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THE BRIGHT AND HARTINGTON"…

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THE BRIGHT AND HARTINGTON" PERFORMANCE. The sensational indictment preferred by Lord HARTIXGTON and Mr. BRIGHT against the Government is not likely, we imagine, to do the Conservatives any serious harm, or to help the Liberals much in their attack on Office. The dissidence of Liberalism, the inherent tendency of the members of the Liberal party to fall out and chide and fight," showed itself unmistakeably in what was intended to be a demonstration of Liberal unity. Naturally, the two orators chiefly concerned did not positively join issue upon any of the topics on which they are known to think differently. They had the tact to avoid anything like overt collision. But although they omitted to disagree, they disagreed to omit—if the term be allowable. For instance, Lord HARTINGTON remarked, in a somewhat lofty vein, We know that engagements which a Government have entered into must be respected, and I defy anyone to put his hand upon any statement made by any responsible leader of the Liberal party to the contrary." Mr. BRIGHT took the hint, and thoughtfully forebore to air his well known conviction that the whole policy and engagements of the present Government are ripe for Liberal repudiation and reversal. Much Conservative sympathy should undoubtedly be felt for Lord HARTIXGTOX. He is a com- paratively inexperienced statesman. He feels that he is "not strong enough for the place." Even at Manchester, in the midst of the delusive exhibition of spurious Liberal unity, he confessed to a feeling of extreme humiliation—he said Nothing can be more humiliating than praise when the recipient of the praise feels that much of it is undeserved." Our politeness and our respect for truth alike will not permit us to gainsay this evidently heart-felt admission of the noble lord's. We wish the noble lord no harm. We do not desire to see him the nominal head but the virtual tool of a Government of All The Tempers. Let him be wise in time. He knows something of the irreconcilables who officer the Manhood Suffrage Cossacks, and the Free Lances of the Liberal host. Let him re- fuse to have any dealings with so disreputable a rabble. For Mr. BRIGHT we have nothing but defiance. Nominally a man of peace, the right hon. gentle- man is the most bellicose orator on the political boards. He is the fish-fag of politics the champion slanderer the prodigal son of Liberal- ism, wasting his substance in riotous Billings- gate. It would be charitable to suppose that sometimes, when his rhetoric most conspicuously runs away with his reason, he is not entirely ac- countable for what he says. It is indeed difficult to believe that a man so oratorically gifted deliberately and designedly indulges in the blind and furious denunciation which has come to be associated with his name. It is difficult to avoid thinking of temporary insanity in connection with language such as this:—" There were crimi- nals at head-quarters, and there were fools and imbeciles among the people, and there was base- ness enough among the proprietors and the writers of some newspapers—there was all this to give, for a time, a semblance of popularity to a madness and to a guilt such as I have described." Like all persons who shut their eyes to fairness and rush in where wise men fear to tread, Mr. BRIGHT is always making the most absurd and palpable mistakes. He is, probably, the most inconsistent politician on the face of the earth. ( He expresses in one sentence his fervent hope that the present Government may be speedily 1 replaced by a Liberal Administration, and in the next he alludes to a hypothetical Government as one by which wisdom and justice were scorned," and of which "ignorance, passion, and vain glory i directed the policy and wielded the power"— language excruciatingly applicable to the late i Cabinet of All the Talents. He is incapable of r drawing distinctions obvious to the merest political tyro. He says-" If anybody can tell < me the difference between Protection and Re- < oiprocity, I shall be very much obliged to him." f We are neither Protectionists nor Reciproci- tariang, but it appea-rs to us—though the ex- ] planation will, possibly, not win us Mr. BEIGIIT'S promised gratitude that Reciprocity differs from Protection much in the same way in which j Lord HARTINGTON differs from Mr. BRIGHT. ] one is moderate, and comparatively reason- 1 able the other is neither. ] Happily for England, Mr. BRIGHT'? furious invective is really very harmless. His periods fizz and fizzle, but they never need any large < amount of argumentative cold water for their extinction. Everybody knows the right hon. gentleman. He is allowed on all sides to be a most accomplished orator, but a very irascible one. No sane party would ever think of sending ( him on a proselytising tour. But there is nobody 1 like him to amuse a crowd prepared to take all he says for gospel. He can call names with anyone. He is an adept in the not too manly j art of metaphorically tweaking the noses of absent antagonists. He is not afraid to call 1 distinguished statesmen criminals" when those f distinguished statesmen are out of the reach of his sonorous voice. He can verbally swagger, i provided he is not speaking is the House of I < Commons, to an extent which would be amusing 1 were it not melancholy. He is, in a word, Mr. BRIGHT; a man of impetuous contrariety and ( savage waywardness—a politician whom every- 1 body likes to hear, but nobody dreams of follow- < mg-the dancing dervish of Liberalism.

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