It was also noteworthy in Sir Stafford Northcote's speech that
he raised proudly aloft the standard of Lord Beaconsfield. " I do say," he declared, " that it has been owing to the great firmness, the great courage, and the great energy of the Prime Minister, and, on the other hand, to the substantial loyalty, the generous confidence, of the mass of the people of this country, that we have been able to speak as we have spoken, and to attain the results which, so far, we have attained." There can be no doubt of that. Liberals and Tories are agreed that the voice of this Ministry has been the voice of Beaconsfield, and its mind the mind of Beaconsfield, and that to him, and him almost alone, are due such results as hitherto have been attained. What those results are worth, whether much, or little, or much of a deleterious kind, the country are not quite agreed ; but they are agreed that the other Ministers are mere captains of the host, and nothing without their leader. It is the imaginary- - vanquisher of Russia, the reputed " preserver of our Indian Empire," the celebrated negotiator who has taken Cyprus in pawn, and, pending the conditions of redemption, placed it among the jewels of the British Crown, who appeals to the people to trust him, and who tells the people,—without perhaps attempting to conceal his personal amusement,—that he im- plicitly trusts them. Thus much, at all events, his chief lieu- tenant clearly understands.
