The Irish standard., 1886-12-04
MCCARTHY, M. p,
Delivers an Interesting Discourse Upon
English Parties, Orators and States
men," in the City Of Toronto.
THE PLATFORM WAS CROWDED
With the Most Influential Men in the Do
minion Of Canada, all of Whom We're
Pleased With the Eloquent Lecture.

Pleased With the Eloquent Lecture.
The lecture by Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
in the city of Toronto the o her evening
was great effort, and was we'll at
tended. The Toronto Globe, in speak
ing of the lecture, says the lecturer did
NOT patronize or talk down to his aud
ito,s, like one conscious of great know
ledge or great ability, but seemed to
have such pleasure in speaking thlt no
audience but would have felt glad to
listen. He spoke like scholar Of
great experience in public speaking.
There was the ease and fuency of long
practice, which used in the utterance
OF the words of a keen Observer. great
scholar, and master of literary finish,
made as perfect piece of public speak
ing as could well be produced by one
not possessing that rarest of all gifts,
She true spirit of oratory. The lecturer
used frequent gestures. but used them
with Judgment. so that thew emphasized
withonI c,.mbering his defamation.
THE audience was composed of the
naost influential men in the city, the
platform heing crowded with persons
Of great impol tance in Canadian poll
5ics
IN opening, the lecturer explained
chat he proposed to speak Of what he
s,sd seen and experienced, and to ex-
press his own opinions. binding nobody
in the audience bv his ntterances. He
regarded the reign IF William III. as
The time when the great motive prin-
clp,es of the great English parties as
serted themselves. There were, he ex-
plained. at present,
FOUR PARTIES
in the House Of Commons. Going on
to explain why he did not include the
House of Lords, he gave such a descrip.
sion 1T the Upper Chamber as to show
that it was an institution. removal to
which meant political death even to
she greatest man. On one side Of the
Nouse of Commons was the solid hodv
of the Conservatives. On the other
side there were two PARTIES, those who
followed Mr.. G1adstone-(Ap (Applanse)-
and those who followed Mr.. Chamber.
la,n-(Hisses)-with an occasional side
glance at Lord SALISBURY. II shall en-
deavor to he as impartial as I CAM
said Mr.. Mccarthy, ''for I have long
outlived those happy, innocent days
when we thought that all the wisdom,
all the virtue was on our side Of the
house, and all the stupidity. all the ig-
norance, and all the wickedness OF the
other.'' Laughter and applause.)
The political warfare, he said, had
often taken the FORM of personal en-
counter or duel between two great men.
They mad long ago Walpole and Palt-
ney they had Fox opposing Pitt,
and afterwards far greater Fox op-
posed to not inferior Pitt j; they had
Sir Robert Walpele and Lord John
Russell; later still they had Mr.. Dis
raeli and Mr.. Gladstone. (Applause).
a rapidly drawn
SKETCH OF DIsRAELI
followed. After mentioning Disraeli's
high estimate of his own powers the
lecturer said he had forecast his own
future with fair accuracy. But re had
made great mistake in estimating the
career of another young man, Mr.. Glad
stone. Disraeli had said of him, II am
certain there is no political future be-
fore that young man." tLaughter.)
Ten sessions had passed before Dis
saeli was recognized as man of real
capacity in debate. Disraeli was not
happy in statement. lie was happy in
attack. in finding out the weak points
OF an argument and the weak points of
man.. He was especially happy at
satire. or some arrow-point of epigram
orepithet, which described a man. or
character. or whole party, by single
phrase, and left the phrase sticking
like a barb in wound, to remain there
and rankle forever. (Applause.) Dis
raeli's ministerial answers to questions
sometimes went to the
VERGE OF PRACTICAL JOKING.
Once when he was head of a Conserva-
tive Government d time arrived when
there was imminent danger that Eng
land might be engaged in q great war
with one Of the most formidable powers