The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1852.

The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEQuER yesterday
addressed a numerous body of his supporters on the
occasion of a convivial banquet at Newport Pagnell,
and in anticipation of the proceedings of to-morrow,
when his own name and that of his colleague will be
put in nomination as candidates to represent the
county of Rockingham in the new Parliament. From
the conspicuous position assumed by the Right Hon.
Gentleman in the present Government the remarks
which fell from his lips became invested with the im-
portance of a speech declaratory of the views enter-
tained by the Administration. It will be re-
membered that his electioneering address to
the possessors of the county franchise in
Buckinghamshire was generally accepted by
the country as a document possessing
the value of a
Cabinet manifesto. His address of
yesterday, there-
fore, must doubtless be considered as of equal signi-
ficance, the more so as it had the advantage of being
spoken instead of written and eepeially considering

' the circumstance that it was delivered in the very
height of the general elections, and when consequently
a retrospective survey might be taken of the results
already known, so as to form something like a rea-
sonable conjecture as to the probable strength of
parties (relatively speaking) on the assembling of
the newly-created Legislature. There was much
cause for the exultation with which Mr. Dartamia
referred to the advantages secured by the Ministerial
candidates in such instances as that of the great sea-
port of Liverpool. No wonder he augured well
from the fact of two Derbyites being returned by
Dublin the London, and by Belfast the Manchester
of Ireland—triumphs to the Ministry scarcely subor-
dinate to that achieved, as already intimated, at Liver-
pool ! It was natural, also, that he should:speak in terms
of satisfaction of the successes simultaneously secured
at places like Dover and Greenwich. Hardly less
natural was it that he should remain altogether
dumb as to the losses sustained elsewhere by the
Government. The reverse of the medal was not to be
looked at—the intaglio was rather disagreeable in this
instance, and was therefore to be thrust out of the
opportunity of examination. Newport was nothing
—Stafford was nothing—neither was there anything
in the failures of the Ministerialists at Newark, at
Maidstone, or at Leeds, any more than there could be
at Kidderminster, at Halifax, or at Aylesbury. The
pleasant things were to be talked about on the
eve of the election for the county of Buckingham.
Therefore, we say, the disagreeable were to be
eschewed as out of the question, and—in fact—
a3 nothing to the purpose. This, we allow, at
once was but re...Qoriable under the circumstances.
A leading member of tlie—Oppciition would have
acted in no way differently. It was the course
obviously advisable for the occasion. And a con-
summate tactician like Mr. DISRA.ELI could not be
expected by any ill-timed candour to mar the in-
fluence of the golden moment presented-to him both
as a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons
and as one of the foremost men in the Adminis-
tration.

It was ingeniously remarked by the CHANCELLOR
Of the EXCHEQUER, that while many were
asking Ministers " Why don't you say what you
will do ?" it should be remembered that the Govern-
ment ought to go to the country not upon details,
but upon principles. This remark, we repeat, was
ingenious—but while it was ingenious it WB3 by no
means satisfactory. Nobody wanted the Cabinet to
go to the country upon details. All the people really
desired to know was the precise nature of the very
principles here alluded to by the Right Hon.
Gentleman. We fancy it would be rather difficult
to find two men in the United Kingdom capable of
agreeing as to the nature of the policy cherished
by Lord DERBY'S Administration. The Oracle
of D.-?lphos is not more silent than the Ministry has
continued to be up to this very moment in regard to
the principles implied by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER. What they really are, the most imagina-
tive as well as the most discerning are bewilderedin
the attempt to conjecture. All the community can
do is to await as patiently as possible the hour of
their ultimate revelation. Hitherto our administrators
have kept us in the dark as to their intentions; and
now one of the chief men in the Govern-
ment reminds us that it :has been the duty of
himself and his colleagues to go to the country not
upcn details but upon principles. Precisely. But
where are they ? How can w e discover them ? Can
they be deemed visible under the glittering haze of
these rhetorical generalities ? Is the empire to be
ruled not by a policy but by I; he shadow of a policy—
not by a party but by the spectre of a party—not by
a sober consistency in this preposition or in that, but
by the fluctuating splendour of a gorgeoukbut shallow
hallucination ?

Before the final elections are completed it may be
as well to review with as much accuracy as possible the
nature of the results already lunown in regard to the
new Parliament. To-morrow, besides other county
elections in England, the electi on of Buckingham will
commence, according to routine, with the nomination.
Within two or three days rfterwards the rest of
the contests throughout the United Kingdom will
have been accomplished. It is advisable, therefore,
we cannot but think, to cast a glance back at the
" facts and figures" collected together in reference to
those contests which have been up to this
time actually completed. Already, then, 280
constituencies have pronounced upon the momentous
question submitted to their judgment by the SOTE.•
REIGN. These 280 constituencies have elected 451
representatives. These 451 representatives must be
divided as follows :
Liberals •• . •
Derbyites • • • •
Liberal Conservatives • •

230
165
56

Total ..• ... 451
Grouping together the Liberals and the Liberal
Conservatives, we have the aggregate of—
The 0, )sition ... ••• 286

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