The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1863,

Is Earl RUSSELL'S facetiousness tho other day

at Dundee to be accounted for in any respect, we
wonder, by reason of a certain self-complacency at
the successful development by him daring the holi-
days of certain extremely odd new phases in his
Foreign Policy ? Scarcely have the Houses of
Parliament been prorogued, scarcely have the mem-
bers—hereditary and representative—been fairly
scattered far and wide throughout the provinces and
upon the continent, es well as upon the wide seas in
their yachts, when Earl RUSSELL effects a change in
the diplomatic arrangements of the Government, such
as he would, for certain, never have ventured upon

while the Legislature was actually sitting. Sir

JA MES HUDSON is coolly turned to the right-about
at Turin. He is compelled to vacate his place there at
the British Embassy—in order that another of these
interminable ELLIOTS may slip into it quite com-
fortably and conveniently. The long vacation
enabling the noble Earl to carry out his affectionate
intentions towards thus furthering the interests of his
kinsman by this distinguished and most desirable
promotion, the thing is in due course done accord-
ingly. And done so quietly, too—by an announce-
ment in the Gazette ! No vexatious worrying of
either the Foreign Secretary himself in the House

of Lords, no troublesome annoyance inflicted upon

his representative in the House of Commons, the
hon. member for the borough of Southwark, who
sits there during the session upon the Treasury
bench in his responsible character as Under. Secr-
etary for the Foreign Department ; no annoying
questions put either here or there, now to Earl
RUSSELL by one of those sarcastic peers on the
Side of the Opposition, now to Mr. LAYARD by one
of those metropolitan members who are always EO
eagerly in quest of knowledge under difficulties!
Sir JAMES HUDSON—about whose removal we, at
any rate, can speak quite dispassionately, having
a supreme indifference as to the sequel of
the diplomatic career of his ex-Excellency—
Sir JAMES HUDSON has only to withdraw
silently from his position at Turin as English
ambassador ! Mr. ELLIOT has only as silently to
step into his empty shoes, and to occupy his vacated
residence in that capital of Piedmont—for we can
hardly yet surely speak of Turin as the capital of
Italy, without running, at least, a very imminent
hazard of wounding the amour propre of every
Lombard, Tuscan, Neapolitan, even, we might say,
of every Modenese, Parmese, and so forth, in the
the length, and whatever there is in it of breadth,
of the whole Roman peninsula. All the penalty
Earl RUSSELL has been subjected to, in consequence
of his flagrant subordination of public interests
of all kinds to the petty individual interests of one
among the large cluster of his own numerous kith
and kin, has been in the way of printed commentary
upon that extraordinary proceeding, extraordinary
'yen from him and for an ELLlOT—sarcastic
leaders in the daily and weekly newspapers, and
all occasional caustic gibe in the shape of a hu-
morous illustration in the pages of our
London
Charivari. The accomplishment of his
amiable design in regard to Mr. ELLIOT, with only
this slight cost
to himself in the shape of ridicule
endured, Nese,
oonbtless, in itself a circumstance
calculated to lighten considerably the spirits of the
Foreign Secrets.— a
t the verycommencement of his
autumnal holidays. Bat, even then, it fails to explain
the height of hilarity attained by those lightened
spirits of his upon the occasion of the noble earl's re-
public appearance at
Dundee. t undee. Something very
different, indeed; something far
more exhi:irating
than the quiet af..,cting
of this dexterous insinua-
tion of an ELLIOT into the suddenly vacated British
Embassy at Turin, must have inspired that most
unusual vivacity on the part of the Foreign
Secretary one ordinarily rather didactic in
manner, and given to an undue display
of
gravity than to tho convulsion of his audience,
whether in Parliament or out of it, into bursts of
irrepressible hilarity.

Yet it is only necessary to glance down E irl Rus-
sE,LL's speech lately at Dundee, to recognise that
the noble lord was in what is called familiarly and
emphatically tin-top spirits while he was speak-
ing. But for his name appearing at the head of
his speech to the Dundeeites, we might, from the
character of the interruptions, have been led to
suppose that it was an after dinner harangue by
Mr. BUCKsToNE, or an oration upon some very
serious question, indeed, a Church matter of
importance, or a mere than usually anxious
great
topic connected with finance, spoken to a
laughing audience by that veteran light comedian
of politics, the First Lord of the Treasury.
Laughter, renewed laughter, once even, intense

langhter—these were the kind of interruptions to
Lord RUSSELL'S speech the other day at Dundee.

Whence, this abounding hilarity on the part of the

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