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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1910, 20 August 1863, Page 3

A contemporary journal gives us a graphic sketch of the Marquis of Normanby, apropos of his recent efforts in Parliament on behalf of Mr Bishop. The stranger in the Honse of Lord* always wants to know, says s our contemporary^ the name of the juvenile elderly gentleman who wears that youthful wig, failing into a graceful curl upon his forehead. His- dress is of conttinental trim, having nothing in common with the free and easy tweeds and loose garments of the peers around him. He is carefully and artistically made up. His cheeks are of womanly smoothness. He might be an elderly peer who is " made up" to play the part of Claude Mel* notte in private theatricals, and who has called at tbe House of Lords on bis way, to talk about Italy. His features wear the somewhat faded and stereotyped smile which is usually acquired in the atmosphere of a court." When this A donis of 66 arises and hobbles across the floor of the House, the observer is inexpressibly shocked to observe that his left arm bangs uieless by his side, and that his left side is para* lysed. In any other human being this would surely be matter for unalloyed pity and sympathy, yet the stranger experiences a revulsion of feeling, approaching to horror, at the sight of this "faucy curl" upon the brow, this dilettantism of dress, this assumption of an elegant juvenility, and this seeming affectation of being a " glass of fashion and a mould of foroi" oa the part of a good-humoured but elderly nobleman who has received one at least of the " three warnings" of the Great Leveller. This feeling, however, gives way to something of admiration for the pluck which leads him to take up an unpopular cause and to oppose his old friendf the Whig«. ' ■•"- v