The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

on th

important subject of Land-tenure .in

Ireland, the measures for settling which had been
ably drawn by Mr. NAPIER, the late Attorney-
General for Ireland, and adopted by the present
Ministry. He considered that gentleman had been
scurvily treated, but comforted him with the
assurance that he was treated no worse than the
Ministers treated each other. They had been
obliged, among themselves, to make each other
withdraw bills in violation of solemn pledges ; nor
was this to be wondered at, for, with a coalition
Cabinet, business could not be carried on without
mutual perfidy. Lord JOHN 11trssELL attempted
to reply, but it was pitifully weak and mere spiteful
recrimination, betraying too evidently the bitter
mortification which he felt ; so much so, that he
once more resorted to the stale trick of challenging
his opponent to bring the title of the Government
to the confidence of the House to the issue of a
vote on some great question. Mr. DtSRAELI was
again more than a match for him, by the remark
that the Ministers had themselves tithdrawn every
great question which they had pledged themselves
to bring forward, and should leok to one of their
7n supporters if they wanted to be helped to a
For Eis own part, he was
0a to them for being members of an adminis-

;e of tehfidence,

upon sufferance— course of conduct which
e attiibuted entirely to patriotism—and he con-
luded with the rem that he did not wish to
b them, as he felt convinced that 'the Coali-
ion 'Government ivould last until the public
character of every one of its members *had been
irretrievably injured.

While some xv.:ll attribute muard The force ot
tie invective teAe sarcastic spiiit,ofthe speaker,ilt
is, nnfortunkiy, founded too much on truth, and
-must ere long occupy more seriotts aftention'than
appears as yet to have been aevtiteil to it. When

the ministerial difficulty createinv theresigration
of Lord- PERBY was overcome bythe coalition of
Whigs, sPeelites, and Radica%, confident hopes
were inthilged in of futitire,blessings 'from-a Minis-
try whits la comprised "all the talents," which, from
a fusion of parties, tended to 'disarm apposition,_ _ _ _ _

and which realised the•drearri ofartateur:politicians,
of-Conservatism and liibrralign working together
common good. Not one of the many pro-
nnses has been performed, not one 4,f the many
expectations has been:gratified. The head of the
Cittinet is suspected by friends .ae. nd opponenti
Ake of something-alttle removed from treachery
in his conduct respecting the %IV, which, indeol,
is solely owing toAllis un-English • policy and *Thus-
riian predilectioristin the previous-negotiations, 'and
he is kept in his-place by his relleagues who late
him, because his-fill would be their fall also. 'The
CHANCELLOR `of the ExcHnotn, who was kuded
to the skies as marvel of financial skill; has-Tailed
in everything which he has Iradertaken,' ones com-
mitted more'klunders• than- even the candid Lord
ALTITORP, 4110 inchided abashed duties in pros-
pective estimates ; .and • the-name of GLADSTONE,
which was snee a tower of-'strength, hai become a

warning. forexperimontaLfnanciers: • Laid Jon'N
Russzrz has become a mcre cipher except in self-
importance, compelled to tive up 'his pat project-of
Reforra;aill acknoWle4c his disconifitnre almost
with tears in his eyes then; to have his inge-
nioni intrigue for sup tatting the Pretnizr defeated
by the cool reply of thaatter, that his own resig-
nation -hould be followed by the to HER
MidESTT to send for lacad DERBY. :In legislative
proceeakgs the Ministry have expeiiicgiced worse
than a4efeat, for theyare themselves at once the
authorsouadvictimagifwerydisconifiturt. Through-
out the session they have been pay of political
suicide, and at the' 'Close they *ill'-have to puts
faliehood into the mouth of HER •Taid

TESTY, or .be

3mpciled to underge the mortifietition of aeknow-

ledgiug that' the time has literalty.lreen wasted—

snettli*. done, for-northing Wasinterldfd to be done.
`This ;is a wretched state of public aftlirs to exist at
au9 Vie, butit ininitely worse-at the present
juncture, when' England is taking_ file lead of the
powers of Europe twchastise the sitibitious despot
of the North. It is-,now that the moral influence
of smighty empire is of the greatest consequence
to ensnre a successful issue to the. contest, and yet
we 'present the 'Miserable spectacle to neighbouring
nations of a dividdd: :Cabinet, no' tws members of
which have one opinion in common, and which,
neibinc in policy?principles, nor practise, enjoys the
c.Aovedence of a single intelligent individual among
our vazt population.

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