And now the moment of Nemesis and triumph has come, and is he going to fall below the level of the great hour?
Ah! these fears are all vain.

The exquisite cadence--the delightful bye-play--the broad, free gesture--the lofty tones of indignation and appeal--but, above all, the even tenderness, composure, and charity that endureth all things--all these qualities range through this magnificent speech.

Thus he wishes to administer to Sir Henry James a well-merited rebuke for his terrible and flagitious incitements, and, with uplifted hands, and in a voice of infinite scorn, Mr.Gladstone turns on Sir Henry, and overwhelms him, amid a tempest of cheers from the delighted Irishry and Liberals.
[Sidenote: Chamberlain touched.] But there is another and an even more extraordinary instance of the power, grace, and mastery of the mighty orator.

The G.O.M.had made an allusion to that pleasant and promising speech of young Austen Chamberlain, of which I have spoken already.

Just by the way, with that delightful and unapproachable lightness of touch which is the unattainable charm of Mr.Gladstone's oratory, he alluded to the speech and to Mr.Chamberlain himself.