The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-03
THE GLADSTONE MINISTRY AND
ENGLISH POLITICS,

lantlc telegraph has summarized dur
ing the past week prove that the
radical element of that country is
obtaining a force and Roadway which
if not speedily checked will revolu-
tIonize the institutions of England.
The extraordinary name in which
the Gladstone ministry has carried the
measure abolishing thesystem ofarmy
commission purchases shows the ex-
tent of the change which has been
wrought i'll British popular sentiment
within a few years. To preserve its
a>cendency the party in power has
been compelled 10 throw itself upon
the very crest of the most advanced
wave of Radical ideas. The general
applause which in the House of Com
mons followed the announcement of
Gladstone that the Queen would do
with her own warrant what the Peers
refused to do by Parliamentary act,
andthe general approval of the Liberal
party through the country, show that
Gladstone has not mi>calculated the
strength of the popular sentiment. 1t
was a daring stroke to summary
abolish the purchase system after the
Peers had rejected the bill by a decis-
i've majority. 1t places the ministry
in the singular position of pressing
upon Parliament an administration
measure, which failing in one branch,
is peremptorily forced into the effect
OF law by the act of the Queen and the
Cabinet alone. 1t leaves Gladstone to
explain why the measure VAS submit
ted TO Parliament at all. if the Cabinet
through the Queen, could abolish the
purchase system without the consent
of Parliament. The mere fact that the
in-chief of the army, is scarcely sutfi-
cient; o that the system was first in
troduced by virtue of a special warrant
form the Crown. The fact that the Glad
stone Ministry itself believed that
Parliament had exclusive control ofthe
subject is shown by their introduc-
ton of the bill i'll that body, and
the tremendous pressure TO force it
through. But the Cabinet is triumph
ant. Gladstone detiantly challenged
the Tory opposition 10 bring forward a
resolution of disapprobatiOn, and yes
terday the telegraph brought US the
result. The motion was made and de-
feated by eighty majority. Gladstone
went into office with a parliamentary
majority of l20. Considering the Ia
ture of the administration measures
the abandonment of the Established
Church in ~Ireland-the bill for a like
measure i'll E~ngland-the abolition of
the University tests-the extension of
sweeping away the purchase of army
commisSion>-all extreme radical
MISUNDERSTANDING all, the Glad
stone Ministry, as shown by this vote,
mas sustained itself wonderfully. 1t
shows that the radical democratic
party of England is gathering strength
with an %intrepidity worthy of revolu-
tionarv France; that it has reached "A
point when it makes itself respected. if
not feared, even by the Throne. But
this revolutionary spirit bodies no good
for the permanence of England's an
cient institutions. 1t Is a spirit which
gathers strength by what it feeds on.
1t sounds like the renewal of that
memorable contest of the first Charles
with the reforuIerS OF the seventeenth
century,, which eventually lett Crom-
well and the House of Commons the
supreme powers of the Government.
The House of Peers has received a
slap in the face by Gladstone which is
significant of a growing belief
in the inutility OF hat branch
the Legislative government. 1t
has been shocked by an ex-
hibition which will wildly remind
it of the day when the Protector de-
the House of Lords no part of
the British Government. Victoria
evidently does not intend to take the
chances of Charles /, nor be left
stranded OH the sands behind the rap
rising tide. She goes with it.
When she and her Ministry fail to