The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-07

4 Paxalloa Drawn Between Disraeh
and sydney emtth-
You could never divine what W.
ooming, only you might b 10lerably
sure t6at it would be srmething inge1-
idQs and Surprising. The curiosity Of
tlb audience Was thus always kept ON
q = alert,
,NoF WaD e merely novelty Of aIgu-
uient that might - looked for when
Lard Beacooo0e]d WaD On his legR. He
vQs really witty, aud his Wit had some
times strong family likeness to that Of
aman with whom he had nothing else
- oomm0n-we mean Sidney Smith.
Is sometimeo 1ashed upon you In q para
doxical epigram Or most unexpected
turn Of thought, or revelled in q success
sion Of droll similes. Sidney Smith, in
one Of his essays, describes the habits Of
the sloth, which, he say Q, ''walks sus-
pended, eats suspended, sleeps suspend
ed, in fact, passes its lite In suspense-
Just like . young clergyman dfstantly
related to q bishop" So MIR. Disraeli,
1t the close Of one Of his brilliant invec-
tives against Peel, exclaims: II have
confidence in the common sense Of our
countrymen, and believe they will not
hng endure the hockstering tyranny Of
the Treasury Beneh-those political ped
cheapest market, and sold us In the
dearest" sidney Smith declared on
ione occasion tnat, I'M spite Of all the the
ories about the descent of man, he
should persist in regarding himself a.
decidedly superi0rto 1.-THE blue ape with
out a tail" There is something exceed
ingly cOmical in this careful selection Of
the particular kind of ape with which
the witty Canon felt it safe to compare
himself. Lord Beaconsfield made fire.
Quent use of this article o. dwelling on
minute details when he wished to make
his adversary ridiculous. Here IL
specimen, from one Of the speeches
against Peel. He accuses Peel Of being
"a burglar of other mems ideas" and Of
havi g''found the Wings bathing, and
run away with their clothes" Nor was
this the worst of 1t; the Prime Minister
had cOndescented to borrow his policy
even from obscure ''pedants. "Why,
Sir, these are matters Of general nOtOTt-
ETY.. After the day that the right hon.
OraDle gentleman made the exposition
Of his schemes, q gentleman well-known
to the House. and learned in all the po-
litical secrets behind the scenes. met me
and said, We'll, what do you think Of
the chiefs pla," Not knowing exactly
what to say, but taking up phrase
which had been used in the House, I Oh
served. We'll, I suppose it is . great
and comprehensive plan.' 'Oh!' he re-
piled, we know all about 1t; it was Of
7ered to us. 1t was not his plan; it's
Popkin's plan.' And is England TO be-
governed by Popkin's plan? Will hego
30 theaonnfry with ta24 -
Lord Beaconsfeld also, like Sidney
Smith, loved sometimes to hug q dro1l
idea, and develop it through a series Of
illustrations. Everybody remembers
Sidney Smiths witty description of q
certain fat lady: "You might walk
around her to get up an appetite; or you
might people colony with her; or YOU
might read the Riot Act and dis
perse her." More picturesque, II not
quite SO comical, is Mr.. Disraeli's witty
description at Slough Of the collapse Of
the debate on the Indian policy Of the
Derby Government. in 1858. It has Of
ten been quoted, but will bear quoting
again: I'VE were all assembled; our
benches, with their serried ranks, SEEM
ed to rival those Of our rival opponents,
when suddenly there arose wall Of dis
tress-but not from rs. l can only hken
the scene to the mutiny OF the Bengal
army. Regiment after Regiment. corps
after corps, General after General, all
acknowledged that they could not
march through Coventry with her Maj
esty's Opposition. 1t was like convul-
sion Of Nature rather than any ordina-
ry transaction Of human life. l was re-
minded by It Of one Of those earthquakes
which take place in Calabria or Peru.
There wes rubbing murmur-a groan
"a shriek-a sound Of distant thunder.
No one knew whether 1t came from the
top or the hottom Of the house. There
was q rent, . issure In the ground, then
. village disappeared, then tall tower
| toppled down, and the whole Of the Op-
position benches became one great dis
solving view Of anarchy"
| Another Of the charms Of Lord Bea-
consfield's oEatory was his happy knack
| Of coming phrases which contained In
miniature . whole argument, or stereo'
typed some peculiarly Or characteris-
tic Of IN opponent. He denounced 9r:
Gladstone ~ ''penurious prodigei.
because he was obliged, % Chancellor
Oh t00 ESxCOeYUcE III AOtU SSsASoses0sA q
Government, to find money for the ex-
travagant and wasteful expenditure
which he Ut the same time condemned:
Beresford Hope will never he able to RID
himself Of the "Batavian grace" with
which Mr.. Disraen endowed him; and
poor Mr.. Honman carried with him te
the grave the epithet Of superior per
sony which Mr. Dtsraeli rave him IN
the Denmark debate in 1854. The mos
savage Of the barbed phrases that We 10
member occurs in one Of his retorts on
Mr.. Lowe, whom he Will not advise t.
retire to his ''cave," butto - more Gym
ical place." TO have hidden his oppo
nsnt to his kennell would, even II par
hamentary, have outraged the audiencl
and rec0iled on the orator himself Bu
Mr.. Disraelli contrived to say precisely
the same thing by his adroit use Of tn
word ''cynicel," In its etymolo9ice
sense. This b agood specimen Of theo'
dexterous unexpected thruets which
used to be % enjoyable to hear, ant
which made up NO small portion Of th'
} charms Of his os.toTy. And We belIev!
that his hest things Of the sort were real
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