(GLOBE, Nov. 24.)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 280, 26 February 1874, Page 2

(GLOBE, Nov. 24.)

In the City Hall of Glasgow on Saturday loot Mr Disraeli ouce more repented, one by one every count ot accusation, tmd appealed to the audience for the verdict of their own observation aid experience. Ministers, he said, are going up and down the country sounding their own praises, extolling their own merits, and taking credit for all the prosperity which fortuitous but felicitous circumstances have combined to produce. And yet they confn? and complain that they are unpopular, and seem to account for a fact which tilU them with surprise by the fickleness and ingratitude of a nation which enjoys without appreciating th« benefit of tktir services and their exploits at home and abroad. Are the people of this country so fickle or so ungrateful ? There is no need to deny the great abilities of the 1 resent Government.. The question is, How have they used t'l^ir talents for the public good? ''Plundering" is a- hard word. But what single term in the English language is better fitted to describe with sufficient accuracy the spoliation of the Irish Gnurcb, the amercement of Irish landowners, the ruthless dealings of the Royal Commissioners with ancient charitable and educational endowments? "Blundering" in not a nice word; but what other expresses with equal comprehensivenub, or indeed with equal moderation, such transactions as the Alabama negotiations, the "mysterious mess" in which the Aahaatee war originated, the disorganization of the Admiralty by one First Lord and it* reconstruction by another ?