The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-16 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 16.

Tim name of Lord RANELAGR is that in which the
impending prosecution of the Peelitse is to be carried
on. Why the irksome task should have been spit-
easily confided to hie lordship we do not pretend to
say. Possibly the selection was inspired by a pious
wish to show how inexorable justice may be wrought
against the loftiest and most influential delinquents',
by means of instreasents of intrinsically the least 4:1011•
sideration. Possibly there were certain evidences of
shrieking or shirking the ungracious duty among
the Rhadaman thine conclave by whom it was decreed
that the deed was to be done, and the spirit of
Lord RA:4EI.MM being moved within him, he
volunteered bi services on the °cession, just as he
did some years ago in an equally Liberal OILINN
that of Don CARLOS in Spain. Be this as it may, it
la only fair to admit that, as far as the meaner oldie
thing is concerned, nothing can be more tt•e:aep-
tionable than the bill of indictment which bears his
name. The language is as polite as that of a French
commissary of police requesting a lady detected in •
larceny of lace to accompany him to the door of the
shop in whic:t he has the honour of addressing her.
The tone is that of reluctant remonstrance rather than

of anger or reproach. Whatever i•oongr000s
menu may have had to do with its conception or
*Maratha, not a huty word or suparimma epithet
has been suffered to appear. Conflicting bigotries
sad antagonistic spites will of °mune take credit for
the predominant share in the petheeding ; bat the most
oritioel seamen will fail to discover from any intrinsic
evidence, whether the rough draft of the "circular
addressed to the members of the Calton Club" came
from Exeter Palace or Exeter Hall There is not •
epics of Durango eloquence about it ; and though
Lord Itaittowsr is one of the principal parties sa
eased, the wail of the out-witted Srooniut over es-
demolished Maynooth is never once recalled to the
expectant sae. Considering the mum at •etion, and
the previous character of the individual who Domes
forward to demand judgment and exsoatioo, nothing
can be more creditable as a tour de forts of verbal
moderation.

But if the voice be that of some demure JAOOII, the
gripe is the gripe of relenthes Esau. The logic of
the resolutions, sod of the circular" which sworn-
miss them, is polished, bat what the French would
cell " impitoyable." The arraigned may amps by
good luck or great interest, for they are potent men
in social lettuces:is, and have great patronage and
posesesioas. But if at the next yearly gathering of
the Conservative party Lord RANZIJOH should per.
stet in calling fur a decision on the Wee he beanies&
we most say it will require some other aids than those
el logic to obtain an acquittal. Ostensibly the charge
of political cohabitation with Whigs and Radicals,
contrary alike to the laws of church sod of maven-
tide, is brought against the holden of plus in the
present administration. Besides the LOZD Purr

BEAL, there is the Doke of WELtrecnox, the Mar-
quis of ABIRCOIN, Lord MoNce, Lord Eason
Banc; Sir ROBERT Pm, and others of MHO ent lice
notoriety; and there can be little doubt that to none
of these distinguished personages belongs that pecu-
liar witchery of tongue that even in an easy ease
would secure their exoneration by a hostile fury.
What, then, must be their fete when the prosecutor
need hardly do more than state the admitted fame P
The Carlton Club confessedly was formed as a bulwark
against the onward tide of Reform. Everybody knows
that os the two door-pests of resistance sad reaction
the lintel of " Conservatism " was solemnly placed
by the late Sir ROM= Pen,. True it in that In
many years that illustrious turner aad johns: was
very generally suspected of harbouring designs for
making away surreptitiously, that is Mt by bit, with
what bad see been the chief boost of his handy.
work. Bat having pawed frees the some et his is-
sweeten: labours before the set of gradual demoll.
tics could be said to have been accomplished, the
Carlton motioned to flourish; and, coaldset of
Misty, It allowed the eiders and abettors of
the great conspir►tor against its stability time
to repent and amend. Lord Beinarow ex-
pressly says he was willing to forgive and
forget the treason of Fres Trade. Hs also reminds
his fellow Conservatives that they wen ready to shut,
their eyes to all that was done under Lord
ABIOIDIUM ; for was he not after all use of them-
selves, and did he not strive zealously sad all bet
anacesefully to prevent a breach with the illustrious
head of the Conservatism party in Europe, the late
lamented Cur NICHOLAS? Lord RANEL44II claims
credit fcr this forbearance and loaresffering towards
the Pastime generally, and well he may. Bet Lien
be asks with all the more weight whether this
longraff-ring and generosity dose not render all the
les excusable the continuance in office by some, and
the taking of office by other., under a man who
openly and shamelessly belongs to the Reform Club.
Occasionally frequenting Buenas% might perhaps
be peened over. Lord Dm; was for tea years of
bis life a member thereof; and who has not hoard
how, in 1832, when the Whip were afraid et being
turned oat by the Court, in eider to make way foe a
Carlton Cabinet, Lord Dann mooned OD as old.
fashioned seatelisisce, harangued the waverer@
around him in good eat tense of sedition, such ea
Buxom or WILLIS might have envied but not
marpmeed P Yes, we repeat it, belonging to
Baookas might be pardoned, but membership of a
club professing (however innocently) the ease and
oases of Reform, is an °Minos in a Prise Minister
which mthing con extenuate or excess.

What makes the matter, however, of more gravity
is that, though the adherents and plain-holden under
Lord PALMSILBTON are, in the that butane% marked
out for exposure sad expulsion from the Oarltoa, no
reamonable man can entertain a dosk that the sent
step will be to bring write of podded mammy
spina the remainder of the Peelite section, unhook
indeed, they are prepared to take the not obscure hint
held forth In the " circular," and are willies tosses,
to a deal re-construction and consolidation of the
Tory party. Lord RANILLOIeII motion, if serried,
will therefore serve either m a precedent or a screw.

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