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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2.

WE trust there is nothing invidious in the pass-
ing remark that the distinguished party of honour-
able gentlemen whom the member for Birmingham
has immortalised by a scriptural nickname, appear
to be quite as select in their public appearances
out of the Session us in their quantity and qua-
lity in Parliament. Lord EtA-HO may be cited
as a striking exception, having been "summoned,"
if we may venture to adopt his own characteristi-
cally humble expression, by a body of northern
miners to discourse to them on the law of master
and servant, and the mutual relations of capital
and labour. lint we must take leave to state that
Lord Rialto is a Seotchnian, and that is a consi-
deration which would naturally outweigh any
other with a body of even subterranean Scotch-
men. Besides the member for Haddingtonshire
had figured as chairman of a parliamentary com-
mittee on the question, and was therefore very
properly expected to speak with more than ordi-
nary authority, though, in effect, he
had nothing more original to propose
than courts of arbitration, on the French pattern,
in preference to penal legislation. That still
more eminent Adullamite, the member for
Caine, has declined o than once an invitation
to meet his fellow-countrymen in public meeting
assembled, and to state his sentiments on an open
platform, and has lately liberated his just and
tenacious mind, and vindicated his conscience
from the calumnies of his accusers, over the wine
and walnuts of a friendly City feast, which,
but for his presence, and we may add,
for that of a Chief Justice more accus-
tomed to public speaking than to judicial dignity,
might have passed as unnoticed as the warlike
exploits of the heroes who died before Agamem-
non. Following his illustrious example, Mr.
/LOWMAN was discovered, last Thursday evening,
by 6,;:me curious reporters in the act of being en-
tertained by :•js Mr.'22 Bid admirerS at Fouil,
while by an irony of fate which Mr. BOWMAN'S
fine sense of the heroic must enjoy, on the same
evening and in the same convivial manner, the
fashionable member for Lambeth, Mr. Doe LTON,
was solemnly partaking of the feast of reason and
the flow of soul which had been prepared for him
at a Kennington tavern by his friends and sup-
porters in the borough of Lambeth, offering liba-
tions to the British constitution, and clearing his
throat and his conscience over the heoltaps of the
" Horns." We shall probably have done suffi-
cient justice to the just and tenacious member for
Lambeth if we record the fact that his friends and
supporters at the "Horns " listened to the apology
of his public life with a not unmanly emotion.
And now let us, without disrespect to Lambeth
or to Mr. Dour:rex, look in at the Subscription
Rooms at Stroud, where, according to report,
nearly three hundred gentlemen and Liberal-Con-
servatives of the borough are drowning in the
social bowl their fears of violent and subversive
change, and listening with ears attent and glowing
smiles to the prophetic periods of their accom-
plished representative, who, it will probably have
occurred to some of them, might have been the
author of the Sublime and Beautiful, had BURKE
not lived too soon. For we concur with his
admirers at Stroud in detecting a sort of oratorical
likeness to BURKE in Mr. Hoes MAN ; to the latter
BURKE; the likeness of Britannia metal to silver;
a shilling copy in electro-plate. Ho has real gifts
of eloquence, of that eloquence called particularly
" parliamentary," combative, aggressive, com-
plimentary in vituperation, and vituperative in
compliment ; genially solemn and severely not
in earnest. Mr. Iloasmary is a great performer
in the theatrical world of politics, who, unlike
M ArBETH; " can be wise, amazed, temperate,
" furious, loyal, and neutral in a moment." It is
only in countries where cultivated and ambitious
men of leisure and of fortune take to public life,
as to fox-hunting or tho turf, and pursue
politics as a " noble science," that these curious
and interesting products can be found. No one
has accused Mr. Honsmax of being an office
seeker ; the only office he ever held he
resigned because he had nothing to do, as