The Kanzas news., 1859-02-05
The United States, as seen by a Mem
Der OF the English Reform Party.

John Bright is the great leader of Che re-
form party In England. Less radical than
Golden, and less nercenary than D'Israeii,
he has struck the heart of Young Britain,
and Yields to-day more influence with the
PEOPLE of England than any other British
politician. Mr.. Bright recently made a
speech at Birmingham, In which he adverted
to the system of popular suffrage IN the
United States In terms of commentator.
This favorable mention of the United States
has called forth severe criticisms from the
Tory press. In speech at Manchester, on
the 10th ulf., Mr.. Bright replied to these
criticisms at some length. We give few
extracts from bis speech. After referring
to the trial of Montalembert, in. France, he
continued
:. can humble individual like myself comes
before his constituents, and he hnds ma
ton of twenty or thirty millions. chiefly of
Englishmen, on the other side of the Allan
tic. He finds that, with some small ex-
ceptions, In two or three of the transatlan-
tic cities, which are more German and Irish
than American, he finds there in all the Free
States, law and order and security of prop
erty, equal to that which is found in the
course of years in any other country in the
world EHear. hear. He says that to his
constituents. He is not indicted for it !;
they do not give him SO many pounds fine,
and so many months imprisonment, but
some scores of writers for the press, men
who, some of them, pretend to be in favor
of liberty in England, but men who, if they
were dressed in the garb which most be-
comes them, would be dressed In plush
loud laughter and applause these men
assail me, and probably if 1 were in France,
and they were in France. they would do
their best to indiet and prosecute me-
Hear. One word more upon this. 1have
said over and over again, that perhaps I am
the very last man in England who would
propose any institution here because found
it elsewhere. / am not insensible to some
things that appear to me to be errors in
principle some that are errors in practice,
in the Constitution of the United States.-.
But protest against our being shut up to
take nothing from America but cotton, rice
and tobacco. Laughter and applause. l.
And, in fact, we do take good many 9TH
er things. / am told that my friend, Mr..
Platt, a member of very eminent firm, has
a wonderful machine from America with
which to make bricks. We know that the
agriculture of this country has been greatly
adyantiged by the importation of reaping
machines from America. Hear, hear. -
We know that those persons who are going
about so apprehensiVe of revolution, have
particular reason to be delighted with Amer
lea, because they have RECEIVED from that
country the invention of the reyolyer.-
Hear, and laughter. At this moment, in
the Government small arms establishment
at Enfield, they have patent machinery from
America for making gun stocks. They can
turn out gun stock, / am told, in twenty
two minutes, fit for the barrel. What a
dreadful thing. to think of! Laughter. II
And am sure that Mr.. Miles, if his pro-
tectionist principles have not long ago de-
serted him, will be Mortified to believe that
they have actually brought Americans over
to show the English how to work them
Continued laughter, But there is much
more behind. The Times, The Morning
Star, The Daily Telegraph, and the leading
newspaper in this district, The Manchester
Daily Examiner, with, believe, two or three
of the widely circulated London weekly pa
pers, are all printed on machines which were
either made in America, OF, being made in
this country, were made on the American pa
tent. '.Hear, hear, and applause. And
further than this, don't you remember that
the West Enders, including even ladies, have
been subscribing ten guineas apiece to in
yite clever farmer from Ohio to show them
how to tame a horse Great laughter.
Anything but politics, Renewed laugh
ter. You may delight yourself with their
charming poets-with Bryant, Whittier and
Longfeilow you may interest and instruct
yourself with their great historians-Ban-I
croft, Prescott and Motley but if you ask
how FREQ pOnD1ar inet;tufione ara U0rkiDs
among your own countrymen on the Amer
lean Continent, you are denounced as un-
patriotic, and, at any rate, treasonable to the
House of Lords. Hear, hear" and great
laughter. .4 -. 80
Unhappy Marriages.
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