The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

their subordinates from unjust aspersions in the
execution of their duty. This memorial is an
honour to those who sent it, and is worthy of
being taken as the true type of feeling and
exponent of opinion among independent Englishmen.
How far more consistent is the course taken by
these gentlemen with our national character than
the mode adopted by a certain class of politicians who
arrogate to themselves the right of being the most
popular representatives. It is with regret that we
learn a committee has been formed by Mr. BRIGIIT,
Mr. J. S. MILL, Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH, Mr. CAIRNES,
and others, in order that the opposition to Governor
EYRE may be kept up, and for the purpose of pro-
viding legal assistance to Mrs. GORDON, and others
who have " unjustly suffered." If they carry out
their intentions to the letter, we can only say that
they will be stultifying emselves, and will forfeit
the reputation they have earned. Moreover, they
will be utterly unworthy of retaining their seats in
Parliament, for perverted judgment and the spirit
of intolerance require no representatives in an
Assembly where they are disowned and disavowed.

Nowadays it is not likely that any intelligent
person will be astonished at the doings of Prussian
Ministers and authorities ; but, at the same time, it
is most unseemly that every possible opportunity
should be taken by them to show how little they
care for what is said of them in foreign countries,

and in what contempt they hold public opinion,
The case of Count EULENBERG has been often dis-

cussed, and all right-minded persons have been
unanimous in their verdict concerning its infamy.
The decision of native Judges is very different,
however, and we learn that the very inefficient
sentence passed upon the Count in the first
instance has been considered too severe by
higher authorities. The term of nine months
has been altered to five and a half. Can anything
be more preposterous than this? It is playing at law
and profaning justice. Here is a man charged with
a deliberate and deadly assault upon incontrovertible
proofs, and the only recognition which is taken of
this outrage by his country is that he is visited with
a condemnation more suited to an error in judgment
and a breach of military discipline than to a crime,
and one too of a most inexcusable kind. Ile had
received no provocation, he had not been irritated
before the encounter took place, and the morale cf
the whole affair must then be held to be that Prus-
sian noble may, if they please, in a fit of frolic or
in the vagaries of midnight revelling, commit serious
wrongs and perpetrate deadly injuries on others,
and yet receive no particular punishment or reap
the due reward of their actions. Such a course of
judicature must be the order of the day while Prus-
sian influence is so paramount in many quarters
as it unfortunately is at present, and there-
fore •the independent and conscientious communi-
ties of the world must content themselves with
their own conclusions drawn from passing events.
The sense of justice seems to pervade the atmosphere
of domestic life in Prussia as little as the sense of
honour is appreciated in the direotion of its foreign
affairs ; and the ono and the other are virtually at a
discount there, and we seek in vain for even the
shadows or counterparts.

We are glad to find that the Corporation of the
City of London are prepared to take active and
vigorous measures for the relief of the City traffic,
and that the bill which was yesterday discussed at
the Court of Common Council contains ample
provision for remedying, or at least mitigating, the
present evils. These are undoubtedly very great,
and all that has yet been done to amend them has
produced but little effect. We are so accustomed
to the immense and ceaseless traffic of the City
thoroughfares that we have cause to regard their
inconveniences as a matter of course, and however
much annoyed few persons are surprised if they
lose a train or miss an appointment in consequence
of a temporary blockade ; yet there is probably
no place in the world in which time is of more value
than in the good old city of London, though with
the characteristic grumbling patience of Englishmen
we have for years submitted to fritter and waste it
away in useless conflicts with refractory draymen,
and frantic expostulations with the guardians of
carts and trucks. Added to this really serious
annoyance is a still more formidable evil resulting
from the crowded state of our streets, which is the
number of accidents, many of them fatal ones,

The New Peers•

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In the London Gazette of last evening the official
announcement appears of the elevation of the Right
Hon. Sir John Romilly and the Right Hon. Sir
Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., to the peerage
—the former as Baron Romilly of Barry, in the
county of Glamorgan, and the latter as Baron
Northbrook of Stratton, in the county of South-
ampton.
The Right Hon. Sir John Romilly is the second
son of the late Sir Samuel Romilly. He was born
in 1802, and married a daughter of the Rev. Dr.
Otter, Bishop of Chichester ; she died in 1856. The
noble lord was educated at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1826. He was
called to the bar at Grey's-inn, in 1827, of which
learned society he is now a bencher. He obtained
his silk gown very early in his professional career,
and the great expectations then held out by his inti-
mate friends have been fully realised'. He was
always considered in the legal profession a sound

lawyer ; and, although deficient in brilliancy, was
thought a man who would by his talents occupy a
high position among the dignitaries of the bench.
Previously to his appointment as Master of the Rolls
he had filled the offices of Solicitor-General from
April, 1848 (when, as a matter of course, he was
knighted), became Attorney-General in July, 1850,
and, in 1851, was made Master of the Rolls, in suc-
cession to the late Lord Langdale. Before attaining
the high honours of his profession he was a member
of the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835 for
Bridport, and after a petition in 1846 he sat for the
same borough. In 1847 he was returned in the
Government interest for Devonport, which consti-
tuency he continued to represent up to 1852. He
was made a Privy Councillor in 1851.
The Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring,
Bart. (now Lord Northbrook), is the eldest son of
the late Sir Thomas Baring, second baronet, of
Stratton Park, Winchester. He was born on
the 20th April, 1796, and was educated at
Eton. He afterwards repaired to Christ Church,
Oxford, at which university he obtained a double
first-class in 1817, and graduated M.A. in 1821.
Like many other of the prominent public men, he
studied the law without adopting it as a means of
livelihood, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's-
inn in 1823. From 1826 up to the last general elec-
tion Sir Francis represented Portsmouth in the House
of Commons. Previously to the late general elec-
tion, much to the regret of his political friends in the
borough, he declined to come forward again, ex-
pressing as an excuse a desire to retire from the one-
rous duties of a member of Parliament. .The new
peer was an earnest supporter of the Whig party,
and he was well rewarded for his faithful adherence
to his party„ having been introduced into official life
as one of the Lords of the Treasury in the Earl
Grey's Administration in 1830, and in 1834 ap-
pointed one of the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury.
From April, 1835 (on the resignation of Sir Robert
Peel's first Ministry), up to 1839, he held the same
post of one of the Joint Secretaries. In the latter
year he was called to her Majesty's Privy Council.
In 1839, and up to September, 1841, he filled the
highly responsible office of Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. It is not disparaging to his talents to say that,
like many able party friends in that office, he fell
short of the mark. He was laborious and unremit-
ting in his duties, but he failed to make a name.
The Whigs were always remarkable as deficient in
filling up that important place in the Government.
In 1849 he again accepted office, and once more had
a seat in the Cabinet—this time having taken the
post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He held that
office in the Government from January, 1849, till
February, 1852. Since then political combinations
have been such that his services, never of a first-
class order, have not been required by his party. The
great talent of the Peelite element cast many hard
working men into the shade. Sir Francis was one
of the many of his party who had to seek official
retirement under the pressure of a superior political
talent.