...who ruled in the fear of God. He was a great proconsul, and was a tower of strength to the Empire. Now is the stately column broke. The beacon light is quenched in smoke. THE HON. THE FIRST LOW-COUNTRY SINHALESE MEMBER : — Your Excellency, I realize how difficult it is for...

...course aright ; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke ! The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill.1 1 Scott's lines on Pitt, which were quoted by Gladstone...

...course aright ; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke ! The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill.1 1 Scott's lines on Pitt, which were quoted by Gladstone...

...HIS CHARACTER THROUGH HIS LIFE'S WORK. BY BISHOP O F. WHITNEY, AUTHOR OF THK HISTORY OF UTAH, ETC. "Now is the stately column broke; The beacon light is quenched in smok«; The trumpet's silver voice is still; The warder silent on the hill." In the death of William...

...profession — I am reminded of those lines quoted by Mr. Gladstone on the occasion of the death of Sir Robert Peel : "Now is the stately column broke, • The beacon light all quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver note is still. The water silent from the hill." I move...

...essential services. (Cheers.) I will only quote, aa deeming them highly appropriate, those most touching lines which were applied by one of the greatest poets of this country to the memory of a man even greater than Sis R. Peel : — " Now i- the stately column broke The beacon light it quenched...

...were deposited near those of Pitt and For in Westminster Abbey, on the l6th day of August, 1827. " Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill !" • • • • • •" Mourn genius high, and kwe...

...Britain's weal was early wise ; Alas ! to whom the Almighty gave, For Britain's sins, an early grave. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke, 1 Gadite, of Cadiz. Cades was the old name. 2 Levin, lightning. 8 Hafnia, Copenhagen. 4 Emprise is...

...thrown gracefully over his broad shoulders; no more shall be hear the organ-like music of his voice : Now is the stately column broke; The beacon light is quenched in smoke; Now is the silver trumpet still, The warden silent on the hill. Nevertheless, he being dead, yet speaketh....

...culture, and supremo capacity, he added appreciably to the splendid traditions of the Speaker's Chair. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoko, The trumpet's silvery sound is still, The warder silent on the hill. Business done. — London...