The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-01 00:00:00

WORCESTER SUMMEtt RACES—MuRsnAy.

The pleasant meeting at Worcester was commenced to-
day ( Thursday). The weather, although showery in the
after part of the day, was remarkably fine at the opening,
and the attendance, which included a large and fashionable
assemblage, was quite up to the usual work. The sport was
really gcod, the race for the Great Worcestershire Stakes
being admirably contested, while Lord Coventry's victory
with Exchequer in the Worcostershire Handicap was re-
ceived with enthusiasm. The racing was altogether good,
as the accompanying return shows. Excepting that 10 to 1
each was accepted from little men about Madcap and the
Higbflyers's dam colt for the Goodwood Stakes, there was
nothing really done, as the leviathan bookmakers offered 10
to 1 freely on the field. The following is the return of the
day's racing :

The Trial Stakes of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for all
ages. Penalties and allowances About a mile.

Lord Bateman's Moulsey, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Fordham) 1
Lord Coventry's Umpire, aged, 9st 131 b (inc 7119 extra)

(J. Adams) 2
Count Battbyany's Suburban, aged, lOst 31b (inc 71b ex)
....

. _ .
*(C'ustances 3
Mr Saxon's Bonnie Las; 2 yrs, 6st 71b.. (J. Grimsnaw) 4
Betting-6.5 to 40 apt Uuipire, 9to 4 apt Moulsey, 3to
1 agat Suburban.

Suburban jumped away in front, but was quickly passed
by Moulsey, who had Umpire and Suburban in close at-
tandance, Bonnie Lass well up. Coming into the straight.
Umpire took up the running, but was caught again at the
distance by Moulsey, who stuck to him so closely that the
Temple-bar pet cut it at the finish, and was beaten a head ;
a bad third.

The Great Warwickshire Stakes for 2-yr-olds; colts Bet
101 b, fillies Set 71b. Certain penalties and allowances,
T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile.
Duke of Beaufort's Todleben, Sat 101 b (Fordham) 1
Lord Uxbridge's Arkansas, Set 71b (1. French) 2
Mr T. Cook's Eugenie, Sat 71b . (Payne) 3
Lord Coventry's Lazaroni, Bst 71b .......... (J Adams) 4
Captain Gray's The Switt, 9st 31b (inc. 51b extra)
(Custance 5
Lord Coventry's Chimney Sweep, Bst 71b ..(Maidment) 6
Betting-3 to 1 each eget Todleben and Lazaroni, 4to 1
agst Eugenie, 5 to 1 agst The Swift.
Arkansas made the running with a cle r lead into the
straight, where Todleben and Lezarani closed up with him,
the three being head and head at the distance. Opposite the
enclosure Lazaroni dropped away and the other two finished
a splendid race, as hich was won in the last few strides by
Todleben by a short head, Eugenie, who came with "a wet
sail" outside the pair from the distance was beaten half a
length from Arkansas, and Lazaroni was a bad fourth; the
other two being beaten off.

The Worcestershire Stakes (handicap) of 10 Bove each, 5 ft,
and only 3 it declared, with 100 added ; winners extra.
One mile and three furlongs.
Lord Coventry's Exchequer, 5 yrs, fist 21b (I. Adams)
21
Air Lupin's Dollar, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
•...
(Kitchenei)
Lord Baternan'e Mousey, 3 yrs, Est 71b.... (Tomlinson) 3
Mr Whittakei's King of Utopia, 4 yrs, 7st lllb
Mr T. Wiseman's Mrs Somerville 4 yrs (T. French) 4
, , 6st, Nib
Sir T. Moncriefr e Under the Cloud (Barker) 5
, 3 yrs, sst 9ib
(Clark) 6
Mr F. Davies ns Burgess, 4 yrs, Oat 101 b (J. Grimshaw) 7
Betting-2 to 1 apt. Exchequer, sto 2 agar Dollar, 4to 1
agst Moulsey, 100 to 15 eget King of Utopia, 100 to
9 agst
Burgess.
King of Utopia made play for 200 yards, after which
Moulsey took up the running, The King going on second,
Burgess, Exchequer, and Dollar lying nex., with Mrs So-
merville in the rear. As the lot approached the straight
Dollar and Exchequer headed Moulsey, and Lord Coventry's
horse, waiting upon the Frenchman to the distance, came
away, and won by three lengths; four lengths
the second and third, and the others were beaten off.
A Handicap Plate of 50 sous, for all ages; winners extra.
About a mile.
Lord Uxbridge's The Tyke, 3 yrs, 7st 41b.. (T. French) 1
Mr R. Sly's Dovedale, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Tomlinson) 2
Mr T. Cliffe's Ross, 5 yrs, Bat 101 b
. (Fordnam) 3
Mr T. Drake's Alonzo filly, 2 yrs, stir 710.... (G. B°Pl') 4
The following also ran :—Manchester,
Eve-
lyn filly, Lord Conyngham, Edinburgh, Sweetness, Queen
Bee filly. pixie, Lady

Betting--7 to 4 agst Pixie, 100 to 30 agat the Lady Eve-
lyn filly, 100 to 15 aget Ross, 10 to 1 agst Tyke.
The lot, with the exception of Queen Bee and Sweetness,
who laid some four or five lengths in the rear, ran in close
company for half a mile, when the Lady
Evelyn filly took
a commanding lead, but soon aftet wards bolting left Dove-
dale in front. Ha was soon joined by the other three
placed, who ran a close race, The Tyke winning by a head;
the same between second and third;
a similar distance
h
divided third and fourth; pike was a bad fifth ; Man-
chester sixth ; Lord Conyng-arn seventh; and Queen Bee
filly next. The others walked in.
The Sealing Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added; selling
and other allowances. Five furlongs.
Lord Uxbridge's Erythia, 4 y, (L3O), Bst lib
(T. French) t 1
Mr Meredith's May, 2 yrs (i3O) sst 71b
" (J. Grimshaw) t 2
Mr Adams's Cosette, 3 yrS (t3O),
Betting-7 to 4on Ery
thia, who led to the distance,
where M and th
ay challenged, 78t to (Maidment) 3
e two, after a splendid rate,
ended b a dead hist ; Cosette was beaten off.
Deciding Heat—Won by Li,-
this, who was afterwards
bought in for 100 guineas.
The Croome Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs, 5 ft, with
100 added, for all ages; Winners extra. About three
_quarters of a mile.

Mr G. Payne's Alchyrnist, 5
- --
Mr F. Jacob's Lulra, 4 yrs, Bst ' Bst 21b (J. Grimshaw) 1
........... (Fordham) 2
Duke of Beaufort Crytheia, 3 yrs, 7st 31b ('V. French) 3
The following also ran :—Cairncastle, Dawdle, Farmer's
Daughter f, yrs
and Ales.

Betting-5 to 2 agst lafra, 100 to 30 each agst Cairnmstle
and Alcbymist, 9 to 2 agst Crytheia.
Alcbymist made all the running and won by a neck--a
hew' between second and third—Ales was a bad fourth--
and The Farmer's Daughter filly fifth.
The Crootne Stakes of 50 Boys each, 25 ft, for 2-p...olds—
colts Bst 101 b,
fillies Bst 71b. T.Y.C. 9 subs.
Lord Coventry'p Lazzaroni, Bst 101 b (J. Adams) w. o.
The Madresfield Juvenile Selling Stakes of 5 soya each,
with 30 added, for 2-yr-olds ; colts 9st, fillies and geldings
Bst 101 b ; selling allowances. Half a mile.
Mr Handley's Iscoid, (£4O), 63t 101 b ....(J Grimahaw) 1
Mr Whittaker's Catenus (£4O), 7st (Maid ment) 2
Betting-6 to sau Iscoid.
Won by a head.

The winner was bought by Mr S. 0. Graham for 80
guineas.

The City Plate (Handieap) of 50 114111 i second to receiyo 10

sovs; for 3-yr-olds and upwards; winners extra. One
mile and a quarter.

Lord Wiltou's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs, 65t slb
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr J. Page's Miss Clifton, 6 yrs, 7st Glb (Page) 2
Mr J. Davies' Bowman, 6 yrs, 7st 61b (Maidment) 3
Mr Adams's `Northam, 6 yrs, Sst 2!b (J. Holman) 4
Queen of Clubs and Lemondrop also r,n

Betting-2 to lon Lady Evelyn filly, 6to lagst Wortham,
8 to 1 eget Bowman.

Won by two lengths, four lengths between second and
third, a neck between third and fourth.

IPSWICH RACES.-TIIURSDAY•

The Borough Members' Plate of 50 sovs ; weight for age,

with allowances. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs.
Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr Bennett's Sisyphus, 2 yrs, 6st 12Ib (Viney) t 1
Mr Naylor's Roseneath, 3 yrs, Bst Sib . Yerry) t 2
Mr Fleming's Overcast, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (Thomas) 3
Mr F. Temple's The Doe, 3 yrs, Sst, 91b ....(J. Goater) 4
Mr J. Morris's Little Star, 3 yrs, Bst 91b ....(Edwards) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Sisyphus, sto 2 agst Roseneath, 7
to 2 agst Overcast, 15 to 1 agst any other (offered).
Roseneath made the running to the distance, when the
favourite drew up, and the pair running home locked to-
gether, the fiat of the judge was a dead heat ; Overcast
being a bad third.
Deciding heat—Betting-5 to 4 on Sisyphus, who won
by a neck.

The Rendlesham Stakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100
addea for two. yr-olds ; colts, Bst lO,b; fillies, Bst 7lb ;
winners extra ; allowances, &c. Half a mile. 21 subs,
Mr Joice's Radcliffe, SA 10ib (inc 3lb ex)
Baron Rothschila's Bro. to A Igarsife, Bst 10ib..( Wells) 2
Mr R. Sutton's Jezebel, Bst 91b (inc 51b ex) (Thomas) 3
The following also ran :—La Mechante, His Royal
Highness, Camillus, and Brioche.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Jezebel, to 1 agst Brother to Al-
garsife, 7 to 2 agst Radcliffe, 6 to 1 agst La Mechante.
Radcliffe took a clear lead at starting, having Brioche,
Brother to Algarsife, and Jezebel next. Brioche was the
first to give way, and the other two failing to get up to
Radcliffe at the finish, the latter won easily by three
lengths; a neck separating the second and third; Brioche
was fourth, Camillus fifth, and La Mechante brought up
the rear.

The Chauntry Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added;
weight for age, with beLing allowances. Halt a mile,
Mr Naylor's Tailor, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (£2O)
Mr Alexander's Xurutlo, 3 yrs, 7st 7!b (120) (E. Sharp) 2
Mr Rogers's Measure for Measure, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
(Martin) 3

The following also ran :—Teddington filly, Annington,
and Ropedancer,
Betting-5 to 4 agst Xurallo, 3to 1 agst Tailor, 4to 1
agst Annington.

Xurullo held a slight lead up to the stand, where Tailor
got up and won a good race by a short head ; tour lengths
between the second and third ; Annington was fourth, and
Ropedancer next. The winner was bought in fur 80 guineas,
and Xurullo was soid by auction for 75 guineas.
The Welter Stakes of 10 soya. each, 51t ; winners extra ;
gentlemen riders, professionals 61b extra. One mile.
Mr Godding's Fanfreluche, 4 yrs, list 21b (in. 61b extra)
(Perry) 1
Lord Rendlesham's Corroborator, 4 yrs, list 101 t)
(Mr Dixon) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Franfreluchie, who led throughout,
and won by eight lengths.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, weight for age. Two

miles,
Baron Rothschild's Hippolyta, 3 yrs, Sst
Mr Bryan's Lady Hylda, 3 yrs, Bst (Edwards) 2
Weatherspy also ran,
Betting-4 to lon Hippolyta.
Hippolyta led past the stand, and then gave way to
Weatherspy, the latter keeping the lead down the far side
to the last turn, where he dropped back, and the other two
came on, the favourite winning in a canter by a length.
Weatberspy did not pass the post.

The Shrubland Park Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added,
for hunters, &c. ; 1 Ist 71b each ; thoroughbreds and
winners 71b extra, gentlemen riders; professionals 71b
extra. Two miles, over five flights of hurdles.

Mr W. Page's Antelope, aged, 12st (car. 12et 21b)

- • • -(Mr F. Worn.bwell) 1
Mr Chaston's Butcher Boy, 6 yrs, 12st,, (Mr Heaviside) 2
Mr G. Tripp's Miss Penrose, aged, list 711)....(0wner) 3
The following also ran :—Freestone, Fireaway, Sultan,
and the Boiler,

Betting-7 to 4 agst Freestone-3 to 1 agst Butcher Boy
—5 to 1 agst Antelope-6 to 1 agst Fireaway.
Won by three lengths ; a bad third.

AQUATICS.

PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.

The second regatta of this flourishing and very usefui
club took place yesterday, amongst yachts under 15 tons.
The following contended :

Yachts. Tons. 0 wners.
1) lone
Dudu
Octoroon l2 Mr C. Long

Alex tndra .... 15 .... Mr G. Harrison.

The course was from Erith to the Chapman Head and
back, for a gold cup and cover, presented by the club for the
first boat, and a prize, value 10 guineas, given by Mr T. C.
B err, a member, for the second boat. There was a time
allowance of a minute per ton.
Mr Sadlier, the rear-commodore, was the officer in com-
mand, and under his direction the race was started at 10,30.
There was a nice topsail breeze from W.N. W. The Octo-
roon's canvass was first set, next the Dudu, and then the
Dione, bu- the Alexandra, with a good station, led to wind-
ward, the Octoroon being second, and the Dudu third. In
the course of a few minutes the Dudu ran into the first
place, and, maintaining it well all the way down, would in
all probability nave won the race but that she unfortunately
upon her return, while heading by nearly a mile, got
aground off the Scar houses. At Gray's the Alexandra passed
to windward of the Octoroon, but they continued close
together with slight difference all the way down to the
khapman, where they rounded as follows :

31. S.
Dudu
Alexandra 2 31 53
Octoroon
Dion°

As they had to turn to windward against the ebb, they
went into the slack on the north shore,•where alter the mis-
fortune to the Dudu, the Octoroon gradually stole upon the
Alexandra, and went by her between Shellhaven and Hale-
haven to leeward, acquiring for a time a good lead, but as
they neared Gravesend the Alexandra stole upon her, and
was only a few yards astern, and so they continued board
and board to the end of the race, Octoroon holding the wea-
ther gauge at the finish, which was as follows -
li.
M. S.
Alexandra
Octoroon
D lone 6 45 30

The Octoroon by the time allowance was the winner, and
Mr Cecil Long was presented with the first prize, the Alex-
andra being entitled to the second. The Oread steamboat
accompanied, and as usual everything passed off agreeably.

The Poisoning of Three Children at Mile-end.

Yesterday Mr John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, re-
sumed at the Bank of Friendship Tavern, Bancroft-place,
Mile-end, an inquiry respecting the poisoning of three
children of John Stapler, a cigarmaker, by which two of
theta, Louisa Stapler and Elizabeth Stapler, lost their lives.
The deceasei children were twins, six years of age, and
resided with their parents at No. 16, Ely-place, Mile end.
On Friday, the 13th inst., Mrs Stapler went out, leaving
them and their sister Jessie, aged three years, alone in the
house. On her return she found some lucifers on the floor,
but though the oh ldren told her that they had sucked them
she did not believe them, as the points of the matches were
red, and the children were were not ill. On the Saturday,
however, the children.were taken ill. Elizabeth clenched
her hands, shrieked, and gnashed her teeth, and she and
Jessie vomited sulphurous matter. They were all vio-
lently convulsed, but no doctor was sent for until the fol-
lowing Tuesday evening. Louise and Elizabeth died on
the Wednesday morning at the same hour. Mrs Stapler
said that the children stated that they had taken the inciter
matches— Quick's improved lucifers—off the shelf of the
dresser, and had sucked them, and had given them to Jessie
to suck.

Br Henry Letheby, Professor of Chemistry at the Lon-
don Hospital, said that he had made an analysis of the
stomach and intestines of the child Louisa. The stomach
was greatly inflamed. The contents had traces of
phosphorus acid. In the intestines he found phosphorus
acid and traces of lead. They were much inflamed. They
had been acted on by a very violent irritant poison. He
analysed 50 matches given to h,m by Mr Adkins, the
surgeon, and he found that they contained 1.151 grs of
phosphorus and 4 grs of red lead. Phosphorus was a
very powerful poison, and 11 grs had killed an adult in
twelve days, and sometimes one-third of a grain had
killed. In one case 1 grain had killed an adult in three
days. He was of opinion that the children died from phos-
phorus. He wished to say that matches made of such phos-
phorus were highly dangerous, but they could be and were
made of phosphorus that was perfectly inert. He made ex-
periments on dogs and he found that where one grain of
the common phosphorus killed a dog, a quarter of a pound
of the prepared phosphorus in Bryant and May's matches
had no effect. The Government had caused an inquiry to
be held as to the dangerous and injurious effects arising
from manufacturing matches with common phosphorus, and
such was the mischievous results to the children and others
engaged in their manufacture that an act of Parliament he
believed would be passed on the subject. Some interference
was much needed.
The Coroner said it was much to be desired that such a
dangerous poison should not be allowed to be sold when an
inert substance would answer the purpose of the public.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased children
died from the poison of phosphorus, imbibed by sucking
Lucifer matches, they being ignorant of its effects ; and that
they thus lost their lives by misadventure ; and the jury
recommend that the coroner write to the Secretary of State
suggesting that measures should be taken to prevent the
.manufacture and sate of dangerous phosphoric matches,
which in this instance had destroyed thelives of two children.
The proceedings then terminated,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

Tietese=-The first of July, if one may so speak
of an immovable feast in the financial calendar, has
fallen upon evil days. It comes like a rainy Whit-
suntide, or a snowed-up Christmas. -Witnessing,
as we do, a great act of oppression suffered by a
weak neighbour, and not able to justify interference
in his behalf, we are hardly in the mood to enjoy
the contemplation of our growing resources. What
avail health and wealth, industry and skill, if we
must sit by and see the world go to the bad ? But
there is a time for all things, and we may reconcile
ourselves to the present task of fostering our
industry and huebanding our resources. War,
always costly—happily costly, for we need not.
quarrel with the law of Providence that makes
money flow with blood—is most costly in our case.
Whenever it comes, we must subsidize; we must
even purchase allies; we must sow money broadcast ;
we must supply all the material of war—ships, arms
clothing, everything. We must penetrate gulfs, we
must wake up nationalities and call contrabandis s
to our aid, ever preceded by the " ass-load of gold."
We must replenish empty exchequers, guarantee
loans otherwise unmarketable, and repeat all the
inevitable follies ever done before. This is one
light in which we are now compelled to look at
our ever-buoyant Revenue. True, there is no posi-
tive accumulation to feast our eyes upon ; no piles
of gold representing so many ships and piles of
ammunition into wniah they are convertible. But
we see that the Revenue is absolutely at the
command of Finance. We reserve its waters as
in a vast reservoir, for we can bid these waters
flow to any volume we please. We do not starve
industry to augment the national income; so in-
dustry
is grateful, and answers the call when we '
make it. This is wealth and power—not to possess
an accumulation, but to command a ready supply. '
The Customs show a decrease of £411,000 on the
quarter; the Property Tax a decrease of £449,000.
These are the results of the two great reduc-
tions last year, divided between direct and indirect
taxes--viz., the reduction of the Tea Duty by sd.
per pound, and of the Property Tax by 2d. in the
pound.
The good barley harvest of last year,
together with the revival of trade and the increase
of consumption, has inade the Excise of the quar-
ter produce £459,000 more than it did last year.
The " Taxes" have produced £42,000 more. On
the whole, the net decrease on the quarter is
£216,004; the net decrease on the year,5690,902. Of
course it is too early to tell by the Returns the whole
effect of the reductions last year; but thus far we
have a net decrease of less than seven hundred thou-
sand pounds, against an estimated decrease of more
than three trillions. Tee Revenue of the year just
ended is within a trifle of seventy millions,—a sum
which only a few years ago it would have been
thought impossible to squeeze out of the nation
except by the most ruinous pressure under the
etimu us of war, yet now raised easily in a time of
peaceful and fiecal reduction. Little as we like to
think of the possibility, there is hardly a tax or
duty reuresented iu these Returns that might not
be doubleel, if the occasion required, with a fair
prospect of eaising nearly doable the present sum,
and so enabling the country to carry on a great war
without contractitig a loan or adding a pound to the
debt. It would not sndeed be wise to do, nor would
it be just, since wars are undertaken for posterity
as well as for the living veneration, and posterity
must help it to pay for them. Such, however, is
the mighty body of this great stream of wealth, and
such its working power. Only say the word, and
it flows at our feet as deep as the utmost needs of
war or of peace may require. Within these twenty
years it has been assumed as a self-evident maxim
that a revenue of fifty millions was about as much
as the Empire could ever be expected to pay, and
ttset all above would he found a sensible impediment
to industry and thrift. We are now paying
seventy millions, and there never was a time
in which money was more easily obtained
for large undertakings cf any kind whatever. It
a railway is to be made through the thickest and
wealthiest parts of the metropolis; if the Thames is
to be bridged over in half a-dozen places at once; if
a viaduct is to be throts'n over a valley : it an im-
mense edifice is to be raised for commerce, for plea-
sure, for public offices, or any other purpose; if the
managers of a private business wish to hand it over
to a company ; if a new invention is to be tried; if
a new pack, t line is to be opened ; if a house is to be
built, a gallery lined with pictures, or a stable filled
with good horses ; if money is to be lent to a new
Republic or a new Empire; in a word, whatever is
to be done, the money is instantly forthcoming, and
not even the warning voice of the 'Change prophets
will deter rich and poor from scattering with lavish
hand the wealth they have, or think they have, or
hope to have. No drain seems sufficient to exhaust
the annual profits of industry and enterprise, and
wealth is driven to amuse and enjoy itself from mere
want of objects os a more prefirabie cnaracter. 'The
art of spearing well has yet to be taught the Eng-
lish, at ouce lavish and parsimonious, enterprising
and timid, over-eonfidiug and suspicious. Cannot
the metropolis have the benefit of an abundance
which refuses to be kept down, and which is only
stopped in one place to break out in another ? It is
the destiny of England to be rich—it cannot be
added to use her riches uniformly well, to be wisely
generous and judiciously magnificsnt. As it is, we
attain not the glory either of peace or of war. We
might have a nobler metropolis; we might do much
for art and science ; we might make ourselves more
respected in the councils of Europe. A State that
collects seventy millions a year from its subjects
cannot excuse itself' on the ground of weakness
from taking a high part. It may plead the divi-
sion of its resources, the distraction of its interests,
and the diversity of its aims. These, however,
are not a sufficient excuse if it do nothing well,
or nothing in proportion to its means. We have
many " irons in the fire"—too many ; but, it may
be asked, as of many a private gentleman who frit-
ters away his income iu a thousand trifles, what
have we to show for seventy millions a year ?
HERALD.—The organs of the Administration are
certainly cement, and we think they are wisely
content, to take up very low ground, and offer a
very humble and apolegetic defence for the policy
of the Government, They do not pretend to argue
that that policy has been wise or sound ; that it
has proceeded upon coosiatent principles, or has led
to satisfactory results. They allow that the Con-
ference was a b;under, and that the whole course
of England, from the beginning to the end of
these negotiations, has been a deplorable failure,
We have neither maintained our own dignity nor
the independence of Denmark ; we have neither
preserved the public law of Europe or prevented
a breach of its peace. Everything that our
Ministers undertook to do is left undone; and
the only result, of our efforts has been to expose
our weakness, isolation, and timidity in the face
of the world. It is prudent on the part of our
Ministerial contemporaries not to insult the public
sense bs pretending that this is a consummation
seaereof we can be proud, or even satisfied. They
put forward a more specious plea. " It is useless,"
they say, " referring to the past. Tell us what we
ought to do now. Donut go harping on the errors
that can no longer be retrieved ; but tell us, aye or
no, do you approve of the present determination of
the Goverment nut to go to veer for Denmark." This
is the sense of Mr. Kinglake's amendment.; and we
must admit that the author of "Eothen" has
shown some skill in devising a means of escape
from a difficult and damaging position. On Mr.
Disraeli's motion, a man of sense and honour who
wishes to vote with the Government, will find
himself in a painful dilemma. He must, if he
adhere t. his party, give a vote obviously false upon
a matter of ascertained fact. Mr. Kinglake comes
to his rescue, and proposes an amendment which
would prevent the question from being put in this
form, and substi'ute for it an expression of opinion
in regard to the future, upon which men may rea-
sonably differ. He will not answer the question
whether or no the poticy of the Government has
lowered the just influence of England in the coun-
cils of Europe; because that is a question of fact
which can only be answered in one way. instead
of this he proposes a form of judgment which shirks
altogether the duty of pronouncing sentence upon
the past, and undertakes the much less appropriate
function of giving advice for the future. And there
is an obvious disposition on the part of the Liberals
'o apply this salve to their consciences, and, under
pretence of voting for peace, virtually to condone
dishonour. It seems clear to us that to accept Mr.
Kinglake's amendment would be, on the part of the
House of Commons, a gross dereliction of consti-
tutional duty, most serious and most culpable at
a juncture like the present. It is the most im-
portant function of that house, in regard to foreign
affairs, to prououece judment on the past conduct of
a Government. Wnile negociations are pending
nothing can be done; the Administration are for the
time omnipotent; and if the House of Commons de
clines, when the negociations are c!osed, to express
its opinion of their management on the ground that
their errors are past and irretrievable, the Foreign
Office becomes virtually irresponsible and Parliament
forfeits altogether its constitutional control over the
foreign policy of the Crown. It iE only by deciding
aye or no on such motions as that submitted by Mr.
Disraeli that this control is maintained. And, it it
were ever right for Parliament to condone the :nix.
management of Ministers who have been allowed
to act with that absolute freedom and affectation of
secrecy which the Foreign Office enjoys—if ever it
could be right to fotbeae to pass after the fact
a judgment which is of necessity suspended
until atter the fact—the present conjuncture
would still be one to which condonation and fore
beerance are utterly inapplicable. For, it Parlia-
ment do not pass a censure upon the conduct of
the Isliujetrb Eeglend, by the mouth of rAriitment,

assumes the responsibility of that conduct. And
what a responsibility that is I If the Government
remains uncensured, it is by england, and not by
Lord Russell, that. Germany has been menaced
with war ; it is England, and not her Ministers,
that lacked the courage to full that menace. It
is by England, not by Lord Palmerston, that a
pledge was given to Denmark that, if attacked,
she should not find herself alone ; and England,
not Lord Palmerston, has left her alone in her
agony. If the Government remains uncensured
England accepts for herself the gibes and taunts,
ine contempt and the ignominy which the officious
interference and complaisant submission of Lord
Palmerston's Administration have incurred. In
reply to all these reproaches from Denmark which
have wrung our hearts, in reply to all these scoffs
and sneers from Germany which have galled our
pride to the quick, each of us has been wont to say
aloud or in his heart :-4' No ; this is not Eegland
--that Eegiand of which I and my order are con-
stituent elements—it is Lord Russell, who happens
to be in the Foreign Offied by virtue of some parlia-
mentary arrangement or party necessity, but who
no more representsEegland than does John Bright."
We console ourselves for Lord Russell's shame by
repudiating Lord Russell. But we cannot repue
diate the Heuse of Commons ; and if that house
accepts Lord Russell's shame, that shame becomes
national—and personal to every man who by vote,
or speech, or pen helped to fix it on the nation, per.
boreal to every man who did not do his utmost to
repudi to it by repudiating the Government. The
house has no escape froin this responsibility. It is
asked to pronounce judgment by one whose official
station, not his personal partisanship, prompts and
necessitates the appeal. The leader of Her Ma-
jesty's Opposition moves for judgment on Her Ma-
jesty's Ministers ; and if the house refuse to pass
hat judgment, it aucepts and fixes upon itself
and upon the nation the shame of threats unte!.
filed, and of promises broken, lei cowardice avowed
—in fact, of that whole Ministerial past on which it
declines, in this, the proper season, to pronounce
the censure invoked by Mr. Disraeli's resolution.
In negativing Mr. Kinglake's amendment, on
the other hand, the house does cot pronounce in
favour of war. It simply passes to the order of the
day—the consideration of the past course of the
Government, on which it is the duty first to pro-
i,ounce. tut, apart from this consideration, we
cannot but think Mr Kinglake's proposal, at the
present moment, peculiarly ill-timed, After a long
period of incertitude and vacillation, which can
only be attributed to a want of internal decision
in the Cabinet itself, a p ilicy of peace at any
price has been announced by the Administration,
and expressly g.ounded on the assertion that we
dare not fight ; that Austria and Prussia are powers
so great and formidable that England, single-
handed, or even backed by Sweden and Italy, is no
match for them. Now, it may be true that there
are many good reasons for not fighting. It may be
that it is contrary to our hereditary policy to quarrel
with the German Powers. It may be that we shrink,
honourably and conscientiously, so long as a credit.
able peace seems within the hounds of hope, from
firing the shell which must inevitably explode a
moral powder magazine and light up an European
conflagration. But it cannot be that England is
afraid to fight Ansteia and Prussia; and it must
not be that, by affirming Mr. Kinglake's resolution,
following as it does upon and deliberately confirm•
ing the Ministerial plea of weakness and avowal of
cowardice, the House of Commons should let go
forth to the world that we—not Lord Palmerston,
Lord Russell, and Mr Gladstone, but the English
nation—are afraid. Tee policy of peace at any price
is the policy at last adopted by Lord Palmerston's
Cabinet ; adopted, however, not from the first, but
after many promises of aid to Denmark and many
(•hreats of war to Germany ; and that policy restB
avowed!y, on simple fear. That is the policy, ap-
proved by Mr Ktngiake's motion, and condemned
by Mr Disraeies. The policy of the Conservative
party is not a policy of war nor yet a policy of
peace ; it is the old traditional potic3 of England.
Peace if we may ; war if we must ; peace with
honour, or war for eonour." That a Conservative
Government might, even at this eleventh hour,
realise the better alternative, is more than possible;
that England should be in such terror of the worse
as to proclaim her terror to the world by adopting
Mr Kinglake's motion, is what we will nut, without
proof, believe.