Mr. Disraeli never loses his temper even when he has
the gout, but meetings like that of the Conservative Club at Birmingham on Friday week must try it a little. There are only two chances for the Liberal party at present. One is a blander of his own, which he can always avoid by doing nothing, and the other is an exhibition of stupidity by the Tory party. Neither he nor his Cabinet are likely to give us that chance, but some of his left wing seem inclined to -clo it. At this meeting, for example, Lord Dartmouth accused -the working-men of contemptuous toleration of the Queen ; 'Colonel Dyott said the Birmingham Liberals, like the Jacobins, had stung themselves to death ; Mr. Newdegate said the last Parlia- ment was the worst he had ever known ; Mr. Lloyd said Mr. -Gladstone might now think thirty times thrice before the House -of Lords would tremble ; and the Marquis of Hertford said something which, as originally reported, involved the odd blas- phemy that Mr. Disraeli was above Providence, and as corrected by himself, affirms that Mr. Disraeli will never be driven mad by that Power. A very little of that sort of thing, and the Liberal reaction will commence before the Tory one has begun to seem as if it might endure.
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