| Show the yo tones ung Iffe member raber grantley Ir antley berkeley tells in his life and recollections how a member for ludlow in the last parliament of william IV tried to make a maiden speech and rising in his place with a very bald head known too as ho he was to everybody as ono one of the oldest stagers in all the ways of tho the world ho he began with great affectation of in inexpert exPer once enco and with an exceedingly mild voice mr air speaker I 1 am but a young member 1 on hearing this assertion from so well known and crafty a man possessing so venerably venerable a pate the entire house honse roared with laughter twice ho be stopped etc ped and three times ho he commenced with these words but it was useless the house would not listen and ho he never to my knowledge essayed to speak again or it if he be did the sight ight of his bald head set his audience in a roar parliamentary manners aro are milder in these times but a titter has gono gone round tho the chamber even during the existence of the present house of comm commons ons when a venerable looking member of 60 claimed indulgence for bir his maiden speech Gent lemans magazine |
