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MR. GLADSTONE IV SOUTH
LANcASIIIRE.

Tot: lists are opened, the tournament is pre-
pared, and the combatants are making ready.
Mr. GLADSTONE is the first of the two champions
to enter in and to depose, like a true knight, as to
the motive of his arrival and the justice of his
cause. The old appeal of the Lord Marshal, as
SHAKESPEA RE has done it into poetry, might with
no more than un ordinary stretch of poetical
license, be addressed to the rival champions :

In Bon's name and the QuKEN's, say who thou art,
And why thou comn't thus knightly clad in arms,
Against what man thou coms't and what thy quan el r
speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath ;
And so defend thee 'leaven and thy valour.

To a silent challenge, in substance such as this,
Mr. OLansToxE in his speech on Wednesday at
st. Helen's, has given response clear and full.
Presently we shall have Mr. DISRAELI ambling
gracefully into the lists in Buckinghamshire, and
mock-heroically yielding his reply to a similar in-
terrogatory. Whatsoever can be done by the
arts of chicanery and magic will doubtless
be attempted by the false knight. But
his suppleness and dexterity and any unlaw-
ful aids which Eastern sorcery may invoke, will
be of little avail against the good cause and the
strong arm of his opponent. The issue of the
combat before the constituencies will only repeat
the victory of the right in the House of Com-
mons ; and the elder deities of the House of
Lords, who watch the fray from their Olym-
pian heights, and even seek, like the
Homeric gods, to mingle in the combats
of mortals, and who fight the same battles in
their ethereal abode, will be unable to affect the
issue. As VENus felt the rough touch of
DIOMEDE'S spear, and the bellowing of the
wounded MARS filled the air, so the ethereal grace
of the youthful Marquis of Bun has not
escaped unscathed, and the Duke of PORTLAND'S
contortions and cries of pain offend the sense of
what is seemly in exalted beings whose veins are
filled less with blood than with immortal ichor.
In the former contest the Earl of DERBY inter-
vened, like an elderly VENUS, to carry off the
pious Armes, in the modem shape of the pious
Disaana, from the field in which he had incurred
discomfiture and defeat, and hid him from pur-
suit in a thick cloud of sophistry. But this
supernal aid has accomplished already all that it
can effect, and there is no further hope in that
quarter.

Mr. Gi.aorrosz's speech at St. Helen's, on
Wednesday, places the real issue which the con-
stituencies will have to decide at the polling-
booths in November, frankly and fairly before
them. It is addressed, not merely to the electors
of the county of which he is the present represen-
tive, nor to the voters whose names will soon be on
the register, but to the inhabitants of the United
Kingdom. The appeal which ho makes to them
to do justice to Ireland might well rouse a people
less earnest than that which inhabits these realms
into one of those moods of noble enthusiasm
which constitute the rare heroic moments of
nations. If the appeal met no response,
it would prove that there were no depths
in the mind of England to answer to the deep
convictions of her noblest statesmen; that she had
become " a fen of stagnant waters;" and that
the reel sources of her greatness were dried up.
To accept, as her leader, her representative states-
man, her man of men, the politician who can
declare, as Mr. Disaaam has done, that the con-