xx.) BUMILIATION OF TEL «.. JEOTIONISTS. 587

0 moving the address for Wellington’s funeral,® the Probectionjsg
 party is very much demoralized, and will I think
% broken up in a week or two. They never can hold
together, for a score or two of honest, stupid people will still
hold out, and in fact will be in a more creditable plight than
I going over with the herd.”
“Nov, 24. ( ,, )—We have a fresh complication in
the House, owing to Palmerston having played us a trick
0 moving a new amendment. The Whigs are very indig-Rant,
 and the Liberals are now confessing that we found
tim out some years ago, and they now call him a traitor
wd worse, It is impossible to say how matters will go.”
The story of these final manceuvres need nob detain us.
lt was indispensable to pin the Ministers to an explicit:
Receptance of the policy of Free Trade. The Ministers
Were willing to give the required pledge, but they sought
bo escape the humiliation of a formal confession that the
legislation which they had resisted with an obstinacy and a
"ancour unsurpassed in political history, had been wise, just,
and beneficial. These were the © three odious epithets,” as
Mr. Disraeli styled them, with which Mr. Villiers asked the
House by their resolution to stamp the Act of 1846. To call
the policy just was particularly unpalatable, because if it was
just, then what wrong was left for compensation? Mr. Distaeli
 deprecated this revival of the cries of exhausted factions
and obsolete politics. He proposed a resolution which while
acknowledping the effect of recent legislation in cheapening

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' Mr. Disraeli in his funeral oraiion on the Duke introduced bodily a
Pa8sage from a panegyrio delivered by M. Thiers many years before on
Marshal Gouvion de Saint Cyr. It had already appeared in an article in
‘he Morning Ohronicle in 1848; bub the writer, a brilliant man well known
society, came forward to say that it was Mr. Disraeli who had called his
‘tention to the passage from Thiers. The *escapade” was singular
nd it was certainly unfortunate, bat wen of letters, who know the bricks
hat memory ig capable of playing, will hardly think it incapable of fair
planation.