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Show RAMPANT nOYALTY. Thu KnKiinli lioiwc of C0U1Q10U3 acted tbolL-ilily and uniltgnttiedly od Taendny nijht, io ita manner of receiving re-ceiving Sir Charles W. Dilke'rt motion for an inve.-itiation into the civil IUt of that empire. Hooting, yelifl, gruann and derisive laughter are the poorest sutntitutes for argument that could be advanced, and will 1'nrninh a text fur the republicans of Kritfland on which they will not be .slow to elaborate. elabor-ate. The motion and the manner in which it was received show the wc:ik-ne.-.i of the republicans in parliament, Lut ull'urd no criterion for their strength out. -tide it. Aud the fact that such a motion should only receive two votes out of two hundred and seventy-six will a.sHure the advocates of a republican repub-lican form of government that they need not expect to accomplish anything any-thing through parliament, until two at at least of the points of chartintu aro secured universal suffrage and vote by ballot. The comwotw acted foolishly in that they refused even to listen to the arguments argu-ments by which the motion was supported. sup-ported. Demagogues and incendiary orators will traverse the country,dircct-ing country,dircct-ing attention in fiery language to this absolute refusal to permit hundreds of ' thousands of tax-paying Englishmen to bo heard in parliament, on a matter mat-ter which has agitated the public mind for year?; and they will secure adherents ad-herents by the thousand from men who might have been willing to continue the existence of senseless and sinccuro offices, hut whoso sentiments will revolt at so glaring an evidenoo of tho lack of fair play which the commons com-mons havo manifested. Nor is tho republican re-publican party in England so insignificant insignifi-cant numerically as the vote taken would seem to indicate. Tho thirty thousand chartists that assembled years ago in tho vicinity of London, and threatened that capital, havo increased 1 tcn-fulcl; while their principles have traveled from chartism to republicanism, republican-ism, and are now fast verging on communism com-munism under the teachings and direction di-rection of the Internationale. The late outburst of loyalty, manifested mani-fested on the occasion of tho thanksgiving thanks-giving for tho recovery of the heir to tho throno, has stimulated the stead-fust stead-fust adherents of royalty in parliament to repeat in the legislative assembly the scenes enacted by mobs in various cities of England, on the occasion of republican lectures and mcctings;grcet-ing mcctings;grcet-ing tho lecturers with yells, shouts, brick-bats and rotten eggs. Gut these agitators are accustomed to this kind of thing; and tho advocates of republicanism republi-canism arc meeting with the same treatment to which Kichard Cobden, John liiight aud their confreres were subjected nearly thirty years ago, when acting as exponents of the anti-corn law league principles. Itut they agitated until their position became an accepted ac-cepted principle, and free trade a legal fact. Fourteen years ago Charles Bradlaugh, better known as "Iconoclast," was mobbed and hooted in various parts of Eugland, when attacking at-tacking Christianity and advocating the most radical atheism; but he gained adherents in proportion to tho virulence viru-lence of an opposition manifested in such a manner. The incompetent advocates ad-vocates of the Bible, when they found they lacked penetration sufficient to find the threads of which lie wove Gne sophistical wehs,stirred up the passions of the crowd against him, end actually made converts to his views by so doing. do-ing. iSow he is one of the recognized leaders of communist'O principles in England; and from being a comparatively compara-tively obscure itinerant lecturer he has become a recognized leader of a powerful power-ful party, albeit it has yet failed to find more than one or two exponents of its principles in parliament. So it ever has been and ever will be. Oppose views or opinions, no matter how erroneous or absurd, by brute force or the strong arm of power, and they gain increased vitality. Had the British commons candidly considered Pilke's motion, and by a deliberate vote after dignified argument pronounced pro-nounced against it by the same majority major-ity that so declared themselves on Tuesday Tues-day night, they would have given republicanism re-publicanism a severe blow, for their action would have been respected. As it is, they have added strength to the republican cause in England, Eng-land, and upon the same principle that the Uiah crusaders have added strength to the system they have been persecuting because mankind, as a rule, revolt against everything that boars on its face the appearance of persecution or a want of fair play. |