Year: 1868

tnelr mlgnC AZ the pouS ana drive the RADICALS
from power we have q disastrous future be-
fore us.


Disraelps Cabinet Prosrammc-Tho Premicr


tho Moses OF England.


Mr.. Benjamin Disraeli made his first official
appearance as Premier Of England in the
House Of Commons last Thursday evening,
when be enjoyed gratifying personal recep-
ton from the members. The political prize
for which he toiled during thirty-one years was
in his hands; yet, ruled by that sense Of mod
esty or acquired mental restraint by which his
public career has been distinguished, he did
not seem elated by his success. He an
Aounced the change in the Cabinet, caused by
the retirement of Lord Derby, in terms of
graceful compliment to his late chief, and
almost deprecated the action of the Queen in
imposing her commands to form ministry on
himself in words savoring of the humility of
those in general use by the members of his
house, particularly at the conclusion of most
excellent bargain. The soreness of class with
which the extreme aristocrats were agitated,
by the confession that their own ranks could
not furnish a man suited for the Office at such
crisis, was soothed by statement to the
effect that "the policy of Lord Derby would
be followed by the new ministry" while Glad
stone and Bright, who sat in almost breath
less wonder at the sudden presto change
which excluded the former more completely
from Office, had little of the wind taken out
of their already Tapping sails by general
intimation that the domestic legislation of the
new government would be liberal one" and
that it would go on recognizing national traits
as best securing national institutions" To the
fnanciers and manufacturers he promised
"peace," and to all foreign governments
generous sympathy" with their institutions.


BY this action Premier Disraei caused the
session Of the House to pass very agreeably,
sent the members home In good humor and
steadied himself to an effective poise on his
newly acquired pinnacle. No man knows bet
ter than himself that he cannot remain there
inactive for any heightened period, and he Is
equally well assured that he cannot adhere to
the policy of Lord Derby, for the very excellent
reason that Lord Derby had no particular line
of policy, if we except the good policy of
"holding on" to Office and keeping his political
adversaries out in the chilly air Of the lobby.
Mr.. Disraeli's promise that national traits"
will be recognized by his Cabinet may mean a
good deal or nothing; but, coming so soon
after the claim which he recently advanced in
his speech in Glasgow, to the effect that
British reforms always proceeded from the
tories, we incline to the opinion that 1t means
a good deal, and may be elaborated under his
care 80 as to include the restoration of Donny-
Scotland, a rood of ground for every English
man and an Englishman on every rood, with
every other prominent "trait" calculated to
render the inhabitants of the islands happy,
with perhaps, the single exception of that one
Of "lending money gratis" which at one time
prevailed to some extent in London.


Mr.. Disraeli will permit the present expiring
Parliament to "die out according to the
underlined policy Of Lord Derby but the scope
Of the political horizon of Great Britain indi-





rience a revolution in its system of executive
administration and the course of its parlia-
mentary legislation involving changes of the
most serious character, and which are likely to
eventuate in the attainment by the peoples of
the islands of that degree Of comfort and hap
piness-social religious and fnancial-for
which they have vainly struggled since the
period Of the grand popular effort OF Watt
Tyler down to the latest agitatons of John
Bright, Bishop Colenso, the Ritualists. Re-
formers, Trades Unonsts and Fenians In
Premier Disraeli England has found her
Moses-a man of most ancient lineage, but
sympathizing with the oppressed as kindred in
suffering to his race, and who, judging from
his persistent courage and perseverance, has
no doubt received some extraordinary intima-
tion that he was destined to be their leader and
deliverer, and that he possessed all the gifts
and graces necessary to qualify him for the
exalted position to which Queen Victoria has
been pleased to call him. As the first
renowned Hebrew leader and general lived
many years in the retirement of an humble
everyday life before assuming power and
command, so Mr. Disraeli, qualified in the
almost unseen recesses Of London law Office,
comes forth self-made and without any Of
the medals or insincere logic of Oxford or
Cambridge to announce to millions OF
Britons that the day of their political deliver
ance is at hand. That day will be the day Of
assemblage of the next Parliament, when the
Premier win, In the Queens speech from the
throne-her Majesty speaking as an anointed
vehicle of the Word-review the situation Of
their country, exbort them to cheerful obedi-
ence, point out the coming blessings and draw
their attention TO the many curses which are
certain to ensue from disloyalty and unfaithful-
ness, and conclude by pronouncing the most