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

Her Majesty's loyalists, or royaIists, under
the wing of Mr.. Disraeli, on Wednesday even
ing last made powerful demonstration at
Manchester in behalf of the Throne and its
feudal attachments-the lords, the landed
aristocracy and the Church. An immense
conservative meeting assembled in Free Trade
Hall to hear from Disraeli his manifesto, as the
leader Of the opposition forces, against Glad
stone ard his government policy and princi-
pies. From our reports by cable of this mani
festo we find that it embraces resolution to
uphold the constitution Of the kingdom IN
policy which will not despoil churches nor
plumber landlords, but further the interests of
the great body of the people; vindcation Of
the arssocracy, defence of the House of
Lords and consideration of tho Gladstone
government in reference to our Alabama
claims. In his defence of the Throne the hon
| orable gentleman ascribed to 1t the blessings
which Englishmen enjoy, and, among other
things, he commended it sangels and ministers
of grace defend us!) to the admiration of
his hearers on the score of economy In this
plea he gracously condsscended to say
1
| United States, which embrace Congress and
the State Legislatures, as well rs the Execu-
tive, was between seven and eight hundred
thousand pounds sterling, or double the total
OF the English civil list-an estimate on the
one side so extrayagant that it is ludcrous,
and on the other begging of the question.
On the Alabama claims the learned orator
/ al, u 4,
| (meaning the United States) to recede from
her position, and while he thought that minis
teral incompetence would be led to the
ultimate acknowl edgment of the principle of
consequential damages, the results of this con-
cession, he feared, must be fraught with the
utmost dangers to England. He, in the place
of Gladstone, would have had friendly con-
| ference on this subject, and would have settled
| the difficulty in this way
This, then, Is the new programme of the
conservative party of England against Glad
stone and his liberals In occupation of the
government. 1t is formidable Indictment,
too, under the pressure Of recent political
events and revelations in both hemispheres,
though weak at all points touching the "irre-
pressbe conflict" between feudal institutions
and popular rights. Considering it first as a
| political campaign document from the outside
party against the party in power, il is appar-
ent, from the marked enthusiasm of this Man
chester meeting and of all the other recent
loyal demonstrations In England, that Disraeli
is riding triumphantly on the waves Of great
political reaction, which promises with the
settlement of the Alabama claims the restora-
ton of the tories. They do not care to re-
lieve Gladstone of this sold Man of the Sea-"
Charged with this business they would have
to do as he will have to do, and they prefer
that he should bear the political consequences
OF the inevitable adjustment. Out Of power
your conservative can be a radical when con-
veniont; in power your most advanced liberal
becomes conservative. Hence on the aggres-
| slve, the advantages of Disraeli on the deli
cate and dangerous but exceedingly simple
| question OF our Alabama claims.
Bot it is as the delegated champion of the
Grown, the lords, the landed aristocracy
and tie Church, as embodied in the British
constitution, that recent events and develop
ments have given Disraeli the commanding
voice which he evidently now holds over the
British public mind. The events In Franco
following the overthrow of the empire, such
as the Opfra 5oute republic Of Gambctta and
the terrible Paris Commune; the unsettled
and uncertain tenure of Office OF the venerable
Theirs and his Long Parliament, and the
omnpresent spectre Of the International, have
operated throughout the civilized world more
or less to the prejudice, not only Of dangerous
innovations, but Of wholesome reforms in the
interests of the people. And, again, these
frightful disclosures Of the millions of public
money from year to year systematically
appropriated and divided among the managers
of the Tammany Ring, and the enormous
| democratic maiorities rolled up in this city
through the appliances of these stolen funds
| in the corruption of our elections, from the
| Industrious repeater to his jealous confeder-
| ates employed in making up the returns, have
been studied with pleasure and profit by Mr.
| Disrael and his English conservatives for is
there not In these and in all the other horrible
demoralizaLions of the great republic, from the
whskey rings to the Ku Klux Klans, new
bond of security to the Duke Of Devonshire,
the Marquis of Westminster and the Arch
bishop of Canterbury?
But, again, the emissaries Of the disciples OF
the Paris Commune, of the dreaded Interna-
tional, of the red republic, In their most au-
dacious prstensions, had 10 Hyde Park been
preaching the advent of the republic, or the
repetition of that terrible CONFUSION which
ushered in the first French republic, as the
next thing in order with the death or retire
ment Of Queen Victoria, when the Prince OF
Wales was by violent sickness, brought 10
the verge Of the grave. 1t was believed that
he could not survive; that he must die, and