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Fromthe London Chronicle. April7.
THE FAILURE OF LORD PALMER
STON'S ADMINISTRATION.
The necessity Of a Knou-N otheng party in E, g
land-L LOUIS Napclson Knop Nothing.
Is Lord Palmerston TO be the last of the oil
garchs! Does he represent an effete principle
of Government, to be followed by a revolution
of the kind in which the sober and practical
English people sometimes indulge themselves!
Or is he only an accident something throw
up to the surface in the turbid working of tie
political elements---an obstruction to the heal
thy action OF an ancient though still vigorous
system, rather than its congenial exponent.
When Lord palmerston was called upon to
assume kind of dictatorship, it was expected
that he would restore the harmonious action of
disorganzed machinery of Government
Failure was never for moment anticipated
from man whose admirers had hacked him to
d. so much---and therefore the nation scarcely |
asked what would come after him. He has
failed, however---u.terly, egregously failed; he
has frittered away popularity and influence
which no individual Statesman has enjoyed
since Pitt or peel---and now men begin to ask
what is to be substituted? Isthe system to 60
with him. or can the tories or any other polti-
cal party in the State, SO purify and reinvigorate
as to make it work on again? One thing
seems to be universally agreed upon---that mat
tiers cannot be permitted to rest as they are.
The universal questions are, what is to be done?
and who is to do it!
It is strange that on both sides of us---n con-
tinental Europe close to our shores, and far
away in the west, men should by similar pre-.
cess, have arrived at the same conclusions, al
though from premises SO different. In the Uni
ted States they have not been governed by an
oigarchy. Democracy, in its purest and most
unfettered FORM has swayed the destnies of that
immense and still undeloped country. Yet the
people are Justly dissatisfied with the order of
things; and great national party has been sill
emily formed, which already threatens to over
shadow all others in community. It is remark
able with what precision the description given,
in the manifesto of the Know Nothings, OF the
condition Of parties in the United States at the
present moment, applies to the case of the Uni
ted Kingdom Wor' ,r word, the catalogue of
shortcomings ser TO censure those of our own
wing and tory auical, polttico economic, or IT.
fish Catholic lies. s.All men acknowledge"
say those clcar-5iglt d America D. 'that the old
and familar parties are scarcely any longer cog
n:zable by the original tests of distinctive opin-
ion. In the fading away of these, it is
equally apparent that they have lapsed into a
condition which has lost them much of the con-
fdence the people. They lie oren to the re-
reproach of substituting for honest differences of
! Judgment upon questions Of public concern, 9TH
ers Of trivial import, even of mischievous ex-
travagance. Many exciting subjects which in
, The earlier stages of our progress, legitimately
divided public opinion, have manfestly lost their
{ significance in the estimate of the present day;
Al e. ftofo
these have sunk out of view, new and less wor-
thy topics of dssension have been thrust in their
e places topics to be noted chiefly by the low
n passions to which they appeal, and by the base
n motives they oppose to a continual strife. They
seem to have grown out of no better motive
4 than desire to keep up division for the prof
$ of those who may thrive by it, in career which
S looks to no object of honorable ambition, an;
.. scarcely Affects to refer to the public good
Party action has thus in great degree, Il st al
e dignity above that of mere struggle for thu
7, power of dispensing patronage, aud has don
g WHAT. could to inculcate in the mind of th
h people an opinion that government is but com
plicated system of rewards for office-seekers, il
u whom the faculty for faithful service is the las
L and least Of the qualifications they are expec,
s. ed to present.
1t is precisely Of these evils that the people
: England now make their plaint--asyct muttere
"a only, but soon to burst in thunder. They hav
yielded up the legislative and administrative pow
t. er to an oligarchy, and have been content
. balance between the several parties into whic
. it har been divided But those parties hav
- elapsed into condition which has lost thel
ne muched of the confidence of the people, TIL
IS people of England are rapidly becoming Know
~. No'hings, too. They are beginning to confr
/, their attention to the one great question--ho'
ch to get adequately performed the great work
h government. 1t is not that they are prepare
re to back anonymous agitators, in any crusac
.t against the aristocracyas an institutions The
- have no desire to make a revolution in order
lf- thrust few ambitious and pretentious men il
IS, to high positions. They will not, like the Cf
wv nese peasant in Lambs tale, burn their house
To- order to roast their pig. No; they want men.
Ifthey can get them, they will adopt them i
W stantly. There being aristocrats would be rat
in their favor than otherwise. But men III,
no win have, and that speedily. They Thought tn
~ they had found what they wanted in Lord Pa
!, merston. Their disappointment is rapidly dee
ne ening into Indignation: and hence the dang
lest they should confound the man with the sy
by TEN, and in angrilydsplacing the one, shou
= sweep away the other.
In France they have somewhat anticipat
ny us and the Americans in point of time. I
70 Emperor Napoleon the Third is only Fren
lie, know Nothing Think you, that he is SO Q
o,e mircd aud respected because he is q Bonapart
= Nor at all. Bonapartism helped to raise hi
az u eninence because the people were tarely !
uld pentent and grateful to the dead hero.
bic Bonapartism, in dynastic sense .hasAot ma
;,o him what he nv is--the Ruler of France, 4
in ths right of b. nScent, but by reason of
TO- Deeds 1t is true represents Bonapa
IAN ism as his uncle wish re made it, bul
&c hasput onvita stamp Of Bis ~ Bonsf5 u
sr;- A. interprets 4 aknows ing' TT