The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-17

It caanst BE- denied that the English press is
quito free In i discuss ion Of political matters
% the American, aud that Il haudies public per-
soss, vol - PARTIES, With gloves off 1t takes
hold Of Dukes aud Elrls. Knights and rIonorabiss.
and cads and boxes them about with the vigor Of
and the equal Justice OF republicans
nvsa Royalty b not exempt from its criticisms.
Dor shove it influence.
We hai supposed, however, that there vas Que
name IL the British realms sacred from attack,
especially since be Who cnuobled and immortal
Md u, has bsen gathered to HE fathers. We
rsfsr 70 The Duke Of Wellington. But even this
savior Of his country 10 not safe from the license
Of joareais, which some Of our own people suppose
ere lacking In independence and never speak their
mind. II seems that, Of the large sums awarded
b. Parliament, 70 pay for the funeral ceremonies
The Iron Duke, twenty thousand pounds remained
over. and Il 10 nov proposed by those having
charge Of The funds, " appropriate this sum IN
The construction u suitable monument. The mat
Ter vas put up 70 pulaie competition, and number
Of seaIptors sent IL plans and models, represent
log ell the ideas anA symbols that have ever been
sssd BY stone mssoas and undertakers since the
beginnlng Of time. This natural tribute to de-
parted greatness, has drawn ont 10 one OF the
Londen Journals, consultation signed "Little-
johe," which 10 a. ubbounded In it's license, and
- vigorous In its abuse, ~ the most spicy and
scarrilous OF the "fast" journals Of large ci.
siss, With good deal more power OF thought &C.
casiousl elegance Of expression, and aptitude CT
iilussration, than they are generally able to com
nand.
.Litsiejohn" denies that there 10 any admiration
OF the Duke Of Wellington 10 England so fervept as
70 caase any public monument. lie says che was
the general Of party the statesman Of few, aud,
In every sense, . hard, narrow minded, mathe-
NAUTICAL, determined soldier. He fought the bat
siss Of the aristocracy, aud was slavish adherent
Of George the Fourth, one of the basest monsrchs
who ever sat on the English throne. The Iron
Duks Vas . thorough going Tory, who would have
bed no eompunction In telling bis guards to be up
and ct the people Of England, had they entered
into contest with the aristocracy." At the same
time, the writer comedies that the Duke was no
bind and uursasonipg partisan, knew well how to
weigh results before he undertook an attack, and
would no more have driven nation to desperation
than 10 would have attack ed well posted military
spponsnt. He says that he gave way on Roman
Catholic Emancipation and Reform, because he saw
Ireland Ia the one case and Englapd in the other.
we're thoroughly sound not that he loved toera
ton or political justice, but he would more have
periiIed civil than . military defeat. There Is
much more, Ia . eoarser, aud almost indecent
strain, proving that the writer's for the London
prsss are not always models Of decorum and digni
~, and that party spirit In England is more IN
relenting than In America. Whatever the feroci,y
Of our contests with the living, enerally suffe
the dead to sleep 10 peace, burying their fault
With then. We can scarcely conceive that prep
osition to erect monument to an American gene
raj who had done n much for this country as tn,
Duke Of Wellington for England could call fortl
such IN article - that 10 the London journal
(some of the most decent portions of which WI
have quotedO from single newspaper in the Re-
public.