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SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.-Mr. Bright said last night that he
thought the House of Commons had passed a very
instructive evening ; but it is time such instructive
evenings should cease. It is, no doubt, pleasant for
a veteran parliamentary debater to scent the dust of
battle, and there is nothing in which the House of
Commons so thoroughly revels as in personal expla-
nations ; but there are occasions almost too grave
for such amusements. We are passing through such
a crisis. - More than twenty years have elapsed since
England has witnessed a similar convulsion of par-
ties and conflict of opinions. The past twelve months
have been a time of growth and expansion of ideas.
Legislation that was thought uncalled for and unne-
cessary is now confessed to be inevitable, and as a
great change of our electoral organisation is immi-
nent, many, who would willingly have put off the
task of -Reform altogether, believe the truest patriot-
ism and soundest Conservatism recoil:amid a broad
and generous act of enfranchisement, which will
stay agitation, rather than a niggardly concession,
which will prolong discontent by irritating those
who are still excluded. If this be a true descrip-
tion of the state of affairs, it is plain that acri-
monious invectives and personal recriminations
are out of place. At any rate, it is to the last
degree undesirable that the Government should
be assailed for what it is about to propose, until
something is known of what it is to be; and Lord
Stanley only recalled the House of Commons to a
consideration of simple justice when be asked that
the measure should not be condemned before its
provisions had been explained. Some explanation
of the retirement of Lord Cranborno and General
Peel was, of course, due to the House, of CorLtnons,
especially after the revelations With which the
House of Lords had been favo'lred on Monday
night ; nor is it possible to avOid maw/ painful re-
flections on the picture the retiring
''
us of the Cabinet they have left. ,iinisters give
the gallant con-
fession of regret made by Geni,
rill Peel for his hasty
expressions of last year wP
-al
the retrospect. It is ' the only bright point in
that the Ministry
became divided ;- vo' evident
EAU arose,
-
Aid that the appearance of peace and
.14 mediately the necessity for deci-

unity was maintained only by doing nothing. The
" fatal fifth Resolution" slipped in among the thir-
teen, if not without the knowledge of some of the
Cabinet, certainly without being underatoed by them.
General Peel objected to but was I that it was
a matter of figures. It was not u til the 16th, or
four days after theßesolutions were laid on the table,
that Lord Cranborne learnt the sense in which his
colleagues interpreted it. He then believed it was
abandone I ; but it appearel ag •in on the 19th, sup-
ported by statistical calculations, and from that time
till late on Sunday evening Lerd Crauborne studied
them, finally arriving at the conclusion that he could
not support the Resolution. Lord Carnarvon, we
may suppose, arrived simultaneously at the same
conviction ; and General Peel, finding two of his
colleagues agreed with him, recurred to his original
opinion. It is not creditable to any one that vital
questions should be thus bandied about, at the
very time that Parliament was amused with a
show of action ; and the good-nature which
prompted Lord Derby to give up the plan of Reform
he thought best for the country in order to preserve
his colleagues was criminal weakness. It is by such
good-nature that Continents are lost, and Kingdoms
reduced to the verge of civil war. Lord North's
good-nature in carrying on the attempt to coerce the
American colonies, and Mr. Pitt's good-nature in
sacrificing the Catholic claims to the prejudices of a
king, are properly reckoned as blots on their fame
as statesmen. Lord Cranborne himself declares that
he thought from the first bird Derby's goed-nature
was mistaken; and the re3ult shows that it only
served to postpone a decision which was inevitable.
The mischief has, however, been done ; the mistake
has been made, has been repented of, and, as far as
possible, has been corrected. That such an occur-
rence was possible may make us anxious for the
future, by filling us with doubt whether a similar
error may not at any moment be repeated ; but, ex-
cept as a warning against such a disaster, it is use-
less to dwell upon a transaction little to the credit
of English sagacity or English statesmanship.
THE WESTMINSTER G-AZErTE ON "MR. BRIGHT S
SPEECHES."—The conditions of oratory and speech-
making are, no doubt, very different in England
at the present time from what they were in Athens
in the days of Demosthenes. But there is one
thing in which there is little difference, and
that is, the enthusiasm with which eloquence
affects the audience that listens to it. Whether
it is that Mr. Bright finds his hearers benevo-
lent or makes them so, it is certain that those
who so frantically cheered him last autumn at
the Town Hall of Birmingham, the Free Trade
Hall of Manchester, and at the other great
meetings that were closed by the most-triumphant
of all, that at St. James's Hall, on the 4th Decem-
ber, cannot at, the moment have felt very differ-
ently from what the Athenian demos felt in hear-
ing the oration on the peace or on the affairs of
the Chersonesus. Mr. Bright's greatest oppon-
ents confess that he is one of the foremost of
English orators. It may be worth while to try
to find out what the character of his eloquence
is, and to show how far he has a right to such
high praise. With the cause he represents, we
have nothing to do at present,:except to state that,
whatever may be its merits, it is at least not
transparently immoral, and therefore it can be
no bar to his being considered a great speaker.
It is obvious to remark, at starting, that Mr.
Bright speaks to the multitude. There are, how-
ever, two kinds of orators who speak to the
multitude—those who wish the multitude to do
something itself, and those who wish the mul-
titude to make some one else do something. In
other words, there are speakers who try to make
the people build up, and speakers who try to
make them pull down. It is needless to say
that the second class of orators has far the easier
task. Caius Gracchus, when he urged the Roman
plebs to demand their share of the public lands,
found it less difficult to make an impression than
Demosthenes when he pressed the Athenians to
tax themselves and march Against Philip. Mr
Bright belongs, of course, to the second divi-
sion, and he seems to belong to it not merely by
the accident of finding it in his way to conduct a
Reform agitation, but quite .as much because it
comes natural to him to pull down and get other
people to pull down, and because it would require
rather an artificial effort than otherwise for him
Ito be'as vehement about building up. It is im-
possible to read these autumn speeches without
coming to the conclusion that they owe as
much to the Tories, to Mr. Lowe, and to the
present social state of England generally, as they
do to their author, or even to their audience. It
is unpleasant to think how much we should have
lost in the way of withering denunciation, telling
facts and catching sarcasm, if Lord Derby had
continued a Radical, or if Mr. Lowe had never
uttered his so--called slanders on the working
class. No greater misfortune could have befallen
the present literary season than the passing of
a satisfactory Reform bill last summer. Mances-
ter, Birmingham, and Glasgow would have been
stagnant, not in trade, but in speech ; the Re-
form platforms in their great halls would have
been packed away in pieces, like the French tri-
bune, and Mr. Bright would, perhaps, have gone
to America and by this time have quite cor-
rupted his pure English evil communications with
the House of Representatives. Happily for the
interests
the wooden dragon against
to till is still erect in the
which
hestSit of
hoirsato work
temple of the Philistines, and his blows may still be
heavy, straight and crushing, with the satisfactory
feeling that they are not beating the air. It is
no new thing to notice how a stout, hard-dying
abuse benefits the knight-errant who attacks it.
And the benefits that it confers are not at-
tended with many drawbacks. It is not neces-
sary that the champion put his neck or his for-
tune in danger, or that he betake himself to soli-
tude or asceticism. Abuses generally last by
inherent
they have few open personal
friends
reformer who can hit suffi-
ciently bard and aim sufficiently straight is sure to
be backed, both by those who want the abuse
; andva anyt vitality
;
knocked down because it is an abuse, and those
who, in a more artistic spirit, want it down
merely because it happens to be up. Mr. Bright
wayand shouts over his shoulder to
followers to the attack of the great
ss of exclusiveness, and the few de-
fTlaeenoanimrYddseartftseohtrehhtraiest show themselves on the walls either
querulously expostulate and protest they are
coming down to open the door, or indignantly call
the attention of neutral by-standers to the amount
of dirt he throws between the intervals of flourish-
ing his mace. This is very safe work. He
could only endanger himself by mere wantonness
of provocation. But though safe it is glorious
to a certain extent. Strength of any kind
is sure to command admiration. People who
admire Coeur de Lion crushing a Saracen giant,
with the possibility of the Saracen giant's crush-
ing him, will also admire the man who carries six
other men on his back, with no danger except,
perhaps, to his burthen. In a crowd of would-be
competitors, Mr. Bright shoots with a bow that few
can bend except himself, and, though there is no
danger of anything serious being shot back, peo-
ple undeniably admire the shooting and go to see
it. Something to pull down, and safety to ac-
complish it, seem to be the favourable conditions
for the oratory of a demagogue. Not but what
there are plenty of examples of demagogues
consequencesthrow-
minogstand running the
momentousbut this is generally
when there are two demagogues in the field,
and the question is, which is to be sacrificed.
toriskthse; winds
As a rule, the demagogue who forgets the great
rule of pulling down or the 'great postulate of
safety, either loses his public or disappears him-
self with more or less violence. Cleon, prince
andfprototype of demagogues, got on well enough
until he unluckily involved himself in an engage-
ment to do something better than some one else.
lie had been abusing the military authorities,
and imprudently uttered the gratuitous bounce
that he could handle an army better himself.
Nicias, the general, took him at his word • what
was worse, the Athenian people, incorrigibly fond
of a joke, took him at his word also ; and Cleon,
after an ineffectual attempt to shuffle out of it, had
to begin military life as commander-in-chief. The
consequence was that, after encountering sonic
little blind good-luck; he got miserably de-
feated and lost' his life. Let this be an awful
warning to Mr. Bright Let him never pledge
himself to conduct a Reform Bill, or to carry a
scheme of tenant-right. If lie does, he might
possibly be taken at his word, and then, in the
perils and anxieties of construction, he will sigh
for the pleasant days of safety and demolition.
The reader who takes up these speeches with the
expectation of revelling m passages of exciting
eloquence will probably be disappointed. Even
after making due allowance for the difference
between Mr. Bright in print and Mr. Bright on
the platform, he will be inclined to rate them as
possessing no higher claims to oratory than a
fluent arrangement of figures, not of speech, but
of arithmetic. He will be bored by a continual
repetition of calculations as to how many of the
noble army of England's artisans are without

the franchis-!, and with the level and monotonous
statistical aspect of the tract of language in which these
s alaultssognrioewli.
ttleßautttaemlepsis
toplacesuperficialo
ex-
amination,n
self in the position of one of Mr. Bright's spe-
cial public, will show that such a judgment is
not only unfair, but contrary to sound criticism.
There is no argument that carries such conviction
to the mind of a class unused to weigh argument
of any kind as an argument from arithmetic. The
plainest truths of the metaphysical order are slip-
fpaecryts ino f man,physicale mc:toisrbkeinligeves
altogetherali tlie
graspof
scienceth lie
if they are at all out of the way; but with plain
figures there is no juggling and no escaping, and
they carry a sort of cabalistic fascination with
them, just because they are simple and plain.
The working man cannot understand Mr. Mill on
Representative Government, much less Mr. Disraeli
on the representation of minorities ; but the
argument that out of every hundred Englishmen
only sixteen have the franchise stirs him up better
than any trope in all the old grammarians. Nearly
every one of these speeches puts this fact in a pro-
minent place ; indeed, it may be considered as Mr
Bright's wand with which he conjures and sum-
mons to his command the haply - slumbering
spirits that must do his work. But figures, like
fire, when they get the upper hand of their master
(and they are very apt to do so) are sad tyrants.
A bad speaker cannot handle figures ; like a pack
of hounds with a new huntsman, they stray,
they lag, they go on ahead, they fall out and snap
at each other, but it is seldom they kill anything.
Mr. Bright is a master of his figures. Without
saying that he is perfectly impartial in using
them, or denying that he sometimes uses only
those he requires, no one can read the speech at
Manchester, for instance, without feeling what
eloquence can bring out of figures. The " con-
firmation." used to be .an important part of a
speech in the old masters ; and Mr. Bright's con-
firmation is often a bristling array of numbers
that break the enemy's line like the wedged attack
of the Theban phalanx. Next to this arithmetical
feature, must be noticed the exceeding plainness
and:straightforwardness of the language. Speeches
with so little strain in them are hardly to be
named. There -is no sentence that begins in the
middle ; none that has to distort itself in order to
get its feet on the ground again; no barbarism
of phrase caused by want of an apt word ; no in-
tricate systems of conjunctions to run the speaker
out of breath. The last characteristic it is worth
the reader's while to verify. If any one, groan-
ing under the tyranny of " since's and " not-
withstanding's," feels curious to see how speeches
of unusual power can be made with almost lite-
rally no assistance from these exacting servants
of all work, let him spend half an hour over
Mr.ll,Bright. He will rise refreshed, and, if he has
to write or speak, so will his audience when they
next meet him. To an unexperienced reader the
limpid clearness and easy flow of Mr. Bright's
oratory seems commonplace ; but the truth is
that this perfect concealment of all effort is just
one of those facts of genius that are the most un-
common things that happen. But patient and
skilful repetition of argument and lucidity of
language do not of themselves make a great ora-
tor. They are rather the tests that his work is
good and honest than the qualities that raise it
to the sublime or the beautiful. Without sacrific-
ing these necessary conditions, Mr. Bright goes far
beyond them. To read one of his speeches is like
walking by the side of a pleasant river and sud-
denly coming upon the thunder and majestic
beauty of a rocky fall or cataract. You are startled
and surprised into admiration ; yet when you look
back it is evident how gradually nature has risen
to her climax. If one or two passages in each
of Mr. Brig,lit's speeches were cut out the speech
would not be greatly above the level of many
others ; it might possibly pair off with one of Mr.
Ilorsman's or Mr. Whiteside's. But it is just Mr.
Bright's power of rising to a climax that makes
his speeches what they are. A grand and elo-
quent passage, introduced in the right place, is
far more than a mere ornament to be looked at by
itself. It is the very life and soul of the previous
context. It is the centre and the footle that gives
meaning and vitality to everything. It is the
spark of electricity that fires the powerful elements
which argument has been silently evolving from
the hearts of the listeners. It is the stroke of
genius which turns calm admiration into frantic
enthusiasm, and makes an audience spring to their
feet in a tempest of irrepressible cheering. Such
is the now celebrated passage about the " vol-
cano," at St. James's Hall. Such are many of the
passages which conclude the speeches. We will
quote two, not perhaps the finest, but the most
handy ; reminding the reader, however, that they
are conclusions, and suppose a chain of eloquence
preceding, and that it will not do to look at them
as detached bits. The first is from the speech at
Birmingham in last August. He has been urging
his hearers to union and energy, and he con-
cludes a powerful appeal thus :
" The address which has been presented to mo has re-
ferred to 1832. I remember that time well. My young
heart then was stirred with the trumpet blast that
sounded
from your midst. There was no part of this
kingdom where your voice was not heard. Let it sound
again. Stretch out your hands to your countrymen in
every part of the three kingdoms, and ask them to join
you in a great and righteous effort on behalf of that
freedom which has been so long the boast of English-
men, but which the majority of Englishmen have never
yet possessed. I shall esteem it as an honour which my
words cannot describe, and which oven in thought I
cannot measure, if the population which I am permitted to
represent should do its full duty in the great struggle
which is before us. Remember the great object for which
we strive. Care not for calumnies and lies. Our great
object is this : to restore the British Constitution in all
its fulness, with all its freedom, to the British people."
At Glasgow, on the evening of the 16th October,
Mr. Bright, after enlarging on the changes that ,
social and political reform would work in dimin-
ishing ignorance and misery, concluded as fol-
lows :

" I believe that ignorance and suffering might be les-
sened to an incalculable extent, and that many an Eden,
beauteous in flowers and rich in fruits, might be raised
up in the waste wilderness which spread before us. But
no class can do that. The class which has hitherto
ruled in this country has failed miserably. It revels
in power and wealth, whilst at its feet a terrible
peril for its future lies—the multitude which it has
neglected. If a class has failed let us try the nation.
That is our faith, that is our purpose, that is our cry
—let us try the nation. This it is which hai called
together those countless numbers of the people to demand
a change ; and, as I think of it, and of these gatherings,
sublime in their vastness and in the resolution, I think I
see, as it were, above the hill tops of time, the glimmerings
of the dawn of a better and a nobler day for the country
and for the people that I love so well."
No doubt, other causes besides merely literary
ones are to be counted among the reasons of Mr.
Bright's popularity. Verba placent, et vox, et
quod corrumpere non est. He says what his
audience like to hear, and his physical qualifica-
tions are eminent, and he is believed to be thor-
oughly honest. Unpalatable truth is not often
cheered, and that is one reason why it is gene-
rally uttered with such little heart ; for eloquence
requires an audience as well as an orator. If Mr.
Bright were to cast another, and perhaps a more
genuine, kind of pearls before the men to whom
he is so fond of appealing, they would not impro-
bably turn upon him and tear him. As to hon-
esty, it may be remarked that people who wear
and walk about in the shaggy coat of rough
vituperation often get an easy reputation for
being honest, as long as there is nothing to do but
denounce, and as long as their honesty confines
itself to being very candid about the failings of
their audience's opponents. Perhaps Mr. Lowe's
opinion of Mr. Bright's singleness of purpose, and
uncoloured veracity of assertion, would not be
so flattering as that of his admirers at Man-
chester and Birmingham. But whatever may be
said of his matter and his honesty, there is no
question about his elocution. If it be a physical
pleasure to listen to a good voice even with the
drawback of moral pain from the conviction that
it is uttering nonsense, what must it be to listen to
such a voice as Mr. Bright's rolling in thd full
sweep of one of his magnificent perorations ? No
wonder that people go to Reform meetings "to
hear Bright ?" Beales, strong in academical hon-
ours, Dickson, used to command men, even The
O'Donoghue, full of native fire, must yield the
palm, like old Timotheus, for whatever feats they
may perform in raising their fellow-mortals to the
skies, none but Mr. Bright can draw down visita-
tions of honour from the divinities of the floor
and the galleries, and from the rather surly angels
of the literary press. It would be advisable that
when Mr. Bright, speaks no other bark should be
heard ; much less that, according to recent prece-
dent, three or four speakers should hold forth
simultaneously with him in the same room. In
order to deter Mr. Beales or Mr. Potter frombeing
so imprudent as to try this in their next pro-
gramme, we recommend to their notice an an-
ecdote from Quinctilian :—" When Trachallus
spoke he seemed to tower above all competi-
tors; his height was great, his eye glanced
with fire, his presence was commanding, his ges-
tures admirable, and his voice not, as Cicero
wished, equal to a tragedian's, but better than any

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March 4.

Sir IL Blennerhasset, foreman of the Kerry grand
jury, addressed his brethren on Thursday on the sub-
ject of the Fenian conspiracy, and the prompt action
of the Government in putting down the recent at-
tempt at insurrection. He appealed to every Irish-
man, be he a Fenian or a Fenian sympathiser,
whether he considered he was really doing any ser-
vice to his country by helping this movement—a
movement which could do nothing else but bring
strife and confusion into Ireland. The whole effect of
it must be to hinder the development of our com-
merce, paralyse our trade, and even affect serf •
the national credit; and therefore, putting it ujv.o
the mere point of patriotism, it was a most criminal
and a most un-Irish thing for these persons to con-
tinue in the line they have token up. As regards the
Government itself, it is the first Irish Government
they have had for a long time. Numbers of its
members arc Irishmen, and certainly in the com-
mencement of their career they have acted in the
most generous manner, and decidedly with mercy.
There would be no opposition to this resolution,
thanking the Government for the prompt and ener-
getic manner in which they acted at so critical a
moment. The Knight of Kerry, in seconding the
resolution, asked what they would think if the Go-
vernment put one million of fresh taxation upon
them, and whether they thought £1,000,000 would
represent the loss which the country had snstained by
the Fenian movement. He mentioned the case of an
English commercial traveller who came expecting
his usual orders, amounting to £2,000, but he could
not get orders amounting to £lO. They could not
too heartily thank the Government for its exertions.
He wished he could believe the movement was less
serious than it is. But they bad reason to think it
was sympathised with to an extent that was very
unpleasant. He expressed his great admiration for
the address of Bishop Moriarty, who had put the
saddle on the right horse, condemning not only the
Fenlans, bat those who had encouraged that most
injurious conspiracy. Mr. Coltsman next addressed
the grand jury. He said the objects of the Fenians
were communistic—to level all ranks of society,
and destroy property. Ile was sorry to say
that the conspiracy was far more extended than
people imagined, but he trusted that Irishmen would
see the fruitlessness of attempts at rebellion, and
when they did, the inevitable result would be the
prosperity, wellire, and happiness of their country.
The resolution passed unanimously.
A letter from Cork states that Michael J. O'Sulli-
van, a national teacher, who had been traced by the
police since January, 1860, was arrested on Satur-
day at Donoughmore station on a charge of treason
felony.

Arrests continue to be made from time to time of
suspicious-looking persons who arrive here from
Liverpool, a detachment of the constabulary being
constantly posted at the wharf.
A young man named Carey was arrested in
Fethard on Wednesday last by Mr. Monahan, S. t.,
under awarrant transmitted by the Lord Lieutenant,
and conveyed on the same day to Clonmel Gaol.
He is charged with being implicated in tho..leknian
movement.

In reference to the Crown Solicitorship, vacant
by the death of Mr. Maxwell Hamilton, and said to
be worth £2,000 a year, the Daily Express observes
that the North East Circuit will be divided into
three districts, and adds its earliest hope that the
Government will, in making their appointments, act
on the principle of rewarding those who have
laboured for them in adversity, and not of purchas-
ing the adherence of that class of doubtful followers
who are willing enough to share the fruits of pro-
sperity. It is not often that an opportunity has
been affcrded to a Conservative Government of re-
warding, to some extent, the services they have re-
ceived from the attorneys and solicitors of Ireland
at many a hard-fought fight, and that now pre-
sented must not be allowed to pass unimproved.
The troops in garrison assembled at 11 o'clock
on the 4th on the Fifteen Acres, Phoenix Park, for
review under General Cunynghame. Itis under-
stood that orders have been given to complete the
92d Highlanders to a strength of 950 non-commis-
sioned officers and men by the Ist of April next,
the regiment being intended for foreign service
during the summer. General 11'11Iurdo made an
inspection of the 83d Foot in Richmond Barracks
on Saturday. This regiment is expected to leave
Dublin for Gibraltar about the end of this month.
Th 3 83d Regiment made the highest score for the
silver cup last week, and won the prize by several
points. Orders have been sent to the several regi-
ments on home service to hold in readiness the
armourers of each corps for proceeding to the Royal
Small Arms Factory at Enfield for instruction in the
mechanism of the converted Enfield Snider rifles.

DUBLIN, March 5.

The commission for the county, of Waterford was
opened yesterday by the Right Hon. lair. Justice
O'Hagan. 'There were only seven cases in the calen-
dar. Of these, two arose out of the recent election
for the county—one being a case in which a mob
rescued from a body of soldiers a number of con-
victed prisoners under the impression that they wrre
voters, and the other an organised attack upon
troops who were escorting voters. Such attempts,
said his lordship, to hinder the free exercise of the
franchise must be repressed. Ile regretted to find
that, out of the large number of 38 offences com-
mitted since last assizes, in 23 cases the offenders
had not been made amenable. He regretted that
the Crown had determined not to send up bills in
regard to the loss of the two lives at Dungarvan
during the late election, as by so doing they would
have set in motion an inquiry which might have
elucidated the circumstances connected with that
unfortunate occurrence.
Chief Justice Monahan, who opened the assizes
at Mullingar yesterday, found Westmeath in a very
unsatisfactory state, a great many crimes having
been committed with impunity. Recently au agra-
rian outrage had been committed, but such was the
state of terrorism existing that the victim,
_who had
been almost murdered, declined to furnish any in-
formation. Cases of malicious burning and sending
threatening letters. had also occurred without any
person being made amenable. He did not attribute
this to any want of vigilance on the part of the con-
stabulary ; but he must add that the state of the
county required the serious attention of the grand
jurors. There was no civil business of any kind for

The grand jury of Kerry, on the motion of Mr.
CoUsman, seconded by the Knight of Kerry, have
resolved unanimously to raise a subscription for a
testimonial to Constable Duggan, whose heroic con•
duct they praised very warmly. They passed a
vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Magill, who re-
monstrated with the insurgents, and gave warning to
the police. The magistrates of Killarney were like-
wise thanked for their energetic conduct in connexion
with the late outbreak. William Walsh, alias Dono-
van, and Patrick Ludd, the two men arrested recently
in Passage by Head-constable Hoare, suspected of
complicity in Fenia.nism, were brought up on a
second remand, at the Tuckey-street Police-station,
Cork, on Saturday last, where a private investi-
gation was held into the charges against them.
They were again remanded.
The following letter has been published :
"Dublin Castle, March 2.
"My Lord—l an directed by the Lord Lieutenant to