New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-24

White Basis for Suffrage.
e The same Wing Ministry once
again rules Great Britain, and what is
more Lord John Russell is still its leader.
They resume office, as they themselves
say, constrained by necessity little short
of absolute, so that one not familiar with
the peculiarities of the case might be in
clined to wonder why they ever resigned.
But the fact is that the causes of the two
events are near akin. The various cliques
lost for moment the consciousness of their
own weakness and so the Wings went out;
then they got it back again and so the
Wings went in. Had there been any
where the courage to try an election it is
certain that such would not have been the
result
But in going back, tho Wings do not
carry with them the same measures that
they took out. The anti Catholic bill and
the Budget both suffer change into some
thing new and strange. The notifications
of the former are announced already those
of the latter we shall h. informed of by the
next arrival. The pious Juror of the Wings
has cooled off mavellOusly in the interreg-
mum; the present anti-Papal bill bears
somewhat the same relation to the former
one, that q bark does to a bite. What
was most essential is taken out of it, name
ly, the prohibition forbidding the Catholic
Bishops to receive requests in trust for
Church purposes, and to perform the Off
ces of the ordination and collation. of priests
All that is left is a hundred pound fine for
the unauthorized assumption of prelatic
titles. The bill, if it becomes law. will
have the effect of bringing the whole agi-
tation out at the little end of the horn--a
fate it was probably born to-and, if it
should ever be enforced, of rendering those
prosecuted martyrs at a rate cheap enough
to satisfy the exigencies even of free trade
universal.
In this operation may be seen a curious
illustration of the inconsistencies of poll
ticians. The great reason why Ministry
could not be formed by a union between
Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham
and his compeers, was that Lord John could
not cool down in the least, the flame of his
zeal against the Catholics, while Sir James
could not fire himself up to burning heats at
all. But we fancy it would be hard for the
Protestant champion to prove that bis pres
ent measure has any more practical force
than Sir James's no measure, while 1t GER
tainly has not as much dignity. Why then
should they have failed to come together!
The Wings may now live through wor-
ried and unenviable life till the adjourn
ment of Parliament, but it must be mira
Gle which saves them past another session.
Then we predict that a new election will
be resorted to; at that election the world
will be able to see what is the real strength
of the agricultural and protectionist in
terest.
In France there has been furry, caused
by speech in the Assembly. In Italy no
public announcement has been made Of the
elevation of Archbishop Hughes to the Car
dinalate. Things generally in that Peninsu-
la have nothing promising in their immedi-
ate aspect. In Germany there is no Gen.
tral Government yet, and the Dresden Con-
ferences are resting from their labors. Nor
way and Sweden, at last, have had their
riots, caused, of course, by Socialist doc
trine, since nothing else produces disturb
'ances in Europe. From Turkey we hear that
the exiles who have been kept at Kutahia
are to be released at once, with few ex-
ceptions. Among those still kept are Kos
suth and Batthyany. The arrangement
however, does not seem to be final, and we
may hope that the intercessiOn of our Min
ister may result in the freedom of them all.
=. The News brought by the franklin and Arctic will
be found detail on our seventh and eighth pages this
morning.