The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-19

OF red republican riot in London. at which
sn9 qnlnous liberty cap was hoisted, We
have the news By the GABLE Of still III
more formidable outbreak at Birmingham
! .,"hch is attributed to anti-Popery inauenc a
1t is >. lated that two Of the principal streets
of the cit, had been taken pos session Of
by the rioters ana were completely sacked al
an early hour yessera>..y' . Catholic chapel
being among the places Az scked. BY three
o'clock in the afternoon the WHOM Of the city
was In possession Of the rioters. Ths' efforts
OF the local authorities to restore order ksd
proved Intellectual. and largo bodies Of regular
troops had been sent by tl,s government to
put stop to the further destruction Of pro-
perty.
The origin attributed TO this Birmingham
riot will excite good deal of surprise II
is incredible to us here that pneely fanstical
influences should have led 70 such alarming
results without premonitory Indications OF any
kind We have been hearing good deal, it
is true, OF the displeasure excaed by the ritual
istic tendencies of portion of the Protestant
clergy; but tho excitement was, for the most
part, confined to the upper classes. Among
the great beiy Of the people the feeling in
regard % thsm appeared to be one OF utter
iD' Inference The struggle among them for
bread and for share of political power
was too absorbing to render them over
sensitive to doctrinal eccentriclties. OF all
other places, we should say, Birming-
ham was the least likely to be carried away
by any strong sense of indignation on the
subject, Ils population is q very mixed
character, and the Roman Catholics form no
inconsidsrable portion Of it 1t is, therefore,
difficult to understand why, without any Bort
of prelim nary threatenings, this war should
have been raised against them. The feeling
which led to the Lord George Gordon riots, In
1880. was to be accounted for by an orss-'.
system of religious agitation cul~
der the indictments OF an ..,ooue,t fanatic II
Birmingham there 200 heon no.;co.h,o noth;nu
OF THIS kp.sa of lac which would account for
tne S-callsd religious outbreak. Taken as an
isolated fact we should, therefore, feel puzzled
to explain 1t; but following 80 Immediately
after the London riot, which was unmistak-
| ah1u rnvo1u<;orory {, 10 cha,.otar 40 80
forced to the conclusion that the fanatical
motive assigned to il is a nero cloak TO cover
up evolutionary object If we are correct
in this assumption, the crisis in which England
now finds herself il indeed one of most
alarming character. . s-.a I'm, ~. NJ
II was easy to be seen, from certain declara-
lions Of Mr.. Bright last year, that the conditions
Of Parliamentary reform put forward by the
o 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
their being rejected. Making allowance for
the difference of the times, his speeches were
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 menances off1rs q 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
overturning existing institutions. Nothing
will, however, satisfy the misses short Of man.
, hood suffrage, the abolition of the law of
primogeniture, and the redistribution of the
vast land monopolies held by the nobility.
This is not to be wondered at Staggering
under pressure Of taxation which paralyzes
4 their energies and reduces them even in early
manhood to hopeless paup ,rism they see but
one remedy for the evils by which they are
oppressed. Reform to them means nothing
' but a party shibboleth, by which one set OF
political taskmasters displaces another. What
, they want and will not res. satisfied without
! are those great radical changes which only
Il revolution can effect; and this they will have,
e sooner or later, in spite Of all the resistance
that may be offered to II.
y II may be that this Birmingham outbreak is
!. no part Of the scheme in which the London
riot had It's origin, and was started by the
government to countercheck the revolutionary
tendencies Of the day. Nothing would more
: enecually accomplish this than the imparting
. to the movement a religious aud fanaticsl
. character. Such manGuvres have been re.