The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-05 00:00:00

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clanger
towhlcOh JOURNALS.
MsdEdUring the forthcoming election lies in AthLisS.
ethxaTPt°lsit is well nigh impeesible to inspire any body of men
opinionri of the serious nature of the impending
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But
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hhet?hvieeiedvcieohsnefltiitc.t
the would be if
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that
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leBrhtloy6t
Rump may be able to prate about tahnedi r Mr..o
Etßstlisetkendooy
~ notto
mned to play out a weary farce in
immediatereelit supporters. There is not a shadow of
ytoiond.tb e
Butwhole
i the bu sin
nextesss.
the leaders of the Protection
Rum
inapossiblemf PletelY
Lord. ,9erby with one breath, "and I will
or
convinction that the opinion of the coon•
in the other direction that it
cla e -en4;eGncievehme edea-
stat?esm,:eln policy. Is this
try set so c
appeals to the
will be
or any Government in future to carry
out such a
first, and:esstuhpeerPioarltee
the way in which a British
we rithowt my late opinions were in per-
pie
lino country upon a gr. at princi
against me, a„,w,',.t,he opinion of the country is dead
fltin,enntswili
consider
eg °mnyi ' 11""own,
for chancethe iof
hhiuoti: ci ,es sos,
eukc.tbhut alt
coun-
tryii:bheiatvYe.tolh„ve noti a teconvections
let us "flea,
hp
supporters
disadvantage and
m y
ionwil rouging political
character
public interests next. It is very
may be a c
principleli ial
;"""buti i
what
the grave of a mistaken
L end Derby's ,
Caluractptr will the world arty to
without a
strugr.in
in _
_. . for prescience if he yields
2 the ground he never should
have contested 5,u 18185
4,6? How shall he be able
to insure the cup pert pert of his foll.
ptreueteire__,
nos.
tinus
when they hod
tif,
has
)wers upon other q.its•
8 led them so ridiculously
a'tray upon the Only one
practical impertencer And
dbich they thought o' any
5
to be nupon earn grounds as
these the country 1
divided into opposite camps,
and we are invited once
morethe whole framework of
to join in a struggle
which has already shaken
English society, political and
social to its foundations.
Now, however annoying it
may
ous classes of the nation to betar be to the industri-
en from their usual
occupations and plunged into the
reckless Saturnalia of
a July generalelection upon such
nothing for it but to make one last a question, there is
the old cause of cheap and u vigorous effort for
must be treated serious ntaxed
one in food.e The question
Nay, every elector should act asvery.constetuency.
tho
tegvity of our present commercial policy depended
ugh the in-
upon his
.single vote. Let there
with be no false se-
curity—no trifling a serious dut
teneptuous estimate of the stret,gth ofY no con •
our opponents.
Let the triumph of fete trade be loud,
Clear and deci-
sive so that the question may ea
set 1
, at rest
It is sufficiently obvious from the contia for ever.
holders Or office that they have neitherct of the present
y throu discretion
nor the will to steer the country safely the
the cri-
tical
pass, if an opportunitY for mischief h 44i
s ou d by
accident occur. They would risk everyihin ....., any
is not a, tingle institution iu the country which would
not be imperilled by their success—for the sake of theid
most momentary triumph. We are very firmly con-
vinced that so dire a public misfortune as that Lord-
Derby and his clique should not be thoroughly beaten
upon the great argument, not of the day. but of six
pars ago,
is simply out of the question. Were
this otherwise,
the most hypochondriacal politician
could scarcely paint the future in sufficiently gloomy
colours. Any further discussion uon the merits of the
question would be a nsere insult to the understanding of
any real
man. Men have grown gray whi e for a
long coorse of years tbey have insisted upon halt-a. dozen
poolts which were fair subjects of thought ten or twelve
years
age, but now have become indurated into truisms.
There is really nothing to be done for it but to whistle
" Lillibullero" in the face of any hard-hearted disputant
who attempts to inflict the old discussion upon your un-
willing ears. Free trade is right—as warmth, and
wholesome air, and cheerfulness and happy faces are
right. It is not a thing to be talked about any longer,
but to be enjoyed. Taste might have been a difficulty
some years ago,when many °f us now of middle age were
youths, and others. nose old men, were of middle age, in
throwing off a parcel of fallacies and self deceptions in
which we had all been nurtured; but we have talked and
argued, land written upon this and other similar matters,
until every man accessible to reason has made up his
mind that the sun does not revolve round the earth, and
that Free-trade is the fiitiog policy of nations. All a
priori arguments have been confirmed by subsequent ex-
periment. We have seen in the course of the last six
years abundance and prosperity substituted for narrow
and uncertain supplies. we have seen the size of the
loaf increase, and the amount of the poor rate diminish.
We have seen that land has maintained its value to the
advantage and in the teeth of the very men who sought
to defile their own nest and to decry it as an investment.
We have not seen that land go out of cultivation, as ha
been foretold. We know, on the contrary, by every teat
that can be possibly applied to a subject on which
1
certain result is attainable, that the agricultural "
yield" of England is steadily improving, despite of
the outcry of those who live by the land. We see the
construction of ships advancing in every s ilo
pwright'e
yard, and the entries outwards and inwards vastly in-
creased, although we are told all the while imminent
o f ' •
nent
ruin. We know that the trade and
country were never in so elastic and prosperous a
lice
con-
dition as at present. Whether all this with refer,
the great legislative settlement of 1846 is to be cont?
si-
dered a post hoc or a propter hoc we leave it to the
constituencies to determine. London, the capital of ho
we are
empire, as of right, has taken the lead. tlt to
judge from tho information we have pet received, the
present Liberal Members will be again returned to give
a very emphatic "No I" to all
is propositions for
restoring the old system. Therebut one Protec-
tionist who seems inclined to face a metropolitan
constituency, and that one is Lord Maidstone. It will
be the duty of the constituency • to which he addresses
himself him to deal with
whilt.,
netaccoi ding to his nverits. Mean-
hin g is more clear than that London *-
We trust that the example of the 1'
secure.
and
deithropolitan electors
will soon be folLwed by others,
every morning for the next fortnight'att we
shall have
-0 set forth the
particulais of the majority
be called upon to with
settle
which Lord Derby will
accounts at the meeting of t
Par-
liament! Meanwhile it mu.not be lost sight of for a
moment that Lord Del byreali y appears to the countryon the question of free t
considerations must be lost sight of, that this important
point may be .
definitively set at rest.
_ ,

DAILY NEWS.—It is within the memory of many
of us that Kew Gardena were the only placs in England
—England so renowned for centuries for her gardening
—where foreign pianos were found in any variety; and
the curious pleats in Kew Gareees, at the begtuning of
the century, were chiefly from New Holland. By the
courtesy which often redeems the brutalities of war, the
botanists and florists of Europe maintained an alluthee
where 411 others were foes; but though they shared one
another's knowledge, they count do little in the way of
exchange of plants. In the midst of tho storms of the
French revolutionary war, a solitary dahlia was che-
rished in the greenhouse of a Marchioness; and Lady
Hovland brought more from Spain in the beginning of
;he century ; but the acquisition was an aristocratic
marvel. Th China rose was another such marvel ;
and it was not till the Sunshine of peace spread
through the land, that it lock firm root in the eottager'a
garden and began to peep into his lattice. It is very
efferent now. At hundreds of fl ewer-shows cotta
gets exhibit thousand.) of dahlias far more splendid
than the Marchioness of the last century dreamed of;
and when Cleopatra gave 2001 for the roses for a single
least, it is pretty certain tbat her expensive luxury was
less brilliant than the children of many an English vii
cage could now exhibit. If peace carries her horn of
plenty, she bean also her cornucopia of beauty. We
have reason to say so; for in our islands she has shed
abroad flowers from all the lands that the sun shines
upon. It was not that the taste for this innocent charm
Was ever wanting among our people. In the most dreary
days of the war, when taxes were most abundant, and
food was most scarce, there were thousands of the poor,
who, hoping nothing else, hoped for the blooming of
their flowers. The Spitalfields weaver fed his tulips,
while he himself was hungering. Many who had
nettling else had a geranium, in a bottle, in the window.
We remember seeieg, in those dismal days, a starve-
ling child poking with rusty scissors between the flints
in a peved.yard to plant a daisy. The taste was there
inextinguishable, and now it seems to be finding its
gratification more and more abundantly with every added
year of peace. Witness the annual increase of. (levier
shows through the length and breadth of the lan,a.
There is, perhaps, no popular indication more cheering
than this. It is an instance of the true working of na-
tural laws which we seldom see in so uoquestiouable a
shape. It may be always true, that the rich and the
wise are eventually the servants of the poor and the ig-
norant; but we do not often see this great truth so clearly
illustrated. The Arabs in Spain, Louis XIV. in Franc.',
the nobles of Italy, the monks of Germany, u
Bacon and Evelyn, our dukes and peeresses, weccert_hoas_e_
des[ of their tune
tf
who sowed our cottage gardens with the fljWers
cb of all
t1(1)
climes, and grafted truits for our p
gather. They loitered away a good-
in cultivating echoes instead of cacherde, and laying
out shellwork instead of flower beds, sod contriving
bowers of water instead of blossoms; but they did good
_
permanent work too, as our flower and fruit
n ere
festivals now show. The work will ht)..t 'toe b . Our
generation will be the servants of a future one, as the
past has been of ours. The present country is working
for the future town. If science has prepared the way
for production, present production will preface the
way
for future science. The mete acceptance of boons of this
virtuous kind is an offering of a new boon to an unborn
time. To secure this, however, eee must not make too
sure of the benefit. '['here are instances before our eyes
which show that barbarism may return upon this mo,t,
innocent development of civilisltion. In the country
where Cleopatra so regaled hor guests with roses, the
wretched women of the Pacha'e harem know
no better than to romp atnong the fllwer-beds, in the
garden at Rode. and trample down toe choicest plants.
In Persia and Turkey, which once heti more
flower-wisdom end beauty than all other countries in
,he world, an European gardener
can only break his
heart, for want of synap,,,th„
I We must keep up the
a) ova, by, now that, it is awakened through all therenks,
if net among 811 the (lessee, of our population. .13"
there cannot really be any fear of a M cline in a tastie,csy
r. fined. Meanti•ne, how plettiant is the spectaelehwawirn,
our summer months presere, to us! There is much and
than the array of beauty and fashion at Chisiwnlotees
the Regenes•petk, and the excpliane ditiA9Y pielpant
and truitage which thee meet to criticise.
if' fished boy
to see the owner of Chatsworth, and the
interest. I.
who bugs his fl ewer-pot, sharing the 'lt°,..ef the Notting
is pleasant to think et the orderly ri:noitouthrir new 'sr-
/peasant to see
ham lace wcekers and stockiegers
qualified
to bear
boretune, where they are to becentl,
Vegetable
their part in future fiewer-shows.
the first humble beginning of ecounower and w
ntrY town, and berg
show, in a tingle tent, in come