The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-16
Foreign Diplomacy, Home Rule and
Economic Reform.
DISRAELI'S POSITION.
Is It an Election or Moral Force
Revolution
AristOCrats Anxious for the SeCu-
rity Of Their Order.

posters blue yellow and red have begun to shower
ever the land; the teegraphic wires have pulled
home by the ears, as 1t were, 1Ocks OF perpatetic
members OF parliament who were wintering
piacidly In Italy and France, and Of many Of whom
one might say IN Grays pathetic lnes:-
Alas unconscious of their doom,
No f tsoa ste S Ssye ase pa St s to come
Nor care beyond to-day.
From Lerwick, in the Shetlands, to Berwick
upon Tweed, and from Berwick to the Sicily
Isles from the plains Of Ulster to the wds OF Con-
naught; in pocket bOroughs and teeming cities;
in tory shires and Irish str0ngholds, there ID
scampering as of herds Of Bashan bulls let loose,
and q thunderOus believing OF, 'VOte for usr'
"vote for us!'' Again one must break into rhyme
and say
From Manchester tories and far between,
From cortland shireR where radicals have yet
From sturdy North and oookney South. from Centre,
Up. up they come, with a. tongues awag. each man pre-
For Church and Queen" or people"
But why this unexpected call for 'stump" and
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THE DlssOLUTIONS
In his address to the electors OF Greenwich-one
OF the dreariest most labored manifestoes ever
penned-Premier Gladstone makes q clean breast.
and says that the Cabinet was no longer strong
enough to carry on the aflairs Of the country The
triumphant liberal majority OF ITO votes returned
ct the elections Of 1868 had dwindled down to
something under sixty and OF these sixty not ten
could be fully depended upon. The ballot which
It had been thought would swell the liberal ranks.
has had just the contrary effect, and one borough
after another slipped out Of the grasp OF the Re-
form Club. Bath, Gloucester, Dover and Shattes-
bury were lost; Greenwich. long steadfast in the
faith, admitted an enemy TO sit beside the Premier,
and then Stroud deserted, with arms and bag
gage. This was the browning bitterness. Stroud
had returned Lord John Russell in the
days OF the first Reform bill; Stroud
had Of late years elected MIR. Winterbotham
one Of the Under Secretaries Of State, and that
Stroud, should after this transfer its allegiance to
the "Blues'' was proof enough that the "tory reac
tion," so long denied by the Daily Ne,ns, Daily
telegraph and Spectator, could be denied no
longer. Then there was that Ashantee war, Zip
PANTY undertaken and grossly bungled. Had
Ministers met the ola Parliament they would have
ceen roughly called to task and have been obliged
20 furnish explanations most dlsagreeabe to them.
seeing that war is an operation oil which they
know no more than cats DO Of gunpOwder. Again,
there was the settlement OF the Russians in Khiva,
contrary to the promises made by Count Schouval-
hon; the famine in Bengal, the increase OF the
home rule movement and OF ultramontane pre-
tentions in Ireland, and lastly, there was the ques
ton OF Mr.. Gadstone's seat at Greenwich, which
Parliamentary committee would have been
pretty certain to declare vacated by the Premiers
assumption Of the CHARACTERISTIC of the Ex-
chequer. By dissolving Parliament the Ministers
avoided the painful necessity OF being interrogated
and vexed on any OF the above topics. If they be
beaten they will resign before the new Parliament
meets; if victorious then they will be enabled to
override opposition criticisms as they did in 1869
and 1870, when shey bad an 0bedlent majority at
their backs.
Mr.. Gladstone says that
TIE LIBERALS ARE THE TRUE UPHoLDERs OF THE
THRONE,
and he dwes on the tact that forty years Of libe-
ral administration have done more to consolidate
royalty than forty years Of toryism ever did This
Is undeniably true, but Mr.. Gladstone omits to
point out the true reason Of this phenomenon.
When the conservatives are in opposition they do
not fling stones at the Queen and constitution;
and the liberals, who at heart love titles, stars,
ribbons and embroidered clothing as much as
their rivals, are allowed to take surleit Of these
blessings in full ease and security. But when the
liberals are out OF ONCE how different is the
dtion OF af1alrsl Then is the time to hear ervent
declamations against 'boated arlstocracy,"
pampered episcopacy. ruinous ornaments
extravagant departments and downtrodden
working classes. Then is the time when the ex.
penses OF royal court are most keenly examined,
and when the democratic institutions OF America
are extoIed. The Daily Telegraph grows hoiry-
toity about the Crown, pokes fun at court
chamberlains and asks why the Duke OF Cambridge
ls Commander-ln-Chief The Daily Ne,ps wakes up
to combaive radicalism, opens its columns to for
eIgn refugees, prints letters from Mr.. Goodwin
Smith and seasons its excited leaders with aphor.
isms from Stuart Mill and Comte. As for the
Spectator its sneers at the House of Lords and the
Bench Of Bishops now from pens full Of all the re-
publican irony which Young oxford can dstii.
Then, too, comes the time for
REVOLUTIONARY MEETINGS IN HYDE PARK
Deputatons Of wOrktngmen wait upon Mr.. Glad
stone and receive his earnest assurance that
mechanics have right to sit in Parliament; Mr..
Lowe recounts his Australian experiences to en-
thusiastic audiences Of iconoclasts; Mr. Bright
pounds away at superannuated shams, dignities
and privileges; Mr.. Stansfeld champions women's
rights, and minor liberals by the score spring up
and jostle one another on the great road Of prog
ress men again, nears the time when private bills
crop up in full force. bot and fractions NJ Pts,
who, when the liberals are in once, are coughed
down or counted Outu whenever they try
to air their schemes at the Wednesday sittings,
now find themselves made much Of The liberal
''whps" take care to keep house" for them, In
order that their schemes shall be fully debated and
the liberal leaders compliment them on their patri-
Otto zeal for starting questions which nobody wants
TO settle. All 1t is truly bamy season for men
Oh snort purses and long tongues; for every man
who has plan for reforming anything or smash
ing anybody becomes parsonage, and may dream
himself on the high way to cabinet honors while
peers, on the other hand. are made to feel small
and supernuous. One may always know whether
conservatives or liberals are in Downing street nv
the treatment which these unhappy peers receive
at the hands OF the press and also BY the tone In
which social scandals are discussed. Under Mr..
Gladstone there is not an average liberal paper
that would print line against an individual men,
Der of the Upper House; under Mr.. Disraeli let a
tory peer come before the world in any unpleasant
light political or domestic, and the virtuous outcry
against his prodigacy or mbecity, as the case may
be, is such az wonld gladden. conclave OF saints