| Show the young member grantley berkeley tells in his lite 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 he was to everybody as one of 0 the oldest stagers in all the ways of the world he began with great affectation of inexperience and with an exdee exceedingly mild voice mr air speaker I 1 am but a young member on hearing this assertion from so BO well known and crafty a man possessing so eo venerable a pato pate the entire house bouse roared with laughter twice he stopped and three times he commenced with these words but it was useless the house bouee would not listen and he never to my knowledge essayed to speak again or if he did the alpha of his bald head set his audience in a roar parliamentary manners are milder in these times but a titter has gono gone round the chamber even during the existence of the present house of commons when a venerable looking member of 60 claimed indulgence fur for his maiden speech gentleman Gent lemans Is maj alag azine |
