The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

have been passed into 1;4,, .'Wei of thousands
who under that-till would` have-been entitled to
, - f,'
the franchise , now charg44 thei : continued dis-
franchisement 'upon those'ilseuclii eformers who
r)t
,
w,illneitlier }ring, forwardAarctiier measure them"
seer; ; IlicOsAinv dtlfers to do arflifithern. Then,
401 i i'WaS Pretereed that %:"W'as necessary to
supplant 'Lords.DERBY-0,11(1 MALMESBURY, in con-
sequence of their want of due influence among
.the other nations of Europe; and what .has. ,
been the result ? Let any. man_ compare the:
present aspect of foreign affairs under Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S administration with what they
presented in the summer of 1859 under Lord
MALMESBURY'S, and we hesitate not to say thatit
is scarcely possible to avoid the conclusion that
not only has that aspect not been improved, but
that it has been changed so very much for the
worse that we have reason to be ashamed of our
foreign policy, and the relation in which we now
stand towards the rest of Rurope. The people of
England now know these facts, and have come to
the eokielusion that "the great Liberal party"
is only a delusion and a snare. The word
" Liberal" has been prostituted for mere party
purposes. All Englishmen are " Liberals," in
its trnc..st sense ; but they are not Democrats.
Englishmen t egin to find, out that they have been,
so far, " diddled" by these republican democrats,
under the misnomer of " Liberals," and that as
regards the Whigs-proper they are " Liberal"
only of promises never intended to be ful-
filled. The people of this happy country
have discovered that they are, - awl must
as " Conservative " R. well as 4‘ Liberal ;"
hence thfi strong reactionary feeling in
favour ofthat great "Liberal Conservative" party

which is presided over by that truly noble, high-
minded, and able statesman; Lord DERBY, and
that great and distinguished commoner, Mr. MS-
RAELl,—himself an apt illustration of thc. *eedom
and "liberality" of our inslip,ktions,-,--he having,
by his own 4rts, risen from the ranks to
iiighest legislative honours. For this happy
improvement in the state of public feeling
we aro, in a great measure, indebted to
the short-sighted policy of the Radicals them-
selves. Let us be thankful for tike *.4e, and see
that no effort is wonting on our part to turn it to
the hsst practical account,
Ut us beware, This is especially a time for
action ; and the struggle, in the first place,
has reference to the Registry. Betwixt this
and the twentieth of the month this matter
must be determined., A crisis may be nearer
at 414 than we are inclined to suspect. The
Radicals are evidently determined to make a
stand against the legitimate influence of the
House of Lords. . The committee on precedents
-}hare presented their report, and it is now before
the country. There is a section in the present
Cabinet, at the head of which, nnirabile
cliche, are Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. GLAD-
STONE, which is fatally committed to a rash
and • revolutionary policy. It is only too
probable that we are about to witness a serious
struggle hctweeu those who would maintain the
established rights of the Upper House and those
innovators who would 'restrict, if not entirely
destroy them. We have not a moment's anxiety
as to the result. Should there happen, however,
to be an appeal made to the country on this
vital subject, much must depend upon our zeal-
and activity in rectifying and completing
the Registry. There is now no time 0 lose. Let
every , man whq hears, tl,, e. b,onoared title of
Conservative," and all who desire to avert _a
serious catastrophe to the country, see 'at once
that their names are properly registered on the
list of elcctors—that they may be ready for action
in the hour of need to do battle for the mainte-
nance, unimpaired, of our true honoured
institutions. irrnic:l4
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