The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26.

THE NEW PREMIER.

WI: beg pardon of our ministerial contompora-
ries, but really the dithyrambic rapture of their
prose-poems on the last and greatest of Mr. DlS-
stactfa achievements reminds us a little of the
celebrated burst of oratory at a Guildhall banquet
not so many years since, when the Loan MAYOR,
in an agony of extempurizition, complimented a
Minister of the day on having risen "from the
" dregs of the people." "On n.c.tt tralti
" gar par les slew." Our new Pr.einlEß
nay well pray to be delivered at this moment from
the eulogies of his too ardent admire,. and too in-
timate friends. No doubt it is very gratifying
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to youthful, and even to middle-aged, ambition to
recognise in the scion of a long proscribed race
the attorney's clerk, the man of letters who
stormed the summits of society at the point
of his pen, a h;Otimate othiprim; of British
liberty and equality. our own part

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wo should he content to pay lioniuge to
tbo occasional supremacy of a certain sort of

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genius over factitious ariatocruica and the
prejudices and privileges of a caste. There is
more than one inor.ll to this extraordinary talo,and
wo are not quite sure that v o•loopo: moie would
not be the moat appropriate device fur the ahiold
of the new chief of the Tory party. A good poli-

twat precept may not alwa;.4 I.e the solnulmt worst
doctrine, but au shall not b so puritanical as
to rofu*.e a tribute of re. i.ect to that rcniark.tble
intellectual energy, that force of character and of
temperament, that conhumniate telf-eontitterco,

that dexterous use of opportunities and of instru-
ments, that instinctive grasp of ocatsions, that
science Of expediency and c leT nation, that
fertility of resource in the conduct of n party and
in parliamentary conflict, that capacity for living
apart and alone amidst the common crowd of

riv.ils and competitors, which command old
societies and govern free states. Alen of all par.
ties ecknowledo in Mr. DI-RAELI the only
roper and poiblc successor to Lord DEMEY.
That is no mean glory for the old friend and
comrade of that other secret and successful despiser
and disposer of his fellow creatures and believer
in himself, who reigns of er the water, not by
genius alone, nordilie tile new Pit Km La of England,
in spite of his name, but by virtue of it.
Mr. DIIMAELI, then, has touched the tom.:os-,

height% of political ambition in a unstitnciona
wintry and a parl i nuentary

governinel.

W.ll the rare qualities that have raised him to
this historic elevation, the mingled suppleness and
persistency of dill, the dramatic instinct which
impersonates great principles, the playful noncha-
lance which diasembks an unbroken tlniugh
not unbending purpose—will these indisput-
able personal qualities suffice to make a Tory
administration endure, or a liberal Parliament
succumb to a policy not its own ! Perhaps
a previous questiou nal:el.—will Mr.
the PREMI , ; has Loy: secured
and put away beyond the reach of fur-
tune or of envy the highest prize of
a bold and adventurous career—will he care to
huger on those perilous heights, and to breathe in
pain that difficult air i T!:at is a question, per-
haps, as much for his followers as for luuuelt, if
we may suppose him to he animated with de-
sires that transcend personal ambition—desires
that laise the clear spirit above the momentary
combinations and expedients of party politics,
be may yet aspire to other and more ennobling
conquests than those of place and lower. It has
been his amazing destiny—who could have anti-
cipated it tive-and-twenty years ago I—to leave
his f,tent parliamentary antagonist in the cold
shade of opposition while the dazzling splendours
of the central sun of the political firmament beam
neon that patient yet eager brow which defied
the contemptuous indifference of Pam..
The race is not always for the swift, but there is a
future beyond the victories of the hour for the
strong. Will this future belong to the PAE11131:
of to-day I Will the great body of his
followers submit to a furthyr proses of edu-
cation in the principles of their reirersaries,
ee will he care to carry on their education
now that they have so triumphantly completed his
own 4 The time approaches when Mr. D:sitszu
must choose between leading his parts in
the way they would rather rut go, or
being left behind with them, the last festoon
of one epoch, the fast of another! He will doubtless
endeavour at once to strengthen the administration
which soap% him for he chief. The retirement of
Lord tlimmisronn and the secession Lora
°mans to the Woolsack would invigorate the
Oebinet in debate and perhaps iu =lnca
But will this or say other probias modification 01