It is worth reflecting-it is a pity Victoria did not reflect-what a ...

It is worth reflecting-it is a pity Victoria did not reflect-what a turn our history might have taken if the greatest Liberal of all time had not been removed at a time when he was still the foremost statesman of the Conservative party, and while be attracted the attention of the country only in a less degree than Mr GLADSTONE himself.

This is not the occasion for a cold and critical examination of LORD BEACONSFIELD'S course in politics during hail a century.

Few leaders of parties have been the objects of so much denunciation and suspicion, and scarcely one can be named who, in the face of many and great obstacles, so steadily advanced to a commanding place in the State. But to-day censure will be generously silent.

There was much that was dignified and still more that was brilliant in LORD BEACONSFIELD'S career, and on those parts of it even his enemies, not always chivalrous in their attacks upon him / her, will prefer to dwell at the hour of his death. the doubts which sometimes tried the allegiance of his followers-though when the time for action came no leader was ever more loyally obeyed by a proud and powerful party-will be forgotten in regret for the loss of a chief who, whatever his faults, added many remarkable webpages to the history of English Conservatism.