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  Hadfield, the junior Member for Sheffield, now rose to express what had been already well expressed, and what he did not know how to express at all For some six or eight minutes he blundered on, amidst all manner of signs of disapprobation. Yet I must say the House of Commons is entitled to rank among its chief virtues its tolerance of bores, notwithstanding what has been so often written of its disposition to cough and crow men down. It is scarcely possible to conceive a greater and more pretentious dunce than Sir Robert Peel, and yet the House, from some whim or other, will lustily cheer the Right Honorable baronet, even when he utters the most errant balderdash. Is it that the collective fancy is tickled by the contrast between him and the great minister who freed the people's bread f Speaking of Sir Robert, he got into a pretty scrape the other night with the O'Donoghue, and, in spite of the prejudices against the disloyal Irishman, I think the Chief Secretary came off second best

After Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Maguire started up with the burden of Irish grievances, and a reply from Chief Secretary Peel was followed by the scrannel eloquence of Mr. Vincent Scully. And