New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-15
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH l,
Europe.

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ed, and it appears doubtful when one
will be. The crisis had lasted week at
the sailing of the Asia, and was thought
no nearer its termination than when it be-
gan. Lord Stanley cannot form a Conser-
vative Government because he has no force
in the Commons to back him, and because
his party cannot find proper timber to fill
the offices. Lord John Russell cannot 60
on even with such a modified Cabinet as
might be constructed for the same reasons.
Both these leaders try, but in vain, to ally
themselves with the Peelites. And so no.
body seems to have an idea that the bother
can soon be settled For our own part,
however, we fancy it is near It's end.
1t is noteworthy, this turning TO the men
who surrounded and supported Sir Robert
Peel. Lord Stanley seeks to coalesce with
them through Mr.. Gladstone; Lord John
Russell through Sir James Graham, Lord
Aberdeen and Sir George Grey. 1t is felt
that no other set of men in England can
compare with these in that practical bust
ness talent which makes so large and so
necessary part in modern craftsmanship.
Conservatives by inheritance and natural
tendencies, they view the noise about pa
pal aggressions with little sympathy, and
refuse all direct cooperation in any law
against the Assumption of Titles by the
Roman pIelates. RenegadoS to the landed
proprietary and their own early cOnnec-
tons, by their adherence to Free Trade,
they are still more opposed to the extern
sion of the suffrage than is Lord John Rus
sell, but at the same time they remain an
compromising Free Traders. Thus they
can ioin in action with neither the strict
Wings nor the strict Tories, earnestly as
both invoke their aid, ready as both are to
compromise by postponing every question
that will admit Of postponement. The
Radicals, who agitate for Suffrage Extern
sion, and who were allowed to defeat the
resigned Ministry, are of course in too
small minority to be considered in connec-
ton with the Government.
Thus then, for a week we have seen the
Ministry going a-begging. No party has
presumed to take it, for no party seems to
have the courage to dissolve Parliament
and try a new election. They shrink with
alarm before the excitement such a step
would cause throughout the country. Any
patchwork that can be made to serve
would be safer in their eyes than that.
Never were the various divisions OF Leg
islature more pliable, more ready to allow
Government TO do what it chooses, provided
it will attempt no extreme measures; pro-
vided in fact, it will do nothing OF very
decided character. Accordingly, when
Lord Stanley was expected to enter upon
office the Peelites determined to make no
activeopposition to his Ministry. Anything
is thought to be better than the hot conflict
at the hastings. The reason OF this fear IS
doubtless an extreme uncertainty as to
what such a conflict might bring forth
Every shade of conservatism, Wing and
Tory alike, is afraid of an election, afraid
that some mysterious influence might there
concentrate to work evil to the old struc-
ture of the English Constitution.
We doubt if they are right in this feel
ing. There is nothing that We can see IN
England to indicate sufficient progress in
public sentiment to produce any immedi-
ate radical results. 1t is as certain as the
coming of tomorrow that the elective fran
chise will in due time undergo consider
able, or indeed, a complete extension, and
produce other and greater changes, bat that
movement has not yet got hold Of the pop
ular enthusiasm, and seems to US at this
moment formidable only in the future. But
uneasiness on the part of the Aristocracy
and its representatives is not surprising.
They have been beaten so badly on Par
liamentary Reform and Free Trade that
they smell new defeats afar off and are
timid accordingly. But nothing can help
them. Their fate is slow but inevitable.
Looking at all these things, the most
probable result of the crisis seems to US
the reconstruction of the Wing Cabinet
under new Premier and with new Chan