Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-05-03
Letter from England.
LONDON. March 27, 1857.

once known, whether he speaks or
holds his tongue. He is known as q
Christian ought always to be, by his
walk and conversation-also by his
hat and boots. The opinion is, that
he has great lot of money and not
much prudence, and all parties unite
to fleece him. Often talkative and
boastful, inquiring, often inquisitive,
he makes himself an annoyance and
his country bye.word.
No American need stop an English.
man in London and ask hin question
if he intends to gain information.-
The genuine Englishman knows the
way home, and from it to the store,
shop or bench at which he works.
Beyond this he has no knowledge
he wants none. America is a far
away region where the Fenians live
8and where the people wear no clothes,
paint their faces and wear blankets.
Quite intelligent men do not know
whether Pennsylvania is in the State
of Philadelphia or not. A woman
from Manchester proposes to be soon
in New York, and asshe told friend,
she then intends to take bus" and
run down to New OrIeans-quite a
pretty ride of 1900 miles in bus.
The papers of London take no pains
to publish ANYTHING about the United
States except what will do us harm.
The murders, burgiaries, robberies
and crimes committed from Maine to
Florida, aud from Sandy Hook to the
Pacific, are put in column. and as
people here have no idea of the size
of our country, it seems that all of the
United States are engaging in the
pastime Of crime. A motion in Con-
gross by a copperhead is printed as
an action of Congress, and studied at
tempts are made to keep our nation
in disgrace and keep her from being
the envy or model Of Europe.
There is special cause for this just
now, A Tory Government is so anx-
ious for Reform Bill that it has not
only struck hands with the Liberal
party, whom it turned out ofoflice on
that very question, but is making a
bid for power by measures that ex-
ceed those proposed by the Liberals
and secuted at by the Tories. The
cause for this change of front is ap-
parent.
In Parliament there are three par
ties. The Tories, now in power, are
called Conservatives-these sit at the
right hand Of the speaker. In the
front row sits the leaders of the Gov.
ernment-the Chancellor of the Fix.
chequer the Secretary of State, and
of War, &c. Directly behind them
and on benches running parallel, are
the supporters Of the Ministry, who
vote with it through thick and thin
Opposite, and separated by the table
at which the clerks write and on
which the Mace is laid, sits the Oppo
sition. And here is seen Gladstone
and other eminent men who lead the
Liberals. Below the gangway," and
including one-half the house, are the
men who are not Tories and are not
Liberals. These men vote on either
side as the occasion may demand. 1t
was this class going over to the To.
RIGS that threw Gladstone and his
party out and brought Lord Derby in.
These men are the Third House. -
Most Of them are Democrats and are
led by John Bright. They are be-
coming a great power and will ere
long rule England. And the fear of
this has led Derby and Gladstone to
strike hands, as did Herod and PLATE.
fear overcoming their hatred or aver
sion.
England is really stirred as she has
not been for years. Reforms are de-
handed in State and Church. The
workingmen have immense and numer-
Gus meetings. A voice in the govern
ment is called for; old abuses are as
sailed education is demanded, and
the voice Of the people will be heard.
A separation Of Church and State is
not only limited at but declared to be
a needed reform. The public press
attest that the bench of Bishops ought
to be abolished, or fit be needful that
religion should be represented in the
House OF Lords it should not be con-
fined to one sect, but that able men of
the Dissenting faith should also be
heard.
The Archbishop and Bishops who sit
in the House oc Lords have enormous
revenues. They sit in the House
in all their regalia. They usually
come in in procession, headed by the
Archbishop Of Canterbury, who lives
in state in Lambeth Palace-a castel.
lated mansion where once the gorge
GUS Wolsey lived. To have an income
Of $4,000 or 100000 is not uncom-
mon Tor these magnates of the church.
But the poor curates who do the work,
who are educated for the Church, and
as the English law and custom is can
do nothing else, are kept at starvation
prices. The advertisements for par
ishes in the daily papers are often
humiliating, and London has a society
for the purpose Of aiding poor curates,
and keep them from starving. Men
are loud spoken on this subject and
demand a change.
70 Lord Salisbury, a Peer of the
Realm, does not hesitate to say that
the expense and oppressive character
of the Establishment has so wrought
On the minds of workingmen and the
lower classes, that they will not 90 in
to a church at all. What with tythes,
church rates and the fact that the
Clergy are Magistrates, and quite