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TUESDAY MORNIYG, AUGUST 2, 1853.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS.

"WHAT is doing in :they political , world ?" is a
query which is perhaps just now the most difficult
to answer satisfactorily. The Ministers are engaged
in clearing up the neglected business of a wasted
session; our Legislators are hurrying through their
arrears, the greater part of them impatient for the
recreation of the recess ; and the rest of the body
politic are eageily'enjoying the sports ofthe season—
racing, yachting, and other amusements, without
giving a thought for the morrow, or caring whether
Whigs or Tories are in the ascendant. In such a
state of mental and political apathy, it is not easy to
fix upon any subject which may be said to occupy
public attention, and yet, unlike those of whom we
write, ourreaders, with never-ceasing avidity, expect
us to'say-something, at the very time when they are
compelled to alknLmivvleerdpl. however,gethatther we are e.isnothingto
talk still
fresh fro:n a contest in which the ascendancy of
Conservative prineiples was the prize which was
struggled for, and nobly won ; and we ought not
to be-co forgetful of the cause which we espouse,
as to deem it uninteresting to those whose laurels of
vietery are so green. -It is part of -the political craft
cofyLiberalism to deny any dilTerence of opinion, and
to-attest that ancient distinctions of party have been
cb:lterated, that Whig and Tory, 'Conservative ,and
'Radical are obsolete terms whieh belonged to a for-
mer age, but are now no Longo: intelligible. By
-these means our opponents.seekto break down the
',barriers which Mill hedge in the Constitution,
-and to sap the `foundations of those institutions
-which it ought. to be the especial care of thezCon-
-servative party to maintain. -We are not insensible
to the advantage of securing.good feeling anti amity
between all classes of the community ; but principle
-must not he sacrificed to -hollow professions of
friendshipmor duty be surrendered to feeling; else we
--shall realise the fable: of the- alliance between the
wolves and the` sheep, which was only entered into
'in order that the latter might,hecome -a more easy
prey to the former. There are thousands in this
town of estimable character, and the best intentions,
%who are deceived by the specious pretensions of the
Liberal party, -who have no-other object than the
'-good of theirceuntry, and who,:from allowing-their
.good nature-to get the better of their judgment,
-voted for the Radical candidate et the last election,
under the miotaken impression that they were thereby
doing good service. It is, however, the duty of the
i:Conservative press to hold outx. -warning voice, to
'-expose the trickery by which the ear of Great Bri-
tain is rankly -abused, and rouse the people to a
sense of the dangers which, througk political apathy,
they would otherwise suffer to ,cpproach. This -is
the more necessary, because there is a natural ten-
Alency in the.public mind to forget the danger;
which have been passed, when the necessity for re-
sistance, has passed away, and to wr.dervalue nais-
-.chiefs, of which the evil consequences are not
'immediately apparent. The BritishtLion is a slug-:
gieh animal, noteasily aroused, and snore assailable
by the jugglery. of political charlatans; than by open
violence, .and to this failing is owing the present
position of theiLiberal party; for few can entertain
a doubt, that-were:the people of England thoroughly
alive to the traitorous designs of the Radical leaders,
they would not tamely submit to be the dupes and
the took of such ~treasonable faction.

Amongst the individuals who have occupied the
most prominent position is Lord Jc » RURSELL,
who—with no other quality than consummate
parliamentary
duplicity, (which is dignified as
tact—has assumed,every-phase of political
.pairty,
with no other seeming oli;;ect than to gratify 1 •as awn
personal ambition on the ruin of his country. .Whe.n
only known for,his advocacy of the Reform Bill, he
.declared to/his ,constituents ,at Huntingdon his ,un..
alterable determine ion to mantain the Corn Laws.
When pressing his Reform Bill through Parlia-:
meet, he threatened the House of Lords with the•
phys.:eal force of armed workmen from Binning.
ham. When a Conservative Administration was
in office in 1835, he carried a roaolution by the
House of Commons that no settlement of the Irish
Church question could be satisfactory unless it
contained the celebrated Appropriation clause, and
afterwards, when in office himself, passed the Bill
without it. In order to retain a parliamentary
majority, he entered into a compact with the in-
cendiary DANIEL O'CONNELL, and sacrificed the
Protestant Church in Ireland to the rapacity of
Romish priests and political agitators. In 1841
lie was expelled from office for tampering with the
Colonial interest in the Sugar Duties, and with the
Agricultural interest in the Corn Duties. In 1846
he sacrificed the West Indian Colonies, and de-
stroyed all that had been done to diminish slavery
by admitting slave-grown sugar upon almost equal
terms with the produce of free labour. He in-
cited the colonists of Canada to rebellion, and
almost drove them to shake off their allegiance to
the mother country, by direct and positive encou-
ragement to those who had been foremost in insur-
rection. In 1851 he endeavoured to revive his
decaying popularity by the promise of a new Reform