SPEECHES TO BE FOUGHT SHY OF.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1995, 16 July 1880, Page 2

SPEECHES TO BE FOUGHT SHY OF.

At the dinner of the Associated Chambers ot Commerce, in reply to the toast of " Success to our Foreign end Commercial Helations with Foreign Countries and our Colonies," the Japanese Ambassador spoke with excellent sense and taste. Perhaps the most interesting statement in his Excellency's oration was the announcement with which it was brought to a conclusion. The Minister, in a deprecatory allusion to his own words as a " first attempt," declared that as yet, "Bpeeeh-making had not been introduced into Japan/ 1 As no doubt the Ambassodor will do his best to supply this omission in the institutions of Japan, it would be aa well to warn him against certain kinds of speech-making much in vogue in this country, as, for instance— The speech mado by an Obstructionist in the House of Commons, in which sense, lojalty, patriotism, and grammar are sacrificed to violence, the rubbing up of old sores, end malignant appeals to national antipathies and sectarian hatreds. The speech made by the Friend of the Family at a wedding, in which the early and rather unpleasant antecedents of the father of the bride are apologetically touched upon before an audience of unsympathising acquaintances. The speech made by the Noble Chairman Jat a Charity dinner, when his Lordship is certain of neither facts nor figures, and is equally in the dark about the genuine claims ot the institution ho is talking about, and its real working. The impromptu speeches made after the most careful preparation by gentlemen unaccustomed to public speaking. The speech of the Warrior who returns thanks for the army or navy, long, rambling, ill-delivered, and replete with incomprehensible technicalities, when everybody is impatiently waiting for the crack orator a: d the toast of the evening. The speech made by the irate cabman on receipt of his strictly legal fare from a lady. The speech made by the wife whose husband, by % slight error of judgment, has rt s turned home at 4.30 a.m. instead of 10 15 p.m. And lastly, any speech delivered by anybody which prevents Mr Punch enjoying his after-dinner cigar.—" Punch."