THE AMERICAN PRESS ON ENGLISH REPUBLICANS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 32, 6 February 1872, Page 4

THE AMERICAN PRESS ON ENGLISH REPUBLICANS.

(From the New York Tribune )

Some persons styling themselves the Republican Committee of England, have issued a programme of the party they claim to represent, asking for many things good and bad. The proclamation does not seem to be dated from Tooley-street, and it is probably signed by more than one-third of a mau, or the Press agents would not have thought it worth seuding by cable. It asks in the first place for the principle of federation to be applied to the kingdom. This is rather indefinite, and leaves us in doubt whether the federal divisions are to be kingdoms or counties. Our system of States is probably responsible for this fanciful federalism which haunts the imaginations of all Republicans. The Committee next demands the abolition of all titles and privileges, and this they will probably get some day — leaving titles to subsist merely as a social distinction. But what will become in that case of Mr.. Carlyle and tbe Lord John Manners, who imagine that they are confronting Chaos when the Upper house is touched ? The suppression of monopolies is suggested, which means different things to any two men who talk about it. The abolition of standing armies is good Republican doctrine everywhere, and every country in Europe is in deadly need, of it. Com* pulsory education is also an unexceptional demand. But the next clause of the platform launches us in the wide sea of Communism. The State must provide work for laboring men, and sustenance for those who cannot work. Land must be nationalised* Legislation must be

popular, and Republicanism diffused. This mingling of reason and madness, of common sense aud robbery, of English honesty and Latin levity, is a curious illustration of the ferment of spirit which always precedes and accompanies great revolutions. It is possible that by judicious management the important changes which the British Constitution is still to undergo may ba effected without bloodshed or serious disorder. There is little doubt that Republicanism is making enormous progress among the working classes of Eogland. But while the dregs of the party remain at home, a constant menace and poisou to peace and good government, we get the best of them in America. Few people are aware of the enormous proportion of English people who annually immigrate here. A despatch informs us from Liverpool that 18,000 persous emigrated to America during the last month. Now, as the excess of births in the United Hingdom is no more than 320,000 annually, if this immense drain of the best and most thrifty of the peasantry continues, the question as to what is to be done with the diminishing residuum becomes a most important one. The English have strong local attachments. Most of them who come to our shores intend some day to return ; but they rarely do, and their children are good and loyal citizens.. Their influence in letters and iv visits is constantly, though sometimes unconsciously, exerted in favor of Republicanism. Every young man who is forced out of England by the consequences of bad government or unjust laws, assumes in the act a share in the Republican propaganda at home.