A CORPULENT DIPLOMATIST

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1586, 22 April 1887, Page 4

A CORPULENT DIPLOMATIST

.After much fencing between the leaders of the two parties, the first of Ihe attacks on the Greek question, which led to a series of debates almost unparalleled in our history as displays of sustained Parliamentary elcquence, was made in the House of Lords on the 17th of June. Lord Stanley moved a rote of cenrure on the Ministry for their coercive measures in Greece, affirming, however, the general proposition that it was the right and duty of the Government to secure to British (übjects in Foreign States the full protection of those States. The scene waa a memorable one. The house was crowded in every part, and the conflict began with an amusing farce. The Peeress's Gallery was crammed to overflowing, and when Lady Melbourne and Lady Newport, under Lord Brougham's escort, went to their places they found them filled, and were igonominiously turned away. Brougham, howerer, espied Bonsen, the Prusaian Minister, in the gallery, and requested him to retire to his proper seat in the Ambassador's quarter, but he refused. Then Brougham went down to his own place, and avenged himselt on Bunsen by call ins: the attention of their Lordships to the fact that there was "a stranger in the Peeress's Gallery," adding," if he does not come down, I shall move your Lordships to enforce the order of the House. It is the more intolerable as he has a place assigned to him in another part, and he is now keeping the room of tico Pctrttses" As Bunsen, was notoriously a fat, overgrown man Brougham's malicious personality was received with shouts of laughter. But it had no effect on the stolid Prussian, who kept his seat till Sir Aogustus Clifford, Usher of the Black Bod, made bim retire. —The Life and Times of Queen Victoria.