The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-12 00:00:00

plan seem to be fully
portion of the " Opposi-
bent on affixing an
motley part•, or rather
headed by rival leaders who
• they were out of place.
considerable difficulty,
goodly designations which
worn out. The "Great
obsolete. The " Friends
• revived, but the people
The " Liberal Body "
11. The " Popular
suspicion of irony. " The
-le last new invention, and
iporaries seem to think it a

pardon the attempt to
unpleasant associations
sound like condensed
protest against a new
ible, perhaps, than those
a whit less fallacious.
mischievous delusion to
with "progress." Putting
oscillation (though aptly
to and fro of much
.), even in the physical
or discordant motion
of power. Sir Toby
instance, who utterly
"to his house in the
at the Vine," till at
towards the tavern, and
and the equally genial,
gab, who in vain traced
his college, till at length
hit him on the nose."
variety of movement
" Charleys " of their
be quoted as good
And in the political
good. The movement
impeded real advance-
ibined, and ill-directed
by the downward
ip—now by the external
agitation—anon by the
• of the two, they have
mum of noisy restless-
real progress. Session
wasted in wrangling or
changes, while the
improvements in the
political system were
executed as to make two

advocates do not deny.
. great field-day Lord J.
blows the historic trump of
'services rendered to the

Cannas, 3lithridatieumque
party the honours due
, the shortcomings of
Reform Bill are fully if
" Liberal press " and
in the House. These
well justify us in broadly
men now in opposition
name of " the Party of
further and more direct
charging them with a re-
progressive tendency, if
• performances to those
which they wish the
accept in satisfaction of a
do not mean that any-
programme of the measures
movement party, in the
returning to power, has
among the heads of the
, party, at Cambridge-
e doubt even the
those various section-
framing a sufficient
followers, as Russell-
-theists, and the "New
any confession of faith.
learn from the debates
both Lord JOHN Rus-
TON are prepared on
perilous innovation,
, popularity. But we
general voice of the
by anticipation certain
of the "Party of Pro-
official millennium, and

The advantages of the p
appreciated by a large port
ton" pram They are 1
attractive name to a mot
aggregate of parties, header
were out of repute before tl
But the task is one of cm
from the number of goodl,
the firm has already won
Whig Connection" is obst
of the People" might be re
are not consenting. T 1
suggests mutiny and No.
Party" conveys a suspici
Party of Progress" is the le
some of our contemporaries
decided hit.
Now, we can -well par
escape from the various um
belonging to names which
satire. But we must pr.(
misnomer, more plausible,
already "used up," but not
It is a vulgar but most mi
confound "movement" witl
out of the question mere osc
illustrative of the useless
Whig agitation heretofore)
world spasmodic, irregular,
impedes progress by waste
in the old epigram, for ii
failed to make his way "
Square from his friends
length he set his face tov
drifted home sternwards; a
but less fortunate, Cantab,
abnormal spirals towards him
" the ground rose up and 1
exhibited, doubtless, a vi
highly interesting to the '
day, but could scarcely
examples of progression.
world the same law holds g
party have continually im
ment by desultory, ill-comb
activity. Working now
pressure of a dictatorship—
impulse of democratic agi
combination or antagonism
contrived to unite a maxim
ness with a minimum of re
after session have they wa
declaiming about organic
simplest and most obvious
working of our social and
either neglected or so exec
holes in mending one.
This charge their ablest a
Indeed, save that on a gn
RUSSELL occasionally blows
Whiggery, and tells of serN
last generation " Cannam
bellum "—arrogating t 3 a p
to the English people, 1
" Liberalism ' since the IL
not freely admitted by the
by the leading " Liberals "
admissions alone might well
denying the right of the me
to their newly-coined flan
Progress." But we have fw
grounds for denial—for cha
wrelre rather than a pro
oaok from their past p
promises for the future v
national credulity to accept
longstanding debt. We d
thing like a distinct prograr
to be expected from the mi
event of their unhappily ret
yet been agreed upon amm
different sections of that
house or elsewhere. IN
possibility of bringing th
leaders to unite in fr
symbol," or their various
des, Msnchesterians, Pam-t
Connection," to join in ar
And it is comfortable to le
of Tuesday night that bot,
SELL and Lord PALMERST
Certain questions to resist
"en at the cost of some
rely mean that the gs
Liberal "
press claims by
rneuures from the hands 01
gress" in their expected offi