The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-11 00:00:00

LO_'►DOY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11.

Wno is to lead the Opposition in the Hesse of
Commons wit session P Mr. Disazzu, Mr. WAD.
POLE, Sir ions PAZINGTON, Of Mr. GLADSTONE!
This is a gut scion at present puzzling and perplexing
the Tories. 'fee Quarterly Ritvieto lately promised
the party that great guns should be fired off in the
next sesetot. of Parliament. Undisturbed by the
threatened volleys, Lord PALMERSTON has had the
spirit and ; he sense to summon it tossed at the usual
time. Tau therefore. begins to press. And, if the
Tory plu' s are ready, who is to execute and direct
them in Ice Commons?

It le pa r', ate to aid in the solution of this question
that Mr. l‘ttAdt has suddenly withdrawn himself
to Paris. I ere, at all events, he is out of the way
of &lib,' • Gns and negotiations which must be
difficult at: &limits so far as he is individually con-
cerned. it. re, too. he may be receiving inspirations
from a bile.: guider to enable him to make a distin-
guished p r• nal (se contrasted with a party) figure
ant sew. n, by representing and advocating the in-
terests of it may be those of Rana also, in
the Como. t. Hound Parliament. In that Ins of
tiantmees, t, wee, be will have to sacnntsr the rivalry
of Mr. GLAD-roes, who is quits as ready as be can
be to depr ..s English interests; unless, indeed, it
be true Mi. %Ir. Out:deems is ready and willing to
take his Otte in the leadership of the party, and to
comedy strongly " in the new character of a truly
British pi. tt and u the Earl of DIABI.II right hand
man. Per the Tory party has not, it msy be pre-
sumed, PeZt.W. d up its courage to give the "Very
Tybalt," tno cwner of thousands of broad acres, that
notice to quiz which it has either actually served, or
is about to serve, on the lsokland tenant at will,
whose s) mu and fantastic oratory perplexes the
heads of country gentlemen, and whose irregular
practices .round their pride. And yet the real weak-
ness of rto Tory position arises far more from Lord
Dune's :eve...rats habitat °needles public affairs
into per. 'nal sport, than 'yea from the hollow pomp
of Mr. Dannett's periods, the manifest vacuity of
him plan. or the transparent insincerity of his
profeesioe.e.

That ',Aar change in the leadership of the Oppo-
sition is now under discussion is generally asserted
and believed. The body of county members who
refuse, to uye: toe lacgsage ascribed to Mr. W. MILES
on the oceise.,in of the discreditable Kan motion,
"to be r:rairg-d through the dirt" by such pro-
ceeding. ne Mr. Durum, though with the approval
of Lord Deacy, hassansticeed, is far too numerous
to admk e? their much longer submitting to his
leadership in the Commons. That leadership is fluc-
tuating and fi eble. It is founded on no principles,
and it her no et fined plans. It is occasionally very
inconveownt to the Government by its tricks and its
surprise.; but what credit can a great party, the
great lei,e:sd ii.terest of the kingdom, acquitn by
sue artitices ? These itemises are often very
wouderfsi. as well as provoking; but they are
digntfied, anti they are sometimes very discreditable
They gie quite se much annoyance to those who
support as to those who oppose them, but
they do less harm to their opponents than
to their ...o.,,eters. It is all right end proper for
a !o trip up, if he can, the heels of a flying
pickpock t. Put to be continually attempting to
trip up tt. L: .1 of a Government on a successioo of
small aid or worthy occasions, without ever daring
to attack at be dry by a vote of want of confidence,
and withal' 'otitis prepared to take the consequences
of an oe. esional success, is a policy to which no'
oratoriere. rowers can reconcile either party or the'
country. A' yet this is the only policy which has
diatinger -lied Mr. Disaant's leadership in the Com-
mons, I do impartial jastios, Lord Danny's in
the Lord..

Who r to Ia gracefully slain on the altar of Opp-
aition recr:.• .tion as a sacrifios foe peat sins is,
however. wised= in which Liberals are far lees
interested Lh.e in the inquiry who, it Mr. Disiszi4
has to b up, will be his samba ? It an
hardly br Ur. N'steotx. He is utterly deficient in
all the q:. dime of a leader. He has neither know-
ledge r, r riuquence, neither foresight nor tea
to rally party around. Although since his eon-
anion w...h the University of Cambridge hie dimi-
nished a. rt eiminiehing liberality might reconcile the
more ultra—the Stootenns, the NEWDEGATBS, Of the ,

Opposition—to his Leadership, the contrast between
his weakness and Mr. Dmiunts forge would be
generally intolerable. If Mr. WALPOLI NW not
lead the party, it may be fairly promoted that, with
his advancing liberality, Sir JOHN PAIONOTON would
not. Sir JOHN remaine, indeed, swag the Tories,
bat be is not of them. He may, by virtue of former
associations, and ander the Mosses of bad habits
which cling to the best of as, occasionally make the
party a present of a smelt when it is badly of for
oratory, in order to pay for his " stall d'orehestre"
in the Hones of Common,. Bat Sir Josz is
moving, thinking, and acting in a way and at
a rate which is raptly leaving a huge diatoms
between him and the party to which be still nominally
balmy. He can, moreover afford to keep a poli-
tical conscience, and it will one day render the
separation complete. So also of Lord &UNLIT.
And as for Mr. Hmu.zr, he is far too ham in
criticising detai/s ever to rim to principles, and has,
it is understood, u little desire again to assume *Mos
as to lead a party.

Batsmen a continuance of Mr. DISRAELI a mis-
management, and a reset to Mr. OLantrroirs's
dexterity, there appears to be no medium for the
Opposition is the House of Cowmen To this
amp from the Scylla to the Charybdis of Tory-
ism thinp are said to be now tending.