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London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

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L9N'DON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1857

We are much obliged to Lord DERBY, on be-
half of Reformers, for calling attention, on Mon.
day night, in the Huse of Llrd-4, and in an
eloquent speech, to our rein trks of the preceding
Wednesday. Of curse our Candi/lutes' Catechism

repeated by Lord DERBY will be hoard in many
schools which wouli not have heard it from w.
We know well enough what his oljsct wag. He
did not ofcourse mean to teach it, but it is the good
fortune of truth and justice Ciat their dictates
cannot be even enunciated without increasing the
circle of approvers. Llril DERBY meant t) show
Liberals tint Lard PALMERSTON stood, according
to a. journal which has warmly supported him in
every boll measure abroad, and honest mea-
sure at home (but which has as unsparingly
denounced all his backlidings both at home and
abroad), that he stool at the b Atom of his class ;
That he could not indeed even say his First Cate-
thism. Let it be so. Our doctrine is that if
Members of Parliament all know their Catechism,
as they ought ti do, they will soon teach it to any
Prime Minister. It is members who make Minis-
ters, and the people who make members; and we
want the people now to see to it that old candi-
dates are fit for confirmation in their old seats,
and new ones more fit than those whose places
they fill.

We are net, like Archbishop WAATELEY, fond of
quoting ourselves, but it is worti while perhaps
to recall our precise remarks.

Reformers—you must not b 3 beguiled by generali
ties. Put no faith in the candidates who will only pri-
Ini" vague'', to support "a liberal policy," "every well-
considered measure of reform," " safe and steady pro•
greas," and who equivocate, and shoffl-3, and qualify,
and refuse to come to the point when some of the prac-
tical queation4, on which all honest Liberal are agreed,
ore brought before them. We do not like pledges when
a subject is new, or complex, but there are three or four
liberal questions now in hand on which every man worth
a Liberal's voting for ought to have made up his mind ;
we may mention—
"' The Ballot ;
of the Suffrage, and in particular
" Extem. ion
Locke The
King's motion
" The Bank NionoPolY ;
"Church Rates ;
" Abolition of Purchn9e in the Army, and Promotion
by Merit ;
" A graduated locont-) Tax.
Here in a list which might easily be inorea.ed,and
no man deserving the name of a Liberal ought t ince
when wit3cliived on each of these subjects."

Now wo reassert, almost as a truism, thAt no
Liberal ought to winec ivlvit put throwjh this ele-
mentary Catechism. Whether Lord PALMERSTON
would kick at it or not we care very li tie. Lord
DERBY himself witnesses that he will very easily
yield to "external pressure"—;vhieb, being in-
terpreted, means pressure by th) electors
or by those who represent them. He even
threatens him in the Conservatively eloquent pero-
ration of his speech, that if he do yield up any
of his Tocy predilections to popular pressure,
,—then, woe be to him ! Down will come upon
him the whole Tory phalanx, and by the fatal
sixteen they will crush him and his. Lord DERBY,