DISRAELI'S FIRST SPEECH.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 424, 9 December 1868, Page 3

DISRAELI'S FIRST SPEECH.

It was made December 7, 1837, on a, debate on a motion of Mr Smith O'Brien about an Irish election petition. The strange dress, figure, and manner of the new member, and the studied extravagance of his diction, convulsed the House with laughter, which at last drowned his voice. The conclusion of the speech is thus reported in Hansard: —"When they recollected the " new loves " and the " old loves," in which so much of passion and recrimination was mixed up between the noble Tityrus of the Treasury, and the learned Daphne of Liskeard (loud laughter), notwithstanding the amantium irae bad resulted, as he had always expected, in the amoris integratio (renewed laughter)—notwithstanding that political duel had been fought, in which more than one shot was interchanged, but in which recourse was had to the secure arbitrament of blank cartridges (laughter) —notwithstandingemancipated Ireland and enslaved England, the noble lord might wave in one hand the keys of St. Peter, and in the other [the shouts that followed drownedthe conclusion of the sentence]. Let them see the philosophical prejudice of man ! He was not at all surprised at the reception he had experienced. He had begun several times many things, aud he had often succeeded at last. He would sit down now, but the hour would come when they would hear him. [The impatience of the House would not allow the hon. member to finish his speech, and during the greater part of the time the hon. member was on his legs he was so much interrupted that it was impossible to hear what he said.]