THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 24 July 1884, Page 2

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

A member of our Upper House at present visiting England paid a visit recently to the House of Lords, and (says the Timaru Herald] he wrote out by last mail that ho had heard some of the best speakers among the Lords. Marquis of Salisbury) 1 lie say's, was terse and vigorous; Lord Chelmsford, prosy;, Lord Coleridge, the most polished speaker he ever heard in his life, reminding him wonderfully of "our grand old man" (Sir George Grey), with the same wonderful fluency and happy choice cf language, " but with good sense added"—which is rather rough, on our grand old man, By far the most memorable feature of the debate, however, was the speech of the venerable end truly noble and literal Lord Shaftesbury, who, though eighty-four years old, stood for nearly an hour as straight as an arrow, and ■delivered a : speech which for clearness force, and beauty could not be surpassed by any statesman of forty. The .whole scene, seems to have made a most powerful and favorable impression on our colonial veteran, one of whose last public acts, by-the-bye, was to propose the reform of the Upper House on an elective basis,