The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-26
me English Election andJ.s. Mnu.

Most Of our readers are sware that the
British Parliament was not long since dis
solved, after an existence of six years 4
that the 18th and 18th of this month were
the Gays for electing its suscessors-so far
as the Parliament is elective. Probably
there was never en- election in England in
which the American people took 80 great
an interest Is they have taken in this.
Possibly we had mora at stake in the
election of the last House of Comm ons
but certainly We did not know it in 1859.
A large share of our interest springs out
of our sympathy with the English Liberals
in the work of reform-sn interest
amounting to a strong personal feeling in
the csses OF many Of the candidates. Not
a few of them have stood by us in the time
Of our sore need; and we are anxious to
learn, as in q few days weshall, how many,
and to what extent English constituencies
will endorse their reformin those who have
spoken for American freedom. No one of
the Liberal candidates has enlisted the in
terest and the sympathy Of the best class
of our people in a greater degree than
John Stuart Mill. Although never in
public life, he is SO emphsticalIy one of the
first thinkers of his age, SO thoroughly q
reformer, besides having advocated our
cause at the beginning of the war, when
advocates across the water we're not COM
mon, that g large share Of American inter.
est in the recent eleclisn centred in the
snv of Westminster, the borough for
which he was q candidate.
Mr.. Conway the English correspondent
of the Commonwealth, Boston In q letter
to that journal written from London,
there spoke of Mr.. Mills canvass, a sketch
in which we are sure our readers will take
great interest. The reader must remember
that the machinery used in s political can
vsss in England is, in tome particulars, diff
ierent from that engaged in America. The
article will not lose interest with our read
ers from the fact that the last steamer
brought the announcement of Mr.. Mills
triumphant election;
TEE GREAT WESTMINSTER CANVASS.
The nomination of John Stuart Mill for
this largest constituencies is Akind of iudg.
ment dsy in London. The quick and the
dead, the small and the great are there.
The papers nave been flied with discus
sions, theological, political, social, eeonom
ical-in fact the bare nomination of the
man had proved revolutionary. The fight
between the ehurchmen is q regular Don
nybrook affair. Bishop Thirlwsll, Dean
Stanley and Charles Kingsley are the lead
ing shillelshs in this mil, and all the Pu-
seyites are on the other. j. s. M. appears
in q new character, however the matter be
decided. Charles Kingsley has written a
letter, in which, after saying he would like
to see Mr.. Mill in Parliament, "becsuse he
is one of the few men whose Writings are
full of the love of fact Of the intense and
diligent search After truth for its own sake
at whatever risk and whatever It may
prove to be like" he proceeds to remark:
"But of late Mr.. Us. Mill has special
claims on me as q Clergyman of the
Church of England. In Cap. ". II, of his
examination of Sir w. Hsmilton's philoso-
ply, he has vindicsted with equal logic
and eloquence the ancient orthodox doc
trines OF theology, properly SO called, in
words which, would to heaven, every
Christian priest and preacher would read
and lay to heart. 1 did myself the honor
in a late sermon at the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, of quOtingtwo invaluable pages
from that chapter. If 1 omitted the now
famous passage (pAgo Ava AL.~-1o -IIA),
l did 30 because it was so solemnly and
and stsrtlingly true that 1 should hRve had
to speak of nothing else for the rest of my
sermon, had l once awakened my hearers
to the new and noble idea"
The literary and philosophical fraterri.
ty are uncessing in their lsbors for Mil.
Prof. Mason has just made an eloquent
address, in which he said that he would
vote for him, though he differed from him
on ~forty-nine out of fifty questions. John
Ruskin Is the chairman OF Mills leading
committee, and Tom Hughes of another
indeed, gives nearly as much time
to this as to his wi struggle in Lambeth.
ladies, too, are giving money, and
and fascination TO the cause of Mill.
Mr.. Mill arrived in London, July I'd, and
next day met his committee personally.
In his speech TO them he said he had stood
by the cradle of all the political reformers
this and the last generation, and before
his teens we're out he was up and writing
for them. When the supporters of accept
3D. reforms and principles only counted
thousands, he might say their hundreds, and
in some cases their units, he was among
For instance, the subject of the
responsible government of the colonies had
1t one time only two supporters-Mr. Roe. :
buck and himself. Another instance is '
he Wakefield principle in regard to the {
,olonies-namely, to put q price on uncul- t
land, TO employ the proceeds in
paying the expenses of immigration, the
price st the same time being An obstacle to {
he too great dispersion of the inhabitants, c
md the application of this prevented the
from settling on the land ike Irish
,otters. Only three persons held that
principle at one time, and he was one of the /
hree. He stated these things to show that
was not one of those who left difficult ]
.~uestions when it was up hill work with I
hem, and accepted them when they were T
,oing down hill. When causes had be- {
ONE ripe fer the time-servefs to take up, Z
10 had left them, ssyiug:-"Such and such t
7il not need me now. lean turn to some T
hing else !" and so he left 8 matter al 81
lch 8 stage to turn to something which n
Iss still q theory, still an abstrs~+
omething that no practicsl
leddle with. H.
IS E6st ~H
mad been accustomed all
~ see thai the crochet of n gen
Grafton became the truth Of the next, and
the truism of the one after; and he had
long enough TO see the process q
place in several of his opinions.
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