THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6503, 30 December 1881, Page 5

THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.

A wiitar in the World, who elaim* to idnli from 0 penonal and poaiUve knowUdfo,” mv( i—"BecauiO Lord Beaconifleld achieved the highest plow which a mbjecfc con fill, therefore the world will hove it that ho •tortod from the loweot. Ho did nothing of tho kind. At too commencement of Wo career not only woo not evepthing agalnit him, but orowtoing—the accident of hfi roco alone exoepteu, out* m too oplondid quality of hi* brain* woo duo to hi* race, toot la an accident which con ooorooly ho oollod « miafortone—waa in hi* favour. Bio father wao a diatingniahed man—the intimate, the guoat. and tin boat of men aa diatinguiahed ao Mmawf—in oaay and oven affluent cirouso” alanooo. Before he wao oovenloon young Uiiraeii had mot everyone who wao worth knowing in London. The precocity of hie undue waa aa remarkable aa it* vitality, and ha had both heard and profited by hearing toe moot brilliant talker* of the day. Then oame hie own pereonal euooeeeee in literature. He had a euffleient allowance from hie fatherj he had the commend of ae much more e« he required i he wee never eeriourfy hampered by debt t he wee never without fund* to fight toe battle of coetly election*, or to take a cleaeuie trip to Faria, which in fchoae day* wm apt to he ratoar expenaive affair. Before he woe five and thirty-two yaare,

Hut is, alter ho entered the Home of Com* mons-he married « iadr with £SCOO • jeer. Bia own prints meant, independently of the finite of literary labour, were £IBOO a year. Within, therefore, » couple of twelve month* of the actual commencement of hi* political life, Mr Disraeli had an income, the purchafing Take of which waist least equal to £BOOO a year at the pment day, and could, on any emergency, command the uie of aa much more money as he required from the wealthiest community in the whole world. And it was right that he should be able to command it. The Jess might well be proud of him, end he, in his turn, wo* merer ashamed of the Jews. His Hebrew origin may hare been the cause of a certain amount of ragno and vulgar prejudice against him, but there is no evidence to show that upon any given occasion it was a practical obstacle in his path. It did not dim the brilliancy of the detmt which he made in the London society before he was twenty years of age. It did not diminish hie popularity as a plat* fora speaker. . . Mr Disraeli’s pecuniary fortune* continued steadily to improve. Be got large price* for hi* books. He inherited several legacies.