Such is the substantive part of Mr. Disraeli's official manifesto,
which is strictly antiquarian, not containing a single forecast of his future policy, either towards Ireland or any other part of the empire. The rest of his address is all puffy invective against Mr. Gladstone's proposal for disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, and a hasty but terrific outline of the designs of the Pope on England, expressed in sonorous periods whieh John- son would have envied, and to which Gibbon could not have given a
• volume more rotund. But we have commented on this noble passage sufficiently eliewbere. The only fit answer for this part of Mr. Disraeli's address would be in language far too beautiful for us to compose, but which we may -venture- to borrow. We might tell him that the :Papal revival of which he ispeake is "an unusual phenomenon; oh -vihidh Some ha*e ;gazed with .wonder and some with terior; but that_ it will- aooir be more attantitrely examined, and what folly' has taken for, a ,tomet, that from-its flaming hair shook bigotry and Chains, inquiry will. find to be only a meteor formed' by the vapours of putrefying opinion, which, after plunging its followers in a bog; will leave Us inquiring why we regard it." Perhaps that is not quite hp to the Prime Minister's rhetorical mark, but it closely approaches it.
