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-LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886,

It is impossible to esti:nate too highly the vas
iMportance cf the existing trans-Atlantic difn-
nutty. It is not merely the fate of the model
Republic, or the interests of twenty-five millions
of men, the large majority- of whom are of the
Anglo-Saxon race, speaking the same language
and professing the same religion as ourselves,
but the peace and tranquility of the world, that
are involved in the result. The future welfare
and happiness of the human race greatly depend
on the issue of the Presidential election. The
parties immediately concerned are fully aware of
the magnitude of the stake for which they are
contending. Should Ducar &NAN unfortunately
succeed, filibustering quotations will rise mate.
rially in the market. A course of piratical
aggression will be entered on that must load to a
sanguinary and ruinously expensive war. Cuba
will be the first object aimed at, inasmuch as its
acquisition would at once lead to the addition of
a New Slave State to the Union_ 3n additional
stripe to the Yankee banner. The example of
General ViraratEa will be generally followed by
the pro-slavery men, and visions of new acquisi-
tions will be indulged in throughout the whole
of the Southern States.

There is, in fact, no possibility of the slave-
owners resting on their oars. They must
progress or fall from the position they have
assumed. The proceedings in Kansas the
fierce invasion of one of the States of the Union,
and the civil war now raging therein, proves the
utter recklessness of the Missourians and their
coadjutors. They have set their lives upon the
cast, and will stand the hazard of the die. Should
they obtain a renewed tenure of power for four
additional years matters will be brought to such a
pass that a general war between the Old and the
New• World will become inevitable, and in that
war England must take a leading pail, not only
for the sake of her North American and West
India colonies, but for the maintenance of that
prestige which she has hitherto enjoyed, and the
sacred cause of truth and justice, the abandonment
whereof would be the signal for herspeedy downfall. ,
The SUCOOS3 of Colonel FREMONT, on the other
hand, would immediately- allay the well-founded
apprehensions that have been entertained. It
would at once be seen that there was but little
danger to be anticipAtel from a .firm and well-
organised -Government., which had the vast majo
rity of the free population on its side, and which
set out with an earnest and unflinching determi
nation to suppress all these buccaneering expedi_
tions so greatly to be deprecated. The further
extension of " the domestic institution''—that
atrocious system thai; so contemptuously disregards
all natural ties,-paternal and marital—will rigidly
be prohibited. It is, perhaps, impossible to an-
ticipate the immediate enfranchisement of all the
unfortunate victims of man's cupidity and lust of
Power ; but the gOod seed would be sown and en-
abled to take permanent root during the FREMONT
Administration. Even men past the middle
age might reasonably hope to see the day when
the crying abomination would be numbered
with the Vast, and the sanguinary stain for ever
eradicated from the banners of all civilised na-

tions.

It is then, indeed, a question of vast import.
of equal magnitude Never, 'perhaps, has one
de-
pended on a popular election. Every vote given
for BUCHANAN tends to rivet the chains on the
coloured population. Every one for FitEMONT
to relieve the weary and oppressed, and to hasten
the time when thelle shall be peace and good-will
amongst men. That the glorious cause will
eventually triurriph it is impossible to doubt !
But there must be serious misery and suffering
should the cont, 3st be protracted. Tile Northern

know their own strength. Their eyes have
been already opened by the admirable brochure
of the veteran " Qui-NcY," who has so clearly
and distinctly pointed out the causes by
which " a miserable minority" has hit erto been
enabled to defeat those who hold the trump
cards and have the game in their own hands, if
they only play it boldly and independently.
Thcy can only lose by allowing their insidious
opponents to sow dissensions upon minor points.
Now that the House of Representatives has
yielded on the rider to the appropriation, that
it has abandoned the position which it so nobly
assumed and manfully sustained for a time, the
battle of the constitution must be fought on the
Presidential Election. As we have long since ex-
plained the real contest lies between FREMONT
and BuccrasaN. FILLMORE is only put forward
as a mere stalking-horse to divide the votes of the
Free-sellers. Every vote given to him is practi-
cally
the same as ono bestowed on BUCHANAN.
His personal influence may also be used to pre-
vent Congress from agreeing, so that the prize
may remain for BRECKENRIDGE, which would be
but a faint improvement on BUGHANA?.7.
Should that gentleman be pitchforkel into
power, the same policy that has oharacterised the
PIERCE Presidency will be maintained. The
hopes of the Federal Republic, and of all the
well-wishers of freedom throughout the world,
rest on FREMONT. A few months must reveal
the issue whereon the happiness of the human
family so greatly depends.

At this moment we have, in the diplomatic
vacancy at Naples, a rare and glorious opportu-
nity. An opportunity for turning over a now
leaf in the manner of the general distribution of
our first-class appointments I It behoves every
Administrative Reformer to be on the alert. It
behoves us all to mark what follows—to note
what manner of man it is wo ought in reason and
by right to see inducted into this luxurious but
responsible office of Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Court of the Two Sicilies. Shall it be another
WILLIAM BARNACLE " precipitated" into this as
already into so many other snug places according
to Precedent ? Shall it be another Lard DEO/MUS
TITE BARNACLE soaring to this as already
he has risen to so many of the official
heights upon the wings of one indignant
idea? Shall it b 3 another TUDOR STILT•
STALKING, " despatch-boxing the compass" all
over the European Continent, wafted to this as
already to so many other pleasant capitals upon
winds blowing nobody any good save a BARNACLE
or a STLLTSTALKING, mellifluous zephyrs, fragrant
Lnd aromatic with " the odour of circumlocu-
tion 9"

A new Ambassador will have to be nominated
as soon as possible to the post vacated very re-
cently by the death of the Hon. Sir WILLIAM
TEMPLE—own brother of the now Prime Minister
of England, the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. Is
it to be the old, old story all over again—the
story we are all so heartily sick of ? A BARNACLE
replaced by a STILTSTALKING, a STILTSTALLING by a
BARNACLE--" not a square yard of ground in Bri-
tish occupation, under sun or moon, with a post
upon it, but sticking to that post a BARNACLE, "
or stalking grandly towards it across land
and sea upon certain hollow and stilted
pretensions a STILTSTA.LICING ! Are we to go
on thus, and thus, and thus down to the
very end of the chapter ? Or is there at last the
glimmering of a hope anywhere for Merit—for
Merit per se, Merit viewed altogether apart from
Family ? In Heaven's name let us now trust- and
believe so—now that we have had the euelc)o cry
about " The Right, Man in the Right Place,"

dinned into our ears so often of late, now that ive
have heard so much about the intentions and
aspirations of the Administrative Reform Associa-
,iol], now above all that we possess in this diplo-
matic Neapolitan vacancy a priceless and really
golden opportunity
We are unfortunately compelled to imagine that
there really are jest a few more perhaps thin
some half-a-dozen credulous individuals in this
3ountry who are disposed to believe with Lady
BARRABA SINCLAIR., in MC. CHA I% LE3 READE'S
4parkling little novel of " Christie Johnstone,"
—"that in England, Government is ad.mixistered
not by a set of men whose salaries average from
eighty to five hundred pounds a-year, and whose
names are never hoard but by the First L)rd of
the Treasury, and other great men." Credulous
people these are, who conceive of course, and
pito as a matter of course, that diplo►natists like
the late lion. Sir BARNACLE STILTSTALKING,
Brother of the Premier, and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary at the Court of Naples, actually did " some-
thing" or other that (let us say) " earned the
salt" of his splendid embassy ! The condition to
which our influence at that ill-favoured Court had
dwindled down at the period of Sir WILLIAM
TEMPLE'S death "proves"--positively—to the
contrary ! It " proves," moreover, that nowa-
days, mcro than ever, it has become imperatively
requisite to get the diplomatic wheel of fortune out
if the old deep-worn rut of feudal, that is to
say, family or hereditary, appointuneut ! Niw—if
ever ! At Naples—if no where else ! The evils
Aro have to ward against there are imminent.
reere, at the Curt of BOMBA, let the labour of
diplomatic reform begin in real earnest. It is
wore than merely desirable that it should be so ;
it is essentially and imperatively requisite. Di.
olomatists are, of course, not made in :s day. Eley,
•nore than any men perhaps, need a regular and
'yste►natic oducttion. It becomes necessary,
therefore, that we should select judiciously from
among the best of the materials already within
reach of our selection. Not from anteing men

who, as diplomatiits, are notoriously valurAess—

but from among those who actually do p assess a
real and approoiable raputa,tion.- Leaving fit
while contemp:;nously overlooked at their seve-
ral posts—Lord HownEN at Madrid, Lard WoDE•
trousE at Petersbur_r, Lord STRA.T.P.JIID DF
REDCLIFFE- (under . a taboo) at Constantinople !
A.nd turning to such men of mark, and minl, and
:uerit as Sir HENRY BULIVEIt, and Mr. Ttromas
WysE., and Sir FIAMILTON SEYSIOUIt. The last
mentioned can scarcely be spared, it is true, from
his German post of responsibility. The first man-
tioned has just taken in hand the solution of the
great European problem affecting the future go-
vernment of the Siamese Danubian Principalities.
The distinguished Ambassador intermediately par.
ticalarised might, we cannot but conceive, be
transferred very judiciously from his irksome posi-
tion at Athens to this vacant post at Naples with

nor we are mach mistaken) infinite satisfaction to
himself and immediate advantage to -the national
nterests he has so long and ably represented.

"A change," a thorough and radical chan,,e, we

believe, 111113 f", sooner or later (pray HI?,AVEN

sooner rather Llian later) "came o'er the spirit, of

our dream" at the Court of 01'110 alid at the
Court of BOMEA ! Now is our opportauity for

.s inanguratic.m.

The free and easy exhortation of the Chartist
minstrel to the class expected to participate in
yesterday's demonstration—

" Cheer up, cheer up, my gallant lads,"
appears to have been penned in a moment 0

prophetic inspiration, for certainly the marked
disregard shown to the advice given in the follow-

ing lines

caste away, my hr,arties,
To welo-,71.1” tail d,ty with loud huzza
OA brave John Fr)st, the Chartist,"
betokened a want of sympathy with " brave (?)
old JOHN," as the subsequent proceedings did a
good deal;' of indifference about the Charter.
That Chartism is at present, as it has long been,
a lifeless ism will hardly admit of doubt, and
many will be of opinion that an ovation to a hero
like the hero of yesterday is not the likeliest way
to revivify it. It is natural enough in the leaders,
or would-be leaders, of a popular movement to
avail themselves of every eligible opportunity to
extend their inflaence and promote the spread of
the political doctrines to which they are pledged.
But, at the same time, their followers have a right
to look for some degree of judgment in the sc,slec-
Lion of such opportunities. flow far the Char-
tists, as a body, are satisfied with the selection of
FROST as a Chartist hero we cannot undertake to
say, but we unhesitatingly affirm it was a great,
a grievous mistake, and the apathy shown in the
gathering of the procession goes far to show the
working classes an regarded it.
The Charter is not one of those things which
are so unmitigatedly bad that nothing short of
unmixed reprobation can be applied to them by
the honest admirer of the Constitution. Some of
the points are good, and possibly in course of
time the greater portion may be adopted. Per-
haps the worst of the Charter is—the Chartists.
So far their leaders have contrived to offer the
greatest possible Obstacles to the adoption of any
of the reforms they profess to seek. By the wild
extravagance of their harangues and the mina-
ciousness of their attitude they have frightened
the timid Reformer; and by their questionable
dealings and impracticable policy have offended
and alienated the bold. Indeed so strangely have
they acted in times past that the good faith of the
majority, excluding such men asERNEsT JONES, haS
been more than questioned. If the party, small as
it is, be now sincere, it could hardly be good policy
to attempt an ovation to an individual lately
punished for a crime, the temptation to Which is
so generally associated with the maintenance of
the Chartist cause.
The selection of such a hero was, we repeat,
a mistake—a blunder—unless it be regarded as
indicative of something worse. It associated by
the newest ties ideas of violence in connection
with the Charter which, it was to be hoped, would
never be so associated again. The inference is that,
like the BOURBONS, the Chartist loaders have
learrii nothing, and forgotten nothing, during the
long abeyance of their power. What claim
had JOHN FROAT on the respect or gratitude of.
any honest Englishman ? The Mayor of New
port—he was a rebel to his SOVEREIGN, and per-
jured alike to her and his fellow-townsmen. As
a magistrate and an educated man he abused his
privileges, to the mortal injury of the weak ;
while, as a Chartist leader, he displayed such wis•
dom and foresight as may consist with the array
of a few desperate men against the power of the
British CROWN. Some twenty individuals fell,
riddled with shot, from a conflict which he pro-
voked and contrived to leave unhurt. Many.
were imprisoned, and some transported, himself'.
among them beside. And now, with her MA-
JESTY'S gracious pardon hardly crumpled in his
pocket, and indebted to the Caosrx for an esotpo
from the gallows, this man, of all men, must be,
selected as a Chartist martyr, and must flout the
public eye with his presence, and turn to ridicule
the commiseration which led to his recall from
banishment. This madman and ingrate, to call
him nothing worse, is, forsooth, deemed worthy,
on account of his misdeeds, of all the honour
Chartists could show a deserving Democrat
There can hardly be two opinions among moderate
mere as to the truth of our previous assertion that
the Chartists are the worst of the Charter! We had
hoped that, taught by experience to avoid past errors,
and not without honest, if misguided, men among
them, they would hate endeavoured to redeem
those errors by a junction, however temporary,
of their efforts with those of reformers of all
grades to obtain some points on which there is a
common agreemeet ; but we must confess to
having experienced considerable disappointment,
which nevertheless would have bean greater had
the character of the vast majority of the assem-
bly on Primrose-hill been other than our re-
porter describes. Such a collection of roughs
must ever, save in extreme cases, be politically
powerless, and prove obstructive to whatever
cause they disgrace or honour by their aid. The
only vital power of Chartism resided in the
laborious and intelligent working classes, and it
is not to these the roughs of the metropolis can
fairly be said to belong, much less to represent. As
the Chartist movement is now directed, we cannot
regard .with regret the substitution of the ode
class for the other, because the results will in-
fallibly be less prejudicial to the cause of reform.
One thing we are fairly entitled to notice in cell-
nection with the meeting. In what other coun-
try would the like be tolerated ? In France,
Austria, the Sicilies? No ! It is iu that Eng-
land the tyrants of the two latter countries de-
light to vilify that public opinion can control the
endiusiastic, and hold the rascally politician in
check without aid from the bayonet and sabre,
and the loudest vaunter of the success of secret
combination can be challenged to the outrance,
to the prostration of his power and his signal dis-
comfiture. It is only in Eagland that the honest
and practical reformer can draw new spirit from
such manifestations, and be led to the discharge
of a duty he owe: I,v the failure or rampancy of a
movement of whie:i .he disapproves. May such
result follow in the wake of yesterday's demon-
stration.

Acctrw.NT Ti THE WES•L,IINSTER CLOCK BELL.—
WEsT HARTLEPOOL, Sept. 13.--An accident, fortunately
unattended with fatal conseq.ummes, occurred here this
afternoon to the great bell recently cast at Norton for
the new clock tower at Wer.tmii'ster. It was originally
icttntled t) ship the bell by inears of a pair of shears
er cted for the occasion in tiie West Dock, none of the
cranes being sufficiently Fioverful to lift the enormous
weight ; but the i,hears set up were found to be too
small, and a larger pair wa i erected in the Swaineon
D.,ck, and this afternoon was appointed for shipping the
bell r.o board the biiiyhoy schooner Wave, Moncrieff,
master, of Wisheach. Ever y precaution that was deemed
requi,ite was taken in urdi T to secure its safe shipment.
About one o'clock it was lit ted from the:carriage on which
it was deposited and safe!, • swung over the hold of the
vessel ready for being layered. While in this position
it was discovered that l'ne aperture to the hold was not
sufficiently broad for it.s reception, and another deck
plank was cut out in order to admit it. When all
was in readiness icr lowering., one of the chains was
found to have slipped
:.
in rag lines the accir' on one side of the sheave, and the
block refus. dto wort A delay of an hour occurred be-
fore this c:iuld be re, nedied, and when all was once more
few minutes previot theto readjustment of the chain a
lent we have to report took place. A
Wight crick was he xrd to proceed from the woodwork,
but of thisnoti. Ni was taken, as it Was not deemed of
any consequence. As
soon as is strain was again put.
upon the tack'ing the shears immediately swerved a
little to one Wide, al rkl in ao instant the ponderous ma-
chinery came to the ground, cracking and smashing like
firewood, ar.d in its course bringing down the foremast
of the vessel an,/ bre; .king it into splinters, besides doing
other serious dranag:e the hull. The bell descended with
a fearful cracrash, to tl.‘s b..ittorn of the vessel, fortuniVely, it
was believe,! at tht• tine this report was despatched,
without iijr.ry. The large crowd of people who wire.
standing near had a n arrow escape from the falling mast
and timbers. The can tain of the vessel was in the hold
at the time, but fortunately escaped without injury. The
vessel immediately begs '.rs to make a great deal of water,
and in order to prevent her sinking in the doc'c a couple
of steamboats took he - in tow and removed her out of
the dock into the inner 1 win, where she was run on the
ground.