The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

~d+

• • I

%~=

~+,yw;.;. ~,
. ~q,

ije•c

~4

. t0.•10.,1411.11111.11'...,*,.....”...M1/41,...", 'of '''.."...."."1:".."41.,;'...: ' 4:•.,; ‘ Al,--.:11,140.114114 -
1 ,
‘.
s.
.!
,04.7.79",
. . I ..
f ..,....."47' ../t e 1. •. 7 1 etrolri')!.ar. %I. ;Pc.n 11,.
,.
// 1 /. fe- 11- * s .T: • • . ,• •
Imi P.I .. i '• ~ :. 1 1).:•'• i: L: t:.„
,:'' 4,,,,i6-'
_,....,w,
.1 •I. ! : 1 I k:: t 1-L.'-1171'13 t4l JP! .P4ll
' )• -

No. 249.—V0L. VI.

g't V rtss.

the Noble Earl's speech, and to contrast it
with the warnings so repeatedly uttered by the
Conservative leaders, without feeling that we
had heard the last of Liberal foresight and
Conservative faction.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEDRUARY G, 1858.

The Premier seems, indeed, a victim to that
species of recklessness which is thought by
the superstitious to be a forerunner of disso-
lution. Not satisfied with outraging the coun-
try by his Cabinet appointments, he has given
deep offence within the walls of Parliament
by his contemptuous silence on the great
questions of the day. He refused any infor-
mation upon India or Reform in December
labt, because Parliament had met for other
business. That business is disposed of, but
ho is still as uncommunicative as ever. He
has almost openly declared that he will not
have his measures discussed by the public
one day, if he can help it, before their submis-
sion to Parliament ' • and of the reckless
rapidity with which he seeks to hurry them
through the House when once brought in we
do not require to be reminded. None share
more largely in the dissatisfaction created by
this conduct than Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Par-
liament and the public have both a right to

Tea men should mistake the tendency of
their own conduct and the character of their
own motives while in the full career of action
is so common as to be almost a law of human
nature. So far does this self-deception emend,
that we sometimes find people railing at the
very practices of which they themselves are
the most conspicuous examples. Who inite
unconsciously point their own moral and
adorn their own tale ; who on a retro-
spect of any past portion of their lives are
astonished to see their conduct in its true
colours; and to feel how completely, while
denouncing this or that doctrine or policy,
they were objecting only to the letter, while

LONDON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1858.
STAMPED
I 7 _SIXPENCE.
NSTAMPED..FIVEPENCE

day; now telling us that the Company was
to be abolished, now that it was to be retained,
again that there was to be a clean sweep made
of it, and still again that hardly any change
was to be proposed—while those who were
most boisterous in favour of annexations and
resumptions are now most vociferous in de-
claring all this to be a mistake, and those who
were for nothing less than exterminating the
natives are now adducing the addresses of
these natives as the best evidence of their
title to public confidence and support—while
such is the mean and contemptible position of
the Ministerial camp, we have reason to be
proud and thankful that we have nothing to
modify, nothing to explain, and nothing to
retract. From the beginning our course has
been clear and consistent, because from the
beginning we were guided by conviction and
principle in what we wrote. It is, indeed, a
subject of triumph to us that those who at one
time took such pains to misrepresent us,
should now have become such fervent con-
verts to our views—views which were not

the result of momentary impulse, but
have been clearly and constantly put f
by us before the public for the last fosse