PEN AND TONGUE

We cannot consent to deprive our readers of the enjoyment, or the Liberal party of the benefit, of Lord SALISBURY's daily efforts with his pen.

The Braford Orangemen are the latest recipients of his confidence. In addition to the usual and inevitable declarations regarding Mr. GLADSTONE's wicked and dangerous misbehaviour and notorious hostility to freedom of speech and the liberties of people, we have on this occasion the statement that:

"The uncontrollable temper of the Prime Minister has almost brought the two houses of the Legislature into conflict, simply to gratify that gentleman's overweaning vanity."

Of the "temper" shown in this particular statement we need not speak, nor is it necessary to do so inasmuch as it speaks for itself. Of its accuracy all that need be said is that it is on a par with the strict veraciousness of Lord SALISBURY's replies to questions when he was Foreign Secretary. It is evident, in fact, that his regard for courtesy is about equal to his love of truth; and that both compare badly with the extent to which his pen and tongue are governed by something remarkably like the spite of a jealous and jilted vixen.

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