The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

current of conversat:

esteem in

hich the foreign policy of Cher ABERDEEN is

Leld by our noble and wel

[-beloved allies,

P-mong the

a• coincidences of the time, it has been noticed that

Lord PALMERSTO arrived,

in hot haste, from Paris, on

Friday afternoon, and joined his colleagues, in Council, at
the Foreign-office, an hour after the Council met, and two

hours before it separated. To give eclat to the coming

session, HER MAJESTY, it is understood, wit

open it in

person, and for that purpose will return to Buckingham

Palace on Monday next

. is to be d

le when Parliament meets ? is still a

d if a conjecture may be formed of

what passes in the Ministeral mind by what oozes out
through the bewildered and conflicting statements of their
1 allies and organs of the press, it would seem they have

.esolved on calling Parliament t

gether it

flutter of

their own

a very (

nite idea of what to pro-

a. On Tuesday, the

Times, in an article at once oracular ar

stilted, an-

nounced its gracious adhesiOn to a loan as the only means

of relieving the financial embarrassments which bewilder

thout farther" clouding the art of Exchequer hocus
as that is practised by the Right Hon. WILLIAM
" For our own part," quoth the

EW.ART GLADSTONE

e believe it to be the best policy to carry
on the war without any regard to expense, and, if the

Thunderer,

hope of keeping within our income leads to crippled
armaments, to languid counsels, and dilatory operations,
we have no hesitation in advising that we at once give up

the fiction of immediate payment, and draw on posterity

tion is as much concerned as ourselves in
the result of the war, and it will not thank us for cheap
shame." " Fiction of in

The next g

heritage of
cheap shame !" So, then, these are the practical benefits

diate payment ;

we are to derive from the reunion of " all the talents," in
if the Times, as these talents are to be
Present war ! The galled

the estimatic

employed in referen

jade will wince ; the trodden worm will turn again ; and
the Times was accordingly told to keep its own breath for

cooling its own porridge ; and it was farther informed
that its supposition, that " the scale of our earlier prepa-
rations having been unfortunately stinted by an undue
anxiety to keep expenditure within the limits of
was wholly unfounded." The unkindest cut of all re-

mained to be made upon the great offending organ by the
smaller one of the Morning Chronicle, which insinuates
that its " big brother" is given to " chattering and gab-
bling," and farther insinuates that Parliament has not
been summoned to replenish the national " till " by

loans or new taxes," or to inaugurate a Minie rifle fac-

tory ; or to " set the siege by contract, or to turn the first
sod of the Balaklava and Sebastopol line, with branches
running into all the trenches," but to " challenge any
censure which it may be thought proper to substantiate."
Such sparring may be dexterous as well as unseemly; but
it will not succeed in the only object for which it is put
forth. It will not create, or even organise, an opposition,
which the vigilant unscrupulousness of party rancour will
be able to colour as factious. No militia bill, no military
estimate, or proposition for a loan to carry on the war will
be refused to ministers; but a pointed and strong condemna-
tion of the war, and of their neglect of the ordinary means

for carrying it on, of the wicked want of precaution by
which the lives of so many of our brave troops have been
sacrificed, may, and, it is to be hoped, will, be presented
,:arrir After the meeting of parliament, Ministers
will b‘-

I carried

reed to give some account of their dilatoriness
in despatching the expedition to the Crimea till so late in
the season, as to render a winter campaign an inevitable
necessity. They will also be driven to account for that
procrastination in sending supplies and stores which has
ended in serious disaster to our own war fleet, as well as to
our ships and transports in the Black Sea; and the expe-
diency may likewise be manifested to them, of showing why
they sent so extensive and so expensive an expedition to
the Baltic, to effect a blockade which was practically raised
so early in the season rs to allow the Russian war fleet to
come out of port and join that which was confined to Hel-
singfors ; and to enable Russian war steamers in the Baltic
to capture British merchant vessels. Questions upon such
topics cannot be enrolled among the list of " fkctioustand
and, however strongly they are insisted on,
of impeding Ministers
the war, and bring it to a speedy

frivolous

they can

Lever be open to a charg,,

in a desire to prosecute

and ha