A PROPHECY BY DISRAELI.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 287, 24 March 1877, Page 3

A PROPHECY BY DISRAELI.

The iU'i-ioKt'.nm has brought to one fit tho most remarkable of Mr. Disraeli's early propheeie* : " Whether the motive* t'f Hi: Disraeli in retiring to the House • >£ Lords were personal of political, there is no room Hi it (ioubi that he contemplated the movement nearly ha It a century as,'". In a passage of the Yoiuvjt Duke, _ he boldly announces the iuentioii he has fttttilled'het'ovo ovic eye*. Mr. Disraeli, however, is one of those of whntu I'rinee Bismarck, is another, whose frankness in ileflarin;* their intentions b often so emphatic that the people at the time titut it uillkaiU to believe in the sincerity of their utti'riui.v. S\» ton<£ ivji* as the ■ U'J.K i;i ;!<e juvenile production ■ !,■•(i to, wiii be found (Book Y. r '.i:.ivr C>, w'c.iit by the Ihjht we now . , uuk-; be r\£avded a* a remarkable ~ .!.i. iLi.'M not cotuu fry ib behind *':>■ i h;ib v>t the characters in trie the author in hb wn ';>■ - n, in criticising the orators of the

I day, and dtacossing the difference appropriate to the two Houses of Parliament. The audacity of the phrase '* It" I have I time" approaches std.diiiiity : "One ! thins is clear, that a nan may speak very | well' in the House «f Commons, ami f.'d '< very completely in the il<;t*.j ..f Lor.ts. There are tw.» distinct styks tvtpiwue. I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to sjive a specimen of both. In the L-»wer House, Don Juan ' may, p.-rhaps be o»r ino.kl; in the Lpper House, ' Paradise Lost.'"