One of the oddest exhibitions of the spitefulness felt by
some Tories to Mr, Gladstone was made in the House of Lords on 'Tues- day. Lord Oranmore, of Castle Macgarrett, Mayo, wanted to say he detested the Premier, so he said the people disapproved of
the Queen's retirement. Her Majesty saw only people of one party, and never heard the truth, and could not, therefore, be told that the Premier showed want of consideration forhis own colleagues, and had a mind so large that he could never make it up, and was shakiug every one a our institutions, and was not a leader who could govern then. 'That notion of the Queen—who sees both parties, and reads all papers, and receives every night a Parliamentary report—living in a cellar, is rather amusing ; but it provoked Lord Granville into taking off his velvet glove. He called Lord Oranmore " impertinent," and had to withdraw the word, which he did, though "be declined to sub- stitute for it the word pertinent." The Peers are quite right to forbid swearing, but if Lord Oranmore could have sworn audibly at Mr. Gladstone for two minutes, it would have saved them a quarter of an hour, and have been quite as instructive, If he had sworn in Erse, a language of great capacity in that way, he would have been equally relieved, and the Peers' morals would not have been injured.
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