The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-07
lNne Guqulrer.
RICHMOND. AUGUST z, 1870.
STATE OF PARTIES IN ENGLAND.

There is an article in the Edinburgh Re
LEW for January, 1910, under the bead of
SHORT REMARKS ON THE STATE OF
IARTIEs AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR
1909" winch, If il be true, sheds consider
lie light on the parties in Eng land.-As
IS article is too long for insertion in most
our news papers, filling AT least III CO
ans in one of them, it seems proper to
sent it ia more Condensed form to the
jlic.
he Reviewers state, that the great bo
VI the alton is split into two violent fac
d rs; 1.-THE courtiers, who are almost for
5itrary power, and the democrats, who
e almost for revolution and republican
ISM. Between these, stands small but
most respectable band-the old CONSTITUTE
oral wings of England" THE Wing Roy
alists. or the Wing Aristocracy as they
are in other places Ca,led--who are alike
inimical TO despotism and democracy-a
who, without forgetting that all govern
ment is from the people and for the peo
pie, are satisfied hat the rights and liber-
ties of the people are best maintained by
a regulated hereditary monarchy, and a
large open aristCcracv.'
The Reviewers CONFESS, that there have
been at all times such parties in England !;
that there have been always SOME persons
who leaned owards arbitrary power, and
SOME who leaned towards a popular form
and that these things, instead of giving
alarm. might fairly be considered as the
symptoms, if not the causes of the vgor
o. their political organization Bat they con
Iend that things are materially changed,
since the days of yore {; that it is not mere
ly SOME but the great bulk OF the nation
who are affected; that such partizans as
hose of Mir. Wilkes aud Of Lord Butte were
rat small fraction of the whole population !;
but that In these times, the majority of the
people. instead Of forming ring of impair
tial spectators around such partizans, are
themselves converted INFO fierce and i'm
petuous combataDts ---1'hat the lumber
of democrats is daily increasing Is inferred
from the prodigious sale. and still more
prodigious circulation of CObbett's Regis
ter and several other weekly papers of
abe same general description; from the
zone of all the manufacturing and populons
towns, and from the public and private talk
of the citizens OF the metropolis" The
great increase of the opposite party, again,
Is but too visible, in the votes in parliament
In the criStence OF the present admnistra
iion, and IN the sale and tenor of the trea
sury journals"
liz tracing the causes of these contentious,
The Reviewers say, that there has been a
great and gradual change in the condition
OI burupeAD society, Oy winch the toTUeT ana
= 1iddiing orders have been lnseusiby raised
into greater importance than they enjoyed,
when their place in The political scale was
originally settled; and that the Revolution
iu France and the revolutionary movements
IT, ther countries might be referred to the
peg ess and neglect of that great move
Trnf" But independently ofthls; they say,
tb;t he events of the last twenty years are
Of hrmScive8 sufficient to account for the
& cwlb Of tuc reyolUtcnists. The success
ct be French Revolution, accomplished by
plsbeians--" the splendid situations to which
To- bred men have been exalted, In c0nse
o. nee OF that success ---the comparative
weakness and lave fIiciency Of the suvereigns
and nodes Who opposed. aud the contempt
and ridicule which have been thrown upon
their order by the gictors,' have brought cx
istiug establishments into contempt, and civ
81 birch to schemes OF Innovation On The
o'hsr hand the grievances Of the British
ministry cry aloud for r medy - f
log continued iiI success Ut their ami &C
cbiu counscis----thc s'ckenu g uniform 81
their boastiBgs and failures the grow 81.
end p,uIer9ble burden Of axes aud ,Dy
~, she inminent ard Tremendous gegNs an