The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO-iii,

federates. In the very centre and north of Ken-
tucky, ,
the Confederates are alive and harrassing,
putting them in fear for the capital of the State
itself. Kentucky is one of the most important of
the Slave States, and has been anxious to play a
double game. Its slave population is comparatively
small, and it wished to abide by the Union,
yet not to quarrel with the Confederates.
The Federals in such a State easily acquired
the upper hand, and pressed on successfully
in the spring, even to Tennessee It would almost
seem as if all these spring conquests were about to
slip from Federal hands—it is certain that the Con-
federates are reported to be making captures there
in a way which quite alarms the Federals, and will
give them warm military work during the warm
weather. They appear to have commenced to carry
Out JEFFERSON DAVIS'S threat, for we actually find
them coming into Indiana, and seizing on a place
there of the name of Newbourg. It is true there
is a little of the Parthian character in their attacks.
Those who captured Murfreesborough in Tennesse,
and made two regiments prisoners there, instead of
advancing to the frightened capital, Nashville, fell
back with their prisoners and booty to their old
station of Chatanooga. In Western Virginia, STONE.
WALL JACKSON is described as aiming again at
Harper's Ferry, the truth is that he is more likely
to go anywhere than where report has anticipated
him. Mr. LINCOLN thinks POPE the best man to
match him ; but though POPE was active in the
West under HALLECK, we imagine he is no match
for JACKSON.

The political news from Washington is hardly
more favourable to the Federals than the military
news. HALLECR is expected from the west to take
the command of the Federal armies, POPE and
M'CLELLAN retaining each their respective posi-
tions in eastern and western Virginia. But, if a
speech in the Senate is to be trusted, the conse-
quences of M'CLELLAN's mismanagement surpasses
anything with which we were too sadly familiar in
the Crimea. Mr. CHANDLER affirms that
158,000 men altogether had been sent him.
If this be true, he must indeed, as the
speaker added, have lost his men by tens
of thousands in the swamps before Rich-
mond. If these charges be facts they quite
account for what follows—the difficulty of obtain-
ing recruits. Bounties of £lO, and of £5 down and
a month's pay in advance, do not seem to render
army work palatable, when every place has the
record of its sick, killed, or wounded before it.
Congress, however, has not been idle. It has
just terminated its session, but if it could not vote
victory it could vote money, when paper can make
it. It has done so Re are told to the extent of
appropriating £160,000,000; of this £112,000,000
have been for the army, and £20,000,000 for the
navy. It has also compelled the President to sign
its confiscation of rebels property bill; it would
not accept his proposed modifications, and only
conceded that it should not apply to previous acts
of rebels. Mr. LINCOLN and his Cabinet are now
left in sole command.

The Parliamentary changes that have taken
place between the present time and the close of the
last session, are many of them sufficiently remark-

able to be worthy of note here before the now
rapidly approaching date of the prorogation.
Parliament met this year, it may be remembered,
on Thursday, the 6th of February. It will be dis-
missed from its labours, according to an arrange-
ment that it is hardly probable will be modified,
within less than a week—viz., on Tuesday next,
the sth of August. The duration of the session,
therefore, is in every way according to rule. That
rale setting apart, upon the average, as nearly as
possible, one-half of each year to the varying toils

of the Legislature. So that—as it happens—the
session of 1862 is, really and truly, as nearly the

exact six months as could be; in fact, within a
single day of it. As maLy as Eleven changes had
taken place, however, it should be observed at the
very outset of our remarks upon the fluctuations of
men and parties, between prorogation and proroga-
tion—as many as Eleven changes had already taken

during the last thirty years, of the
North Riding of Yorkshire. Three of the I
old seats, so long left unoccupied in consequence of
bvgone bribery and corruption, have, moreover,
during the present session been filled up once more
—one cf them by the election of Sir JOHN HAY, as
member for the borough of Wakefield; the re-
the return of the Hon. C. BEE.
maining two by
XELEY and Mr. J. POWELL, the barrister, as col-
leagues in the representation of the city of Glou-
cester. Five seats are transferred from old to new
members, in consequence of the former having I
resigned,. Among these resignations the Liberal
party must still look back with regret to one,
namely, to the withdrawal into private life of Mr.
W. J. Fox, late M.P. for Oldham, and in his time
one of the most gifted orators of the Anti-Corn
Law League.
A single vacancy only, out of the Sixteen, is attri-
butable to tne advancement of the late member
from the Commons to the Lords upon the demise of
his patrician father—this solitary instance being
that of the late M.P. for Great Grimsby, Lord
WORSLEY, now the Earl of YARBOROUGH. Imme-
diately upon his lordship's removal to the House of
Peers in succession to his progenitor, then recently
deceased, it can hardly yet be forgotten how Mr.
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of the Great Grimsby constituency.
The rival candidate (Mr. CHAPMAN) being, however,
elected by preference by the undiscerning Great
Grimsbians ! Aud Mr. BRADLEY MooRE having,
in the meantime, slipped in quietly to the vacated
seat at Lincoln. So that poor Mr. HENEAGE was
left as completely in the lurch by his attempt at "a
rise" as the present Lord Mayor was last ses-
sion, when he threw up his constituency to
court the favour of the City of London. Mr.
CUBITT being consoled, however, for his Parlia-
mentary disappointment by his re•election not long
afterwards to that civic chair which he has filled so
admirably well since the date of his first installa-
tion in it. A similar disappointment to that which
befel Mr. HENEAGE, befel also Col. LUKE WHITE
(late M.P. for the county of Longford), upon his
nomination by the Premier as one of the Lords of
the Treasury., After as sharp a contest in its way
as any that has been witnessed in Ireland for years
past, Major O'REILLY was preferred to Col.
WHITE by that excited constituency though
Major O'REILLY was no more than the gallant
leader of a miserably discomfitted Brigade
of Irishmen lately in the service of the
Pope, and certainly, to say the least of it all,
not of very much use to his HOLINESS—whiIe
Colonel WHITE had been until so very recently
M.P. for the county of Longford, and actually was
then one of the Lords of her MAJESTY'S Treasury! As
things fell out, however, as affairs happily chanced
for Colonel LUKE WHITE, or—may we venture
to say it P—as they were comfortably arranged
for him by the powers that be—Colonel
WHITE'S name having more favourably and cer-
tainly very appropriately on the Lapis down at Kid-
derminster. Mr. BRISTOW, then M.P. for that
borough, not unwillingly resigned it to accept the
remunerative office of Solicitor to the Admiralty—
whereupon the rejected of Longford became the
, accepted of Kidderminster. Enough now if we
add to the foregoing analysis of these seven-and-
twenty Parliamentary Changes that have actually
occurred since the close of the last session of Parlia-
, ment, that Captain BUNBURY has but very recently
resigned his seat as member for the county of Car-
low, and that though the writ has been since then
duly issued, his successor has not yet been returned.

place among the members of the House of Com-
mons during the lapse of last recess, before Parlia-
ment assembled on the 6th of February. One of

the Eleven new members elected within the interval
of that recess, owed his seat to the promotion of its

last occupant (Mr. MELLOR) to the judicial bench.
Another (Mr. MORRISON) to the advancement of

itB last occupant (Viscount VALLETORT) to the

Upper House in succession to his father as Earl of
MouNT EDGECUMBE. Two others among the Eleven

new members elected during the recess were

It will not be denied that Earl GREY did well in
calling attention to our change of policy in China.
Quite apart from all the political squabbles and
irritations connected with Chinese wars, we are i❑
constant danger there of serious leaks in our finance.
It is but too well verified that the indiscretion of a
public servant at that vast distance, may, especi
ally by incurring a repulse in some unwise attempt,
land us in a war, and a costly one, too, without
our knowledge. We very much question whether
the profits on our trade with China have paid the
expenses of our wars there, even including the so
called indemnities paid by the Chinese. And of
these profits how small a portion have reached the
great body of taxpayers. A contemporary observes
that the only thing now requisite to bring on a
Chinese war is an attack on Shanghae by the Tae-
pings. A defeat we should never brook; and
although we have unquestionably provoked the
attack, yet we should forthwith send an army, from
India probably, and a fiEet, to annihilate the Tae
pings.

doubly noticeable in their way for, inasmuch, as
they were new members who had been chosen by
newly oreated constituencies. These were Mr.
LAIRD, elected for Birkenhead, and Mr.
TURNER for South Lancashire. The remaining
Seven (making up with the preceding Four the
total number of Eleven already mentioned), owed
the opportunity of their election in each instance to
the demise of the previous representative. As
member for Lincoln, Major SIBTHORP disappeared
from the public scene not very long after his well
known father the eccentric Colonel—Major SIB-
THORP being succeeded in his turn by the present
member, Mr. SEELEY. Two only of the other half
dozen deaths need be here particularised, the other
Four deceased members being in no way remark-
able.
Those Two here alluded to we would, how-
ever, especially mention, as they relate to the
disappearance from the House of Commons of
public characters, wbo, each after his own fashion,
was essentially a Representative Man. One of
them, in fact, was no less a person than the Right
Hon. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—so long the First Lieu-
tenant, or in ether words, the Fidus Achates of the
late Sir ROBERT PEEL-Sir JAMES leaving behind
him the reputation of one of the most skilled de-

We have, as Lord GREY observed, made a great
change in our policy. It may be a right one, but
it is so momentous—since it is so likely, compared
with the prior one, to embark us in costly undertak-
ings—that the country is entitled to understand it,
and express its opinion on it. Up to last March we
had enjoined on our authorities in China tht
strictest neutrality between the Chinese bellige-
rents. Singe that time the orders have been to
de end the treaty ports, and Shanghai especially•
Orders which our military and naval authorities,
in association with those of France, considered to
require our driving the Taepings from a semi-
circle of thirty miles distance around these ports.
It was this determination which necessitated the
capture of places from which the allied forces have
have had to fall back. Transferring the policy to
a civilised country, it would be the same thing as
our holding ports for trade in the Northern States
of America ,while the Con federates were overrunning
adjacent parts, and aiding the Federals to repel
the Confederates should they approach. This
would surely be pretty effective intervention, how-
ever disguised under the plea of protecting our
trade at the ports.
As China is but a semi-civilised country, we

bitters, and beyond all doubt of it one of the ablest may deal with her according to an international
administrators, of the age. The other of these law of our own making, or rather according to
two notable men deceased during the last the old Holy Alliance principle of putting down
recess was a representative of a very dif- external commotions in foreign countries for the
fereat re
putation' one regarded by many (that benefit of their Sovereigns. Still, little defensible
is by
111'113F of those whom Mr. THACKERAY as our fighting is in theory, in China, there is but
would call
the "old Tory swells"), as a sort of one objection to it in practice—its being likely
lusua nut
urce, au• Gentleman Radical, Mr THOMAS to draw us into a larger war. Difficult as
DUNcomBE, Ni p. for Finsbury. As his successor it is to decide among the conflicting accounts
in the representation of Finsbury, stepped in—Mr. respecting the Taepings, we cannot doubt that
WILLIAM COX 1 As Si
JAMES GRAHAM'S succes- they are unable to establish, like the Confederate
sor in the representation of Carlisle--Mr.
Mr. EDWARD States, anything worthy the name of even a pro-
POTTER• d o
was a modified
the date of the last Proro-
d merely to that extent visional Government, while it is certain that the
i
the House, as it
hordes who accompany them are no better than a
gation, "went in" with the new
cricket match Eleven to the host of human locusts, destroying property, trade,
grand parliamentary --not at Lords, and life wherever they go. The inhabitants prefer
but—at Commons, on the 6th of February,
the old rule corrupt and tyrannical as the Man-
ii eleven "thanges in ' •
While there were thusthe daring may be, and if we wish to maintain our
House of Commons before the 6th of February, ther
e trade, it must be through the permanent Govern-
Altogether 'twenty.
Govern-
havebeen "sixteen" since then, - ment, and not through a wandering mass of
etion and P
_ roroga-
seven" changes between Prorog.• I marauding devastating rebels. Under these cir-
tion. Four out of the Sixteen were in consequence cull:is
tances we do not, with present information, see
them old that the G
of the demise of representatives--anew them
could do much better than
High forbid theta to
Sir GEORGE DASUWOOD, the member for _ come near the ports set apart to
Wycombe; poor Mr. SLANEY, the n3etober for European tra
14 ; the only p oint is to watch
Shrewsbury, who died from the effects of a lament. jealously, that we be not drawn into the war
with the rebels,
able accident at the Great Exhfbition building; and It la our i
oettled, so it is to s interest to see China
that worthy and able country gentlemn whose ' " America at peace, but in
e t rof • these widely differ°
words '%ers always listened to with interest in the neither
he •
'bout inflicting are nt eases can we in-
House, whenever he spoke there, as he often did, terfere 'NA.- "'St evils than we seek
Mr. EDWARD CAYLEY, the representative, to cure; and certainly not without entailing heavy