The Press. — London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

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Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, on Tuesday, made some vapouring threat of the Radicals resolving to throw out the Cabinet upon it; but ho might as well have promised that he would - become a great Parlit Radicals would not rally the Whigs upcn the Bali the country is not with f were, the Radicals have Whigs. Their party w , ich Agailiwe would ask, what is ordinarily meant by the word organisation ? \Vhatare its external symptoms, and s hat its final cause? Is an . " organised " party expected to move together with the precision of a regiment of infantry ? And are all and one to be animated by a common object? If so, is the Liberal party organised ? We fear that if organisation be held synonymous with discipline, and if numerous stragglers and an indisposition to keep to their colours be any evidence, we must at once answer in the negative. It is a curious indication of the confusion which prevails on this topic, that tw•o pub- It can hardly be denied by the impartial spectator that these are the evil results of government by a disorganised majority. It tends of necessity to some such compact as the following :--That Parliament will affirm their confidence in Ministers as long as they are allowed to reject their measures, and that Ministers will resign all claim to the control mu( . the better for th , representatives would st sous and brothers, for the TER, and for invitations ' have never ventured to tion given of them by field, and hence for the yk go through the solemn farce of voting for $ ..... .0' No. 218.— . V0L.V. LONDON , SATURDAY , JULY 4, 1857. STAMPED ....STXPEYCR. UNSTAMPED-FIVEPENCE. .•••••.....•••...•••••=m•m•rammoimmomanimal• lications of a more or less Liberal tendency, of Parliament as long as they are guarantee& g C 1 4 1 rts st and certainly no friends to the system on the possession of place. In the present day, which this journal is conducted, should in however, no such compromise as this cart their latest issue have put forward the most flourish long. The people will soon perceive ~ LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1857. contradictory statements upon this subject. that they are but cats'-paws; and if it be found By one we are told that in a little while there that the evil is too inveterate to be cured, at . We are all familiar with such phrases as a will be no more Conservatives left ; by the that moment will be sealed the doom,of Repre- ,' other that Lord DERBY'S party is the strongest sentative Government. Liberal policy, and a Conservative policy ; a and best organised in the country. retrograde policy, and a progressive policy ; or- The House of Commons has not yet re- TH E BALLOT. ganisation, and disorganisation ; independent covered from the chock which it experienced l Balot quest i on is universa l ly acknow- members, and party members ; leaders who in 1846 . The corn - law question broke up THE government by party, and substituted for it lodged to stand first 4 on the list of annual bores. • • • have no principles, and principles which have the temporary ascendancy of individual poli- Year after year, the same stock arguments are no leaders. But in all this nomenclature of ticians, regulated only by the fluctuating garrotted forth with somniferous effect. Every chaos, how many terms are there which are caprice of au irresponsible Parliament. It .Member of the House of Commons know thoroughly understood by those who employ permanently injured the working capability of the House, by uniting those who had no other what is going to be said. The only variatiob them, or which any two persons understand point of agreement, and separating those who in the debate is that sometimes the elaborate .. . in exactly the same sense? Does the word h ad no other point of difference. The Con- essa y o f M r . J AMES M ILL, an d somet i mes t h e "policy," for instance, denote a fixed code of servatives lost th 3 majority which had enabled ..0 f ' maxims on every conceivable subject, to which then to conduct affairs, spoken pamphlets of Mr. GROTE, are repro- *. and the Liberals did not gain it. Private feuds, except on rare and in duced parts, garnished with newspaper every professor of that policy is to render an urgent occasions, are stronger than the claims scraps from the last elections. Everybody i unswerving allegiance? If so, what are we to of public policy ; and the accession of mom knows that all the Liberal " outsiders" will understand by the expression " a Liberal h ers t o th e Lib era l b enc h es p rove d ra th er an vote for it, and that the Whigs will resiat the. : policy"? Is it to leave continental inatitu- i ncum b rance th an a ga i n . By i n t ro d uc i ng an motion. The debate drawls on. SO - rne . new . . , tione to themselves, and merely to make war element of unce r tainty it pa r aly se d th e ester- upon our • nwa? Or .is it to cherish the gies of Government, who never knew how Member, flurried with the idea of a maiden -., • . , .. abuses of Downing-street and thunder against suddenly they might be abandoned. And the speech, catches the.SpEAKER's eye, and repeats .. these of Netplas? Shall we ask a definition remarkable testimony of this truth, furnished a small oration ; under strong. ories of itnpa- • front Mr. COBDEN, or Mr. 'Loom KING; from by the weakness of the .Whig Government tience. The division takelf •place, and the . . . ' t. Lord Jomi RUSSELL, or Lord PALME RSTON ; i ron '46 to '52, has been already pointed out Conservative party eaves Ate Whigs- (yeti t h e i r t, - - from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHRQOBB, or ,by an influential Conservative omen, • ' 'Radical followers, and dent& •thet Constittb. .. ; • 4 . • • 1 MI% BERKELEY? The answer we should The reaMond which unites a political petety. 'l from ion a. nietistury Which , inorderttn-be eliF ..!. • • obtain from any two of these ge n tl em e n wou ld i s s y m p a thy. O rgan i sa ti on i s mec h an i ca l ; and ' , ettolOtts,. Meet fitetlireduceo tisabldtlion.: • - be only marked by such wide discrepancies as a consequence rather than a cause. .Policy is Such is the inrena'riotedfatiter And: overi for , . , •-, , totally to preclude the idea of their all belong- dependent on events; and the policy of an the last many years, much tb Iher esearineete Of .: t: ing to a party which, if we adhe r e t o our d e fi- O p p os i t i on , i n t h e very nature o f t hi ngs , w ill a yawn i ng H ouse o f C ommons. T h e conduct ._•_, nition, professed the same " policy." b e regu l ate d b y th e p o li c y o f G overnment. o f t h e Whi gs an d R a di ca l s i n rela tion-to. the , SuCh, however, seems to be the definition While the latter is undetermined, the former Ballot betrays the hypocrisy, and exposis the '‘... adopted by our opponents when they reason of cannot be defined. hollow imposture, of modern " Liberalism:" the Conservative party. We do not mean to say, But the importance attached to these things The Radicals proclaim the secret suffrage as indeed, that they, any more than their oppo- by the Liberal party is easily understood when the " Alpha of Reform ;" the Whigs disdain- nents, will stand this test. But the cases are we reflect on their own deficiency in both. fully decline to learn even the first letter of i . not parallel, and it is idle to pretend that That party, consisting of a mass of heteroge- the Radical creed. They say amongst them- • they are. The differences which exist among neous materials, broken up into sections, with selves :—" We have the Cabinet, and the power ; the Liberals are fundamental differences; and separate interests and traditions, d )es truly "of dispensing places. We know the Radial nobody would venture to assert that it is a stand in need of a rigorous discipline and a " appetite for loaves and fishes ; we will pacify question of equal importance in political faultless machinery to maintain it in working " them with patronage. Liberalism means a science whether or no a nation shall hav3 order. With the Conservatives, however, the " combination of feudal Whigs and Radical an hereditary aristocracy, or whether Jews case is widely different. With them organise- " serfs. We do not intend to emancipate the shall be admitted to, or excluded from. lion is spontaneous. We would not for a " Radicals from their villeinage ; experience its Legislature. But if differences of this moment underrate the value of party manage- " proves that they have not the spirit for latter kind are fatal to the existence of a Con ment. All we maintain is that the Conserve- " political insurrection They may howl as servative policy, a fortiori are differences of Live party is not dependent upon such artificial " they please ; we will keep them out of the the former kind fatal to the existence of a support. When men sympathise with each " Cabinet, and vote them down by the help of . • . Liberal policy. Let us, if we please, eliminate other they will naturally act together. When " the Conservatives." the word front our political vocabul'try. But they do not, they cannot act together without Such is the system acted on by the Whigs, if that cannot be, it shall be our endeavour, at an effort. And the impossibility of sustaining and endured with the humility of bondsmen all events, to arm our readers' minds against this effort has been shown by tile periodical by the Radicals. Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, the sophistry of those who use the word in defeats of various Liberal Governments from on Tuesday, made some vapouring threat of its loosest sense when applied to themselves_ the defeetien n. their *1 P RI - 1.0,111Pd 4illlnWPV*l thn 144/linala 1,..11 Ann. *n ths,-“v rmt the. (I stop the supplies. or iamentary orggr., The ly for a a. , T. `ligairtat 4 1. lallot. 7 4, , know, i h A t. i themY. Alfo3.li 0/ o not sti r: ytol_fOt 'mild 04 to,iil he septet au ...L.( •:-• still pip.: a ^... :14;n1 the sotae46o •-• , . ttlaqi s to Opirt,bakit, Thei ) re pllr to 4 tie - mtesglir , Mr. Roxstreir-ei-Shef- e last dozen years they , .