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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 December 1862, Page 3

Increase of Radical Power.— "We may note, says the Illustrated Times, that the Radical party below the gangway has silently undergone a change of late. There has been r.o great increase in numbers, but certainly an addition to its power. Halifax has sent us Mr. Stansfield, who is acknowledged to be a power amongst us, in lieu of Mr. Crossley, who, as will be remembered, migrated to the West Riding. Leicester has returned Mr. P. A. Taylor, who bids fair to develope into a formidable Radical force, instead- of good, amicable M. Biggs, Mr "White, of Brighton, is a capital substitute for Admiral Pechell ; for, though the gallant Admiral was an honest Radical, he had long since been old and feeble. Mr Frank Doulton, of Lambeth, is earnest, energetic, and talks well ; j whereas his predecessor, Mr Roupell, spoke but "f'SV^ 1 an< * * as a vacillati ng and dillettanti riirJlttician. Sir Robert Peto, who will certainly f*-" ;. Cobden in his views, has lately woke up, ' A:wjth pen and tongue has been one of the — -^rfst and most forimdable of the advocate* of retrenchment. Bernal Osborne, who is not a Radical though he sits below the gangway, is ,-Tery lively on this subject, and will continue to pour his fire' into the Government Tanks, at all events for a time, until some more acceptable occupation be found for him. We take Mr O. i to be a 6ort of Dugald Dalgetty, who in all his 'moves has an eye to ultimate profit. There are also other new men^Mr Seely, of Lincoln, ;Mb Potter, of Plymouth; Mr Hubbert, •of Preston; Sir Chas. Douglas, of Banbury— -who though they talk but indifferently well, are understood to be faithful to the Radical cause, Thus, it will be seen, the Radical party is increasing in strength ; and if it should rally • round Cobden ? s banner next year, it will be a . Very awkward force upon the left flank of the : noble lord at the head of her Majesty's Government. A Radical, in Joseph Hume's dajg, was defined by Mr" Coppock "as a politician who quarreled with the whig*, but always went to their he pin distress ; " but we rather fancy this definition is faulty now, > A/iiini of £6,666 has been received, ifl aW of the disttewi in Lancashire from Victori*. Melbourne, and « like amount from Ifew South W«lew