14 MAY 1881, Page 1

Lord Salisbury was not happy. Whatever the contents of his

speech, which is differently reported in different papers, he wrested the meaning of the address so as to imply to common ears the high appreciation of Parliament of Mr. Disraeli's character and services,—which the majority in the Lower House and the minority in the Upper certainly never expressed, or intended to express. Lord Malmesbury, however, related of Lord Beaconsfield one very touching anecdote. When his wife died, Lord Beaconsfield had said to him, with tears in his eyes, "I hope some of my friends will take notice of me now. I feel as if I had now no home. When I tell my coachman to drive home, I feel it a mockery." It is curious and touching to see

the love of home so strong in the character of one who seems in early life to have been as homeless in his tastes as any man who ever wandered on the surface of the earth.