The Press.
London, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

Law and Justice.

1848 X880,089
1856
The difference is truly enormous, and the
balance against the country on this head,
counting for the last ten years, shoAs the
prodigious sum of 1,376,991/. !

It is indeed most extraordinary to reflect
how the Liberals in office are sure to mis-
manage the finances of the country. We are
perpetually forced to remember that the Whigs
never possessed a financier since WAr.por.E.
They broke down in 1841 oa a financial
question, and the middle classes deserted
them when the Money Market became de-
ranged. People find it a hard task to shout
for " progress " when the Funds are going
down, and the empire getting into diffi-
culties. But, certainly, after the lessons read.
to the Whigs in 1841, one might have sup-
posed that they would have been more
cautious than to neglect the department of
the public service on which they lost the
confidence of the people of England. Accident
brought them into office again in 1846; and
no sooner were they in Downing street than
their reckless financial mismanagement re-
commenced. Year after year they have crammed
on the expenditure under this head, until
it has reached the present portentous dimen-
sions.

And now, when the Earl of NIALMESSURY has
roused the attention of the Legislature and of
the whole country to this great subject, the
Whigs begin to quake, and they know not
what to do or to say. They feel that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL has again committed them with
his hard and hasty words. It is not the first
time that " Johnny has upset the coach ;" and
the "frightful increase of the Civil expenditure"
is a back-handed stroke, long to be felt by the
friends and colleagues who jobbed, intrigued,
and vacillated along with himself during ten
years. The fundamental rottenness of the
Whig system is by evidence of the most sin-
gular kind fully revealed, as we shall show on
another occasion, by this identical table of
expenditure under the
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glare of a flashy phil
appeals to platform _
tical results, its habitual
and last, not least, ;
modes of thought an(
pletely exposed to put
manner by which these
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system is positively a complete squandering

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of the public money, and that there is strong
reason to believe that practically the Whig
system of " Law and Justice " has had a fatal
tendency to tho sowing of criminality broad-
cast throughout the land.
That this "frightful expenditure" is of a
most extraordinary character can be perceived
by other means than an appeal to figures.
Have any of our readers observed the shrug
and tone of disparagement with which the
Liberals in society receive the name of the
late Mr. HuNtE ? The mention of that finan-
cial reformer is more unpalatable to them
than Mr. PITT or Lord CASTLEREAGH. His
rvutation seems to trouble them with spectral
• Inionitions. His name is never mentioned in
the Liberal circles but there is sure to be some
critical disparagement of that eminent
man, recalling to the memory the sarcasm
that once fell from the lips of GRATTAN.
When Lord JEFFREY penned his smooth and
superficial piece of detraction from the fame
of Swirr, the Whiglings enjoyed the abuse of
the renowned Tory writer; but GRATTAN, who
had noble sympathy with traduced genius,
silenced them one morning at Brookes's :
" I do not like this Scotchman scraping toge-
" ther his handful of pebbles and flinging
" them against the bones of a huge giant.
" SwiFr was a great man, and Mr. JEFFREY is
" a small one ; but his article proves one
" thing satisfactorily, that if Mr. JEFFREY be
" alive, Swirr is dead, and Mr. Jeffrey knows it.'
And so say we. The increase of the Civil ex-
penditure since 1846. when it reached
3,482,4261., up to 1856, when it stands at
6,724,2501., shows that while the Whigs arc
alive and jobbing " Liberally " in office, Mr.
Hum E is dead, and the IVhigs know it.
But we shall not discuss this question of
spendthrift expenditure by reference to Mr.
HUME, whose memory is obnoxious to the
Liberals, and to whose political views we were
often adverse. We shall appeal to the good
sense and common feelings of Englishmen of
all orders on the subject, and we trust that
our exposures of the extravagant jobbery asso-
ciated with Whig administration, will open the
eyes of the people at large to the way in which
they have been so outrageously overtaxed, and
so scandalously imposed upon, by the pro-
fessing friends who would in the name of
" patriotism " plunge their hands deep into the
pockets of the public.

THE CHURCH AND THE
CONSERVATIVES.
THE Church of England has for many genera-
tions been identified with the Tory party.
From the days of Queen ANNE to the days of
Queen VICTORIA she has been the steady sup-
porter of monarchical principles, and the best
friend of the English Constitution. Enthu-
siasts have appeared belonging to either
extremes who have brought scandal on their
own order. But on the whole it cannot be
denied that the Church has ever taken broad
views of her political obligations, and acted
he p,u•t of a truly National Institution. In
return for this congenial support the Conser-
vative feeling of the country has unswervingly
protected her interests and endeavoured to
extend her influence. Hand in hand the great
alliance of Church and State has fought the
battles of the Constitution, and hand in hand
they have reared that marvellous fabric which
excites at once the hate and the admiration of
continental races and religions.
To this ancient friendship something is
surely due. If circumstances have unhappily
occurred to impair its former closeness, the
utmost forbearance and generosity is demanded
from both parties to save the breach from being
widened, and, if possible, to accomplish its
repair.
We cannot too strongly impress upon all
classes of our readers that the difference be-
betwetn High Church and Low Church
doctrines is practically subordinate to that
between the maintenance and abolition
of an Established ,Church. Not because