The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-20 00:00:00

cast in the same quarter of the globe. Now,
there may be but very little in all this, and yet it
says more than we find in the two Royal speeches

put together..
The mere incidental mention of the name of
an Ally does not make up for an Open expression
of that warm and hearty feeling of mutual regard
which ought to exist between two nations who
have so recently shared the same dangers and
glories. The peoples of two great civilised
Empires can scarcely have forgotten the almost
sacred ties by which they were bound together.
The path they have chalked out for themselves
must lead to -a brilliant and glorious .triumph
over all those national ills and political follies
which belong to a half-educated, half-civilised,
and half-Christianised age. An army of 600,000
men is but one of the types of that weak-
ness which converts real strength into premature
feebleness and misery. If Europe is to be aban-
doned to two or three millions of non-producers,
must we not be prepared for a large augmenta-
tion of that " great misery" which now prevails
" among a portion of the people," and which
will render the millions given by private charity
and the Government of France but " feeble
" palliatives," unless Providence shall send us a
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reed the almost countless hosts of soldiery which
the civilised countries of Europe have to support,
and the nations who depend upon millions of
non-producers for the maintenance of their great-
ness and strength will find that "they are leaning
on a broken reed.
Mischief may be done before this palpable
error is discovered, and the egregious fallacy
developes itself in all the forms of national
disaster and individual defeat. France may
stray away from Great Britain, but the French
must return to the English. The teachings of
religion and the instincts of humanity fill both
races with this belief. Diplomacy may threaten
Europe with all the terrors of the sword ; but
nothing in the shape of human horrors can shake
the sternness of the faith, with which every right-
minded manllooks forward for the day, when
political and military demagogues shall cease to
guide the destinies of Christian Europe. Nothing
can damp the ardour with which Englishmen
labour, and the free-born nations of the earth
pray for the social and political ameliora-
tion of their fellow men in every land.
The genius of this age may not be
in favour of convulsive changes or daring exploits
in the cause of suffering humanity ; but the
spread of reason, the diffusion of the Gospel, the
strides of science, the ceaseless industry, the
constancy, and manly determination which is to
be found in the hearts of the multitude, will
accomplish the mission of civilisation. It will,
probably, take a century, or it is just possible
that the antics of a madman are all that is wanted
to bring about the completion of the task which
this, and every other Christian nation, have set
themselves ; but let the struggle come when, and
from whence, it may, the British, with their Anglo
Saxon brotherhood, have nothing to fear from
rulers, of whom our poet PRIOR says;—
" A monarch surrounded by sabre's shows,
Au inward dread of a thousand foes."
The world wants more commerce, but making
industry and trade subservient to military ambi-
tion, and measuring the wealth of nations by the
taxation they can be made to yield, is not the_way
to supply the desideratum which the human
family so much need.

MR. DISRAELI'S OPINIoN OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN
1844.—" Lord John Russell has that degree of imagination
which, though evinced rather in sentiment than expression,
still enables him to generalise from the details of 'his
reading and experience; and to take those comprehensive
views which, however easily depreciated by ordinary
men in an age of routine, are indispeniable to a statesman
in the conjunctures in which we live. He understands,
therefore, his position, and he has the moral intrepidity
which prompts him ever to dare that which his intellect
assures him is politic. He is, consequently, at the same
time, sagacious and bold in council. As an administrator,
he is prompt and indefatigable. He is not a natural orator,
and labours under physical deficiences, which even a
Derxiosthenic influence could scarcely overcome. But he
is experienced in debate, quick in reply, fertile in resource,
takes large views, agd frequently compensates fora dry
and hesitating manner by the expression of those noble
truths that flash across the fancy, and rise spontaneously
to the lip of men of poetic temperament when addressing
popular assemblies. If we add to this a private life of
dignified repute—the accidents of his birth and rank
which never can be severed from the man, the selon of a
great historic family, and born as it were to the heredi-
tary service of the State—it is difficult to ascertain at
what period, or under what circumstances, the Whig party
have ever possessed, or could obtain, a more efficient
leader."--Coningsby, vol. ii, p. 261-2.