FRIEKDLY HINT FOR MR. HUME. 



einccrity, an eminently }mtriotic patb. A rSmme of Lis 

 political career wiUj doubtless, some day, in its turrii flasli 

 from tlios6 brilliant biograpliical laboratories of tlie 

 " Times," ivliich so marvollously extemporise a tributary 

 torch to light the politician to his tomb. But against 

 his acknoAvledged political ji^ooii qualities a discriminating 

 pen must find one set-ofF — tliat he adopted early the 

 motto of Coriolauns — ■ 



** Ltt it be vtrtaOHB to hq eh^maJt^J* 



and that, whereas the Roman wa^ ii^haincd of it in a 

 few days, the SSaxon stuck to it tlirough life. 



Whenever his career shall close, Mr, Hume will 

 doubtless leave behind him a mass of materials for his 

 biograplicr, which emboldens mo to give him one word of 

 parting counsel. Let his records testify that he was a 

 Hercules in the Augean stable of state abuses ; that he 

 was the spoiler of rotten boroughs ; the terror of 

 siuecuriBts; the ccononiiBt of state gunpowder; the save-all 

 of green tape ; the unappeasable Ceebisbus of the pnbhc 

 purse. Bui let him bury during his life — to make sure of 

 \tf~^vm-i^ paper on Borneo for which he ever moved, and, 

 on pain of disinheritance to his heir, let him command 

 that they never be exhumed. Then may still some 

 partial Plutarcli find him some decent parallel, though 

 perhaps not exactly the niche whieh he ambitioned, as the 

 Solon or the Aristiues of his age. / can only name the 

 man with wliom he will mi be pamlleled ; not with lum 



