The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-28

whether this great revolution OF modern ideas
shall go on or be stopped, the progressive
Barnum is our ticket. Keep the ball rolling.
-. - British Dining.
From ue Tribune
Somebody said, long ago, that no associa-
ton of Englishmen could get itself fairly into
working harness without preliminary dinner
at some London or other tavern. The benevo-
lently disposed of religious turn are usually
content with breakfast, and viands manage
able with the fork but the political Bull must
be fed upon something more substantial, and
sustained at least by the national beef and
pudding. Our latest advioes from England
disclose, as one result of public perturbation,
an unusual amount of gregarious feeding. The
Adullamites have entertained Mr.. Horsman at
Stroud, and Mr.. Powell at Leeds. The people
of Portsmouth have given Lord Monck a din
ner, and there have been other great convivial-
tiles, to say nothing of the religious banquets
which the churchwardens are always engaged
in celebrating in all parts of the empire.
1t is impossible for outside barbarans like
ourselves to get at more than the meauest
part OF these trencher-events, J. e., the
speeches. which usually SAVIOR of indigestion,
not know why these brilliant and bold feeders
cannot enjoy their excellent cuts, their turtle,
and their tipple, without assaulting the United
States but beef being the diet of a soldier
(when he can get it), we suppose that plenty
of it incites to pugnacity. Horsman for in
stance. Horsman sneeringly told his hearers
that the Adullamities did not intend to go to
America for their political principles. As no
body has asked or has expected them to do so,
to hot 10 ,o4
gratuitous and while Mr.. II. was making such
liberal display of his religion and getting
rosy of countenance while he defended the
Church, he might have remembered that
charity is popularity supposed to occupy no un-
important place in the Christian scheme
We may, as Mr.. Horsman said, "envy the
British their Constitutions" but as we cannot
get it, and as our weakness is amiable, we
think it hardly kind to upbraid us with it. To
add to our modification, Mr.. Powell, M. p, at
Leeds, sang the same sarcastic tune, and made
the most of the talk of impeaching Mr.. John
son-of eXpelling from Office "a President
elected by the voice of the people''-which
shows that the ideas of Mr.. Powell are some
what misty. Beecroft NJ. p, who'came after
him, quoted Scripture in defense of Conser-
vatism as follows:-''That good thing which
was committed unto thee, keep!" fine text
applicable to tithes, to pensions, and to p6br
lreland-that last ''goOd thing which it costs
more to "keep'' than it would to throw away
But a Mr.. McDougal, at the Monck dinner,
let the largest, and altogether the most eX-
traordinary, cat out of the bag. McDougal
(of the Canadian Cabinet) has associated
much Che says) with Mr.. Seward; and he init
mates that the Secretary is great admirer of
the House of Lords and of the House of Com
mons. This probably comes of Mr.. Seward's
extraordinary politeness Desiring to do the
agreeable to a member of the Canadian Cab-
net and probably under genial and deipnO-
sophistical influences, Mr.. Seward said some
thing to his guest about the sublime beauties
of the British Parliament, which that guest
carries back to England as an argument
against Parliamentary Reform. For we don't
suppose that i'll as he thinks of the present
Congress, and little reason as he has for loving
it, Mr.. Seward is really in favor of rotten
boroughs and general popular distranchise
ment. Nor was Mr.. Lincoln, who was quoted
as expressing similar opinion.
The flower of this rhetorical crowd to which
we have alluded was undoubtedly Mr.. Hors
man. If the England of to-day, full of pain
and anxiety, and sorely troubled about the
future, can be saved by oratOrical common
places and by threadbare phrases, Horsman
is the predestinate savior of the empire.
He is the man to talk about the ''purer and
the higher principles about the maxims of
the religion which is ''our hope" about 'our
noble Constitution, which Is the bulWark or
freedom;" also, ''the type of progress" also
''the envy and admiration of the world" We
wonder how long loose and iabby, and con-
ventional, and traditional talk like this can
make even a respectable stand against Mr..
John Brght's eloquenoe and common sense
When we say not long, we do not speak
without experience. We have tried that medi-
cine for political ills upon this side to our eX-
ceeding sorrow and expense. Neither dinners
nor speeches after them, neither beef nor
sophistry, neither venison or platitudes,
neither turtle nor sneeTs at the United States,
neither port wine nor pathetic praises of the
past, can do more than lull the England of
to-day into a slumberous confidence which
will be fatal to the England of tomorrow.
Indeed, the time even for doing so much
seems to have gone by. The beef at the
tavern dinners may be potent, but the want
of it in the poor mans pot will prove more
potent still. At any rate, the difficulty will
hardly be tided over by the exertions of men
born four hundred years too late, and who
spend the time and wind which belong to their
own country in blowing up the Americans.
The Late Mission to San Domingo.
From The Times.
Private adyioes which we have just received
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