A Palmerston Reminiscence

Lord Palmerston on one occasion took the chair at a meeting in counection with University college, London. He was not so familiar, writes Mrs. S. E. do Morgan in her reminiscenoes, with the sort of speech expected in such a place as he would have been at Westminster, and meaning to adapt his rhetoric to the occasion began very appropriately, "It has been said that 'a little Iearuing is a dangerous thing,' bnt it is better than - better than - better than" - Here carne a dead stop. Lord Brougham, who sat beside the speaker, came to the rescue, speaking with his peculiar nasal twang, "Better than a great deal of ignorance. ' ' Th is of course bronght down the house, and during a volley of laughter, cheers and Kentish fire, Lord Palmerston recovored the lost thread of his speech, and finished it with his usual ease and fluency.