The Irish have as many accents nearly as there are members.

The Northumbrian burr, however, is a tongue apart.
It has the pleasantness of every foreign tongue, and since Mr.Joseph Cowen left Parliamentary life, Mr.Burt is the only member who speaks it in its pristine purity.

The Tories were closured finally, though they had their revenge by preventing the Bill from going to the Grand Committee, and the work of justice is a little longer postponed.
[Sidenote: Mr.Goschen playful.] On Thursday, April 27th, the debate began on Sir William Harcourt's Budget; and it found Mr.Goschen in an unusually playful mood.

He had a task for which his talents eminently fitted him.

Irresolute, timid, changeable, he is the very worst man in the world for constructive legislation; but give him the opportunity of criticising what somebody else has proposed, and he is in his real element, and is, perhaps, the very best man in the House of Commons.