, 1880-05-09

now. the time will come when you wtllheaz me.
Here was "pluck,'' true "grit": and he wa
quite cool, too. OF his own discontinue h
said: "a failure is nothing. 1t may be de
served, or It may be remedied. In the first In
stance it brings self-knowledge; in the secon
it DEVELOPS new combination which may be tri
umphant" It was year and a half before he trie
again to get the ear OF Parliament, and No 20
til He became partisan OF Slr Robert reel
But when Peel deserted the Protectionists, Dis
I rneH deserted him and became his most bite
aud uncompromtsing opponent Revie~tn!
Pecl's history, he once said: ' I flnd that 10
between thirty and forty years, from the day!
| OF Mr.. Horner to the days Of Mr. Golden
Sir Robert Peel has traded on the idea:
| and intelligence of others. Ills life mas
been one great approprfa ton clause. III
| is q burglar of others intellect. There 1s nc
statesman who has committed political petit,
larceny on so great SCALE" He exhausted al
his vast resources OF nvectIve, wit, irony, sar-
| casm. and whitening ridcule in assaults upon
the great Minister, aud finally drove him. from
power. But in his biography Of Lord George
! Bentinck he does ample justice to his old polt-
| ical enemy. He, however, in that admirable
work notes a defect in the character OF Sir
Robert, which shows his strong appreciation Of
his own most distinguishing characteristic, i'm
agination. He says:
Thus gifted and thus accomplished. Sir Robert
Peel had great deficiency: he WIS without i'm,
aginadon. Wanting imagination he wanted
presclence. no one wis moro sagacious when
dealing with the circumstances before him; no
and accuracy. Ills Judgment 1 was stat fautlcss pro-
ylded he had not to deal with the future. !. e
He was 50 adroit that he could proon$F resist
seeing that often in the very triumph of bis
mRncuvres he found himself In an untenabe
position.
Dtsrs,elf also says Of Peel:
For so very clever man he was deficient in
the knowledge Of human nature. The PROSPER
GUS routine Of his youth wns not favorable to
the development of this faculty. 1t was never
Parliament it IS remarkable that Str Robert
Peel never represented a popular constituency
or stood contested election.
II is plain that in showing the deficiencies Of
Sir Robert, lack Of the imaginative faculty and
the knowledge Of human nature,-tho romaucist
and hero Of desperate struggles against sea
OF adverse circumstances feels that he is triple
armed in sthese respects. When, In 1852, the
Earl Of Derby came to the Premiership, Disracli
was made Chancellor Of the Exchequer; be was
q necessity to the Tory Administration, and
must be accepted whether or no. Douglas Jer-
rold, writing to q literary friend Of the event,
said:
1mnst congratulate you On the advent of the
new Chancellor Of the ExcheQuer. Tho Ht.-
OF letters. He has ink In his veins. The goose
quill-let gold and silver sticks twinkle as they
may-leads the House OF Commons.
But "he managed the finances as Ii figures
had always been his forte: and when he pre-
sented the annual budget he displayed re-
markable clearness and soundness that showed
how careful and effective study he had made
Of fiscal science"
It was during Dsraeli's "third term - as Chan
cellor 185T that he carried the great electoral
reform measure,-the Hohsehold-Sudrage bill.
To do this he disrupted the most naughty Tory
Cabinet that ever sat in Downing street, con-
verting to his views Lord Derby and the
Dukes OF Marlborough, Richmond, and |
and driving from office Lords
and Carnarvon and Gen. Peel |
Stealing Gladstone's thunder By that coup
d'etat, Disraeli made himself the hero
Of the hour, and was hailed as the bcne- !
factor Of England. 1t was after that great Min I
isterial and Parliamentary victory that he was |
made Prime Minister, succeeding Lord Derby, |
again solely because the Tory party could not I
do without him. A sense of justice compelled
his elevation. He had labored thirty years for
It, and it was proud day fnr the Jews when the
Ut their rnce was summoned by
the Queen. But it was humiliation to the
Tories, who consented because they must, and
humiliation to the naughty aristocraey. His
lold Of power, however, Was brief. Gladstone
ltd not have to wait year for his first revenge
He came to Office with many signs of a long |
'eign. He possessed splendid genius but
till he was no match, in temper, for his |
Tly adversary, Dlsraeljs leadership of
he Opposition was indeed matchless
By series OF Ingenous' assaults upon
he Ministerial policy he gradually disin-
esrated the Radical party, and finally gave
Gladstone his coup lie grace on his Irish Univer-
ity reform scheme. In one OF the great debates
II that measure DlsraelI shovel all his orntor-
cal power Of thirty years before. Turning upon
gladstone, he said:
You have now had four years at tTt; you have
espoiled churches: you have threatened every
~. You have examined into cverybody's afruirs. |
,ou have criticised every profession and vexcd
very trade. Nobody is certain OF his property;
obody is certain what duties be may have IL
erf0Tm Tomorrow.
The Cabinet was defeated and Gladstone re-
red. DIsraen was summoned to form Gov |
rnment but refused to encounter hostile
arliament. Gladstone resumed office and had
mother year Of it," but In 1874 was forced to
ppeal to the people. In that appea1 the Tories
chieved q triumph, and Disraeli again came to |
1e Premiership. Then followed his entry into
1e House of Lords rs Earl of Beaoonsfield, and
Is decoration with the Order OF the Garter,
Int baube most coveted by English nobles ,,
ow he purchased controlling interest in the !
lez Canal, acquired Cyprus, made the Queen I
impress Of India, and consummated the Treaty !
Berlin, are matters Of recent history. Scarce =
two years ago Disraolf was one of the most .
figures In that remarkable conclave c
!: the Prusslan Capital OF which Gortschakof OF | g
nssia and Bismarck OF Germany were men- | J
ers, where ho successfully asserted the author =
Of England In European nt1airs. But the other
" the people who had "we1comel him back to c
ngland with such demonstration us had not
zen seen since wellington returned from
aterloo" drove him from power vii hout sign =
remorse or the 'fatntcst scmbIance Of cmu- a
IN! And this is the popularity Of a man. ]
fly years Of hcrculcan brain effort, brief Il
rm ct dtazzng power, and then retirement to | q
Q ranks Of the common herd. IL
Justin Mccarthy in 1871 thus described Dis | +,
eli: =
tall man with stopped and rounded shoul- | T..
r8: peculiarly shaped head, fnst denudints it. | i,
II OF hair, but with the hnir thAt remains still "
ack us ever; q complexion Of dull brickdust: Il
luce puckcred up like m old mask or rs If the ii
enrcr Of tho face were always scrcwing up his
IS to whistle and never accomplished tic feat, t
Yes, there goes-old Dizzy" out Of office! i
no would have believed the muu who should "
We 50 prophcsicd Two months ago?