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'RIGS."

(From the Spectator)
Mr. Disraeli has openly admitted that party mo-
tive for the Reform Bill which Lord Derby, when
taxed with it, did not venture to deny. Lord Gran-
ville, with his adroit indiscretion, recently told in
the House of Lords how the Premier, attacked by
a friend as to his bill, had defended it with the sim-
ple argument, " Don't you see how it has dished the
Whigs ?" Mr. Disraeli, in his speech of Wednes-
day night, at the Mansion-house—a speech of quite
unusual bitterness and bumptiousness, declared, in
graver language, the same belief, asserted that he
had " attempted to disturb a monopoly ;" that this
had produced all the irritation ; that the Whigs
believed they had a hereditary right to deal with
the question of reform ; but that "he had in his
time seen many monopolies broken up, and recently
he had seen the termination of the monopoly of
liberalism." " Nor are we to be surprised that when
certain persons believed that they had an hereditary
right, whenever it was necessary to renovate the in-
stitutions of their country, they should be somewhat
displeased that any other persons should presume to
interfere with those changes which I hope in the
spirit of true patriotism they believed the require-
ments of the State rendered necessary. But lam
sure that when the hubbub has subsided—when the
shrieks and screams which were heard some time ago,
and which have already subsided into sobs and sighs,
shall be entirely appeased—nothing more terrible
will be discovered to have occurred than that the
Tory party has resumed its natural functions in the
government of the country. For what is the Tory
party unless it represents national feeling? If it do not
represent national feeling, Toryism is nothing. It
does not depend upon hereditary coteries of exclu-
sive nobles ; it does not attempt power by attracting
to itself the spurious force which may accidentally
arise from advocating cosmopolitan principles, or
talking cosmopolitan jargon." In short, in Mr.
Disraeli's opinion, as in Lord Derby's, the bill has
" dished the Whigs." The great party, which for
180 years has, under one name or another, ruled the
destinies of Great Britain, which has led, and in
leading has moderated every popular movement,
which founded and defended the constitutional
monarchy, purified and restored the national repre-
sentation, emancipated the Catholics, abolished
slavery, relieved the people of the Bloody Code,
risked its existence to secure justice to Ireland, esta-
blished the freedom of commerce and manufacture,
and authorised the people to buy bread where they
will ; the party to which we owe the almost un-
broken, though gradual progress of two centuries,
which alone has known how to reconcile aris-
tocratic permanence with the popular thirst
for advance, which bat yesterday induced
the middle class peacefully to transfer its power to
the nation, has been killed, cooked, served up, by
Mr. Disraeli and his chief, and the bearers of the
platter are ready to dance with exultation. There
is to be no more " cosmospolitan jargon," no more
respect for humanity outside two petty islands, no
more aspiration, no more effort to occupy worthily
the place of a leader among the nations. The 'Whigs
are " dished." England is a parish, and Tory
vestrymen—led by a chairman who at heart scorns
his followers as only one of his race can scorn, who
tells them openly that they are " fiat-nosed bar-
barians"—are to maintain a leaden rule, broken
only by passionate efforts of poor Radicals deprived
of their hereditary leaders, with the bones of the
Liberal party all crushed, to lift off the irresistible
weight.
It is a noble prospect, and one at which a party
who, when their one converted Whig is sick, have
not among them a peer with brains enough to carry
out his orders, who have raised Mr. Disraeli to
power because he broke the heart of their own one
man of genius, naturally exult. The Upper House
without Whigs would be a paradise for the dull, a
place where a Duke of Marlborough would seem
almost bright, and Lord Malmesbury rank as a
statesman, and what a relief would that be to a
Premier weary of finding brains for the incapable,
eloquence for the silent! A Lower House full of
Ayrtons and Ha.rdys, with himself to gull the one
and make combinations with the other—what a
delightful prospect for Mr. Disraeli ! But, then, is
there the faintest prospect of its realisation ? The
Carlton thinks so, though with a suspicion under-
lying all its confidence, for, after all, the Carlton
has read Mr. Disraeli as well as heard him, and
we believe it is the greatest of the Carlton's de-
lusions. By the " Whigs," who are " dished,"
Lord Derby means, first of all, that group of power-
ful and titled families to which the Stanleys pro-
perly belong, which from 1688 to 1832 adminis-
tered Great Britain, and held down Ireland ; and
secondly, those moderate but determined Liberals
who have found alliance with those families the
swiftest and most certain road to great reforms.
Now, what on earth is there in this bill to break the
power of either of these two classes ? We like
neither cordially, for we detest the laissez-faire
theory which they have of late years, in the lazi-
ness of their triumph, chosen to adopt ; and we be,
lieve that their social ideas, ideas summed up in thl/4
one word " exclusiveness," have seriously injured, it
may be have permanently, weakened the fibre of
the national character. They, and not the Tories,
are responsible for that spirit of flunkeyism, that
adoration of a social fetish, which inculcated for
thirty years by successful and able men, has honey-
combed English manliness. But what is there in
this bill to destroy them ? The county suffrage ?
Well, if there is a human being likely to conciliate
a twelve-pound county elector, it is a Cavendish or
a Fitzwilliam, a great landowning magnate, wil-
ling to advocate heartily liberal ideas. The squires
can vote for him without a fight with the electors
of the great villages and unrepresented towns, who
if the squires do not effect that compromise, will
carry in the contest of the factions men neither
party will approve. Is it the borough suffrage ?
The social rank of the Whigs will help them as much
as their rivals, and they have, this bill once passed,
nothing to divide them from the people. There is
no internal reform, no measure of construction in
which they cannot heartily join. Is it they who
must refuse, or will have the instinct of refusing,
radical measures in Ireland, or great schemes of
education, or protection to co-operotion, or the re-
visal of the land laws ? Is it they specially who are
interested in the stupid system of rating which now
presses as heavily on England as protection, who
will resist a popular army, who will shrink from
opening the universities, who will draw back from
liberalising the Church, frightened by the awful-
ness of mitres ? What is there in the programmeof
the future which is to drive the Whigs away from
their usual position as vanguard of the Liberals?
We do not care much if they are driven
away ; England can live without Cavendishes or
Russells, Fitzwilliams or Campbells ; prosperity will
not cease with the Grosvenors, or administrative
ability perish with Elliotts and Greys ; but Mr.
Disraeli does care, and so far as we can see he is not
in the least likely to be gratified. Doubtless they
will have to reform their creed, and remodel their
policy, put forward new men, and abandon entirely
their wretched dogma of laissez-faire ; but those
changes will but make them more competent, and
to change effete Whigs into active Whigs is not, as
Mr. Disraeli will shortly discover, equivalent to
"dishing" Whigs. Lord Hartington with a radical
programme is at least as formidable a person to Mr.
Disraeli and his followers as Lord Hartington with
no policy at all, and that is all the change he will
have succeeded in effecting. He will have compelled
Whigs to lead instead of restraining Radicals, and
he actually sings shrilly his pit in of triumph over
that victory for his principles ! The first election
will prove little, but within ten years we shall again,
we are confident, find the old Whig names in the
front, doing the good they have always done, and
probably also the evil which has too frequently
marked their action, consolidating the Radicals, but
rendering their policy slower, feebler, and less logical
than it would otherwise become.
But let us admit for a moment that Lord Derby's
and Mr. Disraeli's view is correct, and what a depth
of political immorality is disclosed ! In whatever
the Whigs differ from the Radicals they approach
closer to the Tories. They are more cautious, more
conservative, more averse to change, more friendly
to landlordism, better inclined to Church establish-
-meats, log willing to Ater Piny of those coustitu

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tional landmarks which Tories are accustomed to
describe as almost divine. They have acted for years
as breakwaters against the tide of Radicalism, as
protectors of Conservative ideas from the assaults
of the people. Yet Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli,
simply to win a party victory, have avowedly striven
to replace this party by one which they regard
as more menacing, more extreme, more hostile
to sound political principles. They have not hesi-
tated to get rid of the Girondins by calling in the
Mountain, to strike up an alliance with democrats,
if only by their aikthey might have the temporary
pleasure of crushing the Whigs. Grant that they
have deprived their old antagonists of their strongest
lever, the cry of Reform, still, in disarming them,
they have tripled the power of antagonists yet more
bitter to whom that lever is unnecessary. The very
first effect of this Reform Bill will be to make a
Radical Cabinet, which yesterday was impossible,
not only possible, but probable—indeed, allowing
for accident, quite certain ; that is, to shift the
government of the country from men with whom
Tories have many principles of agreement to men
whom they regard, or affect to regard, as hostile to
the constitution. We may look with composure or
pleasure on the change—in itself a revolution--but
is it one honest Tories could heartily promote ? Is
it not from their point of view very like calling in
the foreigner rather than yield to a domestic enemy?
As a matter of fact, the foreigner will but enlist the
party they are so anxious to crush ; but is all their
_party patriotism merely rancour? To " dish the
Whigs" the Tory chiefs have made England demo-
cratic, and they will before long have the satisfac-
tion of seeing the democrats they have called to their
aid putting the Whigs they hoped so ardently to
estroy in front.

Cffurt Cir r
.

DER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, Aug. 12.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended
by Count Van der Straten-Ponthoz, M. de Vaux,
M. Brewer, and Dr. Wimmer, arrived at Osborne
at half-past 10 o'clock from Ostend.
His Majesty was received on landing from his
yacht at Trinity-pier, West Cowes, by Captain his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, the Hou.
Mortimer Sackville West, Groom-in-Waiting ;
Major General F. 11. Seymour, Equerry-in-
Waiting, and drove thence to Osborne, where His
Majesty was received at the entrance ball by the
Queen and the Royal family, and the Ladies and
Gentlemen in Waiting.
The Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten has left
Osborne for London.
The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday after-
noon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Harding°.

ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF THE BEL-
GIANS.
Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven, his
Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at the
Isle of Wight, on a visit to her Majesty at Osborne
House. His Majesty arrived in the Louise Marie,
on which he embarked at Ostend at ten o'clock on
Sunday night. His Majesty is accompanied by
Count Van der Straten do Ponthoz, grand marshal
of the palace; M. Jules de Vaux, chief of the royal
cabinet ; M. Brewer, orderly officer in attendance ;
and Dr. Wimmer, medical attendant. On arriving
in Cowes Roads the vessel proceeded up the Mediea
to the Trinity wharf, where she came to moorings
alongside the Alberta, royal yacht. Blur royal
and suite
carriages were in waiting, and his Majesty
proceeded to Osborne House. The visit of his Ma-
jesty will, it is stated, be strictly private and very
limited in its duration.

The Duchess of Newcastle has arrived in Parig
on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Hope. Tho Duke of Now'
castle will leave in a few days to join the duchess.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol an
a
Lady Mary Hervey havo arrived at lelovorth Park, Bury
St. Edmund's, from Milton Park, near Peterborough,
where they have been visiting the Hon. Charles and 3.1.r5•
Fit z william.
The Marquis of Sligo has left the Clarendon
Hotel, for Westport House.
The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury hassit
arrived at Savernako Lodge, near Marlborough, on a
vi
to the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailosbury.
The Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgenrabe
have gono to Mount Edgcumbo, near Plymouth.
The Earl and Countess -Vane, who left town.
yesterday for Wynyard Park, will entertain a distinguisho
party during the Stockton Races.
The Earl of Powis has left town for Powis Castle'
near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, for the season.
The Earl of Glasgow has arrived at the Clara."
don Hotel from Scotland.
The Earl of St. Germans has left town- for for
Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall. : ht
, Frances Countess Waldegrave, and the It'g'.r
Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., have left town for thel
seat, Chewton Abbey, Somersetshiro.
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THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE 80RD.6115.
The Kelso correspondent of the Scotsman writes:
—" An official communication has been received
from Colonel Biddulph by Mr. Craig, chief rutigiB„;
trate of Kelso, informing him that the Queen Iv"
leave Windsor Castle for Floors Castle, Kelso, on
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, 011
cl,
Tuesday night, the 20th of August, and that he'
'
Majesty will arrive at Kelso Station on Wed
nes3/
the 21st, at 9.35 in the morning. In order to Pre,
vent confusion or accident during her 'Majesty's Pra;
gress through Kelso, the magistrates have issued
notice closing the streets for general traffic froin
in the morning until after the Royal cortege 511:310
have passed, and that no carriage or other Yeluct.-0
shall be allowed to stand on the streets on the Nu;
so long as these are closed for traffic. The inPg's;
trates have also issued a notice, in compliance s'l!t
a widely-expressed desire on the part of the 1111:0
habitants, calling for a general illumination of ho
town. The Royal Reception Committee rcselle,
on Friday evening that the address should be 1° 0
sented in the square, where some 15,000 peePle 11 a 4
witness the ceremony. On the day of her arr!
the Queen will visit the interesting and historlitc:
places around Kelso. On Thursday, we belico;
her Majesty will visit Melrose, Abbotsford, %0
Dryburgh, and on the,
_Friday will pay a visi4ol
the ancient burgh of Jedburgh. The no'l,o
visit to Greenhill, one of the residences of the Ptied,
of Roxburghe on the Cheviots, has been postpello
owing to a want of time and the hill road not
betiog
good. We understand that no fewer than 55 1° bet
ladies will strew flowers on the royal path as oecl
Majesty enters Kelso. They will be all dries cot
in white. Her Majesty will leave Floors Cast° pi
Balmoral at 10 o'clock on the Friday evePipS'aent
way of Edinburgh." The Jedburgh corresP°l3,o,to
of the Scotsman writes :—" Some alterations
been made in the arrangement regardia
11occl
Queen's visit to Jedburgh, and it is now aull°oLiell
that, instead of her Majesty only passing thr 0:0
the burgh on her way to Greenhill, she will ha° that
Jedburgh with a special visit. It is expecte Ad
the Royal party will arrive here about rnidcl3l.'ve of
ea
that, after the address of the magistrates is dellees
by the Provost, her Majesty will visit the Pe
interest in the burgh, the principal of these
t'bree,,
the Abbey and Queen Mary's llouse, an °id Arcot
ii
story building situate in Backgate (or Quee-siac
as it is now called), in which Queen I\lol ra`'erers,
while administering justice to the rude orderer
and where she was confined for some weeks Doth'
to
a fever which was brought on by her visit
well at Hermitage Castle."
—f the

THE BISHOP OF LONDON.--The reporup
illnesskuuw of the Bishop of London have, Ivo sr° 5'1:40;
been somewhat exaggerated. 11151°rashiP I .i5l)
to att:end morning service on Sunday at Fulhael "'tile
Church,rti:u and yesterday was present at the meeting cs
Ritual Commission in the Jerusalem Chamber. e _...111°
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF LO RP' ...4'
Select Committee appointed to consider the defective ;;eci
struction of the House in reference to hearing' Os°lllllol/
Professor Tyndal, Mr. Barry, and Dr. PereY, aa 'ol'
agreed to a report stating that owinm to the near aP.Pr°,,or
of the close of the session the cent'rnittee found it l'it.''oo
Bible to complete the inquiry, and recommended I'l'6' 001
consideration of the subject should be reatulle(l'33 °I
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pric4 94 tb.9 next §eli§ivu.