The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-03

TRIUMPH OF THE DERBY GovERNxxNr-The
STEINER which arrived at Halifax yesterday
brings Tire rather important news Of the triumph
Of tire Derby administration over their psriia-
mectary opponents. Mr.. Csrdwell, who pro
poe the vote Of censure, withdrew Il bsfore
the c'oee Of The debate; thus intinating plainly
enough, biz belief that the government was too
stropg Or yet TO be overthrow. This il con-
tcrmsbte 10 British practice. It is not usual
there to overthrow ministry before 1t has had Q
few moribs' trial of Office, unless the times be
critical, and come momentous question be at
etake.
Thoee portions Of the debate which have reach
I'd us ju-t'.y the assertion that there never was
time when the folly and the mischief Of the
PaimerstoD policy were more thoroughly seen
than Mt present The House of Commons where
be has so long ruled, now seems thoroughly dis
ens'ed with bic reckless m~ltreatment of Eng.
'spd's weaker neiehbors, and his alternate pro-
vocssion acd trucking to the stronger The
news Of the outrages of the British vessels In the
West Indies will arrive just in time to intensity
the feeling which has already found partial
vent in such speeches "a those of Roebuck and
Sir Robert Peel; 1t will 60 hard with Lord Pal
mereton, as public man, before we hear the
'aet Of them.
At the came time. stranger things have hap
peped than the defence of Palmerston by Derby
would be. Though, we are bound to admit,
Lord Derby has uniformly behaved With mode
ration and fairness to foreign nations, still 1t
caDuot he forgotten that be is the leader Of that
great tory party which is the sworn opponent
Of novelty and reform, Of that party which
forced England into war with us in defence Of
The right Of search forty six years ago. Should
be, st this jupcture, seek counsel of the heredi
'ary principles of bis party rather than from the
Dictates of common sense aud the enlightened
sentiment of the civilized world, we may even
now Ike Oh the bri, k Of a CONFUSION, compared
to which the Russian war was passing breeze.
TIE cbsDces we admit, are the other way; but
ifLord Derby be the tory his enemies represent
him the next month may precipitate crisis Of
which the wiseet cannot foresee the issue.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST CoMMENCED.-The
newspapers Of the North In the interest Of Mr..
Seward, are coming out vigorously in his behalf
for the succession, to the exclusion Of all ether
candidates in the field. We fear, no wever, that
they carry too large spread Of canvass for the
ballast in the hold to keep on their course very
long without cspsizing. Their supply Of am
intuition Is very light, being nothing more than
the stale remains of the Kansas agitation, "the
e1av oli chv nd he Of <ho
'sIave power" With three new free States
ADDED to the Union at single session of Con-
Rress, the "ageressions of the slave power"
bsve certainly been of . very extraordinary
kind. But such "sggressions" will never fright
en- the sensible people Of the North. We dare
say that they would consent to few more Tag
gressions' Of this sort, without the slightest
grumbling. We suspect, however, that the real
platform of Mr.. Seward will neither be the
"slave oligarchy" nor the "aggressious of the
slave power" nor anything of the kind; bus
that his working programme will be confined to
the lobby spoils and the cohesive power Of the
public plonder," with Orsamus Benajah Matte
son as his fugleman, with the forty thieves of
Congress as his body guard, with Thurlow Weed
having five thourand dollar fee in his pocket
for statstics) as his whipper-in and with all the
rotten banks, railroad companies, land jobbers,
lobby jobbers, stockholders and lame ducks and
hteHyen Of Wall street ~ his allies
Meantime, what are the friends, respectively,
Of Fremont, Banks, Chase, Crittenden, Bell and
others Of the opposition camps, about They
must be up and stirring or they will probably
find, when too late for any other course, that IL
will be their duty to play the game Of Willard
Fillmore and Martin Van Buren,.