Several of the speeches throughout the following evening were of a high order; but still there was no response--it was speaking from a rock to the noisy, unlistening, and irresponsive sea.

The night of September 1st began with a brief, graceful, finely-phrased and finely-tempered speech by Mr.Justin McCarthy, which confirmed Mr.Dillon's frank expression of the Bill as a final measure of emancipation to the Irish people.

The obvious sincerity of the speaker--the high character he has, his long consistency, and, above all, the sense of his thorough unselfishness, procured for Mr.
McCarthy a respectful and even a sympathetic hearing from all parts of the House, and he had an audience silent, attentive, and admiring.
[Sidenote: Joe's parting bolt.] The contrast between the kindliness, the sincere judgment, and the kindly disposition of Mr.McCarthy and the somewhat raucous and malevolent accents of Mr.Chamberlain, was very marked.

Not that Mr.
Chamberlain was by any means so nasty as usual; it looked as if he had been taught by the failure of his last utterance into learning at last that malevolence in the end defeats itself by its very excess, and he evidently had resolved to put a very severe restraint upon himself, and attuned his oratory to a very minor key.

But this new tone was just as unsuccessful as the other, and there is a second unsuccessful and flat speech to be put to his credit.