The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-03-25
English Politics

The details Of the defeat which compelled
the resignation Of the Russell Ministry in
England are reaching US at the same time
the telegraph brings US, the programme of
ipolicy announced by the Cabinet which sue
3ceeds. We are thus enabled to comprehend
more clearly the causes of the sudden but
not unexpected change.
1t is plain that the late Ministry died from
constitutional weakness, not from any acute
disease. There was no political crisis be
fore the House or the country to mark new
era in the relations of parties. The very
question which signiied the want of conf
dence does not divide the House at all on
any principle, nor was the Ministry defeated
on the merits of the bill The opportunity
appears to have been taken to manifest a
settled dislike to the administration by a
collateral vote, which left all sides free to.
embrace or reject the proposed measures
hereafter.
The militia bill was evidently only pre-
tence for the union of the opposition; in
I proof Of which we find the new Prime Min
lister announcing among the measures he in
tends to propose the same measures of train
: ling and organizing the militia, varying, of
couse, some8of the details of the project
No administration not doomed to overthrow
BY determined distrust would have been
: embarrassed, much less destroyed, on an Is
sue so immaterial in point of principle. Lord
John Russell took it at once as simply no
: tice to quit, in the customary English form,
tof a vote Of want of confidence and on this
: vote, contrary to the first impressions Of the
course of Lord Palmerston, that statesman
D was the leader in the election of his former
I colleagues. Supporting their measure il
5 principle, as one required by the condition
of the country, he undertook to load it with
i amendments, so as entirely to deprive it o.
c its character as ministerial measure, anC
; take it entirely out of the ministerial hands
$ He thus became the instrument of humiliat
e ing his late Premier without committing
!, himself to any different line public policy
e He succeeded-the Russehtes are out b,
/ common consent, and the Derby Cabinet sue
u IceedS-of which the first two principle
e Iayowed are, that they will not disturb tn,
q commercial policy of their predecessors, an'
+ they will recommend and urge the SAM
'e policy Of arming and training the militia 70
e. the protection of the country. These re
le suits must be profound humiliation to tn
u late Cabinet, which had begun to assme NOR
N the character of family clique for the di
70 vision of Offices than manly Government Q
7 defined principles; for it shows that the
were expelled from power by "a general dii
gust at their feebleness and selfshness, an
not from any we'll marked difference of pC
litical views. The country was tired of then
: and threw them off without regret, and wit
y u something like indifference as to what shoul
- succeed them. Any body rather than til
: Russeilites, appears to have been the con
= mon wish Of men of all shades of opinion
n notifying sentence with which to dismis
= into obscurity the leaders of once poWe
z full party.
rs The fact is, the old Wing party in En-
,e- land exists no longer. The Cabinetwas tt
az last embodiment Of what could be eollectC
ar together of It's family interests and trad
he tionary maxims of government The pr
gress Of modern ideas Of reformed and liber
governments has broken up the original a
= sociatiens and scattered the chiefs. Palme
:, ston, an original Tory, was the most liber
IL member of the Wing Cabinet Derby, wi
~ - comes in as Conservative, the chief of Il
~ modern Tories, was an early Wing, and re
:. =, presented one of the strongest of the gre
" big families. For the recent most pr
"a gressive measures of political improVeme
~ the Wings are indebted to the late Sir Robe
y: Peel, who vas trained in the most restrieti
~ ~ school Of ultra Toryism. The very Cabin
~ which comes in on the ruins of Whigls
!" : makes professions of liberalism which wou
=, have startled as extrayagant the liberals
sno the Grey school-in the times of the first j
~ form BILL Names are losing in. England
- y. their ancient applications, and the dispersi
- of the Russell Cabinet, with the breaking
: : kof the official combination of the Bedfort
i =, the Greys and the Howards, markes an {
=. - in English politics after which we shall he
~ but little of Wing party or a Tory par
~; - except as fossil relics Of some past age.
~ ~. o. Picdgune.
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