New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-31

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- ..fnste6 nv nsetives Of their own. Having IN
~. n..t v,ar ,entIred upon enormous sPecaheoos
:. g.. ,h. prelongatOn Of localities wall at once
nsb.n,e the huge stocks they bOld aud enable them
e. nostpope the large psymeak 70 their creditors 81
Canton. Thus, war will allow them 70 che.i a.
once their British buyers and their Chinese sellers,
and consequently realize their notions Of " natoah
slory" and commercial interests" Generally
the British manufacturers disagree from the tnes
Of this Liverpool catecbism, upon the same foisy
principle which puts in opposition the M4nches'e,
mau, wanting low cotton prices, TO the Ll'erPOoi
gentleman, wanting bgh ones. During the hrst
Anglo Chinese war, extending from 1899 TO lo42,
the British manufacturers had fattered themselves
with false hopes Of msrveousy extended exports.
Yard by yard they had measured the cotton stafis
the Celestials were 10 be clothed in Experience
broke the paddock Pamerstonian politicians had
nut upon their mind. From 1854 10 1857 The Brit
ish manufactured exports TO China did not average
more than e $50, 600 sterling, an amount ffe-
quentiy reached in years preceding the hrst war
with China. ain fact as Mr. Golden, the spokes-
man Of the British manufacturers, stated IN the
House Of Commons, since 1872 We 1.-THE United
Kingdom have not added TO our exports 70 emma
at ALL at least as far as our manufactures are con-
"cerned. We have increased our consumption OF
"4a: that ia all" Hence the broader views with
which British manufacturers, in cOntradlstincton TO
British Bishops, opium smuggers, and sea-dealers,
are able TO take of Chinese politics. IL we pass over
the tSx-eaters and place-hunters who hang on the
skirts of every administration, and the SILLY coffee
house patriots who believe the nation TO pluck up
a heart" under PANS auspices, we have IN fact
enumerated all the bona fde partlsans OF Palmers-
ton. Still We must not forget The London Times
and Punch, the Grand CoPhta and the Clown
of the British press, both of whom are riyeted to
the present administration by golden and Official
links, and, consequently write up Fictitious EN-
thusiasm for the hero of the Canton massacres.
But then it ought to be considered that the vote OF
the House of Commons betokened rebellion against
Palmerston as much as against The Times The
imminent elections have, therefore, TO decide not
only whether PalmerstOn shall engross all the power
of the State, but alsO whether The Times shall mo-
DOpOlize the whole manufacture Of public opinion.
Upon which principle, then, is PalmerstOn likely
to appeal TO the general election Extension OF
trade with China But he has destroyed the very
port upon which that commerce depended. For
more or ess prOtracted period he has transferred it
from the sea to the land, from the FIVE ports to
Siberia, from England to Russia. ln the United
Kingdom be has raised the duty upon tea-the
greatest bar against the extension Of the Chinese
trade. The safety of the British merchsnt-adyen-
turersl But the Blue Book, entitled "COrrespOn-
"dence Respecting Insults in China, laid upon the
table of the Commons by the Ministry ITSELF proves
that since the last years, there occurred but
Elk cases Of insult, in two of which the English
were the aegressOrs while in the four others the
Chinese authorities exerted themselves to the full
satisfaction of the British authorities in order TO
punish the offenders. IT, then, the fortunes and the
lives of the British merchants in Hong Kong,
Singapore, &C., are at present endangered, their
perils are cOpured up by PamerstOn himself But
the honor of the British flag PalmerstOn has sold
it for ESQ piece to the smugglers of Hong Kong
and stained it by the " wholesale massacre Of help.
less British customers let, these pleas of extern
sion Oftrade safety of British Observation-Disclosures,
and honor of the British flag, are the only ones put
up by the Government Oracles which till now have
addressed their constituents. They wisely refrain
from touching any point of internal policy, as the
cry of d" no reform" and more taxes" would not
do. One member of the PalmerstOnan Cabinet,
Lord Mulgrave the Household Treasurer tells his
constituents that he has no political theories to
PROFOUND" Another one Bow Love- in his Kid
dernnster address, girds at the ballot, the extern
sion of suffrage, and similar "humbug." A
third one, Mr.. LabOuehere, the same clever fellow
who defended the Canton bOmbardment on the
plea that, should the Commons brand it as unjust,
the English people must prepare to pay bill of
about f5, 000 600 to the foreign merchants whose
Canton property had been destrOyed-ths same
Labouchere, in his appeal 10 his Taunton cOnstitu-
ents ignores politics altogether, simply resting bis
claims upon the high deeds Of BOwring, Parkes and
Seymour.
The remark, then, of British provincial paper,
that PalmerstOn has got, not only no good cry
for the hustings but no cry at all, is perfectly
true. Yet his case in by no means desperate. Cir
cumstaDces are altogether altered since the vote of
the Commons. The local outrage on Canton has
led to q general war with China. There remains
the question only, who is to carry on the war
The man who asserts that war to be just is he not
better enabled to push it on with vgor than his sd
versaries, getting in by passing sentence upon it
During his interregnum will PalmerstOn not en-
brOil matters to such degree as to remain the in
dispensable man
Then the mere fact of there taking place an cleo
tOra battle, will it not decide the question in his
favor For the greater part of the British cleo
tOra bodies, at pre- sent constituted, electoral
battle means battle between Wings and Tories.
Now, as he is the actual head of the Wings, as his
overthrow must bring the Tories in. viii not the
greater part Of the sO-called Liberals vote for
Palmerston in order to GUST Derby? Such are the
true considerations upon which the Minsterialists
rely. If their calculations prove correct Palmer
stOn's dictatorship, till now silently suffered would
be openly proclaimed. The new Parliamentary
majority would owe their existence to the explicit
profession Of passive obedience to the minister.
coup detst might then, in due course of time, fol-
low PalmerstOns appeal from the Parliament to
the people, as it followed Bonspartes appeal from
the assemble Nati0ndle to the nation. That same
people might then learn to their damage that
Palmerston is the old colleague of the Castlereagh-
SidmOuth Cabinet, who gagged the press, sup
pressed public meetings, suspended the Habeas
Corpus act, made it legal for the Cabinet to im-
prison and expulse at pleasure and lastly butchered
the people at Manchester for protesting against the
Corn Laws.
RETIREMENT OF THE SPEAKER.
In the house OF Commons, ON Tuesday evening,
March 10. Lord Palmersop said he had tack TO per
form agreeable to his wishes, and which he was sure
would be acceptable 10 the House. II was to move
vote OF thanks to the Speaker for hia Able and din