The Press.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS,

over it. Lord MACAULAY questioned the political relation-
ship rf Lord STANLEY to the Earl of DERBY, and so did Mr. OSBORNE ;
Lord MACAULAY tilted at Sir FITZROY KELLY—SO did Mr. OSBORNE.
Even the best point in his speech was an adaptation. Former
speeches of Mr. OSBORNE have taught us that the Honourable Member
is a great reader of SYDNEY SMITH, and he makes desperate attempts
to copy the graphic ideality of the Canon of St. Paul's. The illustra-
tion of lEneas, Dido, and Anchises was got up while Mr. OSBORNE was
fresh from the study of SYDNEY SMITH'S speech on the Reform Bill :
" The eldest son of my lord is just come from college ; he knows a
" great deal about iEneas and Dido, Apollo and Daphne, and his
"father gives him a power of making laws, just as he would give him
" a horse or a double-barrelled gun." On Sir JOHN YARDS Ber.mca's
famous motion in 1840, Sir R. PEEL used the ZEneas and Dido illus-
tration at the expense of Lord MACAULAY:—

MR ROBERT PEEL. MR. OSBORNE.
If their native tongue will not suffice for It is true wo have had the speech of the
this classic constituency, you have taught noble member for King's Lynn, but he
them where they may find in the passionate occupies a very peculiar position in the
exclamation of Dido, &c., &c. Cabinet ; but at the same time I very much
Shall there be no fruit of our mutual doubt whether this reforming ,Eneas will be
love, no little bill stamped with the image of able to carry the _:lonse►vatire Anchises. Nu,
the father, and reflecting in its face the Sir, I much fear that he will find some
paternal vigour and intelligence ? • • • Ditto of Conserratism to obstruct him in
You have nothing to return but the answer carrying out his good principles.—Debate
of iEneas seer all his coquetting in the of March 1511*, 1848.
;seem—Debate of January 31, NW.

The silence of Mr. OSBORNE in office may not have been compulsory.
It is only when in Opposition that the Honourable Gentleman would
have leisure for manufacturing his patchwork. Mr. OSBORNE'S hits at
Speaker DEN►SON, however, were decidedly his own, and borrowed
from no one. "If you, Sir, had not decided it to be Parliamentary,
" should have said it was highly irregular; " and again—" I bow at
" once to what you lay down as law, but it is the first time I ever
" heard it enunciated." These are touches of the genuine Osborne
stamp. The Honourable Gentleman, also, reproved Lord PALMERSTON
for his "somewhat careless conduct, and regretted that " the
" Walewski despatch had not been answered." The Noble Viscount
took his revenge with an archness of irony worthy of a Canningite in
sarcasm. He pretended to think, after Mr. DISRAELI had made a most
brilliant and crushing rejoinder to the clumsy assaults of Mr.
Ossoass, " that it wo►►ld be difficult to say which knight in the jousting
"match had the advantage." In the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S
reply there was not one maladro►t or indiscreet stroke; while Mr.
OSBORNE never can make a thrust without uncovering his guard, and
leaving himself open to his adversary. The notion of an equality in
eloquence between the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Mr. Os.
BORNE is almost as ridiculous as finding out that Lord PALMERSTON
himself was a "modern Chatham." After having been for seventeen
years in the House of Commons, Mr. OSBORNZ ought to ho more
skilful in fence, and ought to have other attainments than those of a
raker up of Hansard.

The private details from Dublin rather confirm tho accounts
which represent the police as having been extravagantly fierce in their
recent struggles with the students of Trinity College. Lord EGLING-
TOUS has ordered au investigation, and we trust that justice will be
done. We may observe that it appears beyond all doubt that several
persons not connected with the students were cruelly treated. The
contrast between the calm bearing of the Crimean " Scot Greys " and
the hot-headed wrath of the Dublin police appears very strange. If
the mounted " Peelers" had been in the Balakiava charge, would they
have rushed as fiercely on the Russian guns, a 4 upon unarmed college
youths? We shall suspend opinion until the investigation has con-
cluded, but we surmise that some of the police authorities are in a
" serious scrape."

THE BRASS HORN.

(AFTER COWPER.)

By Baron Munchausen a story is told,
That his Horn was once frozen and silent from cold ;
And as through the thick of the forest he played,
The tunes were congealed and no melody made.

But at night, as the Baron sat down by the blaze,
How breat was his wonder—how deep his amaze !
When the instrument thawing struck up with a din
Of mazurkas and marches that shook the old inn.

E'en so for five years has our Osb-Horne been mute,
A brass instrument once disagre'bly acute ;
Till rusty and rough its coarse tones are renewed,
As it holloas when safely escaped from the Wool).

MARCH 20, 1858.

POLITICAL BEARSGREASE.

Oh, why is "Bear Ellice" so busy?
And why does he trudge to and fro?
He'll bet you a bob to a tizzy
That's more than you ever shall know.

Hem bet, for he's perfectly willing
To pocket your pewter, no doubt ;
But what if he loses his shilling
And we tell what the Bear is about?

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