Year: 1868

thought we were raising our voice against
European monarchy in behalf Of republican
freedom. Mexico showed us that we only
raised our voice against order and in behalf Of
barbarity, butchery and every form of degrada-
ton and dishonor people can put on. We
will not be fooled that way twice, and whoever
wishes to put his heel on the head of that
serpent will find no hindrance here.


--


The Jew Above the NOrmans-A p anic


Among the Peers of England.


In the HERALD of yesterday we published
the debate which took place in the House of
Lords on the 18th instant in regard to the rate
paying clause of the new Reform bill. In the
same issue we published cable despatch an
of Commons in opposition to Mr.. Gladstone's
resolutions on the Irish Church were being
circulated and were receiving many signatures.
We put these two things together because
they both relate to one question, and that
question is, whether the new Premier shall or
shall not be trusted by the English Parliament
and by the English people.


The petitions against Mr.. Gladstones reso-
lutions are to be considered from threefold
point of view:-First, as the expression of
stupidity anti Catholic party; secondly, as the
expression of fear on the part of the fat and
full-fed members Of the Church of England;
and thirdly, as the expression of confidence
in Mr.. Disraeli as Premier of England. That
the petitions in course of circulation are ex-
plicable on the first two of these grounds
most of our readers will at once admit.
That they are explicable on the third ground
may not be so apparent, but it is not the
less true. There is no living English states
man so popular with the thinking young
men of the country, especially with that
class of young men who have been sue
cessful in emancipating themselves from
antiquated prejudices, as Benjamin Disraeli.
By that class of young men who are really the
hope of the English nation the novels Of Dis
raeli are devoured, his speeches are familiar
to them as household words, and his numerous
and pointed epigrammatical utterances are the
selected exponents of their own thoughts.
With that class in the community Disraeli is a
real power-a sort of Carlyle in politics
the power which in return they bring to his aid
is not to be lightly esteemed.


The debate in the House of Lords deserves
our attention chiefly from the fact that it re-
veals species of panic among the peers that
the most naughty and exclusive of their order
should elect to be led by daring and adven
turous son of an outeast and homeless race
The Duke of Argyle made clever speech;
Earl Russell, for septiagenarian, was sarcas-
tic, biting, weighty, crushing beyond what it
was reasonable to expect but in both speeches
jealousy and fear were painfully prominent.
The Duke of Argyle vas indignant, and Earl
Russell justified the indignation by proving
that Mr.. Disrael was the most inconsistent of
all living statesmen; )ut both the duke and
the earl forgot that progress and consistency
have but little, If anything, in common. If
consistency be the only test of merit, the only
satisfactory reason 70 justify national conf
dence, what shall be said in favor of Mr. Glad
stone, the elected standard bearer of the
liberal party-a nan who began life
by writing and publishing couple
of bulky volumes IN defence of principles
which, if pushed to their logical conclusions,
would have revived the worst practices of the
worst days of the Spanish inquisition, and
who is now the acknowledged champion of the
anti-State Church prtyp Push consistency in
Mr.. Gladstone's c.se and he would at the
present moment bs the victim of his own
principles. As, hwever, we value liberal
sentiment more thin dogmatism and esteem
progress more highly than consistency, so we
have o word in favor of both Gladstone and
Disraeli, different hough they be from their
Commons or in heHouse of Lords, whose SEN
timents are of an, value to the community,
who holds to-day the opinions which he held
twenty-five or thirt years ago?


The late outburs Of temper in the House of
Lords is to be explained only on the principle
that the advent of Iisraeli to power has created
quite panic amng the aristocracy. They
will not have this lew to reign over them. 1t
is not beyond theprovince Of Disraeli, how
ever, to remind item that Hebrew Of the
Hebrews, q descendant of Heavens own
nobility, the mos gifted race intellectually
which the world las yet known, has no cause
to be ashamed q himself beside men who,
Notwithstanding teir pride and lofty preten-
sions, are at besibut the descendants of Nor
man freebooters md royal bastards. 'Away
with him. awaywith him" is little likely to
intimidate this latst Messiah sprung from the
the loins Of Abrham, imbued with the spirit
of Moses and inlfriting no small share Of the
genius of David md Of Solomon.


TIE ERIE RAILROAD WAR.-The bill to lc-
galize the issue Of the ten million new stock
by the directorsof the Erie Railway was re-
ported adversey the State Assembly yester-