New-York tribune., 1877-09-29
BRITISH AFFAIRS
IJr1cs. rgE TURF. AND DIsRAELL

iFRoM THE REGULAR CORREsrOSDKNT of riif fHbuNh.I
| Loypoy. Sept. 1-Mr Forsters speech st Brad
ford has been u little oyershadowed by Lord "rah-
| vie's but il was an important speech; especIany
important as. i'm sense. an attempt 10 ioos''o
Usb amicable relations between Mr. Forster and the
| Radicals of Bradford. You remember that ~ VIC
election of 1874 many of Mr.. Forsters old frichhs
| fell away from him. deliberate effort was then
made 10 supplant him and 10 elect another Liberai
in his place If recolect rightly, the local machine
was against him, in spite of which, and OF some
not wholly unfounded complaints OF MI folsiei
readiness compromise important matters, he WAS
returned at the head of the POLL with majority oi
more than 5000 over his highest Liberal opponent.
II was n victory most honorable to him. for tins
reason above all Others that whatever other COM
promises Mr.. Forster may haye.been accused OF,
nobody will accuse him of compromising with his
own conscience. At the risk of losing hs seat, ne
did what he thought right, and refused to do what
his constituents, a great part OF them thought
right, when he thought 1t wrong. The trench
notion, that representative is merely the man
datory of his electors, has never yet been. aud
hope never will be- accepted by tine leading states
men of England. But it must be admitted that sir.
Forster has never wholly reganed the confidence Of
the Radical section of the Bradford Liberals whom
he alienated.
1t was with this fact and This past history in
view that Mr.. Forster went to Bradford on We'd
nesday. Speaking in tie presence OF the utuiaf
leader OF the Liberal party, 1t was not Tor Ar FoiS
ter 10 lay down programme for the party. Tie saId
indeed that ne did not bring speech IN his head,
not having exactly made up his mind what to say
until NE should have heard what Lmd Granville
said. And 1t is true that his speech bore some marks
OF hesitation. Still, mach Of II rs was addressed
more particularly to his own constituents, showed
every proper desire TO stand well with his OLD
| friends On the question Of educahon-the quos-
tion on which they parted from him-he said moth
ing. Il is not now a burning question. On the
/ questions of County local government, and the
County Franchise-which Mr. Forster declared to be
the questions Immediately before the public and the
next i'm order To be disposed of-there is differ
encs between him and The Radicals But there Is a
! third, of fardiIcrcnt moment. more remote though
il be-that of the Discsabishment of the Chnrcn OF
! England. doubt whether MIR. Foster meant to say
anything about this, but his hand was forced. His
audience camored 10 hear him on that. When
! fhev cried "Di,estlbshment" Mr. Forster an
! syyered Yes | am coming 10 that but, If you
please / VIII take my own time IN COM
! ing to it," There was a laugh at this. IS
II people had some doubt whether hlr. FoFs-
ter meant he would take his own time III
referring TO that question during this present
! n.
and accepting it as part Of the Liberal programme.
However, lie presently came 10 speak Of it. and met
it with suggestion of no little adroitness. Whether
| the Church of England shall cease to be State
! ChuIch he said. is question of such tremendous
interest and importance 90 the whole people of Eng
land that he did not think IL ought tO be settled 80
! long rs one considerable section of the people OF
! Eneland-the agricultural laborers-could have no
| share in settling it,. Your first busncs must hc to
give this section their share OF Parliamentary power
and then take them into council aud see what shall
! be done. In a word the county franchise Is ques-
tiUn of practical politics. D,eataOshm mt is so far
| in the future as to be theoretical. Two things,
nevertheless Mr.. Forster gave bis c0nstii iiuens plain
y to understand: that he open 10 conviction of
the necessity Of Dis establishment and that it, when
| the time came, Ae were not convinced no power or
earth should induce him to support it. The few
hints he actually threw out were in the direction Of
lis own conversion, hut no sound inference can be
drawn from them. Referring 10 the old differences
| between himself and some of the Liberals, he said
| significantly that he believed the time had come
| when they could again work together. and spoke IN
the strongest terms OF his attachment to Bradford
and his pride in representing The borough. There is
no chance of any fresh election at present. but
presume there can be no doubt that Mr. Forster
stands better with the Radicals than he did before
this speech was delivered. Their distrust OF him
grows largely out of what they think his unsound-
ness on rel gios questions. His too great readiness
to yield to the clergy in their efforts to keep and
strengthen their hold on State schools has b en- the
main cause of the hostility to him ID late years. If
ne would emancipate himself from clerical and
ecclesiastical influences, the Radicals would have
| little left to quarrel with him about.
| If / Thought it would not shock nv devOut Catho-
lie friends | would quote what an English paper
saws of the death of Brigham Young After remark
| ing that the United States and the civilized world
have been relieved of a very dangerous nuisance,
this paper adds that it is true he less danger
Gus and less Of a nuisance than tho yet older spT-
itual autocrat and usurper OF temporal authority by
virtue Of his spiritual functions who still rcigns at
Rome In some RESPECTS continues this andacious
paper. Brigham Young was an ADLER and better
| man than Plus IH.p The audaCiOus paper has 4 cir
culatiOn of 1000. that the deyOut Catholic.
though he may shudder at it, impiety. must desire
to know what is SAID by so considerable an author
itv. And If he should resent the drawing of any
| parallel between Plus IN. and Brigham Young he
should bear IN mind that the devout Mormon may
| not like II any better .han the deyout Catholic.
While Benson and Kurr astonishing the most
knowing by their Police-Court revelations Of turf
frauds an incidental piece Of evidence from another
| source, and equally curious. may be quoted. 1t
refers to the late Admiral Rous and the Ring. You
can hardly have forgotten the eulogies bestowed on
the Admiral as a man who actually passed his life
on the turf and cheated nobody. Since his death
two distinct funds have been raised for testimonials
in his honor one of them by the Ring. This latter
amounts to some s., ,000 and weekly paper, which
occupies itself with racing among other matters,
complains bitterly that the sum is too small. The
outsider, on the other hand wonders why the Ring
should be giving money in honor of a man whom he
innOcently suppOses to have been the enemy of the
| King all his life long. Was not Admiral Rous the