New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-22
GREAT BRITAIN.
RESULT OF THE ELECTION.


clearest sum is Pamerstons triumph, great
change in the p,rsOnnd Of the House, involving
about one-fourth of its old members, and It's un-
precedented loss in intellectual character. The
computations, however, Of the English papers as
10 the numerical force of the Ministerial majority,
their chickering's and squabbes about these compu-
tatiOns and still more, their classlfcatlOns under
exploded rubrics Of the newy-returned members,
are silly work altogether. While The Morning
Post, for instance gories in Ministerial majority
of 20 votes, the Disraeli Press estimates the loss
of its own men at four in the boroughs and about
90 in the counties. According TO The London Times,
the exclusion of the Peees and the Manchester men
and professional PrOteconlsts bas restored Parlla-
ment to its status quo ante, and delivered back to
it's legitimate owners, the anedlluvlan parties OF
Wings and Tories 1t would fam persuade the
world that the British people have gone back to what
[" they were some thirty years ago" The Disraell
Press is not very far from ndorsing The Times Opn
ion. This optmist creed with which the oligarchy
NAV try to comfort themselves, is, however, no more
absurd than that of the sham Radicals, such as The
E1auiner. "A Reform Parliament, says it, "an-
"swers to Lord PalmerstOns appeal" He has
asked for d Tot of ackeys, and the enlightened cOun-
try that is to say, small minority OF privileged
PlectOTf rttuTUs Uls compliment stIluhiS HIui ~
band of tribunes of the people While roaring
"PalmerstOn forever they are only playing trick
on the willy Viscont If the new Parliament lni-
tiate great movement, it will be certainly no fault
of its own and Great Britain, like Snbad the Sailor,
will find il more difficult TO throw of the old man
than TO saddle him on her shoulders.
In comparing the new House TO its predecessors,
it seems opportune to begin with the old parliament
ary sections that have completely vanished during the
electoral strugge-he Peelite fraction and the Man.
chester School.
Incontradistnction to Wings, Tories and the Man
chester School, the Peelte fraction did not repre-
sent class or fractions of class. They were
mere Parliamentary clique, which, without the walls
Of both Houses, might number friends, but could
never muster an army. Relics of bygOne admin
straton: estranged from the Tories by the Corn-law
treason Of their late chief; 10th to dissolve in the
Whg ranks from the memory of old teuds, and the
conviction cherished by themselves and accepted 10
a certain degree BY the public, that the admnistra-
tive talent OF the country centered III them prevented
BY their aristOcratic connections IRON mixing INTO
one mass with the Manchester School, sure OF IN
hurncing Parliamentary debates from the rhetorical
ability of some of their memberships prententlous
nuceus of stfstyed statesmen fuctuated uncertain,
impossible Of classification, and representing under
the form of peculiar Parliamentary party the de-
composition of all Parliamentary parties elected by
Pees frec-trade. legislation This principle Of ds-
solution to which they owed their origin they worked
out by helping 10 overthrow the Derby Ministry,
and by giving their nominal chief to the combination
of parties known the Coalition Cabinet or the Cab
met of all the talents. On the visible precipitation
Of the Parliamentary dissoving process, on their
band devOyed the honor Of hosting the cOlors under
which the mutual suicide Of the old parties was to
be consnmmsted. While thus securing to them
selves for a moment supreme position, they were
simultaneously destroying the only reason for their
/ h.1. Ika nint atn
of the combined parties ended necessarily In their
common impotence and their joint prostraton before
one man. The Peelites held the ladder on which
Pslmerston mounted.
Hsyipg already, in 1859, lost half Of their forces
on the electoral battlefield, the elections OF 1907
have swept away their whole rank and file. The
| two Phimores, Lord Hervey Sir q. Clark Sir
| Stafford Northcote, Lord W. Powlett, A. Gordon,
| Sutton HarcOurt, Washington, Smythe, Sir L. W.
| HOgg Of East Indian memory, ROundell Palmer
| and lastly, Mr.. Cardwel, are all gone. The last
| named gentleman had on Palmerston's accession TO
the Premiership had the Chancellorship of the Ex-
chequer offered to him, which he declined, however,
on the advice Of Gladstone Graham 4 Co. Yet, in
the dying session Of the now buried House OF Com
| mons, hoping 10 take the wind out Of GlsdstOne's
sails, be seeded from his friends and voted on the
Budget division with Palmerston. Finally during
| the Canton debates, being apprebensive lest the
tide should turn, he again shifted sides, returned TO
the Peelite circle, and countersgned Mr.. CObden's
motion Of censure. This gentleman is thus true
pattern of the Curious association, distinctive of the
| Peelte clique of moral nicely with unscrupulous
place-huntng The whole Peelite rank and file being
| now gone to the wall, there remain only its three
generals, Mr.. Gladstone, Sir James Graham and
! Mr.. Herbert three units unable 10 form trinity,
| opposite as they are to one another by origin and
predictions; Sir James Graham having started into
public life from Radicalism, Mr.. Gladstone from high
| Toryism and Mr.. Herbert as nondescrpt.
One revelation made by Mr. Herbert on the hust-
ings to his South Wits constituents is Characters
| tic Of the manner in which Pamerston did the
| Peelites. Nothing had made them so unpopular as
the conduct Of the Russian war, and especially the
| sparng of Odesa, which Was accounted for by Mr..
| Herbert being the nephew Of Prince Woronzof.
| Foremost in spreading the enyenomed caumny were
| PamerstOn's myrmidoms, such as The Morning
Post, The San, and The Morning advertiser. Now,
Mr.. Herbert told his electors that he had actually
signed an order to attack Odessa, and that on his
secession from Office Lord Palmerston issued the
order TO spare the place. This ranks on one line
| with Lord John Russells revelation on the City of
| London hustings He VIGOROUSLY broke down in
| consequence of his Vienna Embassy. During the
election turmoil, the beery Morning Adcertiser, the
| licensed ylctualers own paper and Palmerstons
| mob-organ-he has organs OF all sorts and for all
tastes, from the fashionable saloon to the taproom
almost drowned its hoary voice in the cry Of Rus
sells great Vienna treason. Provoked BY these inn
pudent tachcs, Russell found at last the courage 70
tell the world that Lord Clarendon had refused him
the permission TO publish the instructions drawn up
| by Palmerston himself, written in his own hand.
writing, and debating that very Vienna policy for
which he (Russel) had once lost his popularity. A
| Greek philosopher said that hs compatriots, the
| nsets had invented worse stories about the Hellenic