New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-07
ENGLISH POLITICS AND LITERATURE.
Correspondence Of Tho n. Y. Tribune.
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Correspondence Of Tho n. Y. Tnbuse.
LONDON, Friday, Feb l. 1856
The war has done for Palmerston more than
Pnmsrston has done for the war. Everybody has
bis chance. The Reform bill was Macaulay's;
Peel's detection, Disraelis the Russian war, Pal
merstons. 1t came just in time, for the old gen.
teman is breaking; his look is shaky; he sleeps in
the House more than he used to do. Nothing but
the war could have made him Premier for the
Wings don't thoroughly trust any man who is not
Of the large borough owning breed; and p, till
Melbournes legacy of few years since, was alb
solutely poOr-a fatal objection in England. A
gust Of popularity filled his sails and carried him
ahead of everybody like Collingwood at Trafalgar.
He won't make peace too hastily; for peace will
restore the cid equilibrium nfallibly, and Lord
John will have Reform bill ready. What
then ? Is peace probable Several things
are very strongly in favor of that supposition.
In the first place Napoleon is bent on it, France
Che says won't fight for nothing. Another cam
pagn-tO be decided in the Baltic chicfy-wOuld
be for English objects only-he argues. VIII you
give France the Rhinel No extension of the war
reply the Conservatives. Peace is a Conserva-
tive object. From the Orkneys to Cyprus every
Conservative wishes peace; for war, they fear,
would breed revolutions. If you want to know
what our Conservative leaders think you must not
90 only by what they say in Parliament They are
bent on peace and they dare not oppose or dis.
turb Pslmerston while he is busy with the negotia-
tons. Russell and Co. are of course for peace.
They broke down in conducting the war and can
never rise again as long as it lasts
AS to the public-the middle classes and people
CT prOperty-the shOpkeepers above all, are will
ing enough TO have peace if they can get decent
settlement. Without that-nO but give them
pretext and YOU are sure Of them. There is a
section Of Radicals and Chartists eager to carry
on the war; for the precise reasons which make
Conservatives anxious TO stop it. They had
meeting few nights since. But / attach little
importance TO these men at present Chsrtism is
utterly disorganized Radicslism is divided, for
whole sections Of Radicals follow Bright aud
peace BY the way, result of this war is al
ready most Obyious-it has shaken our party sys-
TEN to the core. Weakened before, il is tumblng
TO pieces now.
Lord Clarendon goes to Paris as our represent
alive at the Conferences. Lord John travelled
with such batch Of nurses, wet and dry, for his
progeny, that everybody laughed at him. He
can't speak French well enough. He is pedant,
ana spoiled by long Parliamentary success into
tne bargain. In fact, he was dead failure. OF
al emPioyments, this especially demands q man
oil tne worid-a Chesterfeld-and owing 70 our
sacrincing everything TO Parliament, ChesterheIds
are JUST the fellows We can't get. We are "all
gone 10 tongue, as Carlyle once observed
OF LORD T.. Clarendon has . reputation,
though nobody exactly knows why. How
ever, he is man OF parts, though his enemies
call him dawdler and gossip. The yillierses
have generally parts-Lord Chatham's mother