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The following extract is also good : ' * The Chamber of Deputies . —* Momaieur . - ^ - QeU icule becmcoup et crie vivement de sa ^ lace / from this very common and descriptive phruse , our idea of a French deputy is taken , and if ive drew from our imagination , we should paint , as the Chamber of Deputies , an assemblage of little gentlemen all gesticulating very much and shrieking from their places , in accompaniment to one gesticulating still more , and shrieking still louder at the tribune . But Uhs would not " be a fair portrait . The newspapers which give these descriptions are far more gesticulatory than the orators they describe . The French chamber , notwithstanding the ici le President sonne- — ' ici k chambre
esi en emeute / is upon the whole ' more orderly than oura . No gentle * man ever testifies his natural propensity to bray or to crow , nor are there even such violent coughs caught there , as the air of the House of Commons is frequently—and as it seems to me , I confess , sometimes very naturally—impregnated with . The interruption , too , that * the orator *
( to use the magnificent expression given the gentleman speaking in France ) meets with are rather of a nature to animate and draw him on , than to put him out . It is not inattention , but attention which ia . apt to be noisy . It is only the person accustomed to th ^ agitations of popular assemblies who experiences interruption * and he , who if a skillful master of his art , has frequently studied how to procure a remark ,
a contradiction , or a smile , gladly seizes the occasion to bring forth ^ as an impromptu retort , the more elaborate part of his discourse . " What would our discussions appear , if the countenances of the audience were watched and its whispers rioted ? * Here Mr . O * Conn-ell frowned , '—* here Lord Stanley started /— « here Sir Robert Peel looked attentive , '— 'here Lord John Russell smiled , '— ' movement of
impatience to the left , '—* movement of anger to the right / - * - « the House much agitated , '— ' the Speaker , evidently affected , cried 6 order * three times in a sonorous voice . * The difference is more in the reporting than the proceedings . The ringing of the bell to be sure is indecorous , and the president ' s manner too much that of a schoolmaster who s-ays , ' hold your tongue ! be quiet , sir ! don't talk ! mind your lesson ! ' &c . The tribune , also , though less formal than one imagines it , still gives a theatrical and rhetorical tone to the discussion , which is admirably avoided in the simplicity of our own debates /—voL ii , p . 13 .
The chapter headed " Reli g ion" would be more properly designated " Sects . " Mr . Bulwer estimates that the population of France considered numerically is chiefly Christian , or as we should say , professes some sect of Christianity ; but that the classes most influential , and most important politically , are indifferent or opposed to Christianity . They appear , at least , to have learned one Christ ™ n virtue— a respect for the free expression of opinion : —
" A French gentleman of some celebrity speaking to me the Qtber day of a . young and di * tiut > uUlied member of the House o > f Common * , said—and be was speaking to u large audience—* 13 i * t he is tt , m $ thodist is he not ?* — « No ; not that I know of , I replied . ' Well , I will tell you what passed between him and me . We were t&lkitig of re-
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162 BuUver ' s Franc * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/34/
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