The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

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clique of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and their ultra-
democratic allies. On Friday evening, however,
a fresh onset was to he made upon the Government.
The Militia Bill, which Lord DERBY and his col-
leagues bad taken up, on the sheaving of their
predecessors that the defences of the country
required to be strengthened against the possibility
of an attack from the restless masses of European
democracy, came on for a second reading; and
although the measure was a much less stringent
and arbitrary one than that of the Whig ministry,
the foremost to oppose it were the members of that
ministry themselves. Mr. RICH, Mr. FREDERICK
PEEL, and, of all persons, Lord JOHN RUSSELL—
the man who had so recently declared to his sove-
reign that he could no longer conduct the Govern-
ment of the country, because he had been
thwarted in an unimportant detail of a similar
measure—now turn round and coolly tell us that
no militia at all is required ! Distinctly, the argu-
ment of these factious politicians is, that the prin-
ciple of a militia is bad, They would prefer to it
an addition to the regular force of the country;
but they will be satisfied with arming the consta-
bulary, increasing the number of the pensioners
under discipline, and recalling a few regiments
from service in our colonies. The necessity for
increased defences, urged by themselves, was a
Sham. The preservation of the homes, the hearths,
and the altars of Englishmen from the desecrating
feet of an invader is a secondary consideration to

the establishment of a COBDEN-RUSSELL admi-
nistration.

We can conceive what would have been the
feelings of a patriotic statesman under the well-
merited castigation, so ably administered on this
occasion to the late premier by his former colleague,
Lord PALMERSTON, and received by the House of
Commons with such enthusiastic marks of appro-
bation :

" I had hoped," his lordship said, " that when this
house was called upon to consider a measure which had
been admitted in its principle, at least, if not in its details
—in its object if not in its provisions—by all parties, by
both sides of the house (loud cheers from the ministerial
side, and counter cheers from the opposition), by the
government that was, and by the government that is, to
be essential for the best interests of the country, the mea-
sure would have been discussed solely with a view to the
defence and security of the realm, and that no party feel-
ing (tremendous cheering and counter-cheering)—that no
party feeling would have mixed itselfup with the discus-
sion of the present night. (Renewed cheers.) I confess,
sir, it is with much surprise and with still greater pain
that I have witnessed the line which the noble lord and
those of his followers (cheers and counter-cheers) have
thought it their duty to take on the present occasion."

So the public at large hoped would have been the
conduct of a party which aspires to be entrusted
with the guidance of the affairs of this great
empire. But Whig-Radicalism is essentially un-
principled and selfish. Its leader possesses the
soul of a huckster, instead of the attributes of the
highest order of British statesmanship. He has
consorted of late with mean and tricky spirits, until
he has caught the morality of the dodging school
of politicians; and whatever may be the issue of
the obstructive course of action which he is pursu-
ing, he may rest assured of the fact that he will
never be permitted to reascend the political ladder,
or to become more than the mere tool of the bolder,
though not more dangerous, men amongst whom
he has cast his lot.

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