New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-06

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tering and laad.robbing; that is to say, the Army
and Navy, and its appendices, the Church Psit,-
cal and hence militant, and the Redtape militant or
diplomacy. Government-the art Of ruling the peo-
ple-spd feeling socially as well as politically above
those whom they rule are the pursuit and senti-
ment of the nobility The tub to the whale in
England is the woolsack. Of course, the son of q
portrait psinter and the grandson of barber, may
be "law-lords," because the art Of gripping and
holding landed estates and hereditary titles must
be accompanied with legal forms; and the technics
tiles Of special legal instruction, acquisition, talens
and genius, are necessary to legislation-to the
drawing up and speaking to Bills, and the holding
High Courts of lordly judcatisu. The existence,
therefore, of law. lords-the elevation OF lawyers
TO the wOolsack-proves no democratic element IN
England, but simply aristocratic inability to DO
without them. The Bench of Bishops has moth
ing democratic in it, and does not alter
tie position we take. Wien the thieves originally
fell out in the time Of King John as to the spoils,
the Church, of course, came in for share OF
plumber as Church-as representatives Of an
hereditary apostolic aide and not of democratic
principle and belief in the sacredness and clas'l'
cality Of every actual era.
In further elucdation Of this national turnkey
ism, let us cite the Of the great James Watt,
who, according to the inscription upon bis statue,
"directng the force of an original genius early
"eIerci,ed in philosophical research, to the I'M
"provement of the steam-engine, enlarged the re-
"sources of his country, increased the powers OF
oman, and rose to an eminent place among tho
"illustr.ous followers of science and the real bere-
"factors of the world" 1t would exceed our limits
to record the neglects and coniempts he met with
from the arstocracy at the head of the Government
of how, in bis anguish, he declared that the only
thing the Government seemed to despise and ignore
was originality and usefulness; but his Life and
Correspondence is the saddest chapter, as well a.
the most crushing commentary On the falsehood
that literature, or the record of the arts and
sciences, is the chief glory of nation such as the
English represented in its Government
AS the science Of killing-the Duke, Dur or
military leader, being the highest rank after the
Sovereignty strict logic, the science of life-sav-
ing, the medical art with oil its literature is COM
mensurately despised in England. In SCOTS Fair
Maid Of Perth the contempt in which Doctor of
Medicine was held in chivsric times is well set
forth and the low status of the profession appears
BY the manner in which it figures in the drama and
novels. In common with poets, writers, painters,
sculpscrs musicians, inventors, philosophers, as
tronome>s, and all scientific and esthetic mer, doc
tors of medicine have been socially despSed in
Epgsnd-or, in p,ain English, none have been con-
sidered Of sufficient Lignity and importance to be
elevated among the Dukes, or hereditary fllibus-
tiers. The highest rank attained BY literary man
was given to Scot; he was made baronet-be.
cause of his immense Toryism, and his tremendous
Difference to rank. The case of Bulwer need not
be cited, as be i, man of family. The roar of the
French Revolution in 1343 frightened the insular
lords from their .ecnrity, and an ovation was ac-
cordipgy prepared to art and industry IN
the Exhibition of the Crystal Palace. But
the Inauguration seemed as purely military as the
preparations for the field Of battle. We believe
the protector ard architects were on the dais
Majesty, but all else not bishOprc black and white
was soldierly scarlet and gold. 1t an ate npt
to combine Chivalry with Industry-tO hold on to
power little longer by not overlooking the fact
that revolutions now the uprisings of dcspised
men of letters and men Of toll. But the force Of
Chivalry could ne further go; when it came to be
question how to reward the great mechanical
genius of Stephenson-the railroad maker-ite
new light of national wealth-Her Sacred
Majesty (the old term, Gracious Majes
IT," abolished since the time Of tho Stuar.s
being revived within the last ten years)-Her Sa-
cred Majesty oft red to Stephenson knghthOOd-
in CON mon with every turnkey Of an alderman who
fetcbes DIP an address on the birth of a new prince
or princess, OF during royal visit to his borough.
But-narvelous to say, and what resOunds to the
fame of Stephenson IS much as his engineering
he declined the honor The world, then, dses
move The leavDes of snobs were then at last in
England distasteful to man of genius and . ma
tiOnal benefactOr.
Literature, art science, these being no glory in
England in the estimation Of the Government,
which claims to represent loyal people, We repeat
that we are not surprised at Mr. Thackeray's de-
feat We hope that il will confirm bis democratic
faith and add fresh keenness to his pen ofsteel He
will now recognize TIE truth Of the difference be- |
tween q semi-barbarOus government, the product |
Of the fighting ages, and one which appreciate
other glores than those of the stamp Of Waterloo
and Trafalgar. Had Thackeray been q titled |
soldier, and one Ofthe Six Hundred who rode
" Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth OF he'll"
at Balaklaya, ard come out alive, he would have |
been elected to Parliament, in common with the |
other noble supporters of the chivalric, warmak
ing, lterature-despising GOyernment-and hence |
people.
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