New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-12
"yo-P0pERYD Attic ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

"NO-POPERl" al IKE ENGLDh LLECiIoNo
The appeal lately made by Mr.. Djsraei to
the No-Popery feeling in England was termed,
appropriately enough. "the fire that would not
eight But. thouglf the fire would not light
mp into a general contiagraton, yet ii sput-
tered good deal in many places, and in some
spots did not go out without leaving patch
of backened waste behind IT, For example,
the defeat Of Mr. Gladstone in Southwest
Lancashire is attributed in great measure 20
this NoPopery fervor, and tho unexpected
overthrow of Mr.. Miner Gibson at Ashton,
also in Lancashire, is ascribcd TO the passion
ate Protestant and Ant-Irish feeling lately
famed into fury by the notorious Anti-Papist
lecturer Murphy. The condition of public
sentiment which allows the introduction of
genius apparently so anomalous and obsolete
into the English political life OF to-day is well
worth n little study. American readers would
find it hard to understand without some ex-
PLANTATION.
In all the great towns of England, and more
especially in the northern counties, there 10 a
large section Of the working population and
the small trader class who are filed with
a strong distrust and dislike of Papists and
of Irishmcn. Tho two feelings 20 to-
gether. When an ignorant workingmnn
says "No Popery." he means also "No
"Irislmen" The Irish are very unpopular in the
large northern and midland towns. They are
disikcd because their coming there tends to
lower the price of labor; they are dctcsted be-
cause they are Papists; they are feared and
hated because they are supposed to be Fe-
mans and it cannot DO denied that they are
too often justly dislikcd because they are
boisterous, noisy, ignorant, higoted fond of
drink, and fond of fighting. In Liverpool,
Manchester, and other towns that part Of the
population which may be fuirlY called "the
"mob"-the pant which most readily rushes
into the Streets and makes tumultuous demon
STATIONS. with q sort Of organization at tho
bottom of thcn-is Orange, Anti-Papist, and
Anti-Irish. There is probably in any of these
cities quite as large an Irish as an Anti-Irsh
mob, but the Irish are not organized, and do
not receive the stimulus and encouragement
from their superiors in education which the
others undoubtedly do A great many infu-
entail preachers, Of whom, oddly enough, the
most prominent are generally IIishmen, are al
ways hard at work tanning into fame the No
POpery feeling, denOuncing the Pope, proclaim
ing that England is i'll danger of being once
again Frustrated at the feet of Rome, and
thus appealing at once to fear and fanat-
cism against the supposed increase of Ca
tholicism in England. The result is that
in Liverpool, Manchester. Rochdale. Oldham,
Birmingham, and many other towns, there is
something like popular passion of ti-Papal-
ism, and by consequence, Anti-lrishism. The
Irish, on their part, are not slow to retaliate
and if the No-POpery man burns in ctligy his
Holiness Plus the IXth, the Irishman gets up
procession Of his friends who parade the
streets singing "We'll bang Garibaldi on n
"sOur apple tree" Tons of thousands of En-
glishmen only admired Garibaldi because they
had heard that he hated tue Pope, just as
many lrshmen detested him for the same rea-
son. Gavazzi "rows,r Garibaldi riots in Hyde
Park, and other such ebullitons Of ignorant
fury, were but Illustrations of this odious tenn
per oh both sides aud the impartial locker
On could hardly ever suy which of the two
parties began the quarrel, on was the more un-
reasonable bigoted, and vehement Lately,
Fenianism came in TO add TO the delights of
this agreeable state Of things. The Irish
breklayer was always hurralling for Stephens
Burke, or Deasy, as tho ease might be. The
English workman next door besaa TO look