15 SEPTEMBER 1849, Page 1

Mr. Disraeli is coming out as an O'Connell; only combining

with the capacity of agitator that of English country gentleman, statesman, novelist, epic poet, and Hebrew-Caucasian. At the meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association, he recapi- tulated his proposition respecting the equalizing of local taxationa with an addition : he now proposes to augment the Land-tax in districts where it is light or virtually null, and by that means to raise 5,000,0001. in lieu of 1,000,0001.; the five millions to form a "real sinking-fund" for th,e eteady reduction of the National Debt ; a process which, actbiding to Mr: Disraeli's promise, will raise the price of Consols, make money abundant, and so render "cheap" that which the farmer most wants—capital. To support him, the farmers are advised to agitate, with the cry of "equal taxation and cheap capital": he wants a "pressure from without "- and if they will furnish that, he promises them some further boon, which is not specified, but is to be tantamount to "complete relief." He stakes his "political reputation" on suc- cess; a faint imitation of the two life-pledging O'Connells, who both lived to smile at failure; and it is not to be supposed that the head of the Royal Bucks will find defeat more unbearable. On the whole, it appears to us that Mr. Disraeli's project of agitation is not very artistic : it is put forth in words of despondency, that anticipate failure • its methods are borrowed ; the adoptiokt of a "cry" is imitated from the wretched electioneering creatures whom Mr. Disraeli satirized under the names of Tadpole and Taper. To encourage the listening farmers, be reminded them how the remission of Ship-money had been obtained by a Buck- inghamshire gentleman, "my' near neighbour" ! Here the He- brew-Caucasian lets the cat out of the bag: it seems that he was alive in the time of John Hampden, and still lives in the time of Renn Hampden : now who could confess such longevity, but the Wandering Jew? It is to be observed, however, that John Hampden did not delegate his agitation to the Buckinghamshire farmers, but point-blank refused the demand of the tax- gatherer : the coryphasus of the Royal Bucks will not behave so ungenteelly.