Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

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t:ter, which so often etherialises the worst con

plaints of his critics, or even invests them with I/
charm that tells with effect on his reputation. lie

was again a god, and dwelt apart. I

.en in this

there was some pitch of divine consistency -whi°/

soared beyond the vulgar routine of a common logic

But there is a diviner pitch still. The Liberal pal ti
would not wait tor the Government Blue 80014

before they gave their verdict on its content

MALMESBURY was reviled and condemned, absoluteli
unheard. Well, the Blue Book is published, lts

violent accusers of the late Government have 504.14

modified t

r complaints ; that moder

3 eneillie'

have completely -altered iheii tone

that doubtl'

friends have become confirmed in their approval; ofid
that the whole country has cried out, that Lori

DERBY would not have lost his position if this 131`1e
Book had seen the light before the factious move °f

Lord. JOHN RuSsEiL and his cliquE

did Mr. GLADSTONE take P

Just what we might

expect .from him, but from no other living ma*
His vote had, indeed, been vindiCated, but did vie

think he could be content with that common jus,o

cation which satisfies the prudence and the justie

of ordinary beings P The universality of consent °

just the opportunity when the. coruscations. of hi'''.

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eccentricity burst forth over his whole character, Rl4

mark him among diminished stars as a planet deriviog

his sustenance from some different and distant suo'
111 Mr. GLADSTONE had seen the Blue Book he should.

have supported the motion of no-confid

! It

not, of course, for us, plain men as we are, to spe'""

of thi

Mr. GI

4AosToNE holds somewhere the ill°

Ithuriel spear. He has the divine touchstone veilijl
him, and the causes rerum reveal their closest seeret4

beneath his scrutinising glance

There is an intitte

in his character which hates the profane vulgar, 0114
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drives them off.. avete lingo

Let us

adMire.

But, after all, it

painful thing to see S'

GLADSTONIt separated by his own caprice from

natural. allies, and joined on to the invidious Pe!
both of the Church and of the Constitution. Poe'

he mean to tell us that he has more in common wA`
the authors of the Divorce AO, with the abolisheo
of Church Rates, with go-

and Dissent in all their

abettors of Romaniso
subtle eneroaebincntg

upon the' •English Church, than with the IRO
ers of that Ocriaservative party whose Constit°

tionalprincir;les are the hereditary traditiO

of his familly, and .were once the landmarks of gia

political tareer ? Would his sympathies with the
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Murat lave no freer play under Lord DERBY 01

unde'... Lord PALE

ERSTON

P Would his prejudices if.

farioui •of a definite system of boll

'little sympathy in the rant

of Latitudinarianisill'

be more shocked than they are likely to be in his

present alliance with the latitudinarians of the Stg

and of religion ? Nays does he really think that 11°
connection with the Conservative party would (*:

appoint any deSire he may entertain for model%
and Constitutional Reforms P On the contrail,
was disposed to look with, favour on Lord . DE.IO/
difficult attempt, last Parliament, to reconcile
conflicting views of the different parties in the State)
and he.has not read history to so little advantagd,
not to know that the Conservatives are the natio'
friends of rational and Constitutional progress. -
At all events, however all this may be, we bese°
him, .for his own sakes not to let us think that he