Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-09-07
A Crushing Reply.

Lord Brougham was great orator, a
successful lawyer, and an accomplished
scholar. When plain "Harry Broug ham,"
he was one of the most popular men in
Great Britain; but he was too ambitious.
He would rule or ruin. Unless permitted
to have his own way, he was quite as
dangerous to his political friends as to
his foes. Even when he led, his want of
judgment and tact was very likely to
lead his party into blunder. His life
affords many illustrations of the fact
too often overlooked--that no ability or
brilliancy will compensate for the lack
of sound judgment and the absence of
self-control.
When Lord Melbourne became Prime
Minister, in 1885, Brougham laid claim
to the Lord Chancellorship, which he had
held under the former Wing administra.
ton. Lord Melbourne, who knew the
cratic orators rule-or. ruin spirit, refused
to appoint him. The disappointed man
nursed his wrath, and when an occasion
offered in the House OF Lords, made a
brilliant and sarcastic attack upon Mel:
Ills bitterness of personal feeling, and
quite as fully showed his unftness TO be
leader. The attack called forth from the
Prime. Minister one of the most crushing
replies recorded in the annals of debate.
"Your lordships," said Melbourne,
shave heard the powerful speech of the
noble and learned lord, one of the most
powerful ever delivered in this House,
and leave your lordships to consider
what must be the nature and strength of
the objections which prevent any govern
ment from availing themselves of the ser
vices Of such.a man."
Doubtless Lord Brougham, as he heard
this courteous yet severe rebuke, recalled
Byron's lines,-
80 the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,
heart"
ROME IN THE TIME OF HER KINGS
1t is evident thatin the period designated
as that OF the kings, when Rome COM
menced her career of cOnquests, she was,
for that time and country, great and
wealthy city. This is proved by The
works of the kings, the capito! temple,
the excavation for the Circus Maximus,
the Servian wall, and, above all, the
Cloaca Maxima. Historians have indeed
undertaken to give US very disparaging
picture Of the ancient Rome, which thew
contidentially describe as nothing more
than great villageof shingled-roofed cot
tages, thinly scattered over large area.
We ask in vain what are the materials for
this description. 1t is most probable
that the private buildings of Rome under
the kings were rooted with nothing bet
ter than single, and it is very likely that
they were mean and dirty, as the private
buildings of Athens appear to have been,
and as those of most of the great cities
of the middle ages PROFESSIONALLY were.
But the ClOaca Maxima is in itself con.
elusive evidence Of large population,
OF wealth, and of q not inconsiderable
degree of civilization. Taking our stand
upon this monument, and clearing our
vision entirely of Romulus and his asy-
lum, We seem dimly to perceive the ex-
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richer TIM is commonly supposed in the
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