Life of Lord Beaconsfield (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... Chaptek nr. YOUNG ENGLAND. 1843. Young England Toryism and Conservatism--Disraeli's position--Breach with Peel--Coningshy--The Young England creed--Didactic elements in Coningshy--Its portraits and types--Tour in the manufacturing districts--Sybil--Theme of the novel--Disraeli's political ideal--Young England and the Anglican revival. The whole of the speech from which the extracts in the ahove chapter have been taken, and which was delivered by Mr. Disraeli at Shrewsbury on the 9th of May 1843, three months before the first breach with Sir Robert Peel, is a foreshadowing of the position which Young England was presently to assume, and of the forthcoming indictment against the great Conservative party, which made the hair of Tadpole and Taper sand on end. That party had not been true to the prin L/xiples therein sketched out. yUs support of the Poor Law, and its issue of the Ecclesiastical Commission, were-blows struck at the territorial position of the Church. V and the authority of the landed gentry which were, in Mr. Disraeli'seyes, among the most sacred deposits of Toryism. Sir Eobert Peel was willing to establish the supremacy of the House of Commons over the two other estates of the realm, and the Crown as well. Conservatism, after all, was only Whiggism under another name. Why Mr. Disraeli did not discover this before is one of the innumerable questions in the history of his political opinions to which no satisfactory answer will ever probably be returned. In 1835, when he looked to Sir Eobert Peel as the saviour of the State, the Tamworth Manifesto and the Ecclesiastical Commission, the objects of his bitterest scorn and keenest invective in 1843, had both been issued. Nor could it have been only Sir Robert Peel's chnnge of opinion on Protection w...