New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-22
A BRACE OF BRITISH PROPHETS

NAV bray quite impressiyely; ard British
peer may talk nonsense with all the air in the
world of wisdom. The Earl Of Shrewsbury,
for instance, said TO the voters of Worcester,
the other day: "You see Democracy on trial,
- and how it las failed. think separation
" inevitable, and predict the establishment OF
" come sort Of an nristOcracy in America
Oracular iudofniteness is always nice thing
for the oracle, but i, dimiuishes our enjoyment
of the utteIances. "SUme sort of arstoeracy"
is so Indefinite as to be alarming. Are We to
have dukes, or earls, or barons, or baroBets,
or knights, or counts, or landgraves, or muitis,
or boyars, or primates. What is TO be our
particular style Of grandee Who is to come
in for the cakcs-we mean the cOronets--and
who for the ale--we mean allegiance VIII
Fernando Wood be made peer We ask the
question because We are sure that when tho dis
trbutiOn OF the patents tukes place, Fernando viii
be there, looking out for good one, aud with the
assistance Of Brother Ben, doctoring so to speak,
the drawing. VIII Bull-Run Jimmy be made a
baronetl VIII many an enthusiastic voter with
no coat now but his cutielc, and without quar-
ter wherewithal to cross himself, suddenly hid
coat Of arms with no end of quaricrsl Verify
these be questions. Shrewsbury mighs have an
swered them, we suppose, but Shrewsbury didn't
IT'S particularly provoking.
We cannot, of course, expect Earls 10 DC
especially logical or consecutive IN their prop
ositions. Nobody elSe would have said; " Ion
81 see Democracy or trial and hcn has
failed" How O thing can be on trlai and
Of the same time failure passes our ccmPe-
tension, because, we suppose, i Is 50 plebeian.
II is n somewhat Irish way of proceeding, TO
hang to-day aud try tomorrow; but as II may
be an aristocratic PECULIARLY TO which We
must sooner or later submit, or at least run
the risk OF. We do not here think 1t prudent
10 speak i'll of il. Otherwise we might ask
the gentle and wcbooded Shrewsbury to
restrain the ardor of execution, and not 10
hang US until there is q verdict rendered. We
have read in some Italian poem Of knight,
who, after his head was cut OF, fought trench
antly for fcnr hours. We suppose that We
must be Of that breed. If we are n Fail.
ure and do not know that wo are Failure,
why we are 10 all intents and purposes q
Success. A Dead Man who demeans biInSelf
precisely like Living Man need not fear
that the undertaken will come to measure
him for his coffin.
In what history did this Earl of Shrewsbury
learn that the Trial snd Failure Of political
institutions arc identical. When Cromw ell cut
OF the head Of Charles the First, did that ex-
tinsuish KiDgcrait When oil tho Bourboh3
vino could run away from France did ru1
away, and all who staid behind were slaugb.
tered, did that prove tho monarchicol principle
extinct in France History says-but she's Il
false jaie-.hat Bnonaparte with his beer was
quite as formidable monarch as any Bourbon
with his lilies. One would think, TO resd this
noble speech, that republic in hot water il
quite new thing under the sun; whereas,
with our limited reading, We do not remember
any republic in cold water since the creation.
According to the Shrewsbury philosophy, a king
dom is privileged TO indulge in MI The saiics OF
revolution without any suspicion Of its stability.
Dynastes may be deposed; kings may abscond
and return, or they may be murdered by the
hcadsmans az or the aesassin's dagger; turbu-
lent nobility may wrench FROM Tho lineal hand all
it's might, or leave il only a Inoieiy--but the
principle remains, still undisturbed
aud unrefutcd. Pray, when the road to Vienna
Iay open TO the Hungarian army, did Lord
consider that exposure as the ulti-
When The Berlin mob bullied tie King of Prussia
in bis own palace, did that prove the overthrow
Of the throne Of the Frederchsl Did Athens
have no dissensi0ns until the fatal disasters Of the
Peloponnesian War; Were therc no troubles in
Rome, before Hannibal knocked at her gates, aud
for sixteen years threatened her existence
All nations have had their intestine troubles;
and unless the beer of "the conservative de-
70 monstration al Worcester was of strength
with the exercise of the memory,
I.ord Shrewsbary's auditors must have remem
Dered sundry Tory predictions Of the speedy
md inevitable ruin Of the British Empire. 1t
las been upon the brink Of destruction several
lines within our own recollection. Lord FL
lon mourned for it, shedding tears in his robes
and wig, and refusing to be cOmforted. The
Duke of Wellington TO his dying day expected
20 outIve tho Church, the Parliament and the
Throne. So long as Blackwood's Magazine had