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THE LAST PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

Mr. Tom Taylor, the correspondent of the Manchester
Examiner, thus treats of the orators and oratory of the
session :—ln glancing back at the session, as I usually do
at its close, from the personal and oratorical point of
view, the first thing that occurs to me is the loss we have
suffered in the absence of Mr. Bright. That is, of course,
tantamount to saying that the session has been below the
highest standard of contemporary oratory, for friends and
foes alike admit that, as an orator, the member for
Birmingham is without a rival. Mr. Gladstone, who
certainly comes next, has never been more powerful
in debate than he has been during the present
session. His speech on the introduction of the Irish
Land Bill will rank even amongst his great successes
in an art in which he is without a rival—we mean
that of exposition ' • while the way in which he
fought the same bill through committee was perfectly
marvellous for the readiness, the pertinacity, and the in-
exhaustible knowledge of the subject with which he
encountered all opponents. Mr. Disraeli, on the contrary,
has by no means sustained his reputation. Absent from
the house, on account of ill health, during a great part of
the session, he has displayed only a languid and inter-
mittent interest in its proceedings when present. He
has made it is true, one or two clever little speeches—
his one or two long ones have been dreary
failures, but somehow he has always given me the
idea that he was always speaking because he must
not because he wished. The hopelessness of opposition
seemed to weigh upon him. He had lost the buoyancy of
spirits necessary for party skirmishing, while the forces
at his command are too scanty for any serious enterprise,
so for the most part he sits silent and lets Mr. Hardy
lead ; nor does the latter right hon. gentleman do the
work badly. The session has marked a decided improve-
ment in his style. He has shewn on many occasions a
sobriety of judgment and judicious tact of which
he had previously given no sign ; and while be
still retains the power of rousing up the
Tory country gentlemen, and carrying them away in a
way that no other of their leaders can do, he has shewn
that he has in him the capacity for something more than
this. The man, however, who has made the greatest ad-
vance during the session is decidedly Mr. Forster. Upon
him, I need not, however, dwell much, because I have on
more than one occasion during the session endeavoured
to do justice to him. He has by his speeches on the
Education Bill proved himself one of the most powerful
debators in the House ; by his conduct of the same bill
through committee he has shewn high aptitude for
leadership ; while he has won to. an extent that really
begins to remind one of the late Sir G. C. Lewis, the
confidence and respect of all parties by his candour, fair-
ness, readiness to do justice to his opponents, and fine
temper. With the exception of his budget speech, Mr.
Lowe has done nothing that calls for particular notice—un-
less it be the " plucky" way in which he threw over his old
economical crochets in his speech on the Irish Land Bill.
It strikes me that he has scarcely maintained his influence
in the House. As to the Ministers generally, they are
very much what and where they always were, and
the same thing may be said of most other members. I
don't know that any one has during the session " shot out
from the ruck," as the sporting writers say. On the other
hand, most of those who held good positions before hold
them still.