New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-31

difoulfies.
Correspondence Of The Tribune
PARIS, Wednesday, jan g. ls5l
The moral of Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer's Paul
Clifford is to show that hghwayman is as good
as an English Judge, pickpocket is as good as
bankerin.ordinary, and that the King, his Chief
Justice AID others, not forgetting the great thun-
derer against America, the EdiB6arg ReUlec, are
likewise highwaymen and their accomplices The
book sets out with the fact hardly stated in esote-
ric terms, that in English society it ID necessary
70 steal by insinuating means and not by buster
The bedame's advice 10 "litte Paul" contains
the philosophy of the work when the Judge con-
dennis bis own son in order to dine betimes, Is the
appropriate finale. Now lift be within the resour-
ces of keeny edged writing to play the part in Or
anthology of defli. ones rest, the palm belongs
to Sir f. L. Bulweri for certainly inconteStiOle
talent has in his case been exhaused to represent
the English Social structure iDgeniOusly un.
sound, ignoble, Infamous Of the i'll birds which
Mr. II. Buwer denounced in his recent speech
| before the st. Andrews Society OF New York, The
dirtiest is certainly his brother for he Ia gone
into the stews the fash holes, the prisons, hulks,
and bells for personages wherewith to character
ise the leaders Of English politics and society," and
has used the most potent engine, sarcastic wit
to aid his purpose. So completely ia this carried
out in the work. that its appearance the An1erl-
can Quarterly Review said that Mr. Bulwers
radicalism was such that he seemed ready to
burn house to roast an egg" The Quarterly
little knew Mr. E. Bulwer: his political ambition
lay in another channel. Having vented his spleen
having not made the success in Parliamentto which
perhaps bis great talents entitled him, ne deter
mined not to relapse into Timon out OF othce
so he wrote against the French Revolution which
he never understood, exalted the value Of his
birth as the parent Of honor, and accepted Ba
ronetcy. He has in these several somersets, but
initiated other politicians, but in making them he
has stumbled, and lies helplessly in the mire Of
privilege.
All that has been done in America in the way
of attacking English Institutions of course paes
before MIR. f. L. Bulwer's work; because his su-
perior knowledge Of persons and places at home
gives him an advantage over the stranger at
distance who is moro or less ignorant Of details
No American has ever played the " i'll bird" In
this matter. Invariably have the attacks on Eng
land been directed against the Institutions Of the
privileged orders III England, but never against the
people Of this fact Mr. II. Bulwer should have
been aware as a reader Of American books and
journals A late speaker at Exeter Hail. Lon
don, who was fresh from the United States, amid
loud cheers declared that in America, and espe-
cially in the American Congress all the hostility
was against the aristocracy Of England and never
against the people. That precisely defined the &C
tiOn of America this matter. ut not so asregards
the English press. The people OF America being SOW
ereign, and the government but the reflex oil their
will, to attack the one is to attack the other; and
the history of nations may be challenged for an
equal amount of sourrility bestowed by writer's
and speakers, by one nation on anoth@r' as mas
been heaped upon the American People, by the
highest and lowest English authorities. To such
an extent was this carried IN the time oil I'd
mund Burke, that he said, in regard TO America,
| do not understand and cannot consent 10 the in.
discriminate and wholesale obloquy directed
against O whole people. 1t continued undlmln-
iShed until 1918, when Mr.. Robert w ash pub
lished his celebrated Appeal against the Judg-
ments of British Reviewers when the then
catalogue OF Outrages OF the literary scaven-
gers of England was condensed, and counter
arguments brought forward with mastery ability.
The war against America continued: II was
made the subject of a special paper by w 0shlng-
ton Irving; and FennimOre Cooper, IN his work
on England, declared that the Edinburgh and
Quarterly Reviews had done more 70 estrange
England and America than two wars. These at
tacks remained with undlmlnlshed vlgor IN
blackWOOO MaBaZluCi uitll Tue SNuLS SuihD4
found oct that by inserting one single article from
an American he could get a copyright IN Amer
lea; and then with sordid baseness rarely
equaled in that latitude, he turned round and be
spattered America with his praise, the last lndg-
nifty he could bestow on her after life OF Injuries.
The Times, the leading journal OF the world, was
marked with a degree OF fer0clty more lmpulslve
bat not more brutal than Blackw0Od Up to the
revolution of 1913 1t was unsParing IN It's denun'
Citations OF the American people. have before
me forty one numbers OF the Times newspaper,
printed IN rapid ssOn, each dealing III coarse
language and dire eted against the whole Amerl-
can People. Sneaking ankee, negro-drlver,
coarse democrRcy-such were the terms elabor-
ated in massive leaders. About this time the
English Government b1ing in the hands OF men
ignorant they have ever proved Of the spirit OF
the age, were fully in the belief that their nus
sian Alliance was quite equal to the suppression
OF the human understanding. Ihe infamous
treaty Of Vienna had lasted thirty odd years
and therefore 1t was deemed irretragable. Louis
Philippe was thought seCure-so much so, that
| the very day that individual undertook the role
| OF VIM. Smith and fed the TaieTes, the sewers
OF the Times were opened on the French repuo-
lcans, stating their defeat, and that It was lm-
possible for any change OF government to take
place in France. AS the different royal op'
pressors OF Europe were driven from their thrones,
as the mistake Of placing dynastlc lndividual IN
the French Presidency, has postponed briefly
their fall, under these Circumstances 1t became
necessary to concilate America. Just in proper
ton as she is csjoled by onesided " Free Trade
and Worlds Conventions Of Industry and simllar
foies in the awful times OF the resurrection of the
body.politic from the chRrnel house OF despotism,
VIII England put Off her own day OF reckoning.
Defeated IN America; wishing 10 raise up an enc
my to America in Texas as a separate conteder-
ate; wishing to get California, and the game slip
ping through her hands owing to the bigotry Of
the Mexican Government; finding her Cotton ex.
periments failing, and by degrees her manufac-
lures 80 identified with American Cotton, that
"oDe sixth OF her population" according TO Mr. c.
Dickens, depend on that staple in America il is
at last the necessity Of the English oligarchY %