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Show English Parliamentary Debaters. Old members of tho House of Commons Com-mons nro usually of opinion that tho delmtes. compared with twonty or thirty years ago, lire now moro businesslike busi-nesslike and less oratorical thnn they were Somo welcomo tho change, and, rejoicing In tho greater efficiency ot the House as a governing assembly, praise the conversational stylo of speaking now so much In voguo as less stilted than the old. Others, regretting re-gretting tho loss lu tho picturesque, distressed that tho House should bo less attractive as a show, condemn the new mannei as moro slipshod. Thero Is agreement thnt tho avcrago member tnkes less troublo with tho form and phrasing of his speeches. |