Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-01 00:00:00

and with h

It is useless to break through his cobweb,

mlike the housemaid's' insect torment, our political

spider can s

T ever without wasting his ti

It is not unlucky, however, when sometimes a

tangible f

take aw

)r two come to a cleanly rescue, and

all necessity for an unpleasant office

Two months ago, and the appeal to the country

by a Conservative Ministry was stigmatised as a

purposed and' deliberate appeal to the powers of

corruption. I

e constituencies of the country were

to have been carried by a coup de nzain,
agent in which was to be pOunds,

and pence ; the kinds of money to be assorted,

not according to the capacity of the bribers, but to

the expectations or obstinacy of the bribed. Carlton
Club had made every arrangement for the campaign,
and the venal army were ready to pounce upon the
Supplies might be counted on to any extent,
and even a leading journal condescended to adot a
falsehOod hopeless from its audacity, and to announce
from its leading cohtmns that the high-minded
PREMIER, of England had subscribed £20,000 to re-

country

plenish the coffers of corruption. The Conservative
leaders spoke with some confidence of the prospective

results of their appefd,, and, their pardonable hopes
were construed into a base reliance upon the extent
of their iiwcuniary means, and upon the flagitious
pliability of English constituencies. Some Con-
servatives
reckoned upon a gain of fifty seats; they
actually'gained thirty: But short was to be their
triumph. The bill of impeachment was prepaing
even before the session began, and in all the Radidal•
newspaPers- of the tribunals had lieen

.openedo and the gigantic criminals condemned land

executed—by anticipation. Such was feigned td be
the completeness and the boldness of the organiza-

tion, that it had become nothing short of a conspiracy
against the 'constitution ; and the march' of the ex-
ultant Conservatives to Westminster had „acquired
something of the impressivene,s of a march of the gUilty
to the bar of justice. No one who remenibers, the

language used at the time, hi apprehenAnn a
Conservative triumph, will accuse us of exaggerating
the feeling which the Liberal press endeavoured to
spread throughout the land. And how stands the
game now ? , The tribunal has indeed opened; the
judges have indeed taken- their seats, the crier has
proclaimed, silence to all England., But the curtain

rises, and we see an unhappy Liberal trembling and
cowering at the bar; we hear him Pleading, guilty,
to prevent an investigation into the details of his
crime,—we see him fall upon his knees and beseech
his relenting judges, that he may save his casts, on
condition of his admitting every particular of his
shame! '

We have no wish to continue the vein of metaikor.
In all seriousness and , sincerity, we denounce the
boldness of that mendacity which spattered its -an_
worthy charges of anticipated corruption Upaii
op-
ponents, in order 1,0 rover a Possible,irevevse) We

1 matter of engagement signed, sealed, and

witnesses. Henceforth we had better erect an El

change for the negotiations of a traffic so necessary
for the establishment and prosperity of Liberal prin-
ciples. Wakefield or Huddersfield should be the head-

quarters, and the brothers LEATHAM the coryphaei of
the market. Neither 101 it disturb the family

combination if Mr. Brother-in-

law BRIGHT accepts

the office of principal correspondent and' patron

THE magnitude of our Empire is a source of our

weakness

This may appear a paradox, and an

enigma. But such, nevertheless, is the case. WE

boast, that the sun never sets upon her MAJESTY'S

dominions

The empire over which QUEEN VICTORIA

rules, is not only immeasurable in extent, but almost
countless in population. Our colonies, however,
which are considered the source and fountain of our

great wealth and puissance, are yet drains upon the

one and the other. Such an immense area as o

colonial possessions represent, diffuses

d alienat(

our power, and exhausts our resources

It absorbs

that power which the mother country requires for

herself

and yet does not afford, sufficient and

complete security to those among whom her forces
are dispersed. That such is a true representation of

the case, might be gleaned from a perusal of the

debate in the House of Commons, upon the military

defences of our colonies, so ably opened by Mr.
ADDERLEY, the honourable member for North Staf-
fordshire, who always brings to the subject which he

Undertakes to discuss, sound argument and talent,

fortified ' by the fruits, evidently, of assiduous

thoughtful, and untiring industry and application

Responsible government has been granted to' most
of our colonies, and they ought, therefore, to
be now self-reliant, as they

are self-governed

Imperial Goyern-

The question is one of