New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-19
THE ENGLISH REFORM PARTY.

THE ENGLISH REFORM PARTY.
al England, and with her the entire civilized
world. mOurns the loss Of Richard Golden; bu
nowhere will his absence be more keenly fell
Than among the Reform Party in the British
House of Commons. Golden has been promi-
nently instrumental III building up, besides th'
Tories and Wings, an Independent Reform
,arty, and he has remained until his death
me OF its leading spokesman. Thougf
much less political, than II commercial.
Industrial and social reformer, he vas III
profound sympathy with all the great political
and national movements Of the progressiye
party of the present age. He was averse T.
war and to revolution, and could not, therefore,
fully identity himself with the radical party Of
Continental Europe; but how deeply he cher
ished the fundamental doctrines Of Democracy
he showed by Ibis sympathetic defense of the
people and institutions Of the United
States. The new nationality question of Europe
Mr. Golden appreciated more correctly than
any other statesman Of Great Britain. lie made
an excellent speech on this subject on the occa-
sion of the SchlesWig- IIolstein war, which did
great deal toward correct understanding OF
the question, and toward allaying the war fever
The Reform party of England will greatly miss
the services of Golden in the campaign for OBJ
tanning an extension Of the right of suHrage. He
fully sympathized with this movement, though
he might not have taken as active a part in the
political agitation as some Of his friends. The
progress of this movement among the dsfran-
chsed classes is not yet all that might be
wished still it is gratifying to know that there
il progress. The mechanics in all the large
cities are organizing and show determination
to fight it out. Unfortunately there is already
q split among the reformers themselves. The
mechanics are mostly in favor of what they call
manhood suffrage" while the majority Of the
Reform party in the House of Commons, includ-
ng Mr. Bright, aim for the present only at OBJ
aiming household suffrage.
Lord Amberley, the Oldest son Of Earl Rus
ell, who some time ago, by political speech
delivered at Leeds, had raised the hope that ne
would Join the radical Reform party, appears to
disappointlis new friends. The impression pro-
duced by his first speech was so favorable that
liz was determined to bring him before the
electors of Leeds as a aft and proper per-
son" to be sent to Parliament as the col
league of the old reformer Mr. Edward Baines.
In pursuance of this scheme meeting was called
TO hear an exposition of the political principles
'of the young lord, but great seems to have been
the disappointment of the Leeds Liberals TO find
that the noble lord was not prepared to sup
port the ballot or even to vote for Mr.. Baines's
So Borough Franchise bill. "Some extension
of the franchise was required, Lord Amberley
thought, but lie had not made up his mind a
10 the manner in which this was TO
be accomplished. The meeting very properly
resolved that no candidate would be accepted
by the Liberals of Leeds who did not pledge
himself to a SO Borough Franchise. This reso-
luton seems 10 have produced a sudden CONVEX
sion of Lord Amberey. Another meeting was
at once called. at which Lord Amberley declared
hat he had pondercd the matter over, and had
seen numbers of the working classes and
was so satisfied with their intelligence that. If
returned to the House Of Commons, be should
now vote for Mr. Baines's BILL" This had the
desired effect, and Logd Ambcrley viii be one
of the Liberal candidate, for Lecd- at the next
election