'A Song of the Session, as suns by that Eminent and Evergreen Lion Comique, Jolly Gray" at the St. stephen's Hall of Varieties, Westminster.
JouLY Gra singss—With a flower in my coat, With a keen eye for a vote, And a sense the things to note, Buff and Blue think, With fond millions to admire, A leat triumph to desire, Am I going to Retire What do you think Oh, T know the quidumics vapour, ud that Tadpole, yo, and Taper, fell in many a twaddliny What the few think But they cater for the classes, While /'m champion of the masses, Fly before such braying asses wy Wish is Their wild hope wit They are not an fait to aught Liberals true think. They imagine " Mr. Fox"
Has delivered such hard knocks That impasse my pathway blocks What do you think ost immpect me, if you please! Is my pose not marked by ease? Am I going at the knees, Suits me well Why neck " toas? Pook wae a "screw" Think och! The part of Sisyphus Eh? Retire,—and teave things thus?
What do you think On the—say the Lyric Stage—For some years I've been the rage, And some histrios touched by aye Of Adieu thin. But I'm like that " Awful Dad,' Though this makes my rivals mad, Don't true Gladdyites feel glad What do you think I'm a genuine Evergreen It is that excites their spleen Who my lingering on the scene t do" think, I ret, so much, to tease them My leat exit would much ease them. But Retire!—and just to please them What do you think [Winks and walks round, It is noticeable that men of every shade of political and religious opinion join in the chorus of regret at the death of Mr. Bradlaugh, who died, as his daughter who nursed him to the last testifies, without recanting his irreligious opinions, and who died also in great poverty. But he kept his poverty to himself, though it prevented his pos-ably saving his life by going to warmer climate, and there were many who would gladly have found him the necessary funds, had they knowy his necessities. quartetto "is" well worth reproducing Strong man' and strenuous fighter, stricken down Just when foes vowed thee neither knave nor clown?
The fiercest of them, time-taught, need not ear To drop a blossom now on Bradlaugh's bier.
If one wanted an example of thee during love for alliteration of the genius of English verse, he would find an excellent oncin the above quartetto. Mr. Labouchere gives a very frank notice of the late senior member for Northawmpton in the following paragraph Mr. Bradlaugh was my colleague for ten years. During all these years our relations, political and ial, were always of the most cordial character. He was, in private life, a thoroughly true and amiable man, whilst in public life, he was ever ready to sacrifice Popularicy to his convictions of what was 't. He was, as is known, an atheist, but his standard of duty was a very high' one, and he lived up to it. His life wa an example tw Christians, for he abounded in every Christian virtue. This the House of Commons came at lust to recognise. I donot think that there is a ingle member more popular or more respect than he was on Poh ides, Often and often Conservatives have, in a friendly way, said to me: What a! mu Letter man your colleague is than you are," And I entirely agreed with them, The Times devotes one of only two leading articles on the Sist of January to Mr. Bradlaugh, and we make from it the following extract From the moment that Mr. Bradlaugh was recognised by the House of Commons as one of its rightful members, he deliberately laid aside Lis militant and provocative manner, and, as he told the House at the outset he would, he adopted a line of behaviour that compelled the most reluctant, to admit that he was not unworthy to be their colle Mr. Bradlaugh's fairness and moderation ha their reward. Though Veen onl; has a private member, and in Opposition since 1886, he has left his mark on legislation. He had necessarily a large share in, procuring for persons "of no religious belief" the right to atficm in liew of being sworn on entering the House; he led a successful attack on perpetual pensions; he contributed to the constitution of the Labour Bureau under the Board of Trace; and to him mainly was due the appointment of the Royal Commission on Markets and Tolls, of which the Report is ut present subject of public discussion, So much candour, reasonableness, and desire to abide loyally by fair compromises marked that the spokesmen of the New Radicalism Bradlaugh's conduct on these questions roundly denounced him as having Tory sympathies "The charge, it is needless. say, was absolutely useless." Mr. Bradlaugh retained to the last the opinions of the Old call sh he had acquired in his held with the same tenaies, The latter, is theoretical Republic: background saenranngn 4 ganism, he allowed to dre letly into the With the temperament. of the ich is akin to that of the actor, he felt an instinctive reluctance to excite repulsion in his audience, and, having no longer to appeal to those whew he used to address through the National Keformer, he fell buck perfect consistency on the doctrities he had imbibed, through"a desultory and undirected, though somewhat extensive, course reading in the school of Bentham, the Mills, and Grote.
In view of the sterling character of the oan, and the large spies he filled in Parlin ment, we may.be excused for making souretliat longer extract from the. Heading article in the Duily Neves It is q sad, almost a tragic, circumstance of Mr. Bradlaugh's eud that the righteous act of reparation performed by the Bonne of Coumons last Tuesday afternoon. should have taken place after he had ceased to be conscious of what was passing around him. The Leader of the House with characteristic courtesy and kindliness called to inquire after a mau who had literally been thg bogey of the Lory party
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