" Lord Ellenborough
manifested most activity on the opposition side of the house, and what
he said was spoken with energy, self-confidence, and commanding manner.
Lord Lansdowne was the most active person on the ministerial benches,
he moved about with a grace and affability which account for his great
popularity in the house. His mode of putting down the pertinacity of
Lord Fitzwilliam and Lord Winchelsea was authoritative, yet courteous,
and in a few epigrammatic sentences he disposed of them. The most
interesting sight was, however, old Lord Lyndhurst, who rose to give
notice of his already famous motion concerning the conduct of the war.
The house was very full of spectators. When his lordship rose, the
silence was profound, and his venerable years, the magnitude of the
question which his notice involved, his vast reputation, and his
dignified and judicial manner, inspired a respect which manifestly
pervaded every part of the house. The crowd around the throne seemed
especially solicitous to observe his lordship when he rose. We could
not avoid contrasting the intellectual features of the old ex-chancellor
with the contracted expression of the occupant of the woolsack, and
wondering what the latter would be like at the age of eighty-four,
to which Lord Lyndhurst had arrived. The important event of Lord John
Russell's resignation, announced by the Duke of Newcastle, prevented the
discussion of Lord Lyndhurst's motion, and caused the house to break up
early.
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