Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-06
BRITISH POLITICAL ASPECTS.
From the Liverpool Times, May q.

From the Liverpool Times, May q.
The elections are over. The latest return
shows that six hundred and fifty -four members
have been returned to the Imperial Parliament,
of whom 1853 are Liberals, and 302 Conserva-
tives,-giving a majority of more than fifty
against the Government; and it is therefore
clear that Lord Derby faces the new House of
Commons in a position hardly better than that
III which he dissolved the old one. The posi-
ton, in point of fact may be worse. Members
who have been compelled to go through the
fatigue and drudgery of a canvass,-who have
had to make speeches and explain their votes,
whose purses have been drawn upon literally
to bear the expenses of contest, with all its I'M
certainties and annoyances, will return to ST.
Stephens with feelings very much more EN-
FILTERED than those with which they left it,
and with pre-arranged purpose of turning
out, on the first opportunity, the ministry
which has been the needless cause of this pub
lie turmoil and private Inconvenience. 1t will
be seen that the First Minister, in such state
of things, does not repose on that poetic
couch-a bed of roses
We were inclined day or two back tol at
tach some credit to the rumor that Lord Der
by is anxious to strengthen his phalanx by an
alliance with Lord Palmerston. According to
the gossip of the clubs, he has offered the no.
bic Viscount the leadership of the House of
Commons and four seats in his Cabinet-and
it was possible that the offer might have been
accepted, for Lord Pamerston, i'll the present
state of political parties, might probnbly go
further and fare worse. The member for Tiv-
erton could carry with him the Wing section
of the House, enough at all events to secure
good working majority to the existing Gov
erpment.
Other circumstances combined to favor the
suppositon of an alliance or a coalition. Lord
Palmerston is very moderate retormer, as far
removed from Mr. Bright's democratic changes
as Lord Derby is, and any reform bill brought
in under their auspices will deal tenderly with
the disfranchisement ofthe small bOroughs, and
equally tenderly in the matter of additional
strength to the great constituencies. This is
the pressing domestic question of the day-a
question which must ere long be settled, and
it witt combine the whole of the Conservative
and a large section of the Wing members in
the new House. Add to this that Lord John
Russell is Lord Pamerston's competitor for
power-and that in the event of Lord John be-
ing called upon to form government his RI
val might not be enabled to exact conditions SO
suitable to his taste as he may do with the
government now in existence. There is a ma
icious SATISFACTION, too, in out-maneuvring
rival, and turning up Lis heels.
The two statesmen are slightly at issue on
one important point which at the present mo-
ment absorbs all others-the question of Con
tinental politics. Lord Pamerston is the adj
mirer indeed, the personal friend of Louis
Napoleon, whereas Lord Derby inclines to
Germanic sympathies but they are both pro-
tessed advocates Of strict neutrality, pending
the struggle between the two great despotic
power, and this neutrality is the general feel
ing of the country. But if the Conservative
and Wing alliance is to take place at all, it had
better be cemented now, for the moment the
allies and Austria come to hard blows in Italy
the moment battle has been fought and
won on either side, England, like the Cont
nent, will be in the very vortex of excitement
and ministerial crisis at such an emergency |
would become national calamity-we might
add, national degradation. 1t has been siren
uously denied that Lord Pamerston contem-
plates the alleged movement; but time will
show