Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . d asimilar trial, just a century back, in Westminster Hall,when Warren Hastings was impeached of high crimesand misdemeanours, as Governor-General of scene will live for ever, as painted in glowingcolours by the splendidly descriptive pen of military nor civil pomp was wanting, saysthe historian. At the South African Inquiry there wasno display of pageantry. The only gleam of colour inthe room was a big, painted map of
Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . d asimilar trial, just a century back, in Westminster Hall,when Warren Hastings was impeached of high crimesand misdemeanours, as Governor-General of scene will live for ever, as painted in glowingcolours by the splendidly descriptive pen of military nor civil pomp was wanting, saysthe historian. At the South African Inquiry there wasno display of pageantry. The only gleam of colour inthe room was a big, painted map of Africa. , The fifteen members of the Committee sat round ahorse-shoe table. In the chair was Mr. W. L. Jackson(now Lord AUerton), with Mr. Chamberlain on his rightand Sir William Harcourt on his left. At the long tableat the base of the horse-shoe were the comisel for thedefence, engi-ossed in papers and documents. In the centre of the horse-shoe table sat Mr. CecilRhodes during examination. He fortified himself eachday for the ordeal with a large tumbler of stout and aplate of sandwiches, which he munched and sippedwhile giving evidence. 79. VISCOUNT ALTHORP. * I AM not an agricultm-al laboui-er. It seems a simpletiling to say; yet iu saying it Lord Althorp—then theHon. Charles Robert Spencer—contributed to the gaietyof Parliamentaiy gossip for all time. The humoiu of the remark lay in its obviousnessand incongruity. One night there was a debate onthe unhappy condition of the class that lives closestto the soil. Mr. Sjjencer was fresh to the House ofCommons—he was returned for North Noi-thamptonshirein 1880—and had not long crossed the threshold of man-hood. He was one of the youngest and best-lookingmen in the assembly, and certainly the best to take part in the discussion, he declared, witha glint of fun in his eye, that he was not an agriculturallabourer. The House looked at the yoimg heir to thehistoric Spencer earldom, arrayed in all the splendom-of
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