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STCMPLYG" IT WITH A VENGEANCE.

A CANDID admirer was lately remonstrating with
Mr. GLauErrotee for playing the " stump orator"
to his constituents in Lancashire. It seemed to
a liberal but fastidious contemporary that for a
future Prune Minister, soon to be responsible for
the policy of fire. Marzarr's Government, to &-
acend, like any vulgar candidate, into the market
place, and harangue a multitude in plain and
homely English on public questions of exceed-
ing difficulty and delicacy, was, if not a public
scandal, at :east a lamentable instance of the
exigclicies c f a parliamentary constitution.
We ventured to raise a gentle protest
against this theory of silence which would reduce
our statesmen to the condition of a caste, and
iatrodure into their relations with the gnat
body of their countrymen something of the
reticenoe of diplomacy. If Mr. GLADSTONE
addresses a public meeting in language which
the n*ority of Englishmen can understand,
Le does not, in our view, thereby corn-
; romise that discretion and reserve which
belong to power, any more than a physician who
gives a popular lecture on the laws of health
compromises his discretion in tho treatment
of disease. If our statesmen are to be
cons:dcrod " above" the common duty of
parliamentary candidates, they must never pre-
tend to represent large constituencies, and a
certain number of pocket boroughs must be re-
tained as their preserves. It may be a vulgar
error to imagine that a statesman in a par-
liamentary country derives a certain public
virtue, from the representation of a large consti-
tuency, but it is an error we are not yet ashamed
to avow. At any rate, in the present state of
things, it is obvious that Mr. Gumisrorrn could
not escape the common obligation of explaining
linsielf to his constituents.

The case of Mr. GAnIORNE ILLSDY is very dif-
ferent. It is his privilege, as the sure laser to Mr.
IGt.sorroNE in the representation of the University
of Oxbrd, to hold his peace on public affairs
b Aoro and during a general election. He is hap-
p ly exempt from the necessily of publishing ad-
dresses, or soaking speeches to his constituents.
14, far as his electors are concerned, be may enter
the [v.v.. House of Commons unfettered and
unpludgod, whether to level up or to level
down, to c,flow the Roman Church in Ire-
.bind, or to diseudow all the ecclesiastical bodies
recognised by the State in that country and place
them all under one and the same equal protection
of the law. But Mr. GATIIOIiNE HARDY is
nothi, g if. not an orator, and, as he would say,
" 8W(1)t away by the impulses " of Lis own
eloquence, he must go to Rye one day to
celebrate the virtues and the talents of a hopeful
ea), and =ether day he must be found taking the
4 hair at a Conservative meeting—" unanimous,"
need we add "--in Mid-Rent, and declaiming at
.en awful rate on the terrible revolution that
is coming whr n that " dangerous politician" Mr.
;CL/Ll:serous Las taken the place of that eminently
Pate constitutionalist the present Pazanza. Mr.
GATILORNE MAILDY belongs to a class of orators
Who got excited and alarmed at the sound of their
wn velem, and whose rhetorical emotions ar.:
potent in communicating the contagion of a simu-
lated terror to " unanimous" audiences. In the
vocabulary of a horse dealer, he might be emphati-
cally commended as a high stepper, with splendid
action. But he has ono defect : he can never go off
at* walk, ho is always prancing or plunging. lie
p.ctures Mr. GLxvirrora as a revolutionist in spite
of himielf, who is at this moment contemplating
" a fundamental alteration in the political and re-
" ligious life of the country," and whose
"party follow him trembling " to the brink
of the abyrs. Yet, according to the same
authority, this " trembling" party is already
" threatening the House of Lords" (it was Lord
BaLIaIIIIBT, surely, who demanded the other

day that the House of Lords should be weighed
in tbo balance %), and advocating "further and
" viclent changes in the franchise, which firsnY
7•soPe" (is Mr. HARDY one of thorn ?) think has

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already been Lao mach reSeneged. T
changes are, we suppose, the restore
compound householder and the
the rate-paying clauses. Touohiag
the Irish Church, Mr. HARDT% in
ing his unanimous audience of Mid-Kent
ct nstitutionalista, is ingenuous enough to pro.
re nt the eiventiowment of the Established (Thum]
in Leland as a blow which will fall on the laity
ratht r than on the clergy, although as everybaly
knows, Mr. OLansitssin has again and swain
Coclart d that all vested interests will bo amply
provided for, and all private proprietary
rights fully respected. Never mind. • "slut
the dieenclownsent of the Irish Obnroh an
attack on private property, and your clerical
and landed interest will ea ourtainly shy
at it as a horse at • velocipede. For
the rest, Mr. GAMMA HAADY NUMMIs up
all the regular stage spectres which his leader
has so often laughed at, and frightens the Mid-
Kent constitutionalists out of what, by courtesy,

Jot
and

we may call their wits, by way of esiconreging
t hem to " fight the battle of the Constitution." If
Mr. GLADISTONI was a " stnmp-orator" when he
was addressing his constituents in South Lan-
cashire, what is Mr. GATHOUNI RAID! at the
Star Hotel, Maidstone, addressing the oonstitnenta
of Viscount Houcashma and Mr. W. Harr
DYKE?