t, or colour, be disabled from holding any place,
office, or employment." The measure was introduced by Mr. Charles Grant,
the President of the Board of Control, and was read a second time on
Wednesday the 10th July. On that occasion Macaulay defended the bill in
a thin House; a circumstance which may surprise those who are not aware
that on a Wednesday, and with an Indian question on the paper, Cicero
replying to Hortensius would hardly draw a quorum. Small as it was, the
audience contained Lord John Russell, Peel, O'Connell, and other masters
in the Parliamentary craft. Their unanimous judgment was summed up by
Charles Grant, in words which every one who knows the House of Commons
will recognise as being very different from the conventional verbiage
of mutual senatorial flattery. "I must embrace the opportunity of
expressing, not what I felt, (for language could not express it,) but
of making an attempt to convey to the House my sympathy with it in its
admiration of the speech of my honourable and learned friend; a speech
which, I will venture to assert, has never been exceeded within these
walls for the development of statesmanlike policy and practical good
sense. It exhibited all that is noble in oratory; all that is sublime,
I had almost said, in poetry; all that is truly great, exalted, and
virtuous in human nature. If the House at large felt a deep interest in
this magnificent display, it may judge of what were my emotions when
I perceived in the hands of my honourable friend the great principles
which he expounded glowing with fresh colours, and arrayed in all the
beauty of truth."

There is no praise more gratefully treasured than that which is bestowed
by a generous chief upon a subordinate with whom he is on the best of
terms. Macaulay to the end entertained for Lord Glenelg that sentiment
of loyalty which a man of honour and feeling will always cherish with
regard to the statesman under whom he began his career as a servant of
the Crown. [The affinity between this sentiment and that of the Quaestor
towards his first Proconsul, so well described in the Orations against
Verres, is one among the innumerable points of resemblance between the
public life of ancient Rome and modern England.] The Secretary repaid
the President for his unvarying kindness and confidence by helping him
to get the bill through committee with that absence of friction which
is the pride and delight of official men. The vexed questions of