A Prominent Englishman

The recent disturbance in the English house of eommons, when Mr. Sexton was suspended for resenting the implication that he was an assoeiate of murderers by the free use of the term, " You're a liar," brings the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, speaker of that legislative body, iuto prominence. J. C Crawford, correspondent of The New York World, now in England, wntesof the speaker"He has held the office for the last flvé years. This office does not correspond in political character to the same office in our house. It carries with it no political advantage, and is never made the subject of partisan contest. It is more like a judicial office He acts merely as the presiding oflicer of o. parliamentary debating society. He must be a member of the house, and must be re-elected every parliament. He sits under the reporters' gallery, facing the two special galleries. His chair places him about four feet above t&e level of the floor. It is a species ofthrone. It has a high back, shelter ing sides and an Larcbed wooden can■opy. The interior lining of the chair is black. Tlia speaker wears a gray wig, which descends in tight curls to his should,ers. The front of the wig hides his forehead entirely. He wears a long, flowing black gown over a full court costume of black. His knee breeches have silver clasps. Silver buckles ornament the front of his patent leather shoes. A small svvord just peeps out from the folds of his somber costume. The speaker's face is thin, sallow and angular. The lower part of his face is extended by a sharp pointed brown beard. To the irreverent American visitor the speaker is not an imposing sight. He looks much more like an actor gotten up for comic opera than the presiding officer of one of the oldest legislativo assembiies in the worlil. He has no table in front of him, but the arms of his chair are so wide that they are ampie for the little writing he has to do while presiding. The speaker has a very clear, sharp voice, and a very energetic, nervous ruanner, not at all English. He points his bony right I flnger at a member and fires his name at him I like a pistol shot on the second of his rising. I He passes from side to side with great impartiality. Nearly everything is left to the house itself. When the speaker calis for a viva voce vote he delays the announcement of the result long enough for any one to make an objection and demand a formal count. He says over several times, 'I think t's yea, I think it's yea,' or the reverse, before declaring the result. When a formal I vote is taken every member ha3 to leave the I house, the yeas going out the front door and I the nays going out at the left. The I ants at the dooi-s check them off as thev sa out. S Prof. Turner, the Edinburgh anatomist, gets $20,000 a year, the highest salaiy paid any profesor in the world.