The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and able in the midst of Wars and Revolutions in almost
ALUM INIU3I BRONZE. all the various speeches delivered by our veteran
21000 SPECIMENS, illustratine the appli-
(;anon (ornamental and Useful) of these in- Premier both within and without the walls of Par-
erestiner Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW I ir
nament—turning over the pages, on the contrary,
of the Yew (Tory) Review, with an actual
sense of relief we repeat, here giving to us this
able and statesmanlike exposition of the
nature and the aim of Conservatism as now
represented by Her MAJESTY'S Opposition, we read
on, with a distinct sense of satisfaction. In another
sense than is usually attached to the familiar
words, we might say, fas est ab haste doceri. Look-
ing to—what is certainly on the cards—the possible
Change of Ministers, the Reviewer asks :
"Does anybody mean to say that the country
would suffer by a change which restored Sir John
Pakington and General Peel, Mr. Henley, Mr.
Walpole, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, and
Lord Stanley, to the pests which they formerly oc-
cupied ? Granting [which we don't!] that Sir
Roundell Palmer is as good a man in his way as
Sir Hugh Cairns, and that Sir Cornewall Lewis
was as good a war Minister as General Peel, is there
any comparison between the Duke of Somerset and
Sir John Pakington, between Mr. Hutt and Mr.
Henley, between Sir George Grey and Mr. Wal-
pole, between Sir Charles Wood and Lord
Stanley, between Sir William Atherton and Sir
Fitzroy Kelly ?" Alluding to the rumoured
differences among the Leaders of the Opposition,
the writer remarks quite positively,—" Lord
Derby and Mr. Disraeli are perfectly united
and any faction in the Conservative ranks
which opposes the will of Lord Derby, must not
only be powerless for evil, but must, we feel certain,
consist only of such members as the party could well
spare." What is then observed in regard to that
said faction, we would here commend to the par-
ticular attention of the petty leaders of it—the re-
viewer, speaking of them, in fact, plainly enough as
follows :—" We readily admit that there is such a
faction—that it numbers about twelve members—and
that they are without exception the dullest, deafest,
and blindest of the whole party. They can make a
great noise ; fools generally can. They are made
much of by the friends of Government, and in that
there is nothing to surprise us. They are flat-
tered by it. But their influence and ability
are ridiculously magnified by those whose purpose
it suits to see in them a strong detachment, and
one able to perplex the whole party. They affect,
forsooth, the airs of the October Club which so
vexed the last Ministry of Anne. They are like the
grasshoppers, so well described by Mr. Burke,
whose importunate chinck ' makes the field ring,
while the nobler creatures round them are contemp-
tuously silent, and see them no other than they are,
' the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though
loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
Another excerpt from this remarkable paper
upon " The Conservative Party" in the first number
(May,1863) of The New Review we are tempted to
give : but with this quotation from the Opposition
Manifesto we shall rest contented. It is a tribute
from the Country Gentlemen of England—a tribute
well deserved at their hands by reason of the many
long years of brilliant and arduous service in their
behalf as the foremost man amongst them all—a tri-
bute offered to and nobly merited by the Leader of
her Majesty's Opposition in the House of Commons.
"What Mr. DISRAELI," says the Reviewer,
"has shown in spite of certain petty factions
to be noticed presently, is an extraordinary
aptitude for keeping a great party together,
and inspiring it with confidence in himself.
This fact, alone, testifies to his possession of
great Parliamentary talents. His speeches attest
his eloquence; his writings his political sagacity.
The former are marked by a vein of curious gene-
ralisation, and by that art of expressing the results
of long observation and the conclusions of native
good sense in terse and striking apothegms, which
is almost peculiar to himself among the statesmen
of the day, and lends to his oratory a remarkable
and enduring influence. The latter show a study
of the English constitution in a thoroughly inde-
pendent spirit, and tending to original results. A
statesman who has thought so deeply on our history
and institutions ; who, at the same time, brings to
the transaction of ordinary business so much prac-
tical acuteness, and to the discussion of more serious
subjects so much impressive eloquence, is not to be
found every day. And whatever his faults—and
he is not without them—they are wholly unable
to detract from these great qualities, or to force
them below that point which is the standard for
the highest class of Ministers." The Tribute thus
paid to Mr. DISRAELI, in the name of the Party of
which he is, and has for so many years past been,
the Leader in the British House of Commons, will
ba recognised as just by others besides those
enrolled under the banners of the Opposition.

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Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippen-
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After which an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
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THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original
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After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
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Elsworthy.

Yesterday's sitting of the Prussian Chamber of
Deputies shows the truth of all that has been said
about the Convention. It is useless to make ex-
cuses when facts are against them, and the King of
PRUSSIA and his Ministers had better come Toward
boldly and declare their intention of supporting
Russia, instead of saying one thing to the Cham-
ber of Deputies, and writing the contrary
to foreign Powers. The whole conduct of Prussia
in this affair has been most underhand. At Mon-
day's sitting in the Chamber of Deputies Count von
ET:LENBERG, in reply to Herr von CARLOWITZ, said
" that Russian troops had passed the Prussian fron-
tier. They had been billeted, as it appeared, by
private arrangement, and no objection seemed
to have been raised by the Prussian au-
thorities. He, at least, was aware of none.
As to the disarmament of fugitive Russian troops,
such a measure was not required by law,
and no Cabinet order to that effect had been
issued. There was nothing of an extraordinary
character in the whole proceeding." When a
member of the Cabinet speaks in this manner there
is little room left for justice to hope for. It is
really lamentable that such a state of things should
occur, and the libsral-minded Prussians, both in
the Chamber and throughout the country, are
greatly to be pitied at such decadence in the credit
of their Constitution. A greater mistake was
never made than to take up the cause of Russian
tyranny, as it has been done by Herr Von BISMARK
and his friends. They are greatly injuring their Sove-
reign, they are stultifying their country's progress,
and they are disgracing themselves before the eyes
of all European nations. It is a contradiction in
terms to aver that their country possesses a free
constitution, and then aid and abet to the atmost of
their power the greatest despotism that the world
contains. The actions of the Russians to the Poles,
their whole policy towards them, is the record of as
sawcruel a tyranny as any
ceevf
ue
, and it is renderedirl
y the fact that it is perpetrated in an
enlightened century and surrounded 'oy civi-
lised nations. Prussia might just as well send an
armed force to the field against the Poles as to
adopt these covert measures, which, in the end,
prove more deleterious to the cause of the patriots.
They have on several occasions defeated their ad.
versaries in open combat, but it is most difficult,
if not altogether impossible, to baffle the machi-
nations of conventions and subvert the efforts of
those who work in the dark. Whatever may be