110W ARE TORIES MADE?
The season of youth, before one's judgment has been thoroughly matured, is generally characterized by an utter impatience of restraint. We dislike the discipline of school. We dislike the orderly restrictions enjoined by parental authority. We recoil from the inhibitoi y provisions of the divine canon, and 10 many instances we would gladly violate with impunity the motals of human law. Unrestricted licence is what we desire alcove all things; and this natural impulse is often strengthened by ti it superficial acquaintance with the pi ItIsi btlities of ancient republicanism %illicit so readily contents us in the course of our educational gallop.— Tunes. This /night have been formerly the case, when tile Times was in Its youth, and Lord LYNDHURS'T a stripling, But our happier chil dren run little chance of Republican infection. Does not Dr. HAWTREY boast that at Eton the young gentlemen are all Tories ? Are not the "intelligent youth of Glasgow "admirers of STANLEY and PEEL? To ascend a little higher in the educational scale, is it among the students of Oxford or Cambridge that we ex- pect to find Liberalism ? The fact is, we believe, precisely the re- verse of what the Times states it to be. The difficulty with those who have received what is called a good education, is to escape from the trammels it imposes on thought and habit, and to emerge from Toryi.m into a m re phili sophical and extended view of politics and political economy. Our " intelligent youth" are not brought up as Liberals; but very many, within these last twenty years, have become little better than Radicals by dint of reflection and experience of the world. Let any person recollect how small a number of the aristocracy are even Whigs, and how prevalent Tory principles are among the:gentry—the classes Which furnish Members of Parliament and candidates for the Church, the Bar, the Army, and Navy.—let it be taken for granted, as it safely may be, that the sun is biassod by the father, not naturally dis- posed to thwart him and reject his opinions,—and then we shall be sui':o d at the rapid progress of Liberal opinions among the educated classes in these latter days.
The examples selected bs the Times to illustrate its position that men become Tory tied as they grow older and wiser, are not happily chosen. Look, says tile Times, at Lords LYNDHURST, Ant NGER, and TA NiceevinFe—all Liberals when young, all Tories now. As to herd TA N KERY I LLB, we believe that he was brought up a Tory : his father held office under Parr, quarrelled with the Minister, was dismissed, and went into Opposition. His son, the present Earl, never took much interest in politics ; is now a very inilk-and-water Tory ; and, whatever he may be, is a man of no mark at all. Lord ABINGER was always a Tory in habit and principle, though chance threw him among the Whigs : a rat his party, Lord ABINGER has not abandoned his early prinrur Lvsamstritsr was a Radical, Republican, Jacobin— ever ■ hing that is vile; but nobody would laugh more than his astute lool-hip at the notion that his desertion of the Liberal party o as the result of conscientious conviction. Place and pre- feline:it were offered ma needy and ambitious man, and hence the COPLLY comersion to Toryism. These instances do not shake our opinioa that the great body of the Tories are Tories through the prejwines of education and the effect of early training : they are not mature couverts from Republicanism imbibed at school or college.
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