Mr. Disraeli was amusingly impudent at Guildhall on Monday, but
be spoke as if he had no real political hope. He compared the two parties contending in the State to " these two gigantic forms before me" (Gog and Magog), said the dinner recalled something of " feudal splendour and medieval appetites ;" referred casually, amidst great laughter, to what he should have to say " when this time next year I have the honour of acknowledging this toast," indulged a hope that the Lord Mayor (lir. Alderman J. C. Lawrence, who is one of the Liberal candidates for Lambeth) might during the coming year " be able to devote to this great corporation of which he is the head his undivided attention," and described the Liberal auguries of victory as follows :—" I have read somewhere, my Lord Mayor, that it is thb custom of undis- ciplined hosts, on the eve of battle, to anticipate and celebrate their triumph by horrid sounds and hideous yells, the sounding of cymbals, the beating of drums, the shrieks and springs of barbaric hordes,"—but the victory falls not the less to those who have " the arms of precision, the breech-loader, the rocket brigade, and the Armstrong artillery,"—whence, of course, a Conservative triumph ; —which is all very well, if Mr. Disraeli and his party had used one of the " arms of precision." Which is the more clearly a political " arm of precision," Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Act, or Mr. Disraeli's shriek against " that power " which can only be confronted by the English Church, and that only with the full co-operation of a " determined and devoted people " ?
