Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

the, sam
the influence

connt6, did all the real work of resistance to
Her&'iur Livethoor we

that ; unhappy measure

were witnesses of the power they put fortli: ''Theirs
was, in fact, almost the ()lily inflUthict- that was at-all
active'on the occasion. The Whigs scarcely shoed
fight at all. Some of them, indeed, evinced a strong
-aiTfo*ion to oppose thp Reform_principles and
projects of the Advanced LibeYals, almost as
deciAedly as did the latter those of the Conservative
1,
,14114 ry. Then, again, tit thcPElectiong.: -Who hat
they ere foremost, and bravest, in the fight at every
contest ? If they had had more to do than the
11,7tigS would let them have at our South Lancashire
Election, it is very generally believed, in the Liberal
ranks, that wer,o'*Rld.have been a glorious Liberal
viator, instead of 46 "lamentable a defeat. The signal
triumph in the West Riding was a case in
,point.
That vas gloriously gained by giving their Liberal-
ism i'.

is full play upon the enelnyls cotsebvatisT. , It

was a ;battle of principles out and. out—and,,,o.n the
Liberal side„ without, any Whig eompromise what-
True, thorough, point-blank Liberal principles
.verC predominant throughout the. contest ; and we
4.c:isly lwllat telling, with what -overwhelming
effect: It was the same with Sir JAMES GRAHAM at
IVa-only did those principles, .in all their
tli.oro4ghnehli, 'return the ighthon, barottet triumph-
antly at the head of the poll, but enabled him to

:aary

outhful p9p- hew on his shoulders along with

And 'the case was much the same wherever

thre ; wa!

a contest. The - Whig • candidate was
tnabled to win, by the i_assistance of the AdvanCed

:Liberals. Without them, he wotildri-in nine cases
pay ten, have had no chance whatever against his
,CiVrAerva.tiVe opponent.—We may say, -then, in one
word, that but for their influence and their co-
operaticin,-aethe fate'Getieral hiection, here would
to a 4rtainty have beolt.a(Tory majority in the new
House of Commons; and the DERBY Ministry might,
in thalt case, have -set. both Whigs- and Liberals at
defiance.

Let; us next, then, look back.UpOn the late overthrow
of the iGoveratient in the House of Commons. • It wits'
veriobvious at themeeting preparatory to it, at Willis's
'Room's, that without the AdVanced. Libetals the
Whig cause was utterly hopeless. " The holding of
this meeting," said one of - the speakers on the,
occasion, " T cc4isider to be a most auspicious'event
for the Liberallairty, and I believe, result.will be
'greatly advantageous, for the policy ~which (night to
be, and which, is professed toibe the foundation of
our union as That policy .Wiyi certainly
not di exclusive -Whig policy; for they; all.
knew, had been weighed in the 'balance and- found

,
_wantinp,,; but it was alhorpug-h Liberal policy the
policy, in fact, of rthe Advanced Liberals, in alrits
fulness. Lord rI4,4LERsT.9?.t
,declared ati.. .
that meeting,_that2-he:thong.ht the resent' was at
molonf of the highest interest, both as regards our
dpaieStic ...tand.„forOgn policyy, .nd•l that it was
neeessary
,that z ,Libarxa partyf, should come
to seine determination on the. course It should
take" Of this LiUt=a7. jAzltil the' Whigs' 4?e
but a soctiOri.. 'Lord PAL:NIERS-TON has his follow 4
~1
and Lord,J9IIN RUSSELL leas. his; but,
.both
7' combined, they are powerless without those who
profess to be the followers of no lord. or lordling-c
a.tes. •political At career. At :the Meeting
•
, we. refer to, they came to combine ; yet, according. to
Mr. nitiGitsr.,- ‘f the- object of the meeting was not
so much to heal the differences which were supposed
to exist between Ldrd PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN •
RUSSELT„ as the difference. whiclk had, so.long been -
'known to exist between two great sections of the
Liberal party.':
~And.it was then and there-agreed
that the difference should • be; healed,—,andi in fact,
it was healed, on the express understanding that
henceforth there should be no exclusivenesa-,7n0
partiality ; and, more especially, that in_ the
Ministerial arrangements which their, re-union. was
to create the necessity for, there -should. be no
-respect of persons, but that in the new GoVernment
to be constructed the Advanced Liberals should be
"'Adequately represented," Upoa this understand-