The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-21 00:00:00

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agreement with his" honourable friend. It ,r,n,
tour de force upon the subject of truenon-interven""
He bounds and swoops upon the question
leonine vigour. He finds that the Govertnne.nce
has been feeble and the Opposition foolish. Twi d
he revels in this discovery, and then, with a glf.avii,
swing of mane and a triumphant lashing (' e,
he light upon our military and naval expena,,ert
" What the Duke of Wellington and Sir 11°,'Ile
Peel thought necessary tWenty-five years ago" the
does not disdain to refer to; and having roue a
happy discovery that Government, Opposition, alcial.
all people soever but John Bright and his Pe.litithe
believers, are wrong, he turns for a moment in au
direction of North America, and sings a brief P3„„e
over the virtues of the Stars and Stripes. Bat, roi:
sibly, out of charity to his lesser though senior cola
with t
league, he forbears to do more than glance st,
" flag," and then turns to the great subject 'alai-1i i$
are told, is to be the feature of the session. '` are
feeding-time. "Tories, and those Whigs Who
teif
like Tories," constitute the lion's meal ; and at e
bones he crunches with all the gusto of the le°'"ne,
Radical. Somewhere in the hands of Mr. Gladle.
or Mr. Baines, or Mr. Locke King, he sees re,
form Bill, or part of a Reform Bill ; and witir'i,;(4
gard to this he tell us, the Tories, and- the lvl
who are like Tories, " entertain uncomfortable ,
ings which approach almost to a shiver." Thep for
alarmed at the proposition to give a £lO vc"
counties, and a £6 vote for boroughs ; but, heioltii
forms us, they would have " repented in sackci,ol
and ashes if they had given a vote against Pi 0
Grey's Reform Bill." Like many other pr°l;:eof
makers, Mr. Bright takes his " six milh°.Tthe
people," and imagines what would happen be
twelve million eyes belonging to them were Woe
fixed " with an intense look on the doors of IA
House of Commons." The idea is large, it is gr3cp
it is something like Napoleon's forty centuries 1° lid
ing down from the Pyramids on the Frency aril-1%1
inciting it to plunder and conquest. Nothing, nee
are told, would be able to resist the united g13„,'00
of this six millions of people. Not the mace 11193
the table of the House ; 4; that bauble " wouldits sanctity as though another Oliver Cronar
had appeared at Westminster. Not the out
hundred easy gentlemen who lounge in arjer
of that decorated chamber ;" they would
from the glance of the six million eyes as tir()Zo
another " Pride's Purge " had counted t'cail
all out. Not the " dozen gentlemen to
themselves statesmen ;' they would has git•
slink away to the seclusion of the Chiltern
dreds. And—here comes the awful mYsterdo.
" not even a power more appalling and nieno,
ing, that has its lodgment higher uP 14111„4,
hall." Mace, politicians, statesmen, army and illion
all would have to yield to Mr. Bright's si%
pairs of eyes ; and to bring about such a reseo
apparently what the hon. member for Birininfo'
wants to effect by the aid of parliamentary rerAilr,
This is very plain speaking on the rt ;110'
Bright ; and, although his idea about these sub,' of
lions of people fixing their eyes upon the clec"of
the House of Commons may be nothing more
less than an optical illusion, we at least knell' /st'iltt:
he means and what he would have. He tellstl
" Conservatism," be it Toryism or Whigg''L'ee;
" the true national peril" the country has W
and we tell him that_ the country's true na_'"cle•
peril is such a state of things as he pictures witalow
light—the mob law that he sets above mace, ,
mons, Government, and Horse Guards. W 11,3; tii
ducement does he offer us to agree with him ii
matter ? What magnificent spectacle does h
to as something that we should emulate ? ATeropf.
of course, supplies us with thething we shoula.:ti
Seventy thousand men, he tells us, voted n'tiop
State of New York at the last Presidential ele,colo
and, altogether 4,000,000 votes were giveo,_ _,
result of placing Abraham Lincoln in the Fres!,,eg'
tial chair for another four years of possible rad
ging away." If this is not infatuation of the -Joel,
sort we should be glad to know what infatuatlolti
If this is not pointing out something We
avoid, then let us seize upon thevilest lessons;', tY
litical life, and embody them in al text-book '91;00
political instruction of the people. America,
America, for Mr. Bright's model ! HappilY, 13? tll6
blind course of exhortation Mr. Bright supPe oe.
antidote of the bane he proffers for our acceri
His opinions may be unwholesome enough, ibtaiD
reasons are such as the mind revolts at. Ana eIP
time by his side sits Mr. Scholefield, his celle;10
The Birmingham cage holds them both, and, per
the one roars the other listens. It is a strang-
formance truly ; the starred and stripped ho tip
taut with Yankee examples •, the quieter Boil
Southern to the back-bone. It is a queer coaP