The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY. DRCEMBRR 7.

Tips Conservative party has long been bent on
proving what are the utmost limits to which the
virtue of forbearance can be pushed. Their rule
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of political forgiveness seems to be " until seventy
" times seven." The Liberals have tried their
patience hard, but they have never yet fathomed
its utmost depths. We had thought that the
death of Lord PALMERSTON was to be the signal
for a renewal of party warfare, but we underrated
the Christian meekness of our nominal adversaries.
Even during that peaceful period there were occa-
sional symptoms of a desire to illustrate the Con-
servative reaction by the restoration of a Conser-
vative ministry ; but these mutterings were few
and faint, and the leaders of the party invariably
showed a judicious determination to ignore them.
The idea of making any change in the
composition of the Treasury bench was given up,
and the convenient hypothesis adopted that any
alteration of the kind was unnecessary, inasmuch
as the Conservatives were sufficiently represented
there already. In short, while retaining Lord
DERBY as their titular sovereign, they took the

oath of allegiance to Lord PALMERSTON as the Con-
servative leader de facto. Considering that by
their own showing they had a clear majority both
in and out of Parliament,iit must be admitted that
this was very handsome cocduct. Rather than
inflict on their opponents the pain of dismissal,
they were content to leave them in the enjoyment
of official pay and official position, and thus the
country was saved because the Conservatives
kept Lord PALMERSTON straight, while the
feelings of the Liberal party were spared
by their leaders being permitted to retain the sem-
blance of power. Even this, however, does not
exhaust the tale of Tory magnanimity. To do
good by stealth, to confer favours without letting
the world into the secret, to have recourse even to
benevolent little artifices to baffle too curious ob-
servers—this was the noble abnegation of self
to which Mr. Disaim proved himself equal. He
felt, with the keen and sympathetic instinct of a
painter of human character, that it would be ex-
tremely painful to Lord PALmsawrom if the extent
of his obligations to the Conservatives should be-
come known, and to save him from this annoy-
ance the Opposition leader would organize an
occasional sham fight, object perhaps to a budget,
which in his capacity of Mentor to the
Government he had of course himself
dictated, or criticise some little detail of • foreign
policy modelled on his own. Sometimes he would
even press a question to a division, just keeping
back enough Conservative votes to give the Go-
vernment the majority which it actually needed ;
and, to carry on the jest, he would go through the
motions of whipping up his supporters, and allow
his representatives in the press to indulge in simu-
lated anticipations of victory.
This, we say, was the system on which the ac-
tion of the Conservative party must be supposed
to have been carried on during the lifetime of
Lord PALMEILSTON. At least this is the only hypo-
thesis which avails to reconcile their professions
with their practice, their reiterated asser-
tion that they possessed the real confi-
dence of the country with their con-
sistent continuance in opposition. We were
not prepared, however, for • renewal of this
method of treatment towards Lord PALMERSTON'S
successor. We knew indeed that, in pursuance
of their accustomed policy, the Conservatives had
permitted the Government to gain an apparent
majority at the general election, but we had always
understood that the use of these votes was to be
limited in strict settlement to Lord PALMERSTON
for life, and that immediately upon his death they
were to go over to Lord DERBY. It appears,
however, that we were mistaken in this view. It
is premature, of course, to predict the conduct of
the Conservative party before the meeting of Par-
liament, but there are not wanting signs of
an intention on their part to sacrifice themselves
to Lord RUSSELL as they formerly did to
Lord PALMERSTON. They are beginning once
more to employ the old language of forbearance,
to proclaim at one and the same time their posses-
sion of a giant's strength and their determination
not to use it as • giant. Thus Sir JOHN FAKING-
TON told the Worcester Conservatives the other
day that "Lord RissELL had appealed to the
" country for a fair trial, and that appeal must
" not be made in vain. Whenever he appealed
" for • fair trial be must have it." We should be
extremely grateful to Sir JOAN PAEINGTON if he
would inform us when and where Lord RUSSELL
has ever thrown himself upon the forbearance
of the Conservative party. An appeal from
the leader of apolitical patty is in effect an appeal