The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-31 00:00:00

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however, ..upon . Offend. grounds, i 141 ' as
upOn this particular question, that the I ding
ConSeryatiVe organ complains of the inactivity
and indifference' of its party in the House of
Commons. "It may be good nature," isays our
contemporary, "it may be a dread of responsi-
bility, or a feeling that their opposition will only
arouse a fiercer antagonism to constitutional
principles, that paralyses their action and pre-

vents their combination for any given pnrpOse•
Bnt it can hardly be doubted that by their want.
of union and their hesitation they are completely
playing the game of their opponents; and that
when the time comes, as come it gill:,"very
speedily, for making a resolute stand,,theirpast
inaction,will tell fearfully on their morale and on

their powers of 'resistance." There is ouly,,too
'witch reason to
,apprehend unhappy results like
these.
.One, would have thought that the Con-
servative party had karat, by bitter experience,

;13,at great. truth in politics, no less than in morals,
.hat union is strength;" and that just in the MU e

proportion, that '.union is strength, is disunion
rlpal I
weakness,-and not merely disunion, bntt
aihy,

and 104 ,is popularly, called litElepentlenee
Party 'cornbiriations are bad recourse to on one

side, they must of necessity on the other ; ttnless,
indeed, the party combining is, to be. allowed to
carry all before it. Now we say, that the Liberal
party, so called, has -become a compact bodiy, for
the attainment of. Certain political ends of a very
mischievous character; and if they. are to be
resisted in that objectwith any chance of success,
it must be by a similar party combination. of
their own. Our Conservative leaders 'havy.,.po
doubt had' muih to dishearten and discourage
them of late.,. But let .them 'takeLheart—there is
a good time coming... The present unnatural and

Ocanstitut ional coalition cannot last much lor#,.
and not improbably erea .before it' breaks up-0e
country will be but too glad to secure the services
again of a' Coliserratis.'e Qorerninent.

It must be highly gratifying and satisfactory
to the Shipping Interest of this great port, to
find their Tepresentative,• Mr. Horsfall, seconding
so important a motion as that of Mr. Lindsay.
Its object, 'as it would be seen, was the presents-
tion by the House of Commons of an address to
Her Majesty, praying that she willhe graciously
pleased to enter into negotiations .with !The Empe-
ror of the French, with a ,view, Otinaking a treaty
for the reciprocal abrogation of all discriminkting-
duties levied upon the .tessels'and their, cargoes
of either -•of the two nations in' the pert:4-4 the
other, and for procuring. suoir alterations in thee
navigation laws of France;
,' ' may tend tc.o,
facilitate conimercial.intereourse•and strengthen
the friendly relations between , England and
France. This were a most legitimate proceeding
in every point of view.; and although it is one
based on the principle of recipriocity, rather than
on that of free trade, it cannot, nnclkAlie,,.
circumstances, be in any wise objectionable-on-
that ground. The Government, indeed,, e, cordi-
' ally adopted the inotiort, that it is be hoped
no such objection ;OA ;will, in jaw quarter be
entertained. We have the assurance of
_the
sident of the Board of Trade, Mr. Milner Gibson
himself, " that the CrciverninAt `would lose no
fitting, qppprtunity of; ,inducing the French
Government to enter into a maritime tr•aty .with
us, which would give to the English shipping in
the foreign • and indirect carrying trades 'that
reciprocity which at present was granted to us
by the • Governments of Spain and Portugal," -
though it could' not, he added " be expected that
France would do anything to remove those
restrietions Which' it imposed to prevent English.
shipping from engaging in the coasting and
colonial trade of France." It remains.to
however; how the-. French
_Emperor will now
respond to any such overtures. At pmenti
we are to believe the accounts' we receive from
Paris, his Majesty is notin the_hest _of humeara-
With us ; and we dare say that reOeut occurrences
havedene a; good deal= to lessen theinflueh4-ot.)
her Majesty's present Government with that of:;,,
France.

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THE more the Ministerial policy develops itself,
the more does it became ob.vious, that it is not so

much, on'this occasion, a mera vaulting_ambition
overleaping itself, as a systero of scheming mid'
maticeu,vering confounding its own devices. All I,J.

coalitionS involve, more or less, a principle 4

prtifice and craft, and necessitate' a course Of:
kubtlety and tortuousness.
.Howi can, i 4 *wel.l

Otherwise, when men have: to, p,roend- td

upon a policy, respecting whiehttilleir real views,
often Avon faufkamental poi4is, are utterly atv

variance with each other ? Therizaust of aeces-.

ittity, in such a case, be eoxpprotaise,so4kna the, cots
sideration has frequently to be,--not-74t-isi right,'
but what is'ei'peilient, ox.• vitut 4,poVtie. When ;\
SHA KS PEARE's SERVILI ITS says to SEM PRO*tt:thit

" the devil knew not what he did when 'he made

man poli4c—that he crossed himself
ghat he could not but think that in the end the

villaAie,k,of roan would set him clear "—he only
said what we are having, even in theSe days,
still illustrated before enr eyes, and in'the pelitites
of our own, as well as of less favoured countlie>i. .
• How politic was not the coalescing of the T'eeliteS.,
the Whigs, and the Radicals, under the popltir,
but most deceitful name of " Liberals," thoughit
by them all to be, and how equally liti c thee- '3
artful alliance with a more scheming and unprin.7.-„-
cipled politician than all of them put together-
we mean Louis NAPOLEON ? Who would hae.,:-/. •
,thought 'that, upon any honeit and horkoUrable°s1hu3
principle there could ever have been, not a com-
munity of sentiment, but even: a concurrence in
4LAD,STONE. and GIB ON ? And see what 0114.
of its latest anornalies,—a great national ques- •
ticm,. and one of more than ordinary seriousness,
if trot also sacredness, is at issue in the Huse of
Cann:tons ; we mean that of Churchositi:ats—and
Ministers of the Crown come into the'arina of the •
cindlict opposed to each other upon it I. It is a
.fir
Aquestion: most 'materially affbating, not tile,a4fe
tests merely but the very existence of that..44ich,;oo.
is part and parcel
,9f
ithe ConstittrtioK they &kg' ad, also'
gwprit to nphelcl--for ours is still, he it remem-
'lkea, a Constitationof -Church and'
LState—and
yet do several of them come out and join: the 2..-
sacrilegious phalanx that is ranged, againstiiti-1,0
the one or two more scrnpulpu,s.- or their„ cok-pan.T.
leagues, who cannot yet go quite such leinigtgo

so headlong and perfidious a career, looking
wire
no' doubt, aghast at the portentous probeetliNg..rtiou
We say the more i•erup,l44aTitTl#6o-a-41-4 7-At411.1
why more scrupulous ? Was it upon principle,
,or frOm expediency.? Did Mr. Gladstone oppost
,his colleagnes-7eVen his Cabinet Chief—in theq4iid'‘,.
measure profanely and dishonestly, deprivingei A
the Established Church of its rights- •Oi. property,
becrOie it
,was wrong so to deprivo,it, or because •
as - the representative of the .§lergy as. .
member for a great Church institution like 11344 - tit
of the UniverSity of Oxford—he could not igf,f
himself, and chose what he regarded as the least;,, .1411
of two evils ? We don't like imputing motives,',4=ir
But what confidence can one Possibly have in the-,:i55.449
purity 'of any politician's motives has placed- tic°
him Self, politically, if not morally also,
equivocal a positiOn as that which
of hishichfN i4:o„ugriLtArr.D- •
y
STONE now occupies is. ;id r, •Mr-
mein?
=aro.,
'And is .not their Imperial. friend and ally's,nusscv
Conduct much of a piece .with all this ? • Has ifotlit
Louts :NAPOLEON, with all
.his scheniing, kept
I.them.very much in countenance ? upon _K
it, that in the whole Course of their relationsi;roltla,,
with each other, and. their consequent inutna:;fuedi-
intercoUrse, it has been, on both sides, more or
less, a game, of "Diamond cut diamOnd.r. :11.40rd L
PALMERSTON and, Lord .10/IN RUSSELL; at any
rate, kUew better what they were about tll4ll.3''''3
may at first sight; after recent exposures. an4lilLi
exalathations, :appear to have been the
"Those oft are stratagems which errors seem." 33'7A9.Frvra°3°)
. And in. politics, as in..anything, else, iii,.,artful.,7,Voird
dodger is very, generaWy, even though it-tufty at-alri. tgr/
the moment seem to be otherwise, "more knave ;,,-,10,4c)
than fool." Surely there
,can at least be no doubt:/Z?
of this as respects Louis, NAPOLEON 2 The Eng- '`i
lish Coalition Ministry; it is true, have tried to:i.J.:v‘s)
make him useful to themselves,—to derive
party :IA .197216°
strength from their affiance with hirn,—to gain
MUlar support from drawing Closer with WIN :1/1301