Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-12 00:00:00

ruinmg-,

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nit/438,1:11in tell us wha is this.- gloomy and caPri-
dous -Fate• that is bent:on d

iing- us to oura

structionl. anti has already befftul, tza bandage °tit
ikyyb Jest we should see .the deangps of the trail ?

1 litir loarparts, we, do

act seethe tokens of thig4ll-.

I tozsioatin_ which revels •so wildly im

her veiils'

e have-neat, lost sa,mueli: heart,. as to dis(2.erot
in the politicd .elisastarit. of this year, Jbe
term 32u1Bnal sentame ; we are aetually unacsr°

itkat, are yet tottering. oir: the kink,
But„ however, wa,say • too England :

—Yow see'

clearly what you are..to)afizect

Next,-.Par"

liar-tent the cup of • poison. is :to, he placed in ;IT°
handi,,' and the d4om, oe' self-destruction; Pr°-
pounced. The pzecipice is, being well prepared'
hs,your present ad,s-isers. roll you ; and thepo the

attic whole constituency,-ire,, notwithstanding,
sufiloiently numerous to turrithe election ; so that-",
_th, returni is practical**, thiez • -disposal. The, - - - --- ,- . .
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'overbalancing stroke is to,be,admunsteree...
.reault, therefore, is, tharthe • oat Ly• hope of succesa ,
it not Conserv,atism, warns you in this strait'
is.in the 'al-her:al piutharae, of. ono or two hundredi:l
.it i.. not the " selash;oligavellv" that frightensl°4
motes, and that he wheNpays,. wins!!
nth bogies. ' They,. are• the Reformers:of. so!
Now, if experience ..,tia.thachl the prudent any--
ft tare that;
who thus represent you as arrival: athat;thing, what, in the ruttne of prudence itself',, is.
state • of drunken; helplessness when the feetPacil
i the lesson which an, experience, .so wide-spread,.
may go straiglit-to) tittfls work, withoutdisturbinft
so long-known, 0. .osoluiely familiar audi no-
your abject and, grovelling sleep ! Irptt Oe_rta
torious as the Times.,,says.thit. :is, should be allowed;
;must be the• moral. strength of Consoratisra,.. 47)
to imPress":'upenalt the polities' wisdOm, upon all
' not discouraging the future of the Constituti67,
the respect for '*tue, upon all the common,seuse
party.
When. Lord JOHN RUSSELL ventinleS' t
of. tngland ?,-- SiraPkt, the disfranchising of
philosoplliiie,, he la driven unconsciously-BO' ate_....,,
'
enunciation4of Conservative principles as the'
°I"
those, venal, voters,the v.t ter and final closing • of
the domain of corruption. - But what dues, this
bails of political wisdom. When, the Z"re
involve ? It is, not Merely a stern lesaaniof'detail,
weals taus, the character' and object of that reform
rd
but n solid -loison of principle, that 43. here fin- 'measure,, for the sake of securing wlich 1-I°llo
peratively laid' liven us. Foolish, indeed,, as the
DERBY'S, .Government was u.nscated fre° :is
Times wan*. have us think, to sand, down our
helm it uided so wisely, he. tells, us plainV i
to,
costly paraphernalia into this wretched city of
to "swamp the political. element-,7 and cells,.;11031
Gloucester l. to forte the noses et Imperial com-
niate the triumph of venality- over all the Pell'. •
missionets, into all the foul anti filthy gutters of be the
provincial corruption,:for"the *Tose of deciding .
virtnte of the country. This. ammo , then,
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of
t to deride - Conseritatiom - as. the pc;liu"
laughter
the electoral fate of one unworthy :constituency.negation ;unless it be mere matter of
But, one fitet suffices to paint the true force and st
or indifference td-delky- - to the lowest and sloe
Ek .ie
direction of the moral which, the Times dismisses
motives that can -animate the human braastao of
with a shrug, half of despondency, and half of'
pewer of bringing to its level the whole Or
contempt. These venal voters, who, we are told,
the State.
rule the election fortunes of nearly all the -bo- 4-
rev' its
rougha in England, are, we are also told, all in WHEN we rest our eyes on India, and rev' •
fin
the lower and poorer classes of the constituency. past and present condition, politically an aari-
in •
They are the' corrupt balance which too often cially, we must necessarily be interested anY
of a
succeeds in over-weighing all the honour and statement made on the eve of the dePartur:t i...,ii...
conscience of the constituency. The inference, Minister who has been appointed to ara
its.
sr sets
therefore, plainly' is, that to lower the fran- portant post in the administration of its all
out
chise will be to destroy the only chance 'We believe
. .that Mr. JAMES WlLsa-
purpose
which political virtue still retains against cupi- upon his laborious mission with every .
and
dity and venality. The balance of corruption, and intention-of applying his
reseurce
which at present may be thrown into either scale, economics to the development of the . the
ISo "to repair e
will form the substance of the whole material, of that vast continent, as a •
• to which
,vet ..
will not merely be manipulated to decide *a nar- present financial embarrassment in
fallen. - The *—
row preponderance, but will decide the.. whole exchequer of the colintrr has
best energies, s