Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-20
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III 81 lINllEl4l4ll1sENC}ER.
Tnnpresent Speaker of the British House of
Commons must be brilliant of the first water,
according to the following account; 'as
From the Philadelphia press1
Sitting inthe Strangers Gallery, of the Honse.
ofCommons, in London, you directly face the
char, in the Speaker sits. imposing in
his fnll-bottomed wig, heavy robes. immense.
dignity, and present salary of $40. 900 per an
nun, twith splendid residence; rich furniture
and service Of plate costing $4,000 while he
has n prospective certainty Of n peerape.. when.
ecer he rctires, and life pension of 100000 n
year. That Speaker is Mr.. John EVELYN Deni
son, elected in 1857, ont the retirement Of Mr.
Shaw Letevre, now Lord EversIey-eIected. bv
an obsequious House, at the dictation of. Lord
Palmerston, who was Premier at the time-elec.
ted simply because he was ;brother-inI---layy ia
the Duke OF Portland, who has great .Parliamen.
tary Influence, and had therefore to be brib.d
IN this manner-elected,s as it was then alleged.
and as 1t has since turned out with about .as
few qualifications for the post Of "First Com
moner of England" asthe Speaker is called.
as were possessed By any gentleman, feyen the
late NT. James 4Abercrombie who, ifhe had the
manners OF bear, certainly had some brains. y
elected, indeed, against the general inbTess.
SION ol the members, who, as wehavesaid, were
IN Palmerstonian harness, and had to carry out
has wishes. i 1g a5s o. =.
Mr.; Speaker has one advantage, however. He
has q handsome, though somewhat stupid face,
andlofty stature. He looks very well in 8his4of.
ficiatattirc, one would think him a dGllard.
without irmness, intellect, or knowledge. Al
though ne has been thirty Eve years in Pairla-
Went, wherehc has evcEshown an. eminent talent
for silence, (the only proofshe has ever giveniof
sasaclty,) he knows nothing Of the practice and
precedents OF Parliament, and wherever an ap--
&c my 51o frE ,tr,J1., 81 =
ing. Mr.. Walpole, the present Home Secretary,
has to5telfhim.what to, do. Walpole would have,
been aitirstratespeaker, but he is Tory, and
sPaIlmerston did not want to put the proper man
IN the proper place when the proper man held
anti Ministerial opinions. Disraeli looks pity
!agty upon the Speaker, and grimly smiles at
his blunders Lord John Russell pulls his hat
over his eyes, and laughs in his sleeve at the
failure OF Palmerston's pet. Lord John thinks
that the Speakership would have been nice
thing orhimseBs Palmerston fidgetS abouts on
MS seat, whispering, fercely to Sir George Hay
ter, eX-whipper-in of the party. Aud there
sits the Speaker, literally on thorns, fatally con-
ssclons thatIhe is putting his foot it, that he
really iSi"the desartless man" in that legis-
lative body of656 members, and plunging deep
er and deeper into the mire every step he takes
s-thatis, every sentence he utters. At last, in
the sheer despair of helpless incapacitY, he looks
around the House in a adeSponding manner, anll
,, = ~ tie alery
comfortable. He is in a mess, on a matter of
Parl,aentary PraGtce, wnlcha twoyears old
70 9e master oil ana knows not
oI 70 lg mouse awaits ms decislon IN
soie..',l sence y already decided the
each time wrongly, as has been proved so to the
~ Oh to9se ana now as about
ls nanl aSlE aga.n. never dd a we'll
p'eSe.Je9 gsnt!s.na ol l0ok more like
. pu1I.e9 a = inst l1lacoplPo9p. mie1I? ,-,5,..
~. lase psIaell l99Es 70 Pameaston across
, SS 'ao.S, VINO SNAKES nus nead' ana gives gTlla,
l;aai stteas aucn anger as sorrow Then
Dislae l9oks at tne oefk otsShe House, who
oows ,s aI assent ana S from
us se"e 9V tue 1'.ole uhdeTneatn tne Speakers
S ss same SlerE OF Ine house is
~ iarcnaNt, a me oLo elloW OF sixty
snree' VINO started as a oarrlster t6lrty-SIx
lin 1880 and since was SlIcceSSf1V CLARK of tho
Grown in Chancery Secretary of the Board IrS Of