The curious treaty with the artizan class, said to have
been ori- ginated by certain Conservative peers, and of which wo have dis- cussed the drift in another column, was brought to light in the Telegraph of Thursday, but was not in any way noticed by the Times or Standard yesterday, and its real significance was not caught by the Daily News. The Globe, however, pleaded guilty,— rather with the manner of a young gentleman who is congratulated on being engaged to bo married,—to the soft insinuation. The working-men know well, it says, that the real wants of the people are always regarded by the Liberal party as entirely subordinated to the exigencies of party manceuvring, and so they wore not unnaturally anxious to be off with the old love, and are now on with the new. The tone of the Globe is — that the Conservatives really can't help being so much more fascinating than the Liberals ; it is their nature, and though of course they are coyly conscious of it, still it does not make them proud. The working-men have. found out the delights of those '4 sound principles of action and policy which go to make up Constitutional Conservatism," and of course they come to Mr. Disraeli. According to the story, however, it was Mr. Disraeli, or his followers, who went to them, and who at
first found them blankly incredulous of anything but political in- trigue in the move. If, however, the miseries of our poorest work i ng.clase, —the clasp in whiteh are the fountaius of pauperism,— are but alleviat4,—whother it be by intrigue or by philentliroPY, by Tory or by Liberal, will matter little, and we oonfese we look for a healthy party competition on this aubject, from this time forward.
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