New-York tribune., 1868-10-31

to fonr compartments; IN one of them they should
print the true IN the me heN tmg Poodoe % @ III Wth w l re
gard TO some of these newspapers" said Mr. Bright
and remembering what some OF them were at tnat
time IN England we can appreciate the force OF ms
estimate" incline to think as far as their Leading
columns 60 that equal division of space would De
found very inconvenient. ana that the llsI halheu
compartment, when dealing with American ques-
tons would have be at least four times as large as
the first" He did not keep all his exposltlons Tor
the Tory press but described The, Spectator with
great truth "a paper which certainly Is
not very Radicals rather in my opinion,
though conducted with considerable ability, CON
ceited in some of its criticisms uDOn u.s.. As Tor me
Times there truth told about that Journal IN
these volumes than can be found IN any printed book
that know of excepting Kinglake's lnrdSon ot me
Crimed. We have quoted some of the judgments IN
another part of this review Americans Will do well
to keep IN mind Mr.. Brights remark that Inc 1tmes,
unfortunately and untiuiy, is believed TO represent
Plutocracy yet IL far from understanding even their
interests When Mr.. CObdens French Treaty was
made. " we had it commented on by great Journal
in this country whose motives will not attempt to
divine but whose motto must, think, be that which
Pascal said ought to have been adopted by one oil the
ancients-' Omnia pro tempore, sed nhitwo re1tafe-
which being translated may be rendered. Every
thing for The Times, but nothing for trut th."
Personality is one of the many charges often
brought against Mr. Bright. There are few very
famous examples of it, and all of them are to be
found in these volumes None of the speeches has
been eXpuTgated. speech omitted Tor fear OF CIV
ing renewing 0fense. After ALL there IS not much,
been richly deserved or provoked. The reputation
sprung not from the frequency but from the sever
iiy of the instances. The House of Commons is not
eXactlya school of good manners, and Its polteness
is extremely parliamentary as sometimes TO De-
come Pickwckian The fer0ciOus hOstties which
embitered the debates Of the last century are not
Just now in vogue The spirit may be the same, but
its expression more dccOrous ana there are kio"n
though not very accurate limits TO the personal en-
counters Which occur from time TO time in that arena.
The complaint Of personality IL mostly can't 1here
is not a politician Of emnence at this moment
living in Great Britain who has not IN
his time attacked his opponents on personal grounds
who has not TcsOrted to the dd h0mnem argument
when he found himself at loss for others. MIR.
Fright can hit tremendously hard and IKE most men
conscious of great powers them sparlngy against
interiors When his equals step INTO the ring, there
~ good deal Of give and tai ke on both sides. Per
haps Mr. Bright could say with more truth tnan MI.
DsTaeli recently did, that he never attacked any
body i'm his life unless first aSsalled. Almost every
body at one time another had assaled hlIn Inc
celebrated onslaught on LORD faliLelston III I1l
grew out of the mutllatiOn of the dispatches oi Sr
Alexander Bnrnes on the Afghan war winch had
been presented TO Parliament so altered as 10 Jnsl1y,
whereas in fact they condemned, the policy OF the
Government. A Committee was moved for to ascer-
tain who falsihed the documents There was no IN
rect evidence who did IL but Mr. Bright charged IL
upon Lord PalmcTstOn. The noble Lord, ne eXclalm-
ed IL on trial in this case He attempted To say that
what was left out was unlInpOrtant, Dut sh0ulu
like To ask the noble Lord what was the object oi
the minute and ingenious, and viii say unmatched
care which was taken III mutilatng the dispatches
of a gentleman whose opinions were OF no import
ancc aud whose writings could not make the Hngit-
est difference either to e question or To the opinions
of any person concerned The noble lord, too, has
stopped 10 conduct which if were not in tins House
| might describe IN Language which could not pos
sibly use here without Dcmg told that was trans
crossing the line usually observed IN DISCUSSIONS IN
this assembly" He dwelt with unforgi wing rcltera-
tion on the charge It is admlttcd-and the noble
lord has not tiatly denied it-he cannot deny the
knows it as well as the honorable and learned mem
ber for Greenock-ht kHous Il as weU as me rGg man
whoso hand did The cii-he knows there have been
garbliLg. mutllation, practically ana essentially
ialseho0d and forgery. IN those dispatches which
have been laid before the House. And IN the con
cusion of his speech lac exclaimed Once more
ask the noble loud To tell MS who did IT. He knows who
did II. Nas IL hls own night hand or was II Lord
Broughtons right hand or II was II some clover
Secretary IN the Foreign once orln the lnda once
who did this work. | say the House has night To
know. We want 10 know that We want to drag
the Delinquent before the public This we want 10
know because We wish 20 deter other Ministers from
committing the like ofrnse aud We want To know II
for that which most oi all Is nccessaryto yiudicate
the character and honor Of Parliament But the
Committee was refused. Still more famous because
recent Is his humorous account of the secession
of Ma Horsman and Mr.. Lowe from the Liberal
party OF tho Reform bill Ol lsGd. No political mex
name was ever moro successful than the Cave of
Adullam. The first application of II was IN the fol
lowing passage ~ Mt Brights speech on the huSseh
Reform bill. IN tho House March 10. 1866:
''Tho right honorable gentleman below me Nir Hors-
NAM sad little against tho Government, and little
tack upon humble individual as am. The right
honorable gentleman Il the fret oi the new party who
may Do cacd bis political Cave of Adullnn. aud he ha.
called ABOUT hun every Que that was In distress aud every
jne that was dlscontchted Tue risht honotaLc gentle
man has been long anxious 20 form n panty IN this
House There - scarcely any one ON this side OF the
HOuse who II ahc 10 address tho House Win effect or
take much part 300 debates whom he has not tried 10
bring over 10 hs party or cabal; and at last The right
honorable gentleman his succeeded n hooking the night
honorable gentleman. the member Tor Cnne hr LowcJ
know there was au opilun expressed many years hgo
that two men would make party When party IN formed
Of Two mon 80 amihr so discreet rs the TWO ght honor
Parliament party perfectly harmonious and distiu
gushcd by mutual and unhroken trust But there ono
dincuNwhch 10 r. impossible 10 remove Ih7 party ot
twO reminds of the Scotch terrier which was so GOV.
cred vh hur that you coud not tell which Was the head
aud which Was the tail of IT,
10 relish this the House relished IT, the extreme
unpopulnrity and pugnacty of Messrs. llorsman and
Lowe need To be borne IN mind. Mr.. lDlsraeh tins
year struck "A similar vein u describing Mr. Lowe ~
possessing "a power of spoutancou, aversion Ia
the same speech Mr Bright went on to say:
The right honorable gcntlcmnu told Ms u the poypus
which takes ts color from tie ROCK on which u v'S, ANA
ht said that some honorable ithn'iH lA' tueT toul'
from their Constituencies The constituency which the
seven ~ whom are ""fhihsh'i bnt the l'Al cuhS!,u
ency Of the night honorable gentleman y member o. tho
other House OF Parliament aud De could send Ia MS bu
Ter OF bis groom instead oi mo ikt n"holan.o tont'
man. represent the borough think. IN one 'eusc-
unI ,ndiator I'm tins IIou.e-Wc much indebted 10
the Marquis OF Lansdowne that he did not do that
If hs satire Is sometimes elaborate it is also some
times concise and he has way of tlauolXlng hisenc-
mics with phrase. ~ when he spoke oi the "un-
sleeping llalll" of Lord Cranborne toward America,
the " "Indiscrlminatiug abuse oi MI Roebnck,
and he photographed in parcnthcss. the truculcnt
member for Sheffield ~ one who had managed Ia
get rd of all those feelings under which all men, black
and white. like 80 bc ircc. The editor of me IiB@
MIR D,lanc becomes the Man IN the Mask ondeav-
oring 10 stab me in the back He has touched the
difference between what such man dare do with
and without ms mask, by quoting The description OF
Fernnndo Wood WHO walked upughtly before the
world but when he was not before the world his
walk was slautindicular. The ImS itself ho de
nounccs ofton-is one Of few men who have venturod
10 airont and attack 1t openly and have come OH
victorious. Golden aid, and Kingake did. Bright