men took part in it. It was opened by Mr. Horsman, who always speaks in a statesmanlike tone, though never in a statesmanlike way, and consisted mainly of an amplification of......
