gentleman who uses me so kindly, were as willing to take from my fountainhead as I am from his." The grace, the courtesy, the readiness with which it was said, took the House by storm, and it was hard to say whether the delighted laughter and cheers came in greater volume from the Tory or the Liberal side of the House.
[Sidenote: The peroration.] And Mr, Gladstone's power increased with his power over the House.

It looked as if you were watching some mighty monarch of the air that rises and rises higher, higher into the empyrean on slow-poised, even almost motionless, wing.

Leaving behind the narrow issues of the particular motion before the House, Mr.Gladstone entered on a rapid survey of the mournful and touching relations between English officialism and Irish National sentiment.

From the dead past, he called up the touching, beautiful, and sympathetic figure of Thomas Drummond, and all his efforts to reconcile the administration of the law with the rights and sentiments of the Irish people.

The time for cheering had passed.