London, Aug. 28.
Never perhaps in the whole long history of the House of Lords has a maiden speech been listened to with such enthralled interest as that) which Earl Kitchener of Khartum delivered from the Government)
Bench last night. Strong, calm, determined" are the adjectives which, with tittle variation, the writers of the Parliamentary sketches in all the London journals apply to the speech. Its manner was, indeed, as excellent as its matter. Every word rang through a chamber of which the acoustic properties are so notoriously bad that it tries the most highly practised voices; and even the great rapidity of utterance, which taxed the powers of the] the Peers' Gallery, did not detract from its effect—though but for the fact that the speech was read, and the manuscript was obligingly placed at the service of the journal-,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.