The Portland daily press., 1865-06-30
Clippings from Foreign Correspondence.

q The London correspondent Of the New
York Tribune speaks of the coming election
in the following lively terms: 8aAAA
The harvest and Parliament are running a
race together, as to which shall first get ripe
| for the sickle-a comparison still appropriate
in this country. Its admitted by everybody
that the contest must not, if possible, take
place while the crops are being got in, and
the general expectation. is that Parliament
will be dissolved before the next few weeks
are over The unusual heat, however, of tie
weather, The forwardness of the crops, and the
rapidity with which the wheat is ripening,
have created doubt whether it will be posi-
bic to finish the business of the session in time
| to hold the elections before Autumn. Proba-
| bly, no definite decision has yet been arrived
/ at on the subject, The conditions OF the
physical and political atmosphere are both SO
\ variable, SO incapable of calculation, that one
i doubts whether any arrangement based on
the continuance, OF fine weather and the still
more Hypothetical self-denial Of pariamenta-
! ry orators, can be regarded as final. Still the
mere fact that the general election is expected
/ TO take place next month is very likely to in
sure its occurrence. The Inconvenience of a
| protracted contest are so manifold and seri-
GUS, to CT nstituencies as well as candidates,
that any adjournment OF the dissolution till
alter the harvest would be very generally un-
IL IL
we may expect in all likelihood to have the
elections upon US. Charles the Second apollo
! gizad to his courtiers for being ian uncon-
scionable time in DYING" and England, gen.
orally, expects the present Parliament to "cut
it Short aT Hma feye9f fs6.l
There is naturally good deal of interest
and excitement The Goodies and Doodles
are throwing themselves on the country, "gen-
orally in the shape OF money and beer" Brass
bands are looking up and anticipating pc
eHniary harvest. Committees for "the gem
] ilemanly" and other interests sit perpetually,
| at taverns. The papers TEEN with editorials
/ on The present and iuture ;ParliameRts. "Men
who are anxions about their seats are writing
to their constituents, or are subscribing at
missionary meetings, or are gone down to lee
turing at athen9ums, and that sort of thing,n
as r. B. Gays, and Sir Barnes Newcome win
discourse on the Poetry of Childhood, Wo-
manhood and the Affections, for the benefit of
the Newcome Orphan Children's Home and
the Newccme Soup Association, without dis
tinction of denomination. Aud beneath il all
there is very earnest desire for reform and
progress, and disposition to apply very crit
ical tests TO most candidates who shall pre-
sent themselves for the suffrages Of the COM
munity. sg....rs s-s
Greer" writing from Paris to the Euening
Post, thus describes warm friend of the
United States: NJ AkA9e 81
Laboulaye appears to be about Atty years of
age. He has a broad, oval face, dark COM
plexioned, good stock of hair, good intellectu-
al development from chronological point OF
view, an honest, benevolent expression, and,
apparently, a good constitution; he may be
calloda solid, substantial man. According to
his own statement, he is amember of the corps
OF French lawyers, which body, he says, have
never been among the foremost promoters OF
/ liberty. However true this may be, he is him.
self an exception in these days, for he never
loses sight of the subject. He holds Office as
Professor OF Jurisprudence, and lectures on
eminent jHrisprudential writer's. and he pleas
es the development of le Droit historically
Laboulaye is fluent, in his delivery. clear in
his ideas, distinct. in his utterance, and re-
maTkably successful 10 securing unfagging
| attention. Indeed, the same may be said of
all French lecturers, who are perfect models
of lecturers. 1t may be accounted for iu the
| fact of their being masters of their subjects,
never at loss for ideas, and never without
purpose and plan in delivering them. La
boulaye has notes before him, but seldom re-
fers to them. Like all French lecturers, he
sits while speaking behind semi-circular tri
bune, raised so as to see and be seen, with
glass of eau sucree by his side. His manner
is coiloquial; 1t seems as If he was holding a
conversation with his audience rather than
addressing them, there being no attempt at
oTatorical display 81 her in gesture or style.
he is, OF course, humorist, but Of the quiet
kind Good taste regulates the introduction
u the laugh, it being means of enforcing an
loea, and not simply to keep the audience in
STATE OF pleasant irritation. The French make
great use OF irony, the merely l1dcrous not
being aIavorite phase of humor with them.
The gravest of lecturers will occasionally be
lronical. Id conclusion, Laboulaye is great
fayofjfa with the ladies' go q 80