12 SEPTEMBER 1868, Page 3
The Express, perhaps the most efficient and best organized, in
respect of news, of any of our evening papers, has disinterred the baptismal register of the Prime Minister, as to the exist- ence of which a doubt was expressed in " A Churchman's family newspaper" last week. The register of baptism is dated 31st July, 1817, and Benjamin Disraeli is therein described as 4' said to be about 12 years old, son of Isaac and Maria Disraeli, King's Road, gentleman,"—a rather incoherent and blundering =statement. The ceremony was " performed by S. Thimbleby."