The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1852.

While the decision of the House of Commons
in reference to the motion of the Hon. Member
for Wolverhampton is still left to conjecture, it
cannot be uninteresting to call to remembrance
the benefits already secured to the country by the
DERBY-DISRAELI Government. That advantages
have accrued to the community at large from the
patriotism, or enterprise, or intelligence, or "what
you will," of the existing Cabinet, will not, we
conceive, be denied even by the more fractious—
mind! we do not say the more factious, but sim-
ply the more fractious—among the ranks of the
Opposition. Little need be said about the Militia
being raised upon the voluntary principle—seeing
that the merits of that scheme of enlistment re-
main yet, we believe, to be clearly demonstrated.
But a great deal in the way of eulogium might
139 pronounced, and. that, moreover, with the
strictest regard to accuracy, in reference to what
was happily termed on Tuesday evening, the most
popular Chancery suit ever heard of, in the
course of the masterly oration delivered by the
Right Hon. Gentleman the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER. For the improvements already
effected in the Court of Chancery, by the Baron
ST. LEONARD; the nation has already ample
reason for emotions of mingled gratitude and ad-
miration. They have, in truth, distinctly proved,
as Mr. DisnA.F.Ta observed, a capacity in the in-
tellect of the Noble and Learned Lord that was
not previously anticipated. As was correctly re-
marked by the Leader of the Lower House of
Parliament, those memorable changes have en-
hanced the popular estimate of the profound eru-
dition of the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR, having
revealed in him the enlightenment of a patriot
and the grasp of a statesman. Further altera-
tions are still confidently looked forward to in
the same direction. They are, in fact, formally
promised by the Ministry, as well as various
kindred innovations in the Ecclesiastical Courts,
long derided as a congeries of grievances alto-
gether odious and intolerable in their charac-
ter. Again, then, twice again, CHARLES DICKENS
has not pleaded in vain for extraordinary and
comprehensive improvements. " Bleak House "
has barely attained the half of the allotted num-
ber of its instalments, before the evils complained
of through its eloquent pages are even now to a
considerable extent dissipated. Insomuch that
the record of the fictitious cause of JARNDYCE and
, l'l'mYcz might not inappropriately be dedicated to
the Right Honourable EDWARD BIRTBNSHAW SITG-
Drg
Baron St Leonards, and Lord High Chan-
cellor. Almost simultaneously, too, endeavours
are being .mad
to
remove eby the DERBY-DISRAELI Cabinet
those monster abuses which
were laid bare some
of
to
the public gaze in the incom-
parable narrativee
of the life and adventures of
" David Copperfida.„
Elsewhere our adminis-
trators have displayed
a no less commendable
activity in the furthering
victoof
rouju4dicious innovations.
They have interfered
the invaded interests of the Empire in the defence of
the British North American re
regard to
fisheries. They
have opened up to the corainere.
ml
of the people of the United Kingdom the hitherto
enterprisee hitherto
impenetrable r ?
e ons where Wealth of
a varied
and alluring description abounds in the vast
South American Continent. They have resolved
to terminate at as early a period as Was at all
practicable the system by which a penal settle,
ment has been maintained in Australasia. They
have imparted a new impetus to that beneficent
sanitary movement which had been slackening its
energies deplorably under the deadening influence
of the late do-nothing Government. Such are a
few amongst the more prominent benefits secured
to the general community since the close of last
February : divers other advantages of a scarcely
lees noteatile kind even now remaining un enume-
rated. A glance like this, however
cursory—
must be viewed at the present juncture as in