The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-21
MIR. Gladstone and the Failure of the
Vote of Ccnsure.

MIR. Gladstone and the Failure Of the
Vote of Ccnsure.
Our cable news this morning calls attention
to political faction fights on large scale
within the arena of the British House of Com
mons. The Gladstone Ministry has had to
face vote of censure, on case and in cir
cumstances anything but favorable. The
appointment of Sir Robert Collier to place
on the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council some months ago was unquestionaby,
on the part of Mr.. Gladstone, stretch of
privilege. To tories and wings alike it re-
called the memory ofthe royal warrant. and the
consequent abolition of right of purchase in the
British army, and tories and wings both felt
aggrieved. The general feeling was that the
Prime Minister was not only too daring, but a
little too strong for either or both Houses of
Parliament hence the tug Of war of Tuesday
night. Two hundred and sixty-eight against
two hundred and forty-one was not q big vic
tory, but it amply justifes what we said two
days ago-that Mr.. Gladstone is by far the
most powerful Prime Minister England has
known since the days of Lord Palmerston.
The present Ministry has heavy work on
hand. Mr. Gladstone cannot look forward to
'1eisure hours during the present session of
Parliament. But the man who has abolished
the Irish Church. Establishment and, in the in
terest of the peasant, modified the law of land
tenure; who has successfully invoked the royal
prerogative and abolished the right of pur-
chase-that ancient abuse-in the British
army; who has since brushed legal cobwebs
aside in the appointment of great judicial
functionary-that man is not likely soon or
easily to give way.
In Gladstone, and in Gladstone alone,
Disraeli now has his master. The brilliant
author of ''Coningsby" and 'Lothair," from
whom we are always expecting so much and
who is so loath to leave the House of Com
mons and take an easy place among the peers
of the realm, finds himself confronted by
man who is so skilful in debate and so fertile
fess that there is something in the blood of an
English-born Scot which in competition leaves
small chance for the political descendants of
Abraham. The success of Mr.. Gladstone may
make it a necessity for Mr.. Disraeli to give
yet new preface to his life of Lord George
Bentinck. In any event, Mr.. Gladstone's
latest victory proves that while the liberals
are divided the tories are weak.
THE REPUBLICAN SENTIMENT IN DEN
MARIA sensation was produced in the
Volksthing, as the Danish House of Repre-
sentatives is called, lately, by the introduction
of bill by Deputy Berg, member of the
Left, proposing the abolition of the nobility and
of all titles and orders. Herr Berg goes
| still further, and desires that Danish sub
jects should be forbidden to accept foreign
orders; that certain privileges now enjoyed
by the nobility should be done away with, with
the reservation, however, that the rights Of
the noblemen now living should be respected.
In laying the proposition before Parliament the
Deputy declared that the party to which he
belonged supported his views, and for the
principles here enunciated both he and his
| sunnortera were resolved to struggle.