21 MARCH 1868, Page 3

What are the Times' reporters about? Half the best touches

in Mr. Disraeli's speech of Monday are spoiled in its version of it. Mr. Gladstone's "dangerous candour" appears as his "generous can- dour ;" " the young Ascanius of the hour" (Mr. Gladstone) appears as " the young Ascanius here ;" the House of Lords' " perfection of demeanour" appears as "perfection of manner." Mr. Bright " confesses" " the principle of endowment" instead of "contest- ing " it, and there are other blunders which maul Mr. Disraeli's .epigrammatic sentences. It is the least accurate, we think, of any of the principal reports of his speech, instead of the most so.