LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MR GLADSTONE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 October 1878, Page 3

LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MR GLADSTONE.

At lhe banquet given to tile Plenipotentiaries, Lord Beaconslield, in alluding to tlic attack made upon him by Mr Gladstone, is rc]H,rtc.l to have Haul :—“ 1 was eataniebed to learn that tin- Convention of the 411, of Jane has been described epithet. Ido not intend myself to bo’as competent a judge of insanity as mv right lion, ornament. I will not sav to the right demon, Navigct Aiiticyram, but 1 -■'old,l put this question to an English jury—Which do you believe most likely t.. . liter into an insane eonvention, a body of English gentlemen honored by the favor ol their Sovereign and thecontidenee of their fellow-subjects, managing your a (fairs for live years, I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, ~r a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of I,is own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable | and inconsistent series of arguments to I malign ail opponent and to glorify himself ? My lords and gentlemen, I leave the decision upon that eonvention to the Parliament and people of England. I believe that in that policy are deeply laid the seeds of future welfare, not merely in England, but to Eurojie and to Asia; tin,l confident that the policy we have recommended is one which will be sttpjNirted by the country, I and those who act with me can endure these attacks.” (Loud cheers.)