The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-07 00:00:00

Witness this, not merely
his-panegyric on Sir Robert
m
Peel, but his noble eulogium on Lord Pal
erston in
one of the chapters of " Tancred," and hi
ffa
graceful
but earnest encomium on Mr. Hume in the earlier
r pages
of of his latest composition. As the utterance of
ship for one prematurely snatched from life,thisenvo-
lume must be regarded in the literature of politics'
poets
were not less touchingly commemorative than, in
were the " Lycidas " of Milton, the " Adonais "
Shelley, or the " In Memoriam" of Tennyson.
Among the miscellaneous productions of Disraeli—
besides the opening number of a daily newspaper,
under his editorship, entitled The Representative—
must be enumerated, of course, his electioneering
Addresses to his Constituents, arid those Speeches deli-
vered in the House of Commons which were subse-
quently revised for separate publication. From these,
hardly less frequently than from his more pretentious
effusions, might be culled evidences of his genius as a
wit, and his ability as a satirist. Several of his ready
phrases—nicknames, soine of them as humorous as
those of O'Connell, without revealing the slightest
tincture of vulgarity—have stuck like burrs in the
popular remembrance. In this manner his allu-
sion to Lord Melbourne as "The Arch Me-
diocrity," has not been forgotten, any more
than his mock respectful reference to a well-known
annalist—(according to some more vo.lumineus than
luminou,)—as "Mr. 'Wordy the Historian." Neither
is his epithet for Italicised Writers, that of "The
Forcible Feeble:," lost to recollection, any more than
his calling the Derby " The Blue Ribbon of the
Turf," or his designating Hansard "The thinciad of
Politici." Not unfrcqueutly, moreover, the sparkling
sentence will be found accompanied by some
other of a more sober complexion
thoughtful. and sententious. What can be finer
in this respect, than that remark in " Conipgsby"
(B. VII, c. 2.), " Lire is too short to be little," or
than that passage in " Sybil," where he terms the
youth of a nation " the trustees of posterity ? " If
we were required, however, to adduce a crowning
testimony of our author's capacity as a wit—we
should at once refer to that suggestion in " Tancred "
vt iooind
othat h
the attribute
t ow
oi tfhgarlalnidt its vastness,grandeur,
either
(. • sae c 10) with which he follows up his lamenta-
tion
architectural. It
" a great city after a reflection some-
OMITS
what similar to h'
Rome of Conquest, Athens IV., 1), as Paris of Manners, London of Commerce,
even now investing Faith. Whereupon, alluding o Art, and Jerusalem of
to the possibility of
of majesty, he write
ad-
ministration of justice dates
ereasw banged
Bever achieved a great victory our
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‘si The purest
tion of Macclesfield.
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Than
this we know scarcely any more delightful example
of wit—an example perfect of its kind, being
ductive of precisely that surprise which is declared pro_toe
essential by the more subtle among our metaphysicians.
In addition to the various writings already enume-
rated, there are others which, from internal evidence,
tend to prove that Disraeli has given play to his
industry under the shadow of the anonymous. He
has long been regarded as the reputed author of The
Letters of Runnymede, of The Gallomania, and of
The Spirit of Whiggism, together with other papers,
which would seem to reveal his skill as a pate.
phleteer. Any further development of these
politico-literary capacities, it is to be feared,
is hopeless, now that the writer of fiction for
the people has been nominated a Privy Councillor by
his Sovereign. The novelist has thrown aside the
pen which was the wand of his divination, and has
taken up instead the red box of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. And while his literary admirers may
have been regretting with Horace—
" Cur perrdet niche fistula cum ly far
his Parliamentary, followers were listening on the
30th of April, 1852—the year in which Benjamin
Disraeli became a Cabinet Minister, and in
which he was thereupon elected for the second time
representative of the county of Buckingham—to his
first, and, in many respects, masterly Financial State-
ment. Leader of the House of Commons, under the
Derby Administration, the Right Hon. Gentleman is
one of the most popular members in that the popular
branch of Parliament. His interest is with the tyro
.and his sympathy with the aspirant. As he has written
of his own Sidonia" he liked to give ability of all
kinds its scope : nothing was more apt to make him
melancholy than to bear of persons of talent dying
without having their chance"—he might have;, written
of himself with truth, if not altogether without arro-
gance, according to the feeling generally entertained
in the Lower House of the Legislature.
Beginning life as the son of a secluded scholar, Ben-
jamin Disraeli has already in the bloom of his maturity,
by his own unassisted abilities, rendered himself so

fir distinguished among the public men of our gene-
ration as to become Leader of the English House of
Commons and, in many respects, the presiding intel-
lect in the councils of the British Government. To
the superficial this might appear to be the crowting
epoch of a career, marked throughout rather by its
successes than by its vicissitudes. The discerning,

however, must view it, on the contrary, as a com.:

mencement instead of a consummation. The man of
letters who has fixed the attention of his contempo-

raries may now secure to himself the grateful re-
membrance of posterity—by revealing sagacity as a
statesman and patriotism as an administrator.
Master bis position, he has at this moment within

his grasp a rare and gulden opportunity.

Kt VT.

HIYMARKET "THEATRE.

-- -
A piece of unadulterated, extravagant, screaming fun
was produced on Saturday evening under the extraordinary
appellation of Keeley worried by
.Buckstone. The ecstacy of
the audience was unmeasured, being testified by continuous
roars of laughter from beginning to end. The intense mini_
calitv of the thing re.ulted from the oddity of Keeley and
BuAstone personating themselves, appearing in their own
individualities on the stage. The former is the victim, the
latter the tormentor. The victim being aggrieved by the
vigilant
imposition of a fine, for politely inquiring how much the
prompter—a great authority, in the French sense of the,
semi-hermitical solitude in
word, behind the scenes—would charge for being called a muff
secedes from a theatre, and gives himself up to the enjoy-
ment of a species of pastoral and
Brornpton-square. Where Mrs. Keeley is we do not for a
moment dare to inquire; but if she does not appear, Mr.
Buckstone does, and dire is the uproar lie contrbivyeas ;
love to a lady out of Mr. Keeley's windows—respecting
which what is Mrs. Keeley possibly to think ?_altering the
conveyance
whole disposition of Mr. Keeley's furniture in the most
ohfer in—and the' a fly,
in
broker's•mandike fashion; flinging things out of window,
seo,, Reelev's
which causes Mr. Keeley to be summoned
t%lerrkeadaesr J
police; causing that small but intrepid comedian to
that he has been struck deaf—" i poor deaf devil'" I,‘
making believe to speak and not utter a word ; and, fin----/
being challenged by the justly-indignant Keeley to ally,
themselves le Bleirt. tight a
which l oncecei s
tl(,:reili- be r iodugtes —i d
em,
te
i% so t
witness to be, a noted old cock-pheasant 1 principal
Jacob these
:errtri satns ,t, withsus t
at
ihne addit
glorious stage frolic, which web elieve has imagine. This
Mr. Mark Lemon and Mr. Webs:er, must bean concocted b
preciated, and is sure to attract crowds' be seen to be y
to the Haymarket. for Dart, aP-
y an evening

HER MAJFSTY's THEATRE—Her Roy
the Duchess of Kent, attend Suffield, Lady
presence. ier iai.jieesrt
Fanny Howard,pSerirfoGraleoarngeeeo:tir,
ed____7___........bv
Lady
al Highness
and Lord James Murray,
Saturday evening, with her honoured the
the Duchess of Cambridge
high-
ness the Princess Mar ', ccompanied by her Royal yof Cambridge,also h tired the
theatre with her presence
..
Their Loyal
Ilighnesses were attended " this
Occasion.
. ~_
YR'soyTalhgittene°sas
Royal Highness the D by the Baron lineseheck%l?-!!
uke of Cambridge,attended by Major
the HAI. James Macdonald Amongst the
noble and distinguished individuals
also presensta.ing
the theatre
were the following :—HisGreco alsokeviof
we .13
Ili gton and
the Marquis of Ailesbur 2theßighttnell-n. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer and BlraYß. Disraeli, the Duke and Dnchess
of Bedford, the Dukeand Duchessf Leinster, the Duke of
Cleveland, the M .
d the Marquis of
arquis of Clanricar e,
the Earl and
Donegal, the AI h arc ioness of conYnhgalu,
I
Countess of Stamford. the Earl of Lonsda e, the Earl
the Earl
and Countess of Glengall. the Earl of Shelburne,
Mountcharle, r he Secre
the Right Hon. t -
iscount Anson,
tary for Foreign Affairs, and the Countess of Malmesbury,
Lord Ward, B.r.c. ,
8-PARE
•
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN:, REGENT
The second exhibition of American flowers took place at these
consequence of the unfavourable
gardens on Saturday. In conseeious
,i- days of exhibition, the
state of the weather on the
previous
attended than is usually
gardens on this occasion wenre,ays. The great attraction of
the case upon the Americars,a
was the collection of rhododen-
the day, in respect of flowers, not yet fully blown, were
drons and azaleas, which,The fragrance of the different flowers
exceedingly beautiful
in bloom was delicious.
Amongst the company present were
the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Stam-
ford and Warrington _
Lieutenant-General Sir John Doveton,
Lady March, Sir
I. Murchison, Major-General Bourchier,
phester, Lord Blaney, Lady Desert, Lady
the Bishop ''
of
ordShelburne, Sir Charles Slingsbv, Lieute-
Adela Norton, Lir _.
E•Bowater, Hon. Lady Hislop, *Sir James
nant-General S•
' Lushingto, , B:.c.
r MR. ROEBUCK. •--Our readers will
ILLIsEss °-
with a measure of regret which cannot exceed that
learn °
with which we slake the melancholy announcement,—that
Mr. Roebuckanxiety is so seriously ill as to create no small
the partof his friends. Under the most
the result on ,
as to
circumstances, itis to be feared that there is little
favourable cir
he Honourable Gentleman ever again being
probability of t .
or public
pro- e the active duties of Parliamentary
able to resume
to bean visited with a pare-
a He has, we are sorry say,
life- which, at any rate for the present, entirely
Iy tic affection,
unfits him for attending
to business of any kind.—Advertiser,
SELOUs ' PICTURE OF TUE GREAT EXHIBITIO'N.—
deserved well a vivid reproduction
The opening ceremony .
this
painted • tthe •
linnier's art, amid in picture, a in-
by the
f Messrs. Lloyd, Brothers, and Co., all is accomplished
stthsantceco°uld be desired. A group of nearly 100 illustrious
persons is set before us as palpably as on the memorable Ist
of May. As a painting, few will deny their weed of appro-
bation; but probably more will look critically at the por-
traits, and these, we Tenture to affirm, will bear their strict-
est scrutiny. All have been taken at sittings kindly given,
from her Majesty downwards, and the result is not alone a
tine work of art, but a memorial valuable because truthful.
The Master and Wardens of the Mercers' Company
have invited General Sir Harry Smith to dine with them, at
their hall, early in the ensuing month.
ArPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We
We are enabled to announce that the preliminaries are
arranged for a matrimonial alliance between the Right Hon.
H. Labouchere, M P
---- o and the amiable and accomplished
1 Lady Mary Howard, youngest sister of the Duchess of
' §l4eil4lld.