The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-15
MR. JOHN PRTcuT NJ d

The London correspondent of the New York
Times says of this leader among the English radi-
cas
The angularity of the man. and total want of
tact, are drawbacks indeed which would ALWAYS
prevent him from being the head of a numerous
party. Ills tearlessness of opposition sincerity of
purpose, intense confidence in his own powers of
intellectual vision, and, perhaps above all his keen
relish for hght,-all contribute to make him one
OF the most controversial of thinkers and takers
Mr.. CObden used to say of him, long years ago,
that ''if he had not been bred Quaker he would
nfallibly have been a prizefghter." | heard the
other day anecdote of him. illustrative of his
mode of dealing with distinguished strangers whom
he met in his recent travels abroad, which serves
to show that time and sickness have not uuenched
in him the old habits of pugnacity and Jrusquerie.
When at Turin, he was invited to meet Count
Cavour at dinner. at the British Embassy: and the
first thing he said when seated opposite to him at
table, was, GLOW could clever man like YOU have
been made such fool of by Louis Napoleon and
Palmerston, as to go to war with Russia 2" The
amazement of the company at this unciviliZed sal
ly, may be well imagined NJ. Cavour, who declines
conversation in English, replied with unruilled
suavity, and poured upon his blunt questioner
whole cascade of brilliant badinage, mingled with
a certain portion of pointed rebuke. But Mr.
Bright, though he talks his own language so we'll
has never been able to accomplish any other; and
the conversation so inauspiciOusly begun ter
minated.
A curious incident happened to him of very diff
ferent kind while at Nice. One morning he unex-
pectedly received visit from the chamberlain of
the Empress Dowager of Russia, then residing there,
and who expressed wish that he should be pre-
sented to her. As he was much out of health at
the time, he asked permission for of his family
to accompany him, which at once granted, and
both were conducted next day into the Imperial
presence. The aged and worn widow of Nicholas
desired them to be seated, and then, in terms of
much dignity and grace, thanked him for the part
he and his friends had taken in the Parliament of
England, in the endeavor to avert the Crmean
war; The rugged nature of the Lancashire manu-
facturer was not wholly proof against the penetra-
ting accents of unavailing grief thus addressed to
him, and his eyes filled with tears as he expressed
in reply bis qualification at learning from such lips
that the efforts of himself and his friends had been
appreciated in Russia. Should his physical strength
remain, have little doubt that he will occupy the
most prominent place in the coming struggle for
Parl amentary reform. There is no man, now that
Golden is laid aside by domestic aliction and Roe
buck is reduced by bodily infrmity to comparative
inaction, that vie with him in influence or capaci-
ty a radical leader. | must repeat, however, my
conviction that the incurabe faults of his nteec-
tual character will constantly repel and ALLEVIATE
from him men of talent and sensbity; and that his
unmitigated hatred of Epscopacy and ecclesiastical
rule of all sorts, will enlist against any he ad
vocates formidable amount of extra Opposi tion.