Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-04-29

FTOIn The Boston Post.
Element,

From the Boston Post.
Inc ministerial Crisis: Progress tho DemocratIc
Element.
A little while ago the London Times affected to ha
little and rdicule the Reform movement in Fnpland and
stouty denied that the public mind was stirred ahont
It, This movement is an index of the Democratic ee
ment OF Its progress and its power and what If has he
come may be inferred from the fact that it has well nigh
hurled the Derby Ministry from power Instead of re-
signing however after their defeat the Ministers have
decided to appeal to the people and there the DERBY
scheme has got to encounter all that it had to meet in
the Commons A more miserable piece of fogyism never
was got up than their OF reform and it is fair
to presume that the public opinion of England will give
it its deserts
Parties in England certainly strangely mixed up.
According to some ofthe journals the most of those who
voted against Lord Derby declared in explicit terms
they would consent to anything rather than return to
power OF Lord John Russell or Lord Pamerston At
present the Tories not by themselves in majority
but the Liberals are by means united
a great barrier TO the union of the Liberals is the
reform question. The leading Wings, those great arg-
tocratlc families who give the law to their party in
their pride Of caste or fear of change hesitate to con-
cede enough to concate the popular element as repre-
scented in Mr. Bright. The difficulty this clement has
had to contend with all along is that of having been be-
trayed by its leaders. Thus the great Edmund Burke
so long a good Democrat, when bought by pension
became alter he broke with Fox, perfect monomaniac
on the Tory sldeabusing everything in the shape of
liberty, and supporting in hard, uneeling and most
arrogant way everything in the shape Of power This
has been, to a less degree the case also with Henry
Brougham. When these great liberty advocates rung
out democratic TRUTH the Grown and its supporters
dealt out them in return nothing but osracism and de-
nunclatOn when they turned, then showered on
them titles, pensions and fiattery. England needs
. race of Sam Adams men. Time will show whether
Bright, who has become power in England, will be
one OF such mould, and hence will remain true to the
cause he nOby advocates, whether he too will at
length rest in pacehe burial ground of Brit
| ish patriots.
The characters most prominently named for future
Premiership Lord John Russell and Lord Palmers-
tOncOOperatOrS in free trade but not of original party
alnities. Lord John is in grain Wing that is, as
somebody said, he believes in the Divine right of Lords
and Commons. Lord PalmerStOn, in grain, is a Tory
who, the anayzer said believes in the Divine right
OF Kings; the men who think the people ought to be
recognized in reality, they recognized in this
country are the political descendants of those Re ubi-
Of the time OF Charles II. whom the proig
morally and politically of those times illuminated and
whose leaders, like Russell and Sydney they murdered
The noble lineage, by the immortal light of Millions
constellation OF principles be traced dOWnWards to
the present hour and Francis Bright is the recognized
leader of the band Not that either he or his predeces
8orS would turn monarchic England into Republic
but that they would recognise fully highlands man
hood in the Government. Brghts time is not yet come
1t is something and good DEAL when it is said in En-
gland that though Bright is repugnant to Lord John
and his conservative friends and his reform notions are
hated by Lord Palmerston and bis friends, yet that
neither get along without him. Let us take one
observation for the purpose of measuring the strides of
British democratic progress In our revolutionary days
the type of this Republican element was, we believe
Major Cartrght. Now though his books are as true
the eternal principles of truth and Justice yet he had
not feathers weight in the political SCALE and in his
day. if twelve upwards venured upon the daring
act of holding public meeting to discuss political
measures their lot the penitentiary. The po-
itiCal element to-day commands the reSDect and the
consideration of both the two British parties Has
there not been progress?
The great question that will enter into the elections
must necessarily be that of Parliamentary Reform and
the popular party could desire better issue. The
masses of the British nation seem to be getting strong
in the conviction that such small dose of reform as
either Lord Pamerston or Lord Derby would give
would be only such would cheat them into state OF
peace and be only intended to preserve to the existing
orders their privileges and power.