The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

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the Editor of the Hull Advertis

)1e proper

o little

light upon the condition of parties, making mani-
fest the strength of the Ministry, and the utter
hopelessness of the incoherent and heterogeneous

Opposition

kt a mome

hen con

as to the probability of union and
the various schisms of the Liberal

teran Democrat steps in and removes all doubt

Speaking in tl

that his spe

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eches and efforts have for ye

evidence of his anxiety that st

tv sho

formed,—adding,

" You si

at the commencer

,ould know that I have

,nt of two new Parliar

attempted to form one." "But," continues Mr.

HUME

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and of the sea

Fore."

The disappointed Reformer then proceeds to
point out the source of the impotence of the

" Liberals."

" There is no common principle of adhesion
among those that have hitherto been denominated
Liberals, to join in the efforts which I have made
to form a phalanx that would, early and late, and
on all fit occasions, take the popular course, and
support measures having the public welfare in view,
and tending to increase the power of the people in
the House of Commons."

Mr. HUME'S perseverance
is the most undoubted of his qualifications; and if
his protracted and renewed endeavours have failed
to combine and organise the exponents of Demo-
cratic ideas, we know not as yet of any one who is
likely to effect such an object. Mr. HUME at.
tributes the want of success of Liberalism (De-
mocracy) in the British Parliament to its right
origin,—the want of a common principle. The
Democrats do not, in fact, know what they would
be at. They cannot point to any one definite
object which they would wish to attain. They all
desire to subvert and undo; hut how far to go,
when to reconstruct, and in what permanent con-
dition to leave the social edifice, they seem to be
quite undecided and doubtful. Moreover, they are,
like all men without definite principle,—fickle,
variable, not to be relied on. Hear how their
veteran ally speaks of them.

Experto Credamus

"After repeated trials, and after grand promises,
the most noisy in their professions have often been
the first to desert their principles, and leave the
party to make, as it always has done, a miserable
and shabby appearance as to numbers. I could
give you a list of deserters, on such trivial grounds
and pretences, as would surprise you, and so fre-
quent as almost to deter any man from attempting
such an effort again."

Mr. HUME, professing the utmost willingness to
aid the efforts of a " People's Party," throws cold
water on the Hibernian zeal of his Correspondent
in the Hull Advertiser, by the following deduction
from experience :

" Any party so formed, of 40 or 50 Irish, and 50
or 60 English and Scotch members, would soon

have some extravagant proceeding from some of the
Irish or other members, which would damage and
discredit the party, and also frustrate all the efforts
of the party, even in the best cause."

Verily, Mr. HUME does not flatter his allies and
disciples. But he knows them

ch corn-

operation with complacency and gratitude
he tactics to be pursued by the Opposition in the
coming Parliament, the Nestor of the Democrats

declares—

" At present, nothing, as far as I know, has been
done towards a union of Liberals who may be
doubtful of the acts of the DERBY Administration;
and when I look at the hollow professions of those
who preceded Lord DERBY, and note them throw-
ing up their cards rather than play out their game
for the popular cause, by calling on the Reformers
to join them, I cannot have much confidence in
any thing they may do to promote the union of
parties."

Such language, from such a quarter, at such a
season, is very significant and opportune. We feel
much indebted to Mr. HUME for hie useful dis-
closures ; not because they contain any novelty, but
because they will help to convince many who have
hitherto been credulous on the subject, how absurd
it is to believe in the existence of a great Liberal
party, united by common political principle and
sympathy, and capable of constructing either an
efficient Government, or a formidable Opposition.

IMPORTATION OF Orutar.—From returns just issued,
it appears that there has been a great increase in the
importation of opium. In the month ended the sth ult.,
23,9911 b. were imported; in the like period of the pre-
ceding year, 6,6121 b. ; and in the month ended the sth
of September, 1850, only 3,584. The cause of this vast
increase is worthy of being inquired into. There has
been little decrease that we are aware of in the consump-
tion of intoxicating liquors last month. Had teetotalism
ounted for the

t, we might have a

been in the ascen
increased import of this vile narcotic. The drinks with
which teetotallers " bemuse " themselves are full of the

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