The Press.
London, England, 1858-04-24 00:00:00

TO THE CHIEF OF THE WHIGS.

MY LORD,—The Clubs are all talking of you. " What will L
Jon do now ?" is asked in every variety of tone in Pall-mall and in
St. James's-street. All the incidents of the situation which Lord
PALMERSTON maintains towards you are eagerly discussed. The just
create of your past services, your present influence and future fame,.
your personal character, are all at stake upon yOur conduct in the
current session. SYDNEY SMITH has been often quoted against you,,
but fairness requires that he should be quoted for you. "If Lord
" MELBOURNE was gone, it would be easy to find another handsome
" )tetd for the ilatVi if Mr. Snore -RicE should vanish, great would
"be the joy of. t4glThree Per Centc,; if Lord PALMERSTON retired, we
" should not be nibbling ourselves into little wars all over the world:
" bat if anything were to happen to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the whole
" party would break up into sparks of liberality and splinters of
" Reform." And is not SYDNEY SMITH'S prophecy come to pass?
Where is the Liberal Party now ? It is out of office. Of what is it
composed? Of " sparks" and "splinters."
On great occasions, and for many years together, Lord CHATHAM,
Mr. 1;',034r eilid the late Earl GREY, " stood alone ;" and though not
holding the seals of office, those great men. wielded prodigious power
over Ministers, who feared their frowns, and dreaded their censure.

It is asked—" Is Lord JOHN RUSSELL great enough to stand alone?'
That is one of the queitions frequently heard in political circles.
It has often been said, that after yqu had found you had committed
yourself by the " Durham Letter," :if you had then resolved to stand
alone, and firmly declined eompronSising yourself by consenting to sit
in a Cabinet, which owed its triumph over the Old Whigs to the votes
of the "Brass Band" . j'ykitt Would have vastly raised your moral
influence, and imparted additional lustre to your name.
Your Lordship is doubtless well informed of the extraordinary
means taken by tho Cambridge-house connection to " organize " their
power.
That word " organize " is a new one in our political vocabulary.
In former times, England, Conservative and Liberal, was ruled by its
natural influences. Now-a-days, when certain jobbing Liberals want
moral power, and when they have lost faith in the spell of great
historical names, and discarded the old traditions of the popular
cause, they proceed to " organize,"—that is. to construct au artificial
authority in place of a moral influence. Counterfeit manufacture is
always lurking under these "organizing" attempts.
Ono of your Lordship's colleagues in the Aberdeen Cabinet was
conspicuous for a brief season in consequence of his industry in
" organizing." Your Lordship recollects the peculiar sort of political
" tail " which his Grace appended to his person. What does your
Lordship think of the Cambridge-house " tail " ?
Largo jobbers—small jobbers ; high journalists—low journalists:
clerks in office—clerks out of office; men who had "a name" and
lost it—men who never will gain "a name; " intriguers incessantly
advertising their small wits—fetchers and carriers of scandal—seedy
Horace Vlalpoles, and George Selwyns out of elbows—rhetoricians
" to let," and political inquirers whose final convictions are secured by
the Californian screw; " City" speculators, loiterers in "the lobby,"
frequenters of the Stock Exchange, and a motley band of adven-
turers in search of a platform—such are the materials out of which
the invisible friends of Lord Proteus seek to " organize " a mockery
of public opinion ! They open a mart where the sellers are " Legion,"
though the buying is but for -7-oas ! !
e Whether a proud man: ' I.ord JOHN RUSSELL will consent to
another " Coalition" with sgo r si; " organization," is anxiously asked
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PERPLEXITIES OF AN OLD.I.IIIIIP.
SCENE—Brookes'. Club. i?oisday EutaT
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Sin W. C. H.—( reading the letter of an Old Whig in Tuesday's " Globe"):
" We have passed the time for even a new and improved edition of the
" last Cabinet. We want a new Liberal Government, in which Lord
" JOHN RUSSELL shall be a prominent member, which shall not exclude
" Sir JAMES GRAHAM, which shall secure Mr. GLADSTONE, and which
shall not condemn either Mr. BRIGHT or Mr. Giasox to proscription."
Heyday ! Coalition again ! And what a Coalition—BßlGHT and GLAD*
STONE! What will Oxford say to that? WI a .oIIT
( Reads again) : " Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his Mends refuse their
" co-operation in an attempt to overthrow Lord Damn- for no higher
" object than a restoration. They cannot be expected to become mere
" tools to gratify Lord PALMERSTON'S personal ambition. And if they
" are expected, it is quite certain that they won't." This is as pretty a
quarrel as I ever saw. First, we have Barna,. publishing to all the
world that Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministry was the " very worst" that he
had ever seen ! And then we have Lord You or his friend declaring
that, in the next Liberal Ministry, JOHN BRIGHT must have a place •
How are we ever to get on in this way?
(alias again) : " Lord Jeux RUSSELL may reasonably decline.
" after all that has occurred, to serve under any one." "It is not, I

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humbly think, possible for Lord JOHN RUSSELL to become a subor-
dinate member of any Government." Hoity-toity ! where are we
now? Lord Patmeastoit, the last Premier—Lord PALMERSTON, whom
this House of Commons ivas chosen to support—is now to give way to
a man twelve
years his junior, and who could not command fifty votes
in the whole House! ( Musing.) What way can we find out of this
puzzle? Lord PALMERSTON-80 these gentlemen say—is not to be
restored, even with a stronger Cabinet than the last ! He must take
in Lord JoaN, who turned him out, as one sends away a footman, in
Ism. He must take in GLADSTONE, who has got his own notions about
the Church;
and he must take is
BRIGHT, who has got a very different
set of notions.
Now all this s simply impossible. Such a Cabinet
would split to pieces in a week.
( Reads again): " I do not deny that Lord PALMERSTON may be
able to re-form a Cabinet. Very likely ho may. But he cannot, it is
" clear, form a powerful Liberal Cabinet Toaccomplish that, he must
" seek the aid of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. GLAD-
" STONE, and the more reasonable of the Radicals." And what is this
powerful
Liberal Cabinet to do? Make a Reform Bill? Do Lord
Joss RUSSELL and Mr. BRIGHT mean the same thing by " Reform "?
Will Mr. BRIGHT leave us any aristocracy or any Church? Will Lord
JOHN surrender them both ? And does not this gentleman see that he
is reopening the quarrel of 1835 once more? It was the cry that the
Church was in danger that raised up the Conservative party, and broke
down the Melbourne Ministry. That feud has been healed, and Lord
PALMERSTON has contrived to get a good portion of the Church on his
side ; but give BRIGHT and MILNER GIBSON their way, and you'll raise
the Church, as one man, against such a Government.
I can't see my way out of this. We are not to have a new Palmsrs-
ton Ministry, so says this " Old Whig " If we are to have a Liberal
Ministry at all, we are to have a Bright and Milner Gibson one, with
Lord JOHN RUSSELL at its head, and Lord PALMERSTON under him !
But what about Church-rates, which Lord JOHN has vowed he will
never give up, and which BRIGHT and the Radicals will never tolerate?
In fact, what about the Church itself? Then, again, this wonderful
new Liberal Cabinet is to be one " which shall not condemn either
" Mr. BRIGHT or Mr. Glaser( to proscription." Very good! If I under-
stand this Old Whig, Mr. BRIGHT is not to be proscribed, not absolutely
shut out ;heisto be admitted, if he will behave himself. Now, does
this "Old Whig," or does Lord JOHN RUSSELL, imagine that JOHN
BRIGHT is coming in on any such terms? Do they mean to offer him
a Lordship of the Admiralty, or a Secretaryship to the Board of Con-
trol? Are they really dreaming that such a bird as that is to be
caught with such chaff? This is really too good. JOHN Bluetit must
nut be " condemned to proscription"! How very generous !

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TO A " TIMES "-SERVING POLITIoiAN:f!si,

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Ah! what are you doing, Bob Lowe, Bob Lowe ? RniKiffir,s
Ah! what are you doing, Bob Lowe ? .#0 ik "li
" I'm writing long leaders 'n, ')(11
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" For Palmerston readers,
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"Who're capital feeders
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" Of one whom Lord John won't know, won't know,
"Of one whom Lord John won't know." ‘,4 :?.AAJ 'gm.

You've two strings to your bow, Bob L3we, Bob Lowe;"`)
You two strings to your how, Bob Lowe,
Your speeches unspoken,
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With fresh virus soaken, . .111 • fl, .0
Are in articles broken,
And neatly touched up, you know how, Bob Lowe,
And neatly touched up, you know how.

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"'Tie a smart thing I do," says Lowe, says Lowo,
"'Tie a smart thing I do," says Lowe ;
" I butter my bread
" Ou two sides, as 'tis said,
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" For my leaders are read,
" While my speeches by few folk are heard, says Lowo,
" While my speeches by few folk are heard."

You once were a Peelite, Bob Lowe, Bob Lowevii)
Yon once were a Peelite, Bob Love,
1"01 ' But you ratted and ran; t.i. L‘•
• Tho' a Parliament-man, t/i) ;ir
You wore made by the clan
Who followed Sir Robert, Bob Lowe, Bob Lowe, ,
Who followed Sir Robert, Bob Lowe. ~.,„,„,„..

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"Yes! I change with the Times," says Lowe, says Lowe,
"Yea! I change with the Times," says Lowe,
" For a pen-and-ink job
" You will ne'er get a nob
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" Like the whitc-headed Bob,
" Whose name and whose style are both low, both low,
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" Whose name and whose style are both low." ""
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THE QUARRELSOME FAMILY.

" Read the Liberal papers—that is, nine-tenths of the press. They remind yon of the (Haan
lions of a family party large enough to feel no shame at quarrelling in the presence of strangers.
What touching entreaties to be quiet—what unconcealed piques and mutual aserbititm—what
petty ebullitions of temper—what dull advice—what unprofitable sermons on warn-oat texts—ghat
perplexities, thinly veiled under mechanical orasetaadd sad affacted scan..!
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We all must have seen, in our rambles through life,
Some knot of cross relatives, ever at strife :
Their cash is ill-managed, their credit is low,
Their manners unpleasing, their morals so-so ;
Yet instead of disguising their pitiful plight,
They think by loud wrangling to set matters right,
And, venting their spleen in reciprocal sneers,

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Call names—let out secrets--and care not who hears.
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They may get up impromiitui as well as B .0.,
And by galling allusion their cleverness show—
May testify candour by "palpable hits," auto, ,
Each avowing the faults that another commits. 'lr
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But their candour " means mischief;" their cleverness ends
In disgusting their neighbours, and grieving their friends ;
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And the Quarrelsome Family prove to all eyes i
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That they're not very thriving, awl not very wise. 'I.!, .1f;1

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Even such are our " Liberal" worthies just now, ' 4"4
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Self-excluded from Office, but ripe for a row ;
They have sinn'd in Diplomacy, fail'd in Finance, +l7l
Have been timid with Naples and servile with France ;
They have drifted on IVar, and have plunged into debt,
Till their exit awakes'not one honest regret ;
And now, by the demon of discord possessed, . 3v
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fthfr,EaCh comforts himself in abusing the rest.
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mrl'First Pam and his myrmidons lavish reproach
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