In a brief discussion of the Commons' amendments to the
Naturalization Bill on Monday, Lord Westbury moved to amend an amendment of the Commons, in which that popular body speak
• of a person as "born of a father." This was a singular expression, he said, "which he had not previously met with, even in the pro- ceedings of a Reformed Parliament. It expressed, indeed, a thing physically impossible ; " but, on the expostulation of Lord Clarendon, who appealed to his noble friend 41 not to press his -amendment, unless he attached great importance to the distinction between father and mother," Lord Westbury withdrew it, though he would have wished "the 4th clause, having originated with -himself, to be good English." That was really a sacrifice of Lord Westbury's. Ile has great pride in his English style, not without Tetuan. His language is always as finely, not teeny superfinely, chiselled as his articulation.