The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-14
The ministerial Crisis in England.

The Ministerial Crisis in England. 4
From ne Tribune
The defeat of the Russell Gladstone Govern. |
ment has been followed by kind Of political |
deadlock. Upon the resignation of the Ministers,
the Earl of Derby, the renowned loader of the
Tory party, received the Queens orders to form
new Ministry; and he forthwith addressed
himself to the task. But unlookedfor difficult
ties have presented themselves. To construct q
purely Tory Government with any hope of per-
manency was felt, it would seem to be out of
the question: so the expediency of coalition
naturally suggested itself, and overtures were
made to certain prominent Wings and influential
renegade Liberals to take places in the new
administration. This move, however, did not
meet with the favor anticipated for it, and the
idea OF coalition has been abandoned Re-
stricted, consequently, to the Tory party for his
choice of colleagues, Lord Derby, it appears
finds that he has not by any means an easy
task on hand. A long exclusion from Office
has whetted the Tory appetite. There is
no lack OF patriotic candidates for place,
and there are contending claims and SEN
sitive jealousies among the aspirants for
seats in the Cabinet requiring prudent
management in order to insure anything like
harmonious and workable Administration. IL
is not surprising, then, to find that although
England mad been tor nearly two weeks virtu-
ally without Government, in consequence of
the defeat Earl Russell's Cabinet, Lord Derby
had been compelled to ask for another week to
lind successors for the displaced Ministry. The
dithculty he experiences proves that the Tories
have placed themselves In false position. The
vacillation and the delay are signs of conscious
weakness. And the whole business is of evil
| omen Tor the English reactonists, the days of
whose tenure of office are, so TO speak, already
| numbered. The deadlock will be, OF course
but temporary. Lord Derby will doubtless sue
ceed in forming Ministry, which must retain
Office at least until the reassemblIng of Parlla-
ment in the early part of next year. But we
| msinterpret sadly the signs of the times in
England, ifmen OF the Tory type will be allo we'd
| permanently to control the destinies of the
| country. The thing seems TO be simply impos-
| slble.
In marked contrast to the troubles thickening
| around the leaders OF the late Opposition is the
| proud position occupied by the leaders of reform.
Their apparent defeat has been an actual victory
for the cause they so nobly represent and so ably
| vipdlcate. A certain portion of the English
| press pretend that they cannot understand why
| the Ministers should have resigned; but the
| event, we are sure, will prove that they acted
| wisely as well as honoraby in accepting the
| adverse vote of the House of Commons on their
| Reform bill as call Tor resignation, Their posi-
t on before the country is now exactly defined
4 No room is left for doubt or distrust as to theiI
Intentions. They have taken up the gauntlet
thrown down by the Tories, and they stand
! solemnly pledged to fight the battle out to the
4 end.
Not the least interesting feature of the news
Just received in relation 10 the Ministerial crisis
is the intelligence we have OF the reform aglta
4 ton now spreading all over England, and grow
ing into formidable proportions. This movement
is just what we anticipated few days ago. The
people were com paratively quiet during The
discussion of the reform bill in the House o
Commons, because they seemed to have though
it impossible that the Torres would oppose thu
just concessions to popular claims provided TO
in that very moderate measure. But when the.
found determination manifested by the Tor
party to throw the bill out, when they heard thu
great industrial classes of England revlled an(
slandered IN Parliament by men protesting Il
be representatives of the people, when they saV
the dlsgraoeul mannuvres to which the 0ppo
sition resorted in order to defeat measure o
common justice to the Masses their indignation
and anger became aroused and it is no wonde
that the streets of London are now rSsoundInl
with the cry Of Down with Derby" "DowI
with the Tories !" while the Cry finds an echo il
almost every part of the kingdom. We lool
upon these revolutionary indications as hopefu
signs for the cause OF progress and JUSTICE, espe
clally as we have no fear that they will culml
nate in violence and bloodshed.