Show youns ilan bars of parliament conr coa ressman is harily more than twenty five years old in accordance with the provisions of the constitution but the british house ot commons lias members several years younger one of the newly returned members william alien is twenty one and frederick smith and sir dalziel are not yet twenty they do not break the record of political precocity however for william pitt was only eighteen when he made bis maiden speech in the house the speech that led burke to say that the young orator was not a chip of the old block but the eld block itself chicago herald |