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dare to interfere with the caterwauling of this scarlet-coated senator. 

 If legislators in leather-breeches cannot effect their nocturnal peram- 

 bulations in security, why, there is an end to all order and good 

 government. 



LONG-WINDED ORATORS. Orators of all ages have had their pe- 

 culiar characteristics. Some have been distinguished for their force, 

 and others by their piquancy of style ; some for their lofty imagination 

 and comprehensive reasoning ; and not a few for their extraordinary 

 length of wind. Orators of the latter class abound in our present 

 Parliament. If they don't see their names at the head of two columns 

 in the Morning Papers, life is a burthen to them : they have " lost a 

 day." It is not always, however, that their audience are such good 

 listeners as the orators can desire; in that case, the threat of adjourn- 

 ment is held out, and forthwith the refractory members are reduced 

 to obedience. This is an infliction more keenly felt in the present 

 Parliament than in any former one ; for it abounds in young mem- 

 bers promising youths, of about some sixty or sixty-five who de- 

 light in nothing so much as hearing themselves expound, and thereby 

 convince the nation of their talent for legislation. Many of them 

 can hardly get two or three hours patient hearing. If honourable 

 members would take an example of patience, beyond that which 

 Scripture affords them, we would refer them to the American Cham- 

 ber, where they will find, that " Mr. Brandywine resumed the floor, 

 and occupted the sitting till the adjournment !" But Mr. Holmes, of 

 the same honourable assembly, is a still more indefatigable patriot ; 

 for we are told, " he has the floor, and will to-morrow, and will 

 occupy it the whole of the next day." What would our tetchy gen- 

 tlemen say to a few such floorers as this? 



CHESTERFIELD IN SUSSEX. Brighthelmstone is peculiarly felicit- 

 ous. A prince ennobled it by his presence, and adorned it with his 

 pavilion. Under the influence and example of the most finished gen- 

 tleman in Europe, its inhabitants have soared into the seventh heaven 

 of graceful urbanity the polish of their manners is splendidly in- 

 tense. Leeds and Liverpool are all very well in their way- that is, 

 as regards commerce, manufactures, and similar trifles; but we must 

 go to Brighton for behaviour. Their decorous or as Evelyn would 

 say particularly fine deportment at public meetings deserves to be 

 held up as an example. For instance, on Wednesday the sixth of 

 March, as we find by the report of that well conducted paper the 

 Brighton Herald, at " an important Vestry Meeting, to consider the 

 Report of the Town Committee," the following civilities occurred 

 among the gentlemen present: 



" Mr. J. SMITH proposed Mr. Dadley as chairman, which was met with a 

 loud laugh from Messrs. John Patching and Slight. 



" Mr. SMITH reproached Messrs. P.. and S. for their j.ers, when 



" Mr. SLIGHT said that Mr. Smith was a fool! 



" Mr. SMITH retorted by declaring that Mr. Slight was the most impudent 

 follow in the town! 



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