New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-17

From Our Special Correspondent ,o.,
This week we talked about the elimination and cris OF
the last until Mr. Gadsiones budget gave us another
topie-hardly equaing reform in interest The excite
en of the dvison-ana close involving the fate OF
Ministry stimulates Englisnmen like the Derby, or
pzcrht-kcpt tongues and pens busy enough each side
claiming the victory Just Tories and Lberas cheered
and countercheercd In the House Of Commons. There
were "a matter coarse the usual profitable lighting OF
battles again. ard spcculsons and ingenious hypo
theses showing hOIhe rc-"l, might have been entirely
different but for occidental causes. e. WISH, wrote
Hood "thai Boz woad rc-wdtc Oliver Twist over again.
supposing his hero NOT TO have met with the Arifa
Dodgcr his road TO meet his fortune The Govern
mcnt bill ddmc that exceedingly Arful Dodger Robert
Lowe esq, of The TiMss and Calne-fesnt majority OF
hye which claim To be- no majority al all For
there Disgusting the fact that to Bob IS mainly
owing that fearful sOughing of Of Aduamtes as they
are generally called, after John Brghts witty lie.
braical allu,ion. { for this disappointed envenomcd
politician they might never have found mouthpiece
the courage 10 act up to their Inherently base pro-
cl,iiics 4 word so IN addition TO what i
have written already OF this Right Honorable thc Is
10 by PATENT: He may be justly pronounced the most
brlan, political failure of the age. man Of powerful
brain and torpid sympathies with neither mental nor
spiritual capacity for belief or enthusiasm he yet won
drrfully skifu ingenious and nsolent-thereiore just
the leader for dulle apotaies II he had been made
Chancellor Of the Duchy Of Lancaster instead OF MI
Goschen grandson Of booksal keeper In Lepsc air,he
bill would have passed by than nominal majority.
But enter the region of hypothesis may come out any
where If Eve hadn eaten the apple we should all De IN
Paradise Events in the saddle and ride mankind
On the whole therefore, IL is wiser TO accept results ana
acknowledge that in of the largest votes on record he
majority in favor of admitting onethird OF the working
population Of England 10 the franchise can be counted on
the fingers of one hand. There beggngthe ques
ton BY saying that the division took place on collateral
issue and upon the question whether Reform was OF
was not needed II is perfectly well known that the 50
rencgades went the Tories not from any excessive
zeal for redistribution but because they were at heart
opposed to reduction of the franchise. Remembering
this is the less likely 10 form incorrect estimate
with regard 10 the future prospects Of Reform
Amid the wind and talk evovedb by the decision, one
curious calculation has turned up Here 1t Isl condensed
to the befest. According To the last census the Noes
the Reormers of the recent votc-repesen popu-
tons numbering 49, 10, 0i7 the Ayes the supporters
of the Ministry and the b-represent l50,j which
shows difference in favor Of the Liberals of l9o,o &5
nearly 20O00OO These Of populations not electors mind
OF the latter speaking by their representatives Cos AZ are
in favor OF Earl Grosyenors amendment, and '3J,3OJ
against it, thus showing the great preponderance OF
1864 the existing electoral body in favor Of at once
widening its basis. Now about property, on the Tory
principle that money and intelligence go together The
calculation this head informs that while the Noes
represent the of assessed to the property
was 49, that of the wealth OF the country, as
included in the various constituencies prepondcranee OF
e. OO2 was in favor Of the BILL Altogether cacua-
ton propitlous to Reform. ,
II was rumored in Parliament Immediately after the
division, that Government would resign and the MANNER
in which Mr. Gladstone stated when ne shoud conimuni'
ter Punch is substantially correct; 1t was, Mr. Glad
stone TO the House,, On Monday look for news The
House lsterny), 'On Monday be It them Whatever
NAV have been the thoughts of the Ministers, their
second after the Cabhet Council OF Saturday were In
favor of retaining ofee-Time will show with what Wis
dom. think but the most ardent most nncompro-
missing of Liberals wanted dissolution. The Queen is
known TO dislike it, parties and candidates are desrous OF
stunning the expenses Of general election; the country
at large regards something in the light OF nuisance
So though il is next 10 a dead certainty that House
of Commons would be far more liberal than the present
Palmersonized ''cyen in his ashes lives his wonted
fires ~ the is counted greater than the gain.
resignation would have been another matter ana one
that have heard shrewdy advocated In that the
Ministers would have thrown upon the Tory party the
alternative Of trying to carry on the Government IN
House where they in decided minority, or OF
appealing TO the constituencies on cry OF NO Reform;
and in either case their speedy disastrous defeat
would DO inevitable. No wiser tactics, at times,
than TO give your enemy enough rope wherewith
TO hang himself. What said Carlyle, IN his
Edinburgh speech, OF Phocons eloquent withdrawal:
Take your way and what comes Of it, let me out
altogether However, the Liberals have accepted the
Government determination very amiably; nor DO the
Tories conscious of their own weakness pretend 10 nuc
cav They rather assume an air of superior wisdom ana
forgiveness of triumphant compacency; venting l-tod-
you-sos and fagans IN the spirit OF PMach Dig
picture Generally they talk, as Lowe did, nordnaeiy OF
the dignity OF the Hoase its Importance impeccab ana
mmacuatenessas If there such things as election
committees and hadn't been surfeted for the last
month more with their disclosures of bribery ana cor
mpiion. There is no more popular parliamentary nap
doodle than hathe House seems tired OF ltJust
az il constituted the nation and summednp all that was
worth maintaining within the four Of Britain Dut 10
return the Liberals they have great confidence IN the
Judgment of Mr. Gladstone and Earl Russell ana sim more
the OF Reform and the people, The question mas
got tremendously ventilated and only settlement oil II Tor
some time content Englishmen, even the ayowed
enemies of the Bill concede-or have conceded 80
willing to believe that in RETAINING once
the Ministry Las consulted not only its own interests
uui t,.,o Monday pext 1.-THE Itbj the bill