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THE " LIBERAL-eoN,I:ErATIVE
WORKING MA X''

Tait " Conservative working limn," who may be
considered as the latest variety of the old Tory ,
species of free and independent elector, was
entertained "at tea" last Moinlay (Netting in the
Birmingham Town Hall, and reg:ded. it seems, with
some ingenious and inspiriting speeches by a
rejected candidate for Birminglmr.i. a rejected
candidate for Coventry, and a Warwickshire member
of somewhat vague principles, who is described by I
Don as " in favour of strict ecow.my in the manage.
" meat of our armaments," but " convinced that
"peace can only be secured by being prepared for
" war." There does not at first sight appear to be
much in this profession of faith for the Conservative
working man to feed upon. But the rejected candi-
dates were a little more expository on Monday,
and really did their beet to make the Conservative
working man believe that there was no more dif-
ference between Conservative at:d Liberal than
between Tweedleduni and Tweedh Le, and that by
a judicious course of hay and oats the zebra
was easily convertible into the most patient
and docile Jerusalem pony. Acclimatization
Societies are careful not to change too suddenly
the conditions of food and living to which the
subjects of their experiments ;Lave been accus-
tomed. It takes more than one generation or
two to turn an Indian sheep into a South-
down, or a Chinese porker into an " improved
Essex." But these fancy breeders doa't, so
far as we are aware, begin by changing the
name of the animal. Whatever may have been its
original habitat, they call a sheep a sheep and a pig
a pig. The inventors of the " Censervative work-
ing man'. pursue a system of their own. They
make a great fuss about the ,ptestion of names.
The Conservative working man whom they began by
denominating the "Coturtitntional working man"—
whatever that may mean—has now developed into
the" Liberal-Conservative working man," with an
acute iment upon the " Lapeer)."

The Liberal-Conservative working man was dis -
played on Easter Monday io the Birmingham TOW
HO, c;rir.Lir.l a in:11 decoction of Tory tea, at.
listening so speeches which cheer but not inebria. .
Easter Monday, according to the Chairman, is
Oonservative working men's anniversary at B -
mingham. They resucAated C.mservatiam in tb t
famous borough, in the most wiobjectionab'a
manner, by voting for the ur.s..ccessful candidate
at the last election, and thus •• icing a stimuli 3
" to Liberal-Conservative pn.gress throughm; t
" the country." It is to the Conservati;
working men of Birmingham that we owe Lor 1
est Kase amendment establishib, the repreeentatio!i
of minorities, which tho present Premier reluctan
accepted, and to which )Ir. ,irson B. Lioto.
tho rejected candidate, loo's- c.ith confidence is
the coming time. He gives the moat weighty
reasons why the working man rho.ild be—not a
Conservative but—a " Litn-ra!-Conliervative." Is
not ti!, working man espe.:M7!y ir..icrested in " fret-
"ail•l• - • • • ," in haviilg a
" t•ally iound ethic-iv ion, • n tight principles,
" which should penetrate et cry cottage aid
" working man's hrtus thio tf:h.,o; the country':" Is
Ile not intereatmlin" the r i -1::.-.,(Iiiiibiatration of our
`, galant army and navy," m • • It • right aklmixiii-
tration of the Protoataat l'• • C•?kureft."
and so forth r Nothing ..an be Gloster than

that freedom, order, and good govesinellst,
sound national education, the right admini
of the army and navy, and of the Protested
are identified in the past, the prated'
future with the supremacy of the F.'
pose;. the first Reform Bill, and or"
second under compulsion and in
Liberals out of power, who opposed free trade,
who opposed the original education grant, and
in whose ranks are to be found the moat
determined adversaries of military reform in the
H. sue of Commons.
There is an admirable simplicity in this Liberal-
Conservatism. Tt takes all the credit of the measures
which have been initiated by the Liberal party, and
carried after many weary years of Conservative re-
sistance, and" these," it says to the working man,
" are the principles of the Liberal-Conservative
" associations." A Conservative Government,land
good government, are one and the same thing.
You cannot desire the ono without the other. Can
any demonstration be more convincing and com-
plete I What tmeLiberal can take exception to the
Liberal-Conservative Chairman's sentiments Let
this Birmingham tea-feast 1 He urges the impor-
tance to the new electors of true views ,of
hi:tory, of political economy, of religion and
politics. He tells them that their fathers have
overcome difficulties and resisted oppression to the
death, and that if they " stand shoulder to
" shoeider" they will hand down the liberties
of England unimpaired to their children.
And he considerately omits to mention what
sort of difficulties the fathers of the Birming-
ham working men had to overcome, and whose
oppression they resisted. Like the French Im-
perialists who are always waving a red flag to
scare the b, o•rq,,,r into servitude, Mr. S. LLOYD
picks out a few silly phrases of some irrespon-
sible spouter.l repudiated by the Reform League,
and is this stuff, he asks, the " mind of the working
" man f" Of course the working man perceives
at once that his mind is much better expressed by
Mr. SAM P,ON LLOYD. The rejected candidate for
Co% entry, Mr. STAVELEY HILL, is more frank in his
interpretation of the title of " Liberal Conservative."
The name of Tory, he says, is well revered, but
somewhat old-fashioned. The Liberal-Conserva-
tives take all that was good in Toryism, but con-
sidering that " the name of Tory scarcely marches
" sufficiently with the time," they have changed it
for a name which signifies all that is good in
Liberalism. Liberal-Conservatives; object to the
molopolv of Liberal principles and measures by the
Liberal party. JJAVENPORT-BROILLEY objects to
being called an "obstructive," and naively inquires,
" what have we done to be called obatructives, es-
" pecially of late Their only reason for opposing
Mr. GLAD:ITONE:S Reform Bill was that it did
I not go far or fast enough. The main cause,
according to Mr. DAVESPORT-BROMLEY, Of the
passing of the Tory Reform Bill was the language
of Mr. Lows against it, although when Mr. Lows
used similar language against Mr. GLADSTONVD
Reform Bill he had been cheered to the echo by
the Conservative party.

All this is rather hazy, but it is at least
consoling to Liberals to discern through the
haze $ general confession on the part of
these Birmingham Liberal-Conservatives that
Conservatism, pure and simple, must be given
up, and that if Toryism is to " march
" with the time - at the next general elec-
tion, it must be content to step into
Liberal shoes. There is nothing that savours of
party prejndioe or bigotry in Mr. STAVELBY
HiLt.'s views on national education and on
trades' unions legislation nothing that an
enlightened Liberal would disavow. But
there are several large questions awaiting
the reformed parliament on which these
rejected candidates will have to be more explicit on
the hustings. The Liberal-Conservative working
man may be recommended to read the *address
delivered on Easter-Monday in the Council Chamber,
Manchester, by a tried and trusted disciple
of Mr. Coanzzi, on the prospects and duties of
the Liberal party. In his comprehensive review
of the whole field of Liberal legislation, Professor
ROI:1M shows how much is still wanting to the
Reform Bill of 1867, in the distribution of seats,
in the machinery of elections. He points to the
land laws. to the ecclesiastical monopoly at the
Universities, to the enormous annual budgets, and
to a crop of abuses still waiting for the
scythe of the advanced Liberal party. On
all these points the Liberal-Conservative gentlemen
at Birmingham are absolutely silent. The re-
jected candidate for Coventry declares himself
resolutely opposed to the disestablishment of the
Irish Church ; and that is the only question of
the moment upon which the Liberal-Conservative
working man of Birmingham is presented by his
patrons with anything like an opinion ready made.

THE VOLUNTEEES CRITICISED.

A " ?Antrim. CRITIC" is allowed to give in the
columns of the Ti r, e t the impressions of a military
observer regarding the late display of the Volun-
teer army at Portsmouth. The first remark of
an unfavourable character relates to the " reckless
" unsteadiness" of the men as they formed up upon
the glacis slopes—the perpetual fire of percussion
caps irritating the ear. In the march past
the Yeomanry Cavalry almost startled the spec-
tators by their strength and easy careless seat on
horseback, showing "they had arrived at the
" point %hen men forget their horses as much
"as they do their legs in walking—managing
" them by a sort of instinct." Of the volunteer
batteries it is stated that the pins could not
be kept in line nor the horses at a walking pace for
two minutes together, but perhaps the dress of the
drivers who felt their trousers creeping steadily
upwards upon their legs had some influence in
this. The volunteer infantry had no need to
be jealous of the line regiments, and all swept
along with heavy British stride. Preservation
of distance is little attended to, and the officers
salute abominably ; but that is • matter of minor
importance. As to the manoeuvres of Monday, the
"Military Critic" can onlyhope that no one will take
them as representing real war, for they were full
of impossible movements And radical errors.
Some of the men had such • rage for
firing that they pulled the trigger when no enemy
was nearer than a thousand yards. This is •
anions offence, and wakes the writer's special
censure. " For the future," h.. says, " every
" bullet must be considered as wasted that does
" not briny down a man." Then the advan-
tage of cover was not sufficiently appre-
ciated—volunteers who had a hedge and bank
close to them foolishly exposing themselves in the
open W.I. At ~t!,er times they retired too early,
or fired at a cuncealed enemy. The
apkit displayed by the warriors was excellent.
They prov:d their manliness by caring nothing for
fatigue, at:d their 0141111441 M by their eager faces.
Yet the " Military Critic" cannot kelp exclaintinfl•
"How diiferent was the scene from a real battle!"
and hints tat many indis lama volunteers !rata ob-

SIR RICHARD MAYNE THROUGH
FRENCH SPECTACLEA

A Paws journalist has lately been collecting
fresh materials with which to excite the wonder of
his countrymen at the contrast between France
and England. M. Woarr, a writer in the Figaro,
came over to London a short time mines to help a
friend of his in getting back a sum of 70,000 fr. of
which he had been robbed by a servant who had
made good his escape to this country. In the main
object of their journey the travellers were, of
course, unsuccessful, but the journalist was amply'
repaid by his marvellous experiences with Sir
RICHARD BLAYNE. "Fancy my astonishment,"
he cries, "on finding him in a little house
" without a single soldier as a sentry or
" even an armed policeman." Every step,
in the interview was the occasion of fresh
surprise. Sir RYCHARD MAINZ was alone ; " no'
" armed man mounted guard at the door ;" he was
gentleman-like in the extreme ; and, to crown all,l
he " reoeived us, nct as an important functionary
" who is only thinking of an opera-dancer, but
" like a man of the world." If his remarks have
not been coloured by the French medium through
which they come to us the Chief Commissioner of
Police reserves for foreign visitors a trenchant
eloquence with which Englishmen would hardly
credit him. He explained to the applicants that
he could do nothing for them, and then, seeing
surprise in their eyes, he added :—" I know
" what you are thinking of—that the English law
"is pitiable. There is nu help for it ; it is the
" law, and I ant bound to respect it even in its
" errors. I am only the arm of Justice, but it is
"at your disposal." M. WoLrf was at once
" stupefied " and convinced. " His reasoning, so
" simple, so noble, admitted of no reply." M.
WOLFF'S friend, the actual loser, shared perhaps only
in his stupefaction. From Sir RkliißD MATHS the
Frenchmen went to a police magistrate, and
here new wonders awaited them. The magistrate
also vas alone ; " he had no assistant-judge with
" him—he wore no robes or uniform." Even this
cause of astonishment proves slight in comparison')
with his civility to the witnesses. "He actually'
" said ' Sir' to them." On the whole M. WOLFF is
evidently inclined to regard the defects of English
laws counterbalanced by the virtues of the English
police. So much politeness is not dear at 70,000
franca—especially when it is a friend who pays
them.

THE Ritualist papers inform us that Lent has
beep observed this year with " unusual care and
strictness." The centres of Catholic life "have
"been a blessing to thousands," and the churches
" where the true, and not a spurious gospel is
" preached," have been thronged with worshippers.
One of the most cheering signs of the day to "high "
churchmen appears to be the fact that no marriages
"of gentle folks" have taken place : the com-
mentators upon this fact leaving the anti-
thetical inference that any unholy want of
reverence for the season by common people
who have entered into the bond of matri-
mony is not of much consequence. Another
gratifying annonricement is that there have
been " far fewer assemblies," and for this
reverent abstinence from the pleasures of the
world, we are told by the Church Nev.'s that
thanks are specially " due to the leaders of the
" Conservative party." There are other evidences
that the " great principles of the Catholic
" revival " are permeating society. Even in
that heretical Nazareth, Islington, whence
no good could be expected to come, a district
described as " That desert of Protestant drought,"
the influence of Catholicity has recently been felt.
One of the junior incumbents has ventured
to make several improvements "in the
" character of his services," and another had
the temerity to express a desire to hold a daily
service during " Holy Week ;" but it seems that
this excellent purpose was abandoned because,
" Alas ! for his flock," the timid shepherd was
afraid of offending his rulers. The Ritualists need
not be downcast while such indications as these
encourage their hopes.

TEE inquest on the body recently found in an
empty house at Hackney disclosed a curious con-
flict of evidence on the question of identity. One
of the witnesses described herself as " quite con-
" winced" that the body was that of her husband :
another claimed it with even greater assurance
as the body of his brother. There can be
little doubt that the Coroner was right
in determining in favour of the latter. Mrs.
BANKS had not seen her husband for three years,
and her conviction was mainly founded on a single
circumstance—the trace of an old cut on one of
the fingers. Mr. HiAMAN, on the other hand,
had seen his brother in the winter of 1867 ;
and his evidence was borne out by his
sister-in-law, and by the superintendent of St.
Luke's Hospital, from which a patient, answering
in all respects to the description of the dammed,
had escaped on the Ist of February last. The
most singular feature in the case is Mrs. Hawse's
pertinacity, in the face of so many strong proofs,
and of her own confessed inability to swear that the
body is her husband's.

stash iissorible laws. The Prince, been to the throne,
enjoys more of the privileges and hasenalkies which are
possessed by the multitude. The royal countenance haw
been in all ages and in most =entries so great an
object of desire that no wonder can be felt at the
value set upset it by the pkilosophioil historian.
I Loyalty of the true kind there must be in Ireland, if
Ireland it still be, and the people be not wholly trans-
formed ; and for that loyalty there are no possible or am-
I oaivable objects hut the royal pair who have at last pre-
sented themselves to receive what is their birthright and
due, what they never songht, what they have no choice
but to claim, and what they can only receive as the life.
long source of affectionate interest and dutiful, perhaps
obligation. The Primes is not merely a British
prince. The influence of Ireland is moat powerful in
English affairs. Nothing has been done without
it, and the Prince represents not one country
but the great imperial unity with which Ireland
has now living and growing ties. The duty of princes,
whatever their private convictions may b., is to represent
our unity ; and in that way to shape their count by the
rule and example of that Providence that area for us all.
The Deify Netts foresees a thousandfold welcome from
the pllantry and courtesy of Ireland as well as from its
loyalty. Occurring at a moment when the Home of
Commons has virtually pledged itself to a great act of na-
tional justice the royal visit is well-timed. By our
own remonstrance with the withdrawal of the
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of the Queen from the pageantry of her office, we may
understand the feeling, of Irishmen at the persistent
avoidance of their shores by the royal family. Princes do
not hold their dignities in order to please themselves, and
if any pert of the empire had a moral claim on such alle.
viatlons and solaces as the royal presence could bestow,
Ireland is that country. Nevertheless, the maladies of
Ireland are not to be cured by the royal touch, and an ap-
peal to the loyalty of the people is chiefly to be valued
as an implied promies to fulfil the conditions on which
loyalty depends.

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