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London, England, 1858-05-27 00:00:00

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LONDON. THETIS 04 MAT
esaut be Mentes repeated that the prinsipal
11•Mii of the presont nnestisfamory state cd alias in
I the Moue of Coe moan is the want of a broad and
mocked hoe of elsoserestion between the two great
parties of which the Howe is made up. Public
*elm in this country is divided into great camps:
the eamp of three who being contested with things se
they ere, would remain standing still; and the camp
of those who think things are suseptible of amend-
ment, and would " move on.* From an early period
of the reign of Geoids 111. till the accession of
Mr.Cse mato to power the difference between the
two camps was sufficiently marked. The great
bodies who occupied them were not altogether at one
anew themselves. There were decided and moderate
Reformers—Whigs and Radicals ; and there were ultra.
Tories and moderate Tories. It was not easy to toll
with certainty whether a man was a moderate Tory
sr a wisdoms Whig if you met him alms. Still, the
ensreeteristics of the masses of the two parties were
esilleientl, distinctive. But with the Cionmon on •
began a change. Mr. CAN NINE'S views on the Catholic
quetien, and hie foreign policy, gained for him the
support of the Whigs, and to a certain extent of the
Radicals, against the staunch old Tories who had
refused to follow his banner. The habit of acting
along with their allies taught the Canningitss to
speak liberally and patronisingly of other articles of
the Reformers' creed; and this habit facilitated
immensely their adoption of it when the Reform
struggle of 1830 began. As soon as Earl GMT%
Reform Bill wan carried, the Canniogites, and some
of the moderate Whigs, wished to draw bridle.
At the same time Sir ROBERT PEEL adroitly
persuaded the Tories to drop their old distinctive
name and adopt one which was calculated to arouse
less of popular hostility, because it had lees meaning.
" Ooneervetism " was the substitute. It is net seem
wry to recapitulate all the incidents that have
osenned since 183.5 to render the c.haraeteristie
difihruces of parties ler marked. Suffice it to say
that, thanks to the euphonious and ensaningler
'Other of " Conservative Liberals " and " Liberal
" Conservatives," a man of any opinions may now{-
days declare himself a follower of any staternita—a
member of any party. In fact, the only recognised
.1 party distinction has cone to be the following of
this or the other leader. A follower of Lord Dray
calls himself a Conservative ; a follower of Lord
P kLM LUTON calls himself a Liberal ; yet there are
members of Lord DEBBY'S Government who profess
openly to aim at organic constitutional changes from
which many a staunch follower of Lord PAirms-
rros would shrink aghast.
So long u this is the state of the public and Par-
Summary mind we may have factions, cliques, sad
eateries; but we can have no parties in the °metals-
time souse of the phrase. It is this mixture of
hieterogemous and incompatible mambas that has
paralysed the party of program and rendered the
Obstruetivee triumphant. It is not the anialled
Coeservatim party—made op of the foilsmen of
Lad DlMBT—that arrests and impedes program. Is
itself, that party is as purees= as the Jacobites
were after the accession of C.:Roma 111. It is • mino-
rity both in Parliament and in the country; and, what
I Is more, its apparent numbers are eked out by
nee--es, for example, Lord STARLIT and Sir
YMINIOT KELLY—brim do not eves give theumelves
1 Ike MOM& to pretend that they hold Cesserrative
• i epininam For any resistance this party meld eller,
nay meneere of Reform whatever might be aria
bentanow by a majority which would rake the
Omeervativs Lords act as they sated when the
Rehm Bill passed unobstructed through their
Haws TM real effective opponents of Retina
are those who, under the convenient mum of
Liberals, have mixed in the Reform ranks, and
impede all the movements of Ramer& Is a
measure of Reform proposed? these men object
to this or that detail se too sweeping ;
they argue, and cavil, and threaten to oppose;
they bring the real Rekessers to a parley,
. 1 and by specious and pathetic representations
about the danger of disunion, they prevail upon
them to do nothing. Another favourite and dike-
tam method with them of hampering the party to
whisk they profess to belong is to insist upon its
following, under penalty of disruption, leaders of
their ahoesiag.
The scandalous and aimless faction lights—the
halting between two opinions—the infirmity of pur-
'pose, reversing to-day what was decreed yesterday—
whin have disgraced the present Huse of Cam.
mans, are almost entirely owing to the incoogresene
usertarnt of men of all principles and of no
• arise the designation of the Liberal party.
The evil cannot be put an end to until the
tares are winnowed from the wheat, the
goats separated from the sheep; until the
I iseposeibility of keeping alive a real Tory
party having been recognised, the Coneervatives of
all shades agree to act openly together, and erode
' front the ranks of the Party of Programs. It is not
ear wish to desonnos any man as unworthy of the
ocefidsece of Reformers, and insist upon his exci-
sion from the muster-roll of the Party of Program
No such invidious proms is required to purify the
, .
party. Let the real Reformers among the radars of
the party earnestly press on mosestres of prudes'
rekem. regardless of mattered disecarnte and
throats of secession from professing members of their
• party, sad the separation will goon be ream-
• ?Übe& Lay down real measures of Reform
bakes the party, and real reformers will admire
and sling to them, es the steel filings mixed with
dust start teem the mingled moms and sling to
the atiset held eels thus. Let those who are