New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-28
SIGNS IN THE ENGLISH HEAVENS.

Though the recent popular demonstrations in
Hyde Park in London are local In their char
acter and small in their objects, they still are
strsws on the current Of public opinion, which
indicate with sufficient clearness the direction
of it's flow. The masses of what are called the
"people" of London have little respect for any
thing hey oud beefand beer. Still they are usually
deceat, devoted to work and decOrOus to the priv
ieged orders. They are not given, unless in moods
of specsl roughness, to breaking into such bursts
of anger as they have now exhibited on t NO occa-
sions successfully, and which seem TO give fatal
sign that the little prestige left to arlstocracy by
the Crimean blunders is iuttering faint and low.
Neither can it be doubted that the contemptuous
manner in which the feelings of the people have
been treated in recent discussions in Parliament
especially by Mr. Dundas, who with jsunty ar
rogance to the delight of that corrupt portion of
British aristOcracy who infest brothels bar
racks and gambling houses, calls large portion
of his working cOuntrymen canaille" and adj
vises the crash of pounder-will have the
efe CT of swelling this anger and irritation Of the
masses, already CALLED by sores of long standing
and excited by daily disclosures of the imbecility
Of the ruling classes.
Too much stress must not be laid on the 81
lence and long-accustomed seryility of the En-
elish people; and though we have not seen
in the recent Reform movement a principle
sufficiently strong to grasp the popular heart,
and do not desire to exaggerate the causes
or consequences Of these recent riots, still
all these STRINGS in different directions give
signs of some slight heaving of the pOpu-
lar heart. 1t must not be forgotten that this
people of England pride themselves on being
practical, and have an inveterate dislike, save
at election times, when they make up their
mind 4" TO see il out" to all talking, theorizng
and declaiming. They simply wait until what
they deem some huge wrong is impending, and
then, forgetting their ordinary Difference, go
straight to the wrong. doer, to either force him
10 draw back or strangle him. The middle
class of England, as a body, are undoubtedly as
corrupt as the higher, without being redeemed .
by that doubtful but snowy kind of chivalry
which sometimes surrounds the other. But
the myrisds of the toiling masses have equal
contempt for the pretension Of the one and the
mednness OF tne Otner. III the WORKING out OIL
revolution ever falls into their hands, the cry
will be to both: "Your throat or our rights"
In the recent debates in the English Parlla
ment Mr.. Golden and the representatives. of the
middle class have exhibited even greater awe of
anything like revolution than the aristOcracy.
Neither must it be imagined that republican
ism finds no life because it is not spoken OF.
The English people have sense enough not TO
speak the forbidden word which would only ex-
pose tbtmtO an Indictment of high treason
without achieving any good; but when oPPor-
tunty brings it, be that sooner or later, taey oil
xork IL out. To-day it is Lord Grosvenor and his
mal-apropos bill Tomorrow it msy be another
lord and another bill. Again it may be Ger
man Prince and his half sage, half serf-like ad-
monition. Next it rnay be the Queen herself, if
she is found follow ing too closely upon the I'M
lawful advice Of Der lawful husband. In all and
every instance. when the people have stood up
ard spoken, Bulers and Lords have given way.
In this they 'have found safety.
But though the occasion for what dwells 81