Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

that whenever a trial of party streng

—as take place it must very soon after the

House gets fairly to work—there can scarcely avoid,
one could think, being a Liberal triumph.

But the worst of it is, for the interests of the com-
bined Liberal majority, that there are variances, not
so much with respect to the mode of proceeding, as
with regard to the chieftain under whose Ministerial
banner they are subsequently to be ranged. All are
agreed, we believe, that the war is to be carried at

once into the enemy's calq, Nor is there to lie any
nervous diffidence or timidity about it. There is no
disputing as ,to who is t0.,"-bell the cat." Half a
hundred valiant combatants are quite ready to stand
forth, and risk all the danger. There is no difficulty
at all, we belieire, on that score. The Ministry is to
be overthrown—that is quite settled. Bui it is not

settled, we repeat, who is to be the conquering hero
that is to push Lord DERBY from his stool, and,
triumphantly seat himself thereon in the deposed

Premier's stead

The formidable difficulties, and the deplorable
dissensions, which are already foreseen to prevail

upon ti

its most important practical ,question, were
very forcibly pointed Out, a clay or two since, by our
able and independent metropolitan contemporary,
the Star. "We think there can be little doubt," it
was observed, " that there are intrigues on foot,
having for their object the installation of Lord
PALMERSTON, first as leader of the Liberal party,
and then as the Prime Minister of a so-called Liberal
Government. It is not improbable that when Par-
liament meets the noble lord will try to forestall
Lord JOHN RUBS LL, and make a dash at the leader-
ship by an early notice of motion on some point of
foreign policy, designed to test the strength of
parties in the House. And if he should succeed by
such means in overturning the present Ministers, it
is expected that, according to the ordinary rules of

etiquette followed on such occasions, he will ha'OeCto
be sent for, and so the destinies of England be placed
at this perilous crisis in his hands. There is an
obvious preparation on the part of the small . but
active clique who follow his fortunes for some coup
d'etat of this sort." Now, of course, this comes from
a quarter that is Liberal in the foremost degree.
The journal is one that is a special organ of, the
advanced Liberals— enjoys the ' confidence of their
leaders, and is entrusted with the advocacy of their
interests. We do not think that Mr. BRIGHT him-
self could be a better authority on such a matter as
this.

And see how the modus operandi is already being
set in motion. " A dead set," our fearless contem-
porary continued, " is made in a marked and especial
manner against Lord MALMESBURY, and intimations
thrown out that, if another great and experienced
diplomatist had been at the helm of affairs, Europe
would have been safely piloted out of its recent
perils without the calamity of war. It is not for us
to undertake a vindication of the present occupant
of the Foreign Office; but we must candidly avow
that we are no way moved by the violent tirades
svbick it is the fashion, on the part of politicians of