New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-17
PUBLIC FEELING IN ENGLAND.
oor,.,rerses.. Of The N. r. rrisu's'
LONDON, Fndsy. Feb. 2, loo5.

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The Cfim~a, aud 10 every toins coapec'e' Win vi.
W., Dessr.m.pt, are mot OVERWHELMING al"
A.. u,,;.,sys nave been compelled BY puo'ic To-
aigps,iou % resign They h''d tue 'eai' W OH &c
- an .r.ce..or, en- he found 10 t'ke their
,J.os. Bu, here again the Queen 10 10 IN. aud
the whole county waiting ~fn soA"u' unoer
faint, sid even serious apprehension OF tue POE
,;h,li,x Of 6p,tg nea Ia form strong and :on-
,s,e,t Administration. All parties base lost they
hold On public confidence Tue "nlg' are nef
,f;r,risuers out of da;e; the Tories are de,ested
md inspected, and the Peelites, or C)nserss-
tives, have just been driven isDominiou'iy from
their posts as dwelling, Tell-meanng' hard
working but incompetent tr1-rs with the dessi-
uies of great nation. Nor are individuals more
trusted than the parties TO which they belong or
fr, m which they have seeded. All Is we,knes''
division. and distrust The Earl Of Derby wa'
cent for BY the Queen to form ne~ Ministry ba'
he avowed last night his insbiity TO rally col
Leagues and supporters TO assist hin 10 the ua-
cer,akiDg. PameIston is deemed the ftses' m'n
By the majority Of the people bat be Is SAID 20 De
unwelcome ut the Court. Lord John Russell has
lost the little favor be possessed among the peo-
pie and the members OF ,be House OF Comm'1s.
His disgraceful conduct 70 hi. late colleagues In
deserving them. with strong Reclamation at the
last moment afeer tayioe spurlousy cooperated
with them, as & mere political in'riguer, while all
the mischief was being done, has thoroughly dis-
eusted every body with his palIy personality and
=. .tnsr
plexiy, and hesitation a. the present moment.
Parties are used up, and individuals are de
trusted Personal dishk-s and rivalries are 80
general among our public men that no one kno IS
how a coalition Ministry can DOW be formed; and
any purely Wing, or Tory, or Conservative Adj
mInistraton seems impossible. Mean~hlie the
Government is st q stauds,lil, and the army 10 as
bad state AZ supercIiou. inbecility installed in
half q dozen different aud nearly independent de-
psrtments OF military government can make 1t, oy
the most ob.tinste neglect and irresponsible d.
vision.
This seems a pitiful crisis for a great ns-
ton like England to be 10, with oil her wealth,
indomtable enterprise aud mstchless ingenuity.
A fearful disease of the braio or ruliGg powers,
threatening the whole body Of splendidIy deve-
oped being with sudden and helpless paral'
ysis. This however Ia the dark eide Of the
question only; the Aristocratic eide. what the
heart of the nation may yet be able " schleve
without this silly brain remains to be seen; aud
from all that can see around me, ! think that
England may still become herself again. The
energy and the intelligence OF the lower and mid
die clatses Of the nation are inferior to none in
Europe; and the only thing fear is the expert
maj euyeriDg If the old political intriguers, on the
one hand to maintain their hold of place and pelf
as usual; and the easy going confidence of the
buoy public on the other, if things only take Il
favorable turn for a brief ,pace in the Crimea.
The great body of the people are not aware OF the
nacbiavelian depths OF the present organizati N
of Conttitu,i NAL Government in Englond. Ii is
the most profound sy,tem Of thimble rig that has
ever been organized In any State, to avoid the
possibility Of fixing responsibility upon Jobbery
oelinquebts. Wherever a defect occurs, or JOB
is perpetrated, nobody can point to the exact au'
thority who ought to be responsible. la Indian
afIairs there are three thmbes, and nobody can
guess " here the responsible pea s. II you take
up the thimble in Leadenball st., kept by the
East India Directors you find no pea there; per-
baps it is under the thumb Of the Board of Con-
troll; apply there, and you ind nothing = the
sort; it must be with the Governor Of Iadia, at
bombay or Calcutta lift the thimble there, and
you fndnothing Wherever yougo, no signs OF
responsibility are to be found, Tue thimble-rig-
gers know the trick, and will bet you any money
that the pea is neither here nor there. Ia the
Government of Home Affairs, the game of hazard
is the same. In Military Government there are
several distinct and nearly independent centers
Of action and authority; the Horse Guards, aud
the Commander. in. Chief Of the Forces who takes
orders from the Queen alone; the Ordnance De-
partment and its chief; the Commss iri At
and the Treasury Department. the Secre-
tary Of War; the Secretary at War aud
the first Lord Of the Admira ty all indie
pendent and coequal members Of the Cabinet;
with vast amounts Of patronage and separate in
terests TO mnneuver with for public and private
advantage.
This is the machinery by which the
aristocracy has provided for their younger sons
and onefous marriage settlements, while Alti-
Corn law Leagues, and other Democratic hun
bugs" have been "robbrg the nobility OF their
" natural rights and privileges" Things are bet
ter managed, it appears, in France-at least in
military matters; though serious complaints are
uttered by the French officers and soldiers 10 the
East. What the present complication Of affairs
in Europe will bring forth, it is impossible to say
but We Of the new Church and State party in the
world, who think, and have long thought, that