New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-17

prru : tho pparA oil tnree months, we snhl Know
what to believe and what to doubt OF bis mysterious
power Ar.c.
THE DEFEAT OF eOBDEN, BRIGHT AND
GIBSON.
Corvsp.ndcncs Of TIE n Y Tribune.
LONDON, March 81 ls57.
Tho mass Of candidates put forward their in
tention to give general support to Lord Palmer
ston a. their best claim to be returned as repre-
sentatives Of public opinion in the new Parliament.
" PamerstOn will enter the House, not a.
" the head Of a Conservative, or Wing, or Pee-
ite. or Radical party, but as the leader Of the
English people, and as tho great designer and ad-
Z" ministrator Of Il national party" Such are tho
words Of The Morning Post Lord Palmerstons
private organ. Palmerston as dictator, the new
Parliament ss his corps i,gistatJ-such is their
meaning which the electoral bulletins seem to war
rant. As 10 the "public opinion" spoken of by The
Post, il has been Justly said that Palmerstou manu-
f,ctures one half Of IT, and laughs at the other half
The complete rout of the Manchester School
Bright and Miner Gibson being unseated at Man.
chester, Golden at IIuddersfed, Sir f. Armitage at
Salford Fox at Oldham and Mail at Rochdale-is
the great event Of the electoral battle. The issue Of
tho Manchester election particularly took every ono
by surprise even the PslmerstOn Government How
little sre. il had laid upon the chances Of victory in
that quarter may be inferred from its unsettled and
hesitatinQ conduct. First on the receipt Of some
Manchester addresses Pamerston threatened to pro-
ceed himself to COttOnOpOls, hurting defiance
nj bis antagonists on their own dunghlll."
On second thought, however, he shrank
back Then Bob Lowe, the Ministerial under.
strapper came forward. Invited BY cCterie OF
great mill lords to stand for Manchester. and receiv
ing pledges that if defeated, sum Of f2 600 should
be handed to him, which might enable him to buy
ono Of the county rotten boroughs, he publicly ac
cepted the offer, and allowed an eleeuOneering com
mittee to set ont canvassing in his name. Then
came Nr CObden's great Manchester speech. Palm
erston now bid Lowe retract, which he did. On fur
ther reflection STILL the Manchester attempt appeared
40 destitute Of all elements Of success that The
Times was ordered TO play the part of the fox in the
fable Bob Lowe had to write leader insisting upon
the reelection of Bright Co., and warning Msnches.
ter not to disgrace itself by the reputation OF its old
representatives. When in spite of all these mis-
giyngs the electric wire flashed to Downing street
the news Of CObdens defeat, Of Brights and Glib
sons rejection and by overwhelming majorities, too,
Judge of the rapturous delight and tho maddenlng
cries of triumph in the Ministerial camp. AS to
Palmerston himself, he thought perhaps that he had
been too successful for his own purpOses-keenly
aware AZ the old trickster is that to parayze even
giant, you have only to get him into the house OF
Commons. while to hasten the breaking down OF
that House tsef-of its basis, the privileged con.
stituencies, and its superstructure, Ministerial
uslrpatiOn--yOu have only to turn out its eminent
members and throw them On the street, thus giving
chiefs of note to the disixhcrited multitude outside
the gates of the British Constitution"
The defeat of the Manchester School in their own
stronghUlds, by the bulk of their own army, bears
all tho appearances Of personal triumph on the part
Of Palnerston not only because Golden and Gibson
moved the vote Of censure, which was to drive him
from the Cabinet and which afforded the pretext for
the dissolution of Parliament. deadly antagonism
of principles and situations seems TO resume tsef III
the persons Of Pamcrston on the ono side of Bright,
Golden g. Co.. on the other. Palmcrston tho trumpet
Of national glory, they the organs of INDUSTRIAL inter!
ests; the diplomatic Viscount concentrating IN his
person all tho usurpatons Of the British oigarchy,
the porrtnn demagogues representing all tho VI
taIty of the British middle classes; be
deriving his strength from the decay OF
parties, they owing their force to the struggle OF
classes-the last INSCRIPTIONS incarnation OF oid
Torysm against the chiefs Of the now dcfunct Anti
Corn Law League. Thus the defeat of Golden,
Bright Il Co. appears as personal triumph oi
Pamerston the more their victorious opponents on
the hustngs can claim no importance OF their own.
Sir John Potter, for instance, the opponent of
Bright, is only known as the iattcst man OF Man
chester. He would 90 under the name Of the Man.
chester Sir John Faktaf, if his small wit and
| his long purse did not protect him from
being compared to that immortal knight. A.
| Turner, Miner Gbsons opponent, rested his
| personal claims on the fact of his being common
place man who would never hurt the feelings OF his
| fellow citizens by unpleasant pretensions to genius
or brilliancy. Mr.. Akroyd finally, the opponent Of
| Golden. accused the latter Of being an imperial
| man. while he (Akroyd) had never been anything,
] and would certainly never be anything beyond
plain Huddersfeld man. All of them gored in
| being not men of talent but of character which
latter gift was sure TO preclude them from
| falling, like their predecessors into the fault OF
"oppoSing all Governments, and OF sacrhcing
like Miner Gibson, lucrative Offices TO theoretical
| crotchets.
Yet in spite of appearances, the appeal OF Pam''
| erston against Golden and Co. afforded, not the
cause but only the prctcxt for the explosion OF CON-
| bustible materials which, for long time, were
| gathering round the precincts of the Manchester
| School Manchester forming the nucleus OF the
party, and Bright being nowledged as Its true
hero il will suffice to consider his defeat to account
for the simultaneous failure of his companions in
| arms at other manufacturing places. There were,
frst the old Wings and Tories Of Manchester eager
TO revenge themselves for their political nullty since
the days of the Anti-Corn-Law League The elec.
tiOns Of 1852, when Bright carried it over them BY
majority of 100 votes only, had already shown their
numerical force TO be BY no means contemplate.
Unable, as they certainly were, to vanquish
under their own banners, they formed power.
lul contingent for any seeding corps Of
the Bright army. Then, in second Inc, came
the leaders Of the high-priced press, with their
nveterate rancor and urd malgnty against the par.
hamentary godfathers Of the penny press Mr..
Garnett, the editor of The Manchester Guardian,
stirred heaven and earth against Bright, and proved
indetatSabls in clothing in more or less decent
gsrbs the shabby motives Of the anti Bright coaI-
tron-an attempt facilitated by the unpopularity
Bright and Golden had incurred at the time Of the