, 1874-02-09

Tho Conservative reaction In Engand flRa
proved stronger than ovon Conservatives thon1-
selves have dared to hopo. Diaraoli will not
only havo h strong working majority in tho
House Of Commons, bnt lo will bo frood from
Tho attacks Of most Of tho free-ancos or tho ast
Parliament. Almost without MI exception, tho
men who llayo idons Of thor ow1,,-t]io crotchoty
neu, us tho solid DritonB diBtlantul'y term
them,-havo boon dofcatod Prof. Fawcott, tic
blind statesman, whose wonderful spooclios on
India have mndo him tho idol Of Ifindo-
stan. has boen politically bohoadcd for Ills nd
sancod Liberalism. Thomaa Hughes haH again
lost scat III Parliament through tho jealousy
Of the small shopkcopors, whom Ills hobby
Of cooperation throws out Of employ
nlent. jacob Bright, known As tho brother
OF Ills brother aud as an ardent advocate
Of syoulan'a rights, atood at tho bottom Of tllo
poll IN AfanchaBtor. Tho Tower Hanalots. sup
posed to bo stronghold Of Radioalism, havo re-
jeosod Capt. Maxso, tho Red candidate, mud
have aotaally returned one Conservative besides
ono mild Liboral. In Southwark, whore, since
tho number Of mcmbers las beon Increased, tho
votes Gust for Odgor, III 1868, would now bavo
elected lin, ho hns failed to got them. So fur,
the only guorrillas elootod aro Oowon, oxtronao
Radical, from Newcastle; Burt, WorkinEmnns
candidate, from Swansea; plimsoll, ship-inspec-
ton agitator, from Derby; and Sir Charles
Dilko, Republican,, from Chelsea. These
arc remarkable results for MI election
that waa expected to put dozen or
moro Workingnlen, Radicals, ct al. into tho
House. Taking broader Wow Of tho aituation,
We find that in ireland, which was expected. In
connection with Scotland, to make up for Lib
oral iosses III England tho first 81 members
chosen were divided into 26 Homo-Rulors, II
Conservatives, and Liberals. Tho most noted
Of the lattor-The O'Donoghue -defeatod tho
Homo-Tne candidate by but three yotos. Even
In Scotland, whore tho e1octor beliovos in lis
party ns he does In his Church, regarding It as
blaspheny to doubt tho doctrines Of either, thore
| nre Conservative gafna.
Tho causo Of tho total rout OF tho Govern
mont la worth tho attention Of American poll
| ticianB. Tho party 1t led accomplished
itB aims sone ti1no ago. It's leaders tried
to furnish now issuoB, but the party
| split upon them. Every froah proposal drove
tue wedge in further. It ia tho old story over
again. A party formed to do two things cannot,
| aave under worry exceptional circumstances, bo
held together long enough to do threo. A va
riety Of minor cauaes co-oparatod to produce tho
overthrow. Tho liquor question, the unequal
working Of tho Education act, tho want OF tact
and Of harmony among tho Ministers, tho High
Church touo OF tho Ministry, especially offensive
and ILL., Judged In men who lad Just discstablished
the Irish Church. tho coquotry thnt has been
carried On with tho ned clement, md tho hope
lcBa failure to doyise settlement Of tho Irish
Education problona,-all these have played thoit
part in Fastening tho decline and fall. Six ,cars
ago, o man who wished to sit in Parliament Aad
but to climb . hustings and cry: II will sup
! port Gladstonei" How Ia tho mighty fallen
For some time to como, England will belovt
| that there is but one political god,--Conservat
sn,--aud that Disraoli is its prophet.