The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-07 00:00:00

Meanwhile it grows clear to all who have eyes to

see and ears to hear what is going on around them,
that the web of a new coalition of parties is in the
loom, and that if time be given for its completion its
folds will ere very long enwrap and smother the pre-
sent half-hearted and stammering clique whom
Brookes's Club and Stafford-house have set up to
govern England. The man most be a fool who
can read the interchange of studied compliments
between the two sides of the House without
perceiving that the space between them is
growing narrower every day; and he must
be duller even than the hereditary hirelings
of the Whig oligarchs who does not comprehend
what such approximation of parties is inevitably
tending towards. The sole aim of the leaders of the
two oppositions that still sit on opposite sides of the
House, in the speeches delivered by them on Monday
and Tuesday last, wen manifestly to mark all the
points on which they could agree, and to efface as
much as possible from remembrance all those on
which they have heretofore differed. Sir EDWARD
Lrrron was lord in admiration of Mr. GLADSTONE%

speech before the holidays (although he had voted ex-
actly contrary to the speaker on the question on which
it was spoken), and by way of equivalent, we presume,
Sir Jesus GRAHAM broke forth into political thanks-
giving at the statesmanlike breadth and depth of
views of Sir Fanner LYTTON respecting Matti*.
Mr. COBDEN, when he takes to whitewashing, uses
broader brush, so he covers the aristocracy in general
with the praise of being far more rational—i.e., Rus-
sian—in their sentiments than the vulgar people
at large, who, according to him, have shown them-
selves to be swayed by mere ignorance, arrogant*,
and the public press ; and by way of pen-
dant to this picture, the ex-friend of middle-
alms rights endeavours to daub over the
movement for Administrative Reform with the
imputation of disregard to the maintenance in their
present splendour of monarchical institutions. Truly
this comes well from Mr. COBDEN. But more skilful
heeds are busy at the web of which we have already
spoken. One of these is Sir STAFFORD NOBTRCOTE,
who, having been long officially connected with Mr.
OiskiNTOSS, and Was nevertheless ovate Into Par.

'Dement as a supporter of Mr. DISRAELI, seizes the
earliest opportunity to prove that his two right
honourable Meade, whatever their apparent differ-
ences of view, in reality think essentially alike, and
desire the same thing. What that thing is the saga-
cious member for Dudley takes care, of course, not
to describe too accurately ; for it is no part of
temporary bridge builder's business to compare
the aspect and height of the materials as they stood
aloft upon opposite hills and waved their rival arms
disdainfully towards each other. Can they be welded
together now P—that is the question, the only ques-
tion with which Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE and
many other older politicians are now concerned : a
very interesting one for them, and a rather serious
one for a cabinet without measures and without a
policy.
From the elaborately un-emphatio tone of Sir
JAMES GRAHAM'S speech of Tuesday last, it may be
inferred that the new coalition is not yet, per-
haps, sufficiently matured for open announce-
ment. The right honourable baronet is an adept
without a rival in the nice operation of cutting him-
self loose from one party and splicing himself on to
another. It is an operation which takes time and
must not be hurried. Proud flesh is a danger to be
guarded against on such occasions, and it is very de-
sirable that for fear of delirium and fever the system
should be kept low and the pulse languid. We forget
how many months it took Sir JAMES and Lord DERBY
to make their way round from the Whig aids of the
green-table, twenty years ago, to the Tory side.
Perhaps experience may have taught greater expert-
nese, and we may be destined to have the means of
estimating the superior dexterity with which such a
feat can be performed by a veteran in vacillation.—
News.