LOUD BROUGHAM. 



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that I was the very person who had 

 committed this outrage, till I met 

 him the next morning at breakfast." 



G RATTAN, CONCENTRATED CON- 

 TEMPT. 



Thomas Campbell repeated the 

 following anecdote of Grattan, on 

 tho authority of Samuel Rogers : 

 Grattan was once violently attacked 

 in the Irish House of Commons 

 by an inveterate Orangeman, who 

 made a miserable speech. In reply, 

 Grattan said "I shall make no 

 other remark on the personalities 

 of the honourable gentleman who 

 ;e last, than As he rose with- 

 out a friend, so he has sat down 

 williout an enemy." Was ever con- 

 tempt (adds Campbell) so concen- 

 trated in expression ! * 



EUr.KE TUT TO FLIGHT. 



Mr. Burke, on one occasion, had 

 just risen in the House of Commons, 

 with some papers in his hand, on 

 the subject of which he intended to 

 make a motion, when a rough-hewn 

 member, who had no ear for the 

 charms of eloquence, rudely started 

 up, and said, " Mr. Speaker, I hope 

 the honourable gentleman does not 

 mean to read that large bundle of 

 papers, and to bore us with a long 

 speech into the bargain." Mr. B. 

 \v:i:i so swollen with rage, as to be 

 incapable of utterance, and abso- 

 lutely ran out of the house. On this 

 occasion, George Selwyn remarked, 

 that it was the only time he ever 

 saw the fable realized a lion put 

 to flight by t/ie braying of an ass. 



FARADAY AS A LECTURER. 



Von Raumer acutely observes : 

 "Mr. Faraday is not only a man of 

 profound chemical and physical 

 science (which all Europe knows), 

 but a very remarkable lecturer. 

 He speaks with ease and freedom, 

 but not with a gossiping unequal 

 tone, alternately inaudible and 

 bawling, as some very learned pro- 



fessors do ; he delivers himself with 

 clearness, precision, and ability. 

 Moreover, he speaks his language 

 in a manner which confirmed me 

 in a secret suspicion I had, that a 

 great number of Englishmen speak 

 it very badly. Why is it that 

 French in the mouth of Mdlle. 

 Mars, German in that of Tieck, and 

 English in that of Faraday, seems 

 a totally diifereut language ? Be- 

 cause they articulate what other 

 people swallow or chew. It is a 

 shame that the power and harmony 

 of simple speech (I am not talking 

 of eloquence, but of vowels and 

 consonants), that the tones and in- 

 flexions which God has given to 

 the human voice, should be so 

 neglected and abused. And those 

 who think they do them full justice 

 preachers generally give us only 

 the long straw of pretended con- 

 noisseurs, instead of the chopped 

 straw of the dilettanti." 



BROUGHAM AND LTNDHURST. 



Brougham, speaking of the salary 

 attached to a rumoured appoint- 

 ment to a new judgeship, said it 

 was all moonshine. Lyndhurst, in 

 his dry and waggish way, remarked, 

 " May be so, my Lord Harry ; but 

 I have a strong notion that, moon- 

 shine though it be, you would like 

 to see the first quarter of it." 



LORD BROUGHAM. 



It is related of Lord Brougham 

 that on one occasion, after having 

 practised all day as a barrister, he 

 went to the House of Commons, 

 where he was engaged! in active 

 debate through the night, till three 

 o'clock in the morning: he then 

 returned home ; wrote an article 

 for the Edinburgh Rcvieic; spent 

 the next day in court, practising 

 law, and the succeeding night in 

 the House of Commons ; returned 

 to his lodgings at three o'clock in 

 the morning, and "retired simply 

 because he had nothing else to do." 



