Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

OCTOBER 7, 1859.

hatreds, or propitiate their resentment ? On the
contrary, they have no strength but what the
" moderate Liberal!! party give them; they hale
no status but what they derive from the.cclun-

tenanced impression, , that the great mass of
Liberal politicians sympathise with them in prin-
ciple, and -only question the prudence or the
practicability of the proposed modes of its de-
velopment. Are Mr. Blum:Ws-theories, in their
comprehensiveness, so harmless or so majestic, that
that constitutionalism to which the breeze of the-
north seemed to impart a strange and unwonted-

-vigour, could find no stronger objection than: lle'
merely negative and merely incidental ? If Lord
JOHN'S only reason for pretermitting the projects
of Mr. BRIGHT is his own weakness and incapa-
city, why not leave to Mr. BRIGHT the embodying
of his own conceptions, the bringing of his own
offspring to perfection ? In Mr. BRIGHT We
are to recognise one who knows no touch
of fear, whose genius disdains the aid of
experience and counsel, whose intuition trans-
cends all secrets of history and time. Doubt
not, in that fertile brain stands all fully equipPed
the Minerva waiting to go forth,
but a sharp and brief- preparation, that the scales-
may-fa/1 from men's eyes,—there needs but the
uplifting of the curtain, and the perfect vision
men have sighed for 'stands revealed. What
need of hesitation or holding back—what need to
deprecate the precision of the "Registrar
or the " Surveyor ?" Mr. BRIGHT will improvise
you a Constitution in half an hoar. With, the
thrift and prescience of genius, the political
Chart is already mentally laid. up with more than
the accuracy of the Registrar-General, with note
than the precision of the Surveyor, with wore,
than the certainty of the Arithmetician. It 'f'g
already dOne by classification of heads ; it is al-
ready done by line- and rule and measurement
it is- already done by dot and carry one
Lord JOHN RUSSELL or his weak hearted c°l-
- trouble their souls with these petty ob-
stacles. If he who can guide the fleet through
the channel, or handle dexterously the surgeon's-
knife, or, perhaps, go on a tight-rope over Nia-
gara, finds in the remodelling of a political-
system too tough an operation, and just the last
point where his overmastering skill is mastered,
let him abdicate his functions as a weak, inee'el
petent, and fribling journeyman. Go,' you and
your " time-honoured" Constitution, to the feet
of the Brummagem artificer.. Let us-- have the
era,of JOHN BRIGHT the First, when the domes-
tic house shall be set in order, -the complicated
mechanism of the State fall into the precision of
a landscape-garden, and Presidential " messages

There neec

Let not

travel round the world, and bind the nations

into one.

Though

But to come to the gist of the matte'
Lord Jos' RUSSELL finds his personal accolult
in coquetting with parties, and propitiating op—
posing interests, is he to be alloWed to play with
the safety of the Constitution ? Is he to be
allowed to stake all upon the paltry consideration,
that the assistance of the revoltitionist section
will enable him to achieve a Parliamentary sue-

cess over traditional opponents, and—that the
Constitution will last his time ? Is the preserva-
tion of the State to- be entrusted to one who
affects a partial alliance with its avowed enemies,
is willing to sit with theta in the chambers of
counsel, and share with them the. mana,gc-

ment of its affairs,—who thinks to secure tho
worst and lowest popularity by an infusion of
the democratic element, and puffs a weak and
worthless sect into factitious and dangerous
portance ? We say it boldly, that no honest °r.
patriotic man,
,holding Lord JOHN RUSSI'.I.:
utttre-d- opinions, could for one moment consort'
or for one moment suffer the suspicion of c°rl-
- with Mr. BRIGHT and his confederates,"
We say it boldly, that no matter whether -"-
ad.
JOHN RUSSELL'S private sentiments be constitu-
tional, or his uncoerced intentions moderate 313(1
loyal, the Constitution is not safe out of t. 11:
unfettered and willing hands of its hereditarl0
guardians—that that great party which "1135
ill,
policy" is one clearly proved both by the unuisto
guised enmity of Radicals and the
.treaeher%.,
advocacy of Whigs, to be its only real Cot°
Tatars, and its only safe Reformers. z, '