The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-08

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found by poor called Howley. of Buneu, who vo-
UNFAIRLY refunded and refused reward OF SO Of
house there have been but four deaths for the last
week, there used to be upwards OF one hundred This
mornings paper mentions the asd Of July as the day
Clarendon 10 expected to arrive in Dublin the Sd OF
July. The first sod of the Newry warrsnpont and
Rostreror Railway was raised last week There are six
candidates named for the University.
state OF Parties In England.
From the Paris Journal des Debatsl
England, at the approaching elections, will present
spectacle very different from ornsry of
complete confusion of parties At these elections you
will seek in vain for those raying cries those Devices
those banners of different and marked colors which Sc
conservatives and feformers What difference there
is between these elections and these of ls4l At that
period the Wing Ministry, sinking further and further
into moral and material deficit and feeling itself
pidy descending into abyss, had last effort
that time represented by the liberty Of commerce,
and made appeal to the nation taking for its war cry
regularly between the systems and the two parties
there was the white and the blue, and each remained
the the
Where the protectioniss and free traders Sir Robert
Peel has changed all that pnrng the Jour
England-he modified and overturned all political posi-
ons and doctrines He has operated the greatest and
most extensive reforms by means of the very persons
who elected for the purpose of opposing them
Even while approving Of the great OF which he
was the author and instrument help regret
ting the price which they have cost The old and ira
dtona notions of the spirit of party and the faith in
change has taken place the benches Of Parliament,
which certainly not calculated to support In the public
mind that feeling of fidelity to opinions which is one OF
the most solid bases of representative government
From this alteration in the ordinary condition Of the
parliamentary system, which has been rendered
sary perhaps by circumstances, but which Is not the
less dangerous in principle confusion has
resulted, which still regns among all parties, Of what
shade of opinion The that has passed since
the fall of Sir Robert Peel, has made change in the
position Of things The recovery from such shock IL
easy Besides there has been in the interval
higher power which domineered evsrything-the
famioe in other words Irelandfor they one and
the same thing IN presence OF TINS terrible ana I'm
battles and differences Of opinion were adjourned The
discussions Of which Ireland the subject did not
turn upon this that political doctrine, but upon ques
PARTIES therefore have remained in the same state of
confusion in which they were when Sir Robert Peel was
upset by coalition Of his old friends and his natural
enemies Lord JOHN Russell has done nothing to change
the position Of affairs. Indeed it may rather be said
that he done everything to keep them they
Brought into power by circumstances entirely indepen
without any liked ideas and ready only to follow the
current public opinion wherever 1t might carry him
Having only negative power and being only m AIM
in himself any principle Of collision he has passed the
whole Of this the first year Of his administration in
tacug between every SYSTEM and in negotiating with
every opinion He has grasped at much without catch
| ing anything and has undertaken much while he has
terminated nothing There not one Of his measures
that has not been mutsted by the concessions which
he has made to all parties In succession We shall only
quote examples passing ministry OF LORD
John Russell placed in its general plan with respect
Ireland the purchase by the government Of uncuti
waited land simple observaticn.-an observation very
cold and rather jeering from Sir Robert Peel sui
cient to make him renounce 1t. He proposed very
important bill for the health Of towns which would
traze the hands of the exercised
by the corporations; Lord Lincoln deed him " include
the corporation of London in it, and in point Of fact
some time afterwsi II exempted lie rejected the
fabulous project of Lord George bentnch to undertake
the railways in ireland to the amount Of 400 millions Of
francs and one months afterwards he asked for
the qafn
gain support Of the proteconists, he presented
law respecting education from the benefit Of which the
Catholics excluded and to make friends again with
the Catholics he has promised to Introduce new bill IN
their favor. The other day Lord Lincoln made mo-
ton on the subject of colonization The Minister began
by opposing it. Afterwards Sir r. Peel having inter
fsred in support Lord John RUSSELL In the very
sitting supported the motion In order not to be beaten
The principal of the session. the Irish Poorlaw
Bill forced upon the government by what Is called in
England the pressure from without, only reached its
termination modified and mutilated by the amendments
Of the Lords.
This general system tergversation and compromise
which Lord John Russell appears to have adopted, or
rather which he has abandoned himself is easily
planned Having entered power at the end Of farlia
nen he suits al his policy TO the approaching elections
In order not to compromise himself any Of the great
influential bodies, he truckes to all TO certain ex
tent he seems to have succeeded IL is possible that in
the of any very distinct raying point of which
he is the focus will get together in the elections
which about to take place next month, very consi-
ierable majority in his favor but that majority will be
composed Of entirely elements, which cannot fail to
produce changes the composition Of the cabinet itself
cations be made Towards which of the two fractions
of the cabinet will the First Minister lean There Is
reason to believe that Mt the moment Lord John
Russell himself does not know and consequently is
not pretend to have any knowledge OF the mat
ter If the place OF Lord Clarendon, for example as
President of the board of Trade has not yet been filed
II probably Lord John Russell wishes TO wait,
that he may see which side the scale will turn If hs
onIv consulted his own inclinatons at least IL
Judge of his incnations by the general leaning OF his
conduct for the last year. he would endeavor to get
the most important men IN the moderate tory party
| .xs.. Ha Tam IN
that quarter, and 1t will be remembered that on
coming into power he offered different departments
of his administration to Lord Lincoln Lord Dali
bouse and MIR. Sidney Herbert, all Of whom
members of Sir Robert Peels government. We
should not be all surprised If these offers had been
neated and If similar offers had been also made such
men as Lord Ashley or Mr.. Gladstone Lord Files
mere whom know better by the name OF Lord Fran.
cis Eeerton IL Is not necessary to have the gift of
double sight already discovered that Lord John
Russell 10 doing every thing In his to the
support church party wish for better
nroof than his Education bin than hsr demand
The revocation of laws which still close the doors of
Parliament against certain religions than his propo
these different indications we can pretty confidently
conclude that II any modification Of the Cabinet should
take place. will be towards conservatism rather than
| towards reform principles
| The approaching elections are, If not much
MISTAKEN destioed to produce singular changes in the
history It, the wings have always been the
arstocratic party par ele,H,es LORD John Russell ~
by his birth, would have been much more naturally
the head of the English aristocracy than Sir Robert
Peel The true party Of Sir Robert Peel is the middle
classes ohichis sa bu, :; erery day an ineras
ing element in England We recolect that within the
last year we expressed the opinion that we might very
probably one day Sir Robert Peel ana Mr Cop-
den in the same Cabinet We still think so, with
out wishing in the slightest degree 10 appear para
doxical il Sir Robert Peel were nj the present
dav Prime Minister we persuaded that he would
have the 10 give the vacant department OF the
Road ~ TRADE to MIR Golden, but Lord John Russell
will not have that courage lie will not have It for two
reasons because would hurt the landed interest with
the great whg families would not submit, excepting mt
the last extremity to that pebeian invasion
Iror This general remodeng OF the old parties which
arc Mi 10 be thrust the other into the cleo
taral furnace IL is then, probable, that something
trslv new may come out II certain that Sir Robert
Peel will not remain long without becoming the
and the ralying point Of party and II Is believed that