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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTBII3III 2.

TWA eshaief and vitality of polititel diasensiewil
emit, lie in the vagueness of the terms applied by
the antagroists to each other. The regimens Is ear
esaieat in one way—it enables angry people to
give a name to whatever they dislike, and to
themselves patriotic whenever they buls=
yeseioos in a fit of railing. We observe that own
the qaestions to be answered by candidate' for weak
civil Mese are some about the meaning, as well as
the origin, of the names Tory and Whig. Daring
the last century end a half, it might bays been very
good for a multitude of people to be 'remised
es is what they meant by those party terme
and we should really like to know how many
we in tke British Islands could at this comet give
a passable answer to the simple question—what they
mean by a Whig end a Tory ? la times of special
pertarbatios, when political titles or nick-Imm are
of a stronger and coarser nature than the avenge, it
Is eminently important that their significance shoal&
be privies ; whereas it is exactly at swell dues that
Os application is the loosest. Borne of se may to-
member to have asked in our childhood, at boss or
at school, what a Jacobin was? Can any of se say
that we ever got an answer that was ese fat at the
time and hes remained true ? Aa obsole'm novelist
tells an anecdote of a blowstockieg lady, of the bat
enemy whose little daughter, duly impressed by the
oe bag words she heard, asked at ineonvenicat
question now and then—" Mamma, Wait areliydro-
statics ?" When mamma was compelled to bear and
reply, she said, " Why, my dear, yen lovely howl
what hydrostatics means. Why, everybody kerne
that." Herd driven at last, ibis aided with,
01 Why, how stupid net to know what
hydrostatics is! Hydrants/fee is—water." The
-practical issue in that one wee that the infest pedant
asked for a gloss of hydrostatics at dinner. In the
agaally dificult cam of the messing of Jacobin fifty
ir sixty years ago, the Inquirer brought away so
motion but that Iweebloiens meant everything that
Vas bad. Lord Cocasteries Nesoorialo of kis Mho,
which all the weld is new reading, tells us more on

this r riot than we 'VW &sew before, though Strum.
Sans, lyceumT, sod others of their clique hays
startled the secieediag aspiration, from time to
time, by revelations of what it watt sixty
years ago to we eider the imputation of
Issobisima in Scotland. Every man, sad every
woman, who differed is *pinion from the Go
memissent is London, and the domisaat faction in
'=dinbs►gh, wee a Jacobi.: sod to he a Jacobin was
to wish to murder everybody, aid to pet an eed to
swerythiog. This short wooing of the matter we
believe to he a faithful one.
Wherever tt.on I. political saissinem, there is at

least one slang Isms which noludy will explain.
As in our ems fifty years ego, wheat we reesived the
reply, 4' Jacobioieto, my dear 1 why, dam me I closet
you Low what that is ? Why, Jecobiniess is wicked.
seer;' so now on the Contimmt, sad perhaps in
mum parts of England, the ingenuous inquirer can
isms nothing about Socialists, but that Socialism is
oiveryltiog that is had. Socialism is the bugbear of
oar time, at d we leel a strong desire to obtain, for
public security and private enlightensamt, some sort
of notion of what it is that European society dreads
-under the nom, of Socialism, or, at any rate, to sneer-
-lain what different evils are thrust under the cover of
4he setae tame. We believed last week that the
Maglish pub,io were about to learn this. The Tams

ia.iog rbiThrged biczzuft with being a Soeialist, a
mellinformed " Traveller in Italy " mut a keg letter
ele that Joarual, not only clearly disproving the charge I
die regard. ?daunt, bat exonerating from it
She political acts is Italy, ona aed all.
do doubt a multitude of minion' readers de.
yawed that fatter with eagerness, in the hope of at
last eacertainiag what Socialism, is the seam of
in timputatiso, really is t but no satisfaction on

tint head dces the letter yield. We have no right
telnerrel with the, as the direct object of the letter
ireseimply the vindication of the Italian Liberals'
hat ereehoold have liked to glean somethieg more
kens else discussion then that Socialism Invitee "ez
elegies attentive to material and physical wants;"
and that this attention generates "egotism. and the
general estruption and worship el material in-
terests." From these and all other scattered lights
it is dear that \ widely different things are classed
under the same time. The very terms "egotism "
and " socialism " era antagonistic; and the primary
claims of all the So lir:jets known in England are foe

equal spiritual and itualleetail—that is, ;pal adage-
tinsel rights for all I rho are berm into society. We
observe that the " TrAwallor in Italy • &indignities
the mischief of Socialism as consisting mainly in the
uprising of "a class" bent' en pursuing its own interests
fa opposition to the equally selfish " egotism "a the
ieurgeosaie, as developed tan the Osumi Gauen.
meat in France. Aod yot the Pore, in his damn-
Mations of Lis own liberal 'objects, and the other
absolute rulers who prescribe Socialism, do so ca the
pound of its abolishing all distinctions of class. It
would be very instructive to misty, sad would tend
greatly to promote pesos sad pogress, U all who
talk about Socialism would explain what it is that
they mean and that they fear. It appears that
Msunei has done this repeatedly, and at long inter-
vals of time, as may be men in short extracts from
his writings quoted by his vindicator in the Tues.
It would Nave a world of anxiety and mischief if the
limes would do the same ; and the POPE, and the
CZAR, and Louis NAPOLEON, and O'DonsitLL—ia
short, everybody who publicly &nougats Sedalia'.
In 1849, the POPE eharged his subjects with
being addicted to Socialism, Communion, Pro-
testantism, and anarchy. The late CZAR saeriliced
the commerce of his empire to hie dread of Socialism
soaking its way across the frontier from Germany.
where, according to the testimony of his weals of
the smaller states, it abounds. The French 01/11116.
meat susses its policy of repression by the imps
arising from a wide prevalence of Socialism semi
working clams. of all France; and O'DownaLL
Spain in a very bad way from the iatresion
promotion of the podium &striae by
..et societies of France. What is that desesias
Itaglishmen, who can think and say wbat they
say experiments they desire, it seems
thing so meek dreaded should be so
the Continental niers think proper te
themselves all that we asa do in to form ear
such evident* as eon be elnalniesl
ewe ruses. In this view it egpmpro!
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