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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 5.

At:moron one of those great parliamentary en-
counters which are becoming as rare as great par
liamentary statesmen, was expected, neither the
excitement nor even the attendance within the
House last evening was comparable with that
of Monday week, when the question of peace
or war was to be decided by the First Mi-
nister himself. Out of doors, in Palace-yard—
the British Forum—at the entrance of West-
minster-hall, which becomes a Court of the Gen-
tiles on such occasions—that omnipresent London
crowd, whose origin, composition, and ways of
life are a mystery to all meditative minds, stood
gaping with harmless curiosity, and waiting
for the arrival of the rival champions
of debate, as they might wait for some dis-
tinguished pugilist Mr. Dtsassu, we hear,
was recognised and greeted with extraordinary de-
monstrations of respect—a tribute of extempo-
rary public approbation which it is to be hoped
may atone somewhat to the right hon. gentleman
for the indifference, not to say fatigue, with which
a selecter audience listened to his laboured per-
formance at the table. Perhaps it is not given
even to the leader of the Opposition to achieve
two triumphs in one evening; it is easy to under-
stand how the hero of an open-air " ovation " of
cheap popular sentiment may collapse in the closer
atmosphere of reason, argument, and respon-
sibility. But, truth to say, the mover of the
Address to the Crown was destined to surprise his
most ardent followers by a shallowness, a tricki-
ness, an ineffectiveness that might almost
have excited the compassion of his foes,
had the modesty been equal to the
weakness of the effort. Unfortunately for his
motley and miscellaneous party including some
independent gentlemen of the Irish persuasion,
Mr. DISRA LI I was more than usually rash, de-
fiant, and reckless in those passages of his speech
which were not made up of craftily-arranged
and qualified selections from diplomatic papers
and despatches.

Beginning with a quasi-historic prelude on
the theme of Wars of Succession, the
orator of the Opposition proceeded in a
strain of protesting candour, which sounded out of
tune, to put together with artful simplicity this and
that phraso from this and that despatch of the
Foreign Secretary, or conversation of this and that
Ambassador, during the protracted negotiations
with Denmark, Germany, and the neutral Powers
which are described in some fifteen hundred folio
pages of the Danish papers. If two lines in a
man's h►ndwriting are enough to hang him,
a far less ingenious commentator than Mr.
Disaaext should have easily drawn and quartered
a Foreign Secretary with a volume of fifteen hun-
dred folio pages at his disposal. But to take a
line here, and a sentence there, and piece these
pellets into an indictment, when a GLADSTONE, with
the original documents in his hands, is ready to
pounce upon that affected candour and make
it look like nothing better than prostrate canning,
was hardly a safe or convenient rhetorical process.
Here was one initial and fundamental cause of Mr.
DISRAELI'S prodigious failure last evening. Nor
was this the only cause of a failure beyond all an-
ticipation in the statement of a case in which the
speaker had so many appearances in his favour,
and so much generous dissatisfaction and impa-
tience in the public mind to snpply what was
wanting in impulse and reasoning to his eloquence.
But Mr. DI,DA F LI made another irreparable mistake
in trying to prove too much. Not content with
proving one charge at a time, he exhausted his
own ingenuity and the credulity of his hearers in
endeavouring to establiah contradictory and even
opposite propositions. The result was that every
proposition he advanced opened a crevice in his
armour through which Mr. GLADSTONE's eager
rapier pierced with unerring aim. Mr. DISRAELI
contends that the discomfiture of English policy on
the Danish question is due to the alienation and
estrangement of our allies, and our conse-
quent isolation in Europe. He urges that
Lord R t•sartt " alienated " Russia by his
despatches on Poland, and " estraeged " France
by declining to join with the Emreautt
in a war for the restoration of the independence
of Poland, and thus drawing down upon both
Governments the " haughty insolence " of
Prince G.P.T.•if ()core. He complains that Lord
Breaett offended the Emperor of the Fazsen by
his " curt" refusal to take part in a Congress,
though Mr. DISRAELI has himself described the
Emenunt's invitation as "an adroit manoeuvre."
He depicts the French EMPEROR as a modern
Achilles sulking in his tent, whilst Denmark—