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    For everybody , however , there was a promise of safety , which made the entremets at that day ' s dinner less bitter than jnigibt have been expected . It was generally said < tjhstfc " Baring ( or somebody equally aafe ) as going to do the right thing . " Baring was hitting on 1 &e jutfe milieu , and was going to play the game played by lord Palmerston for the Derbyites at the . beginning of the session on the Villiers' tentative free-trade motion—that is , move an intermediate mo . tio » , which would save the honour , but destroy the biU , of the Ministry . And it is easy to see that with ail Sir Charles' conscientious enthusiasm for his 150 , 000 , 000 , he is just now scrupulously looking after himself . Jonah of the Coalition he thinks that Lord Stanley is beginning to look very Eke a whale .

    The speeches on Thursday were worth a better House . Lord Stanley had an audience of about thirty ; he spake athwart the dinner hour—and his party is the dining out party—yet Lord Stanley spoke very well Trained in the art of public speaking he knows how to make adroit use of the ample materials always available to one in his position . But his good speaking 19 confined to his matter and to his style . He labours under terrible disadvantages of manner . Some one sadd lately of him that he was a Demosthenes who kept the pebbles in his mouth , and that is a very good description of a very dreadful voice , to which , however , you get accustomed , so at least as to -catch all the words , and it may , therefore , be practicable for him to get a House of Commons position , for when a man has

    always the same audience , the audience ceases to notice what at first are repulsive peculiarities . He cannot conquer this natural defect — a defect which would have kept most men to their libraries and country walks . But he has other delects , which do not indicate that Lord Derby is as good a trainer as he should be . Lord Stanley gesticulates with his head . Fancy Costa , having lost his baton and making use of Ms head , and you get an exact idea of Lord Stanley suiting the one action to every word . It ' s ridiculous , but the House gets used to that too ; and tells Lord Stanley when it meets him in the lobby that he is a great orator ; even , with the usual tendency of the world , to set father against son , contesting colloquially that he is the Pitt to the Chatham . The Fox on this

    occasion—on this India Bill—was Mr . Robert Lowe ; and as he spoke , speculative strangers following him , oontirmed the inquiry how far natural disadvantages can be overcome by orators . These were two successful public speakers , yet successful despite of remarkable physical drawbacks . Lord Stanley has a split palate , nd Mr . Robert Lowe is all but blind ; yet there these two men were— -and very few noticing tho peculiarity —the principal debaters on one of the greatest questions that could occupy— -and intimidate away—a British Senate . Mr . Lowe was actually debating , answering 1 point by point , an antagonist , whom he could

    see just as little as he could see the 150 , 000 , 000—quoting and making reference to papers , which he could only read with the assistance of n microscope , which appears brought down to him with his red box . It wan an odd duel—a blind speaker replying to a speaker with a slit palate : but it was a very interesting one . Mr . Lowe crowded into one hour every argument expanded by Sir Charles Wood into five ; and it is to Sir Charles ' s credit that he appreciated the speech , and wasn't a bit jealous—he chuckled , spluttered , and suggested , and p ulled by the coat tails , gleefully—and , with his celebrated tact , always at the wrong time . So did

    the other Ministers enjoy the speech , which was a masterpiece of concise and compact reply ; and so did the 4 * 0 or 50 who kept tho three or four Ministers in countenance—the three or four Ministers trying not to look ashamed of the British Senate in the presence of tho Hindoo magnates wljo were Hitting in tho gallery to neo how tho 150 , 000 , 000 fared . Mr . Phinn , who succeeded to Mr . Lowe , made a good speech too : —a practised b arrister on the right sido generally does . Mr . Phinn ie always making good speeches now ; and ia always getting up to catch the Speaker's eye ; and is

    being set down as a rising man . Good on Wednesday , he was good on Thursday , and would be good if he ha d to speak every night—happy and accurate mediocrities being felicitously equable . Ho is one of tho few barristers returned at tho last general olection — Mr . Cairns in perhaps tho only other—who is obtaining success in the House of Commons ; uud obviously it is obtained by adapting himself to the new nrona , learning Its ways , and calculating its partialities ; and tho kindest advice to the forensic failures , is to suggest that they should observe the difference between Mr . Phinn

    » court , and Mr . Phinn in tho House ; Mr . Phinn " ^ ow ' Urt K causo , " and Mr . Phinn " venturing to sug-K «« t to honourable gentlemen" —as on Thursday , in a 2 ? ™ **«* <* SaUustian Latin ! —a thing never S £ rtSif T v Volume Wood « ot on the c °° - STlWUv ^ l ^ third ^ P ^ ant speaker « m Thursday , Mr . H . Ba ^ Tory Ex-Bocrotwy to his

    Board of Control , was elaborate and no doubt excellent ; but affection for the 150 , 000 , 000 did not induce much attention to this able and accomplished gentleman , perhaps tedious speaker . Who'll follow Baillie ? was a general inquiry while he was . talkingthe usual sign that he was not making way ; and the conclusion was , that the debate would be adjournedfor who would face a House of 30 or 40 listless men with a great speech , small speeches on so " vast" a subject being of course out of the question ? But no ; one was astonished to see the Tory Ex-President of the Board

    of Control following the Tory Ex-Secretary of the Board of Control . What bad taste , said every one ; but it wasn't ; it was quite correct : the Tory Ex-President of the Board of Control followed because he was going to reply to his Ex-Secretary . And he did , and was loudly and chucklingly cheered by Sir Charles Wood , and suavely smiled at by Lord John . After that , Mr . Disraeli must have felt his arrows blunted for impromptu taunts upon Ministerial confusion . An age of coalitions is clearly beginning to mean an age when everybody is to vote against everybody .

    It is clear that the split among the Tories has extended to the House of Lords , where Lord Derby , magnificently mean on Mr , Keogh , and grandly malignant on Mr . Brewster , is last night —( the great Lords having thus had two nights debate on the Irish law officers ) — suspiciously tame about the Budget ; and where Lord Malrnesbury ' s attitude by no means corresponds to the indignant British vigour of bis morning organ , Lord Derby was very humble and public-dutiful about the Budget , and looked across the table at Lord Aberdeen almost confidingly . Why ? Because he was beaten so heavily about the Succession Duty Bill ; because he finds the

    party broken up and breaking away from him ; and because few or none those re maining with him in the Lords will indulge his petty and petulant nature . Thus he has been constrained almost into a tribute of respect to Mr . Gladstone for the Budget generally ; and the Income Tax Bill would have passed the Lords with acclamation , but for the speech of Lord Brougham , who retains some method in . his errantry , and , if Only from old habit , is logical , exhaustive , and eloquent , whenever he finds himself on his legs , which occasionally he does , and sometimes to his own surprise , for nothing now is systematic with him . As an illustration of the tone of a coalition , Lord

    Palmerston ' s answer to tbe p ious deputation about the Nunneries Inspection Bill reads very curiously to an inquisitive public ; and it would appear to be a general , fact about this Government , that if , as Lord John suggests , and ; is Lord Aberdeen meekly last night repeated , they agree as to a course , it is a matte * of no importance whether they approve of it or not . Lord Palmerston ' s individual opinion is in favour of visiting nuns , but Lord Palmerston keeps away from tbe division , and leaves his " leader" to tear the Bill to pieces . Lord Palmerston is plainly tlie " independent member" of tbe Cabinet . A member of the

    Government , Mr . Sadleir , a Lord of the Treasury , is standing for Sligo , and Lord Palmerston , Homo Secretary , sends down a candidate of his own to oppose Mr . Sadleir . Politics must never be permitted to destroy private friendship . Lord Palmerston has an old patronly liking for Mr . Patrick Somers , and to return his old protege , whose vote was often useful in many a foreign policy scrape , he throws all the weight of bis Irish territorial influenco iuto the scale for tho suspect Somers , and against tho austere Lord of tho Treasury ; in the contest , Treasury money being fought against Home Secretary's money . That is tho freedom of action which only a Coalition could give ; and a free people may bo proud of such contrarieties . But Lord Pahnerston was not tbe only one of the Ministers differing from Lord John about convents . Lord John , it will be noticed , did

    duty on Wednesday alone , and though several Ministers voted with him , many wore absent . Under tho pressure of tho white-neck-cloth interest , which has got just now a periodical bigoted flush in tho face , tho House was very full on Wednesday ; but it was a painful , undahuiniliating , and a dull debate , on tbe old thoino—the question whether tho Pope was Antichrist , so frequently debated in our enlightened House of Commons : numbers of English gentlemen saying aye , sonorously ; and the Irish gentlemen Haying no , sereeclungly ; and—tho majority of practical men evading tho point . The Irish

    ltonuuicathohc members insisted on being vulgarly indiscreet in defiances that wore not called for ; because—another proof of tho increasing power of Mr . Disraeli—tho professional Protestant party accepted tho mild amendment , to refer the bill to a committee ; while the Whigs , voting confusedly against this amendment , which thoy should not huvo done—for u committee would throw tho bill out—were , under Lord John ' s guidunco , for a direct negative . Mr . G . II . Moore ' s vohoment denunciation of that fine nationalist , tho British bigot , would haw bocn very good—of iU kind—in a debute

    at the time of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ; but it was very mal-apropos on a day when Sir Robert Inghs , with a few more of the old school , was divided against by the masses of the country party , and when an Irish Protestant , Mr . Butt ; who is young and impulsive , and thinks Mr . Disraeli will be Premier , seconded the Radical and heterodox Mr . Phinn . A " few years ago , Mr . Chambers' silly bill would have been carried ; and it tells marvellously of the ameliorating influenco of Mr . Disraeli , that all the younger men of the Tories

    suppressed their gushing Protestantism—bo conspicuous in society—and voted for common sense : the Irish Orangeman , of the Napier dismal breed , doing out of shame the same thing , though with fervid reluctance . But this new school of Tories only voted ; there was no speaking from them , except on the part of Mr . Butt , who has an Irish and partly Roman-catholic constituency to please , rather than offend by his vote . Mr . Disraeli himself voted , which was a proof of earnestness ; for he came down , and stayed down for that purpose—not sitting in the House—oh no ; for it had been understood that Sir John Pakingtou ( who tried

    to get named , but failed ) was to speak , and Mr . Disraeli cannot stand that baronet—but walking uneasily and moodily about the lobby , waiting the bell , and wondering whether all the young Tories had been convinced by him that " Sybil" was an average specimen of the British nun . He might have turned the walk to account , on meeting Mr . Moore , a friend though a brigadier , if he had induced that gentleman to be less indignant in the cause of his creed and country , neither being in danger of suffering from the insult of the stupid minority , who accept Mr . Chambers as a statesman upon the best methods of promoting Christianity . The other Irish members—and they were too num 3-rous Wero just as violent and as indiscreet : fresh

    from burning letters and vivid resolutions of private and public meetings in Ireland , they talked in utter indifference and in criminal ignorance of the tone of the House , and offended the House accordingly . It was fine to hear the terrific roar ( there was a full House waiting the imminent division ) which saluted Mr . Connolly when , at half-past five , that gentleman , taking up a carpet bag of " documents , " proposed to read to the House a history of the Conventual Establishments of Great Britain . The House did not want indignation : the clear and candid , and—after his recent bursts—unquestionably Protestant argument of Lord John Russell , bad sufficed to give a view of the Roman-catholic side of the question .

    The Irish members are getting very unpopular . The Day Sittings , commenced yesterday , were specially resorted to for them , that they might have a Parliament of their own from noon to lour o ' clock ; and the Engish members , in their carelessness , not seeing that they thus admit a repeal of the Union , are rejoicing in a release from intolerable bores . They are , no doubt , as a body , a dreadful set of men ; and it is because they are bores , as bores , and not because they are Irishmen and Roman Catholics , that they are detested . But , still , the grin is to tho successful ; and it would seem that , now , in a Ministerial difficulty , the Tenant Right section of the Irish members—the debris of the " Irish

    party —may be enabled to make their own terms , and , as the price of their saving this Government , extort extensive concessions in the direction of the settlement of the " land question . " Why should they miss this opportunity ? J t would bo a proper revenge for tho disgrace and the punishment of tho day sittings : a punishment , because Irish members are not early risers , of which the malignant Government , now able to borrow tactics from that tamo elephant , Mr . Keogh , is well aware . In otber respects tho events of the day present to them temptations to reprisals . How was it that Mr . Moore , on Wednesday , missed tho retort on Protestantism provided by tho Marquis of Blandford on

    luesday r A Marquis , and a Marquis of pious tendencies , in a weeping voice , and with a broken hearted look , and in a broken winded speech , had represented to tho enlightened Senate that tho Church of England wus a colossal sham ; and tho indignant Roman Catholic gentlemen might lmvo suggested to Mr . Chambers und his abettors , that while their religious house wu » in such disorder , tho regulation of alien establishments might convenientl y and decently be left to those concerned in them . That there might bo Inspectors of tbe starvation of Curates as well m Inspectors of tho polka-pinings of Nuns . "A Stbangbu . " Saturday Morning .

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    NOTICES TO OOHRE 8 PONDBNT 8 . M . Nichot . m . —Our correspondent forwardu us particulars of a circular lately w 8 Ue < l in Birmingham with a ™ to induoo employers generally to close their establishments on Saturday morning . Wo arojjlad to soe from toHtimonials printed that tho Byntom has been found mh conducive to tho interest * of tho musters as to tho welfare of the men . * -2 T . ° S ? " , 1 lAI "" - —TIm . length of tho reported discuision beourpiuigit " * Ut ' lomM P « h *«*« POwlbiUtyof

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1853, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1992/page/16/