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After this BAIN disappeared for some days. Getting coached up in
Parliamentary practice. Back to-night and made maiden speech. Quite
delightful; button-holed House as it were; informed Members he was
sent there with a mandate; incidentally mentioned that he was a
Magistrate in several counties; waved his arm in defiance of School
Board and sat down, after declaiming, with much animation, a new and
original peroration. "Gentlemen," he said,--"I mean Mr. SPEAKER, I'm
for the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill."
This would have been speech of the evening only for HENRY FOWLER's.
That admirable in every way; a distinct and far advance on a
Parliamentary position won by sheer hard work and ability; an epoch in
a Parliamentary career already notable for its steady progress. Pity
Mr. G. wasn't present to witness the triumph of the most promising of
his recruits of the '80 Parliament.
_Business done_.--HENRY FOWLER's Instruction to Education Bill
negatived by 267 against 166.
_Tuesday_.--"My studies as you know, dear TOBY, have not specially
lain in the domain of history," said Professor STOKES, in the course
of a brief address delivered to me in a corner of the Library.
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