The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-19 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12b. 30m.
ro-moßßow.-Morning, 12b. 55m.—Afternoon, lh. 19m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 19, 1864.

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THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock 34

Barometer-30.04.
Wind—N.W.; strong breeze, with snow.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 19, 1864.

The Conservative Cheers which greeted Mr.
MOOR, the newly-elected member for Brighton, last
evening,upon his taking his seat for the first time
in the Rouse of Commons, have (we may be quite
certain of that) their especial significance. They
mean mischief. They point the moral of what is
called—(it matters little, by the way, what the
thing is called, ma;
-ng that its existence, term it
what you will,ls quite visible and manifest all
around us)—" the conservative Reaction." It
adorns the tale of a long increasing, and now tole-
rab,y clear and perfectly
"cure majority—on the
side of the Opposition. Never, perhaps, in the
annals of Parliament, has Opposition been so
an
deliberately bent upon biding its time--upon hus-
banding its resources with all care, but, bond
y
everything else, upon " biding its time." The turn
in the balance of members has long been pee„d.
At any time during the last twelvemonth the Cone
servatives in the House of Commons might, upon a
well selected opportunity, have put Ministers
in a minority, It is within the recollection
of the country that, during these two last sessions of
Parliament, Ministers have in truth been defeated
upon divisions over and over again. The year be-
fere last, that is 1862, came to be known jocu-
larly as the seesion of -Wednesday Dafeats for the
liberal side of the House, the side of the Govern-
ment. And this, moreover, upon all kinds of Re-
form questions of more or less importance. And this
was so far back in the history of the present Ad-
ministration, that it will be remembered now as
time' and again, 'when Sir
as having occurred,
GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS was apparently in the
full vigour of his career both its scholar and ad-
ministrator, both as statesman and as man of letters,
and when there was no suspicion whatever of any
probably sudden collapse of those remarkable in-
tellectual powers, which were, nevertheless, all the
while, being overwrought so pitilessly. Then it was
that that English Minister, with others of his col-