PYKE ON WAKEFIELD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 125, 14 September 1876, Page 3

PYKE ON WAKEFIELD.

The attack Mr. Wakefield tniuhv the j vtiiu-d a strong Mr. Pvke. the socunit whip,'who. Tin* riot a wry e.vi»tt«d j opinion <'f nii'tufier ft't fJcraMirt'v »'t' whom he i» reported to> have said : "The lion, member reminded him of the "Nasmyth hammer, which could era<-k a nttt ~c weld <» ton of iron with eqnal facility. Ho lectured Ministers, and ventured in patronise veteran statesmen wh« were old fa the art of polities hefore he wa» well out *>f the swathing d«<Ties *>f infancy. That hots, member,. wh» wuupied hi» aeafc hy.th© unhappy aeewtettt oi the Retwrning UfE'eer-having a casting vu fc ß ,, attempted t«> tafce ticrth ends- oi the |)olit;.eat rott: nothing ww t»»> «a*t. .uokhiaig: wa» tiw small for hb comprehensive geniiw : in fact, when he spoke *>f the honovahfo member he eewM nt>t hetj» renißmhering a characteiv w ht> was described very tersely arwll very kwidly in ©ne r>i Shakespeare's cumedies ; it was that «>f Don Aitviano de Armado r wfv f > »»«♦■ ft piuted: ' His humor is tufty, his discuHtrse j i» tudgait majestic, histongwe : HU«d, hts eye ambitious, and his whole behaviour vain and ridiculous.' That was the picture? drawn by the sweet Swan ! of Avon of a pragmatieat, , pitting co-xcontb- of his own time. Unt, ! »s Fttiellen put it, 'There is a river in- Macfidon, and there is als«> moreo-ver a river in Monmouth, and there is salmon in both •, and he might say there was an | Avon in Warwickshire and an Avon in | .Sew Zealand ; also, moveover, ami there I mvu swan in both. He did not think i ; tliat the sweet Swan of Avon cwnld have [any foreknowledge of the Kew Zealarwl river ;. but if he had been with the t'afefcar,, and htui tcn<!>wn s«r«e of the tilings' 'Wflich,. by the inscrutable decrees of Ptertfttleace were permitted tw crawl ; batween heaven ami earth in the vieinity ; of the Jfew Jfeabtnd Av»a, he w*>ttld have ! discovered the exact eeowterpart of Don , Adi'iiwCM* in the Jlwn. member for Cleral- i dine.'"'