The Young Member

Grautley Berkeley tells, in his "Life and Recollections, " how a member for judlow, in the last parliainent of Wiliarn IV., "tried to make a naaiden peech, and, risiug in his place with a very La.'d head, known, too, as he was ;o evervcody, as oue of the oldest stagers in .il the ways of the world, he began wi;b great affectation of inexperience and with au exceedingly mild voice, 'Jlr. Speaker, I am bnt a young member. ' On hearing this assertion 'rom so well known and crafty a man, wssessing so venerable a pate, the enire house roared with laughter! Twice ie stopped, and three times he commenced with these words, but it was nseless. The house would not listen, and he never to my knowledge essayed to speak again, or, if he did, the sight of his bald head, set his audience in a roar. " Parliamentary manners are milder in these times, bnt a titter has ;one round the chamber, even during ;he existence of the present house of commons, when a venerable looking member of 60 claimed indnlgenoe for