New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-03


leader Graham-began as furious Rad; the
other-G Gladstone-as high Tory; az they seem
10 have met half way, and set up the sign OF the
Peel's Head for the sale of halfandhalf politics.
A coalition between them and Golden was much
talked Of sOre time ago principles oi CONNER
cia reform and respectable mIddie-class Liberalism
Meantime the absence of G adstOne and his class
is fatal to the Tory parry which is divided aswide-
ly and as curiously as the Liberal one, and which
could lot form an administration if it were put b
il Tomorrow The fact is, that just as Pcel-Con-
servatsm really meant that Peel was man who
could administer with confidence tTOm the pubic
but Who, being dead left no ideas nor tradlt )ns
by which q great party could be held tOgether-so
the present active TOryism is really Disraeli-ss-
ctIdapcy.
The Press is written from his direct in,piration
week by week but the Toryism which it breaches
is not system. 1t is an Instrument by which the
loose Tory sentiment Of the kingdom is occasion
ally embodied and directed against GOyernments-
but it really depends on the personal skill oil
DisTae in the first instance. While things are so,
We need not expect d government by party IN the
old seDse but a series of coalitions, according as
certain clever men who have the public ear, may
happen TO form knots and burk differences. VINO
knows what the principles of the present Ministry
arei What is Pam 1t is generally believed
that if lie has any real pOtics-hes s an aristocrat,
but be serves and has served with all sorts aud
conditions of men-and he is popular, because ne ls
clever and plucky, and has hne dash oil llght
con edy in him. l rather think shat this last 10 -
combined with the belief that he s game-the
real secret of his success with the people which,
above all things loves an o6:hand lord. When
deputstion waits on Pam he gives them an anec-
dOte. "My grandfather, Lord so-and-so, used to
tay." &c, and they 90 away delighted:
In brief, be is man of the world. Now, Lord
John Russell is a pt dant-the antithesls OF man
Of the world. He talks TO you, (as friend OF
mine, al eminent man, who knows him, told me-
lille superior being" the great Whig
families being in his eyes, celestial, like the
Chinese Emperor Heis pompous, scholarly old,
and old fashioned People think that he ought to
90 to the House of Lords and The Times has been
giving him kind of funeral sermon. | should
not wonder, il that were sign, that he had really
thought of it. The Times has neat trick OF first
learning privately that some event is coming OIL, and
then magniloquently recommending it in formal
leader. OF course when said event does come
off everybody is eBraptured with lts power snd
influence. 1t played this trick admirable during
the black period of Crmean suffering, by calling
ON the Queen to come 10 town, when they knew
she was going to do so. | am told that Delane,
the editor stood near the gaBgway when the
Government were announcing theF foreign
Legion plan and exclaimed "We never heard OF
thisr You will remember its violent opposition
to that project
Apropos of TIE Times YOU will be curious TO
hear how our cheap daily papers get on. / cannot
report favOrably as yet. The fact is tlat IN a
country where money is wOrsbpped one great
reason that The Times is 30 believed IN is be-
cause it is known to be rich The public looks at
the advertise ments with ave. and naturally turns
10 the leaders with reverence. A man of ten
thousand year is naturally listened to when he
"Opens lis mouth, and who knows that Tie Times
does not realize ten times tent distinguished
nObleman asked ne once why journalists did not
insist ON signing their articles told him that OF
many reasons one was sufficiently strong by Itself.
The paper is listened to as a corporation, as a
wealthy body: the writer, A. or b., clergyman
or barrister, would be pOOh-pOohed as not being
man of substance. We rhaf you about the dollar
but we worship the pound. You Will see all our
periodicals lauding Albert Smith, for instance,
now-wbO some years ago was sIighted AS an mi
tator of Dickens and a buffoOn. The explanation
is obvious Albert has made money-the man is
the same-a lively, clever, good natured fellow;
but in most eyes q fine sheen Of gold plays over
him since bis lucky hit with the entertainment.
The Crmean inquiry has presented no especially
new features since l gave you pretty full &C.
count of it. 1t was adjourned one day that Lord
Lucan's daughter might be married TO Lord Har.
dinpes son; and indeed it would have been hard
ON the young people to have had the marrowbOnes
and cesvers Of popular censure for al eplthala-
mium We are above all, domestic people, and
/ dare say this little interlude has helped Lord
Iucsp in public esteem. You must have observed
that we have grown ten times more civil (f pos
sible) to Napoleon since he got an Imperial in
FAINT, "Of immense size" Beranger, In recent
epieram saws that the " eniant de France" only
wants one thing-just to be little bit French.
This mixture Of foreign bloOds in it, however,
makes it partly Scotch, and the Scotch peoples
addresses of cODgratulatiOn dwell with satisfaction
on the fact We are domestic, repeat To re-
turn to Lord Lucan the moral OF the inquiry seems
to be-dOn't trust to your cavalry for anything but
charge. Huttng, foraging, tentmaking, trench
making, are all out of the sphere of military know
edge here. We shall have system of military
colleges, you will see-partly owing to the capital
.hreWd, practical letters Of Jacob Omnium,"
otherwise gigantic private gentleman of fortune
named Higgins, well known about town, and who
rides better than most cavalry officers himself
When Paxton was holding forth once about low-
ers from the Alps, and the progress of science,
and adding, "we would make men soOp," Carlyle
pointed TO Jacob and observed that we could do
something respectable in that way already. Pax
ton suggests the Crystal Palace, and the c. p an
apecdote which may amuse you. There are busts
there of living notables, and if you look carefully
you may observe, Sydney Herbert, statesmas;"
''Beniamin Disraeli, poltieias" This was a
stroke of sarcasm by the late Sam Phillips, esq.,,
though Sam was Jew himself But it is odd that
Bep's worst enemies have been and are among his
own breed. Anglicised and Christianized like him
self. Ben hat q plan for getting the Jews iuto
Parliament without sacrificing the existing Christ.
ian oatb-we are to learn it when the Jewish Dis. |
abilities bill comes next before US.
Peel's MSS. are being brought forward for pub. |
location, and We shall soon have batch first the |
Catholic Emancipation story, edited BY Lord Stan.
hope, late Lord Mahon. Then there are some
more family papers by the Duke Of Buckingham,
= a.v,r, yv,na1 his houaR a busv shout %. |