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London, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 2.

THE dullest Tory 'quire must be convinced by the
result of the experiment made this week in the
House of Commons how little success can be expected

from an adoption of the WHITESIDE and BENTINCI
line of policy. The scope and tenor of that sagacious
mode of proceeding is said to have been enunciated
at Lord DEBBY'S meeting on Mo-day morning last
by the uncircumspect Member for West Norfolk ;
and on the evening of the same unlucky day it was
aptly illustrated by the speech on Kan of the inch,-
greet Member for Enniskillen. If rumour is to be
believed the ex-Premier wu solemnly warned

by the former that if he ever again offered
seeds In his Cabinet to the Peelitee, he (the
Member for Norfolk) end threescore good men like

himself would withdraw their coofitiecoe for eve,

from the Lord of Knowsley, and do we know not
what to vindicate the character (for impracticability,

we presume) of real old Toryism. We refrain from
repeating the uucy rejoinder of the scornful chiet,'
who is, perhaps, of all men in England the last to be
lectured into or out of anything. But even were he
a man of more patient temperament, Lord DERBY
may be forgiven for not affecting gratitude for such
advice as that which was thus thrust upon him. The
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man whose haughty wilfulness could not bend to Lord
GREY in 1834, or to Sir HOBERT PEEL in 1846, is
not very likely to be cuffed and cowed into com-
pliance by a politician of the obscurity of
Mr. GEORGE GENTINCIC and to all persons of
common sense it would seem sufficiently obvious that
to squabble about the disposal of the spoil before the
field was won must have struck a sardonic spirit
like that of the arraigned leader as suggestive of
irresistible topics of raillery and rebuke. Ten years
of weary wandering in the political wilderness have
taught Lord DERBY, and all men of astuteness about
him, that it is not an easy matter to get a majority in
Parliament for those who are on the wrong side of
every national question; and that alter it is gut, by
accident or surprise, it is a still more difficult
thing to nuke up a presentable list to lay betore
the QUEEN. Lord DERBY has had three or
four opportunities of executing the latter feat,
and on only one occasion has he screwed
up his courage to melee the attempt. What
came of that ill-starred effort in 18f.2 everybody re-

collects, and eve!" body save Messrs. WHITESIDE.
Busmen, and Company understands the reason
why. It was, in short, an attempt to govern a
great empire by the feebleness of a minority, with
no other aid than that which two men of talent
and eloquence could supply; and the result demon-
strated with signal clearness that an adroit and clever
leader in either house of Parliament will not

saves party which does not contain men of ex-
perience and judgment to do the work of government
day by day, and hour by hour, in a workmanlike
and efficient manner. Oa Mr. DISRAELI and
Lord llnanx the experience of 18.52 was not,
indeed, thrown away ; and the chief labour of
the right honourable gentleman has ever since
been to get rid, as fast as possible, of all points of
difference between his incapable followers and those
capable lehmaelites whom be originally did so
much to drive out of the tents of Toryism, and who
have sinew for the most part been bivouacking on
the neutral ground that lies between the two great
parliamentary camps. Mr. DISRAELI probably be-
lieves that he has now nearly succeeded in clearing
the way for Mr. GLADSTONE 8 return to the bosom of
the political family in which he was brought up;
and there is no mistaking the reiterated intim-
tions from time to time held out, that if he and
his comrades will bat come back, all will be
forgotten and forgiven. Whether Arab habits
of life, so long indulged in, dispose men
of a courageous and capricious temper to resume
the dry routine of bigotry and the monotonous ob-
servances of Church and State Conservatism, we do
not here inquire. The curious part of the matter is,
that at the very moment when to obtain even a
chance of triumph it was obvious that a necessity
existed for obtaining a loan at least of the
Peelite votes in the House of Commons, a section of
the assailing force should be so amusingly absurd as
to oak their commander for a pledge not to hold any
terms with their indispenseble auxiliaries. Yet so it
has been ; and Mr. WIIIIESIDE, resolving not to
be outdone by his friend of the morning,
gave vent to his indignant feelings at night,
in a long invective against Lord ABERDEEN,
and, by implication, all who were accemplicts with
him during the existence of the Coalition Ministry-
The natural result will, of course, be found in the
division list. The immediate consequence of follow-
ing out what may be called the " throw-your-wig in-
the-fire" principle of party warfare, has been to give
Ministers an easy and overwhelming majority ; and,
as far as they are concerned, there can be no reason for
desiring that any other species of tactics should ever
find favour in the ranks of opposition.
But there are other c3usiderations which most
suggest themselves to the minds of the more reflective
and thoughtful members of the Liberal party. It to
incredible that insanity such as we have described
should uninterruptedly prevail very long. In the
most hopeless cases of mental aberration there occur
lucid intervals, during which common sense renames Its
place. Even Mr. WUITESIDE and Mr.BENTINCK may
some fine day be found vo!ing along with Sir JAMES
GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSTONE, without stipulation or
agreement as to what may happen afterwards. Lord
PALMERSTON must feel that after all he is at the
mercy, in the present Parliament, of two parties be-
tween whom there has been a quarrel and an open
separation, but who may nevertheless agree to come
together again, and try if they cannot once more dwell
in the came club, if not in the same Cabinet. For
him there is but one high road to safety against the
whims sod wiles of which his Government has been too
long the sport. The meeting of Monday last points
in the true direction. Let him rally round the old
standard of progress the hearts and hopes of the
people. Let him strengthen his Administration by
importing into it the talent and worth of the Liberal
party of every shade and class. Let him declare his
intentions as to onward measures; and then he may
defy any oombiaation that may be formed against
him. If beaten on any single question of moment he
will have the country to fall back upon—a country
which, when it feels that confidence is placed in its
judgment, will pronounce its verdict in unmistake-
able terms.