The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

WHO ARE THE CONSERVATIVES ?

WE asked this question last week, and the first
division which took place on the Budget has in no
way served to elucidate the mystery. After the
arduous struggle which took place at the last
General Election, the triumph of Conservative
principles was alone rendered nugatory through the
treachery of the PEELITE section, who belied all
their professions, and abandoned their principles,
in order to gratify their personal spleen. Even
then, with all the advantages of a coalition, it was
delay rather than defeat, until the recent division
afforded the lamentable evidence that the treachery
was contagious, and that to a far greater extent
than the most desponding had dared to anticipate.
Whatever may he the merits of Mr.GLADSTONE'S
Budget, as an exercise of financial ingenuity, it was
manifestly an emanation from an anti-Conservative
'Cabinet ; it was brought out under the auspices of
the avowed Liberals, supported by the various sec-
tions of Radical politicians and as a compromise
of principles, to speak the best of it, was opposed
to true Conservative policy. When, therefore, it
was known that the proposal to extend the Income-
tax to Ireland would secure the opposition of a
portion of the Irish members, the Conservatives
had but to remain true to themselves, and the
defeat of the Coalition Ministry was certain. But
so far from this result having been arrived at, the
Ministry obtained a majority of not less than
seventy-one:.; and an analysis of the division has
shown that this unexpected triumph was obtained
by the desertion of more than that number of pro-
fessing Conservatives, so that to their own treachery
may be sdlely attributed the defeat of the -Oppo-
sition, as had-they remained true to their principles
the majority would 'have been against Ministers.
It is well, however, that -we should be able to dis-
tinguish our friends .from our foes, and we -subjoin
the list of those, who, having been returned to
Parliament by Conservative electors, make use df
their power to walk over into the- enemy's,camp.
The following are their names, to the number of
sevenirlour

The 'Right Hon. H. Goulburn, -Sir F.'Lewis, J. S.
Wortley; Earl Jermyn, Viscount Monk (who is an Irish
Peer); 'Lords Norreys, R. Clinton,'W..Powlett,'Emlyn,
and C.'Wellesley ; the Hon.'F. Baring, H. Fitzroy, Col.
Lindsay, and M. L. Mostyn ;*Sirs T. D. Acland, J. B.
East,J;W. Hogg, R. H. Inglis, J. Johnstone, rJ.lOwen,
R. Peel,.R. Lopes, and R. Price; Admiral Gordon; Cols.
Harcourt, Mure. Peel, and Pennant; Captain Gladstone,
and Messrs. A'Court, H. B. Baring, Beckett, Benbow,
Bramston, E. Dering, Christy, Cocks, Cubitt, 'E. B.
Dennison, H. Drummond, 'W. T. Egerton, .E. C.
Egerton,'W. J. Evelyn, Greenall, T. Greene, G. G. Har-
court, •G. 11. W. Heneage, G. F. Heneage, Hudson,
Hughes, Johnstone, Laing, G. C.J.,egh, A. E.'Lockhart,
Lowe,J. Macgreggor, Masternnan. R. M. Milnes, Wilson
Patten, J. H. Phillipps, R. J. Phillimore, Pritchard, P.
Rolt, Sandars, J. G. Smyth, Stephenson, Stirling. H.
Stuart.' G.T. Vernon, Walter, F.R. West, H. W. Wizk-
ham, W. Wyndham, and B. T. Wood.