New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-21

~. txo Houses. They have mostly confined
themselves to Gripping, BY smeDdmsns', 90 con.
cement occasions only, the Liberal measures OF
n.Ioxer Houie. Here, therefore, i. perm,-
nept element of discord between the wheels OF
The State machine, but Tot sufic Gent Of Itself -
Or. vent it, working.
A. long A. there were but three parties In the
Inuer Uou,e-Tories, Wings aud Radicals-an
vent merry a. . marriage bell; but when ST.
R.ber, Peel broke up 'he Toy party on the ques-
,;on NJ the Corn Laws in 1856, be gave tre-
mepdous stock to TIE old coach. Then toar
psrties took the place of three, namely Tories
Peelitss Wings ard Radicals; the Tory pariy,y
itseN far the tr,pgfst but weaker than coal
tim Of the other tbree. The Russell Ministry
us4c-I55I) Rad q vretched existence for tue
las, t.o Years of its duration, and in the end
Lord John would no longer submit g hs con-
slant defeats. and resigned de6nitively, after be
bad Gree previously resigned aid taken b,ck The
seals Of ofice Only because at that time Lord
Derby, the Tory chief, could no. forms Cabinet.
Then ensued the Derby Administration, ADD
dissolution o. Parliament followed at the close
Of the session. The House of Commons re-
turned at that election, Q552) DID not
give a m,iority to Lord Derby but turned
him out in December Of that year by a
m-iority Of nineteen. The House Of Commons
that old this is the same that has just carried The
Committee of IDq iiry against the Aberdeen Mu'
istry by msjority OF l51.
With the fall Of the Derby Ministry csm'
grea. cri,is, sid the old coach nearly
capsized profound calm though it was
through inherent weakness. Ia presence OF
the real urgency Of affairs, the Wings and
Peeli,es coslesced: Lord John Russell and the
Wing party consented to play a subordinate part
TO Lo,d Aberdeen and the Peelites. AMI the
Queens Govern ent could again be CARRIE on.
II ives the only possible card, aud Lord : phn
Russell obtained pledge that the House of 80 u
mons should again be reformed, that acute anc
subtle politician seeing that the infusion o. some
new blood had become an absolute necessity for
providing against the approaching dead lock aud
g.ra-.l wa. this conviction of the publ: mind,
ttst even the Tories assented to this arrange
ment But tie war came; and the Tory party,
with very doubtful prudence, yielded to the temp
tstion Of the circumstances and declared there
should be no reform of the Lover House. Lord
John Russell had to withdraw bis measure, aud
the cd coach went on unrepaired. The war pro-
ceeded, and now cane the tremendous msmau
sgement in the Crimea; the middle class reused
themselves AID grew angry; the London and pro-
yiDcial presses Numbered, and by simple con.
ceptTation Of public opinion upon the members Of
the House of Commons, and especially upon Lord
John Russell the State machine was brought to a
helpless stabd-still, as We have described, with
out the least violent or unseemly effort, but
through sheer collapse and inherent itnpOteBcy.
Rope, twenty three years long, was given to the
old idol and lie hos done what every one outside
the circle Of his devotees knew be has long been
meditstipgto do-huug him self incontinenty We
hear great deal Of anxiety exists in Britain (and
well i. may lest he be beyond power of revival.
No wonder that the House Of Commons received
the announcement Of its triumph over Ministers
for the first time on record in husbed and we'd
silence, I'pnn tho r~-;--~.;-- - IT, .AsVi 1cen
Ministry enc desperate chance of governing on the
old system remained-it was that of nen Coaii-
ton between Lords Derby and PalmerstOn, with
the latter az War Minister; but the latter Lord
thinks be can dc better and refuses to cooperate.
Yet at such crisis aud in such a situation,
Lord Aberdeen absurdly recommends a "stroag
"MIistry." Never were grapes more sour
seldom was an admonition more chimerical.
The onward movement Of Liberalism in Britain,
for the last qusr ter Of century, has been marked
by constant process of disintegrdtiOn, which has
at last succeed in dissolving the House Of
Commons (the fucrum Of the State-mschine) into
heap Of ipcOteslve atons. While the House
of Commons remains unIeformed 10 Ministry
can bepceforth rule a. heretofore, upon reliable
parry majority in that body. On the first uu
favorable demonstration of outside public opn
ion, tie party antagonisms within the Legisla
ture will be aroused, will combine and turn the
Minister out and the only way to free the Execu-
tive from this state Of dependence lies in a new
Reform Act, which will diminish the Tory pha.
lapx, and add to that of the Ridic als, aud thus
render new and more advanced combinations
possible.
We care not to speculate upon whether Pal
mer.toD or any one else will be the new Premier;
whoever he be, his Administration will be mere
Provisional Government" holding its tenure
not by party support bu! By sufferance of public
Of that power which the last quarter of a century
has tended so uniformly to aggrandize in proper.
ton as it has weakened aud disorganized the
House Of Commons-we mean public opinion.
With such force has is acted al the presen. crisis
that the Duke Of Ne 1castle had Spontaneously de-
n.