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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24.

ELECTION ADDRESSES.

ELECTION addresses are not a very lively species
of periodical literature at any time. Just now a
good many of the old clap-traps have necessarily
disappeared from the professions of faith of the
candidates. They have served their time ; a
new parliamentary era demands a new set of
catch-words promising everything and signifying
nothing. On both sides a lack of precision may be
noted in the addresses ; yet on the whole there ie a
welcome freehness in the announcement of questions
ripe for legislation. Among these, education
and the abolition of sectarian testa at the
Universities are deservedly prominent. In many
of the addresses, however, these questions are
approached in a vague, obscure, and tentative
manner, as if the candidate had no opinions of
his own beyond the embryonic stage. This is par-
ticularly observable with regard to the question
of primary education. All candidates, Conserva-
tive and Liberal alike, protest their anxiety to
abolish intellectual pauperism, but by what
central or local machinery, and whether by
assisting voluntary efforts, or by superseding
them, remains to most of them a problem. All,
or nearly all, the Liberal candidates, have made
up their minds that the rate-paying clauses
of the last Reform Act must be abolished.
Here and there a candidate talks of " modifying"
them, while he urges that the grossest ano-
malies in the distribution of electoral power have
yet to be removed. It is perhaps by his declara-
tions on the subject of the ratepaying and redis-
tribution clauses of the last reform Act that the
quality of a candidate calling himself Liberal can
be most easily ascertained. There is, however,
the Leger and still more decisive test of hii decla-
rations regarding the Irish Church. Liberal-Con-
servatives--as candidates who have not the courage
to be the one or the other describe themeelves--are
quite ready to admit the necessity for large
reforms in the Irish Church, and to act upon

the advice of the -Royal • Ceinassion. whose
report is not yet published. The Liberal,
pure and simple, declares rasolutely for dieestablish
nt and disendowment, with due considera-
tion of coarse of vested intimate, and' for'
the equal diseauk)wment of all recognised
forms of religious faith in Ireland. With
a viow to carry this policy into offset, such a
candidate promises emphatically and distinctly to
follow the acknowledged leader of the Liberal
party—Mr. GLADSTONE. It is not altogether
estisfitFterithat the m'edantiala9l a Liberal oandi-
dkte afibuld dopehd on bit o*Saal allegiance to
a particular leader.
.Brincipla!, not
,per-
Ow; dais true 1, Al 44 doctrine. •At
last general.. election . this . -dOctrine
was thrust aside to clear the way for Lord
ratantuarairc-and steady thrLtherkl party has-
expiated the folly of swearing by the ame of a
man. Had Lord PaucaparON, in ritope name the
-igeotion was 'fottghi .Qy Liberal party.
liied to lead a Howie of personal followers, the-
party Anight•have remained In power, but whore '
would be the cause? The coming election will re-
semble the last iii being fouglit by the Liberals is
the liaMe-df Otte mm. But the contrast betweqe
the two occasions will be fai more striking than.
the.aalogy. It wee beoawie Load PALMERSTON
represented no principle, but rather the absence or
the abeyanceblrprinciple, that ho rallied a majo-
rity liberal in name only, and doomed to fall
to pieces at his disappearance from the scene. It is
because Mr. CiLanscrottz personifies great prin-
ciples and .a clear policy of action, that if the con-
stituencies are true to themselves his name will
rally a majority of Liberals whose fidelity and
firmness he can count upon in strict party con
-testa. Independent members who claim to serve
no master and to follow no loader, may be harm
less, if not valnale, whilst the party to which they
pretend to belong is without a real policy or a real
canoe. But when the ranks are closed and the
battle is in earnest such independence is more
properly called desertion, and deserves the dear.:
ter's punishment at the hustings.