The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

ARIIINISTRATIVE REFORM.

Ministers have agreed to place themselves under the
protection of their Tory rivals, for the purpose of evading
Administrative Reform, they have contrived to obtain
a majority of seven to one. What impression this ma-
noeuvre and its immediate success may have upon the
mind of the country, it were premature, perhaps, to say. ,
There are many earnest and determined spirits on whom
such a declaration of Parliamentary defiance will act
only as a new stimulus, and whose energies will only he
the more actively called forth as the necessity for greater
and deeper changes than were at first conternplate4 is
forced upon national reflection. As against the claim of
the middle classes to a just share in the administrative
government of the Siate, all the oligarchic factions have
shown their readiness to combin,.. The pretences al-
leged by each of them varies, indeed, according to their
respective antecedents and ,Ictual positions. Mr. Dis-
raeli spurns the popular demand as imposture, while be
pathstically reminds us of a bantling of his own, of
wondrous promise, which wis smothered in its official
cradle, when he and his friends were driven from
power. With equal parental fontlns,s Mr. Gladstone
tells us of the still-birth of the scheme, whose early
obsequies have been elaborately performed by Sir S.
Northcote ,and Sir C. Trevelyan ; but which, had the
capable of strang-
breath of life been ever breathed into it, would, we are
alisng suraeldl.thhe savelipprpoey
vredaandveirnysidHioeurcsu
jobss' whose foids now
encircle the public interest. On the part of the Whigs,
Lord Palmerston avers that the favourite of the people
is a foundling of low and disreputable origin ; but that
they are nurturing to maturity .an offspring of right
honourable parentage, whose dress is still, indeed, the
old buff and blue livery, but whose usefulness in after
years will be felt and acknowledged. All concur in
supercilious repudiation of the child of the people ; its
features indicate plebeian sympathies ; and every aristo-
crat in the house, with two exceptions, voted accordingly
on Monday night that it should be turned out of doors.
Of the many long and tedious speeches delivered on
the occasion, it cannot be expected that we should speak
in much detail. Those of Mr. Disraeli and Lord .Pal-
Tmheersatoimn coafllt,hheopw
eervbeyr,ifteorlesaodmeerp
degreeap of separate notice.
The to have been to
use the opportunity for throwing another flying bridge
across the chasm that still separates the Tory seceders
of 1846 from the great bulk of their part y.oflatet
be-
tween
here
has been h
the
two nothing
ex
Chancellors
interchangeo r so
fhe t Exchequer. Expe-
rience of compliments
has convinced them both how much they stand
in need of each other, and we must do them the justice
to say that neither of them has of late been wanting in
profuse offers of political hospitality. A delicate contro-
versy, indeed, is still waged between them as to which
is to be considered the host and which the guest ;
but where the tendency to embrace is so obvious,
it is but natural to expect that the objects of
, mutual affection will advance to meet each other
half way. There is more difficulty in finding floating
• topics which may serve as pontoons and planks for