Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-22
From he london TImss, Nopsmbsr Is.

SneeT thaS its aspect ludicrousI its aspect melan-
choly and its aspect contemplate. Ludicrous it is
to see the enforced and logged patience with
which men, who have been raying for Protection, |
for the last two years, TO the exclusion of every
other topic and almost every other idea; sit still and
listen to Mr.. DisIael elaborate argument design
ed to prove thot they acqniesoed in that against
which they have beenmost vehemehtly protesting, |
and that all the while they were roaring for Pro-
lection it was really the last thngin their thoughts
or wishes. This cool and succint demolition OF
their personal identity must have appeared to the
sufferers under the operation rather bold and
| hazardous experiment.; and that impression must
have been confirmed when Mr.. Bright, with unre-
lenting facts and piteSs logic, held up each re-
i negade in succession the faithful mirror of h
former self. Not Yorick's skull had less common
with the lively, witty head, OF which it was the
poor remnant than the ehapialen and tonguetied
county members of Tuesday night with the boast
full and selfsatisfed orators of the hustings Where
now are their qups and ests, their pledges and their
promises, their rounded period, their confidence
| and their exultaton? Mr.. Dsrael, not only takes
| from them their principles, but their very name;
and they endure all this without murmur and
| without Teproach If they had only known that
this was to be the end OF it, that their leaders, who
one month willing to die in the breach, would,
the next, ground their aims and march outwith
none of the honoTS OF war, and all the dsgraceS oil
unconditional surrender. We have on another
| occasion, expressed our sympa by with the lower
| instruments of agitHtion-the FoSketts and the
| howlerS-who, without the slightest compensa
| tien foI their ignOmnOus fate, find themselves
| abandoned suddenly by the very men whom they
have been labouring to prove seadlast and iImmuta
BILE. But how much more pity ought we to extend
to the arstocracy Of England, carried over into the
| enemy'S camp and made prisoners nj war by the
very leaders whom they have appointed, because
they possessed those qualities which they could not
| find in their former able and experienced chiefs!
Everything tends to aggavate the bitterness oil their
Situatlcn. They, for the first time, awake to the
conviction that the leader whom they trusted was,
| he npF01 OG their mOSt InSrFnOulOuS
aud unhestaling confidence, making for himself
terms with tue enemy providing against the time
when the degrading surrender of principle, which
| we have witnessed, could no longer be avoided;
and so regulating his conduct that, although his
supporters had every faith in his ProtecoRist zeal,
he has committed 10 overt act in favor OF Protee-
ton during the WHOLE period of the last Parliament.
He has left that to his SubOrdinateS; for himself, he
| has been content with general aud ambiguous mo-
tons agricultural diStreSS-Suscepllble, at the
| time, of Protectionst interpretation-and now
pressed into the service OF Free Trade with equal
fexlbility and deXterity. To reconcile his supper
tiers to these vague and ambiguous resolutions, Mr.
Disraeli was in the habit OF telling them that he
was at heart as good Protectonist as they, but
that in his view, the only way to obtain the object
was by asking for compensation; that the same end
was sought by both the one seeking direct PTotec-
| ton, the other hoping to involve Parliament in
such unsatisfactory plans for the re-adjustment o
taxation; that the country would gladly come back
10 Protection rather than attempt TO work out the
| "Ae|A "'AAS'A JAY eA'SAe
ened.
This was one side of Mr.. Disraelrs conduct as
he chose TO present it at the time TO his supporters
His speech on Tuesday night showed 1t had anoth-
er side. We hear more of the indirect but GER
tain return to Projections but on the contrary, Mr..
Disraeli takes credit to himself that no motion in
| that sense Scan be traced TO him. His supporters
he abandons to meet tLer fate as they best may
The evidence against them is conclusive, but he
has contrved that there should be proof against
himself. They must all plead guilty 10 the charge
| of inconsistency, and the sudden abandonment OF
principles recently and solemnly reiterated, but
| their leader has been SO vague and ambiguous
throughout that, although the cause and author Of
| all their msfurtunes, he defes those who would
seek to fix him with opinions lis no lorger conve-
nient TO profess. Having used the "CounGy Par
w." as he delighted to call them, as the Iueans Of
deceiving the electors ofthe counties and agrcul-
tural boroughs Mr.. Disraeli has ended 10y deceiv
| ing his own decoy ducks. The farmers believed
their members true ProtectonistS; the members had
| the same conviction of their leader They have
deceived their followers, and he has deceived them.
This double method, says Fielding, OF cheating the
very tools who nre instruments to cheat Others,
Is the very superative degree OF greatness. In
deed the whole matter forcibly reminds us of JON
| athau Wild. That eminent man had the art to Sc
lect for his instruments persons on whom devolYed
the responsibility for every thing he planned. On
the one hand he was always ready TO urge them on
fresh exploits in the calling they had selected;
and, on the other, he was equally prompt to disa-
vow their Deeds and hand them over TO condign
punishment whenever justice became lmportunate
| for victim. Thus did he occupy kind OF inter-
mediate station-partly as the head OF gang Of
thieves and partly as kind Of detective or assist
ant in the administration OF Justice. BY the deX-
ferrous alienation of these two characters did he
contrve to maintain himvelfin his dangerous posi-
tion now encouraging his gang by his counlenance
anu assistance, and again queling their inSubordi-
nation by the menace of delivering them over 10 the
dreaded hands of the police. Ell1s.- ...=-f
Not diSslmilar in the principle oil his policy has
been, as it now appears, the management OF Or.
Dlsrael. He has afforded his party all the sympa-
thy and encouragement he could short of ahSo
lutely and formally committing hlmselij but, while
he has appeared TO give IN most unreSeryedly to
their views and to second most cordially their ell
forts, he has ever done this with reservation, aud
sheltered himself from being completely identified
with those he led. The PrOtectioniStS have every
reason tn complain of ldr. Dlsraell for having fed
| them upon vague hopes, and urged them on, year
after year, in the course of what ne almost con-
! fesSes that he knew to be worthless and profit.
LESS agitation But how small do these complaints
i appear compared with the new cause OF offence
| given BIZ his speech of Tuesday night, the whole
| drift of which was 10 draw distinction between
himself and his party, and 10 prove that the pen
ance which may fairly be exacted tTom them did
not apply to himl Mr.. Disrael had not a word to
say against Free Trade-not an argument to urge
against Mr.. Villier' sresoluton. All he strove to
move was that since 1947 there had been no Pro-
tectionist party, and that some two hundred gen
| uemen withwhom he had constantly acted since
that period had, in their speeches ana agitation IN
favor of Protection been guilty of an eccentricity
| for which the party as whole was not liable. 1t
is difficult to set bounds TO the amount of submits
sion of which party is capable which has once
shed its leaders and is in imminent dread Of utter
and complete humiliation if 1t be driven to rete.
rate the process. Parties, like individuals, will
give all they have in exchange for their lives but
the insult and deseron can never be forgotten, and
the time will probably come when Mr. Dis1aeli will
find that in abandoning Protection he is saving
through the very branch which he is sitting, and
and that his ar1stCcratic supporters, awaking from
their long dream, will conclude that, as they have
abandoned all hopes of the one they have no furth-
er necessity for the other ~ .ffg
DrArn OF ConnAEpEE DkLE.-John NJ. Dale,
Commander in the United States Navy, died at