The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-04 00:00:00

:'st'IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Between Manchester and_ London there are
but two degrees of latitude and as many of longitude,
but if they were , Antipodes they could not be more
_
contrary. Whatever is right here, or generally the in
rest of the world, is wrong in that favoured region be-
tween the Ribble and the Mersey. There they go by
the rule of the road, of which the proverb says :
" The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
To those who are driving along;
If you go to the left, you are sure to be right.
It you go to the right, you are wrong.
When the country is threatened with invasion
Maachester recommends an immediate disarmament,
while its maxim against the Protectionists at
home, who are wriggling as fast as they de-
cently can out of their creed, is Si optas pacem,
from all nations in Europeould n
bellum para. A declaration of war against this country
eestacies in the Army toed Navy Club that Lord Derby's
simple acceptance of effiee
has at the tleadsquerters of
the League. We only hope that in the ectuat event of
war our three-deakera will be got ready as quickly as
tens .of thousands are subscribed against the agricul-
tural invasion. The arsenals of tree trade are already
teeming with manifestoes, candidates, motions, tracts,
and all the materials of controversy. Tire plan is to
of
seize the tiostile fleet in the harbour at once, and burn it,
before it can get room for its manoeuvres in the open
sea. It is absolutely impossible, says Mr. Cobden, that
any Frenchman can be so little a
gentleman as to
attack us unawares; but from English gentlemen
there is nothing too' bad to be expected. His only
policy is to force them, will or mill,- into fighting at
once; and no challenge is too provocative, no
insult too gross, Ito tunic too cutting for this pur-
pose. Free Trade, which we have all been pieturiug as
the sister of Habeas' P
- ---- Virago MOUtbing ehrid deli-
anee, and shaking her fist in the very face of the object
transformed into a
of her suspicion. We have ben roundly lectured of
late tor admitting the speculations of soldiers and sailors
as to the defence, of this country—as if we were already
at war! The very ~,,,,.,eaceand Plenty," is suddenly
seine pe,ce,hie gentleman, whose
iesentar neighbearing
good tasteto ie-
the offended with, a supposition so compli-
y
ireeconcilable war with some of our own statesmen,
whose greatest 'Zeno°, on his own admission, is that I hey
disclaim the attempt to bring back the corn-laws. And
of course we come in for our share of these amenities.
To the best of our recollection Mr. Cobden has
for scarcely opened his mouth autocrat, is proclaiming
the last two or three
years without sliding somehow.
"Times, with some scheme for swamping The Times with
a flood of penny papers calataining nothing but news
the press is destroyed at Paris; it may
London; and should that come to pass, Mr. Cob-
bility of The Times ;being some or otherallu intoin
to abuset
h a u
possi-
bility 02's
sh
ie
..
one day suppressed. Tne
from Manchester, or with
idhieebnearittnYrjtilonafd.tes that he will neither be surprised nor indig-
nant, as it will, in his ()pin;
sineurvnen.
libOernteytihnirngmr-:
c.nebrdy4l,ettarn,
rind that
twiet
;,. e • --°ll, be no more then we de-
to destroy half-a-dozen Governments in succession, tie
eliorr atobcoe pstaaknnec 0 f have
er
hfaelvpitnoge
should one morning find himself President of the British
Republic, we may expect an early communication from
him, of course of a friendly character. On the present
occasion Mr. Cobden takes not the
peaceable, but ibe
high moral line, and denounces
our " immorality", in
recommending forbearance and a fair trial. In order to
establish a case so flattering to his own pretensions, and
being pledged to
into power by
nt hoapt
so little to ours, ho assumes that the
inifioYneeCertainly,were ail as
P r 0 t e cent iwoonfM, 0 andiffih inseltehrnasnt cdtahal :rye-
to propose in office what theth©
advocated in Opposition.
describes, there might be sonae
case you may have make out your own
gwueersethsoat public morality,
grounds for
pledged
he y up
h otuontdh,
his vituperation. But the case is far therwise. In
Nmor:troeovbedryenlawyerykonuorwows
justice to.rilr. Disraeli we are bound to soy that, what-
ever abstract opinion he may have admitted in favour of
e
Protection, he has for two or three years strongly urg
Mr,
upon agriculturists the wisdom of dropping that de-
mand. His predecessor in office, and m__.
Coeden him-
self, cannot but remember that when they have had to
reply to him, it has been on the claim to some relief
from the burdens alleged to press unequally on the
landed interest. He did so at the risk ot breaking with
his more bigotted friends, and, in fact, did lose ground by
doing so. The same may be said, in a less degree, of
Lord Derby ; and all must remember that mere
Wan a twelvemonth since it
vy_ a
anxiously
a
(Wonted in the agricultural
world
Lordship had given up Prot:°tittle or whether his
; and at
000 time there were so many ea,,e3_ sPies of he same
Old Chet we described is as a rot anatal the protectic-
niets, or something (.4 that cert. I-I
--er. -'4th,n, is our es.e.
we have been
„for eiere ,tattiti'gth"re the leader. ei n the
eetne.ry Pan,* as
they called
they 4 ilaeiv''' t° give
idea of a corn-law, whetherbv, it or not, siuoly
and to address becauee it was iniP°B" , . 83 therasteves to
eble characte
oti,et, of a more p.r,ai,csali, did
~h4t r; Some of them,
particularly Mr. Disraeli,
eivised, most
heir 'own common
ts:„.
probably becauee t
While in this poze tied tile it
was the only couree•
tecdon as an oteci,iwn'b that is. to
say, while holding I
- -"e time as a demand, [kir but
Navin{;
surrendered it fur sosinutn
usoned to torte an Ad. 1")
' tI"
and his friends are
in default of other roTeusira-
t they e',U, simply has 5.
The
°an-
tion, i they are summoned no more to ~o
easion on which it has with po or with
with Prot, whin
Therethee is, then, nothing
in
the
Pro'estantism.
of
thi it accession to n,g,wer that
circumstances
their
existing
osition,
t.. p. .
i ion, which we
ebould enielitY be protection as an opinion,
gilt tive described to ,
and as clear of pledges as two
belt not as a demand,
silencecould make them.N in
or three years' knowto where's the immorality Now,
thie case, we should like
Ceancellor of
of demandinit for the new
he stood before he accepted office
liberty to stand where
be has been doing these two years
—litherty to do what
pledges than he already _liberty to make no more was
bad
under—liberty to adhere to that policy which he
long ago urged oa his party as the only possible one!