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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 27.

Sar Fair is a bad state of the weather-glass for
an Opposition, but for the present the political
thermometer tells no other tale in England. It is a
stark staring calm—an Irishman's hurricane ; the
fiag up and down the mast. Not • catspaw to be
got out of that oily mill-pond ; mischief brewing
all round the horizon; but unless we sail right
into it, it won't come to seek this good old ship
of ours—the " British Constitution " lazily
tumbling on an even keel. Under these unhappy
circumstances what is to be done 4 Furl all sail
and go to sleep ; or whistle for a wind, hoist •
tablecloth to see whether it will draw, and drink
one another's very good health. The old stagers
who are tired of going aloft are content to make
good weather of it when they can, and turn in : it
is the hotblooded youngsters, on their promotion,
who want to make • splendid passage, and when a
calm comes, make a noise.
We cannot wonder if the Tories pure and simple,
finding that not • rag of their original principles will
draw, set • table-cloth to catch the first breath of
air in the political sky. We cannot wonder if the
great Conservative party has settled down into the
great Conservative dinner party. There are occa-
sions when even to hear the sound of one's own
voice is • relief. It is long since the great Con-
servative party has heard the sound of its own voice;
for in Parliament the hands may be the hands
of DERBY, but the voice is the voice of
Pantsavrox. Since they took to the min-
cing patois of Liberal Conservatism, the fine
old racy idiom of the party has evaporated.
As for their Parliamentary existence, it is become
a life-long exercise of the painful virtues of patience
and self-denial, very may for the old and the satis-
fied, but very tiresome for the young and the am-
bitious. Doubtless it is a moat honourable and
conscientious part for an Opposition to play ; to
oppose the Government just enough to give it some-
thing to lean upon, but carefully to disclaim the in-
tention of doing it any harm. To the credit of the
Country party, it must be acknowledged that many
of its members on the back benches are never
more in their element than when they are proving
the disinterested sincerity of their patriotism ;
and for our own part we should be sorry to see
those back benches vacant when we see how the
front benches are filled. But in our days the
great Conservative party, once so massive, uni-
form, coherent, and compact, is almost as
composite and as mixed as the Liberal
majority. It contains Tories pure and simple, and
Conservatives of every shade and colour ; and
among the pure and simple Tories the most eager
and ambitious are, it may be, the purest, but cer-
tainly not the simplest. How are these restless and
swelling spirits who have taken to Conservatism
as • professional career in statesmauship, and who
fancy themselves Tories of the Bousoeitortz school,
as the Girondins fancied themselves Roman republi-
cans—how are these ardent and bitter young met
to be kept quiet while Lord DERBY wishes it to
be understood that he does not desire Lord Pm,
MERSTON to be disturbed f
Sir JOHN PAILINOTON may be content to com-
municate his satisfaction or his displeasure to the
Admiralty ; Mr. WALPOLE. may mildly suggest
compromises, and abjure hostile motives; Mr.
BENTINCE may be busy with the Dockyards ; and
Mr. NMEDLOATE may watch with sympathy the de•
cline of the temporal power of the POFE. ; but where
is ancient Toryism in all this? The great Liberal
party, it is true, has merged into • man ; but the
great Conservative party has equally acknowledged
the same supremacy. The Liberals have thrown
their heavy guns overboard; the Conservatives