Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30

self, and to be pointed out in the streets
with admiring finger as the coming man.
MR.. MORLEY.
John Morley is generally to be found
gracefully reclining by the side of Mr..
Gladstone, his head carefully fixed on a
level with the top of the bench his
His voice is clear and admirably pitched,
and his intense earnestness of manner in
spires confidence and carries conviction.
During the short time he has been in the
House he has done much to raise the tone of
its debates to higher level Of thought and
feeling than characterized them before, and
although he has greatly improved in readi-
ness and force, there is still fatal tendency
to make set speech carefully written out
before hand and committed to memory.
His literary training is shown by his group
ing of facts and marshaIling of arguments.
He very rarely makes an error of statement.
His speeches, as rule, are addressed to the
intellect rather than to the emotions, and he
has telling way of accentuating his points
by a characteristic nod of the head. He
suggests perhaps q savant and preacher
rather than a debater, but his words carry
weight hundred-fold.
SIR WILLIAM HARcoURT.
OF very different turn of mind is Mr..
Gladstone's other right hand man, Sir Will
lam Harcourt, commonly called Jumbo"
As heavy father" of his party, he occa-
sionally deems it his duty to deliver long,
winded and pouderous harangues, in the
course of which he puts everybody straight
and settles everything generally. He has
habit, too, of dropping in at the House in
the middle Of debate and without having
time to gather any idea of what is going for
ward, is on his elephantine feet, summing
up the whole cause, pronouncing judgment
and sentencing somebody to exterior
darkness. He can make old jokes
look almost as good as new, and can
even make new jokes which are
never likely to become-old. He can also be
obstreperously virtuous on occasions, and
as he sways to and fro in the frenzy of his
eloquence and to the imminent danger of
members on either side of him, the house
goes off in spite of itself. But Sir William
is not to be put down with laughter, and
the more the house declines to hear him the
more he insists that it shall. He is perhaps
best at sklrmishing attacks. On these oc-
casions he answers the trenchant attitude of
a bantam, and having applied the match he
throws himself upon the bench and with
folded arms and pleased expression of
conscious power surveys the scene before
him with apparent gusto.
This is not all. Mr.. Goschen's tendency
to wash his hands during debate and hug
the bench with the calves of his legs is
worth noticing, and SO is the Home Secre-
tary's painful habit of catching imaginary
flies buzzing within an inch of his nose, and
of continually changing the poise of his
body from one foot to the other, as though
he were standing on redhot plowshares. Lord
George Hamilton has weakness for fold
ing and unfolding sheet of note paper, and
there are many other tricks of manner and
speech among members of the Commons
which, although trifing enough in them
selves, nevertheless help to relieve the bore
dom of an assembly which is above every
thing else divinely dull.
BLAKELY HALL.