New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-02
THE REFORM PARTY IN ENGLAND.

whose silent sleep for some weeks past hsu III
most slipped into death, has agsin started IRON
its trance and, gathering all its strength mide
one more gasp for life. This time the scene
was transferred from the more substantial CITY
Tavern to the snowy and more attractive boards
of the theater of Dfury Lane, which, absii omen
has unfortunately most unhappy reputation for
being the birthplace Of most Of the bubble Pc
litical companies in England of late years. On
this occasion the management had evidently put
forth their full strength. 4 star of much mag
nitude was introduced in the person of Mr. Lay
ard. who. though he had in the House OF Con-
mons advocated and almost conducted the cause
of this new party, had, up to his appearance 81
Drury Lane, cautiously abstaIned 1om all puo-
lie connection with their proceedings. Track
eray wac, we are told, a silent spectator, prob
ably carving off the drama few sly scenes Tor
the successor to the NewcOmes. Dickens con-
tributed letter. Mr.. Morley, an atiiuent hotel
PROPRIETOR who, with considerable share
of American patronage adopts somewhat oil
American principles, took the chair. But
we look in vain for solitary specimen
of that strong merchant class who were
represented as leaving their counters ana Tor
sakinp the fat things of life to follow this new
STANDARD. With the exceptions We have men
toned Drury Lane was not unlike the cave OF
Adullam of DID, in which were congregated All
the dscontendeo spirits OF tho Kingdom.
Several irish members, mad foe mischief OF any
mold. and some disappointed English ones wac
considered themselves the right men Tor the
places right and lefe, chiefly constituted the
platform. Even Sir Charles Napier, who had
loaf,d lazily round the Baltic all last summer
and whose do-nothingism after his huge Vaua'-
ING YVES one of the cases chiefly dwet on 10
Justify this movement, had the delightful auda-
city to appear and furnish live example Oh
tbe evils of the system Of parliamentary pat
rorace, in giving in his person, as has beea re-
peatedly the case, 20 bullying buster and gross
o,,couade positions which should have be-
longed 70 merit.
The koen irony which dwelt in the contrast
between the cause of merit and the motive OF
the men who rallied round it did not escape the
eve which had penetrated the ruins OF NineVeh.
Doubtless Mr. Layard, who like all poor pollti-
clans is bold and Hnhesitatng, is himself no I'M
fit type Of the objects of the authors of tsls
new movement, to which his rough vlgor and
dauntless decision hss given its chief strength,
and on The swell Of which lie will probably ride
70 fortune. The otto which one of the most
brilliant and successful of parliamentary adVen-
tuners. the late SIR. She'll, advised all political
knight, ambitious of Office to inscribe upon
IN
appears ever before him.
The absence of a solitary sustainer from that
commercial class which is hourly gaining m IRE
On the aristocracy and becoming the governing
power in England, Ar. Layard accounted for on
the ground that these men are ever wary IN
weighing chances and unwilling to embark in
any enterprise IN which they cannot see from
the starting point the goal of success. Let us
make sight of success, exclaims Mr. Layard, and
we shall have the strong middle class aud SIM
newy men OF business pouring in to join us.
This is doubtless true as a principle OF English
politics. Nor, while as a matter OF pubic
interest we discuss the character and motives of
the directors of this movement, should we from
the scantiness of men who man the vessel, or
the presence of those selfish influences which
rule the majority of men, despair Of her reach
ing success, If the machinery which moved her
was sound and the steersmen knew clearly
whittier they were making All the great move
ments for the benefit Of mankind from their
parent Christianity down, have been started
and worked by few brave and resoute hearts.
Wiberforce and Clsrkson were once almost
alone in their struggle to strike the
chain from the West Indian slave and were
for some time looked on as maniacs. Blessings
now follow in every land the mention of their
names. So will it one day be here with those
brave men who through similar early difficulty
have brought the same cause so far on the road
to victory. Ia the fret feeble gasps for life of
the Cath Ole Emancipation movement, the Irish
Liberator found himself in a small chamber in
booksellers store in Dublin with but FIVE men
beside him.
SO reasons Mr.. Layard, bat We are not con-
WINGED. 1t is because this new movement lacks
q distinct object, palpable to the popular sense,
that we can see in it no germ of genuine
success. 1t simply points out to England the
Ills she has and bids her fly them, but tells her
not how or whittier The Press, from one end
of England to the other, is now asking that ques
ton which on the starting Of this movement we
put: What means this Administrative Reform
We see the ills. They glare in our eyes and
scken in our nOstrils What is the remedy
" The right man in the right place" But Lord
Palmerston says in the last debate that hs nliD-
istry affords the most beautiful illustration ever
erxr;.h5 of .bis ,.-;nc;,la-tbe rornf men