The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-03
PARLIAMENTARY RECoLLEo.
TIONS.

Memorable Words and Phrases i'm En-
IIllsh Politics. -f
The sayings end witticisms of lords
and commoners, not exactly soubriquets
or simifies for individuals, have been
numerous and varied. Most readers
viii call to mind some, at any. rate, of
these fights Of ready wit, condensed
epitOmesof matured experience, are sug.
gestive. forms of expression. q Every
man has his price" was Sir Robert Wal
poles mode of expressing his belief that
bribery and corruption were almost uni
versal; although his biographer states
that the charge was brought, not against
all politicians, but against those who
made very warm protestations of patri-
otism. Airing his vocabulary, " was
Curran's description Of a dull speech
made by dull member. The Begun
speech was the best speech ever made
by Sheridan, and one of the best every
heard In the House of Commons. 1t re-
lated to the grievances of a begun, or
native princess of India, and was the
subject of long study and preparation
by him. The g dagger scene" was en-
acted by Burke. A dagger had been
sent from France to Birmingham by the
revolutionists, with an order for large
number to be made like 1t; Burke, hav-
ing obtained possession of it for a time,
drew it from under cloak, threw it
down on the floor of the House of
| Commons in somewhat theatrical way,
and exhorted his countrymen 10 +" keep
French principles from our heads, and
French daggers from our hearts - but
was admitted on all hands that he a lit
tie over-acted this scene. Lord Ches-
terield claimed to have 4" bled for his
country ;" for brother peer, who had
dabbied little in surgery, one day bled
him for a feverish headache the titled
amateur, gratifed at his own success,
voted as his patient requested in party
division in the House of Lords. Max
| ing the "crown not worth wearing. .
was the terse description by Chatham
| of the probable effect of a particular
measure. 'If the ministers perseYere
/ L
that they can ALLEVIATE the affections of
his subjects from his crown, but will
affirm that they viii make the crown
not worth his wearing" "Sowing dra-
gons' teeth had reference to the later
and declining years of the Irish Parlia-
ment the English government propos-
| ed to heap new taxes on Ireland, and
caused a violent commotion in eonse-
! quence of the proposal Mr.. Burgh,
4 in the Irish House of Commons, said :
" England has sown her laws like dra-
gons' teeth, and they have sprung up
armed mem can government com
promise, F" has been decided as a mean
and tricky apothegm by extreme poll
ticians; but Burke had thought out his
subject when he said Gan govern
ment-indeed, every common benefit
and enjoyment, every virtue, and every
prudent acts founded on compromise
and barter we balance incOnvenences,
we give and take. "The people, our
sovereign It was strange to hear so
democratic a toat as this proposed by
| the duke of Norfolk at a wing dinner, at
| the very time when the French demo
Gratis were infusing alarm and dread into
the English mind It cost him the lerd-
| lieutenancy of the West Riding. Ham
mer it into them was Fox's mode of
impressing his meaning on the attention
of the House, by speeches full of repe-
titions; but it is believed that he thus
claimed credit for a defect which he
could not help. "A memory for jokes,
and imagination for facts, was a sarcas-
/ tic hit at the mental characteristics of
Mr.. Dundas by Sheridan the wit had
iotted this down In his notebook long
before, as capital hit, which he would
use ON any favorable occasion. g a
minute-gun speech vas the name given
to a speech made by Lord Butte, on ac-
count of its pace being so very low and
solemn and the joke was made more
pungent by a remark thnt '' It might be
considered announcing the funeral of
his ministry" tsWhers law ends, tyr
amy begins, and I" stabbing the con
stitution, we owe to Chatham; the
wisdom of our ancestors" TO Sir VIII
I liam Grant and f'Plutos tears " TO
Burke, in allusion to tears shed by
noble lords, not for dying laws, bat for
their expiring places" One of the
finest things said by YilberfOrce had
relation to Pitts frmness IN resisting
the spread Of French Jacoldmsm IN En-
gland q He stood between the living
and the dead, and the plague was stay
ed. !" "The scboolmaster is abroad
was Brougham's deseriptisnof the grow
ing desire for popular education- g The
ignorant impatience Of taxation, ana
men turning their backs upon them
selves. are assigned to Lord Castle
reagh /" stemming the tide Of denoe-
racy to the earl Of Derby and ''the
queens government must be support
cd, " to the duke Of Wellington, who
used this argument 70 induce one Of his
] party 20 vote for government measure
,Ehieh both of tlen disliksd Pesl's
celebrated question, ssWhat is pound, .
arose d1lzinfy a debate on auanca laat.
ters. " Restore the heptsehy sppear.
ed 10 Canning abaut IS practicable rs te
reform the Parlinneut The ''lesp h
the dark was the name which the lats
earl Of Derby eandidiy gave to his ow1
reform bill in the House Of Lords IL
1867. " UPsetting the coach vas tn