The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-08 00:00:00

MONDAY

navigation would be complied with. A temporary
3., ronlo 1-t‘s ,v;,t4ng ;nt,,rf-3. 3
vvuutcl,be clisiurtibd. 3pputirlibt:e vi tLe
bridge might be fashioned by the highest architectural
art; its stability and severer conditions might be in-
trusted to experienced and responsible men. A straight
line of road might be carried from the Westminster to
the Lambeth side; and, if it were thought desirable to
givo to Bridge-street and to Lambeth-road a width equal
to that of the new bridge, it could be done at any con-
venient time by funds properly raised for local purposes,
without taking more money out of the national purse
than it ought to supply for building the bridge itself.
Such conditions as we have here sketched have in
fact been embodied in the design which we have seen,
and which has been submitted to the Commissioners now
about to introduce a Bill into Parliament for reconstruct-
ing Westminstcr-bridge.—
_ _

[Although the suggestion of our Contemporary ;s in-
genious to some extent, w•) must nevertheless maintain,
as we have always done, the folly of preserving such
immediate proximity to a site which has already sunk
(literally sunk) so much of the public moneys. Let the
new bridge be constructed upon a plan altogether dif-
ferent, and in the situation which we have already our-
selves more than once indicated: and then London, or
rather Westminster, would be relieved from the eye-
sore presented by the present ricketty structure, while
the proposed bridge, spanning the river at a spot suffi-
ciently continguous, might be more in accordance with
the position and architecture of the newly-erected-
Houses of Parliament.—ED. Sun.]

OF
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Torieswith a subscription." I
useSdirtc—nceTti3oeagainst the Liberals
think you will find it in the pa
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,u
"Tryntof teethe
them
pages of Blackwood;
where many a thing is to be found in a malicious
state of preservation. Well then, it seems probable
that the Liberals will once more ,c try with a sub-
scription." Nobody can doubt that there are two
hundred firms in this country including
the metro-
polis, to whom it would be a mere pinch of snuff to
lay down a thousand pounds apiece as
the means of
staving off the stoppage of their trade
;—a mil per
cent upon what they were to
save by it, to say
nothing of the chance of only a fraction being ever
called for. The likeness between the present Minis-
terial infliction in England, and the danger arising
from Louis Napoleon's presence in France, is en-
countered at every turn. Both will be cheaply dealt
with, if they can be kept at arms length. To spend
for the chance of avciding spending, is the same
policy in one case as in the other.
But it is to be hoped the action will not stop here.
Commercial men must really
stoop to take a
lesson; they are as sharp as hawks when they are
to be injured in detail, but short-sighted when
they are to contend in masses. What would have
been said to military men for instance, b
t who on the first
unexpected auccess, arising out of pure accident the
Coming over of an enemy's general, had declared
there was nothing to be done but go to bed, and bad
utterly declined to carry the war into the hostile
quarters, or seek to reimburse themselves and fol-
lowers for injuries received ? Why, for instance,
did the Free Traders quietly sit down under a tax on
corn of 2f per cent.? Men do not deserve to be
rich, who do not know that 2i- per cent. on a man's
industry is a maiming t'll" Why did they allow
their adversaries from the first moment to raise the
cry of " peculiar and heavy burthens," instead of
pressing them home with a demand for at least a
twenty years' taxation upon rent, as a nominal
confession that for twenty years the commercial
interest had been oppressed ? Will these things be
done again, or will they not? It will be very good
of Providence, to give tie opportunity to try.
But there is more than this. The retrograde Minis-
ter has declared his intention not to act, unless the
opinion of the country is "clearly expressed." What
is the meaning of this " clearly expressed" ? It
means that he will not do it unless he finds himself in
a minority of less than one to ten. He is to count
noses in Parliament, every three or four hundred of
his own friends sending a nose, and every three or
four thousand of yours. If be is after all in a mino-
rity of less than one to ten, the prudent man
and benevolent will not act. He will do no-
thing against the " clearly expressed" sense of
the country, only it must be clearly expressed
by a majority of more than ten to one against
him. Do not laugh at the French, till you see
whether you are much better off yourselves. The
sous-prefect of Montmedy tells the mayors of his
arrondissement that " Prince Napoleon wishes the
elections to be free; therefore electoral meetings
tending to exercise a bad influence on people's minds
are formally prohibited." The English Prime Mi-
nister says he must have public opinion " clearly ex-
pressed," therefore one man on his side shall tell for as
much as ten on yours. Where is the difference, ex-
cept that one fraud is founded on new rubbish, and the
other on old ? _ _

On examining the vacancies created by the late
changes, the ten county Members came from a popu-
lation less than that of Lancashire, and sending in all
23 Members to the House of Commons,
while Lanca-
shire sends 4 i being in the proportion of 6 to 1. The
eleven borough Members came from a number of
voters two-thirds of those of Manchester (it is not
practicable to compare the populations, on account of
the University of Dublin being an element), and
sending in all 17 Members to the House
of Commons,
Manchester sends 2 ; being in the proportion
of 13 to 1. This is the way things are done. Louis
Napoleon's cannot be much worse. And upon such a
basis as this the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to
4, endeavour to terminate the strife of classess" by
robbing your class to serve his own. ommons,
The world will be on the alert to see whether this
open hook of the Protectionists can be successfully
baited in the sight of the fishes that are expected to
swallow it. The Prime Minister is Isaac Walton,
and the commercial interest is the frogis
going hos
going to treat as if he loved it. The whole policy of
the Minister is a kind of trout-fishing, and he pre-
pares his tackle to give and take, so that nobody shall
Lay he uses them cruelly. How amiable, how win-
ning soft, that nothing shall be done to hurt you,
unless you arein a majority of less than ten to one.
You are born to a new kind of arithmetic; instead
of tc,ri and ten making twenty, ten and ten are to
make two, and so on. I hope you like yourin-
heritance. _

All this only goes to prove,
what it might have
been supposed the world knew before, that men who
submit to enormous absurdity, will be made enormously
to pay for it. It is not the condition of human life,
that men shall take care of themselves by halves.
The momenta man emerges from the condition of e
New-Hollander, and ceases to live on worms, he must
be a politician and a statesman within the limits of his
sphere of action, or else live on worms again that
somebody else may eat turtle and venison. There is
no help for it ; it is the ordinance of Providence. The
world was not made for men to doze in ; or if they
do, it is decreed that they shall find somebody else
wide awake to work their Woe.
It is evidently the object of the present Ministry
to go back as far as they are
able. The leaders do
what they can to disguise .
, but the underlings can-
do not all revert to their original condi-
tions. Catholic Emancipation,
only be because they are
tions. Their prayer is only for time and fair play
that is to say, for being
sntootpkpee
dep, tihfethseecrnete.forlntl
Bwiiiill
allowed to push their plan as
sincerely
can. If the first
It will be amusing
to see,—and why should not amusement be picked
out of things evil when we have done all we could to
'gfraoersats furtherAthcet than was thought of.
wedge drives, the rest may
hinder them,—what wry faces the different sets of
sufferers will make, when one after another their
noses are. brought to the grindstone, which might
have been escaped by all with a little more exercise of
the prudential faculties.
OLD REA)RMER.
Blackhelaathm,,BSthir,AylaorucArhs March, very
.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE sum
SIR,—I am glad you have taken up the cause of Cap-
tain Peony, who has added so much to our geographical
knowledge of the Arctic Sea; but you - may not be
I
awwas present at the meeting
oreufdithe ces you are fighting.
Geographical So-
ciety, about two months ago,
when Captain Penn'.,
interesting letter on the subject was
read, which has,y I
think, been published since in many news
. Papers. The
moment the reading was concluded, Sir Edward Belcher
got up, asked for the letter, arid holding it in his hand
said, " I am sure after this, the Royal Navy must reeice
that such a person does not belong to it,, and thenjpro-
°ceded in such a strain of personal abuse on Penny, -who
was absent, as to cp for two interferences of the cour-
teous President, Sir Roderick Murchison, who at length
insisted on Sir Edward Belcher, then a candidate for,
and now actually in command of the future Arctic ex-
pedition, not making a scientific Aft meeting the opportu-
nity for such personalities.
haser this, I leave you to
judge whether Captain Penny any chance of aslist-
ao-ointed to folio,
anee from the officer . i,, up the very
I am wholl
route opened by Penny.,
.0 unacquainted
been Et, 7Y,
with both parties, but hi.o
thick
it yud disgusted by
thelrene I witnessed, I right that the public
I
I slion.,_ w
not
discoverers who do
Sir, yours.
Long to the Royal Navy.
I►
am i
A FELLO :V OF Tn E GEOGRA-
PHICAL SOCIETY.

March 5,1552•

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