Lord F. Cavendish spoke at Hebden on Saturday, Sir T.
Bazley at Manchester on Tuesday, and Mr. Birley at Newton- heath, Colonel Beresford at Rotherhithe, Mr. Wellesley Peel at 'Warwick, and others of less note elsewhere ; but none of them said anything of the smallest interest, except Sir T. Bazley, who has an idea of merit for the reform of the Lords, which we have -discussed elsewhere. For the rest, the general drift of a Tory's epeech is that Government muddles and neglects solid legislation in the interest of the workman ; and of a Liberal's speech, that Government had done very well, that Mr. Bruce's Licensing Bill was badly drawn, that education ought to be religious, or, in a few cases, ought not, and that there is no particular reason for disestablishing the English Church. They all read to us very much as if the speakers would have liked a cue, and not obtaining one, declaimed very much at large, Mr. W. Peel, for example, who is au Under-Seeretary, filling up a pause by -the remark that the way.to put down drunkenness was to teach people by example that liquor was to be used, not abused! That was in the regular style of the later Peels, but he did make one gooil epigram too. Talking of the Ballot, he said, "Liberty of speech was a good thing, but liberty of silence was a better."
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