The New York herald., 1868-04-04
Gladstone and Disraeli Playing at Revolu-


The cause of constitutional monarchy In
England is likely to be impaired and endan-
gered through the jealous riyalries OF ambi-
tious political extremist leaders, just as has been
the cause of democratic selfgovernment In the
American republic by means OF the factious
cabals and Observation-Disclosures of set OF public
corruptionsts who affect to speak and act Tor
the country. The steady advance OF the British
people towards full enjoyment of the elective
franchise at the ballot box is working COM
plete disntegration in the organization and
tactics Of the old parliamentary parties, the
leaders of which have managed to prevail
in the Cabinet and Legislature OF England with
moderately equitable alienation OF the en-
joyment of the profits of place since the year
1900, the period of the Irish union. In antici-
patton of the new and vast power which the
enfranchised masses will WELD at the first
general election under the Reform bill, and in
the hope of seizing and controlling its force,
the party managers in the present House OF
Commons have almost obliterated the broad
and we'll defined lines Of High Church, tory,
conservative, and liberal whig, which have
hitherto prevailed, by hurriedly running for
ward and backward from one bench to the
other, and seeking, in caucus and secret party
council to devise some new watchwOrd which
will captivate the pNblic taste, indicate still
further changes in the plan Of government,
overshadow the banner of John Bright, and
thus inaugurate an era of British political radi-
calism in which the existing institutions of the
United Kingdom will, one after the other, be
held up to innovation by revolutionary amend
ment, the principles and nature OF which will
be set forth in the electionsering agitation
cries of aspiring candidates for the Premier
ship.
The great English vote conceded to the people
by the Reform bill will be battled for with the
same avidity as that displayed by the Ameri-
can politicians in their pursuit of the control of
the great negro vote accorded by the sword Of
the Union in the war and it appears, Judging
from our cable reports of the debates which
have just taken place on the Church question
in the House of Commons, as if the fight will
| be conducted with all that personal acrimony
| and reckless disregard both Of citizen pro-
! fession and consequences which have dis
tinguished the party leaders in Congress since
the completion of the peace conquered by our
| soldiers under Grant and Sherman and Han
| cock, and our sailors under Farragut.
| Moved by an unhealthy anxiety for place,
we have seen the American radicals, under
Thad Stevens, assail the Executive of the
nation and the conservative party Of
Fessenden, Sherman and the rest, with
almost equal ferocity; while in the very utter de-
moraization of political incongruity and de-
basement we have also seen the course of
the radicals sustained by the votes Of the
disappointed copperheads who follow Mr..
Brooks. Broken as party by the result Of
the war, the American copperheads prefer
to affiliate with the disorganizing fanatics
who now seek to ruin the country, instead Of
strengthening the hands of the conservatives
by the exercise of a compact minority vote
which would 60 far to save 1t.
AS it Is here 80 is 1t likely to be in Eng
land. Since the retirement of Lord Derby
and the sudden elevation of Mr.. Benja-
min Disraeli to the Premiership, the party
leaders have commenced to toy with revo-
luton. With his personal ambition graft
fed to the very fullest extent, the lsraelite
Minister endeavors to feel his ground and
steady himself for retention of power by
means of new party and the crea-
ton of new party issues. He has sur
veyed the whole field, and regards it as favora-
BILE for his future party operations. He sees on
one side many institutions hitherto regarded as
venerable and on which the Crown rests more
or less directly for support, and on the other a
powerful leverage in the new voters, capable of
working their modification or overthrow,
according to it's application. Place, patronage,
emolument and q still deeper niche in history
are to be had aud secured by the exercise of
political science in either direction and hence,
with the aid of the votes which he has been
able to detach from the old tory and more
modern conservative parties, DisraeG assumes
to become both the architect and chief workman
in the designing and formation of perhaps a
new temple of liberty in England. Mr.. Glad
stone, the leader of the opposition, man of
great intellectual force valuable Minister,
and with powerful following Of lib
erals and liberal conservatives, cannot en-
dure his personal disappointment in behold
ing Disraeli at the head of the Cabinet
His patriotism does not difuse warmth suff-
cient to render the cold benches of the opposi-
tion comfortable; so, instead Of coming forward
and reconstructing his party with the aid of
the more progressive of the modern aristocracy
and solid liberals from the agricultural shires,
he commits himself to course Of factious
opposition to Disraeli, and seeks to embarrass
his opponent by the adoption Of a system Of
| Parliamentary tactics which enables him to bid