of a pasha, is no longer what it was) and Yuzgat. The Buzuk, with its mountain ranges of the Chickuk Tagh, and Ak Tagh, is one of the least fertile and least populated regions of Asia Minor. No ancient road, indeed, crossed this inhospitable district, which is chiefly celebrated with the Osmanlis for the frequent insurrections of its Turkoman chieftains. TOGETHER. Joy and sorrow are like two women walking together, the one young and beautiful with garlands of summer in her hair; the other no less lovely, but clad in a widow's weeds. GREEN leaves are greener when suffused with rain: Blue eyes are bluer beneath limpid tears: Fond hearts grow fonder when they throb with pain: Red gold is redder when by fire tried: A mansion statelier when marked by time :- CECIL MAXWELL-LYTE. PERSONALITIES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. XIX. DR. KENEALY. It requires, we suppose, no demonstration to prove that the famous counsel for “the Claimant” must be a definite "personality of the House of Commons. The undoubtedly sensational and semi. romantic character of the incidents which marked his stormy career, previous to his becoming a member of Parliament, would have given him a claim to the distinction, even if he had done nothing since entering the House but sit silent upon its benches. Every member would reflect that the new legislative unit who found it so difficult to get duly introduced to the Speaker, was the man who had once been a barrister of poetical predilections, in good practice, and enjoying the fellowship and friendship of his learned friends; that by a curious concurrence of circumstances he became leading counsel in the most exciting and protracted trial of the time, and the vehement advocate of one, in the integrity of whose case, it is reported, he originally did not believe; that he defended his client with consummate audacity, and assailed the ermine with determined rancour and inexhaustible invective ; that, being considered by his legal brethren to have exceeded the bounds of forensic license, he was disrobed and disbarred; that he then to a very great extent became a popular idol ; and that eventually, to the amazement of many and the consternation of some, he was borne into Parliament by a thundering majority of the voters in the Black Country. But since his return for Stoke, Dr. Kenealy has been no dummy, and his individuality, if any thing, has become more pronounced. It was scarcely to be expected that he would sink down into a parliamentary cipher. In the first place, he was sent to the House with a distinct mission; he was generally member for Stoke, but he was particularly member for the "Claimant;" and secondly, he was a legislator who was brimful of personal grievances, one who “had had losses,” and who was therefore naturally disposed to find in the House of Commons an admirable locality in which to ventilate what he conceived to be his own and others wrongs. It is to be feared that the learned Dr. has hardly been so successful as his ardent temperament probably led him to expect. He has been listened to, but that is about all. The Government gave him a day for bringing forward his motion with respect to the “Claimant,” and it must be owned that he a stated his case manfully and with great ability; but the miserable minority in which he found himself after the vote had been taken, must have convinced him that the thing was hopeless from the very beginning. The special object of his mission to Parliament having thus been attempted, and having so signally failed, the learned gentleman has since contented himself with making occasional speeches, mostly on Foreign affairs, sɔme of which have not been without their point and acumen. He followed Mr. Goschen in the debate on Mr. Gladstone's futile "Resolutions" of 1877; and, whatever prejudice may be felt against the Dr. in some quarters, there can be no doubt that his speech afforded abundant interest and amusement, and that it was hailed as a positive relief, after the distressing observations of the mouthing member for the City. Of course Dr. Kenealy's speciality is abuse; and it was amusing to watch Mr. Gladstone suddenly leap from his place and slip out of the House as soon as the torrent, set rushing not far behind him, began to descend on his own particular head. Nevertheless, the invective was mingled with a good deal of shrewd and ingenious observation, and, above all, it abounded with those turns of humorous causticity which the House so invariably relishes. As a proof that the learned Dr.'s personality is as interesting outside as it is inside the House, it may be remarked that almost the first question which a stranger puts is not "Do you know if Mr. Gladstone is present?" or, "Do you see Mr. Bright here?" but, "Can you tell me if Dr. Kenealy is in the House ?" And if the short thick-set figure happens to get on its legs, there is positively quite a little flutter in the gallery. The truth is, there is a certain inexplicable fascination to many persons about an individuality which is eminently pugnacious; and the interest which Dr. Kenealy occasions now is probably a reproduction of the same interest which the appearances of O'Connell and Smith O'Brien excited in days gone by. And when the stranger eagerly cranes his neck forward, what, on the whole, is the impression which he gets of the learned gentleman who is beginning to address the House? He will possibly go home with a recollection of having listened to, and beheld a little man with a very large head, which is rendered more conspicuous by a deep umbrage of very dark hair, considerably dishevelled; a little man whose face bears upon it, as its obvious characteristics, most determined self-will and most aggressive independence; a little man, in fine, who has about him a general leonine appearance, which quite justified the House in good-naturedly tittering when the very leonine gentleman in question once most dramatically asserted that, for his part, certain aspersions on his character would "Like dew-drops from the lion's mano Be shook to air," XX. MR. GOSCHEN AND MR. CHILDERS. a We have coupled these two gentlemen together, because they probably represent the two worst First Lords of tne Admiralty who have ever insulted the British Navy by presuming to preside over it, or contributed their quota of disyrace to a disgraceful administration. Apart from these adventitious circumstances, neither gentleman has sufficient individuality to make him in any sense a noted personality of the House. They certainly were not altogether to blame with regard to the false positions in which they were successively placed. Even the venerable Lord Russell, Mr. Glad. stone's sometime chief, could not contain his contempt at the ridiculous faculty which "the young Ascanius of the hour exbibited for putting square men into round holes. To place Mr. Childers at the head of the Admiralty ! And pray who is Mr. Childers that he should be hoisted at one lift into this important and historical position ?" Such was the question in everyb dy's mouth. Some said that he was a returned Colonist, like Mr. Lowe, which was perfectly true ; the general opinion was that he was man dropped from the moon, a man wholly unknown to political life.” But he was put over the British Navy, and the British Navy suffered accordingly. The fact is he was not placed there because he knew anything more about naval matters than any other person picked at random from the Liberal Party, but because he happened to be a thrifty political housewife, with all the selfsufficient zeal which distinguishes such a character. What a mess be made of the navy, what a ludicrous exbibition be made of him. self whilst affecting to direct its administration, and what a bye. word he became amongst genuine naval authorities, are facts so comparatively recent and so bistoricai, that we need not now re. call them in their deplorable details. But it is only due to the Right Honourable gentleman to say that he did thoroughly what was given him to do. He was commissioned to do dirty work and he did his buck.dashing of foul lines with charming energyreally as if he found it quite pleasant. If he did not emerge from the business with as perfectly clean hands as when he went into it, that was scarcely bis fault; it was a necessity of the case. In his place in parliament he did his best to look as dignified, and to speak as nautically as he imagined a First Lord ought to look and speak ; but being an individual of somewhat flabby and vulgar appearance, and an orator of confused speech and ungraceful address he hardly presented as satisfactory a portrait of the character as might have been wished. Mr. Childers' career at the Admiralty was cut short prematurely; his excessive zeal in the direction of economy overtaxed his energies, and he was obliged to resign his appointment. He was succeeded by another gentleman 'dropped from the moon," if due regard be had to that gentleman's qualifications and deserts. During his short period of office, subsequent to the death of Lord Palmerston, Lord Russell had created Mr. Goschen Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for what earthly reason nobody could make out; people came to the conclusion that it was the result of the Whig Premier's eye for plastic instruments. As soon as Mr. Gladstone him. self achieved the Blue Ribbon, he patted Mr. Goschen on the back, and said, "Friend, go up higher." Mr. Gladstone was then in the hey-day of his financial blood; Mr. Goschen had written a pamphlet on Foreign Exchanges, which was thought "exceedingly clever," and which met with the approval of the great master of finance; and then we all know that "a fellowfeeling makes us wondrous kind." Mr. Goshen was, indeed, a lucky man. There he was, comfortably seated on the Treasury Bench- a dull and feeble debater, a muldle-headed and altogether miserable speaker, an elocutionist with one of the thickest and most disagreeable utterances in the House, and a politician who never stood up to make an address without vexing his listeners with a host of fidgeting mannerisms, the most distressing of which was a habit of pivoting on his heels whenever he fancied he had made what is called a "point." Yet, there he was; and many abler aspirants had nothing for it but to sit and marvel and make the best of it. But when this fortunate gentleman dropped, one fine day, into the Admiralty, he certainly was the genuine fly in amber, and honourable members did honestly "wonder how the devil he got there." Apart from the general incongruity of the appointment, no doubt many a member was tickled by the simple notion of the figure which the right honourable gentleman would cut when arrayed in the imposing paraphernalia of a First Lord. They were accustomed to the physical appearance in the lobby and at the green table-the long, loose, lanky, disproportioned figure with its knock-knees, and its ungainly carriage--the head always poked forward, and the short, hurried, composureless step, full of bustling fussiness. How would all this look in uniform, with a cockedhat on? No sailor could have pointed to him as a "trim-built craft;" he was more an ill-rigged vessel, terribly top-heavy and badly ballasted. This physical grotesqueness, however, both the service, the House, and the public would generously have overlooked had the right honourable gentleman's behaviour been at all becoming his exalted position. But what was to be expected? He was a mere economist, and the tool of an economist. Amongst |