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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 95, 13 November 1878, Page 3

An American gentleman, who a day or two since obtained a ticket and paid a lengthened visit to the Royal Arsenal at Wcohvich, said to a fnend on his return :—" I have seen the arsenals on the Continent of Europe, and those in my own country, but I have been astonished—indeed, may say appalled—at what I have seen at Woolwich. You ought to make no difficulty dbout showing it to foreigners. You have only to admit them freely ; let them see your preparations, and no country in the world would think of fighting you." " Everybody," the ' World' says, " knows how tond Lord Beaconsfield is of a surprise. One of the most intelligent Jews I ever met with said to me the other day, < He has yet a great surprise in store for you, and it will be the greatest act of his life. He will die a Jew, and be buried beside his father in the graveyard of the Jews at Mile End. He was baptised by a trick of the poet Rogers, and no Jew is ever sincere in renouncing the religion of his race. He wil die a Jew, I tell you.' There is something to be said in favour of this view ; but I believe the greatest charm of Christianity in the eyes of Lord Beaconsfield, and its firm hold over him, is contained in the fact which he himself jx>in.ted out in the celebrated twentychapter of Lord George Ben--tincVs biography, that one-half of the civilised world worships a Jew, and the other a Jewess. A man so strongly impressed with such a view as Lord Beaconsfield, must, no doubt, feel that it feeds and flatters his pride of race quite enough to keep him true to. the religion of his knighthood, and to make him content with burial beside his wife, instead of beside his father."