It was on one of the nights of the debate on the Coercion Bill.

He was describing the promises of equal laws to Ireland, with the restrictions on Irish liberty which were contained in the Bill, and as he described restriction he gradually raised the fingers on one hand, then turned them spiral fashion until he had pointed the index finger to the roof--- as though he were describing the ascent of a funambulist to the top of spiral stairs.

It was at once eloquent and grotesque, and the House cheered and cheered yet again without any distinction of party--the friends in admiration of the splendid eloquence of the gesture, the foes in hearty admiration of the great and perennial spirit of the great Old Man.
[Sidenote: Comedy.] But on May 11th there was a new and a bolder departure.

Most of my readers have seen that remarkable little lay written by Mr.Gilbert for Miss Anderson to display the range and variety of her powers--"Comedy and Tragedy." Mr.Gladstone gave proof of powers of equally wide versatility; and all at the expense of poor Joe.

First for the Comedy.