The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-11
From The Paris Journsl des Debats.
State OF Parties In England.

From The ParisJ Journal des Deban
state Parties N England.
England, at the approaching elections. will present
spectacle very different from her ordinary habitstha OF
a complete confusion Of parties AT these eecuons you
viii seek in VAIN for those aiyng cries. hose Jesi.es
rated into distinct armies the tories and wings tne con-
servatyes and reiormers What difference there is
between these elections and those OF is4l AT that pc
rod the wing ministry sinking further and further into
a moral and material deficit and feeling itself rapidly
descending into abyss, had. last effort once more
nailed It's coors TO the tree Of liberty which at that tune
was by the liberty Of commerce, and made an
appeal to the nation, taking for Its war cry "cheap
bread" The electoral battle was then fought regularly
between the systems and the two parties there was
The white and the blue and each remained faithfully in
his camp. But now, where are the tories! Where are
the whigs9 Where are the conservatives Where the
proteconists and free tIadersa Sir Robert Peel has
changed all that During the four years which he passed
an power-most fertile years for the history OF England
he modified and overturned all political positions and doc
trnes He has operated the greatest and most extensive
eorms by of the very persons who were elected
for the very purpose OF opposing them Even while APP
proving of the great measures Of which he was the author
they have cost The old and traditional notions of the
spirit OF party, and the faith in public characters have
been profoundly impaired change has taken place on
the benches of Parliament, which is certainly not cacu
lated support the public mind that feeling OF hdeliiy
opinions, which is one of the most sod bases OF rep
resentatve government From this alteration IN me
ordinary condition of the parliamentary sysem-whch
has been rendered necessary, perhaps by circumstances
but which the less dangerous in principle inexr
cable confusion has resulted which still reigns among all
parties of whatever shade of opinion The year that has
passed since the fall OF Sir Robert Peel has made no
change in the position of things The recovery from
such shock not easy Besides, there has been
in the interval higher power which domlneered
everythngthe famine; or in other words reland-.ior
they and the thing npresence OF this ter
rble and immediate danger, there no opportunity ior
regular battles and differences of opinion were adjourned
The discussions of which Ireland was the SUBJECT did
not turn upon this that political doctrine, but upon
Parties therefore, have remained in the same state Of
confusion in which they Were when Sir Robert Peel was
upset by the coalition OF his old friends and his natural
enemies Lord John Russell has done nothing TO change
the position al affairs Indeed it may rather be sad that
he has done everything to keep them as they were.
Brought into power by circumstances entirely naepend-
without any fixed ideas, and ready only to follow the
current public opinion, wherever it might carry him.
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himself any principle of collision, he has passed the
whole OF this the first year OF his administration in tack
ing between every system, and negotiating with every
opinion He has grasped at much without catching any
thing and has undertaken much, whe he has terminated
nothing There is not OF his measures that has not
been muaed by the concessions which he has made to
all parties in succession We shall only quote
amples in passing. The ministry OF Lord John Russell
had placed in its general plan with respect to Ireland the
purchase by the government of uncultvated land A
simple observaonan observation very cold, and rather
ieerng-irom Sir Robert Peel was sufficient to make him
Tenounce it He proposed very important pill for the
health of towns which would centralze in the hands OF
government the powers exercised by the corporations
Lord Lincoln deed him to include the corporation OF
London in it, and, point of fact, time afterwards
ii was exempted. He rejected the fabulous project of
Lord George Bentnck, to undertake the railways in Ire
land to the amount of 400 millions of francs, and
two months afterwards he asked for the object
fifteen twenty millions To gain the support of the
proechonsts, he presented law respecting education,
'front.' benefit Of which the Catholics were excluded;
and, to make friends again with the Catholics he has
promised to introduce bill in their favor. The
other day, Lord Lincoln made motion the subject Of
colonization. The minister began by opposing 1t. Al
forwards, Sir X. Peel having inerfeed IN It's support
Lord John Russell, in the very same sitting, supported
the motion in order not to be beaten The principal meas
ure of the session. the Irish poor bill forced upon the
government by what called in England the pressure
from without, only reached its termination modified and
mliated hy the pasAd tssh0F anu compromise
which Lord John Russell appears to have adopted,
rather to which he has abandoned himself, easily
planned Having entered power at the end of Parlia-
nent he suits all his policy to the approaching elections
In order not TO compromise himself with any of the great
influential bodies, he truckles to all. To certain
tent he have succeeded II is possible that
the absence of any very distinct ralyng point of which
he is not the focus, he will get together in the elections
which about to take place next month"; very consd
cradle majority IN his fayor but that majority will be
composed of entirely elements, which fail to
produce changes in the composition of the cabinet itself
The question now is in what direction will these modii-
cattons be made? Towards which of the two fractions
OF the cabinet will the first minister lean There is
reason to believe that at the present moment Lord John
Russell himself does not know and consequently it is
not Tor us to pretend to have any knowledge of the mat
ter If the place of Lord Clarendon for example, as
president OF the board oil Trade, has not filled,
probably because Lord john Russell wishes to watt
that he may to which side the scale will turn Ii he
only consulted his ncnaiionsat least if we are to
Judge of his nclnaions by the general leaning of his
conduct for the last yearhe would endeavor to get the
most important in the moderate tory party 10 Join
hun. He has already made attempt in that quarter,
and will be remembered that coming into power, he
offered different departments of his administration TO Lord
Lincoln, Lord Dalhouse, and MIR. Sidney Herbert all of
whom were members of Sir Robert Peefs government
We should not be at all surprised these offers had been
repeated, and similar offers had been also made to such
Lord Ashley, or MIR. Gladstone or Lord Files.
mere whom we know better by the name of Lord Fran
CHS Egeon. 1t is not necessary to have the gift of
double sight TO have already discovered that Lord John
Russell is doing everything in his power to secure the
support of the church party OF that we wish for no bet
ter proof than his education BILL than his refusal TO de-
mand the revocation of laws which still close the doors
OF Parliament against certain religions or than his propo
sltlon to rc-establish the bshoprcs in Wales From
these different Indications we can pretty confidently con-
cde, that any modification of the cabinet should take
place, 1t will be towards conservatism, rather than
wards reform principles.
The approaching elections are, If not much
mistaken, destined 10 produce singular changes in the
composition OF parties. At bottom-and the whole of
their history proves 1.-THE wings have always been the
aiistocrac party par erceieace Lord John Russell by
ms Character and by his nclnatons at least much
as by hls birth, would have been much more naturally
the head of the English arstocracy than Sir Robert Peel
ne true party of Sir Robert Peel as the middle classes
t'ch IS still ne,c but cuery dan an increasing ele-
ment m Engtand. We recolect that within the last
year we expressed the opinion that might very proba-
bly, one day Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Golden in the
same cabinet We still think So without wishing in the