Sir Patrick O'Brien, M.P., while visiting Philipstown on Monday, to
attend Quarter Sessions, was induced to make a speech from a window on the politics of the day, and in it assured his constituents and the rest of his street audience that "he be- lieved in Lord Beaconsfield, because Lord Beaconsfield, like himself, was a Bohemian ; and like himself, Lord Beaconsfield was not what people call 'respectable.'" "He did not believe in those who were called respectable ' politicians,—a term which generally applied to persons possessing autocratic views, and views opposed to liberty, like those of Lord Salisbury, and to the mass of no- bodies who put themselves forward as the politicians of the day." That is very interesting, not only as showing that Sir Patrick O'Brien regards Lord Beaconsfield's views as in direct contrast to those of his Foreign Secretary, Lord Salisbury,—of which, of course, he has private information—but as assigning a really sub- stantial reason for his own personal confidence in Lord Beacons- field, though one which would be equally good to justify the want of confidence of most of the constituencies. For both purposes, it is quite valid ; and the result of the next general election, may, we hope, tally with Sir P. O'Brien's lucid and epigrammatic dictum.
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