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him decided compliment, for as he had found nothing in the regular cast of his features which would lend itself to exag- geration he had invented the eye glass to perform the same function which 8 crooked nose might discharge in the case
 Socially Mir. Bright was one of the most popular meh in London. His handsome face was welcome wherever he chose to go, and his quiet, refined man. ners, added to the good taste and good sense of everything he said, won the hearts of all who came in contact with him. He used to say that in his early years in parliament he declined to dine out, except very rarely with intimate friends, but he had to say no so often that, rather than appear churlish, he at length yielded to the many invitations sent him, and found that, although his evenings were made pleasant in that way, he lost his time and some of his ca pacity for work Mr. Bright has been a total abstainer during the greater part of his life, but on exceptional occasions he takes little wine at dinner, as if to lay down any claim to superior virtue of which he might be suspected. Unlike Mr. Gladstone, who never touches to- baccO. Mir. Bright is a great smoker The smoking room of the house is a frequent resort of his during the sittings of parlia- ment, and when he saunters to the Re- form club in Pal Mall he is likely to be found where the votaries of the fragrant weed do congregate.
 As to the relative importance of his great speeches, the one which he delivered in the house of commons in 1856, while the Crimean war was in progress, Is the best remembered in London, chiefly be- cause of one beautiful image which he employed to move the sympathies of the house in favor of peace. Intelligence had just come of the loss of many valu- able lives in the conflict, and 1t was known that more than one family, hay ing a personal representative in the house, was in moSning for a dead father, or son. or brother. He referred to their unavailing grief, and poured upon them flood of sweetest sympathy; then. when the whole house was ab- sorbed, by his pathetic eloquence, in one common feeling of solemnity and suffer ing. he added: "The angel of death is abroad. We can almost hear the beating of his wings" Old men who were pres ent say the effect of this speech was almost tragic. When he concluded the house looked like a chamber of death, and there was hardly dry eye in the whole assembly.
 Mir Bright has been throughout his whole career a consistent advocate of the cause of peace. His principles, as a member of the Society of Friends, are opposed to all wars Of aggression, and he holds that it is a violation of the moral law to draw the sword except as a defensive weapon. Acting on these prin- ciplcs he resigned office in MT. Glad stones government, in 1882, on account of the bombardment of the forts of Alex andria by the English feet As spoke and voted in the house on his side of the question, had some conversation with him about 1t at the time, and he took pains to explain to me, in extenuation of ! Mir. Gl2dstones action on that occasion, that Mir. Gladstone supported him in the ! cabinet as long as he could do so without ] destroying the government, and that he ] yielded only when he had to choose be- l tween sanctioning some form of military operations in Egypt and the breaking up of his ministry, which would have meant ] the return of the Tories to power and a ] still more active prosecution of hostilities, i by them, against the Egyptian National ] party.
 His attitude on the home rule oues- tion marks rather the change which has come over Mir. Gladstone and the bulk of the Liberal party than any change in Mir Bright, for since the demand for home rule was first made, in it's modern form, by the late MT. Butt, he has been its avowed opponent He was foremost tn pointing out the wrongs of Ireland be fore even Mir. Gladstone gave any atten- tion to that country, and he was the champion Of Irish rights when Mir Par nell and his colleagues were in swaddling clothes; but he always held that those wrongs might be redressed and those rights vindicated in the parliament of the United Kingdom.
 O'CoRNoR POWER.