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LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1854.

WWESTMINSTER ABBEY or VICTORY.—
v ir NELSON at the BATTLE of ST. VINCENT.—LEGGATT,
HAY W A R D, and LEGGATT beg to inform their patrons and friends,
that T. Jones Barker's last grand historical PICTURE of NELSON
RECEIVING the SWORDS from the vanquished officers on the
quarter-deck of the SAN JOSEF, on the memorable 14th of Feb-
ruary, 1797, at the Battle of St. Vincent, is NOW ON VIEW at
their Gallery, 79, Cornhill.
Court Circular, Nov. 24, 1853.—Windsor.—" Messrs. Leggatt had
the honour of submitting to her 'Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Barker's painting of Nelson receiving the swords of
the officers on the quarter-deck of the San Josef after the battle of
St. Vincent."
In cons ,quence of the unfavourable state of the weather, the pic-
ture is exhibited by gas-light, and may be viewed from 10 till 6.

CONVEYANCE OF HER MAJESTY'S MAILS BETWEEN
SCRABSTER PIER (THURSO) AND THE ORKNEY ISLANDS.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, lath Jan., 1854.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
t!ie 14th March next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
for the Conveyance of her Majesty's MAILS between

SCRABSTER PIER, THURSO, and
STROMNESS, in the ORKNEY ISLANDS.

All Tenders to be made in the Printed Form provided for the pur-
pose, which, with the Conditions of the Contract, may be obtained
at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an
agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Malls,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by
a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 5001. for the due perform-
ance of the Contract.

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London : Published by the Proprietors, Atkinson and Company,
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A NEW DISCOVERY IN TEETH.
MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
FLEET-STREET, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW
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wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth,
as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest observer ;
they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to
any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the ex-
traction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and pre-
serve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation
and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mas-
tication.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
1,11. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
,octor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
r,linburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
codety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &C., &C.
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and.disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
Incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its consequenc es may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
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of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
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treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and Ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
have been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT
should first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF-PRESERVATION.
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
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ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES
AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
THE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Languages—FlLtieth Edition.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and
Cases.
New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the
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THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
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mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol-
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prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L.
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PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
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PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties.
The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole
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pRIVATE TUITION,—A Married Clergyman,
without parochial duty, and whose time is wholly devoted
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health and intellectual imarovement the greatest care and attention
are essential. The highest references can be given.—Address,
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HUNGARIAN
PROMENADE CONCERTS.
- Is.—ROYAL M RIONETTE THEATRE,
Adelaide-street, West Strand—Every EVENING, at Eight, by the
renowned HUNGARIAN B kND, whose performances have created
such intense interest throughout the leading European cities. The
programme is varied nightly, and includes the finest compositions of
ancient and modern masters, as well as Hungarian and other na-
tional Melodies, Mazurkas, Waltzes, Galops, and Quadrilles. Ka-
lozdy, conductor. Soloists—Flugelhorn, Horanyi ; clarionette, M.
Augarde; piano, Miss J. Warman. Vocalists—The Misses
Brougham. Morning Performance, Wednesday and Saturday, at
Three.

PROGRAM= FOR THE DAY.

PAIIT I.

Overture (Zampa), Rossini ; ()nett (The Fireside of our Home),
the Misses Brougham; Solo, pianoforte (Selections from Lucia),
Miss Julia Warman ; Quadrille (Salon), Kalozdy ; Duett (I would
that my Love), the Misses Brougham ; Solo, clariouette, M. Angatcle ;
Galop (Times), Kalozdy ; Cavatina (Ernani), Verdi.
JULLIEN'S AMERICAN QUADRILLE.
PART 11.
Selection (I Lombardi), Verdi; Solo, flugelhoni, Herr HOraDyl;
Song (Coming through the Rye), Miss J. Brougham; Solo, piano-
forte (Cracovienne), Miss Julia Warman ; Polka (Cadogan), Ka-
lozdy ; Song (the Swiss Girl), Miss E. Brougham; Original aria,
solo, Herr Horanyi ; Duett (Greeting), the Misses Brougham ;
Mazurka (Heroique), Kalozdy ; March (Hongreise), Kalozdy.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.

By the Royal Mail steamer Americsi we have ad-
vices from New York to the 3d, Boston. -to the 4th,
and telegraphic accounts from New- York, via
Halifax to the evening of the sth inst. The Ame-
rica has brought $145,433 in specie.
The Royal Mail steamer Africa arrived at New
York on the 30th ult., and the screw steamer Alps
at Boston on the 30th, both from Liverpool.
The Secretary of the Treasury had
.given notice
that he would redeem, up to the Ist of June next,
57,000,000 of United States' Stocks on the follow-
ing terms :
"1. The par value of amount specified in each cer-
tificate.

"2. A premium on the stock of the loan authorised
by the act of July, 1846, redeemable Nov. 12, 1856, of
6 per cent. ; on the stock of the loan authorised by the
act of 1842, of 1512 per cent. ; on the stock of the loans
authorised by the acts of 1847 and 1848 of 2a per cent. ;
and on the stock of the loan authorised by the act of
1850, commonly called the Texan indemnity, of 10 per
cent.

"3. Interest on the par of each certificate from Ist
of January, 1854, to the date of the receipt and settle-
ment at the Treasury, with an allowance .of one day's
interest in addition."

By this steamer we have very brief accounts of
the loss of the Liverpool and New York packetship
Staffordshire on Bland Rock, south of Sea Island,
on the 30th ult. The first and second. mates and
17 seamen reached Cape Sable. The third mate,
boatswain, and 12 others were picked. up and
landed at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Capt. Richard-
son and the remainder (about 180 persons) went
down in the wreck immediately after' striking.
, The Staffordshire was built by 11I‘Kay in June
1851, for Enoch Train and Co's line of Liverpool
and Boston packets. She was a no'ble ship of
1,817 tons, and one of the finest vessels of, the line.
The loss to the underwriters will be heavy. The
number of passengers on board was 146, children
included, all of whom were lost. The Staffordshire
is insured, as near as we can find out, for between
$90,000 and $lOO,OOO in Boston and. New York.
Her cargo was very large, and is estimated to have
been worth over $300,000. A large portion of it
was on Canadian account, and was probably in-
sured in England.
All the Germans who were arrested. for an in-
tended
attack upon M. Bedini at Cincinnati had
been released, the conduct of the police having
been considered outrageous.
Advices from Boston report great disasters to
shipping on the east coast, owing to very severe
weather. A large number of vessels had been
either wrecked completely or dismasted. and driven
ashore. The most melancholy portion of this sad
intelligence is that a great number of lives are
known to have been lost, and it is believed that
some vessels had gone down with all on. board. A
letter dated Halifax, the 3d inst., says,---
"A violent gale prevailed here on the 2id ult., and
morning of the 23d, sinking and destroying a number of
vessels at the wharves in the harbour. The loss is com-
puted at 20,0001. On the 26th arrived the steamer Mer-
lin, from New York, with the loss of boats. Saw a
large ship south-west of Sambro, dismast(A, her deck
being even with the water."

The steamship Oalifornia had arrived at New
Orleans, with advices from San Francisco to the 6th
ult., and $1,167,000 on specie and freighfi. Mining
accounts were favourable. The 'Utah Indians were
committing depredations on the southorn parts of
the State. The market, since the sailing of the last
steamer, had been quite active and purchases for
the interior heavy. Rates generally remained un-
changed. The steamer Illinois, with tllo mails and
treasure, had sailed for New York with_ $1,250,000
in gold.

At Venezuela yellow fever prevailed with great
fatality among the shipping. The mew crop of
coffee was more than usually abundant. Sales
were made at 11ic. Hides, 14c. per 11).
We have late advices from Havannala, but they
are without interest. The following is a decree in
relation to the suppression of the slave trade, from
the Captain-General to the Governors and Lieu-
tenant-Governors of the island :
" As in the transfer of command from one authority
to another, those engaged in the African slave trade
will take advantage of this circumstance of doubt and
perplexity which exists among the inferior authorities as
to whether the new supreme authority w ill adopt mea-
sures more or less rigorous than others with regard to
the suppression of this traffic, it is my duty to inform
you that I shall observe the laws in relation thereto, and
shall exercise them upon any person who may engage
in this prohibited trade. I shall continue them in
force, and charge their observance upon you, as
also all other instructions that my worthy prede-
cessors have enjoyed—the treaties of Spain, of the
23d of September, 1817, and the 28th of June, 1835,
relating to the slave traffic, and the observance both in
the spirit and the letter of the penal law of the 4th of
March, 1845. But, as the total extinction of a traffic is
difficult along these vast coasts, that is supported by the
strength and vigour of interested parties,. and as we have
seen the inefficacy of the employes of Our faithful and
powerful ally, in its numerous cruisers, and of our own,
and as recent returns have shown a great mortality
among slaves, it seems to us indispen sable that some
substitute should be introduced. I therefore authorise
the introduction of free Indian labourers, Asiatics, and
Spaniards, since it is the will of the G, wernment that,
without exception, but, at the same tii ne, without any
privilege, all the undertakings and co ntracts that are
under the guardianship of the Goverirment, should be
favoured."
The New York stock market was firm, with a
strong tendency upwards. New York Central
Bonds were quoted at 931 ; Michigan Southern,
974 ; Nicaragua. Transit, 28 ; Reading, 79i ; and
Erie, 794. Money Was easy and in good demand,
at 9to 12 per cent. Exchange on London 9 to
9a premium. The cotton
market continued
and prices declined to dull,
cent per pound on the
week for middlings and grades below middling.
The Africa's advices had no effect en the market.
The sales for the week ending December 31
amounted to 6,596 bales, of which 1,355 were for
export, 556 on speculation., and 2,567 in transit.

LATER BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK, J. 5.
Arrivals of specie from California since Tuesday,
3d,' $1,250,000.
News per steamer, via Halifax, was published at
New York on Wednesday, the 4th, at three o'clock

p.m.
The last news at New Orleans from Europe was
per Canada, on Wednesday evening, the 4th.
Dates from New Orleans at New York were to
the evening of the 4th. Wednesday's cotton sales,
6,000 ; market firm. Tuesday 10,000 ; middling
was quoted at 9k• Receipts, 540,000 decrease.
Freights to Liverpool, ie.
The statement in the New York Herald relative
to the Mexican treaty concluded by Mr. Gadsden
is utterly unfounded.
General Cass 's resolutions on the Clayton and
Bulwer treaty were to be brought up in the Senate
on Tuesday, the 10th, when a fierce debate was
expected.
The Governor gives a good account of the finan-
cial condition of Pennsylvania, the funded and
floating debts being both reduced, and $500,000
paid to the sinking .
fund. He is opposed to the
proposed sale of public works.
The steamer Empire City, from Havannah and
New Orleans, went ashore on the coast of New
Jersey.
Arrived—Steamers Wardell and Alps ; ships
Patrick Henry and Orient, from Liverpool.

NAPLES.—Letters from. Naples yesterday state the
suspension of the mere-trade firm of G. and G. Buono,
jun, Their liabilities are supposed to amount to about
40 000/ , and the event has caused one or two small
failures in London. The failure of an exchange dealer
was also announced, but only for a small sum, princi-
pally in connexion with transactions in French stocks
And abareo.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI.*

( From the Press.)
A biography of a man in the prime of life, extending
to nearly seven hundred pages, and sold for no less a
sum than sixteen shillings, would argue that its subject
was a very remarkable person. If a panegyric, he must
have many friends ; if an attack, he must clearly be a
formidable opponent. If we cuuld suppose " the intel-
ligent foreigner," so often quoted of late, to be quite ig-
norant of our world, we might fancy him, under the
circumstances, exclaiming, " Who is this Benjamin Dis-
raeli, whose deeds, while yet living, can fill so bulky a
tome, and whose name is the text of so many articles in
newspapers and reviews ?"

It might be replied, in the first instance, that Mr.
Disraeli is an individual who, sixteen or seventeen years
ago, a trial of what is in a man, entered the House of
Commons, unknown, we believe, to any individual in it,
the humblest member of the Conservative party ; that
he is now the leader of the Conservative party in that
assembly ; that he has been for a time leader of the
House of Commons itself, and conducted its proceedings
with dignity, temper, and general approbation. It
might be added that, during the whole of this period, it
has never been pretended that he ever forfeited a pledge
or ever deserted his party, while, during the same inter-
val, there is not one of his rivals who has not changed
both his politics and his connections.
But then it is urged by his assailants that there is a
preceding period of his life when his conduct was not so
staid, consistent, and methodical, but much the reverse.
This period would extend, so far as we can collect, from
his twentieth to approaching his thirtieth year. The
researches of his assailants have made us all familiar with
incidents which in any other man's life would have been
forgotten, or have never emerged from obscurity. Every-
thing in this man's life is ferreted up and mapped out.
Who is not acquainted with the newspapers, the novels,
the wanderings of his youth ; of his fierce struggle to
emerge from the crowd ; of his sharp correspondence and
his ready controversy ; of his fantastic politics and party
schemes ; of his feud with O'Connell and his feud
with the Whigs ; of his superfluous energy to get into
Parliament, when, probably, had he known a single
human being, he might have entered it without difficulty,
and been thanked for his pains ? All this has been de-
scribed over and over again by malignant, but superficial,
men, who fancy they are annihilating him, and is now
'reproduced in the ponderous tome before us, the avowed
manifesto of the Puseyite party, as if all these wildnesses
were circumstances which affected the moral character
of the individual they assail. We confess we have long
I looked upon all these strange adventures in a very dif-
I ferent spirit. We feel obliged to the detractors of a
man of genius that they should have accumulated
, with so much industry these records of his early years.
They might otherwise have been lost to us. With us
the contemplation of this early life amazes the spirit and
touches the heart. We perceive only the restlessness of
a creative mind, the struggles of a strong and solitary
will, the impatience of unrecognised power, the waste
of enormous energy without a guide, all that turbulence of
genius which is so strange and rare ; and we have no
doubt that the day will arrive when this period of the

life of Disraeli will be pondered over with as tender an
interest as we now muse over the fitful or fiery youth of
a Rousseau or an Alfieri.
If a fairy bad accumulated upon the cradle of a child
every spell which would blast success in life, it would
seem she need only have collected the accessories of the
life of the hero of this literary and political biography.
He was the child of a recluse student without a friend
or a connection : he was born of a race which was then
considered infamous : he had not what are esteemed the
advantages of a conventional education : he was destined
to a laborious and obscure profession. Out of this mess
he comes forth a Minister of State, a transcendent ora-
tor, a writer of unexampled grace, a varied and accom-
plished scholar, and with a greater personal following
than any man of the day.
He has achieved even a greater triumph. His writings
have absolutely changed not only the opinion of this
country, but of Europe, respecting the Jewish race.
The imputation which was considered infamous is now
held to be hononrable. There is no subject in which, in
ten years, so great a revolution of sentiment has occur-
red. At the last contested election for Buckingham-
shire, Baron Rothschild voted against Mr. Disraeli.
This appears to us to be the most flagrant act of ingrati-
tude on record, and makes us individually repent the
votes which we have in our time given for Jewish eman-
cipation.
But then it is said that, in rising to this eminence,
Mr. Disraeli has been an Ishmael, and that his hand
has been against every man, and especially, according
to this book, "every distinguished man." We once
heard Mr. Disraeli say that, throughout the many com-
bats and controversies in which he had figured, he had
never been the first assailant ; and, from the remarkable
frankness which distinguishes his conversation, we be-
lieve him. For " all distinguished men," however, in
the book before us, read " Sir Robert Peel." On this
head we may perhaps have as much right to speak as
the compilers of the biography, or any other libellers of
Mr. Disraeli. The writer of the present article was a
follower of Sir Robert Peel, and one of those who did
not desert that great statesman in his fallen fortunes.
It was unfortunate for Sir Robert Peel that Mr. Disraeli
was not included in his arrangements in 1841, for, if so,
Sir Robert would probably have died Prime Minister of
England. The omission, however, was not unfortunate
for Mr. Disraeli ; for, with that tenacity of purpose and
fidelity to his friends which distinguish him, he would
have devoted all his energies to his chief, and never,
perhaps, have been a chief himself. The common opinion
that Peel did not appreciate Disraeli is a mistake. The
present writer is aware that Sir Robert wished to offer
office to Mr. Disraeli in 1841. This was prevented
by the political parasites by whom it was the
weakness of the great minister to be surrounded, and we
owe to this circumstance those immortal sketches of
the Rigbys, the Tadpoles, and the Tapers, which Beau-
marchais never surpassed. At the same time we must
express our protest against the cant that a person who
believes his claims improperly slighted is not to make
his power felt by the leader who slights him. One thing
is quite certain, that every man under such circumstances
will do so who can ; and if few succeed it is only be-
cause their inability proves the discrimination of the
minister. Notwithstanding the fierce struggles of 1845
and 1846, Sir Robert Peel lived to appreciate Mr. Dis-
raeli, and, strange to say, his last public act was to cheer
in the House of Commons the author of his downfal. It
was when Mr. Disraeli closed the debate on the famous
Palmerston discussion. This is not rumour or hearsay,
for the writer of this article sat next to Sir Robt. Peel
on that occasion, A few days after, when the horrible
tragedy was over, amid a group of mourning disciples
we heard Mr. Gladstone urge as a consolation, " Peel
died at peace with all mankind. He even lived to cheer
Disraeli."

There is one great error into which public writers on
Mr. Disraeli are apt to fall. They attribute his posi-
tion solely to those qualities which are obvious to the
multitude, and fancy they are making very shrewd ob-
servations when they inform the world " that he is used,
but not trusted ;" that he is "a necessary instru-
ment, without whom his associates would do if
they could ;" that he is tolerated by them, " and not
cherished." Now, having lived a long while in the
House of Commons with Mr. Disraeli, though latterly
in a hostile camp, and also having had many social op-
portunities of forming a just opinion on this subject, we
must express our belief that the present influence of Mr.
Disraeli is owing not so much to his public as to his pri-
vate life. If any of the mortifying vicissitudes which
have occurred of late years to Lord Palmerston were
to happen to Mr. Disraeli, we verily believe that,
were he to retire below the gangway, there would
be seventy or eighty men of the best blood and
the highest character in England who would accom-
pany him. Mr. Canning was famous for his following,
which he hardly deserved, for he once disbanded and
deserted them, but still his personal friends ultimately
carried him through. Mr. Canning never had half the
personal following of Mr. Disraeli.
Lord Lyndhurst is considered not a mean judge of
character. He was the first of our leading men who
brought forward Mr. Disraeli, and there has subsisted
between them a confidential friendship of upwards of
twenty years' duration. Lord George Bentinck was
not a man who could be practised upon by a sycophant
or an intriguer. His manly and somewhat blunt nature
recoiled from glozing, and he detected in a moment,
and never pardoned, the man who was not straight-
forward. Yet it is well known that the feelings of
Lord George Bentinck to Mr. Disraeli were those
of entire devotion. Lord Derby is a very clever
man—perhaps the cleverest man in the country. His
quickness of perception is unrivalled, and he is not em-
barrassed with any inconvenient degree of sensibility.
He is said, too, to be very proud, and not a little pre-
judiced. He was just the sort of man who would be
prejudiced against Mr. Disraeli, who had even attacked
the Government of which he was a member. It was
notorious in the House of Commons that this prejudice
existed. Yet the moment the untimely end of Lord.
George Bentinck brought Lord Derby and Mr. Di sraeh
together—what happened ? That which has happ.ented
eq
with every first-rate man who has become acquainl
with Mr. Disraeli, except, unhappily, Sir Robert Pee
i
Peel—
complete confidence and cordial regard. It s the
They
are bound to him by a sentiment of personal devo ion.
Now, this is not an effect to be produced by talents
alone, however brilliant. Sheridan could never do this,
nor even Mr. Burke. Mr. Canning had very great ad-
vantages. He was the hero of a then very powerful
University, and the brother-in-law of a duke ; but we
repeat, he had not the personal influence of the libelled
hero of the "Literary and Political Biography." They
are qualities superior to talents, and even genius, that
produce such an influence : a noble disposition which
attaches men, and in which all men irresistibly confide.
The " literary and political" libellers are very much

* The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli : A Literary and
Political Biography ; addressed to the New Generation. 1
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alarmed at the enthusiasm of the Oxford undergraduates
in favour of Mr. Disraeli. The cheers of Christ Church
Quad, appear to have disturbed the self-complacency of
some of their prime patrons. Now, the undergraduate
enthusiasm seems to us to be the most natural thing in the
world; nor can we be surprised that youth should sympa-
thise with one so capable of charming the imagination
of the " new generation." We were not present at the
Oxford triumph ; our fealty is pledged to another seat
of learning not le-$s renowned; but of this we feel per-
suaded, that Cambridge must be very much changed
since our time if the reception of Mr. Disraeli in the
Senate-house were less fervent than in the theatre, or
if St. John's and Trinity were to yield in the enthu-
siasm so much deplored in the college of which Mr.
Gladstone is a member.

If the object of the " Literary and Political Bi-
ography," and the sermons simultaneously preached
from its texts by the various Puseyite organs, be to
detach the Conservative party from Mr. Disraeli, we
predict an overwhelming failure. There are certain
politicians who are, no doubt, in a false position, and
who would perhaps not be grieved to resume one
more natural to them ; but they will not be per-
mitted to do so by preparing the way for the sacrifice of
Mr. Disraeli by systematic libels. He will outlive their
spite, or they will only be remembered in connection
with him like the heroes of "The Dunciad." The career
of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer is not closed :
we believe its brightest portion is in the future. We
have watched its wonderful vicissitudes with a deep in-
terest since our college days, when we read for the first
time " Contarini Fleming" with a glowing heart and a
kindling cheek. Its author was described as a writer,
and he is now one of the most popular, as he will cer-
tainly be the most enduring, author of the day : he was
coughed down in the House of Commons in his maiden
speech, and he lived to produce oratorical effects in the
same assembly which have never been equalled in our
time, and which we much doubt whether the eighteenth
century ever surpassed. He has only been driven from
power by a coalition against him of every man of talent
of every party in the house except his own, and that
coalition already is nauseous to the nation. We have
invariably observed that, whenever Disraeli has received
a check, it has only been the herald of a great advance ;
and that, when the world has believed him beaten, he
has always been on the eve of his greatest victories.