The Portland daily press., 1886-01-26
THE NEW PARLIAMENT.
Some of It's Celebrities, Curiosities,
Etc.-How They Look.
fNew York Herald. ]


AS the crowds gather around Parliament
Square and st. Stephen S courtyard to see their
rulers enter the sacred precincts of legislation.
or as the favored few peer from the cages"
of the House of Commons-pla called
galleries"-to gaze at disinterested M. Ps.
who pay about $4,000 each in election expen-
SEES in order to legislate without salary, these
crowds and these peerers naturally scrutinize
most the new faces They know the sfamed
o,os of tha nictor;sf newspaper" The
-: esS.sre 'hacks'-from Gladstone's
nose TO Bradlaugh's scheek," and from
ChurchillS bold eyes to Henry Stafford
Northcote's fetching" ears-are as familiar
as brown tobys Of beer to the populace and
curiosity mongers. They will miss however,
lot of the old hacks, as they call old NJ. P's,
who grieve vainly over election ''upsets."
There are new members enough to speculate
upon. Probably the most gazed at are 'the
self-made men of the people"-some of them
as vain in their way as Diogenes was. They
are the monuments that popular franchise
'cheapened" as the Tories say-has raised
on the commons floor to manhood suffrage
They are ten III number They present five
who have labored as "pitmen"-a journey
man mason, a carpenter, a days work glass
blower, a compostor and an sagitator," who
was not long ago day laborer on a farm.
The first on the roll is William Abraham,
the son of pitman. He is Welshman, and
at the polls beat one of his old masters7a
colliery owner. Abraham, like many of his
Welsh ancestors, has a fine tenor voice and
sings the songs of st. David in way that
z I'll,
who used to work by the day at glass-blow-
ing only pistol shot distance from the old
Herald office in Fleet street will be greatly
stared at He holds prize for Venetian
stand that his colleague" Lord harrington,
would rejoice to add to his bric-a-brac collec-
ton. This eX-apprentice-anoth Whiting
ton for London, with aristocratic name
prides himself nlooking rough and ready.
He is close shaven and looks not unlike the
late actor Mccullough. Another noticeable
agitator will be Joseph Arch, the Henry
George of East England He is proud of hay
ing beaten Lord Henry Bentinck. He owes
his '.book larnin' to his wife. In her way
she guided his ambition, as Disraeli's future
Viscountess guided her youthful dandy hus-
band. Mr.. Arch once preached in the local
Wesleyan church. Nine years ago he visited
New York and Montreal.
Next to these and other colleagues of the
"agrarian ORDER" as the Tories would say it,
the most observed NJ. P.s will be National
lists. OF these young Sir Thomas Esmonde
He is only twenty-three years old, was born
under soft southern skies and may be called
beautiful man, his moustache and hair be-
ing soft and glossy. He maryellously re-
sembleS the pictures of Robert Emmett. Par
nell's colleague, DR.. Tanner, of Cork, aged
thirty-four, may also pose as male beauty,
with an intellectual face. His eyes being
particularly lustrous and his smile most
winning one. Dublin's lord mayor, as he
sits on the Irish bench, would suggest Jay
Maurice Healy, brother OF 'Tim," will also
challenge attention. His cross-examining
eyes will please both society and politicians.
Any American in the gallery will natural
Cooke & Co.; for the Philadelphia A. b. c.,
the husband of the Baroness Burdett Coutts,
wh0 with his crisp hair parted in the mid
de-" and fringe-like eyelids and pretty
nose, may rival Sir Thomas Esmonde in all
that, as Harcourt Courtly says charms the
fair sex = also for Louis j. Jennings, whose
eyebrows and dropping mustache have grown
more conservative than ever since he was
New York editor; and lastly, for +; A. Chan
ming a Boston boy, who married Miss Bry-
ant of the Club, and who, with side whis-
kers luxuriant mustache, expansive fore
head and merry eyes, looks unlike any OF his
Unitarian clerical relatives. All! what new
member is that who does not bow TO Dir
Charles Dixie? Who but Donald crawford,
plaintiff in the divorce court, with the for,
Crawford, who is an NJ. A. of Oxford, shows
ms Scotch origin in his luxuriant beard, his
convex head and sharp gaze! Is that the
1ount Joannes on the Liberal bench? No.
u is Mr.. francis Otter, practitioner Gas the
of his constituency in Lincolnshire aver that
he is an otter who will not brook being hunt
ed, Surely that commercial looking member
with fl full W beard sT ana n9oiEng been
of Arthur b. Forwood, once mayor of liver
pool who has several times been beforr the
New York Chamber of Commerce And is
that doc" Wood, of the Press Club returned
to life? No, but it almost might be him in