The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-01 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1894.

It often occurs that when a particular suliject
has ergaeeecl the attention of the House, and even
when all pirlies have so far coceurrid as to the
excellence of the purpose in view, and the desire-
biiity of carrying out the aims and intentions of
t;le proposer, that some individual starts up and
coutrives, by a few mal, apropos remarks, to give
chit e a wrong turn to affairs, and so impart a diffe-
rent lone to the discussion by the introduc!ion of
angry topics, and the suggestion of exciting and
irritating subjects. Stich ecourse was pursued by
Mr P. TAILOR when Lord EDWARD HOWARD in-
troduced the question of emigration to America.
The hon. member certainly entertains most extreme
opinions on the subject of the American War. He
almost entirely ignored the matter then before the
House relative to emigration, and addressed his at-
tention_ to the old and vexed question of the
relative merits of the belligerents, which
was not at all the subject then under
discussion. So indignant was he that Lord
J. MANNERS had ample grounds for his assertion,
that in all probability he had prefaced his speech
as an answer to the motion which it had been ex-
pected that Mr LINDSAY would bring forward on
the subject of mediation. Mr TAYLOR went so far
as to say that it was a matter cf regret that the
motion of the noble lord had teen supported by the
hon. member for Sunderland, because he was a well-
known partisan of the Southern Confederacy, This
was very absurd to start with, but what followed
was worse still in point of fact and correctness of
description. lie declared that the war had its origin
in the desire to put an end to slavery, and
that the sympathy of the mass of the people
of Eogland was in favour of the North. Can
anything be more absurd than this, and on one point
Lord J. MANNERS very properly animadverted
upon bis inconsistency of details, and exposed
his fallacious statements. He reminded the hon.
member that he seemed to have forgotten altogether
the great meeting which took place in the town he
represented, and he further added that the hon.
member did not represent the feelings of that im-
pc:tant town or. this subject. It is to be hoped
that the
electors will look to this on a future occa-
sion, and demand from their representative that be
more fairly advocate their views, or cease to be their
member. It was really strange that Mr. TAYLOR
should be so vehement, when nothing before the
House called for any such display of feeling or
expression of opinion. He stated that the war was
simPlY " a question of the determined and continuous
will of the North to put down slavery. It was
scarcely to be expected that any one in this
country would come forward at this junce
tare and make so extravagant an assertion
as this. All that has occurred since
the commencement of the war clearly proves the
contrary of the remark, and slavery has really .no-
thing to do with the contest. It is the way to dis"
gust lookers-on instead of attracting them to the
side of the Pederals to give out such fallacious
statements as to the objects of the war. It looks
as if the belligerents themselves and their enthusi-
astic partisans all here were really ashamed of the
real motive, and thus sought to give it a different
Time, and bring it forward under new auspices. It
is no matter of surprise that the concluding part of
the hon. membot's speech was received with laugh-
ter, for he made statements that would have been
more in keeping with the intelligence imparted by
a New York paper than appropriate to the House
of Commons. When he informEd his hearers that
there was hardly a State in the South that was not
more or leesoccupied by Federal troops, and that their
capital was beleagured, in fact it was Richmond,
and not Washington, that was in danger, he really
overacted his part, and only brought ridicule upon
t hose he sought to uphold. It was very likely the