Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

at all the ceremonies and rites observed by the
society,' association, or order to which the
President may belong." In short, a president with
all the honour, may be, but none of the profit belong-
ing to the office ; and if compelled to assist at all the
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" ceremonies" executed by the Confederation over
which he has been named Honorary President, it is
greatly; feared that he will shortly be called to assist
at scenes which may not exactly prove pleasant.
For instance, a collision between the French troops
and his own in Rome, which is considered most
imminent, and the anticipation of which has already
called forth two or three most alarming despatches
Due de Grammont, all the more alarming
nen taken with the unaccountable silence of General
Govon.

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Meanwhile the mystery remains as impenetrable gas
ever. Those who still profess to have any ideas on
the subject maybe' divided into two sections—the
first comprising those who hold that the designs of
the French Emperor are fixed and unchangeable, and
that the present treaty of peace is a mere temporary
blind to certain gigantic:projects, which will ere loruz

give clearness and-consistency to all these Seeming
contradictions ; the remaining class assert openly
that Napoleon, disappointed at the unanimity of the
national sentiment, and, finding that all hope of
"fishing in troubled waters" Was out,of the question,
has abandoned the Italian cause as an unprofitable
speculation.
The English residents • in Paris are • beginning to
complain bitterly of the daily confiscation of their
London journals. •

A private letter, in noticing the reception of the
diplomatic body by the. Emperor, says manner
was brusque and abrupt ; he passed the Minister of

We can well understand, therefore, what a relief
to Mr. GLADSTONE it must be that " extraordinary
exigencies" have again enabled him to avoid
this unpleasant ordeal, and disposed his

critics to sink for the present the reminis-
cences of his previous chancellorship. His
fancy has again had free play, and the country
has another year to disport itself in his pleasant
prospects

1860 is the magic period of fulfilled

promises ; : the gloomy shadow of an income tax, in-:
creased by 4d. in the pound, is merely a relief to a
brilliant prospect in the background. The country
is happy, with an expenditure of seventy 'millions.
We can also understand what an extremely jarring
and disagreeable effect it must have on Mr. GLAD-

STONE to be sharplY pulled up in the career of his
fancy by the vigorous hand of his predecessor.

night was

Mr. DISRAELI'S speech on Thursday
another dignified'and uninSweitai)le 'appeal for justice
to the late Ministry. And we must here notice a most
unworthy' 'and deceitful artifice, which the new in-

corners to power are doing their best to make the

most of. 4Tliough, as we remarked bel

aany o'

the measures and much of the business conduct of the

recent Administration are becoming traditions 'of
policy with the present, and therefore preclude the

language of invective or of de'

it is positively becoming a fashion to pass about ob-

scure hints that something was wrong if they rchos

to tell ; allow tto be understood, that they could'
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say something if they would, and that it is better
for the credit of the Opposition, as wellas for the tran-

quillity of things in general, not to:tempt.-their:mag-

There are even leading journals and politi-
cians who echo this obscure and inflated language, and,

nanimity,

with what we must call a certain mendacious cunning,

lend their assistance to the Minister

virtue of necessity. But then we recollect that these

are the journals and the politicians who amused
their 'readers, and grieved the judicious with the
magnanimity and moderation of Louis Napoleon, at
Villafranca! making then, with all appearances
against them, a virtue' out of what the French
Emperor has since deliberately

acknowledged,
to, have been his necessity, and his weak-
And we should calculate with about as

much confidence on the magnanimity of a party

whose fortunes were led by the present Foreign
Minister, as we should on that doubtful trust of the

French Emperor when his own interests were con-

ccrned. It would be amusing, did it not awaken

more • serious feelings; td watch the sullen ineensis-

tency with -which-the present Ministry, while en-

dorsing the measures of their predecessors,

hint a fault and hegitate dislike

They adopt

their 'foreign Rolicy, but intimate distrust in the

spirit, which dictated it

Theylcontinue their mea-

sures for the defence of the nation, but—they wish

it to be supposed—with a diffei4ent meaning and in-
t,ention. They adopt " not only as an official duty, but

" with ready assent," their estimates, ascribing to
them " the honour and the responsibility" of framing.

them; but at the same time blur the grace of their

acknowledgments

imprudent— financial system, or other must hay(

rendered them necessary. Mr. DISRAELI'S speech

was th

.maneuvre; and the asperity of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER'S reply only shows his wishfulneSs
to have this system or suspicion and inuendo pass
How stands the case?

muster _without .question

Mr. DISRAELI, has clearly established, that those

exigencies of the moment, which have now relieved
tlie-Finance Minister of much difficulty and many

complications, on the contrary, occasioned much
embarrasment to himgelf, on his adVenti to power

two years ago.

The present urgency is the universally
nowledged necessity of a great expenditure, when
the sense of danger to the best interests of the
nation renders the people willing and eager _to bear
extraordinary iinancial•burthens. But the difficulty

wlifeh met Mr. DISRAELI at the outset of his

career, was the prostrate condition of a people, just
reviving from the throes of a desolating panic,
and unable to meet large imperial demands. Under
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these circumstances, what was the conduct of our
prudent financier ? He ,laid no ,burthens _upon a
suffering and unwilling people ; in a time of peace he
did not disappoint them of the expected reduction
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in an oppressive war tax. He secured them a very

important remission in the impost -which they most
dislike, and by his considerate treatment of a per-
plexing subject, did something to revive the waning
confidence of the tax-payer in,the promises and pre-
dictions of Chancellors of the Exchequer. He did
all this without any undue subservience to popular
favour, but with the most judiciops foresight and the

most deliberate anticipations, of possible contin-

goncies and future necessities,

He still secured

income enough to meet the year's expenditure, and
the surplus which he contemplated has been exl,
The £5,000,000, which interested and

c ceded

uncanclicl journalists call the

deficit," bequeathed to

the present Chancellor, were nothing but thi-expen-
diture for ei-traordinary purposes which the feeling
of the country demanded, which was required by

engagements, entered
,into in the highest, patriotic
spirit,, and which the patriotism of the country is

eager to redeem

We congratulate Lord PALMERSTON'S' Finance

Minister on having found the estimates already, pre-
pared, More than that,. we congriituliite the country

on its having been spared for another year the inflic

tion of Mr.
,GLADSToNies, fanciful and imprameaw
theories. , We .think, it fortunate that the precept

Ministers have inherited, and not been left to initiate

a financial policy which was required to promote
the security of the national honour and the dearest

interests of the countrY• We do not accuse Mr