The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-15 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 27m.—Afternoon, 9h. 10m.
To-mounow.-Morning, 9h. 54m.—Afternoon, 10h. 36m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 15, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
76—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.
BanoNETER-29.88; falling.
WlND—South-Westerly—light ; with dull weather and
slight sprinkling of rain. Very sultry.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1881.

Elsewhere will be found—upon a scale of pro-
portionate magnitude—the last of Lord BROUGHAM'S.
great achievements. It is the latest oration
uttered by the lips of this " old man eloquent." It
is the most recent of the many abundant outpour-
ings of wisdom from the fully ripened and yet per-
fectly vigorous intellect of this more than octoge-
narian. The occasion of its delivery was in itself
marked by circumstances of an unusual character.
Delivered as it was in Dublin yesterday morning, it
possesses the especial interest of being the first speech
delivered by Lord BROUGHAM upon his first visit
to Ireland. Remembering this, remembering Lord
BROUGHAM'S great age and illustrious reputation,
and remembering also the impulsive and impetuous
nature of Celtic enthusiasm, it is no wonder in-
deed that the venerable ex-Chancellor should have
been welcomed with an ardour worthy of being
manifested by a body of Irishmen assembled
together for the express purpose of greeting
a great man like Lord BROUGHAM one
combining in his encyclopedic genius among
other lesser titles to fame, the designations (in
their loftiest significance) of Orator, Statesman,
Author, Jurisconsult, Legislator, and Philosopher.
Ranging, as did Lord BROUGHAM'S inaugural
address yesterday in opening the proceedings of
the Fifth Congress of the National Asso-
ciation, over an astonishing variety of themes
most of them of the very first magnitude, and
of the most startling diversity, it will be as well to
restrict our observations to-day to one particular
theme, selected advisedly from the numerous themes
here presenting themselves to our consideration ; and,
in doing this, we light almost instinctively upon
those most suggestive remarks of the ex-Chan-
cellor, applied to the actual position of our
foreign relations, more particularly in respect to the
leading Powers among the European part of
Christendom. One by one—this man of large expo-
tience passes those prominent " powers that be "
under review; one by one he descants upon the I
most glaring peeuliarities of their actual situaton
at this present juncture. Following, as Lord
BRonilllAM' s comprehensive speech does, imme-
diately upon that royal rigmarole, concocted with
a due regard to the eloquence, half of
" rote," half of retiscence—for we all know
that there is unquestionably an eloquence even
in silence, in what the wit humorously designated
" brilliant flashes of silence"—following as Lord
BROUGHAV'S speech does immediately upon that
co-called Speech from the Throne delivered by her
MAJESTY'S ConntililiOners upon the occasion of the
prorogation of Parliltment—it is really delightful
to read it. It is positively refreshing and invigo_
rating to meet with something more compre-
hensible, in its way, in reference to foreign powers
generally, than those words that we have perused
so ofren under such an immense variety of
circumstances, that Her MAJESTY is
gratified to announce to the Lords and
Commons that she still continues to receive from
foreign powers generally, evidences of the most
uninterrupted friendship! The bulk of the Royal
Speech, in point o:f fact, is invariably composed of
so many old lam Hier sentences that we might
readily enough, n] aon each occasion of late years,
have listened on/ly to the opening words of the ma-
jority of the littlepiragraphs of it, and have trusted
to the accuracy Of OUT memory for the literal and
verbal correctness with -which each in turn were
brought to a conclusion. This from the exordium
of the speech itself down t 'fa the old time-worn, time-
honoured close of it or pel oration, if we may apply
ga magnificent a term of i thetoric to a winding up
a
everlastingly bald, and dull, and matter of fact
we say, to the frayed and threadbare
e
oloß
- of it, about the individual members
of both
Lords and Commoi having each of them
duties of
another kind to di 3charge in their respec•
ti ve counties ?
majority of the Bali
Duties, 1 )yCie way, that the
lo
with sedulously i to---at
an. I deaeated lieges forth-
atten 0
---at Lin honour bound—by
flying off instanter at a ,
tangei 11: here to the heather
of Scotland, there to the el .
-anai 'old beauties cluster-
ing along the margine_oe_' the -
Ramie, yonder to the
snowy acclivities and p ictur esque chalets of the
Tyrol or of Switzerland. Ii tternaediately between
the flourish at the begini Vtr ig and the flourish at
the termination of the Royal Speech, whether
ivered by acenraission at
deliveted in person or del
the close of every session of Parliament, there comes
s to the gentlera, AS a dei..4l certainty the the