The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-19
FROM EUROPE.
THE 'No-PoPERYo RIOT IN BIRMINGHAM.


THE 'No-PoPERY'' RIOT IN BIRMINGHAM.
The New York Herald Of this morning says:
"Following directly upon the announcement
OF a red republican riot in London, at which the
ON nous liberty cap was hoisted, we have the
outbreak at Birmingham which is attributed
to anti Popery influences II is ed that two
Sfefss o b e aS& Sse ssS
completely sacked at an early hour yesterday,
q Catholle CHAPEL being among the places az
tackled. BY o'clock IN the afternoon the whole
of the city was In possession of the rioters. Tue
Efforts OF The local authorities TO restore order
regular troops had been sent by the Govern
ment TO put stop 70 the further destruction Of
/ sine origin attributed to this Birmingham
riot will excite good deal Of surprise. Il Is
epces should have led TO such alarming results
without premonltory indications of any Kind.
We have been hearing good deal it is true, OF
dencies of portion of the Protestant clergy;
but the excitement was. for the most part, con:
fined to the upper classes. Among the great
body of the people the feeling In regard TO them
appeared TO be one Of utter indinerence. 4. IL
O share of political power was too absorbing to
render them Over-sensittve to doctrlnal eccen-
tricitles. or all other places, we should say,
Birmingham was the least likely to be carried
away bJ any strong sense of Indignation on the
subject. It's population is OF q very mi xed char
siderable portion of IT, IL is, therefore, difficult
10 understand why, without any sort of pre-
been raised against them. The feeling which
led TO the LORD George Gordon riots, In l7SO,
OF reISons Seitsiio1 c9lSainafinp ndss ~ the
indictments of an eloquent fanatic.
I'm Birmingham there has been noticeable
nothing of this kind of late, which would
account for the so-called religious outbreak.
Taken as an isolated fact, we should, there
fore, feel puzzled to explain IL; but following
so Immediately after the London riot. which was
Enthusiastically revolutionary in its character,
we are forced to the conclusion that the fanati-
cal motive assigned to IL ia cloak To
cover up the revolutionary object If we are
correct in this asst M ption, the crisis in which
England hnds herself Is indeed one of q most
alarming character.
1T was easy to be seen, from certain declara-
lions OF Mr. Bright last year, that the condt
tions of Parliamentary reform put forward by
the opposition were not the final measures
at which he and those acting with him
aimed. His Interior views were Indicated by
the threats which he uttered in the event of
iheir me being rejected % ed Making slowsnoe for
as violent as any OF those with which Mirabeau
ushered in the first French revolution: and
now the train of circumstances which follows
upon his menaces offers a singular analogy
with those which marked the period to which
we refer, The Tories. like the advisers of the
French King, are conceding everything de-
manded OF them that does not aim directly at
oveTturning existing institutions Nothing
W i'll, however, satisfy the masses short of man
hood suffrage, the abolition of the law of primo
geniture, and the Redistribution of the vast land
monopolies held by the nobility. This is not to
be wondered at. Staggering under a pressure
of taxation which paralyzes their energies and
IeuuCSb buttH 6Neu III 6uIly ndnnOOu 10 nope"
less pauperism, they see but one remedy for the
evils by which they are oppressed. Reform to
them means nothing but party shibboleth, by
which one set of political taskmasters displaces
another. What they want and will not rest
Satisfied without, are those great radical changes
which only revolution caE effect; and this they
will have, sooner or later, In spite OF all the re-
sistance that may be offered to It,
"It may be tnat this Birmingham outbreak Is
no part of the scheme In which the London riot
had its origin, and was started by the Govern
ment to countercheck the revolutionary ten
denotes of the day. Nothing would more effec-
tually accomplish this than the imparting to
the movement a religious and fanatical char
acter. Such maneuvres have been resorted to
by English statesmen when they found other
means of resistance fail them; and what they
have done once they may do again. This Blr-
mingham outbreak is of tooformidable char
acter, however and is too serious In It's conse
quences to the foreign as we'll as domestic trade
of the kingdom to warran us in accounting for
it in this way 1t will be found, we believe,
that it is but one of series of revolutionary
movements, assuming various pretexts, by
which 1t is intended to undermine public con-
fidence and bring about an entire change in the
institutions of the British empire"