New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-21

their rutDt ana likely 70 place tbe Work nign On the
brief lit Of our few really national and really pO-
etical poems.
THE LONDON TIMES AND LORD PALMERS-
TON.
From an oecasioBsl Correspondent.
LosDos, Oct. s, 1861.
English people participate in the government Of
81 their own country by reading The Times news
paper" This Judgment, passed by an eminent
English sutbor on what is called British self-govern-
ment is only true 30 far as the foreign policy of the
Kingdom If concerned. AS to measures of domestic
reform, they were never carried by the support Of
| The Times, but THE Times never ceased attacking
and opposing them until after il had become aware
of its utter inability to any longer cheek their pro-
gress. Take, for instance the Catholic EmaDeipa-
ton the Reform BILL the abolition Of the Corn laws,
the Stamp Tax, and the Paper Duty When victory
had Enthusiastically declared on the side of the Re-
formers The Times wheeled round, deserted the re-
dictionary camp, and managed to find itself at the
decisive moment. on the winning side. In all these
instances The Times gave not the direction TO public
opinion, but submitted to it, ungraciousy, reluctant
~. and after proracted but frustrated, attempts at
lis real influence on tie public mind is, therefore,
confined TO the field Of foreign policy. In no part Of
Enrooe are the mass Of the people, and especially Of
the midde-ca-ses more utterly ignorant OF the for
eign policy Of their own country than in England,
an ignorance sprnging from two great sources On
the one hand since the glorious Revolution OF loss,
{ arisocracy has always monOpoized the direction
Of foreign affairs Ia England. On the other hand,
the progressive division Of labor has, 10 certain
extent, emsscuated The general intellect of The mid
dle-cass men BY the crcumscripton Of all their en-
ergcs and mental faculties within the spheres
of their mercantile, industrial and professional con-
Germs. Thus it happened that, while the arstocracy
acted for them, the press thought for them IN their
foreign or International affairs and both parties, the
arsiocBoy aud the press very soon found out that II
would be their mutual interest to combine. one las
only to open Goblet Political Register TO convince
himself that since the beginning Of this century
the great London papers have constantly played
the part Of sttorneys 10 the hesven-born managers
Of English foreign policy. Still, there were some
intermediate periods to be run through before the
present state Of things had been brought about.
The ariztocracy. that had monopoiized the
management Of foreign Affairs first shrunk
together into an oligarchy represented by secret
concave called the cabinet and, later on, the cabi
net WIS superseded by one single man, Lord Pal
mersion, who for the last thirty years hiss usurped
the absolute power Of WELDING the national forces Of
the British Empire, and determining the line Of lie
Foreign Policy. Conouueutly with this usurpaton'
by tie lay OF concentration, acting in the field Of
newspaperInongeging still more rapidly than IN the
field Of spinning Tie LoHdoH Times had a.
tanned the position Of being the national paper Of
England that H. 10 say Of representing the English
mind &c Foreign nations. II the monopoly Of MAUI
aping tse Foreign affairs Of the nation had passed
from tie arstocucy % an oigarchic Corelaye ana
from an oigarchic conclaye to one single man, hf
Foreign Minister Of II gland, viz: Lord lainerston,
the monopoly Of thinking and judging for thc nation,
on NE own Foreign ations, and representing the
pabc mind ia regard to these relations, had passed
from tie p1ass to one organ Of the pross, to The
Tina. Lord Palmers.on VINO secretly aod from
motives unknown to the people az large, 10 iarln-
mept and even 70 lis own colleagues, managed the
Foreign aair Of the British Empire, must have been
very stupid Il be had not tried to possess himself OF
the one paper which had usurped the power Of pa's
inc public Judgment in the name Of the English pec-
reorle on his own secret doingv The TINES, II
IN whose vocabulary the word virtue was never to
be found, must. on is side have boosted more thsn
Spartan virtue not to ally itself with the nsoiute
ruer in fact OF the national power Of the Empire
Hence siuce Tie French corp dNa' when The Gov
eminent hy faction was in England supeHeded by
tie Government by the coalition Of factions and Pal
merston. therefore found no longer rivals endanger
e h.. a.. Ill gvn
He had taken care to smugge some OF ito virtue into
the subordinate posts Of the cabinet and TO ealole
others by their admission iao his social circle Since
tina, time the whole business Of The Times, 50 faras
the fore en- afars Of the British Empire concerned,
IL limited 10 manufacturing public opinion 10 con
form 10 Lord Palmurftons Foreign policy. II has 20
prerare the public mind for what be intends doing,
ard 10 make IL ncquiesce 10 what be has done. The
sayish drudgery which, in fulfilling this work II
has 10 undergo. was best excmplhsd during the last
session Of Parliament. That session proved anything
Int favorable 70 Lord Palmenton. Some indepon-
dent members Of the II. Of C., Liberals and Con
seryatiyes rebeed agaius! bis usurped dctatorshiP
and, BY an exposure Of his past misdeeds tried TO
awaken the nation to sense Of the danger OF con-
tnuing the same uncontrolled power in the same
hands. Mr.. Dunlop, opening the attack by a motion
for Select Committee on the Afghan Papers, which
Pamerston had laid on the table Of the House In
1889, proved that Palmerston lad actually forged
these papers. The Times, in its Parliamentary re-
port suppressed all the passages of Mr.. Dunlops
speech which it considered most damaging to its
muster. Later on, Lord Montague, in a motion Tor
the publication of all papers relating to the Danish
Treaty Of 1852, accused Palmerston Of having been
the principal in the maneuvers intended TO alter the
Danish succession in the interest of foreign power,
aud Of having misled the House Of Commons by de-
lihcrate nisstaionenis. Palmersion. however, bad