bloated metaphors, that burst the set silam covenog s and the airy pageant, that ginered in empty space an the buss of ignorance, flatters and sinks down to If the Irish orator riots in a staded neglect of natural confusion of ideas, playing with words, rangin all sorts of fantastic combinations, because in the ans or chaos of his mind there is no obstacle to their cours any shapes they please, it must be confessed that the ea the Scotch is encumbered with an excess of know.edge, not get on for a crowd of dificulties, that it starge load of topics, that it is so environed in the forms of met rhetoric as to be equally precluded from ong...ty o from beauty or deformity:-the pira of hamış a going through the process of law, the firm and mARY 2^? principle is exchanged for the wavering and posiu, cant the living bursts of passion are reduced to a defunt. and all true imagination is buned under the dust and ra learned models and imposing authorities. If the one is phantom, the other is a lifeless skeleton: if the one and hectic extravagance resembles a suck man's drea akin to the sleep of death-coll, st.f, unfeng, m Upon the whole, we despair less of the first than of the la principle of life and motion is, after all, the primary all genius. The luxuriant willness of the one may be and its excesses sobered down into reason, but the dry formality of the other can never burst the shell or has of It is true that the one is disfigured by the puerilities and tion of a Phillips; but then it is redeemed by the many fervour of a Plunket, the impassioned appeals and flashes - wit af a Curran, and by the golden tide of wisdom, eloquency, and any that flowed from the lips of a Burke. In the other, we so low in the negative series; but we get no higher cending seale than a Mackintosh or a Brougham.* It m suggested that the late Lord Erskine enjoyed a higher reputat as an orator than either of these but he owed it to a das graceful manner, to presence of mind, and to great a: delivering his sentiments Stripped of these outward

• Mr. Brougham is not a bcotchman luerally, but by ma

advantages, the matter of his speeches, like that of his writings, is nothing, or perfectly inert and dead.

Mr. Brougham is from the North of England, but he was educated in Edinburgh, and represents that school of politics and political economy in the House. He differs from Sir James Mackintosh in this, that he deals less in abstract principles, and more in individual details. He makes less use of general topics, and more of immediate facts. Sir James is better acquainted with the balance of an argument in old authors; Mr. Brougham with the balance of power in Europe. If the first is better versed in the progress of history, no man excels the last in a knowledge of the course of exchange. He is apprised of the exact state of our exports and imports, and scarce a ship clears out its cargo at Liverpool or Hull, but he has notice of the bill of lading. Our colonial policy, prisondiscipline, the state of the Hulks, agricultural distress, commerce and manufactures, the Bullion question, the Catholic question, the Bourbons or the Inquisition, "domestic treason, foreign levy," nothing can come amiss to him-he is at home in the crooked mazes of rotten boroughs, is not baffled by Scotch law, and can follow the meaning of one of Mr. Canning's speeches. With so many resources, with such variety and solidity of information, Mr. Brougham is rather a powerful and alarming, than an effectual debater. In so many details (which he himself goes through with unwearied and unshrinking resolution) the spirit of the question is lost to others who have not the same voluntary power of attention or the same interest in hearing that he has in speaking; the original impulse that urged him forward is forgotten in so wide a field, in so interminable a career. If he can, others cannot carry all he knows in their heads at the same time; a rope of circumstantial evidence does not hold well together, nor drag the unwilling mind along with it (the willing mind hurries on before it, and grows impatient and absent)-he moves in an unmanageable procession of facts and proofs, instead of coming to the point at onceand his premises (so anxious is he to proceed on sure and ample grounds) overlay and block up his conclusion, so that you cannot arrive at it, or not till the first fury and shock of the onset is over. The ball, from the too great width of the calibre from which it is sent, and from striking against such a number of hard, projecting

points, is almost spent before it reaches its destination.

He i a ledger or a debtor-and-creditor account between the Gre and the Country, posts so much actual crime, corrupe som justice against so much contingent advantage or singh and at the bottom of the page brings in the balance cf and contempt, where it is due. But people are not to be into contempt or indignation on abstract grounds they may submit to this process where their own interess cerned, in what regards the public good we believe they : and feel instinctively, or not at all There is (it is to be lam a good deal of froth as well as strength in the popular port will not admit of being decanted or served out in formal nor will spleen (the soul of Opposition) bear to be square patent bottles, and kept for future use! In

Brougham's is ticketed and labelled eloquence, restored and ra numeros (like the successive parts of a Scotch Enew poss clever, knowing, imposing, masterly, an extraord.rary C clearness of head, of quickness and energy of thought ora tion and industry; but it is not the eloquence of the 151. or the heart, and will never save a nation or an individua perdition.

Mr. Brougham has one considerable advantage in deta. is overcome by no false modesty, no deference to others. E by a natural consequence or parity of reasoning, be sympathy with other people, and is liable to be mistak a effect his arguments will have upon them He re.img among other things, on the patience of his hearers, and ability to turn every thing to his own advantage. He goes to the full length of his tether (in vulgar phrase overshoots the mark. C'est dommage. He has no res discretion, no retentiveness of mind or check upon à : needs, with so much wit,

"As much again to govern at

He cannot keep a good thing or a shrewd piece of indi his possession, though the letting it out should mar a cause not that he thinks too much of himself, too little of ha ca mm

he is absorbed in the pursuit of truth as an abstract inquiry, he is led away by the headstrong and over-mastering activity of his own mind. He is borne along, almost involutarily, and not impossibly against his better judgment, by the throng and restlessness of his ideas as by a crowd of people in motion. His perceptions are literal, tenacious, epileptic-his understanding voracious of facts, and equally communicative of them--and he proceeds to

without either the virulence of the one or the bonhommie of the other. The repeated, smart, unforeseen discharges of the truth jar those that are next him. He does not dislike this state of irritation and collision, indulges his curiosity or his triumph, till by calling for more facts or hazarding some extreme inference, he urges a question to the verge of a precipice, his adversaries urge it over, and he himself shrinks back from the consequence—

"Scared at the sound himself has made !"

Mr. Brougham has great fearlessness, but not equal firmness; and after going too far on the forlorn hope, turns short round without due warning to others or respect for himself. He is adventurous, but easily panic-struck; and sacrifices the vanity of self-opinion to the necessity of self-preservation. He is too improvident for a leader, too petulant for a partisan; and does not sufficiently consult those with whom he is supposed to act in concert. He sometimes leaves them in the lurch, and is sometimes left in the lurch by them. He wants the principle of cooperation. He frequently, in a fit of thoughtless levity, gives an unexpected turn to the political machine, which alarms older and more experienced heads: if he was not himself the first to get out of harm's way and escape from the danger, it would be well!-We hold, indeed, as a general rule, that no man born or bred in Scotland can be a great orator, unless he is a mere quack; or a great statesman, unless he turns plain knave. The national gravity is against the first: the national caution is against the last. To a Scotchman if a thing is, it is; there is an end of the question with his opinion about it. He is

positive and abrupt, and is not in the habit of concalating feelings or soothing the follies of others. His only way the to produce a popular effect is to sail with the streamn cứ preand to vent common dogmas, "the total grist, unsifted, hasar all," from some evangelical pulpit. This may answer, and answered. On the other hand, if a Scotchman, born or bred to think at all of the feelings of others, it is not as they regun 24 but as their opinion reacts on his own interest and safety therefore either pragmatical and offensive, or if he tries pa he becomes cowardly and fawning. His public spent wa pliancy; his selfish compliances go all lengths. He is 25 ticable as a popular partisan, as he is mischievous as Government. We do not wish to press this argument farmer must leave it involved in some degree of obscurity, razst bring the armed intellect of a whole nation on our hea in

Mr. Brougham speaks in a loud and unmitigated tune fr. 1 sometimes almost approaching to a scream. He is farmi vehement, full of his subject, with evidently a great ja m and very regardless of the manner of saying it. As a wr has not hitherto been remarkably successful. He is no pres in cases and reports, nor does he take much interest i features of a particular cause, or show much adrosta management of it. He carries too much weight of mem ordinary and petty occasions: he must have a pretty large gan to discuss, and must make thorough-stitch work of it. He, b had an encounter with Mr. Phillips the other day, and his tender blossoms, so that they fell to the ground, and in an hour; but they soon bloomed again! Mr Bros. writes almost, if not quite, as well as he speaks In the mi an Election contest he comes out to address the populace, and back to his study to finish an article for the Edinburgh Reve sometimes indeed wedging three or four articles (in the shape refacementos of his own pamphlets or speeches in parlament a single number. Such indeed is the activity of his mind th appears to require neither repose, nor any other st.mulas "har delight in its own exercise. He can turn his hand to any the but he cannot be idle. There are few intellectual accomplishme which he does not possess, and possess in a very high degree.