then got a one you see he in his face he is of the most and discontented and at the same time conceited looking men in the house he is of he i in his own eye one of the most important men within the walls of parliament he not only must needs speak on question of that is to say if he is to catch the s as if there were something in everything he says but he has the often to attempt to get possession of the house immediately after some of the members of the have with the to them he is a man of ir talents but nothing more he speaks considerable when ho makes a set speech because in that case he writes it out at full length and it to memory in the same way as a school boy does his task but when he attempts speaking on the spur of the moment he often and has to correct and re correct his ill constructed sentences his voice is feeble bnt clear and distinct in tones his gesture is to raise his ht arm spread out his fingers and turn his face and body one port of the house to the other hut when he which he often does � that he is saying something unusually clever and of commanding importance he strikes the books or box on the table with his right hand with great violence � having before his speech removed for that purpose his usual seat to one close to the table mr is in person he is much under the middle size end is so slender withal that he has quite a boyish appearance his countenance is of a pale and complexion it has very little flesh on it his nose is rather prominent and his eyes are large and sunken there is a so visibly impressed on his brow that the merest in must observe it he is in mr thirty third year he ie not a favourite in the and the limited popularity he has acquired out of doors to be od the decline he is not the author of the which are published weekly in but written various articles fur same years past in the review tail s and the review of tlie latter work he is one of the leading hia brother in law mr thomas being the editor mr the member for st though so little known a few years ago that hia name was hardly ever mentioned out of is now one of the most popular men in the country i mention as a striking instance of mr ward s popularity out of doors that it was intended � though i am not he is up to this moment himself aware of it � to invite him to stand at the last election for the of in opposition to sir william home and in the same interest as sir samuel a resolution a tliis effect was agreed on by a large majority of the leading men in the and there could not have been a doubt of mr ward a return � which his admirers engaged should be effected tree of expense to him � but it was moat confidently by individuals who to speak that he and his at st were so attached to each other that he would not on any consideration the connection the of therefore were to look out for another person to represent them when owing to a variety of accidental tlie choice fell on mr henry it was mr ward s celebrated motion with the speech which preceded it in the right of to appropriate the property of the of ireland to other than purposes � that first brought him into notice before owing in some measure to his long residence abroad his principles were unknown to almost all members in the house the general indeed was that he was a tory but that motion and the bold and able speech with which he it at once earned the reputation of being a man of liberal opinions and of superior talents since then mr ward has spoken on important and every speech he made the accuracy of the regarding from the speech and motion to which i have referred iii not a line speaker there ia too much tt lord hb manner and his voice is quite � it has also a certain degree of about it he with rapidity and seemingly with ease his is and vigorous and his matter is in most cases highly he is much respected in the house by men parties mr ward is about forty years of age he is rather and his complexion is his face is full and round his nose to his hair is of a light brown he sports unusually large whiskers his countenance has a pleasing good natured expression but has nothing particularly intellectual about it he is the son of mr ward the celebrated author of and other novels and is often confounded with him lord member for is a whose name does not appear very often in the reports of the in the house but he strong claims on friend of freedom and humanity were it only for the he made in favour of the poles both within and without the house at the time of their late great with the events have proved that he felt much more strongly in the cause of than did mr though the latter managed to make a much greater parade of his exertions in that country s behalf lord a with the poles was fervent pure and lasting it mid its origin in the best principles of our common nature and was fed and by that which called it into his was the feeling of a christian and a lover of his race his exertions first to their re by and afterwards to administer pecuniary to such of 