Note 16 — THE EARL OF DERBY’S APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY.

In a similar strain ventured to speak a certain Mr Serjeant Murphy at Cork. “Who is their Chancellor of the Exchequer? I’ll tell you what he is. He is a political adventurer, who speculates on politics as a black-leg on the turn of the dice and the fluctuating chance of the turf—a political trader!” And the refined and complimentary Milesian proceeds to utter a supposed bon-mot concerning Mr Disraeli’s speech on the Budget, which, he says, he himself heard, “while sitting near the Duke of Cambridge, with whom I have the honour of being acquainted!”