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Tag debate of last evening restored the balance
of oratorical and argumentative power which, until
Friday evening, had, it must be confessed, inclined
somewhat too much to the side of the supporters
of the Amendment. Mr. Bazaar's sustained mode-
ration and reserve, and his manner, at once
cautious and complete, of dealing with the
past and future of the question in its relation
to parties, to the Government, and to the
country, had prepared for his immediate successor
an effect of contrast not particularly favourable to
the declamatory personalities of a professional
talker against the clock. The best that can be
said for such a performance as that of Mr. WHITE-
SIDE is, that it is a great mercy when it comes to
an end, and a great wonder that it should ever
come to an end. The rest of the speeches up to

the stroke of twelve, which is becoming the accepted
signal for adjournment, were serious, practical,
and sedate in temper, of reasonable brevity, and
direct to the purpose. The electors of Finsbury
will gladly recognise in their new representative a
ready and accomplished parliamentary speaker,
versed in the traditions of the House, who is
neither wordy, nor noisy, nor diffuse, but puts
a few strong points in a . few clear sen-

tences with ease and dignity, and pleads
the cause of the unenfranchised with a quiet sin-

cerity that secures attention. Mr. WALPOLE is
always listened to by all parties with the cordial
respect due to the highest personal character and
the purest political honour. It had been whis-
pered that, in common with Mr. HENLEY-with
whom he had been so conspicuously associated in
Mr. BRIGHT'S speech—he was about to take a
part in the division on the Amendment,
and to abstain from attacking or supporting the
Reform Bill. Whether this idle rumour had
reached Mr. WALPOLE'S ears, we cannot say ;
but certainly, no speaker of the Opposition
has more unreservedly accepted the Amendment,
or more emphatically recommended its acceptance
to his party. Doubtless, after Mr. BRIGHT'S pointed
references to the part which Mr. WALPOLE
and Mr. HENLEY had taken in 1859, in seceding
from Lord DERBY'S Administration on the question
of Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill, to which they ob-
jected as an unconstitutional and unsettling mea-
sure, it was natural enough that Mr. WAL-
POLE'S ()pinion on the present measure should
be looked for with curiosity, and his declara-
tions, in whatever sense, assume the impor-
tance of a manifesto. We cannot pretend to
understand how it happens now that this
most estimable gentleman believes that he is
aiding a complete and permanent settlement
of a disturbing and agitating question, which he
entirely agrees with Mr. BRIGHT in desiring to see
thoroughly settled out of hand and once for all—
that is, for all our time—by lending the authority
of his name and his testimony to an amendment
which is notoriously encouraged by a majority who
object to any and every Reform Bill, and which,
as Mr. COLERIDGE said last week, so far from
settling the question, leaves it once more " at
" sea." Mr. WALPOLE is probably the chief of

those Conservatives who object to Lori RussELL's
Bill, not because it goes downward too fast or too

far, but because it is not comprehensive and corn
plate. No one has pointed out more fairly the'
difficulty of passing two Reform Bills—a Franchise
and a Seats Bill, pari paws, in one and the same
session. No one has stated more strongly the
difficulty of passing one of such Bills in one session
and another in the next, and the objections to
separating them. And yet he resists a
single Bill because it is a single one ;
and although, as he shows, it would be almost
impossible for the Government to pass the two
at once, and most objectionable not to do so. Of
course, it is no concern of Mr. WaLroLE to waist
the present Government in choosing the least
of several difficulties. But we trust we shall
be pardoned for observing that from the lips of
any ordinary member of his party Mr. WALPOLE'S
arguments last evening might be interpreted,
without much uncharitableness, as proving too
much against the possibility of settling the
question of Reform, for one who is so anxious to
settle it. Mr. WALPOLE, indeed, does not pretend
to desire Reform for its own sake, or to think it
necessary or judicious on its own account. He
speaks with a sort of sacred terror of the danger
of touching the constitution of the House of
Commons. We can only suppose that he sees
some imminent danger in a simple downward ex-
tension of the suffrage, uncompensated by mixed
and lateral franchises, and some probability of a
second comprehensive effort by Mr. DISRAELI
succeeding better than the first.
Are we still to be told by every opponent of
this Bill, who speaks or who writes, that Lord
STANLEY'S arguments remain " unanswered
" and unanswerable ?" We had weakly ima-
gined that the SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND
had not flinched from grappling with the tremen-
dous dialectics of King's Lynn. No doubt the
speakers and writers who still pronounce Lord
STANLEY'S arguments unanswerable have care-
fully abstained from hearing or reading any
speech that answers them. We must take the
liberty to request these devout adherents of Lord
STANLEY'S logic to answer, if they can, Mr.
GOSCREN'S answer of last evening. In a speech as
concise as it was compact, of less than fifty minutes,
he tracked the great unanswerable seconder of
the Amendment from point to point with a logic
as rapid and exhaustive as it was close and pres-
sing. The member for King's Lynn should have
felt the links of his logical chain snapping one
by one, as Mr. GosenEN, taking the
analysis supplied by Lord ELcao, proceeded to