Show I ji RIBUTES TO BRIGIITI We Shall Not Look Upon His Like Again GLADSTONES GRAND ORATION i I England and Ireland and the World at Large Have Lost a Friend His Sympathies Were Unbounded LONDON March 21The session of the I hoUK bf commons this evening was devoted to eogies of the late John Bright The Right Hon William Henry Smith was the first speaker Smith in a short I speech described Bright as a man of thorough honesty of purpose and of great energy of character Although 1 WAUMLY TTACIICI TO THE LinCRU 1AUTY I he could not sacrifice his personal convictions convic-tions for any of these considerations which have great weight with most men His memory would live long in the hearts of men he would go down to the grave FOLLOWED fly AFFECTION AND SOUUOW of his country Gladstone upon rising was received with cheers He said Mr Bright had been to a very remarkable dcpree happy in the moment of his removal from among us He lived to see the triumph of almost every great cause to which he especially devoted his heart and mind HE HAS ESTABLISHED A SPECIAL CLAIM to the admiration of those from whom he differed through his long political life by the marked concurrence with them upon the prominent and dominent question of the hour Though Mr Bright came to be sepajfated from the great bulk of the Lib < e db on the Irish question on no single occasion has there been any word of disparagement dis-paragement Among other gifts Mr Bright was delighted to be one of the chief guardians of the purity of the English touguc Hear hear He knew how THE rllAK CTEIl OF A NATION is associated with its language Another circumstance of his career is better known to me than to any other person present Everybody is aware that office had no attraction at-traction for him but few can be aware what extra efforts were required to induce him to become a servant the Crown In the crisis of T > when the fate of the Irish church hung in j the balance it was my duty to propose to Mr Bright that he become a minister CVCIt UNDERTOOK SO IHFFICTLT A TASK From 11 oclock at night until 1 oclock the morning we steadily debated on the subject It was only at the last moment that Jj found it possible to set aside the repu Tiance he felt at doig anything that might in the eye of any one even of the more ignorant class of his countrymen appear to detract in the slightest degree from that lofty independence of character which I have mentioned which throughout his career he held It was a happy lot to unite so many attractive at-tractive qualities If I had to dwell upon them alone I should present a dazzling picture pic-ture to the world It was his happy lot to teach moral lessons by simplicity consistency con-sistency unfailing courage and constancy of life thus presenting V < OMIIINATION OF tlfUITlCS that has carried us to a higher atmosphere Hear hear His sympathies were not strong only but active not sympathies awaiting calls to be made upon them but sympathies of a man seeking objects upon which to bestow the inestimable advantages of eloquence and courage Ja 1 reland when support of the Irish callre was rare ninsurJfi when support oP the native cause was rarer still in America at the time when Mr Bright foreseeing the ultimate issue of THE CHEAT STRUGGLE QI 01 stood l as the representative of an txcced rigJfKtuiall 1 portion of an educated comm com-m nit although undoubtedly representing A largo part of the national sentiment hear hear In all these cases Mr Bright went far outside of the necessity of his callinsr Wnatover touched him as a man of the great AngloSaxon race whatever touched mm as a subect obtained his unasked his sincere earnest and enthusiastic aid hear hear His powerful advocacy made a distinct dis-tinct advance in the estimation of the wrld and a distinct progress toward a truniphant success Thus it has come UOUT that he is ENTITLED TO A HIGHER EULOGY than is due to the success of mere success Indeed he was a conspicuous examille in intellect he might claim the most distinguished distin-guished place But his character lies deeper than anything that can be described or that can be seen upon the surface The supreme eulogy that is his due is that he i ckvatod political life to the highest point to a loftier standard than it had ever reached He has bcqueatcd to his country a rhanicUr that cannot only be made a MiVt fr + ADMIR1TION AND GRATITUDE but and I do not exaggerate when I say it that < an become of reverential contempla platiii In encomiums that come from every quarter there is not a note of dissonance disso-nance I do not know of any statesman of my time who has had the happiness of receiving re-ceiving on removal from this passing world the honor of an approval so enthusiastic enthu-siastic so universal and so unbroken I < Hop hear I Yet none could better dis pcSat with the tributes of the moment because be-cause the triumphs of his life were the triumph tri-umph recorded in the advance of his country and of his people HIS NAME IS WRITTEN in the annals of time and on the hearts of the great and ever spreading race to which lie belongs whose wide enthusiasm he rejoiced re-joiced to see and whose power and prominence promin-ence bo believed to be full of promise and glory for the best interests of mankind Mr Gladstone resumed his seat amid much subdued cheering Justin McCarthi who in the absence of Pencil spoke for the Irish party associated associ-ated their sentiments with those expressed in the noble speech of Gladstone He said tho niemorv of the Irish people endured and it carried them back to the time when Mr Bright championed their cause He therefore claimed the right of Ireland to LAY AN IMMORTELLE upon the great Englishmans grave Chocrs < |