The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-28
HIGHLY IMPORTANT MANIFESTO.
Views of Mr.. Golden and the Movement Party
In England, on the Crisis.
Affairs on the Continent,
Ac., lie, &e.
THR MANIFESTO OF Mr. GOLDEN AND THE MOVE
MINT PARTY IN ENGLAND,

THR MANIFESTO OF Mr. GOLDEN AND THE MOVE
MENT PARTY IN ENGLAND,
From the Manchester Examiner, April
When an intelligent foreigner first visits this
country, his feelings are ever those OF surprise
and admiration He flies from town to town,
iuspects great establishments, witnesses many
marvellous combinations of skill and industry,
surveys our streets and our public buildings,
mingles with our active merchants and manu-
facturers, and In the houses OF hospitable enter
tanners comes into con act with numbers OF men
who owe their wealth to their intelligence and
their activity. Then. when tired of the din of
Birmingham, or the hustle OF Manchester, he
runs through rural districts, where he sees old
ancestral halls, venerable churches, snug rectO-
ries and vicarsges. and many pleasant village
embosomsd in hills, and enriching the land
scape. Returning to headquarters, he MUIR
murs, &c 1t Is a onderful country, and sur
Nor is the wonder abated, when in the quiet
ness of retirement he turns over official docu-
ments, supplied by the Hberality of British
statist. The figures are to him puzzling IN the
extreme. Accustomed to calculate In the small
er coinage of his own country, he cannot con-
vert British sterling into francs, or forms. or
rubles, without staggering sensation. The
nationa! wealth OF Great Britain becomes as
present the distance of the fixed stars, or express
the velocity of light In thirty years OF peace
we have increased the annual value of real pro.
perty by forty millions, representing capital OF
of that property is, in round numbers. one hundred
millions. Oae year with another, we build ten
Millions worth of houses. The insurance so.
cletes have contracted to assure from the rlsk
Of fire, property equal to the nominal value OF
the national debt. Life assurance societies have
accumulated surplus capital OF not less than
forty millions. A portion OF the community,
including a considerable number OF the work
ing classes. have thirty millions In the savings
banks. While in ships, In docks, warehouses,
roads, canals, aud railroads, we have an amount
OF capital sunk far beyond our foreigners com.
prehension, to say no!h n OF seven millions
expense 8, while forty-six millions OF fuctuating
capital annually pay legacy duty.
Were our foreigner man incapable OF pene-
trating beneath the surface, ne might tall into
very natural error. He might come to the con-
ciusion that nation so enormously rich must
be inhabited mainly by lcisureIy people. In
every town he visited ne found comfortable mer-
chants and professional men, with everything
He saw carriages, livery servants, elegant
houses, rich furniture, well-appolnted tables,
and was entertained with music and dancing.
None seemed to be poor, but the very poor
none appeared utterly wretched, but the reckless
Activity, energy, and abundance, characterized
the habits and the daily life of the middle and
upper classss. To live comfortably, 1t was only
necessary to put forth suhclent exerton and
those who did so seemed secure In attaining
enough to render life happy mixture OF mode.
rate toll, and attractive, because polished and
elevated pleasures.
A little more intercourse with would soon
ennghten our foreigner: We are not a Ietsurety
people. This great bulk OF the community IN
this country are engaged in lncessant toll,
whether 1t be with the hand or the head; II mer.
chant, manufacturer, clerk, or workman suspend
meaus of existence vanish. The idlers amongst
us arc comparatively lew. Few are they who
by their own sxertions, or those or their pro-
grn,tors, can afford to saunter ie!sureiy through
6, mil n
Great Britain tostk their parts; all tho rest are
doomed to grim, earnest work, and 1t is our Pc
calar glory that we have no wlsh TO be ldle
The merchant 10 assiduous at his desk; the ma
nufacturer active and uneasy at his mill the
pen is as busy a. the spade, and the busting
commercial traveller carries In his head more
aoxIeties than ever troubled the caIking farmer,
fretling about mlldsw, or signing tor falr wea'
Their. Work is our lot, lot accepted with un-
qualifd cheerfulnsss, whether It De over ledger
or over a shirt, provided we can live by It and
he who measures the tolls, the endurance, the
by the amount Of susk capital which they can
sho ~ in their national books, commits greater
ounder than did Louis Philippe, when he
thought his hundred thousand troops would Sc
cure his throne, and entrench nj: dynasty
Here lies the root OF the evil We have
House of Commons-a reformed House But by
the constitution of society, and the nature OF
our institutions, that House Is composed mainly
of the classfrom whence are derived our mlno-
rity of oilers There are eminent merchants in
the House-busy professional men-hard work.
ing, energetic and honest representatives. OF po-
pular opinions. But the bulk of the Legislature
is composed Of the ldlers-in the one house all
lords, In the other oil gentlemen-the sons, and
brothers, and nephews OF peers; squlres OF nigh
degree; wealthy landowners, who delegate to
agents all their duties; half pay officers, whose
talk Is OF commissions and vacancies. Between
a busy, toiling community, and some four or
five hundred gentlemen sitting In the House OF
Commons, who have nothing to do but attend
what they Internationally term their "public
duss have ss .% points is
of contact. We do not understand each other.
We have no mutual sympathies.-no common
ground of comprehension. The idier drives to
his club in the forenoon, and to the House IN the
evening and ,conders schat these turbulent people
reaiIu do tpant. True, he has his letters to write
and MS committees to attend; he has to watch
the division boil, and mark himself unit In
division. Going through such tolls, no resents
the idea of being termed an "ide" man. But
be belongs to the minority, who, because they
have no other business, think themselves per-
fectly competent to manage the business OF the
nation; Yet for that business, they are wholly
At Harrow or Elton, at Oxford or Cambridge,
they were flushed young gentlemen and IN
town they are known in the highest circles, and
are frequently seen at the opera: When the
recess arrives, they drive off TO the H highlands
or to the Continent; and return again to maunder
through another season. Sometimes they preside
at a charitable dinner, or at public meeting;
and they can make good Get speech on educa-
ton and distressed needle women, or the neccssi
ty for sanitary reform. But nsvsr more
ignorant of the nature Of that great heart ,chich
beats in the body Of the toiiing multitude. The
millions who live day by day, as they best can;
the anxious shopkeepers, who see customers
grouping Oft from their doors, and whose books
are overca.rged with bad debt.; the busy ma
nuiacurer or merchant, who knows that his own
profits are dependent on the prosperity OF his
workpeople-all these are really unknown to the
small minority of iders who undertake to rule
the dest,ules of a great commercial aud m anu
featuring country.
Then why did we not do better, and send men
to the House of Commons ut the last general
elccuop, VINO would truly represent our wishes
and our feelings? The question Is almost an In
suit. Poor men aud adventurers do contrlve to
get into the House of Commons, but their posi-