New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-28

BILE disaster N famine Of two nations conf 1red
nothing bef re the .yes Of that little man but Wis
jons Of clap taps sgainst his rival place holder
IL his lett-. he tried to conceal tbs real motive
Of ms sudden conversion to Free trade under q
rbabby confession, fneered 4. IN al Enslsni;
al confess that on the general subject my views
"kave, in the courre OF twenty years, unicr-
gone a great alteration. used 10 be Of opn-
non that con was an ex 'eption to the general
"rules Of political economy; but observation
land experience have convinced me that We
"oustt 20 abstain from ell interference with
"ibe supply Of fool" In The same letter, the
little man urged t;at il was tbe duty OF SIR Rob-
ert Peel to interfere with the supply Of food for
Ireland.
Lo1d Jchn Russell is supposed to have opened
his career with efforts for religious tolerance,
tue tha. be brought forward in 1923 motion
for the repeal OF the Test and Corp ration acts
but 40 we learn from cotemporaneous author,
"to he as.onishment Of the over himself, the
Emotion was carried by majority of A" Tae
acts had, in fact, become dead letter, aud the
Toy mil istry that carried, in the year after, the
Catholic Ema cipation bill, was glad 70 get rid
of the Disstnter.' disabilities. Russell defend
ed his measure on the ground that "be was
"fuliy convinced that it would tend to the Sc
'csrity Of the Church Of England as By law es-
"tablished" When in office, he always op-
pose6 The separation Of Church and St4te-.he
great thing the DisseDters prayed fr. He even
Oh al sfn Of hal fhs.
churchrates. His anti-Popery cry is still! more
Characteristic Of the shallowness Of the men
and the ittleness Of his motives. We have seen
that in ls4e and 1s49 he b,ffled the Reform mo-
tions OF bis own allies By the support of the To-
ries. His tenure Of Office, therefore, had BE-
come very precarioUs, because dependent on
the sufferaDce Of his opponents. Sach was his
position in 1850, at the time when the Popes
bull for the erection of Roman Catholic HER
srchy iD England and the nomination OF Cardinal
Wiseman to the Archbi.hopric of Westninster
was creating Fictitious excitemen, among the
shallow. beaded, stupid ard bypocriticil portion
Of The English people. AS to John himself, the
Pope did not take him by SURPRISE His father
in.law, Lord Mimic, was still at Rome when the
Roman Gaaette, in January, lsie, published the
nomination of Wseman to the Archbishopric.
We know further, from Wisemsn's letter to the
Enelsh people, that the same Lord Mimic had
ia the same year shown to bin by the Pope the
bull for the establishment of the HE 'archy in
England. Under Russell's Premiership, Claren-
don and Grey had officially given the Catholic
Bishops in Ireland and the Colonies the titles
they pretended to. In 1915, when out of office,
John RUSSELL declared: ~ believe that we may
"repesl those disallowing clauses which pre-
event Roman Catholic Bishop from assuming
"a title held by Bishop of the Establishment.
Nothing can be more absurd and puerite than t.
"keep such distinctions" But now, considering
the weakness of his Cabinet, recollecting that
the Whig cabinet of 1866 had been expelled by
the snti-Popery cry, fearing lest Lord Stanley
might be tempec TO initiate PercivaPs example
and out -geI eral him during the recess of Parlis-
ment, as he had endeavored to out-gen sral Peel
by bis ow Edinburgh letter, he flew suddenly
into an ul bounded Protestant passion, and ad
DIRE ssed d his sourrilous letter to the Bishop of
Durham on the 4th November, lS52-jj just the
day before the anniversary Of Guy Fagkes. In
this letter he tells the Bishop: 81 agree with
"you in considering the late aggression of the
"Pcpe upon our otestanti,m as insOlent aud
4" nsidiOus, and therefore feel as indignant as
"you can do upon the subject" He speaks of
"the laboriOus endeayors which are Low max
I" king to confne the intellect and enslave the
=" soul" He calls the Catholic ceremonies
"mummeries of superstition, upon which the
"great mass of the nation looks with con-
"tempt;" and he finally promises to enact new
laws az iinst the Pspal assumption, IN case the
old ones should not prove sufficient. Ia 1851
he brought forward his Ecclesiastical Ii
ties bill; but, being beaten on Locke Kings
motion, by combination of the Irish Brigade
with the Radicals, Manchester men and Peel
ties, he Tecanted and promised an alteration of
bis bill, which died of consumption before it
had come out of the House. Some months
later, being elected from Office, he fawned again
on What he had called the Popes minioas.
As his slti-Popery zeal was false pTetense,
so was bis Jewish Emancipation zeal. His Jew
ish Disabilities bill has obtained reputation as
annual farce enacted to secure to Lord Joan the
city votes at the disposal of the Austrian Baron
Rothschild. His colonial reforms, educational
sche mes, anti slavery moves, were false pretenses
sn "Your opposition, writes Lord Broughsm
10 h IN in 1899, TO all the motions in favor of
" the negroes, AID your resistance even to the
9 attempts for stopping the newly-established
" slave-trsde, widened the breach between you
" and the country. The fancy that the opPosers
- of all the motions On the slaye-trade in 1893,