The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-12
From the New Orleans Picayune.
The British Elections.

present. Appearances Gney are not likely 10
have more than one-third of the 654 mem !
bers of the House of Commons, counting {
with them a number of members whose gen I
eral views of policy coincide with theirs, but !
who have wide differences on important
measures.
The result will be received in this coun-
try generally with unalloyed qualification.
What interest Americans take the domestic
politics of Great Britain, is necessarily adj
verse to those which the Earl Of Derby rep
resents more distinctly than any other states
man now in England. A Jealous reformer
once, he went with Earl Grey to the extent
of the concessions in the Reform bill of 49,
30, but with some slight exceptions of occa-
sional conformity to that settlement, he has
since opposed himself strongly to all that the
spirit of the times and the people will per-
nit to exert of Troy resistance to popular
progress Coming into power, we might al !
most say accidentally, for the Russell cabi-
pet was dispersed by its own discussions and
weaknesses, and not on any political issue,
or by reason Of any State emergency, his ad-
vent was the signal for the reunion of all
shades fpolitical liberalism against him, and
not even the pledges he was ready to make
of the abandonment of some of his most cher
ished views, the popular voice should be pro-
nounced against him, could gain him any
strength with the electors This defeat is
the final condemnation and utter dispersion
Of the Tory party under whatever name it
may choose to rally. 1t is ratification,
conn lete and irreversible, of the predomi-
nance in the British Cabinet hereafter of a
vowed principles of liberal progress.
The first manifestation Of this triumph
will be, we doubt not, in an extension of the
suffrage and a reform in the representation.
The unequal distribution of political power
among the existing constituencies, though a
vast improvement upon the old borough
system, is crying grievance, of which long
and loud complaints have been made, and
the amount of property qualification requir-
ed in particular localities has tended to res
trict the right of voting most injuriously-
The late Wing Ministry dealt with these
questions timidly and graciously, and there
: by offended many of their supporters. The
question is now thrust forward on its own
= merits conspicuously, and is not to be evp
: ded. The liberal party, made more liberalby its
). successes, must infuse new popular elements
d into its creed; and that this is their determi
! nation we infer strongly from the nantes
It disinclination of the party to adopt Lore
e John Russell again as their leader; His re
election for the city of London was for some
, time endangered by persevering effort tt
! bring out distinguished Liberal merchant
" Mr.. Crawford, as candidate, and it was on
J. ly by very strong exertions, and the assur
d ance that his defeat would endanger tn
Q whole Liberal influence, that he was return
10 ed He cannot maintain his position as tn
20 chief of the Liberals without holder ton
,r and more frank and thorough liberalism
II But whoever shall succeed Lord Derby will
,e be more earnest and consistent Libera
Mt than even Lord John Russell.
OF Another qualification we share with tn
h. British in the defeat of the Derby Cabinet
d, is that its proscriptive policy towards tn
ID Catholic population is fifty rebuked-th
o. sudden revival by the late proclamation {
= obsolete ordinances, imposing odious discriu
" nations and insulting penalties upon tn
re most innocent manifestations of the forms {
in the Catholic faith. The instant effect of th
.st ignorant classes was seen in the riots an
rs bloodshed-the subversion of all law and o.
NJ der--the mobs and the church robberies
by Stockport Every man who respects til
ed rights of conscience and breads the madnes
IS of religious warfare, must feel a sensation
tn relief that the Ministry which adopted tn
We policy has been defeated. Lord John Ru
1" sell had much injured himself, indeed, b
is bending in the same direction in the lat
he controversies about the Papal bull, and @
on the Ecclesiastical Titles bill, and has his
bt- liberal letter to the Bishop of Durham G
in perpetual record against him. Yet, even c
,io that question he would never have gone IL
.af lengths of Earl Derby, and his supporte
So, and friends number among them all the O
n, ponents of the Derby persecution. We loo
ott on the punishment of the authors of such
ad tyranical act as something for Americans
ra- be pleased with.
de A more direct ground of interest in I'll
nd result in the United States is its probaE
rte bearings on the fishery question. The dill
no culties in which the two countries are nc
ofI involved are traceable Immediately to t
ms rash measures of the Derby Cabinet T
&c orders under which strained constructi
nal of the treaty of 1918 is revived and ma
the the source Of complaint, collision, and, p,
haps, bloodshed, has emanated from the
lonial Secretary of the Earl of Derby
Ii previous administration for thirty years b
y ventured upon such acts no liberal Cabin
lor and, indeed, no discreet Cabinet of any p,
fO. ty, would have put the peace of the t.
-. countries at hazard proceedings so sud-
c : and so insulting In the dismissal of t
=. authors of that measure by the verdict
w public opinion, we see reasonable prospC
s aaL Of speedy return to the former policy
ecu forbearance and amicable discussion, wi
'o1' the certainty, to our minds, that such a sta
pre- of affairs will lead to a satisfactory final s.
7ne- Element Much, however, will depend up
ong the discretion with which subordinates
men mere executive agents-will act under tn
rub instructions In view Of the unsettled st;
me of political affairs at home, tits to.be hor
ated that no British officer viii attempt to str,
one his authority or to act beyond the absol
qua line of his imperative duty, else, with
determination which exists among the
res mericans to permitno aggressions upon th
am rights, the affair may be much cOmplica
dy BY new and distressing issues against
ldg- wishes of both administrations, as they n
'uch not be in existence few months hence.
been -s-.es-s-
and Who has the best time of it, the Pope
sure the Sultan-the man with no wife, or
man with two hundred and fifty.