New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-07
GREAT BRITAIN.
The ElccfIons--Tbe Briiish Museunf-Frenci
Anecdotes, &c.
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LONDON, Thursday, July q, 1857

Opposition will not be strong enough 10 oa'''
vote Of want Of confidence. There are s'o"'
many among the new members who are noS'"s
Between the two parties, and as Lord DERBY mas
given up Protection, and preoaDiy also INC az
;ustment of taxation" the name VIII DC io'ai0u
- ,ho nooasuro will dwindle down to very slg
n;eo,nt notifications Of the present taxes. It's
.,oh.be that he and his Tory friends may rem ain
:, mower and enjoy the long-coveted spois and
ca much the more probable as the Opposition is
formed bv coalition Ct Wings, Peetes and Rad
;eals Of all shades, while the Derbytes a com
nact body. You find in the ranks of the OPPOSE
lion not only Lord John Russell and his personal
enemy Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey and his
great antagonist Sir William Wordsworth, bat even
Alderman Meagher, the father Of the Irish exle'
and Mr.. Duffy, Of The Nation, of whose support
Lord John will not boast, as he is DECIDED 'n'n
Republican. The Liberals foster the hope that
the Cabinet will give way after few months by
Its own weakness, and that Ministry, formed by
Lord PalmeIston on a broader basis than ohcia'
Wbiggery. and including tse Peelites Sir James
Graham and MIR. Gladstone as well as the kadi-
cal Miner Gibson, may lead TO thorough
,econstuction OF the Wing party upon Tue oasis
of principles and not of family ties But the Torres
are not so weak as the Wing organs pretend
Lord Malmesbury, the Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
who has become most unpopular and the laughing
stool of the public, by his clumsy d'Piom1'ic
-. N soon be replaced by most able states
man. Lord StratCord formerly Sir Stratford Gan
n;rr and this appointment viii strengthen the
Torv Cabinet and give satisfaction to the public
a. bt,+ ION ffarrpl
They had become an exclusive coterie, iiatterng
the public by liberal speeches, but always ready
to back out as soon as the time OF action came,
and to eyade the consequences of their principles
wear out of power will improve their political
health better than a watering-pace. For all
American, English elections appear very strange as
thew are here a rare occurrence, they are connect
cd with riots and in the last weeks few there has
been more fighting and pelting with stones and
knocking down, in Engandas well as in Ireland than
in the United States in full tenyea The mass o.
the population, excluded by law from the POLLOCK,
show their sympathes and antipathies often by
breaking the heads of the opposite party. Alto
gether the present elections do not give great
idea of English political education. Bribery,
riots and bigoted fanaticIsm are their most char
acterstic features.
Yesterday was in the British Museum, for
whose decoration Parliament has voted
enornous sums these last twenty years,
while it has always been stingy in grants to hiI
the pilded halls with frst-rate monuments Of ART
Every grant has had to be extorted by public
opinion raised by such extraordinary discoveries
as those of Sir Charles Fellows in Lycia, OF Mr.
Layard in Nineveh. And even then the artistic
treasures have been placed in the most awkward
way, either so high that they could not be SEEM as
is the case with some Of the Lycian marbles, or
thew were thrown into the coal cellar, where We
had to go to admire the Vernon Gallery IN Iraial-
gar Square, and the Nneveh marbles in the Brit
ish Museum. But MIR. Layard has been made
Secretary for Foreign Affairs under Lord Gran
vile, and now he is returned for Aylesbury.-
He is not only the discoyerer and illustrator
Of the Assyrian remains, but he is also
NIP. and therefore the trustees of the British
Museum have become uncommonly active They
have built gallery for the monuments of Nineyeh
in the short time Of six weeks while last year they
were unable to have two rooms painted during the
whole season. and they obstructed the halls OF the
Museum at the time Of the exhibition with scaio'd-
ing so that nobody could enjoy the sculptures OF
Phidias. As Lord Stratford is now to become Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, do not doubt that the basSi
relevi of the mausoleum will at last also get a con-
venient place in the Museum, as it was his Lsrd-
ship who presented them to the British ma
ton, not expecting to find them four years later
on the ground, in the most neglected state. But
as the public is already accustomed to visit the
coal cellar tho Etruscan monuments, crowded
out by the Assyran ones, are to be placed in the
hole. Speaking about the British Museum, it is
impossible not to mention the ridiculous iron
lions on the railing which incloses the grounds.
1t is difficult to determine what style they are to
initiate they are half squirrels, half lions. They
have been posted there lately, but we hope
they will be removed, else every foreign
or will find that the monuments of the Mu-
scum have been collected in vain and have
had no effect whatever on the taste Of the English
manufacturers. The artist who made the design
for these lions ought really to blush, not only be-
fore the Romans, Etruscans and Greeks, but before
the Egyptians and AssyTans of the earliest ages.
They are equal in merit to the monuments in ST.
Paul's, and every Frenchmsn or Italian who sees
them, together with the architectural failures Of
Trafalgar square, Regent. st. and Westminster,
must be tempted to declare that the Englishmen
OF our age are thorough barbarians in taste.
AS to foreign affairs, this is an unusually quiet
season. France is tranquil, aud Louis Bonapute
is about to withdraw his troops from Rome. King
Leopold of Belgium is still ttle uneasy, an 4
seeks the protection Of the Absolutist Powers, as
he knows pOsitirety that the decree annexing Bel
GUM to France has once been prepared to be SUB.
sciibed by The President Dictator, who after ma
ture consideration, gave the matter up. Bat
whoSOeyer has had once to deal with Louis Bona.
parte, is fully aware of the peridy and tenaci,y
Characteristic of the man. and nobody believes
that plan once adopted by him. has ever beer