New Orleans Republican., 1873-03-28
MR.. GLADSTONE.


is, that the King can do no wrong, but
the minister may. Hence, instead of
cutting off the Kings head, the modern
Premier of England goes overheard, and
his opponents, who express the latest will
Of the people, take his place. The MIN
lister thus comes between the people and the
Monarch, as the buffer between the tram
and the locomotive. He receives the full
force Of the popular blow, and checks the
impulse that might otherwise destroy
everything. Th1s the Queen has been
saved any responsibility for the unpopu-
larity of the measures proposed By her
maiesty's minister, and thus she is not,
as kings Of the old time, personally OBJ
noxious to public censure. Such COLI
sions between the people and the crown
sometimes compelled majesty to appease
them by throwing a ministers head out
Of the window, as that Of STAFFORD, for in
stance. There is one admirable feature
in the English change Of administration
The subOrdinates in Office are appointed
according to qualification, and not by
their answers to the political catechisms.
They are not turned out as on an Ameri-
can change of executive. Mr.. Gladstone
might have walked out and his successor
Nigh: have succeeded him without the
slightest jar in the official machinery.
The public service goes On as
before It would be difficult TO express
the popular will under more peaceful cir
cumstances. The English government
seems administered more on the compare
tive wisdom of measures than on any dis
tinction 0: principles. The tory party IN
England seems 10 have accepted the ex-
preston of popular will until every symp-
tom of divine right and class privilege
has been bleached out OF their programme.
The only objection made to Mr. Glad
stone seems to have been that he does not
maintain the supremacy Of England as he
might do. His course on the American
treaty. the Asiatic question, and some
others, is cited in proof. England no
longer bears the same commanding rela-
ton to other nations. Germany has as
high intellectual and material de-
velopment as any modern nation.
France has assumed position as a chief
manufacturing power. The United States
has appeared in the council OF nations
their equal in intellect or i'll arms. ing
land has encountered another disadvan-
tage. The changed mode Of nautical
warfare has destroyed her military suprem-
acy on the ocean. The employment Of
swift steamers with ordnance Of long
range is fatal to. regular commerce. Ma
tions who have no commerce at risk can
purchase such war steamers, and do infinite
mischief without the fear Of retaliation.
England, separated by the sea from! all
her colonial possessions. must now en-
counter the risk of steam privateers.
without the ability to infict reciproca!
injury In fact, so deeply is England
interested in the commerce Of the world
that she could not sink ship without
losing cargo. or a part of it. Mr.. Glad
stone may therefore well represent the
less arrogant and combative sentiment
which was manifested even by Lord Pal
merston in his besitant policy toward the
warning States Of the American Union.
This conservative and non-intervention
policy is now established by the fact that
Mr.. Disraeli did not venture to as
sumo administration on any opposite
principle. He was. as patriot. averse
to wearing the ship OF State and put
ting her on az exactly opposite course.
The reinstatemat OF iIr. Gladstone is
therefore 2 better confirmation OF lis
policy than the success Of a parliamentary
measure by a "iipped-in ministerial ma
iority. It is confirmation OF the Glad
stone policy. The resignation o! the min
iater is. however. no less personal
triumph. He ha, submitted to the will
.: the people, and relieved the respons..
bility Of the crown. He accepts power
again With the unebated respect o: the
people and the renewed confidence o: the
crown. 1t is really triumph Of the rep
resenta,ive and republican system which
undeglies the British constitution.