The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

When we come to analyse the charges which

have been preferred, with eve

variety of calum-

nious assertion and insinuation, against Lord

DERBY'S

Government, the essence of the whole

seems to be tha

the noble Earl has refused to act

upon the suggestions of the Opposition, and so play
their game for them ; that he has abstained from
revealing to his unscrupulous foes the plan of his
campaign; and that he has shown himself con-
temptuously indiffent to the sneers, and ridicule,
and detraction of the organs of the various cliques
and coteries which comprise the unholy and un-
natural Liberal Alliance. Lord DERBY will neither
dissolve nor re-assemble Parliament at the bidding
of enemies ; he will not be deterred from doing his
duty to his country by the taunts of any section or
offshoot of the Liberal party; but he will bide his
time, for the vindicatis:n of his honour and ability
as aman and a Minister. The power of imp Lidence
can no further go than to make a great outcry—as
the Liberal press has lately been doing—about the
gross violation of faith on Lord DERBY'S part, in
not calling Parliament together for the despatch of
business before the month of November. Let our
readers think for a moment of the consternation
that would have spread from moor to moor,
from county to county, and across the channel,
had Lord DERBY brought up the Members of
both Houses to town in the course of September or
October. Because the Noble Premier expressed
his intention of meeting the new Parliament before
the period at which the session usually commences,
he is charged by the rabid press of the Opposition
with wilful breach of faith, in not commencing at
the earliest possible moment, irrespective of the
convenience of the members or the exigencies of
the country. Precipitation, to which the Opposition
would fain drive Lord DERBY, he feels to be the
very course which would ruin his cause; and be
therefore, most wisely and carefully, takes the best
precautions against it.

The substantial business transacted during the
last Session, notwithstanding all the obstacles
thrown in the way of the new government, may
well bear comparison, both as to character and
as to amount, with the achievements of previous
years; and the capability of the Cabinet for the dis-
charge of its various specific duties, has been suffi-
ciently established during the short period of its
efficient existence, in spite of the extraordinary dif-
left to it as legacies by its predecessors.
therefore, that all honest and impartial

We trust

men, whether member

of parliament or not, will
treat with due contempt the idle and dishonest
babble of the Liberals about Lord DERBY'S
breaches of faith, and the incompetency of his col-
leagues. The position which the noble Earl has
been obliged by circumstances to assume, is one of
an exceptional ch

acter. He is not so much to be
considered as the Leader of a great party, opposing
the principles and measures of another definite and
ascertained party, as a statesman summoned to
the helm of affairs at a time when the misconduct
and mismanagement, the want of discipline and of
power of those who, before him, conducted the
navigation of the Vessel of State, bad brought it
into the most difficult and dangerous position, from
which he alone seemed able to extricate it. Parties
are at the present moment in an unsettled and
transitory state. There is no longer that clear,
broad line of demarcation which formerly existed
between them. The cohesion of the component
members of the two great parties is destroyed or
impaired ; and there must be a reformation of party
ere long, if the country is to have a strong Govern-
ment, acting wholesomely and powerfully under
the check of a strong Opposition. But, whatever
may be the forms which the rival parties in the
State may ultimately assume, it is evident that Lord
DERBY must be the leader of that great body
whose characteristic principle it is to conserve and
foster in the institutions of the country all that has
been proved by experience to be beneficient and
conducive to the welfare of the people and the
glory of the nation, and to protect them from the
rash encroachments of that reckless spirit of Demo-
cracy—already far too rife, and of whose disastrous
Effects the annals of Continental Europe, for the
last few years, contain so many a fatal proof.
Still, therefore, we would proclaim that the
Watchword of all true Conservatives must be--
" CONFIDENCE IN LORD DERBY."

ADVANTAGE OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.—LateIy' a
thunderstorm occurred in this town and neighbourhood.
One clap of thunder was unusually loud and startling in
its effects. It seemed not merely to stun, but to strike
some persons, causing them to start back several paces.
The electric fluid struck St. Martin's church, which, for-
tunately, bas a lightning conductor. The bright fluid
was observed to curl round the vane, as if playful, arid
then streamed down the spire, finding its way into the
earth, without doing any injury. It is difficult to say
what amount of mischief to the fabric and the surrounding
houses might have ensued, had not a lightning conductor
been fixed to the spire, a few years ago, at the suggestion
of Mr. W. S. Lockwood. This example should incite
clergymen and gentlemen to see that their churches and
mansions are properly provided with condu ctors.—LeiceBter
Chronicle.