New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08
Nfw7lork Dailu Gribu,rs.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Own Correspondent

LONDON, Tuesday, June "a, 1856.
Many OF our journals have articles On the Sumner
assault and you can easily conceive the shame and
the mischief Of that black story. The regular
bisots here shrug their shoulders and say: What
"can you make of people whose Senator's act
"hke this man Brooks =" And 90 all the old
stories about Yankee violence, &c, come up
again, and harm lie done to the good cause of ma
tiOnal friendliness and national respect. Emer.
sons Concord speech will weigh with many here
who do not ordinarily heddle with politics. but
Who honor that fine, pure, translucent minded
man." ss Carlyle emPhsticaly called E. ono day
in my hearing. Of course all American doinss
are watched more closely here while this cOntro
versy il pt Id Dg between the two countries. The
excitement caused by the Sumner matter-the
Slavery fQhts in Kansss-are diffused all over the
country through our press, snd people shake their
heads and think you have "enoush on your hands,"
However, except in the few quarters where GER
tain persons are angry that the British cont fare
up against you for the benefit Of unscrupulous
politicians, the tone of British comment 10 moder-
ate, generous aud wise. We have our own difficult
ties, aud enough to do with our own shames and
sores.
About eli, 900 had been received, up to yester.
dsy, for the sufferers by the French food aud the
subscription is swelling daily. People are anxious
10 show that our talk of the alliance" was not
all part of the smoke Of the war. The impression
is, that this terrible event will demand by the
misery il causes, all Nspoleons tact, skin, and
energy; that as far az he has gone he has met it
well aud used IL adroitly; and the great mass of
Epelishmtn (bar1ing our Republicans, who are
few, have 80 little hope of French freedom that
they are contented TO see him ruling, if he will
rule with al eye to social reforms and social pro-
lection In fact, as have often said in these let
tiers, there is lull in political excitement,
properly % called, just now. Social questions
the fashion; managing talent the thing in demand
Thus, in England, our active ntellects work on
education, reormatory Institutions, charities, and
soforth, for the most parts while our Premier lie
ole whose politics nobody knows-who is sup
POSED 10 be abstracty Tory, but who has
Wing Liberal Cabinet and much Radical support,
being veteran in parliamentary and Downing
Street busne.s, and q tough old wit, wording,
and schemer.
The meeting of the Administrative Reform Asso-
citation on Saturday, how ever went off more brskly
than one would have expected in so spathetic time
ROebuck, The new chairman, made long speech
and pontt ut that the thing to be done Was to work
on the House OF Commons through the CONSTITUENT
ciea This the Association means to attempt by
organizing a correspondence with boroughs aud
cities Gin the counties they can d. nOthing), and
keeping ledger in which the votes Of each men,
Der are recorded, in terrorens. In this way they
think they will check corrupt voting; and they
will also put forward candidates of their own
We shall thus have, in fact, new Political Club
in the cOuntry-which is what tie Associ ,tiOn will
amount to. Its real object will be to try, by get
ting power in the House Of Commons, to beat down
the prfstige OF the a" famiies'-introduce new men
lit the Government, and change the system Of
the country. -
There are objects difficult and important enough.
n previous letter pointed out to you the basis
on " ich the strel 9Th OF the families" rests II
il not birth OF rank, only, but combination of
these with property-and that property Of polki
cal importance which constitutes their power.
That power is unchecked by the Crown, which is
all but mere pageant-espeeially MS the present
holder ia q Queen, and as her cOnsOrt labors
upder the disads santiago OF being foreigner.
A ain, this social weight is of Immense conse-
quence. If Mr.. Bugsby, NJ. p, can be OF any
ute 10 party, he is freely invited out; IN
difficult positions, Mrs. Bugsby is even asked too;
and many promising reformer has been muzzed
with table. napkin. A ball at the Duke Of Dew.
on.bire's--a dinner at an Earls-these are the
fatal rocks on which our great modern reformers
split 1t is the women that do 1t. The women
don't care twopeDcc about politics, Gin the middle
classes at all eveDts) but they do care about soci-
ETY. and their daughters; and they tease Bues6y
vsncemeDt in that way. Our aristocracy has it's
roots spread through the whole OF the middle
classes from it's peculiar character; it 10 not
nObiesse like that OF Austria or Prussia, but an in
sti,ution sui generis which has sufficient OF the
feudal element TO save il from being vulgar and
modern, while being essentially wealthy, and con-
nected with wealth, and recruited most carefully
in such a way as to keep it ttrong. For instance,
you don't see the great mercantile names 10 the
Administrative hefOrm movement, with all Its
boasts about its Cuisines" character. Wby'
b. cause really great merchant is one OF the arls.
tocraey himself. He may be made Peer, or ne
nav marry at all events among the order. lie
lives amorg them-he buys land SO much has
inteImarrisge taken place, that doubt If more
than one or two Of our great families could
prove the sixteen quarters required in Ger
map,-tbat is, the nobility of the sixteen
G, eat. great. grand parents-to do which insures
the aoblesss Of PERSONS whole blood.
Ard it is facts like this which (howeyer they may
make us laugh a. the ultra sristecratc tone some
tiues shown really constitute the aristOcracys
lower Nor could the facts be otherwise; for
time has played such havoc with the Original
ancient nobility that the Peerage could hardly
stand, else, as it doee. The Coartepays ana
Dpyereuxes are poor, for instance. The wes'thiese
houses are those which hold the Church lsnds like
tie Rustels and Cavendishes. Many are from
lawyers-like the Csrdieans and HsrdwicAes and
even TIE illustrious Towards, who first rose by
law and afteIward by marriages. Unal facts
like these are studied and allowed for, and until
it is understood how the popular" branch OF the
legislature is really aristocratie too one does not
see wb,t game an association like the one under
discussion has to play
There is a movement m Scotland for m0nu-
me ut to sir William Wallace; and meeting VII
,oon be presided over by Lord Elgip, who, as head
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