Year: 1874

be formed, being of ancient family, high rank, and
great fortune. Men Of that stamp are, and, what
ever the Republicans may say about it, long VIII he
looked up to IN England and their political inil-
ence will survive The extinction of the House oil
Lords q body of hereditary Legislators. Lord Sal
isbury quilted the Derby Ministry in 1861 IN COM
pany with Lord Carnarvon and Gen. Feel on
the ground that Lord Derby and Mr.. Disrae!i were
sacrificing the principles of the permanent interests
of the party for the sake of temporary hold on
Office The Reform Bill of that wear, which gave
England Household Suffrage. was to Lord Salisbury
q Bill of Abomnations. Sooner than support 1t lie
resigned. The quarrel between him and Mr.


Dsrael became personal as well rs political.
believe the two were not on speaking terms. But
Lord Salisbury is perhaps by this time convinced
that Mr.. Disraeli understood the situation. Most
people talk as if the result of the present election
proved him 20 possess superhuman foresight. which
Is of the usual eXaggeratons consequent on sue
cess Whether Lord Salisbury shares that belief or
not he must be satisfied that he could not now
refuse office without offending the party, and
probably forfetng his claims to the future leadership
of IT. and bitter it may he to him. lie once more
resumes his allegiance He is to take the Secretary
ship of India, his former office, and the Bengal
famine is another for his taking it. Public
opinion called on him. as perhaps the one man in
England who by knowledge and capacity and force
of will NAV vet deal successfully with that terrible
problem and avert what has lately seemed an in-
eyitable catastrophe. The first interview between
Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Disraeh must have been
curious The story goes that not a little pressure
had to be put on the great Marquis before he would
consent TO q reconciliation


Lord Derby in the Foreign Office is q matter of
course II there be five living Engllshmcn with
real taste for foreign affairs and real knowledge
about them, Lord Derby is surely one OF the five.
The candidates for the other four places may be Sc
lected by the reader There is n notion that the
accession of the Tories to Office will be marked by
vigorous" foreign policy. l do not quite know
what that means but shall be safe in saying that
the average English idea of diplomatic yigor is to
bully somebody Or to resist somebody's bullying.
There is a call for spirited" action, or rathcra
complaint that past action has not been spirited.
One of the events that helped discredit the Glad
stone Government as much as any other was, | am
sorry to say, the Treaty of Washington and the re-
suit of the Geneva and Berlin arbitratous If |
wished to follow Mr.. Goldwin Smiths example
might say that the English "hate" in conse-
ouence, But do not wish to follow Mr. Goodwin
Smiths example, and believe neither that English
men as a people hate Americans, nor that Ameri-
cans as people hate Enghshmen The feeling here
is that England was outwitted al Washington, and
made more or less party to a sham at Geneva, and
victim TO a fOrcgOne conclusion. Such resentment
as they have on that account they have visited
heavily ON Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville but
especially on Mr.. Gladstone. They certainly do not
expect Lord Derby to undo the Treaty, o. TO get
back the money paid on the Geneva verdict. Ifthey
did they would choose a different man. Lord Derby
was party to the original scheme of arbitration, and
much as arbitration is BOW discreditcd, hc would
certainly prefer another arbitration to war that
could be prevented by it, TO US be is neither friend
nor enemy. The blood runs too cOldly and slowly
in his veins for very energetic love or hatred, and
no two characters could be more unlike than his and
his fathers II the present Lord Derby had been in
office when Russia tore up the Treaty Of Paris to
launch navy on the Black Sea, he would have ac
quesced believe, in that act, as Lord Granville
acouiesced in it, and for the same reason because
no resistance short of armed resistance would have
availed. and nothing could have induced England to
embark in a second Crimean war. Experience goes
for something There will he neither a second siege
of SebastopO nor a second Alabama, nor yet VIII
the most passionate cOunsels persuade Mr. Dsraers
Foreign Minister to intervene in Continental politics
TO maintain the balance of power-Or anything else.
| was almost going to add. But ! do not add
il; because | believe the imperial spirit
and the readiness TO fight for imperial
ends are as great as ever III England
and that among all the varieties Of vicious nonsense
more or less commonly talked none Is more vicious
or likely some day to make mischief than the
notion that the warlie quality is no longer to be
found in Englishmen. OF that quality Lord Derby
is not the best representative any more than Lord
Granville was Neither of them would fight so long
as he could negotiate. But they are both English
men. and there is limit to their patience Under
pressure from his colleagues, the limit TO Lord
Derby's might be reached sooncrathan the limit to
Lord Granvlle's, under less pressure from his. To
foreign nations in general, and to the United States
in particular that is about all the probable signh
canoe of the change of Government i'll their rela-
ti0ns with it.


The third able man is of course Lord Cairns who
is equally of course, TO be Lord Chancellor PohlcS
apart suppose either Lord Cairns or Lord Sell
horne is above the average Of Lord Chanceilors.
Both are to some extent law refOrmers and each
has a scheme of hls own for the Improvement of
English judicature and Jurisprudence. Neither VIII
ever Law finger on the real scandal of the English
system the division of the legal profession which
forces every sutor to employ two lawyers TO do one
lawyers work, and the union of the two into one
gigantic trades union more oppressive ana hhoi-
Grant than any other that exists. -


OF Sir Stafford NOrthcOte. who is 70 be Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and have the giving away OF MI
Gladstope's surplus, you know something personally
az Joint High Commissioner at Washington. lie Is
a paipstaking conscientious, rather dry man, well
up IN the routine of finance, and likely TO- 40 well
the mechanical part of his business az the treasury
But the pressure put on him to sguahder money VII


he such as no new can resist. sir stafford
Northcote comes 70 the Exchequer for the hist time,
and will find its doors besieged by mob Oi hungfy
solicitors from the people at large from interests El
every kind complaining Of taxation, aud possibly
from his colleagues of what are called the spending
departments-War and dAdmralty-though they are
said 10 have been put there 10 be prudent IL ne
were Mr. Lowe himself he might find himself over
1natched. Moro appang 10 MIN stlll must be the