Further, Mr. Disraeli declared that Ministers had threitted and defied
the House of Lords till. they saw how popular.the Lords were in the country, nay, that the Government were teach- ing the United Kingdom to expect changes of Constitution so ; frequently, that the country was beginning to be a political valetudinarian who lived with her hand on her pulse. After a grand burst of Tory Protestantism, directed to warning the Con- servatives to beware alike of " the withering blast of Atheism " and " the simoom of sacerdotal usurpation," he closed a very entertaining bit of declamation by telling the Scotch it was time they
should leave off " mumbling the dry bones of political economy and munching the remainder-biscuit of an effete Liberalism,"— which they are to exchange, we suppose, for the ethereal broma and nectar of a renovated Toryism. After all, men can live a long time on dry bones and weevilly biscuit ; but can they live at all on the mere political curacao which is all Mr. Disraeli ever provides for us ?
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