Now, of all “curiosities of literature,” this little sentence is, in many respects, the most curious. He talks of substitutes for a thing not in existence, and not even a subject of imagination, conjecture, or conception. The name of D’Israeli does not indicate an IRISH origin, but there is a strong affinity between this and those curiosities of literature commonly called “Irish bulls.” As for instance, it reminds us of the couplet composed by an Irish officer of a garrison in the Scottish Highlands, in commemoration of the “good works” of General Wade, who had caused excellent military roads to be made through some of the previously almost impassable morasses of that region. “_Had you seen these roads before they were made, You’d have lifted your hands and blessed General Wade._” Now, by way of comment on D’ISRAELI, we will say that “it is very curious,” and moreover very strange, if not ridiculous, that he and ASTLE, (from whom he copies without a full and fair acknowledgment,) while “deeply complaining of the inferiority of our inks to those of antiquity,” have utterly failed to ascertain the cause or even to notice the occasion of it. They, as well as other writers on the subject, observe the excellence of the ink employed in manuscripts of earlier ages, down to the twelfth century, and the inferiority of the ink used from that period down to the close of the seventeenth century, without turning attention to the great historical fact that the FIRST PAPER-MILL in Europe was established in that same twelfth century. A peculiar CACHEXY (a variety of the disease known to psycho-nosologists as the _cacoëthes scribendi_,) seems to be hereditary in the D’Israeli family. BENJAMIN D’ISRAELI, (the son of Isaac,) late Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c., when he rose in his place, as the Head or Representative of Her Majesty’s government in the House of Commons, to pronounce a eulogy on the recently deceased Duke of Wellington, had the impudence to repeat, word for word, a very bald translation of the _éloge_ delivered by Lamartine a few years previous, on occasion of the death of one of the third-rate marshals of Napoleon I. The D’Israeli family are evidently “some” of the children of Israel, who, (as we are told on good authority,) when they left Egypt _borrowed_ everything they could get, and never, so far as the record shows, either returned the articles so obtained, or made proper acknowledgments therefor.