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Show DISRAELI AND O'CONNELL. $ The Great Hebrew Master or Sarcasm $ Met His Match in the Irish Stataes-man. Stataes-man. (From the Saturday Evening Post The name of Disraeli (Lord Bacons- field) is associated with some of the most stinging, witticisms ever uttered in the British legislature. A greater master of cool, polished, stinging irony, ridicule and invective probably never stood within the walls of St. ' Stephen. It has been truly said of him that, when he was prepared, not a 4 blow missed, not a sarcasm was impeded im-peded by a weakening phrase. His peculiar tones, with his provoking r frigidity of manner and affected con- J tempt for his foe, added much to the effect of his hits. In a speech made in the house of commons in 1S46 Dis- ratll advised Peel to stick to quotation: n because he never .i m.L. rna. '. that had not previously received the $ meed of parliamentary "approbation " compared him to the Turkish admiral who steered the fleet confided to him straight into the enemy's port; termed A the treasury bench "political peddlers, & that bought their party in the cheapest " nnri3t and K0ld us ' the dearest." All the world is familiar with Disraeli's - fil iftl, as one who had "caught the Whigs bathing, and ran away with & their clothes," as a politician who had JJ I always "traded on ideas of others. W , whose life had been one huge appropri- -1 ation clause," and manv others. & eM-?6"? Sir Robert PeeI was the t chief target of Disraeli's sarcasms, and so dull and spiritless, comparatively, ft ere!s,,-Bpeeches ter Peel's death. -1 that Shiel compared him to a dissecting & I rr r antoml8t without a sub- ' ,Ject. One of Disraeli's happiest hits fS vas jn a. speech a.t Manohester, when he said: "As I sat opposite the treas-j treas-j ury bench, the ministers reminded me of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coast of South America. Amer-ica. You behold a range of exhausted ( volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is .still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the I dark rumbling of the sea." One of the greatest mu.-ter.s of wit in his day, both in parliamentary deb--.:e and in the courtroom, was Daniel ' O'Conneil. He could pound an ar.iugo- ! ntat with denunciation, riddle him with ! invective, or roa.fi him alive before a j slow lire of sarcasm. A good illustra-lion illustra-lion of his style of attack is furnished 1 by the furious altercation between him j and Disraeli, when the latter tinne-ij 'Jo.y, and was pronounced bv 0'Vn-; nell as one '-who, if his genealogy j could be traced, would be found to I..- the lineal descendant mid true he'r- at-luw of the impptiit.-nt thief who I atoned for his crimte? upon the cro---" I a touch . of satire in the vein of Swift ,' or Hyron. Prob.tbly 110 sarcasm of i Din-ueii ever made an enemy writhe j wnh a tithe of the anguishi which he 1 nnn:-:e.f ru tiered from ihis. |