The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-05

oompeent-stupd Is the proper word-that ne has 10
reire. What folowsf He gets appointed 70 me gov
Because grandson the nephew or the cousin
OF Lord somebody. am not going 70 be SO unsina a.
20 mention names. Such things are as unworthy tne
as they are refragablr proofs VI The polti
cal ignorance OF tie English people
rue RULING CIRCLE AND GOVERNING CLASS.
The whole machinery OF government seems TO hoai
above the people atmosphere Of us own and every
body who wants TO be anybody scrambes ior tne Pv-
lego OF breathing that delightful arr once Withh Hs
pue influence the popular forgets the people, and
feels lie looks down with patrohixng prae on the
millions Of workers below, that he mas become more
hut / have rushed away from reflections newspa-
pers to conmenting upon everything else 10 return,
report OF Birmingham meeting last week. a. which,
supposed two hundred and hfiy thousand working
men attended There may be such report found in
Birmingham Manchester paper, but stranger would
naturally look in the larger papers Of the metropolis for
Information about event OF SO much Importance I'm
portance Bless YOU, they do not think those things
very important yet though they viii have to think 80
one OF these days. You cannot move the eminenty
British mamie who lives and breathes in The higher
alm0spbere-guite easily The British monarchy me
constitution the present social status o. each class q me
people, they have existed from the beginning 10 shall
they continue to exist, I'll chaos come again 10 the
devout belief OF such 20 you perceive thal what
a quarter Of million Of workers may do among ther
fonDdres and smithes and sootblackened factories,
backer than they themselves ~ can De, OF no
importance a national point Of view. They are doing
something very interesting their class and hey wish
they may get ~ but tho idea you know mat y y I'M
poriant 10 any other class is simply aosusu 80 ,nks
out OF his conviction.
Now by very strange coincidence had got thus Tar
whan | was handed this evenings edition Oh the iut
MAJ gazette, the very first article IN whicb Is headed
Onr Ignorance y Running my eye over " nnd IDEAS
20 anost identical with those have been endeavorng
give expression to- thai must ada mere couple OF
an age OF great events, and hardly remember
single Of which the principal English journals, and
IN particular those which have the ear Of the governing
classes have rule, taken large and statesmanlke
view with respect 10 which they have not echoed and
redaxed articutde firm the current priudtsot ne
Gas, ,yh tpacA s ifers ossocide which prejudces
in general those self SIZED superficial ignorance"
The italics mine. Take anoher-'oD most OF the
great subjects domestic foreign policy news
papers have rule been wrong as II was possible
for people To be.
Ana this one 1--WE all know what fdsoo the whole
English press made the subject OF America tor wears
together There not than or two papers,
and they far from beng in the first class IN point
popularity, which showed the least appreciation OF
the feelings Of the Americans or OF the spirit oy ~hc
they we're animated, which showed themselves
possess anything like competent knowledge Of the
commonest facts about American institutions
And finally -sPerhaps we may yet have TO learn IN ~
1870 600 600 Of people, with character institutions and
reiigons altogether unlike our own, can hardly DC gov
erned satisfactory way by Asssmby ,oh'ca hno,cs
little and about tten and by Secretary OF
state who expected b be Gcqpdtd u,ts the
very simplest elements OF matter which he gives
orders electric telegraph distance OF 10 600 miles
do not know ANYTHING about little paper IN ques-
ton IL h evening paper and sec II every evening
Bu English paper and would rather u would save
the trouble Of saying that tho English press, with all
s ne language and poefcai editorials ~ scarcely worm
the name it thinks IL pre- eminentiy enjoys
WITH AMERICAN rREss.
Why this Pan Nal Gosefe - 40 like ts c0nireres
10 ignorance, that notwithstanding lis bitter comments ON
s brethren 10 has the weakness that the American
newspaper press insignificant II the writer OF that
thoughtless remark VIII point out a country IN
which the press is moro Significant more powerful ana
more influential for good evil than the press Of the
United States will admit then, and only then, that he
IN at To conduct paper
But wearying you and your readers with this long
letter while have Eiyen you yet single item
al / !
must 50 much upon London papers for Of English
affairs have positively no English news 70 give
shipment of Artillery for Canada.
lfrom the Manchester Guardian, Sept. 20
A large quantity OF stores has been shipped at
Woolwch for our North American Provinces One 'es-