Mr. Disraeli seems to have fixed the Easter week for
stu mping Lancashire in the Conservative interest. We hope he will find occasion to announce in it the conclusion to which he came long ago, but which he has just formally reiterated in the new edition to his " Life of Lord George Bentinck," that " the principle of race is the key of history, and the surest clue in all ages to the conduct of mankind." An acute critic has recently said of Mr. Disraeli that the fundamental idea of his intellect is the theocratic idea. We fear his real view is that adherence to a theocracy is a note of race, rather than that race is the instrument of a theocracy. But whichever way he puts it, if he would only confess in Lan- cashire his secret belief that he has a right to rule the coarse Saxon by virtue of his purer blood, Lancashire would not believe in him long.
