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a storm of molten silver, borne up on the heaving mass of 

 liquid blue below. The bar and the sunken rocks caused a 

 succession of these bursting glories far out from land ; so that 

 your eye was riveted in turns on every part of the wide 

 ever-changing panorama : the silver storms, the dark rocks, the 

 wild headlands, the battering waves, the repulsed spray showers, 

 and the ever-changing life of the whole ocean, making the most 

 of its battle-time, till tide should desert and go over to the 

 wind-enemy, was a scene that tired heads may remember, but 

 cannot adequately describe. Of course, I contrasted it with 

 my ever-fresh remembrances of Niagara, and I feel, as I felt 

 then, that for true grandeur and sublimity the glory of the 

 West must fall before the mighty ocean." 



At the end of the week, he went to the Land's End, where 

 Sunday morning came to him with a strange feeling of being 

 no more a minister ! He was struck with the mildness of the 

 climate in Cornwall : rhododendrons and other flowers in 

 blossom, at the beginning of February, reminding him of a 

 Northern May. He went back to Torquay, the beauty of 

 which fairly intoxicated him ; and he had a good bathe in the 

 sea. But then the weather changed, and he found himself 

 very hoarse, with a fortnight's lecturing for the United King- 

 dom Alliance before him, and a great deal of talking in its 

 behalf. For the first time, he was " the accredited agent of a 

 political association, and soon realized the difference between 

 that and simply making speeches and lecturing on [his] own 

 hook." His meetings were generally very successful. At 

 Bodmin, he was the guest of Mr. Mudge : " one of the first 



teetotal surgeons, whom calls bigoted ; but he has done 



a bigoted deal of good, and is universally respected. . . . He is 

 now Mayor." More than once, Philip had to rebuke bad 

 language in fellow-passengers : the following incident was on 

 his way to Truro : — 



"A man in the carriage was very outrageous. His wife 

 and children were with him. He would have it he was not 

 drunk, but had 'just had a gill of beer.' Other passengers 

 laughed at him, which I chid them for. At last he was so 



