New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-16
THE NEW ENGLISH MINISTRY.

Aner a seven years exclusion from Office the Tories
have once more succeeded in securing the reins Of
power. Lord Derby has managed, not without great
difficulty to construct a Cabinet, combining his seec-
ton TO men of his party. He made oyertures 1t
would seem to both Wings and Liberals, but failed in
inducing any one Of either party to join the new Adj
mnisration. The present government Is therefore,
purely Tory; for although Lord Stanley has oc
casionally manifested something like Liberal
tendencies, yet be has always proved him
self faithful TO " his fathers party" and the part
he took in the recent debate on the Reform bill shows
that he is not lacking in hereditary loyalty to the
Tory banner. Lord Derbys Ministry occupies a
strange an anomalous, position. The Tories have not
succeeded to power by beating their opponents in a
fair fight. fortuitous combination OF circumstances
and the liberal use Of questionable party stratagems
have helped them to Office. And as they have
nothing to congratulate themselves upon as to the
means by which they obtained the victory, so they
have little to encourage their hopes to the stability
Of their official position. They in power, without
being backed by the public sentiment of the country
without. in fact, being in accord with that senti-
ment. They represent ideas and principles in politics
which are becoming more and more unpopular with
the masses in England. And although they strong in
the House Of Lords they are decidedly in minority in
the House of Commons. Taking all these things into
account il may be safely predicted that Lord Derby
is doomed to meet the same fate this time which he
experienced in ISJ2 and again in 1859 At the
former period he held Office for about ten months and
at tho latter for eighteen months. For the last fifteen
years the Tories have not enjoyed power for quito
three years in ALL The chances of political warfare
have twice given them place. but, unsupported
by public opinion, they had each time but brief
tenure Of Office We believe it will be so
again: and whyl 1t is not that they are lack
ing in administrative aptitude and skill. II is not
that they are deficient in the qualities that constitute
real craftsmanship. IL is not that, far intel
lectual ability and oratOrica power are concerned
they are unable to cope with their opponents and hold
their ground in the Parliamentary arena. But it is
because they are wanting in that without which, in
the present age n0-goyernment based on popular
suffrage, and looking to popular opinion for
its support can expect, long lease Of
life we mean genuine a. hearty sympathy
with the people The Tories have given un.
mistakable evidence, during the late debate on Re-
FORM that the old ariSocratic spirit OF CASTE, Of
distrust of the people, of contempt for the
laboring classes as beings Of different and
vastly inferior order to the mobiles and squirearchy
and plutocracy Of the country, still exists in an
intense form, and is still capable Of the most offens
i've manifestations. These wantOn and disgrace
full attacks upon the industrial classes will not
soon be forgotten. They are, indeed already pro.
ducing their effect, witness the excited state of
popular feeling in London and the large towns of the
North The bitterness of feeling shown by the Tories
to such champions Of popular rights as Gladstone
and Bright has been.too noted as significant proof of
innate hostility to popular interests and the day of
reckoning will be eagerly looked for 1t is clear
then that the new Derby Ministry will have but
brief existence-too brief to enable them to do much
mischief or seriously to imper the good cause whose
progress they have succeeded in temporarily retarding