Mr. Stanhope was very lively also. He told his audience
that he did not know anything about the Dissolution, any more than a lawyer usually did about law. The lawyer looked wise, but when his cliept had gone, he opened a book and found out what to say. He might look at a book, but he feared that it was a sealed one. The House was said to be reaching old age, and no doubt was getting old, but it had many of the signs of youth. It loved to sit up late, and had a boyish dislike for rules. He thought the House still vigorous, and pointed out that no appeal to its patriotism had ever failed. "We all remember the Irish- man—I should call him the great Irielbnan—who said he only knew two tunes ; one wag God. Save the Queen,' and the other wasenot,"—a most happy description, however little applicable to those to whom Mr. Stankope meant to apply it. We notice in both speeches that the youngsters of the Ministry are far better-tempered than the old hands, perhaps because they do not forecast the storm so clearly.
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