AMERICAN SKETCH OF DISRAELI.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 995, 13 August 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN SKETCH OF DISRAELI.

Disraeli will have positively nothing to do, if he can help it, with the Alabama affair in 'its present condition. Ho is'full-of pluck and vigor this season, quite jubilant and confident. 'He still looks wonderfully young, despite his awkward," shuffling. slinking -walk -and his stooped shoulders. A few evenings since I saw him pass along Parliament street, leaniug on two "friends. Everybody looked after him. He is much 'more remarkable fi<rure in the street than Gladstone or Bright. Let me describe him as he then showed : —A tall man, with stooped and rounded shoulders, peculiarly shaped head, fast denuding itself of hair, but with the hair that remains still black as ever-; a complexion of dull brick-dust, a face puckered up like an old mask, or as if toe wearer of the face was always screwing up his lips to whistle, and never accomplished the feat. A small chin-tuft adorns the countenance, a.nd let me add that the expression on the countenance is lugubrious enough to become an artistic and conscientious lriute at a funeral. A long gray or white outer coat reaches nearly to the ankles of this remarkable figure ; and beneath the coat might be seen trousers of a darker grey and very neat boots. There was something of a decayed and fading dandy about the entire personage which, joined with the odd walk and the stooped aboulders and the chill gray atmosphere of the early evening, diffused a sense of gloom over the meditative spectator. Was this then the brilliant, eccentric and •lashing man of genius who used to be the cynosure of eyes ia Lady Blessington's bright ' salons,' who wrote *' Vivian Grey," and came out as a wild Eadical,and proclaimed that revolution ■was his forte, and challenged O'ConDell to a duel, and heard the chimes ever so long past midnight with the ■elderly gentleman now vegetating at Chiaelhurst, who was then Prince Louis Napoleon ? Y es, that was he. * There goes old Dizzy," said a working man, as the great politician, romancist, and adventurer shuffled along. -'New York Herald.'