The New York herald., 1870-04-01

Tho National March to DemOcracy-Skefche
and scenes In Parliameut-Thc Money Az
pect-.How tho Throne Ii Supported
Budget Votes nnd Where the Cash Goes.
LONDON, March IA, 1870
RADICAL RErRENCHMgNr.
Following OUT those doc uines OF economy which
Mr. Prgh. preached In season and out OF season for
30 many years, Mr.. Gladstone's government has
been striving hard TO rain popularity BY reducing
tho public burdens az much as possible. Reductions
have been effected in nearly all the departments,
ana changes have organized that arc expected
TO be instrumental Ia saving large sums OF money.
Army, ravy and civil are all In process OF
beng very greatly reduced and ministerial 0flcals
are striving In newborn zeal with each other TO
devise fresh methods OF retrenoament SO largely
1eavened is the present administration with men Of
radical yiews-mea like Mr.. Foster and Mr.. STAINS.
field, who do not conceal their admiration OF Amert
can fnstitutions-that this movement In faver OF
economy IL AZ present stronger than It has ever
before been in English political history. Iudeed, t
NAV be safely regarded as one Of the signs CT the
times--ope OF The indications of our gradual gray
tation towards SIM more republican government
and freer and more liberal laws. For years the
working classes OF this country have groaned under
the insuferaee weight Of the taxation imposed upon
them 10 pay for the biuaders and mismanagement
of corrupt governments. Ther protest and CRY
have ascendel from the times Of Chartsm down
wards. and 1t Is only now, when advanced liberal
ministry Is power that efforts being made to
make their burdens less intolerabe.
HOW THIS BRiNd EFFECTED.
But while much IS bemg done in the shape Of re-
ducing aud repeahRg taxation very much Is being
left undone. Unfortunately for our radical govern
ment they have begun at the wrong end. The dis
charge Of soldiers sailors clerks and dockyard labor.
ers has undoubtedly had the enect OF reducing the
pubIc expenditure but il also has had the far more
ominous effect OF throwing thousands OF the laberng
cases out Of einpcyment East London ana our
naval and arsenal towns in consequence tecming
with misery and desituton, famine fever prevails,
and the cry OF the suerng artisans is, "Help us to
get ont of this over -peoped and hard-hearted land
Take us to America. Grant US assistance to 90 to
the United States where we may get work and
preau-We arro ond children's children
DAUGHTERS or THE HoRsRLEECH.
This distress win II some remedy be not soon pro.
vided have the effect OF alternating from Mr.. Glad.
stone considerable portion OF his radical support
ers. Mr. Brights philosophy of retrenchment s,
they think all very well, but 1t should be carried
out mpariiaiiy. Where reductions were to be made
it would have been wiser, they argue to have com.
menced making them at the head, rather than the
foot, OF the national establishment. Hundreds Of Of
nces there are that arc mere sinecures, hundreds
that overpad, hundreds that are useless, which
might more advantageolsly have been reformed Than
the wretched situations neld by shipwrizhts and
csulkers. But then these high ofices are held by
relatives OF the arisocracy and liberal as Mr.. Glad
stone is, he has not yet been able TO free himself
nom the influence OF the territorial magnates who
sit in his Cabinet Like the daughters OF the horse.
leech the demand Of these arisocrats Is continually
demand for place and reward. Their constant cry
fs "Gfve. give" not 'Take, taken and the conse-
Quence s that onr laboring classes are pining for
America and The generous nurture OF the vast West.
ern wiIds while those who neither toll nor spin arc
rich and increased In gooos, and fare sumptnousIy
every day.
LORD Charles RUSSELL for instance, a brother Of
Earl Russell, receives some thousands OF pounds q
year simply for laying the mace upon the table when
the Speaker takes the chair sitting few consecu
tive hours in q we'll Lstuffed armchair, ana allowing
himself TO be called Sergeant alarms. The head
doOrkeeper or the HOUSE, moreover, IS paid FL 900
per annum for dressing IN black clothes aud white
tie and looking after seven ether dOorkeepers
THAN the FIRST. Salaries such as these sand might
touched. while the government pay has been wholly
and suddenly taken from the smiths and wheel
wrghts, WHO are now cam0ring for the means Of
getting TO the States.
DEMOCRATIC REACTION.
This movement is consequently beginning to set In
in among the lower classes. Deprived OF work
denied any assistance to enable them to emIgrate
the toiers and sDlnners who are walking about
hungry ard wretched and naked are beginning to
rail- against those whom they put into Office They
are every whit as democratic In feeling as they
dered Mr.. Bright and Mr.. Gladstone into Downing
street from hundreds OF triumphant bustln9s. But
hunger Is keen driver, and with famine in the gates
artisans are not prone to draw subtle distinctions or
to ceave to political creeda merely for the sake Of
an idea They are suiIerlng they want bread; II has
been taken from them by the reductions IN the ma
fiOnal establishments and, impatient Of the deln
tions OF politcal philosophy, they believe that cruel
injustice has been done them. Radical re,rench.
ment therefore, which many of them applaudea and
tossed their caps at when preached from the plat
FORM they now decry finding 1t to be very pinching
0fqlVrpnable m
ment have. undoubtedly, shown their democratic
tendencies Dy seeking to reduce the departments
and lessen the 1eyous weight OF the national debt;
but they should have done something towards purg-
ing ,he War ONCE and Foreign once OF ITS highly
psld, well connected iavorites before turning the
The tories you may be sure are taking care to
They are deneumcna y The s sspeness Of the sdmns
traton ano supporting state emigration, and as
they have the reputation among the lower orders Of
at least being 'gehtemen," they are az present in
nigh favor with large section OF the laboring
classes. Astu.e conservatives, however, know
any return TO conservative principles on the part Of
the household sufiragers. Following the rule OF
politicians IN all countries, the radicals here are
at present merely making use OF the tories FainS
at any time TO gain what they wanted from the
Whgs , taey & nave as avar,aoy turned to the tories
give; and thus II Will come to pass that ever Mr.
Dsraeh returns to power he can only keep it BY
DONG as he did In lS67-preaching conservatism and
acting radicalism. The democrats. made angry by
hunger, may put him again into Office; but they
Will lnDiSt upon MS uOing theN Work.
, HER MAJKsry's SUPPLY.
The supply, as It Is technically called, the grants
Of money for the public services, has occupied some
OF our attention this week. The subject was intro
duCed by Mr.. Cnder5 the First Lord OF the Admi-
rally, who laid the marine estimates for the year
upon the table and explained IN detail the rednc-
tions which ne proposes TO effect In that department
Granting supply" ls one OF the most curious and
complicated Ol English Parliamentary procedures.
Successive stages oi cerencnes nave to be observed
before SINGLE arthing can b. taken from the reve-
nue. for the maintenance OF me pnoc
Few things connected with our constitutional
government moro clearly demonstrate the power
or the people and the weakness OF the arstocracy
than the manner In which the national finances
sre controlled. Ever since the Commons became .
power IN the state they camed the exclusive right
10 levy the revenue and manage the expenditure.
The Aouse of L0r0s eanaot interfere with them Id