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London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

yet remember that foal est ab hoste doceri, for they
would not pitch just upon this difficulty, unless
they felt that it was the difficulty for him. On
the other hand if, as eld and honest Reformers,
instead of lamenting, as w© have at times done,
popular apathy on the subject, we now tell him,
from onr knowledge of our own party, that we
are strong enough to insist on Reform ;
that we have often been baulked of it, but
do not mean to be baulked again. Surely our
opinion of the position of the question may reason-
ably pass for something. We ask of Lord DBRBY,
then, to look the question fairly in the face, for

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evade it he cannot. Lord Joint ItcssaLL, pos.
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sibly Lord PALIMISTON in opposition, the Radi-
cals certainly, will be awake to their advantage.
He will not be suffered, if we divine rightly, to
burke reform under temporising pretexts ; and

to oppose it will snake a vote of no confidence
perfectly easy. Individual proposals, and per-
haps a bill of considerable pretensions, will be
offered, and on these he will be defeated by large
majorities, till he will be unable to carry on the
Government. In the very house which gave
Mr. GINSON a majority against the Government,
there would not have been a less majority than
sixty, had the vote been taken on a Liberal ques-

tion. It was fifty-three sgainstiCkurch Rates the
Wednesday ➢reviously ; for the Oaths Bill it
would be overwhelming ; so it would undoubtedly
be for any of the principal points in Representa-
tive Reform.

We would then suggest to Lord DARBY and his
colleagues whether their acceptance of office (unless,
indeed, they avow an intention to dissolve on the
Reform question)—their acceptance of offiee with
the pruent Parliament should not be taken u an
avowal of acceptance also of the ohief demand of
the nation. The Parliament was, notwithstanding
the Canton affair, elected for the great objects of
Liberals. The constituencies could not be con-

fined to the cry of PALMERSTON and YEK ; the

Issociation everywhere was—of those seeming
inoompatibilities—PA.Lmiutsrox and Reform I
The general shout for Reform, notwithstanding
the Chinese diversion and the Tory-headed
Cabinet, must eonvince a less practised politician
than Lord DARBY of the political want of the
hour.

It is for the new Premier to say how far he
will go. His appeal to Lord GREY, now avowedly
as ranch a Tory, in all but name, as Lord DIMBY
aimself, is to be sure ominous enough ; but we
regard it as certain that details arranged in ac-
cordance with the vague Tory generalities of
Lord would insure immediate rejection by
the nation, we believe by the House of Commons
also. The Conservatives must look the fact in
the face that Conservatism itself must now rely
not on bearding the people, but on friendly co-
operation with them. Aristocracy must increasingly
trust not to its mere titles, and to keeping power
from the hands of the nation, but to cultivating
its advantages, and acquiring and maintaining
iluperiority in intelligence, education, and capacity
for Government. Our nobility, and their offspring
still store, will be obliged to face competitive
laminations, and a far more exacting standard of
qualification than hitherto.

We are fair advisers of Lord DIRE; since
we care not a straw for men, but for measures
only. We belong to no party. We are
indifferent whether Witigs or Tories giro us what
we want, so that we do but gat it. Our political
gratitude goes to those who give the people what
tkey ought to have. Unless Lord DERBY COM..
mills himself by Ignoring or opposing Reform, or
L by proposing some such treacherous measure as
we expected from the teuen Dettnieter, we snail,
so far as this all-important measure is concerned,
give him our ungrudging support. We tell the
Noble Lord, however, plainly, that if he resort to
any Whiggish evasion, if he want to defer a
Reform measure till next year, or to push it off
till too late for discussion in both Houses, or if he
bring forward a scheme to place the chief power
of the country in the hands of landlords, and
their tenants at will--none of these things will
the country endure. He will be outvoted imme-
diately ; he could but appeal to the country ; and
if he did that as the opponent or the perverter of
Reform, he would be in a smaller minority than
he now is.

one.

Some persons, naturally, will laugh at the
idea of " Damn. and Reform." Yet we remem,•
ber seeing him doing ♦igorous battle for the first
Reform Bill ; he would but have to return. to his
first love. The same might be said of his coadju-
tor in the Lower House. As to the Sir Roberts
and Sir Harrys--they, of course, must eat their
leek, and grumble about danger to our glorious
oonstitution in Church and State, but follow their
leaders they must, for they hare none of their
own. We believe it is in the power of Lord
DARBY to fix himself in power without dishonour.
When it was a clear political fact that Catholic
emancipation, and the repeal of the corn laws
must be carried, it was not held dishonourable for
the great leaders of the day, to avow that the
time was come—that the thing must be done, that
they could do it, and that they would do it.
Surely reform is in the same positioa. No
one can deny that the representation is
now full of disoreditabls anomalies in re-
' gard to the assignment of members to
constituencies, that it would give stability to the
Constitution, as well as be right, to admit large
numbers, now excluded, to the full privileges of
citizens, and that the secrecy of the vote is essen•
tial to the repression of election abuses and the
freedom of suffrage. We hold that if Lord DEBBI
intends to keep in office, be aught at once to
avow these changes to be necessary, and promise
his bill, at latest, immediately after Easter. Or,
if he chose to dissolve at once, with the offer
of the Ballot, he would have a majority of two to

On the Indian question, and that of law-making
to please bullying counts and colonels, or even to
please our "distinguished ally," the House of
Commons has spoken loudly enough. He cannot
be mistaken there. Neither can he well misun-
derstand its opinion on Church-rates. If he
could, his able and honest son could enlighten him.
Let hint not mistake on Reform. No vote has
been taken yet on that, but the vote of the coun-
try was given unmistakeably last spring, and
Lord DERBY must choose between the alternative
of respecting that vote or of dissolving Parliament
and asking the country what it thinks of DERBY
and REPRICS'ENTATITE REFORM.

Another telegram has been received from India.
It arrived at the Foreign Office, this morning, at
4.15, and indicates the nature of the into
ligenee which had arrived from Bombay,
per the Pottinger, at Alexandria, on the
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been environed for more than six months. Their
sufferings during that awful period must have
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