New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-14

ton. In the three cret nons which Lord DERBY so
boastfully adduced as made By him during bis
short ministerial reign. merit though not Of great
moment, wss sufficiently consulted. Lord Raglan.
who was half peer before, was gentle, honor
able man. and fair type Of that class of soldiers the
| English system begess-devoied 10 dCl aud dutiful
to death. Lord Strat.Ord De Redclife was busy
dplomati.t Of the old school-sent abroad early to
! lie for bis counuys good-gho believes that the
world hangs on the wording of protocol, and ia
perfectly terrified by the short, decisive talk
| of the electric Telegraph. Sir Edward Sugden,
created Lord st. Leonards, is the ablest equity
lawyer in England, as far as legal lore goes, though
in gasp and freedom Of capacity he is far inferior
! TO Sir Richard Bethel, the present solicitor gen.
elal. lie would have been made peer loug pre-
viOus by Peel. had 10. that decOrous statesman
| shrunk from introducing within The fastdous in
closure of the peerage man who had the manli-
hess 10 marry bis cook two three years after be
seduced her. These are proud examples, accord
| Ing TO Lord Derby, of high state Of peersgedom
| But he forgets ne was but a minister on suffer
aDce He had not time to create gratitude or
strength sufficient, any exigency to give temp
t6tiou (for bis defeat certain) to waken fear
Not TO 20 back-which might be deemed unfair
to the times of the uaOn and Pitt when whole cart
loads of filth and scum were cast into the House
of Lords and specially selected for the richness of
these qualities let take the last period 10 which
the motives which universally provoke such ele-
walton came into play, and canvass the causes and
character Of the creations in the closing years Of
Lord Melbournes government, from 1881 to 1Si1
From that sacred family work oser which in
England dull dOwagers pore and simple bucolic
bellies bend to track out the geneilogy Of the
honorable Silly Shipper, who danced with them
at the last assize ball, we extract the folio wing
names of worthless raised to the peerage during
1885 and 1889, the two most precarious years of
Lord Melbourne's governmental career 1t is a
charming Geological garden is that Burke's Peer
ace and Baron tage, in which msy be found every
s1ecimen of wild animal abroad, from lion ram
pabt, collared or chained, to chartered crocodile.
The lanes of gentlemen permitted to select two
Of such pleasant supporters, were Lord, Bate
man, Portman, Rossmore, Lismore, De Mauley,
Wrottesley, sudelcy, Methuen, Stanley of AL
derey, Leigh, Wenlock, Lurgan, Coborne, and
De Freyne, and we really thiak it would puzzle
the most benevolent believer in divinity within
men to discover with the keenest microscope
among the lot one solitary service to the State, or
one high quality or noble virtue which could emit
tie them to take rank above other men.
Lord Bateman, as Mr.. Hamburg, was Hereford
squire, who contested that shire on Wing princ-
ples and received hia peerage as reward thereof
He has sine rated to the Tories, playful prac
tice of peers after creation. Lord Melbourne used
TO say that the Bishops always the first to for
Get their Maker. Lord Portman, as Mr.. Noel, was
Rutland squire, who contested that shire on
Whig principles, and went the same political way
IA Lord Bsteman after creation. Lord RossmOre
mud Lord Lismore were two Irish squires. The
former suffered and played on the pipes-the lat
ter bad much lazy wit, and both loved punch and
potatoes. They were both in the hOuse-one for
Monaghan with brother for Kings county, the
other for 1ipperary and subsequently ID 1ngarvan
They were always at their posts and voted for the
ministry, drunk and SOBER and so they came 10 the
peerage. Lord De Mauley was one of the Wing
Ponsonbys; Lord Wrottesley, squire who con-
tested Staaordshire; Lord Sudeley, Mr. Tracy, a
Brighton brewer, who contributed largely to the
Whig election fund, and Lord Methuen, squire
beaten on the Wing interest in Wiltshire by the
RENEGADE radical Sir Francis Burdett, and thus like
Lord Bruce in the Georges day. soothed for his dis
aster. Lord Stanley's son filled the delicate post
of whippern and threw into the team his father.
| ord Leigh in Warwickshire, Lord WenlOck, as
Mr.. Francis Lsuley in Stafordshire, Lord Lurgan
as Mr. Brownlow in Armagh, Lord COlborne as
Mr.. Ridley COlborne, fine old Wing have the
same tale to tell and for similar mighty mer-
it's received the consultations of the peerage
Lord De Freyne, the Benjamin Of the tribe,
owes his elevation to the peerage to the unceasing
opportunities of his brother an importunste Irish
VI. F. who, like care, mounts behind the minister
and never parts from him without some place
We should like to pass these figures before Lord
Derby and ask him to point out one ingot Of that
goldtn chain OF moralities and beauties which he
has thrown around the neck Of bis order. The
English portion of the batch are dull dogs, who
believe that the glory of England is wound up with
beadles and beer, and whose sculls as one of their
creators, Lord John Russell, very truly pictured,
are thick as the clay from which they draw their
only meIit-wealth. They never while in the
house even opened their mouth were even rather
poor cheerers, and snored-a constant crime in
those days-during the late Lord Sydenhsm's
speeches. As to the Irish they were delightful
rascals, laconic, lazy and loose, but not exactly
possessed of those qualities which if emulsted by
their descendants, as Lord Derby desires, would
make them of much value to their country.
Were we to go back through other years we