Year: 1878

England, the Telegram tells MS. has been,


as we'll she may be, startled by the news of
Lord BeaconsAeld having been seized with


an attack Of epilepsy, which, it was feared
for little while, might have proved fatal.
At last accounts she was somewhat re-
assured, but naturally great anxiety re-
mains. som ewhat similar seizure Of the
Duke Of Wellington one evening in the
House of Lords with fainting ft, being
the first Of series of attacks to which he
finally succumbed, stirred the heart of
England at the time with the same alarms.


"a great nation, said the Duke of Yelling


ton, '.cannot have a little war;" Neither
can a great man, as the Duke of Wellington
found and Lord Beaconsfeld will find. have
little illness. Tho Dukes fainting 1T was
magnifed into paralysis, he had confusion
in the head and he was struck specchless
by the reporters Lord Beaconsdeld's
attack has been, we trust, similarly sub;
jectcd to exaggeration. The Duke of
Wellington's was produced by making
crust his sole allowance Lord Beaconsfeld's
was probably created by the same cause, as
he generally lives the life of severe
ascetic. As he is now seventy-four, and this
seizure must be regarded as a warning and
the predecessor Of other attacks, he will prob
bably-should he recover, as We hope and
believe he will-retire from active labors
take the position of mentor to the Cabinet
without any special Office, and intrust the
laboring oar, as he himself states he did at
the conferences of Berlin, to the Marquis Of
Salisbury. As the selection in this case
would rest with him, Lord Salisbury's
recent services and personal adherence at a
moment when the retirement Of Lord Derby
from the Foreign Office placed Lord
Beaconsfeld in perplexed, if not perilous
position. will obliterate the remembrance
of former retirement and many
bitter personal attacks, and outweigh
the antipathy of the sovereign and dislike
Of his colleagues to serve under Minister
of arrogant and imperious will and much
bilious acerbity Of temper. Lord Sails
bury is man Of large ambition, in which
he has been eagerly encouraged and pressed
by his brilliant wife, the daughter of the
late Baron Anderson, who is to him as was
Lady Macbeth to her lord. He has already
filed the offices of Secretary of State for
India and Secretary Of Foreign Affairs.
Thane of Glamis, Thane Of Cawdor he has
been, King he may be. Should Lord
Beaconsfeld be suddenly carried away, Of
which there is danger by renewal of this
seizure, there will be the same quarrel over
his crown as there was among his generals
on the death of Alexander. Sir Stafford
Northcote, the present leader of the House
Of Commons, would be his probable suc-
cessor. He is suave and energetic and
offers NO personal points of objection.
To-day England finds the war FIRE
which threatened, as she was induced
to believe, her Eastern supremacy on the
near aud western side, no sooner partially
quenched than it again shows sign of flame
in the opposite and far eastern direction.
and her material interests covered by adark
and enlarging cloud. How she is to emerge
from her present condition she and appar-
emily oil her other Ministers seem in igno-
rance. Beaconsfeld alone knows the secret
combination which can open the snfe in
which her policy for the future is closely
locked.