The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

t'el preface to this fifth edition Mr. Disuatu
admisisters a tole:soli et arp rebuke to the mireerity
fa the Hoes* of Commons who voted against the
Ices Bill:
Do modem Jew, have los, is ender the odium
• stages siashieval iatertemines. In the dark ego when
wag was sokaown, the weans of societi.a, undistuebed
r oi,tradi Lamy esperisass. men strong, and their movie-
„sweated by mitt ham, were rem sorrily faradeel.
Is viadisatisg the 'override right of the thatch of
bass to be the perpeteet relerittatOT of man, the writer
*geed the
.time bad arrived when some attempt should be
tssds Mdo JialllCO to the rem whieb had headed Christie
TIM oriole has developed la smother work ('Tea
I Me views respeetice the great he we of Israel, which
ko iodinated la • Cealettebr.' Ito sue Imo attempted to
peas theet, nor is refetattoa possible."
?hi. is pretty explicit, but it is merciful c unpaved
with the lash administered in " Cmingeby," to the
hypcorPee who affect to argue political questions on
theologies' rumples:
Iso all for a religious coe," mid Toper. " mans
„Law, Mid if srookusfisi, does wes Woofer, with &tallow,
sate see are in "
Mr. DISRAELI expose the economical hypocrisies
Obis perry as mlentlesely as their religious :
What (humdrum tins' er merchants meant by conservative
Fisciphs it is net &Seto% to corjecture ; or West Ischia
plaint. It was Ulu, bly clear on the has it es what eclair ,s
sod farmers sad their followen meant by cosservative prin.
selsa What they mean by conservative now is
o.ithe question, and whether conservative prind, Its mean
metatking higher than the Perpetuation of fiscal airing.-
Mats, some of them very impolitic, nose of them very
sepertaat
Finally, Mr. DISRAELI bee typified the tones who
sppolied the Itetortn Bill in Lord Monmouth, Mr.
Ormsby, and Mr. Rigby; ar.d the caries who have
tease/oared to wrest the Reform Bill to their own
'armors in Mr. Taper and Mr. Tadpole.
If any one wishes to me the protectionist party de-
pleted se hypocrites in their religious profession.,
callotely and thievishly selfish in their financial and
economical policy, base and false in their electioneer-
ing INSLONIV:SO, and to a man fools and fribbles
withal, let him consult the pages of " Cooingeby."
And it is this book that Mr. Diseaect has seen fit to
pettish st the commeoctment of a reels. which the
party is to devote to provincial agitation, and with
this premium:
The sweeps of the work was not questionable. Three
ecasiderohle editions were told in this country is three
ninths: it was largely circulated thr,ischout the collisions*
Europe, and more than 50,000 swiss were required in the
Valid States of America. Is the fifth year of its life, the
wri'er bee bent called upon to preprint the fifth 'ration of a
work for some time oat of prise, and which is now paired to
Ms public is a form of easy acquisition to those who may
wish to p ;PM IL
Since the days of CORIOLARES, the i• moot sweet
voices" of a party have not been asked in this fashion.
"1 hare lampooned you, says Mr. DISRAELI to his
followers. "at home and abroad, in Er gland, Europe,
sad America. And now lam publishing a cheap—a
people's edition of my bo.k, to give if possible more
universal circulation to my envenomed exposure of
your vices and weaknesses." The relations which
exist between such a party and such a chief are the
most anomalous on record. They throw, however,
an instructive light on the character and position of
the party.
No one can deny to Mr. DISRAELI the possession of
great natural Lrilliancy and high artrical accom-
plishments. lie catches with delicate tact the salient,
soperticial characteristics of individuals and sccioty,
and reproduces them in a graceful and strek'ng man-
ner. But he cannot reason and be cannot even com-
prehend a ptiuciple. He retails anecdotes and impro-
vises imaginary conversation with great felicity,
and herein co. eats the attraction of his novel,. But
the incidents and adventures in these works are as
fantastic ant unreal as the dreams a schoolboy in-
dulges in of a heroic corer. Mr. Dismeett is in-
capitol° of harirg his views cf man and his dere inks
matured and renuered real by experience. In all the
'higher faculties of humanity he is a schoolboy still,
and will eocticue to be. He in this at least mem-
bles the Arcadian shepherd-boy of the poet,
"piping as them/h Le could
his combioati n a mature and vivid fancy with an
intellect and moral serum withering before they have
ripened, Mr. Dtseaent realists the old fable of VIT-
EoNrs, who, having received the gift of immortality
without that of p rpttusl youth, shrivelled up into a
dry, elastic, chirping, tiny grasshopper. He is brisk-
nece and littleness inseearably united.
What, then, are the qualities which have made a
political notoriety of such a man? Unscrupulous
sycophancy, and a vixen tongue. By the one he in-
gratiates himself at the outset; by the ether, he de-
tm the timid from oaring hint off. Wittig has
recorded how DISRAELI first essayed his arts of flat-
tery OR Lord DURIIAII; "Coningaby" pirpetustes
how he tried them on Louts PRILIPTE and Sir Itto
BERT PEEL. These attempts were fruitless. His
fin' encores was with " Young England," which lie
has shaken off since he gained the ear of the protec-
tionist party. Affectation of sympathy and profound
respect at first incein d this party to allow him to be
one of their spokesmen, and irmer.sibly to sesame a
leading part among them. And his treveterate at-
tacks upon PEEL for Pet offering him " a very subor-
dinate appointment" make them afraid to break with
him.
In so far es DISRAELI alone is concerned it would
be waste of time to draw attention to these facts; he
will find hi. level KO long by a natural process. But
they are important as illustrative of the party which
allows him to stand forth as their accredited mouth-
piece. The conscious imbecility of men who can
fled so one among them capable to speak their senti-
meets bet one who has so cruelly exposed their in-
nate weakness and worthlessness; the gullibility
that could be brought to relent after receiving sna
insults by a few glcsing acd obviously insincere
smooth speeches; the cowardice which emboldens
the offender to repeat the insult in the ostentatious
Coy be has now done:—it would be incredible that
ill these shameful qualities should b.: found to per-
vade a b holy of some hundreds of English gentlemen
were it not that facts es'ablish the degrading truth
beyond dispute.
Such a combination is no party, but a miscellaneous
assemblage of idlers enacting a party foe their own
amusement at a fancy ball. Toney can no more be re-
garded Is bawd fide aristocrats, ultra-churchmen, and
protictionists than the Eton boys at the Montem
done ribed is " Coniogiby;' could be taken for the
Tin ks,Cruaders, and military officers whose drums
they amused for the dsy. Their professions of a poli-
tical creed are as unreal as the Jecabitisin which it
became fasnionablo to affect during the first heyday
of the popularity of the Waverly novels. Such a
combination cannot last. Tne first general election,
at a time of real national excitement, will matter it
to the four winds. The parties themselves will grow
tired of keeping up the farce. That pol tical church
cannot endure whole only tolerable preacher is
an avowed and ostentatious unbeliever in its creed.
In England, of all coui.tries in the world, confessed
ahams speedily lose their attraction.