A deputation of the London and Westminster Working Men's -Constitutional
Association waited on Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli -this day week, and were introduced by Mr. W. H. Smith, who -contested Westminster unsuccessfully at the Last election. The working men were very enthusiastic about Lord Derby and his measure, and assured him that the working men of this country 'repudiate the " baneful teaching of such self-constituted leaders " as Mr. Beales, and that there has been, and is, a strong admiration for the Conservatives, which only awaits "the passing of the Government measure to fully prove itself." It might have been more useful, one would think, if it had not waited " to prove itself " till it was no longer wanted. Lord Derby made an eloquent speech in favour of Mr. Disraeli and -of his own measure, and Mr. Disraeli made an eloquent speech in favour of the deputation, one of whom claimed his acquaintance as a supporter of his, thirty years ago at Taunton, where he asserted,—the gentleman's name was Hearn,—that Mr. Disraeli had " enunciated those principles which he had consistently advocated ever since !" 'What those principles were, however, Mr. Hearn was not so good as to tell us. We regret his omission, as it would have supplied a real deficiency in the biography of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which we despair of finding any other man competent to fill up.
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