PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS. Parnell, Gladstone, and Randolph Churchil.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 6

PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS. Parne ll, Gladston e, and Randolph Churchil.

AtTKR Mr Gladstone, and possibly Lord Randolph Churchill, the most remarkable figure in the House of Commons is Mr Parnoil, the leader of the Irish party. It is cry odd, but it can hardly be regarded as a mere coincidence, that each of the parties has a3 its popular leader a man who reminds us of the general characteristics of the paroy which he leads by contrariety rather than by identit). The leader of the English democracy — a democracy straightforw ard and flow of speech —is Mr Gladstone, one of the most garrulous and wily of men. The leader of the English Conservatives, the party of stolidity and caution, is Lord Randolph • Churchill, apolitical Flibbertygibbet, whose mind is as nimble as a lively mouse in a windy barn, and who is one of the modt reckless of political gamesters. And. the leader ot the Irish people- a race famed for jovial wit, passionate oratoiy, reckless abandon, and a moic than i*egal generosity — is Mr Parnell, a man who never made a joke in his life, a cold, unimpassioncd calculator, who holds himself in re serve even with his intimates, and whose oratory has never been relieved by a single burst of passionate fervour. Mr Gladstone's position is an illustration of the power of unreserve. Mr Parnell's is due more than anything clso to the force of restraint. It would seem as if nations, like women, Bought as xr asters those who possessed the qualities of which they felb the lack in their own characters. Hence the emotional Colt has chosen Mr Parnell, who never " lots himself go," even in private life, and tho reserved and self restrained Englishman selocts as his chief one who, if not exactly "all lire and fickleness," is nevertheless the Ttossean of politics in being the creature of impulse and of rhetoric.—" Pall Mall Gazotteo."

The Auckland Racing Club's programme for next season may oo expected to bo made public in about a wock's time. It is intended to reduce the amount of added money, but the Spring Meeting will in all probability extend over two days instead of ono as heretofore. I hope to hear of the new Committee cutting down the added money of the Derby to at least SOOsovs. , for there is no denying the fact that wo are far in advance of the times. — Hippona, in "Auckland Star.",