New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-07-23
ENGLAND.
Rosthchild Observation-Disclosures of the
Lords and the PeoIIe-Chartism-Eiec
rnl Reform-Free Trade-Choiera-sewer-
phobfa. &c.
Correspondence Of The Tribune
Ic<uo< Friday Pm Tufv


LoNDoS, Friday pm July q. lsi9.
As predicted in my letter Of last week Baron Roths
child has been reelected for the City OF London-the
most important constituency in the Empire-thoush
without opposition scion Of the Aristocracy,
Lord John Manners, formerly member OF what used
to be called the Young England party" snd Poet,
chiefly known by the following lines--I quote from
memory
IL; L@,r-rs Tras- ars comu.rcs TO-
Blt give " hsck our cd NotHfy'
ilsdvsed enough to contest the sest with Roths
child ne latter elected By an overwhelming
ioriiy OF between 1900 and 1900 votes The nomina
ton speeches on the liberal side were distinguished BY
mensoing directed to the House Of Lord. snd the
Bench Of Bishops-as much to say to them Pray
do not invite the attention ofthe Country by any act
Of folly or rashness, to your Lordships house
You are in al reason, absurdiiy according to any
principle Of right you old growth, old expe
dicncy but only NJ for easy times and chair
tons, and not made in these Tins for with the
people. AND as for ysu oh Bishops pray do not, by
sny obstrusivcness Of intolerance ignorance. or
impudence, remind Us whore you are or, by the pow
you may perchance be elected from your hospital
in the Peerage"
Nothing could be less judcious than 70 choose
young lord to arhtrste such dispute between the
House Of Lords and the people but It said that no
| commoner and no mercantile man, such as the City
would have confidence in could be found. to brave the
situation. But that the people have gone 50 far
toward winning another extension of Civil and Religious
Liberty. the question IT, What the next step will be
WIN another Osths bill be introduced. and will the
Cords again reject IT, when IL comes up with an in
creased majority from the Commons Such a result
would be very likely. Another course has however.
| been proposed even among Mr. Rothschds support
ers viz for the House OF Commons to admit him to
Ms seat at once by making bis oath merely matter OF
the forms Of the House and waving them in his
slch precedent established when Mr. Pease, the
| fret Quaker member elected for South Durham
The lawyers TO think this mght be done. Such
a would however, evade the principle contend
ed for without settling IT, cannot think it viii alone
be adopted though possibly Rothschild may take his
seat and a bill be introduced in addition to admit the
Jews otherwise the Jews VIII still be deprived Of thor
civil rights and except by asubterfuge similar
10 the above be elevated to the Peerage. The tissue
Of our legislation and practice this question ia
absurdity Jews admitted 10 high civic dignties,
especially In the City of Londonderry are knights and
| ,ronets By the Queen-but they cannot st IN the
Houses Of Parliament because the latter are-what
| think you Christian bodies Were this pretension
true-were Christianity the law and rule OF the State
there would have been Jews long ago but It Is pre-
cisely because Jews Just much Christians as the
majority in those Houses that they have right to SIT
| in them and 10 claim another basis than Religious
Creeds as the foundation Of the House Of Commons
basis of a common union among the Holders OF Proper
~ azainst the Protesrisn Glasses On its own princi
| pies there il no bsdy thoroughly in harmony with
the air and life Of the House OF Commons AZ those very
Jews; and the day may when their Lordships can
settle their mortgages and contract their loans with
their own brokers and usurers sitting on their own
benches.
On Tuesday night Feargus OConnor made his an.
nus motion for the adoption of the Peoples Charter
Universal Suffrage, &c SC. Il found hardly any votes
In the House, and excited but little sympathy out Of
doors Tor the Chartists extinct party Tor me
| present They never enlisted the power Of the work
ing classes on their side and the events Of the last
tweve months the Continent have so alarmed all
those who live BY business receive good wages tna
any political movement that would stir the masses Il
easily got rid Of by well.sustained cry OF Socialism
and Communism which has been most industrlou'iy
got up by leading journals against the Chartists Inel
there Is schism in the Chartst camp self-a division
into physical force and moral force Chartists; and
moreover, the leaders OF the cause IRE many Of them
prison or bsnished for life. For the rest feargu'
o 'Connor Is not the to unite his own movement
with others gain strength from events or rom
without may therefore assure YOU that for the pre-
sent the Chartis movement is matter oil Mite inter
est even to those who wish for an extensive Ao
eralizsten Of Institutions for such eonsunimA
tion-and for one devoutly wish twill not come
through the chsrtis,s.
Nevertheless. there il a suffrage movement OF
slow kind proceeding which may be expected 70 D'n'
about great changes in the OF years lhis con
| 10
tsnts Of the town. A freehold Of this sort may o.
bought for about twenty pounds, and gives vote 10
the County The purchase OF these has been gong o.
for some time and IL said that at another election
viii be found that many Counties have been resene'
from the landed srisocraey. Societies exist Tor iac
ts,ine these investments, which as you may remem
Der were suggested by the schenins brain Of Mr. Cor
den during his Anfi-Con Law sgit&uon-and thoug
the process seems a painfully gradual one, yeti
thorough, so far as il goes What Is curious 10 ne
thod which the landed proPrietors win their I'M mems
resources. can hardly follow for though tney ca
make vote. 70 any extent yet what security VIII tne
have thar tbe,, eosopusory freehooers viii not 'ur
against them When their assistance Is most required
The Minister sd.uits the proprieiy Of further exIen'
ing the suffrage TO the best portion oil the WORKING ea
| ,bouvh he brings in 10 bill himself but "itn'n ID
week an influential meeting has been held N me e'i
polls for advocating Parliamentary Reform "nd 'n'i
are even symptoms o. union Of ne most sa' aDeeo
forms Of the Old class UGH men a. Joseph n
the more moderate section OF the ChArus's mes
n. upion in new movement for that excellent leg
l.,or ,nd economist Joseph Hume, already record
his for the Peoples 'nsI'ei
The PrO,eetiouis.s sl b UP upon the lost Corn la"
In, hi. 4. The ,r,ble Of thei- second childhood The
v 70 re.u.c, ATE their DARN gs Of The Statute Book
al kinds of means and mean 1nons- Tie latest d0o
cane OF fe.x nights back. VII en- NJ. i'raen prov
forward n his own way The Oooaiton-o' iN-''-
question, an tried TO make Out AT us's a1'
had been st. silly getting worse yer since the re'''o
and expurraron Of the Tari6 W sstever eaisfniy n'
hspDeped c the last three years he traced to tne
pe.i of the rrecious Bread Tax III Chancellor Of =
| ExcheQuer s-=othered cur bright oEehst under ?
low OF contrary facts. and il szeses'ea u. y
calsmities might Also be due, in measure !"
potato r0t, ne railway bubble and u Larops" w