Since the combination of the Consery tive and Liberal Unionist: Parties under one Administration the guidance of the policy of the Joint. Party inthe Commons curtly fallen into the hands of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain who in. potency and forcefulness is one of the foremost ians ut the age, both inside and ide His speeches on public ph med, nervous and sinew eloquent at_ the moments, nding finality, Goop impression out mind—are too well known:
he nation: tom that all these grand qualities are displayed by him in the Commons where he proditeex just the same effect as that which is mit side in public. But to them there these dose unless he has added in the House, and mention He never strikes siled—hut if with a force He studies the subject in hand with pleteness that fills his quiver wit one or other of which he ne ously. Thus his repo re scathing ten tern pened that he ally attacked Gladstonians and by the Trish Party.
ach of these he used to level his ts, returning shot for shot. While thu engaged he presented as tine a fighting could be imagined, quite an athlete in intellect: His speeches filled the House and emptied the Lobbies, being considered some of the most important recently delivered in Parliament. If he may be surpassed in this or that respect by other ariters, he is more free from defects than else; and take him all round, all in all, he is the best speaker of
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