New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-21

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have been. when in Office always prevented fro"
carr, ing out these principle So that in r'alt',
according to the confession OF their own historian,
the Wigs represent something quite different
from their professed liberal and enlightened pm
cipes" Thus they are in the position as
the orupkard brought up before the Lord Mayor.
who declared that he represented the Temperance
principle but from some accident or her, always
got drunk on Sundays.
But never mind their principles we can better
make out what they are IN historical fact what
they carry out, not what they once believed, aud
now what they want other people 10 believe with
respect to their character.
The Wings well as the Tories. form rae
ton Of the large landed property Of Great br'an.
Nav, the Oldest richest and most arrogant portioh
of English landed property is the very nu''ou' "
the Wing party. c Aha r..
ries The Whigs are the ar"t3eTc,lc !eHIe'
sentatices Of the Bourgeoisie, OF Tue hluu,.
trial and commercial middle class. Under the
cond;t;on that the Bourgeoisie should abancon
to them. to an Obligarchy of austocrat'c lam
lies the monopoly Of government and the exciu-
Give possession Of Office; they make to the m'd-
Ale class and assist it in conquerng. all those con-
cessons which in the course OF social and poitlcai
deyelopement have shown themselves 10 nave
become unaroidable and medeloyoble. Neither
more nor less. And as often as such an unayOds-
bic measure has been passed, they declare loudly
that herewith the end OF historical progress
has been obtaned that the whole social move
ment has carried ts ultimate purpose, and then
they " cling to fnality." They can support more
easily than the Tories decrease OF their rehtaI
revenues, because they consider themselves as
the heavenbOn farmers Of the revenues oil Che
British Empire. They can renounce the monops-
" of the Corn Laws, rs long as they MAINTAIN oho
monopoly of government their family proper
ty. Ever since the "gorious revolution OF
less the Wings, with short Intervals, caused
principally by the first French revolution ana the
conse quent reaction, have found themselves 10 the
EMO, ment of the pubic offices. whoever recalls
to his mind this period Of English history will Ind
no other distinctive mark OF Whigdom but the
maintenance Of their family Obligarcny. Inc
interests and principles which they represent
besides, from time to time, do not belong to the
Wings they are forced upon them by the devel-
opnent Of the industrial and commercial class
the Bourgeoisie. After 1858 we find them united
with the Bankocracy, just then rising into i'm
portance, as we find them in 1916, united with
the Miocracy. The Wings as little carried the
Reform Bill of 1881 as thew carried the Free
Trade Bill of 1916. Both Reform movements,
the political as well as the commercial, were
movements Of the BourgeOsie. As soon as
either of these movements had rpened into ire
sistability as soon as, at the same time, it had
become the safest means of turning the Torres out
Of office, the Wings stepped forward, took up the
direction of the Government, and secured TO them
selves the governmental part Of the victory.
In 1881 they extended the political portion OF re-
form az far as was necessar, in order not to leave
the middle class entirely dissatisfied after 1876
they confined their free trade measures so far as
was necessary, in order to save to the landed
aristocracy the greatest possible amount OF PRIV
ileges. Each time they had taken the movement
in hand in order to prevent its forward march, and
to recover their own posts at the same time
it is clear that from the moment when the
landed arstocracy is no longer able to maintain
its position as an independent power, to fight, as
an Independent party, for the government position,
in short. that from the moment when the Torres
are deinitiyey overthrow, British history has no
longer any room for the Wings. The aristocracy
once DESTROYED what is the use of an aristocratic
representation Of the Bourgeosie against this aris'
tocracy?
1t is well known that in the middle ages the
German Emperors put the just then arising towns
under Imperial Governors, "GtrOcdh," to pro-
tect these towns against the surrounding nobiiity'
AS soon as growing population and wealth gave
them sufficient strength and independence to re-
sist, and even to attack the nobility, the towns
also drove out the noble Governors, the 0dcoc0ft.
The Wings have been these Gir0cdt5 OF the Brit
ish Middle Class, and their governmental monop-
oily must break down the landed mo-
nopoly Of the Tories is broken down. ln the same
measure as the Middle Glass has developed its
from party 10 cOterie.
IL is evident what a dstastefully heterogeneous
mixture the character OF the British Wings must
turn ont to be: Feudalists, who are at the same
time Malthusians, money -mOngers with teudal
pre- JUDGES, aristocrats without point Of honor,
Bourgeois without industrial activity, fnalIty.
men with progressive phrases, progressists with
iaDatical Conservatism, traifckers in homeopath-
cGl fractions of reforms, fosterers Of family ne
p0tsm, Grand Masters of corruption hypocrites
OF religion, Iartufes OF politics. The mass OF the
English people have a sound asthetical common
sense. They have an instructive hatred against
everything motley ana ambiguous. against bats and
Russelltes. And them with the Tories, the mass
OF the English people, the urban aud rural probe
tariat has in common the hatred against the
"money-mOnger' With the BOurgeOise it has
in common the hatred against arstocrats. In the
Wings it hates the one and the other, aristOcrats
and Bourgeois, the landlord who Expresses, and
the money lord who exploits it. In the Wing it
hates the Oligerchy which has ruled over England
for more than a century, and by which the People
is excluded from the direction Of its own affairs.
The Peelites liberal and conseryatiyes) are no
party; they are merely the sOureaiF of party
man, Of the late Sir Robert Peel But English
men are too prosaical, for Sourenir to form,
with them, the oundotion for any thing but elegies.
And now, that tae people have erected brass
and marble monuments TO the late Sir x. Peel in
all parts Of the country they believe they are able
so much the more to do without those perambu-
liant Peel monuments the Grahams, the Glad
stones the Cardwells, &C. The so.called Peel
ties are nothing but this stat Of bureacrats which
Robert Peel had schooled for himself. And because
they form pretty complete staff, they forget for
a moment that there is no army behind them.
The Peelites, then, are old supporters of Sir K.
Peel who have not yet come to a conclusion as to
what party to attach themselves TO. 1t is evident
that similar scruple is not sufficient means for
them TO constitute an independent power
Remain the Free.traders and the Chartists, the
brief deneation Of whose character will form the
subject Of my next KARL MARX.
The Fishing Question-Presidcnt Roberts of
Liberia-AustrianA Affairs.
Correspondence ofhe y. Y Tribune.
LONDON, Friday Aug o, 1859.
The fishing question is a great engine
for the Opposition to demosh the Derby Min