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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 43, 7 April 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

'•OR ANY OTIIKK MAX." (From tht' (-• mhmnstomi (''azttfp.') Miinv of our readers may now be aware of the kind of speech, or "parlianieiitary oratory" wliiih has given existence to the cunt phrase or expression, "Or any other man" — which we hear so often m our midst. We append a specimen wli i»-h has just reached us per last steamer; hut. the greatest effect is, of course, created hy tho elocution of (he speaker, and tin* era .-lies of the umbrella, with which he marks the points. *Hs sp"fcen hy Mr. West, at the. Londen Music Hall, with yreul applause, 7 adies and gentlemen, — Tlnaecusfonied J»s I am to public speaking, I appear before you once more to undress myself with respect to my politic-sin opinions. And when a man gets up to say, and knows and understands what, he is going is 10 say before lie says it } is a man, er any other man. The subject of ibis evening's discourse is the World. "What is this world ? Nothing but two hemispheres resolving on its own axletrees. Who discovered tht* world ? Robinson Crusoe. Am T right, or any oilier man ? Now, ther's Lord Painierstone ; if he wasn't born m Ihe regular course of nature, what's that to the cure? Am I righf, or any other man ? What did Julius Caesar say to Jerri . baldi at Sublastapool, and what's the Bishop of London to do with it. Am 1 right, or any other man ? If the Thames tunnel was to come into h direct course with the Steam Navigation Company, what's that to do with lleenan's coming over here for the Champion's belt ? Am I right, or any other mini ? Return to the subject — Did'nt Spurgton say m the pulpit that Louis Napol'on was 49th cousin to the Gorilla ? What did /'resident Lincohi say to the Duke of Wellington at. the battle of Hull's Rnn ? Did'nt he say that Spnrgeon's Tabernacle would make a good soup-kitchen ? Eh, am I right, or any other man ? What does it say m chap. 2, verse 22dlj, of the- history of ihe natives of the uninhabited island ? Does'nt it my what belongs to (he man belongs to the woman, what belongs to the woman belongs to herself, and as much more as $he can clap her hands upon ? — Eh, am I right, or any other man ? A word or two on iron-dad ships. Who first discovered ships ? Why, Alfred the Great. And what did Alfred the Great say when he saw Lord Nelson at the battle of Waterloo? Eh, am 1 right, or any other man ? Return to lhe subject — Now, supposing a young- man, having nothing, married a shemale having the same amount of property, and they put their nothings together. Who does the thing belong to ? — Eh, am I right, or any other man. If a man can't marry his diseased wile's si>ter, couldn't lie man 3' her if she Wii'n't diseased; and what's General Windham or the Chancellor of the Kxeliequer to do wiih it? — Lh, am 1 right, or any other man ? Return to the subjoct — If Holloway's pills and ointment cures the gout and the palsy, w hat's that to do with Lord Byron ? — Eh, am I right, or any other man 1