The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-05

berry or spoliation from the present liberal gov
erDment. IL Is party contest, and 10 such
things, though slow TO recognize it, our British
cousins are rapidly learning the campaign
strategy and tactics Of our democrats and re-
publicans. But there is this reaction in favor
OF Her Majesty's conservatives, and Glad
stone, checked for the present in his pro-
gramme of reforms, will be compelled to stand
upon the defensive. He cannot advance yet
for some time upon any scheme menacing
even remotely the House of Lords, the
Church or the landlords. His over
shadowing difficulty is the American case
before the Geneva Tribunal, aud as his tenure
of office is to be determined by the settlement
Of these consequential damages, settlement
on his part may be indefinitely delayed.
The inevitable settlement in the end, we
think, has been pronounced, though somewhat
roughly, by Mr.. Disraell The United States
will not recede from their case, and Her
Majestys government will ultimately &C.
knowledge the principle of indirect claims, be-
cause it is 80 written in the protocol of the
Joint High Commission. Nor will there be from
this settlement any of those dreadful results
fraught with tho utmost dangers to England
which are apprehended by the highly magma
tive author of 'Lothair." The danger to
England lies in the other direction. The SET
Element indicated will establish the bonds and
blessings of peace between her and the United
States. The rejection Of the treaty in final
refusal to recognize the American case may
result in war, and war between the United
States and England will open the gates of
Windsor Castle to Mr.. Bradlaugh and his re-
publicans, and will make Sir Charles Dixie
leader in the House of Commons.
Toe Earl of Derby and other prominent
conservatives at Manchester followed Mr..
Dsraeli in speeches of similar import It
was mass meeting for the opening of the
campaign against the Gladstone Ministry, and
the meeting was significant success. But
the especially significant feature of the affair
was the extraordinary comparison of Disraeli
between the cheapness Of Her Maesty's gov
eminent and the enormous c0sts-running up
to four thousand millions of dollars a year
of the complex republican system of the
United States. This means that the COMPARE
son between British and American institutions
has entered iato the public mind of England
that it is becoming party question there, and
that the aristocracy are desperately graphing
with it as the real danger which they have
most to fear. The time is favorable,
too, for this line of action; but as COM
parsons like these of Manchester will
neither feed the starving nor shelter the
houseless poor Of England, nor stay the tide
of emigration from her shores to ours, the
idea will continue to spread among the Eng
lish masses at home that in our republican
system is their only salvation. The State,
Church and the landed arstocracy Of England
cannot much longer survive. The political
reaction Of l87l-72 in their favor may be fol-
lowed by retroversng tidal wave in 1873.
We think it probable that the American case,
on the Alabama claims, will be permitted to
slumber or drift along until we shall have
passed through the local ~gitations Of this i'm
pending Presidential election; but that then,
in this American case, as IN some other things
in the budget of our unsettled foreign affairs,
ton. Then, on the issue of peace or war with
the United States, the alternative will be pre-
scented to the British arstocracy of choice
between their institutions and ours. Pushed
to an ultmatum here, ON these Alabama
claims, lies the great danger to England.