The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

POST.—The present occasion is one which cer
tainly appears admirably fitted for the consideration
of the precise nature of the obligations subsisting
between ourselves and those colonial dependencies
which at the same time constitute our strength and
our weakness. We cannot therefore complain of
the discussion to which the motion for the second
reading of. the New Zealand Loan Bill gave rise
last evening. However successful we may have
been of late in maintaining, under the most difficult
circumstances, peaceful relations with the great
Powers of the world, we have unfortunately become
engaged in two or three little wars in distant parts
of the globe which have certainly redounded neither
to oui credit nor advantage. It is scarcely a month
since the public learned that we weft) engaged in
hostilities with a savage tribe on the Weed Coast of
Africa, and that although not a single shot had been
fired nearly half the entire force we brought 12to
the field had been swept away or invalided by
disease. It is needless now to recapitulate the sad
history of the Ashantee war, so fresh in the memory
of our readers, or to refer to details which shocked
the country, and compelled the Government to
abandon forthwith an enterprise which should never
have bum undertaken. But it wes not alone on the
coast of Africa that British troops were being em-
ployed during the past few months in vindicating
the honour of our flag, nor was it there only that
valuable lives were being sacrificed in a war with
savages. For close on a twelvemonth the native
tribes of New Zealand have been in revolt, and
during the same period the Colonial Government,
with the assistance of her Majesty's forces, have
been engaged in endeavouring to reduce them to
subjection. The accounts transmitted from time to
time to this country of the progress of the war
might, on the whole, be considered favourable; and
the intelligence forwarded by one of the recent
mails led the more sanguine to conclude that the
revolt was on the point of being suppressed. The
latest tidings, however, which reached this country
must have dissipated such an impression. In one
of those military operations which the general in
command found it expedient to execute the troops
employed sustained a serious reverse. The object
to be gained was to dislodge a few hundred savages
from a pah or earthwork, of which they had posses-
sion ; and in accomplishing this the attacking force
lost no less than 32 killed, of whom 9 were officers,
and 72 wounded, :ncludieg four commissioned
officers. The 43d Regiment lost its lieutenant-
colonel, four captains, and. two lieutenants, whilst
a captain and a commander in the Royal Navy were
also amongst the slain. Before the sad intelligence
reached this country the Government had brought
in a bill guaranteeing a loan to be raised by the
Colonial Government to meet the expenditure occa-
sioned by the war, and last evening its second
reading was moved in the House of Commons. In
presence of the facts recently brought to our know-
ledge it was, however, impossible that the proposed
measure should receive the sanction of the Legisla-
ture as a mere matter of course. When the proposal
of the Imperial Government to guarantee the New
Z.,ialand Loan was mooted in the House of Lords a
few 1..-eeks since, we directed attention to the rela-
wLich, in our opinion, ought to subsist
tionship ±try and its colonies. It is for the
between this cone'
hat its colonies should in-
interest of the empire ;
colonists observe their
crease, and so long as the
nt they are entitled
allegiance allegiance to the Home Governme-
geulral principle,
to claim its protection. But this
however true in itself, is subject to certain !mportant
modifications. In the first place, a distinctiol; must
be drawn between that protection British coloneats
are entitled to claim from the aggressive acts of
foreign Powers, which have no pretensions to exer-
cise jurisdiction in the new settlement, and that
protection which they may demand in the prosecue
tion of their work of colonisation against the original
owners of the soil. This is a distinction of a very
important kind, though constantly lost sight of or
ignored. For instance, if France ought to dislodge
our colonists from their settlements in New Zealand,
no one can doubt for a moment that it would
be the daty of the Imperial Government, with all
the force at its command, to resist such aggression.
But whether it is also the duty of the Home Go-
vernment to aid settlers in intestine wars which
arise from attempts upon their part to enlarge their
dominions, and the continuance or cessation of
which is exclusively under the control of their own
Legislature, is open to considerable doubt, Now,
without inquiring into the origin of the Maori war,
or into the grounds assigned by the natives for the
present revolt, it is abundantly evident that it de-
pends almost exclusively upon the Colonial Legiss
lature to determine the conditions upon which the
war shall cease, short of the extermination or com-
plete subjugation of the aborigines. Under these
circumstances, the question is certainly a legitimate
one how far the taxpayers of these islands should
be called upon to provide for an expenditure over
which they exercised no control.

HERALD..—The end of the session is at hand.
Parliament will be prorogued early this year. As
well it may. It has been ask•Al by the Ministry to
do nothing, and with the exception of its labours in
the way of private legislation it has done nothing.
Two or three amending bills, to remedy the grosser
and more intolerable blunders of previous Whig
legislation, constitute the only chapters of the year's
statutes which have the slightest public interest or
importance. The Ministry, to do them justice, did
not promise much; but, small as was their promise,
they have not performed it. We do not regard
paucity of legislation in itself as an evil; on the
contrary, we believe that the fewer the acts Parlia.
meat passes, the more likely it is to have deserved
well of the country. But, unfortuately, Parliament
has been, in previous sessions, unwise enough
to legislate too much • it has adopted a number of
crude, incoherent, and mischievous measures of
legal and social reform brought forward by
th present Government; and, by the =fashion

of the members of that Government, those acts
I require very considerable amendment. Two or
these very gross blunders have been rectified, but
no serious attempt has been made to amen d lawa
which have aiknost taught the commercial public
to curse the very none of law reform. Mr. 1318 s
will probably be the hero of the session, estla
whatever opinion people may hold upon the grea
question of street music, only a very few fanatwt,
per o centre la musica will hold the passing of
his bill sufficient to redeem the session from theyea-
preach of barrenness. It is true that the Ministry,,
although they have brought forward very few bills,
themselves, and of these few have withdrawn the
most, have given their warm support to a geed,
many bills introduced by private members. Thai
usual attempts to despoil the Church and un-Chris-
tianise the Universities, to reduce the franchise, and
transfer sovereign power to the mob, have been
made by Radical members, and have received the
votes of the immense majority, and the enthusiastic
advocacy of some, of her Majesty's Ministers. Un-
fortunately for the Ministry the lustre of success
has not redeemed the discredit of the wretched
effort to recover a little Radical favour ; their ap-
pearance on the floor as advocates of a measure,
has been the signal, as Mr. Gladstone will long re.
member, for its immediate and ignominious rejec
tion. The Ministry passed their Budget because
they proposed no new tax; they carried their esti-
mates because they asked less than in previous
years; but they were defeated whenever they pro•
posed any decisive legislation, and made to suffer
humiliation and mortification which no body of
men with a thought for anything nobler than the
flesh-pots of Downing-street would have endured.
Happy England, which rejo;ces in a Ministry all
the members of which, in their intense devotion to
her interests, in their overpowerissg conviction that
to commit the rudder of the State to any other
hands would be an irreparable misfollune, are pre-
pared to sacrifice their reputation for truth, honour,
and principle, and consent to hold power at the
hands of a majority which, whilst keeping' them in
office, tells them, with the most offensive plainness,
that they are as unprincipled as they are incaroble!
In no other country in the world could statest,le, n
of a patriotism so extreme, and, to decent peopi ep
so disgusting, be discovered. Looking_ at the
position from tne stand-point of her Msjesty's
Ministers we can well understand that they
are satisfied with the session. They will
be at the end Ministers of the Crown, and
that is much more than they hoped at the
beginning. That they have been universally blamed,
that the House of Lords has formerly censured
them, and the House of Commons has, whilst 64
dining to record a formal condemnation, declared
by the mouths of the representative speakers of
the majority its dissatisfaction and disgust, mat-
ters nothing to men whose only object is to keep in:
office. What do Lord Palmerston, to whom office
has now become a necessity of life, and Mr Lay ard.
to whom it is equally so, care about the condemns.
tion of Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Roebuck, Hors-,
man, Forster, and Goldsmid, so long as those gen-
tlemen give their votes to keep them in office.
Wise in their generation, her Majesty's Ministers
will take abuse with complacence whilst they can
get votes, and they are chuckling now over the slue-
cess of the dodge by which they prevented all di's*
cussion of their policy until their condemnation.
would have been too late to save Denmark, and
Liberal members could find an excuse for voting
for them in the impossibility of retrieving the
blunders they had committed. It will be a cheery
jovial meeting at Greenwich on Saturday next.
Nene of tbose who will be present dared to hope
few months, or even a few weeks, ago there
would be such a reunion, As their hearts warm
with the assurance that they have another gii%
months of office and patronage secured them-30
the more fortunate of the band grow elated with
the promise of a pension, their voices will join in
grateful acknowledgment of the cleverness with
which their chief has jockeyed Parliament, and
they will vie in cutting sneers at the Liberal critics
in the House of Commons, who making a gre at
parade of scolding them, voted to keep them ill'
office, and at the independent Liberal newspapers,
which threatening war up to the very evening tb 3$
the Premier declared peace at any price would De
his policy, immediately discovered that peace vols
the only course for sagacious statesmen, and. that
war was a policy only fitted for the Tories, WO
had entered into an alliance with the Pope to PO'
test Denmark against Austria, and—horror of hot!
rors—light the torch of insurrection in Venetia and
Hungary. The Ministerial party may well laugh 60
they sip their wine at Trafalgar. They have accool4
plished all they care for. Although they have
degraded England they have kept their places.
The people hiss them, but they may count, if n°
accident occurs upon six or even nine months mare
of office and its accompaniments.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY.

There was about the usual attendance to-day of toga
dealers, but very few of the country trade, and wheat riaet
with a gt.od inquiry both on the spot and to arrive.
business at about Id advance upon last Tuesday's prices.
Flour held for fully previous rates. Oats in good request
at an improvement in prices, but oatmeal only a moderate'
demand at about last Tuesday's prices. Beans unchauge
Indian corn in moderate demand. A fair

STAMFORD—FRIDAY.
Not so much wheat as usual, with a tolerably active de-
mand, and prices may be qu)ted Is per qr improvement'
—White wheat, 44s to 46s ; red, 39s to 44s per 36 stone.'
Barley, malting, 32s to 34s ; grinding, 27s to 29s per clar.
Oats, 22s to 2bs.per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to --s P'
qr. ; new, 35s to 38s.

LINCOLN.--FRIDAY.
About the usual qamitity of wheot to-day, which sold 5$
nearly is per qr over last week's prices. Barley inactive-0
Oats fully maintain late rates. Beans is advance.
White wheat new, 43s to 47s Barley, grinding.. 26s to 28
°
Red do. 4os to 43s Oats ;old .. 24s to 260
Old white 43s to 46s New do 20s to 230
Red do. 38s to 42s 1 Beans. 37s to 4°, S
Barley, malting.... 32s to 34s 1 Beans, new 34s to 3°6

CORK—THURSDAY.
The following were the quotations this morning '
wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , barleV,
ld to Os Od ; oats, Gs 6d to 6s 8d ; black do., 5s Oct
os I Id.

WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY.
The wheat trade was inactive to-day, and last Fedi<
prices advanced is per qr. Beans and oats rather dare'.
Barley,dull. Weather fine.

B SUGAR—. °
There has been veryISTOL little doing hereFRIDAY in sugars, and Grp
prices are fully Gd lower than last week. Refiners' Pr()%ii
continues limited in demand, and the trade purchase cii,bB
sufficient to meet their daily requirements. Rum---*liira
demand is limited, and only about 50 puncheons Darner
have been sold at is 10d proof gallon.

COAL M.
Prices of Coal per Ton at

ARKET.
t the olose of the market. d
gs*

s. d.
Hastings Hartley l7 3
Holywell 15 6
Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6
Wylam 15 6
Walker Primrose 13 3

Walls End. 6
Tlaswell
Haugh Hall 11 g
South Kelloe 17 9
13raddyll's Helton 11 9
Tanstall
Cassop .......••t1 6
South lietton ......... -..-
t, 26 ; sold, 21.

Walls End.

Ridde11....., l7 01
Ships at marke

[ADvERTTSEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and rill
Indisputable remedies for bad legs, old wounds, sores,
uLcers: If used according to directions given with tiletot,
there is no wound, bad leg, ulcerous sore, or Lad brfheit
however' obstinate or long standing, but will yield to 1::ho
healing an curative properties. Numbers of persons "41
have been pa,:ients several of the large hospitals, 71,e
under the care of eminent surgeons, without rendering "cr.
slightest benefit, have been thoroughly cured by HolloW"rg,
Ointment and Pills. For glandular swellings, turocitat
scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no medicine
,rst
can be used with so good an effect. In fact, in the 00(1
forms of disease dependent upon the condition of the lo°
these remedies are irresistible.

Births.
CA STELLO.—On the 14th inst.; at 52, Clifton-garden°'
the wite of Daniel Castello, Esq., of a son. iroar4
ELEY
IT,
EOsnqt.h, eofl4athdainusgth,.
taetr.Harapstead, the wife of To"-
tIO
MOSTYN.--On the 10th inst., at the Baths of Luce°,
Hon. Mrs. Mostyn, of a daughter. „i ,
cet
SAUMAREZ.—On the 12th inst., at The Firs, St. Law.sir`
Jersey, the wife of Captain Thomas Saumarez,
a son.

Marriages. 0186
FREER—KIRICE.—On the 12th inst., at Saint
Brighton, Major R Freer, 27th Inniskillings, tcziro
Elmo, elder daughter of the late Rev. Sr. Georg° .`"
rector of Martin, Lincolnshire.
FLENIING —GoanAlt.--On the 14th inst., at Tunucir go,
lotto Plant Fleming, Esq., 8.C.L., of Tunbridgeloso
to Emily, eldest daughter of Wm. Gorham, Et*,
Bank, Tunbridge.

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Deaths. avie
ALDous.—On the 13th inst., at 15, Craven-hill) "'
park, Wm. Aldous, Esq., aged 75.
,A 100
BARFF.—On the 14th inst., at St. John's,Wakegew'
Barff. Esq., aged 69. Gn tell
BARLOW.—On the 13th inst at Brixton-hill, '----rAgev•
Samuel Barlow, Esq., late of
Clapton, l‘liddles°' -
70. ,Tiar;
EitrawcyroN.—On the 15th inst., at 47, Lower Groto ol
street, Claudine Stanley Errington, eldest dang'-
Sir Rowland Stanley Errington. the 11°11.
P FIN,
aNnlnNyCjaorNo i
eco.,,sici
third Lord Muneaster, aged 34.
rneOpentnhienglt2otnh,
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daatuVghevteeryo,
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PEncY.—On the 11th inst., at Fareham, AgneS' °P.
P.'
gh Fero),
daughter of the late Hon. and Rev. Hu
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