The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-27

these fears. II Is for this purpose that this
gathering is to take place. Alas for them,
the people have seen the lions name, and no
report in putting on the lambs skin will de-
oeive again. The mask has been removed,
treason has been detected, war and bloodshed
seen in the distance, and no soft words will
give confidence to mild phrases, and keep in
ignorance the people, after seeing what they
have seen, and hearing what they have heard.
Disraeli and the English Aristocracy.
NUMEROUS as are the humiliations to which the
aristocracy Of England have of late been sub
jeoted, we can conceive none more mortifying
than their present position in being led by Mr..
Benjamin Disraeli, the younger. Formerly
they were constrained to submit to the yoke
of Canning; but he was man Of transcendant
ability, and had been always consistent having
entered political life as follower of Pitt, and
remained 80 to the last though he had the
merit Of becoming Liberal in his age, as that
great statesman really was in the outset Of his
career. Next they were led by Peel; but Peel
was the son of millionaire, and became popu-
lar also as he advanced in years. But Disraeli,
the son Of an old Spanish cigar seller, possesses
no such merits. Entering life as an attorneys
clerk, he was long noted for his ultra repub-
lican, even regicidal opinions. The noted
Scotch money gambler, Joseph Hume was
the first individual under whose sanction he
attempted to gain entrance into Parliament,
and, it must be added, that possessing mind
Of oongenial baseness, he remained on the best
of terms with that vile political pedlar to the
last. But Daniel O'Connell, under whose patron
age he next attempted to enlist himself, dis
covered his true worth, and contemptuously
cast him off in terms Of indignant dis
dain which will never die. Suddenly veer-
ing round to the opposite extreme, Disraeli
then entered Parliament as a red-hot Tory
through the medium Of the wealth of Wynd-
ham Lewis, Esq, whose companion he became,
In two or three successive Parliaments, as
representative of the borough of Maidstone, in
the county of Kent. Mr.. Lewis dying shortly
afterwards Mr.. Disraeli succeeded in OBTAIN
ing possession of the heart and the vast for
tune of Mrs. Lewis. thus raising himself to
position Of great wealth and influence.
1t must we repeat, be mortifying in the
extreme for the British nobility to be led by
an adventurer such as this, for he has not
even the merit of being faithful to his creed
having renounced Judaism when it stood in
his way, just as mechanically as he abandoned
his former republican and regicdal opinions
No one now processes to be a more devout
believer in the Thirty mine Articles of the
Church of England than Mr.. Benjamin Dis
raeli, and no one, we will venture to say, more
intensely laughs in his sleeve at their absur-
dity, if indeed he understands then at all.
His attitude at the outset Of the late Parlia-
ment&ry session we were disposed to admire
inasmuch as he undoubtedly possessed the
right Of remaining in office against the hostile
decisions of Parliament not chosen by him
self, until the supplies of the year were voted;
and the conduct of the Queen in sustaining
him in this respect was perfectly constitutional
and justifable. But nothing can exceed his
rapacity and meanness of spirit in retaining
Office in the face of the majorities after the
supplies were voted, and the majority will in
all probability have bitter reason to regret the
unconstitutional support they have since
given him.
Disraeli's conduct in opposing the reform o.
the Irish Church is, of course, wholly hypo-
critical. At heart he cares just as little for
| the Irish establishment as he does for the
English; and it is notorious that he is of no
religious principle at all, though of late we see
it stated in an English newspaper, that he has
been pleased to give in his adherence to Uni
tarianism. Mr.. Benjamin Disraeli's religion,
however, is Of that accommodating principle
which suits best with the condition of his
breeches pocket, and If Mahomedanism or
profession of the doctrines of the late
Joanna Southcote were more likely to
fill that receptacle he would undoubtedly
adopt them. Imbued with rapacity, Mr. Dis
raeli will unquestionably retain possession of
Office and its emoluments until he is signally
kicked out, even although he has to sup
port the enormity of sustaining a Church
maintained by money extorted from the poor
est and most suffering people under the sun,
and of upholding bishops and other such
church dignitaries who are to be found at
every watering place in England, never visit
ing their hocks at all unless for the purpose of
fleeing, or rather iaying them.
But we trust there is still virtue enough
remaining in England to defeat this nefarious
design, and that the new constituencies which
have just been called into being will have pa
trotism efficient to induce them to stand sloof
from bribery and resist Mr.. Disraeli's "No-
Popery" cry. All depends upon their honesty