The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-04
THE DAILY DISPATCH
w~ The Chairman of the great meeting

of London merchants in his able opening
speech on that important OCCASION eom"eh-
tod with deserved severity on the indecent
1a,,;,v exhibited by L6Fi Pslmerston and bis
srnnorters. in the House of Commons,
.m;d.t a solemn crisis. lit was past all en-
aurance." said the speaker, ito End that the
deep injury which England had sustained IN
This matter, had been met with an universal
Joke Take any twenty speeches at ranooh
from the newspapers, that the Premier had
de,;varad since he became the head OF the
government under circumstances that hau
broken the hearts of thousands, and carried
desolation into every village of the land, aud
they would find that nineteen of them hadr
suited in roars of laughter
Whilst these 'roars of laughter are shak
mo the House of Commons, thousands upon
thousands of wounded British soldiers IN
camp. in hospitals, and in the open field are
suffering tortures indescribsole. miles OF
agony" says the Times. But the most OF
these sufferers are the sons of poverty and
toll. laborious peasants and artisans, whose
nloughshares had been converted into SWORDS
and what bond of sympathy is there De-
tween them and aristocracyl
More perhaps between aristocracy ana
poverty in Britain, than in other countries
and especially our own, whose false and DO
pus aristocracy-destitut of birth, breeding
education and genius-hath no way OF mani
testing its superiority, save by holding itself
stiffIy oof from all men not wearing golden
armour. But slight hold, even IN Britain,
have the lower ORDERS so called, upon the
patricians of the land. We are told OF
the rich man in He'll, that lying upon a
couch of fire instead of bed of down, and
beholding Lazarus, who on earth had lain at
his gate, ali object to him of contempt and
loathing, now in Paradise, nestled in the very
bosom of the Father of the Faithful, he
implOred Abraham to send Lazarus, that he
might dip the tip of his finger in water, and
cool his tormented tongue. The answer is
oae which all men, like Dives would do well
to Observation-Disclosures US and you there
is a great gulf fixed" Whoever looks upon
human society, must see that even here there
is a great gulf between the rich and the
tween the two CULTS, that the gulf here is one
of which Dives has the pleasant side, and
Lazarus the painful one; and that, whereas
In the gulf hereafter neither party can cross
to the other, the rich here may cross to the
poor, but rarely do it; on which account
when situations are changed, the rich get
ting his evil things, and the poor his good
things, the latter is not permitted to cross to
the relief of the former. No doubt there
are great many vile plebeians as well as vi
cious aristocrats; but how much the heart
lessness of the one has contributed to the
degradation of the other, is problem which
Dives can solve whilst he is waiting for La
zarus to come to his relief. Doubtless there
are multitudes of poor men who will share
the fate of Dives and there are virtuous men
of wealth, who will enjoy the beatitude of
Lazarus. But there is good authority for
believing, that as 3 general thing, it is easier
for camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for rich man to enter the kingdom of
Heaven.
A great gulf, wider than that which sepa-
rates the Crimea from Great Britain, rolls
between the palaces of premiers and noble
men, and the cOttagers upon their own estates.
They do not recognize themselves as part and
parcel the same humanity. PalmerstOn and
his party, comfortable in the House of Com
mons, comfortable in their stately homes,
reading at comfortable breakfast tables, the
accounts of battles, in the Times, have no
more real sympathy with the poor British SOL
der, than with the musket which he carries,
or his horse or his cannon. If he triumphs
it is the glory of officers and minister's if he
perishes, it is but q machine destroyed, the
place of which can be easily supplied by
some other machine. But there is Justice in
Heaven, and a day of retribution must
come. War will one day look in with its
grim face upon the windows of the Parlia-
ment and the castle. 1t may not be the Cos
sack, but more terrible enemy the British
working millions, with bayonet in hand, as
sorting their rights as men and as citizens.
The blind S Imson, who is now making sport
for the Philistines, will seize the pillars of
the temple and overwhelm himself and them
IN common ruin.
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.