Lord Beaconsfield's Marriage.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2

Lord Beaconsfield's Marriage.

One story of the way in which he obtained the neat has been told nfMtowt < At the general election in 1835, Mr Wyndham Lewis was the Conserratire - bandidate, and, according to the practice of -the day, bribery and promises of bribery were rife on all sides; Mr iiewit was beaten; but, notwithstanding his defeat, he fulfilled all his engagements to the letter. This, and some causes of dissatisfaction with the successful candidates, rendered Mr Lewis so popular in the borough that when, two years aftot- > wards, the king's death caused another general election, the party felt that they were, strong enoog> in. jfttfctWfcglMt only to return Mr Lewh, but alsdaCdnserratire colleague. Mr DisraeltJMffwaited upon, and consented to gtanoV«yl in due eoirae was »t*tfn*d.' *'*»• f*!! 1 was important to him m "ore ways than one. It . prorided hjm with a seat; it secured for him tb» friendship of Mr Lewis, nid wheu Mr Lewif died some snort „,£■» afterwards it prorided for htm, n the person of Mrs Lewis, a wife who, in the words of Lord Lyttou, could both console and exalt, and to whom* Mr Disraeli on more than one public occasion R«tefallj ami affectionately reforrad:a« Tl»e J&& and sweetener of hif hfe. In the dedicationot ••Sybil" he* has described her as " a perfect wife," and once, at a private harrest-home in his own parish of Hughenden, he made bold- to speak.of her as " the best wife in. England. The late Lady Beaeonsfield, with many sterling qualities, bad T not..either those natnral graces or acquired accomplishments, or that disciplined andcultirated intelligence which her husband, as t his writings show, keenly appreciated in women. " She was an admirable creature," he remarked to a friend after her deathi^n&iahef lire 4 only SC^sttiJHf*': she cared nothing for the future," "and sne knew nothing of the past. To the end of her life she was nerer certain which cam© first, the Greeks or the Romans."