The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

Spirit of the Pros.

THR POLIcv OF CONSERVATISM.—The Standard ha
concluding an elaborate review of the lest session of
Parliament, says :—"lt was Conservatism which first laid
down the principle so often vaunted by Mr. Gladstone,
that in finance the public income should at all times be
equal to the charges upon it; which began • firm re-
sistance to the spirit of waste in the national expen-
diture, always awake and at work, whatever elm may
sleep; which got under the deficits never dtalt with by
Mr. Gladstone; and which practically abated the duties
on tea and sugar. Mr. Gladstone claims credit for them
reductions. Why, he himself heightened the taxa* to
a war level in 1857, and we are still paying off his deficits
for that and the following year I There is such a thing
as the semblance of • surplus, always ready to dead*
the constituency on the eve of a general election ; bat,
assuming that the revenue is as the friends of the
Ministry proclaim it to be, we have, notwithstanding,
to trace through the annals of the Parliament just ex.
Ig a line along which the Cabinet has been toned
net its good pleasure, by the Opposition—that is, of
paying the public debt; of increasing the produetivencos
of tenable taxes; of reducing expenditure; of cheapen.
tug without enfeebling the establishments;
of conciliating Irish opinion; .alsoiding superfluous
wars—usually caused by the unhappy Whig itch for
foreign embroilment.; and of refraining from any retro-
grade legislation whatever. Conservatism is never
retrograde. It is defensive. Whether its chronicles he
written in chalk by its friends or in charcoal by its
enemies, they can exhibit no example of parliamentery
comitermarching. But they do act forth the puhlie
spirit of a party which will not redeem an unscrupulous
pled,te, or save a year from being insipid by morifiedag
the seen:ities of the English constitution. And of what
have their opponents to complain? There have been
fewer hostile reviews of their proceedings in this Parini.
menu than in any since 1835. But why was this? Be-
cause the Conservatives have had a policy, have recom-
mended it to the Legislature, and have seen it adopted
by the country. While out of office their will and policy
have, in the main, prevailed. They, in a solid phalanx,
have controlled two-fifths of the house which are Whig,
and a seventh which is Radical, although the members
below the gangway have occasionally mustered, on •
party issue, a majority against them. At all events, they
have saved Lord Palmerston from the eonsequenoes of
his sham complicity with Mr. John Bright. They have
helped him to leave the ballot-box, • rejected delusion,
in the hands of Mr. Berkeley. They have championed
the Irish Church against Mr. Gladstone, the Ultracuon•
tartlets, and the Nonconformist members of the
Liberation Society. They have preserved the oaths of
the Constitution, guaranteeing religion and proaperityl
with a strictness offensive to the Radical mind; and when
we look beyond these details, we find • diplomatic, •
legislative, and an administrative policy combined, on
broad principles, with them. In the departments of the
Law and of Yanitary Reform, the Attorney-General and
the Lord Chancellor have been urged to their tasks more
frequently by Conservative members of the House than
by the pleaders of their own faction. By Conservative
members have the abuses and extravaganeco of the War,
Admiralty, and Colonial Offices been exposed. By
them have our public schools been defended from an
attack which must otherwise have shaken them to
their very basements, nullifying the wisdom, and con-
travening the wills of their founders. Moreover, no
retrospect of the various sessions which hsve elapsed
since Lord Palmerston obtained the Premiership under
false pretences in 1859, would approach completeness
without a &nos at the numerous cases of public wrong
inflicted on private individuals, and protested against,
often with success, by members of the Conservative
party. It would be fallacy to argue that they at all
times have succeeded. That, in fact, is exactly why
the constituencies should at the general election
W strengthen them for their work. hat they have
done, or sought to do, is before the world. Neutrality
in Europe—amicable relations with foreign Powers—
impartiality in America—no little unnecessary wars—
the protection of British subjects abroad, whether from
Abyssinian tyrants or Italian brigands—.a new finance,
provident and beneficent for India—the maintenance of
old English privileges, such as those of the City,
abhorred by Sir George Grey—justice to the farmer,
the silk-weaver, and the papermaker—the proper treat.
meat of officials, and the fulfillment of the task at
which Mr. Villiers nibbles, while Mr. Henley would
have completed it boldly and generously. Are not
these the elements of a policy? The State and the
Church—the Constitution and the Queen—the Altar
and the Throne—that is what Conservatism means. It
does not mean a blind opposition to all reform; it has
never meant a hatred of progress, but it has not
squandered incoherent pledges never to be redeemed.
and it will not prophesy in the dark. The Whigs cone
tinually challenge it to produce a programme. In its
wisdom it constantly refuses; but it can, and does
exhibit a plain principle of action, which the entire
history of the expiring Parliament evolves and illus-
trates. Let Liberalism wear its paraphernalia so long
as they will last. It will be time enough to canvas
details when the nation has pronounced itself weary
of having Lord Palmerston to play upon its
weakness and substitute a deception for a policy.
The Whigs rest upon finance as "the stomach of the:
country, from which the ot or organs take their tone?'
It has been proved that the most popular proposals is
Mr. Gladstone's Budgets were forced on him by the
Opposition; but there is one thing that has not been
proved—which is, that in their own domestic and per
sonal arrangemente, or the convenience of retaining
office or distributing patronage, the Whig-Radiesla have
copied from the Opposition. In administrative power
the Whigs have failed. In the art of parliamentry
envasion they have succeeded for a time. We imagine
that the country will perceive, in the conduct and utter.
ances of the Conservative party, as represented daring
the last six years by Lord Derby, Mr. Disraeli, and their
followers, a clear answer to the question—What is •
Conservative policy' It is the policy which has saved
the State from dilapidation, and the Church from rain
—the policy identified with Religion, Loyalty, and the
Constitution—the true old English poliey, to endure so
long as the people have a heart and the Legislature an
intellect; and this police—this vast structure of happi.
nese and freedom—the Whip, driven by their Radical
followers, would destroy, that they might enjoy another
tenure of office by ruining in the name of Reform.

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The following is an extract from the Second /Ultima
(page 188) of the Translation of the Phiumaoopcsia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. D.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It u.
small defect in this compilation (speaking of this
Pharmaoopceia) that we have no purgative maim but
what oontains aloes; yet we know that hamorrhoidall
persons cannot bear aloe., exoept it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes,
scammony, and aolocynth, wl.ich I thick are formed
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I anapest, by an alkaline process, and by
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonics
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for its
being a patent medicine. I look at it Oa an article of
commerce and domestic oonvenienee, and do not hesi-
tate to say it is the best made pill in the kingdom;
muscular purge, a mucous purge, and a hydrogogue
purge combined, and their effect' properly controlled by
dirigent and oorrigent. That it does not oommonly
produce hcemorrhoida, like most aloetio pills, I attribute
to Its being thoroughly soluble, se that no undissolved
articles. alters to the lawns membrane.

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