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London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 24.

LOID Joni; Roastis has again tendered, to the
electors of the City of London, his services as their
representative in the House of Commons. We cannot
entertain a doubt that the offer so frankly made will
be ea cordially received;—that the connexion of ten
eventful years will be prolonged that the city will
set to all shades of the great party of progress, the
important example of rallying round one of the meet
prominent and able champions of its principles.
We hear indeed rumours—dim and distant—of
tome obscure intriguer., who, usurping the name of
liberals, are seeking to stir up an opposition to Lord
JOHN among the free trade and reforming electors.
We have nut been implicit admirers or servile eulo-
gist. of Lord June when in etfice. We have, there-
&r. a., a right to expect that some weight will be attri-
buted to our support of his claims now that he is not
a minister. We should regard any opposition to his
re-clection, by any person affecting to call themselves
reformers, rank treason against the cause of liberty
and progress at a perilous crisis—an example of
perverse mutiny and disunion at a time when con-
cord and combination among reformers is more than
ever needed.
It is not that we apprehend from the present shabby
occupants of office any serious damage to the liberal
cause. Their reserve indicating either an utter want
of any predetermined policy, or fear to let the pub-
lic know their unprincipled schemes—and their inces-
sant eating of their words indicating an utter disre-
gard of the frank truthfulness and consistency that
gees
iues English gentlemen—are rapidly lasing for
them the confidence of their own party, and justify-
ing and confirming the hostility of their opponents.
It cannot be that England can long tolerate the re-
tentiou of the reins of government by such a crew of
dealers in false pretences.
But when they are forced by their own incompe-
tence and bad reputation to retire disgraced to their
original obscunty, then will come the tune
when the presence of prudent and experienced
statesmen in parliament will be found neces-
sary. The whip ministry was not so much
turned out, as that it dissolved by a natural process
of decay. It is admitted on all hands that a recon-
struction of the liberal party on a broader basis—upon
more explicit terms of alliance—is indispensable. But
nothing has been as yet done towards the accom-
plishment of this object. It is possible, nay it is pro-
bable that the demissal of the DERBY-I/ISRAELI
ministry might find the new alliance yet only in an
inchoate state. Now such a period of party anarchy
is precisely the one when trimmers and job-
bers, and all that unclean tribe of fishen in
troubled waters, are prone to swarm forth
from their lurkingplaces. The present disorganised
state of the liberal party is encouraging
multitudes of this class to offrr their services
to constituencies at the coming election. The num-
ber of " loose fish," as they are called, in the next
parliament, will in all probability be much more con-
siderable than is expedient, or even safe. In such
circumstances it is especially incumbent upon con-
stituencies which have the good fortune to be repre-
sented by soy man of high principle, of influence in the
council, of the liberal /eiders, and long experience
in business, to rally enthusiastically round them.
Such men are needed in the house that the par-
liamentary reformers may rally round them in
the arduous struggles of the new parlia-
ment;—as Hausa IV. exhorted his chivalry to
rally round his snow-white plume. Without a con-
siderable number of these to form the nucleus of a
working liberal party in parliament the cause may
be in imminent danger.
Now without pretending to maintain that the say-
ings and doings of Lord JOUN RrSSILL have on all
occasions been exactly what earnest and uncompro-
mising reformers could have wished, thus much may
be said of him without exaggeration:—For the better
part of half a century be has faithfully and ably
fought the battle of reform in parliament. He has
been in the main consistent ; any changes his political
creed has experienced have been ever in the direction
of increased liberality. lie has much experience and
such ability in the conduct of parliamentary busi-
ness. Always clear and impressive in his oratory,
he rises on ensergstsies to a =mending moral dig-
nity. His connexions enable him to lead many of
our noble and wealthy politicians who might prove
unmanageable under any other leader. It would be a
severe blow to the liberal cause if a man possessed
of such power, and endowed with such finalities,
were not returned to parliament at the coming elec-
tion. It would be a severe blow if he were even
obliged to enter it as the member of a new and less
important constituency than the one he now repre-
sents.

The united liberals of England are therefore en-
titled to call upon the electors of the City of London
—as they value their character as staunch and intelli-
gent reformers—to accept Lord JOHN Reasem.'s
tendered Derek's, and send him back to parliament
by as marked a majority as at any previous election.
To do Ices would be to warrant a suspicion that the
seal of many reformers is waxing cold—that there is
disunion in the ranks of the friends of pro-
These considerations would have been
frrreettible, had Lord Jour, in requesting
the votes of the London electors, done no more than
allude in general terms to his past services, and de-
manded their ooalidencis, without any detailed ex-
position of his intentions for the future. But in his
address—the weighty words of which we will not
weskits by paraphrase or partial quotation, bat to
which we refer our readers--he has chalked out a
plan foe the next and future campaigns of parlia-
mentary liberals that would of itself warrant any
constituency to choose its author for their repre-
sentative—even without such a long experience as
reformers have had of Lord Jon's will and ability
to serve them.

Tea Revd of the Royal Comendsoloners on the
state of the University of Oxford bas limply en-
dorsed opinions with which every reader of the
Ilspreas has bees familiar for some dais poet.
In a series of articles which go so farther beck than
the last two mouths we have shown that the great
source of the total failure of the Universities of Ox-
ford sad Cambridge, es of mafioso' education, is that
the colleges have overridden the adversity. The
argument maintained in our columns, and sup-
ported by quotations from ancient statutes of
colleges, was, that the col ages, which were
formerly eiwimeed Awarding-A.464e5, for the benefit
of students wishing to partake of the privi-
leges afforded by the university, now stand in the
pleas of the university itself. A very simple
hypothetical cam will illustrate our positions.
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of CHAIM'S DICILILNB'II two medical students,
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