THE AMERICAN PRESS ON ENGLISH REPUBLICANS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 7

THE AMERICAN PRESS ON ENGLISH REPUBLICANS .

, ; (VNtw York Tribune," Sep. 7.) - Some . persons \styling themselves the Republican- jCpnxmjtlgpx of England havp issued, a. .programme of ithe party they claim" to represent, asking for many, things go,o ( d and bad. The proclamation does, not seem ,-fco be , dated from Tooley-s'treet,' and it is probably signed by more tTian.onethifd of a man, "or the, Press agents would not have thought it worth sending byca,ble. It asks, , in the 1 first place, for the principle of federation to be applied to the kingdom. .This is rather indefintie-, ,and leaves us in doubt whether, the federal divisions are to, be . kingdoms or counties. Our system of States is probably responsible for this fattcifuL federalism which haunts the imaginations of all European 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 the Lords John Manners, who imagine they are confronting Chaos wheu the Upper House is touched ? TJje 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 ev«ry country in Europe is in deadly need of it. Compulsory 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 whp cannot woi;k. Lmd must be nationalised. Legislation must be popular, and Republicanism diffused. This mingling of reason and madness, of common sense and robbery, of English honesty and Latin , levity, is a curious ilkstratioc of the fornient of spirit which always precedes and accompanies great revolutions. It ia possible tiat by judicious management the important changes which the British Coistitution, is still to undergo, may be eflected without bloodshed or serious disorder.

There is little doubt that Republicanism b making enormous progress among ths working classes of England. But while the dregs ,of tho party remain at lome a constant menace and poison 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 'We. During the quarter ending/the 30th of last June, 83,394 persons left the Bmisli Islands for the United States, and ?,7,b7*(j of these wore Erglish, 8515 Heotch, and the rest Iriaa. A despatch of this morning informs us, from , Liverpool, that 18,000 persons emigrateJ to A merica during the last month. Now, as the excess of births over deaths in the "United Kingdom is no.t more than 320,000 annually, if this immense drain' of the best, and most thrifty of the peasantry continues, the question as to wbat is to be done with tl)e 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 citizons. Their influence^ in lexers and in visits is constantly, though sometimes unconsciously, exerted in favour 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.