Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

aentinient shotdsL have; Ome' tot +dare ifscire
This was both unpatriotic and shorfkighted. The'

Times hail. its duty dearly- out; in the'r
necessity that public Opinion should ire guidedt,
into-right channels, that it should. be' saved

from - the illusions which it is the irtteregt_
of party solicitude to create, and from the per`-,..
soind considerations' which are too often .alloN*di
to earlearrass political judgment. The Ti»zir:;s;,.
after hesitating both its praise and its dislike; at
lastlasoied that it had lilt the public pulse, that;
it best COnsulted the exigencies of 'popularity by
going in thoroughly for Lord• Jon RUSSELL aS
pilot in the coming stormi- Everything that
could be stone' to heap contumely upon Lord
DaRBY and Government it' didi No effort. '
was spared, no' falsehood was sampled at, to pre-
judiee the pwition of the Conservative party, or. ";-
damage, their reputation and color-their motives,
just on the eve: of a; general appeal to the-country.
The ordinary modes- of damaging the worst, poli-
tical opponents-were outstripped on this occasion ;
and by agreatuffectation of circumotantial. wen-
racy, Lord DEREM,. whose private and public
honour is the most untarnished among the mrt\-.
of this gemration, was, held up to the-eotrntry
a leader of in orgarrisation established fbr-the-pus'-
. pose of correpting the-constituencies. So accufr '
rate was theinformation. secured on this -
that the several sums contributed by noble.andi
conspiintOrs to. the fund of corruptiou;,-
;were duly credited to their names, the then = Pre' •.
inierrs subscrip4on being;put down at the moderate'
amount of £2C 000 ! All: these caluniniesf.,sus
Ricions, and falsehoods, which gave point. to -
factious oppositiln, have indeed dissipatedl into'
air, and some of 'their most noticeable authois•
hien• called disgracefully to account. Yet' the.
• 7:Mt result has been achieve& And it is this.. Lord
Juan RUSSELL has gained: the helm, and the
Tiliaes, himself is fearing les-b the vessel is driftint
owto•the dangerous-shoals of democracy. As-our:
weekly contemporary, the &zturday Revicip;,,has•
it, in.his latest number, and-us• we ourselves have:t
been; labouring all along to explain, " the Constif
tntion is. in jeopardy," .'-because of Lord Sala.
RUESELCS personal and party necessities.

In. contrast with all the rubbish uttered: by
pltee hunting Whigs,-.that the work of Reform-
is one requiring hereditary fitness, and that Con,-
servatives are traditionally:unsuited for the offiner
we assert, that not only-are Conservatives fitted for.
this-, work, but that they are the most fittedon•
general grounds, and the only safe Reformers -00.
all grounds. It was, impossible for Lord J DON
RUS-S,ELL and his present allies to testify their'
own,. eminent unfitness.more plainly, than, by:"
confessedly entering upon a position which'
necessitated the cultivation- of an alliance :
,Mr.. BEIGIIT'S section of politicians. Mesa:
are guides whom the country most distrustsraradi,
politically, most hates-; and the party leader •
can.cond.escend to bid for: their sympathy or sti'
port,:does, in that degree, separate himself from-
they-country, and estr-blish his own dange,rota•
recklessness and incapacity.. A Reform Bill,
tle,hand.s of a Conservative Ministry, open, 101
the constant spur liable to be administered by a
Whig. opposition, yet strong in its independenee
of :a democratic faction, is the most fe.yourable
augury for the future -fortunes of this count*
and for the permanent: stability, as welt as, af-
ciency, of her institutions, that could be desired'
What the country most- fears is any rerdistril)n"
lion of political power. The only Deform Bill
that would keep clear of this fatal compromise
Wt believe, a Conservative Reform Rill. The
Whigs have, unfortunately, contracted. with the
democratic minority, peculiar ties which, (*price
-them of that freeflora, of action which- they most
affect to desire, and: from giving sincere effect to
those Constitutional principles which. they are
ready to indulge :in as doctrines of:political phi-
-, losophy. They may act very well. as goads e° a.
Ministry, not, perhaps, over inclined:. to Reform'
or as checks on that, democratic and extreme ani-
mosity which might seriously interfere with activO•
legislation; but as bidders for democratic symPatilP
in competition- with a Constitutional Ministry-°V.
party, theirsareperhaps the most dangerous hands'
to which the management eZ the Reform queottnn
can be entrusted. It has become a serious.qll.o
tion, what security is to be left us that nore4l/9".
tribution, of political power will be, or nUtY at
any moment be attempted. This is the real
question at issue ; and, it is not too much, to; OP
that Erhgland is at this moment in unsid,exable
danger lest it should be decided adversely. Is it
any satisfaction to. any newspaper writer, or sq
public man, who. has affected hitherto moderate
opinions, that we should have been by some iner
plicable and gradual process reduced, to so narre4
a standing-ground as this ? Whatever else 19
right in the present complications of party, what;
ever be the just decision of the rival claims
Lord DEADY and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, this at
least cannot be right, as little as it is satisfacteeS
or safe, that most writers should have but 0114'
burden to their pathetic addresses to partY
leaders at this moment of quiet prosperity arri
political strength—namely, the thin and narr"ls'
barrier which at present exists between our poll"
tical system and democratic principles. We can'
not acquit a journal which aspires to be the lead-
ing organ of public opinion from a great share 111
the responsibility of that insane and drivelling
conduct, which for none but the unworthiest or
the silliest motives has induced so delicate a crisis'

The glass trade expect to derive great advantsge2,
from the increased consumption of wine, under the De"
treaty.
At the Paris Bourse, on Saturday, the reply of .1):
English Government to the inquiries respecting "tee
and Savoy was - considered evasive, and caused so"
uneasiness. teA
Orders are received at Toulon to prepare the pleche
frigate Gloire for sea with the utmost despatch. 7i,
carries 36 rifled guns, and a steel prow of enormous
DinsiQns, Her destination is unknown,