Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-05 00:00:00

it was the " Liverpool. Financial Reform Asso-
ciation" that got up the demonstration, Liverpool
itself, as a body politic, had but very little to do
with it. And in .this respect, it probably pre-.:1;
rented itself in the most striking point of view of
all, when brought into comparison with the
DERBY Banquet, which certainly was a true re-
presentation of Liverpool feeling, and Liverpool
spirit, in every respect in which such feeling and_
spirit could do honour. to such a place.
And now , we might glance for a moment at
:that which - alone gave importance, such as
was, to this " great" Radical display,—we
mean Mr. I3R.TGLIT's budget. But really its.
hollowness • haS been. so completely exposed
already by the Liberals themselves, that it is
quite unnecessary for us to trouble our readers
much farther with the matter. Not only is the
- correctness
.of his financial views,—we will not;
say merely disputed, •but actually disproved, by'
some of the critics of his own party,
but he is shown to have indulged an
intensity of bitter hostile feeling against those'
classes of the people to which,_ as a Radical and
Republican, he stands opposed, that was any-',
thing but creditable to one who aspires to be a
statesman. Well may the Times declare, that
" Mr. BRIGHT himself must have been ashamed
next morning, :that he had been. describing all
who could not agree with him as liars, rogues,._A.,
ignorant, small minds, of low morality, conspira
tors against the common weal, and a good deal
more." Now; even were such abue as this to be,
tolerated in a public man ut all, for any one like
Mr. BRIGHT, who has really no sound system of
his own to recommend in opposition to that-2_
which he finds in wholesome and beneficial,
existence, to stigniatise, as he did, those who,
political intelligence, •no less than in political
integrity, are so infinitely superior to himself,.
, cannot but be regarded as at once insuffer-
able and disreputable in the highest degree-
The leading journal may Well think, therefore,
that this political agitator and asperser " must
have been ashamed of himself next morning.
Yes—We can readily believe it ; because we can-
not for a moment suppose that even Mr. BRIGHT
is devoid of manly feeling. But there is another-
thing that must have made him ashamed-
also,—we mean the failure of this attenipt-
to present him as a hero in such a
community as that of Liverpool. Keeping out of
view entirely any comparison of this demonstra-
tion with that in the same place in honour of-.
Lord DERBY and his colleagues, Mr. BRIGHT
must have taken his departure under d very
humiliating consciousness that the reception
which had been given to him, and the response
that had been made to the enunciation of Ilia
principles, in this the greatest commercial eraP°-

Hum of the!world; was 'as severe_ a condemnation
of both as human nature could well endure•

IN the midst of the national conviction that has
'arisen of the urgent necessity for those defensive.
precautions, with the sound of which the-
country now rings from the Land's End_
to John 0' Groat's House, and the display of
that national spirit of loyalty and patriotism by
which the great body of the people of England
are now so nobly distinguishing themselves,
one single feeble utterance of dissent has just
been heard in the northernmost county of England?
which is as ridiculous as an excuse as it is singular
as an exception. It was not to be expected that
" Merrie Carlisle" should be behind hand in the
Volunteer movement. A very enthusiastic meeting
was held there a few days since,
.and as a pre
liminary to its business proceedings, - a great
number of letters were read by the secretary'?
from noblemen and gentlemen connected with the
district, to whom application had been made for
their co-operation, but who were unable to attends
—all giving their unqualified assent, some of
them in very' cordial terms, to the object in view,
but one solitary instance of objection, and
that from a mere stripling, but who yet happens
to be one of the Whig-radical representatives in
Parliament of the ancient city in question,--the
same notable individual whose appearance in the ,
political arena for the first time, at the late general
election, Was signalised, it may be remembered,-
by his readiness to say, " ditto to my uncle,"---
the personage enjoying that distinction being n°
other, it may also be remembered, than the Right
Honourable Sir JAMES GRAHAM, of NetherbTr
Bart. Sir JAMES, however, on this occasion, h 9"
expressed himself so much like a man of sense.
and a patriot, that it is really a pity that iti
should be almost the first instance in which the'
nephew has run from his compact of sayiv
" ditto" to one whom he was supposed to 119veo.
pledged himself so implicitly to follow. " Peace'
;cli-
says the knight of Netherby, " is the policy Ac.i4'
la
I am most anxious to maintain ; and I sh°ll
deeply regret any word or deed whichht
Ds-,
be misconstrued into menace by neighbour r'
0
nations. But in the present circumst3ile
PPear
of Europe, measures of precaution 9- 10
to me to be necessary ; and the spertge
of a free people voluntarily arming toddeers
themselves is no bad security for natietlil
independence, and may check the spirit of egre
sion in other quarters." Now, here is a
combination of prudence and patriotism whp;
the nephew, we repeat, would have done well had
he condescended to imitate. But no ; having, fc.:
some reason or other, resolved to shake on
allegiance to his uncle, no sooner does he beg.:
mself of his perilous privilege,
to avail hi than -11 ,
at once writes himself down what we rather leave
the reader to imagine, than ourserves proceed t
describe. " I must candidly
say," observes the.
crotchety young' gentleman, " that the evidence
of hostile designs against England, on the Part
of Lou NAPOLEON Qr subjects, e 5