POSTSCRIPT.
" The accounts from the City yesterday would countenance the belief that the Conservative inteiest was not bestirring itself with a vigour proportioned to that of its adversaries, and that neither was a due exertion of skill nor of acti- vity exhibited in defence of a cause which never ought to have challenged the political combat, if its champions had not been both confident of its resources, and prepared to call them fully into play."
The tone of the rest of the article may be guessed at from this opening sentence. It is as unlike a spirit-stirring appeal to popular sympathies, on the eve of a mighty contest, as can well be conceived. The whole is wound up with this sage observation-
" One leaf, surely, the advocates of wise Reform may without opprobrium snatch from the enemy's book, viz, a lesson of earnestness and vigour."
So, the Times avows at lust that the Reform candidates, Messrs. GROTE, WoOD, CRAWFORD, and PATTISON, with their supporters, Itiessrs. DENISON, LLOYD, LUBBoCK, and the other City Liberals, are " the enemy." This is plain speaking, and places the position of the Times beyond mistake.
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