SOME OF THE GOOD THINGS OF AND ON DISRAELI.

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

SOME OF THE GOOD THINGS OF AND ON DISRAELI.

When he complimented Mr Bereafdrd Hope on his " Batavian graee/';"^^M» Darby Griffith on hir "Inmrattfti ««• lect," called Mr Bobert !**£ £|aa inspired schoolboy," taxed Sir Bobert Peel with "stealing therWhig> etotbea while tKey were bathing," labelled;fltr Goldwin Smith as "an itinerant spouter of stale sedition," satirised "the jovial profligacy " of, Mr Sergeant Dowse, ahoY sneered at Mr Horsman as " the superior person" of the House of Commons, tht\. phrases speedily became current !iul "allgrades of society. When he made Sidonia exclaim, "Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret, be formulated the pessimist pbilQßQJ|hy of the nineteenth century. When he represented Lord Monmouth as ; enter* taining an absolute contempt for mankind, " not a mournful conriction, ebbiog; and flowing with, ciroumstaaoes, | but a fixed, profound, unalterable instinct "—there were not wanting persons who regarded these as Mr DisraelHi. own sentiments. A.nd when he put into; the mouth of Mr Lyle the foiowingi words —" The ConserrhtiTe party :trepttr. institutions as we. do our pheasantsi-»lhatf * preserve only tofdestrdy themi-"*3»afiWlß felt that the writer was displaying 'Wke of candour than discretion. His accoiitjfel of the genesis of proteation is amtfsi^ by its quaint ingenuity :^-"The'*Whi|gintrpduced sectarian religion, seotariaa religion led to political ezctuaion, and political exclusion was soon aecpm^aliiie<l by commertial restraint."'' Of- --him r Carlyle wrote eleven years ago in " Shooting Niagara; and After?-*-^>A ■uperlatire Hebrew conjuror,", said_ho_ "spell binding all the great lords, great parties, gr>at^tere»ta|of(^iagla|a ! to n *|is hand in this manner, and leading^ tfieiffj^y the nose, like helpless mesmeris^if somf.^ n ambulant cattle, to such issuo^-Jid the world erer see a flehile itidHriumof such magnitude before ?"" A lineal daacan-, dant,"' said O'Connell," of the irapenUenfr thief." .