The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

A HAND SOME APOLOGY.

(From theTExaminer,)
We have received the following communica-
tion :
" Will you allow me to correct an error into
which the writer of the article in to-day's Examiner,
entitled ' Mr. Disraeli and President Lincoln,' has
fallen. He comments with great severity on a pas-
speech, alluding, as the con-
sage in Mr. Disraeli's
text clearly shows, to Lord George Bentinck, under
the idea that the speaker was referring to Sir
Robert Peel.
"The only ground for the error is that the death
of Bentinck is spoken of es occurring twelve years
instead of fifteen years ago. But this inaccuracy is
corrected by the description given in the speech
of the condition of the Tory party at the time al-
luded to, which answers very well for 1848, but is
entirely inapplicable for 1851. I should have
thought, moreover, that Mr. Disraeli's antecedent-
would' have precluded the idea that he could dwell
on the memory of
peel with edmiration and aree
is most appropriateterm,on.' The last ter, however,
when we recollect his intimate relations to Lord
George Bentinck.--I am, &c.,
"4th July, 1863." " A. C.
Our correspondent is right, and we desire all we
said, under the impression that Mr. Disraeli's elfu.
sion was to Sir Robert Peel, to be considered as
unsaid. The fault, however, is not solely ours. It
wa
sMr.
mistake.
Bentinck in the eminent man of great sagacity and
great beart. The
Disraeli'sWe cou exaggeration that caused our
id not recognise Lord George
description sufficiently fitted Sit
Robert, and the circumstances referred to were cir-
cumstances of the Tory party under his leadership,
but anterior to the date mentioned. •
The idea never
struck us that any other Tory statesman of recent
times could be spoken of in such exalted terms of
praise. Nor was our false impression corrected by
the recollection of Mr. Disraeli's former judgments,
as "A. C." thinks it should have been, for we are
certainly not unprepared for inconsistency in Mr.
Distraeli's sentiments. The profession of affection
was indeed rather startling, but Bacen tells us that
" good things are never seen in their full beauty
till they turn their backs and be passing away;"
and Shakspeare to the same effect,_
,c . . . . It so falls out,
That what we have we prize not to be worth,
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost,
Why then we rack the value ; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us."

vebeen revived
Ut.cleniably there was a time when Mr. Disraeli
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hthought i well t and
gkhitnhdaly of Sir Robert
after party differences had been closed by the tomb
were wrong, misled by Mr. Disraeli's pre-
posterous estimate of a very mediocre politician,
wßhuost we
ep
place in memory is not of a magnitude to
dispense with name. We say this without meaning
any disparagement of a nobleman who had teeny
high qualities commanding the respect of opponents,
as welt as winning the love of followers; but emi-
nent statesmanship is another matter.
The Sun has lectured us very severely for our
mistake, and we have profited by its lesson, as it
will see, in the spelling of Mr. Disraeli's name,
which, for want of knowing better, and not in
"spiteful pertinacity," we have spelt D'lsraeli, as
bis father spelt it before him. We did not know the
offence that lay in the D'.

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enmity,
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cherished
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iussraweliit,h.et We have repeatedly
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Mr. Disraeli's party for its
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seized
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ictii over-bitterness
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of sand. _

Our lecturer also rebukes us for faults of man -;er,
homely or familiar figures
and expressions, to which
we cannot reply without repeating our offence. We
must drive our ass in our
own way,lor nog.od ever
came of counsel taken in that business. Or
if the metaphor of the ass be teo vulgar for eery
polite, let us resort to another, and avow that we do
not pique ourselves on dancing our bear to genteel
tunes, but to any that are appropriate.

Mr. FRITII is vvorkin
_______________ •
the wedding of the Prince
and diligently at his Faure of
and Princess of Wales. The
Prince gave hint a sitting on Tuesday last.
DR. COLE/180'S LAST 1--`6 Why is it impossiEe
for two Bishops to row in the same boat ?" " Because
they aro in different seas (sees) 1" Not bad—for Colenso.