believed in his power, thinking that his counsels must surely prevail.  He had obtained the ear of the House and the favour of the reporters, and opened his voice at no public dinner, on no public platform, without a conviction that the words spoken by him would be read by thousands.  The first necessity for good speaking is a large audience; and of this advantage Mr. Turnbull had made himself sure.  And yet it could hardly be said that he was a great orator.  He was gifted with a powerful voice, with strong, and I may, perhaps, call them broad convictions, with perfect self-reliance, with almost unlimited powers of endurance, with hot ambition, with no keen scruples, and with a moral skin of great thickness.  Nothing said against him pained him, no attacks wounded him, no raillery touched him in the least.  There was not a sore spot about him, and probably his first thoughts on waking every morning told him that he, at least, was totus teres atque rotundus.  He was, of course, a thorough Radical,—­and so was Mr. Monk.  But Mr. Monk’s first waking thoughts were probably exactly the reverse of those of his friend.  Mr. Monk was a much hotter man in debate than Mr. Turnbull;—­but Mr. Monk was ever doubting of himself, and never doubted of himself so much as when he had been most violent, and also most effective, in debate.  When Mr. Monk jeered at himself for being a Cabinet Minister and keeping no attendant grander than a parlour-maid, there was a substratum of self-doubt under the joke.

Mr. Turnbull was certainly a great Radical, and as such enjoyed a great reputation.  I do not think that high office in the State had ever been offered to him; but things had been said which justified him, or seemed to himself to justify him, in declaring that in no possible circumstances would he serve the Crown.  “I serve the people,” he had said, “and much as I respect the servants of the Crown, I think that my own office is the higher.”  He had been greatly called to task for this speech; and Mr. Mildmay, the present Premier, had asked him whether he did not recognise the so-called servants of the Crown as the most hard-worked and truest servants of the people.  The House and the press had supported Mr. Mildmay, but to all that Mr. Turnbull was quite indifferent; and when an assertion made by him before three or four thousand persons at Manchester, to the effect that he,—­he specially,—­was the friend and servant of the people, was received with acclamation, he felt quite satisfied that he had gained his point.  Progressive reform in the franchise, of which manhood suffrage should be the acknowledged and not far distant end, equal electoral districts, ballot, tenant right for England as well as Ireland, reduction of the standing army till there should be no standing army to reduce, utter disregard of all political movements in Europe, an almost idolatrous admiration for all political movements in America, free trade in everything except malt, and an absolute