The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-06 00:00:00

1852

MR. COBDEN AT LEEDS.
Having raised Lancashire, proclaimed tree trade in a
state of siege, co.leated 27,000/., and threerened to shut
up the Times, Mr. Cobden next appear: in FranconVe
Circus at Leeds, haranguing a multitude—fonr times
larger, he says, than any ho ever saw in that borough
before. His tone here is much the same as before. The
Gaul is at the gates ; our loaves and our liberties are in
imminent peril ; Lord Derby and his myrmidons are
sworn to rob our pantries and our larders, and cannot
possibly withdraw from the enterprise with honour ;
give no space for repentance, but crush them at once.
Mr. Cobden had intended to consult his modesti and
his ease by giving up the West Riding, and retiring to
his snug little borough of Stockport ; lent, ever ready at
duty's call, he will sacrifice his convenienee to fight the
last battle of freejrade as the representative of the' West
Riding. To augment the solemnity of the occasion, he
advises the people of Leeds not to inaugurate the
statue of Peeli till they have smitten the dragon
of Protection with his kat—positively his last fatal
wound. Give the enemies no quarter ! Pursue and
spare not ! Wait nut to Sat what they will do. If
they are honest men they are robbers. Believe not
their fair words, and doubt not their evil intentions.
Thus does Mr. Cobden rave by the hour, and, as
nothing occupies the senses like noise, he dominates at
this moment with undisputed sway from the Mersey to
the Humber. Shout loud enough, exaggerate largely
enough, and be sufficiently positive, and you will stun the
memory, stupify reflection, and paralyze the whole
reasoning man. For our part, we can pr -tend to no such
mastery over the senses. We cannot vie with Franeuni,
or make ourselves heard above kettledrums and cornets-
a-piston. Wo are painfully aware that though the forty
thousand copies of our paper may possibly pass in turn
to a million readers, every one of them sits down to the
perusal of our colums grimly resolved to judge for him-
self. Every one of them says, " Now, what does the
Times say?" and stops at the end of each paragraph to
enter a demurrer, or accord a thrifty approbation.
Having to address ourselves to the understanding, and
not simply to the senses of our readers, we are obliged to
be rational, and can also afford to be so. But, in truth,
where is the necessity of all this hideous rout and frantic
uproar? Is the ship on fire? Are we actually going to
the bottom? Are the pirates on board? Are we tied
hand and foot, expecting our doom? Is there any
danger at all? We answer eons!: In our opinion, there
nes been no such sudden change in the state of affairs. It
is true that Lord John Russell is out and Lord Derby is
in, but beyond that the change is imaginary. We are
afraid to say for how long—some will say a quarter of a
century, and aomo will say a century and a half—no
change of Government has made any considerable dif-
ference in the progress of legislation, for when a thing is
once resolved on out of -doors, no Minister, no Parlia-
ment can stop it or considerably retard it—much less
reverse it. The Tories used to abase Lord Liverpool
for sapping the foundations of the British Constitution,
just as they abused Peel afterwards; but since that Can-
ning, Wellington, Grey, Melbourne, Peel, and Russell,
have simply been doing one another's business; for
there is not amore thorough servant in this nation than
the Prime Minister. If the nation sets one Minister a
piece of work his successor must finish it, and will
finish it, or give up his situation as well as the
job. This is a simple induction of the portion of
British history that falls within the memory of even our
youngest readers, and the lesson is so manifest as to be-
come a byword against successive Ministers. We know
the mind of the British people, and • we also know the
mind of British statesmen; and we know that no British
statesman will ever try conclusions with the British
people. But, as Mr. Cobden exaggerates the power of
a Minister and of a Parliainentary majority, supposing
one to be gained, so also is he guilty of a far more serious
exaggeration in his account of the partyjust thrown into
power. On this point our own position is unchanged,
for we see no change, and apprehend no change, ex-
cept that which has been long in progress. We
have had occasion to say, not once, but a hundred
times during the last two or three years, that the
leading Protectionists all over the country were giving
up the rigour of their principle, commuting their chief
article of faith for more practicable objects, de-
serting Protectionist meetings, and determining to
think for themselves. Last autumn we recorded
the complaints of farmers and land agents and id genus
omne, that country gentlemen were fighting shy of pro-
tection, and leaving them in the lurch. The chiefs have
long ceased to demand protection, and contented them-
selves with exploring the condition of the agriculturist,
to see where the shoe pinched, and bow it came to pass
that he could make all ends meet. But, as for pledges,
they had also come to an end, and were quite out of la-
your at head-quarters. That enlargement of mind, that
softening of prejudices, that acquiescence in free trade
as a fact, was going on when Lord Derby was sum-
moned to form a Government, and has only been slightly
accelerated by that event. Now, much as we respect
Mr. Cobden, we cannot be altogether blind to the facts
of the case. We cannot say, with him, that Lord
Derby's Government has come in pledged to protection,
after having ourselves boasted fifty times during the last
year that its principal members had refused to ask for
protection any longer. Having watched, and noted, and
proclaimed this hopeful change, we could not, consis-
tently with truth or decency, pretend to be frightened
when Lord Derby came in. We could not even call him
a Protectionist, except in a conventional sense, much
less could we think free trade in danger.
Bat, as Mr. Cobden is turning over the old " dig-
ging" to extract another crop of honour and glory from
fre] trade, and has abused us for not adopting his own
view of the matter, we beg to contrast cur two positions,
and to ask which of us two, Mr. Cobden or the Times,
is staking most on the truth and triumph of free trade.
We ere prepared to show that we are staking eiery-
thing, and Mr. Cobden nothing. Seppeeing that Lord
Derby on the opening of his new Parliament expressly
and solemnly renounces protection, either becauso there
is an evident majority
in his own mind, Mr. CO'ainst it, or from considerations
bilen then will once more o!tac-
cept an ovation. Ho will tell the world what he, and
Lancashire, end the West Riding have done. " We
rushed to cur posts; we gathered in masses. I mace a
speech in Manchester when 27,000/. was collected in 25
minutes. I made a speech at Leeds to 5,000 people. I
denounced the immorality of the press. I exposed the
treachery of the Protectionists. I let them see what
a pit they were preparing for themselves. I
roused the country. I did this. I did that. I did
everything, The protectionists trembled and hesitated.
They took warning, or the people took warning, 85 it
might be. And now, behold, we triumph once more.
He will brag a twelvemonth of this rubbish, and he will
find hearers to suck it all in, though all the time he
will positively have no more to do with the result than
Franooni, his brass band, or his horses. That will be
Cobden's gain out of that result. We, on the contrary,
shill gain nothing by it, for we shall not be able to add
anything to what we now say—viz., that Protection is
done for, and Lord Derby neither will nor can restore
We shall only be able to say that the state of things, in
autumn, 1852, is, on the whole, much the same es in
spring, 1852, and in spring, 1852, much the same as it
was in autumn, 1851, there only being a slow and sure
development of salutary convictions in the country
party during the whole period, somewhat hastened
nut not produced, by the sense of Ministerial respon-
sibility. That will be all we can say in that
event, and of course we shall gain nothing. Take
the other alternative. Suppose that Lord Derby
gets a majority pledged to protection, and is so infatu-
ated as to use it, and carry, we will say, a five-shilling
duty. In that case Mr. Cobden will get all the credit he
can desire for his superior sagacity, bis honesty, ifiiih"
fulness, his prescience, and his wonderful exertions to
rouse the people to a sense of their danger; and ho will,
of course, have a carte blanche for any operations or any
propositions that may be necessary to drive Lord Derby
from from power, and reverse the policy e have suhpro d
him to be guilty of. We, en the' contrary, shall be
be
laughed at as dupes, or hated as traitors. Thus a
rneraent's rsti-ction will show that Mr. Cobden is play-
ing his cards to gain by both resalts, whereas
quieter and sleepier course we are taking, . ;
ewe, l
e gain
no-
thing by Lord Derby's formally
renonne protection,
by the
but lose very much by his restoring it. Thus, after all
Mr. Cobden's bluster and abuse, he is staking nothing
on the -e-
-cause of free tradewe arc
quietly staking every
thing on it.—Times. -

SPIRIT of the 'PUBLIC JOURNALS:
TlMES.—Anstiog the many duties of political leader-
and moderating the expectations
ship, nut the eeaoest is that of 6in:split-eine. the policy, her-
i of supportere. There is hardly
mofoaniznaleife:iiberlleaonug:cergoot,
an extreme opinion or a Quixotic design which might
Parlia-
men'ary majority, but iu his official staff, and his Cabi-
net be found, uso. merely :a Lord John Beeeen's
net itfietfi_zQr. vas
.there :ass
.diversity in Sir Robert
Peel's Goternment, er any that preceded it since at least
the Liverpool Administration. But the operations of
party and the prospect of office, though they are apt to
inflame the extravagant and' egotistical, have the more
general off, ct of sobering Deem down to a sense of their
position and a calculation of their power. The chiefs,
of course, tea eeieg the moat responsible, are usually the
most practical, and the consequence is they have very
hard work e jai declaimers, theerists, bigots, and all the
other ;-udis indiaes!ugue racks of 'faction. That 50112c-
thing of the :73 enfficuities is to be found even in that
finer material of wOich Cabinets are composed, might
be abundantly proved by the entials of Dawning-
street during the last twenty years. We are thus
rather diverted than surpria d to fad the statements of
the politicians just cerise inin power varying in the exact
order of their responsibility zed importance; the chiefs
being content with general and conditional language,
while those further down in the scale are more positive
and precise. We have aircady adverted to the rather
blank announcement of the new President of the Board
0 thet n . e
latelynea Chancellor
returned
mtbheer Dfourc ht
hye
of Trade and thu Colonial Secretary. If two examples
be wanted to illustrate the case of less responsibility, and
no responsibility at all, they are found in the addresses
andfo w h
ford. Airs
eCxhprriesstsoipulenesra,rwe
therefore
netior of i
n o
tfchoNe,uLeurnaytenywesaeoscetfoeani Irbui,eanarnereytd
of :
importance, tells his constituents, we dare say truly
enough, that he accepts office " from a conviction of Lord
Derby's sincere desire to reverse the financial and com-
t
m wethiiceh he says, a has proved so inju-
r industryb and capital." It is unnecessary
o iour s
ft
tha c l t
o a this on the first blush we should
say e
titpn:salt:ile evrl. c.
Christopher is not very unlikely to
repeat
ibthaendepiisnodtehoefkit,heeeiDakeofßuckie
Ministry;
viz., to walk away
with his permanent addition of "right honourable," and
the historical honours of a distinguished, though not
very responsible office. Mr. Booker, being under no
official trammels whatever, advertises a thundering ad-
dress, to wnich we have no doubt he will revert a year
hence with mournful satisfaction. We have now several
Ministeiial speeches before us. Lord John Manners has
addressed his constituents from the hustings, and has
answered some impertinent questions. But, before we
concern ourselves with his answers, let us ask what his
Lordship is in the Cabinet. lie is what Lord Seymour
was, and may easily do his duty as well. There is
no reason why he should nect- select a position for
an arch, or a design for a lamppost; why he should
not plan a drive or lay out a shrubbery as :well as
his predecessor; why he should not be las civil to
the Royal Commissioners or the apple-women is
Ilyde-park. But, es Lord Seymour had, we pre-
sume, a very diminished head in the delibe-
rations of the Cabinet, Lord John Manners will pro-
bably exhibit to his chid that affectionate submission
which accords so well with his natural loyalty of temper.
We take it, therefore, as a very small affair that, in re-
ply to a mixed demand for his opinions on the ballot and
on free trade, be entered into some superfluous specula-
tions on the latter point. His Lordship does not see
why beer and soap and tea should be sexed in order that
foreign bread and meat should be untaxed. It is not
very necessary to clear his Lordship's perplexity, but
we are quite sure that nicety-nine hundredths of the
people will understand by the light of their own under-
standings, and the sensations of their own stomachs,
why, it taxes must be paid, the superfluities of life shoultl
be taxed, and that the necessaries of life may be untaxed;
and why also taxes should be paid tinthe State, and to
no other party than the State. This answer, we fear,
will not be so satisfactory to his Lordship as to
prevent him from still retaining his opinion, " that
a great reform and revision of the tariff is
asked for at the hands of Government." He will proba-
bly still trust " that the verdict of the sound-judging
people of England will be given in favour of tariff re-
form." Believing, as we do, that the consummation
which Lord John Manners so ardently desires is simply
impossible, we may perhaps be expected to regret the
presence of the noble enthusiast in the Cabinet. But, in
the first place, Lord John Manners, as, indeed, he ad-
mitted on this occasion, is one of those who are so ner-
vously anxious to avow what they call their principles
and opinions, that they will often publish es such what-
ever comes to the tip of their tongues or the surface of
their imaginations. Everybody knows that Lord John
Manners in sentimental to excess, so we set down his
sentiment at its proper worth. If he writes poetry de-
ploring the dissolution of abbeys, the banishment of
the Stuart dynasty, the disuse of the maypole or the
baronial gallows, the substitution of muskets for
crossbows, or of printed prayer-books for richly illu-
minated rnissa!s, we none of us expect that he will
seriously set to work reviving those obsolete affairs, or
that he will insist cn Lord Derby
,bringing in a Bill to
repeal the Act of Succession. No. Thu Istinisterial re-
presentative of the house of Rutland will be content to
adorn the Cabinet with his poetry and his presence. He
will give no unnecessary annoyance. " We are called a
practical people," he justly says. "It is the boast of
Englishmen that they are not carried away by theoreti-
cal doctrines, and Utopian dreams of perfection which
cannot be realised," tie, among other " Utopian dreams
of perfection," which his Lordship will surrender year
by year as he grows older, we have no doubt we may
set down wheat at an average of 56r. a quarter, and
beef as tod. ^ pence'. Iu rather stziktnn.' contrast
to the Noble Commissioner of Woods and Forests,
we have an address from Mr. Herries to the electors
of Stamford, a speech oy Sir John Pckington to his
constituents at Droitwich, and another by Lord Henry
Lennox at Chichestcr. The Right flee. President of
the Incline. Board says, in the best official language, tlitt
his " priecipies" are unchanged; a fact which
we believe to be quite compatible with a judicious appli-
cation of those principles, as circumstances may require.
Sir John Pakington is ready to bow to the decision of
the country, whatever it may be, as expressed at the

general election. He has ulwa3s avowed his opinicm in
htroar of a moderato fixed duty, and sees no reason to
alter that cpinicnt but he evi.tently does not think it

_ ...
sacred enough to require tither a martyrdom or a resig-
nation. If the country won't have it. the country need
not. ai far as he is concerned. Lord Henry Lennox
thinks that the pressure of taxation is um qual,
and .he hopes for an arnici.ble settlement of our
fatal class waifare; but he denies that Lord
Derby is pledged to anything more than to obey the will
of the peocle, as announced by the next general elec-
tion. Twit general election, from all accounts, is not
very far distant. Lord John Eriss,ll, it is said, will
anti we believe, iiii
take the eArliest opportun:ty of grasping at the priz3
in 1841); arid
Lis
bands
t'Plejislictoit vetob got:en
of
his
plan,
pp
amiss on his
twoboicfharla e downhas Igo sslitPreoaumt.
force Lord Di.rby ro resign, that, it they beat him agent
in the new Parliamet. they
tansy set the old Aiinittry
principalsu
CDC:, more on its legs by aututnr. As his Lordship has
not the least idea that there vas anything
victories to detests.
mat, or in the Cabinet, he expeea th4t after this aslu-
L,, y 1C5,,071 to his refractory supporters the concern will
then go on more prosperously than Over, that is Kith
a somewhat greater proportion of

SPORTING ELLIGENCE.
TADC ASTER STEEPLECIIASES.--FRIDAY.
Tho Farmers' t-it altos of 2 ti)vs, each, and 45 added,
three miles. 13 Subs., vv;:re woa by Mr. Newborn's
Quccn of the Wilke, ageO, 12A (Mr. H. Newborn),
..
neating,Sap, list 51a, t--ad 10 oth,,rs.
The ,!..;curry Stakes were wen b
Baroee y Redeemer, beating
~.s r. rld 11 othcrF.
TilL: LINCOLN /7 OYEARS OLD STAKES.—The Steward
of the Itac,i have dceitied that the nomination of
Brougllton, w. given to the Clerk of the Course, was valid.
WATERLOO COURSING MEETING.—TounsnAr.
Waterloo Cup.
Sec3nd Ties—
iid
dress.:! I.),tilee-avve.y bt Larriston Bre D
arnston bt an Third Tiecc-
a—Crito bt Housemaid, L
Corito bt Stanley, flousemaidubht_T:u-

Deciding; Course—Mr. Cooke's Cerito bt Mr. Hen-
derson's Larriston, and won the cur-
Waterloo Purse.
First Ties—Sardinian bt Mischief, Neville bt Com-
munist, Raven bt :Bonnie Scotland, Priam bt Fanny.
Second Ties—Neville bt Sardinian, Raven ran a bye,
(Priam drawn).
Deciding Course—Mr. Gregson's Neville bt Mr. Ran-
dall's Raven, and won the Parse.
The Ahem. Stakes.
Mr. Randall's na Lopez;ht Ir. Gradwell's na Sefton.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's stag hds., Tugs. Burnham Beeches;
Fri. Biz-bottom, near Henley-11.
Bath stag-hds., Tars. Frozne-114; Fri. Westbury
—l2.
EdiOX Union hds., Wed. Hizeleigh Hall; Sat. Stock
East Essex lad
ing Street; Sat. Notley Gatt-10i.
'rues. Birdbrook Hall; Thurs. Miss-
East F.s.ex hds., Tun. ingruve Church; Sat. Orsstt
Heath-10i.
Essex and Suffolk hdr., Tuer. Thorrington Hall; Fri.
Newton Green-10i.
lion. F. petres fit,ag-hds., Tues. Moreton--11i..
Durham County hds. M. Shiucliffe; Wed. Elgin.
ton; Fri. Wood well House-10!!.

ACCIDENT to the INDIAN MAIL STEAMER.
MARSEILLES, MARCH 4.
arrived here from a port in Sardini
The French steamer Lycurgue, with the Indian
mail, bas just r,
where the English mail-boat Ardent was comp:llW
to put in with disabled m3chincry.

TgE NEW AIyOINTATEIVTS.
Fronk ,i, Im.s been appointfli to
be private secretary to vic iliaxquis of Salisbury, Lord
Privy Seal.
Tbo,as G. Gran:, .6:1., has been appointed to be
privite secretary to Auxuetus St,;.fford Req., ,
M.P.
the Secretary to the A(lrnirLlrr , .

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LAMBETH —" In t& tla-ltkPz recent extmnt," saYs
Lysons, " it is culiod Lambelltil ; in Doomsday B, ~k, pro-
bably by mibtake, LaticiL:i • by the arnica historians it is
sielt Lainhee, Landietb, L'.arilli th, Lantedk." Some ety-
mologists derive the name front Lass, ()lift, and hyd, or
hythe, e haven; others from Lamb and hythe. For our own
part we incline greatly to the .' dirt" derivation, and *mild
appeal to the present state of much of the district in conlir-
tion.—Thc Buildcr.
mation of the oph
A roTnECARIES'-li ALL.—Nam-:s
of gentlemen who
passed their ezcamination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thursday,
4th of March, 1852;—John Pony Wan ober, 1 )ovonpot t ;
Thomas ROAM Creswell.