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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1862.

What a windfall Italy, America, and panics have
been to the Tories and Lord PALMERSTON! Italy,
indeed, only in part, for their unlucky pro-
clivity to the wrong side has told entirely for PAL-
MERSTON—but then, it was for PALMERSTON and
Toryism,—since it diverted attention from Parlia-
mentary Reform ; hence, though Tories did not
gain the sweets of office, Toryism gained a reprieve
from their great terror—the extension of political
lights and liberties. The Panics, too, were admi- ,
rably worked, both by themselves and Lord PAL-
MERSTON, in staving off the hateful question—who
next shall enjoy the franchise ? It would peep ont,
now and then, but " our National Defences," was
continually shouted so loudly, that, at the hustings,
and in Parliament, the people wera taught to re-
gard raising seventy millions a year without grum-
bling, as a far more patriotic object than
creating, protesting, and equalising votes.
But America has served the Whig and
Tory orators in every way. It has supplied them
at once with a stone with which to pelt democracy,
and a topic to make the country forget the rights of
the dreaded DEMOS.

We have just now the too well known Mr. BERES-
FORD HOPE, contending with two or three other
candidates for the honour of representing Stoke-
upon-Trent. America enables him to talk by the
hour, and yet to pack Reform and all that sort of
thing into a conveniently small compass. A local
or electioneering squabble over the position occupied
by one of the professedly rival candidates, Sergeant
SLUE, who, if Mr. HOPE succeeds, will, by dividing
the liberal electors, be the cause of his success, serves
for a little guerilla work ; bat on this subject, the
published correspondence notwithstanding, we shall
pronounce no judgment. We can only say that
the liberals of Stoke-on-Trent would obtain much
more credit with their party throughout the
country, if they would hold a united meeting,
pledge themselves to abide by its decision, take a
fair ballot, and then unanimously support the can-
didate whom their own ballot selected. We have
seen this done more than once when division was
threatened, and the Tory in consequence has had to
withdraw, or to take his place on the poll where
every Tory ought to be by this time of day.

Mr. HOPE is an old Tory new vamped. Thus on
Church-rates it hardly answers now, when every
one recognises the vast amount of religious instruc-
tion supplied by Nonconformists at their own cost,
to advocate saddling them with the cost of support-
ing the wealthy Church, of which the wealthy Mr.
HOPE is a member—so he adapts his Church-rate
policy to the exigency of the hour. Re wants a
compromise, though, like all the compromisers,
he has pointed out none which others would
accept. He would exempt Dissenters somehow ;
b° would compel Churchmen to pay somehow;
but how for purposes of exemption, and distraint on
recusants, he would define Dissenter and Church-
man, he has given us no hint, and we suspect could
present us with no plan which his own party, as
well as that of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, would not tear
to pieces in five minutes.

Parliamentary 11,?.forra must, it seems, for de-
cency's sake, be mentioned. On two points, Mr.
HOPE ventured to be somewhat
explicit. He was
in favour of "fancy franchises,"
and. we suppose
thanked Mr. BRIGHT for teaching
hlin
We do not know that any one objects to that word.
t Lem. Mr.
DisRAELI, of course, does not, Lord RUSSELL, from
whom most of them were borrowed, does not, even
Mr. BRIGHT does not, why should he, why should
any Reformer ?—anything that will fairly give a
vote is so far an extrinsion of the fratchise. But
when the fancy el ectorsare for much the greater part
selected from the gentleman's servant class, a little
suspicion arises that fancy has taken wing chiefly
towards the politics of Belgravia. Englishmen
d
esiTe somethin g mor esol id—something less kindred
with the political soups a nd fricasees of Freneh and

Austrian paper constitutions, and more kindred
with the substantial roast beef of their old England.
We turn to the:man's house instinctively—to his
castle—and desire to base on his acknowledged resi-
dence his claim to be considered a trustworthy
citizen, clothed with the full rights of a citizen.
Above ali, do we spurn the never-to-be-forgiven
fancy of Mr. HOPE'S political chief, that of dis-
franchising some half million of freeholders in
the counties, just because they happen to be the
most liberal of that last class of voters.

Mr. HOPE has, like Earl RUSSELL, a special spite
against the ballot. We infer this naturally when,
as in his case, no arguments are adduced but those
which have been refuted again and again, and which
indeed are refuted by the constant practice of the
circles in which Mr. HOPE moves, when political
power is not in question, and it is wished to obtain
an honest expression of opinion, without detriment
to the social comfort of any one. If the ballot, for
instance, be un-English, we are sure Mr. BERES-
FORD is very un•English in his club, and perhaps in
other societies, and that his friends in the army are
very un-Englisb, with all their courage, when they
act together in Courts Martial. Mr. HOPE is not
wanting in ability, and if he had any arguments
against the ballot, save that hatred, which he dared
not express, of the independence it would confer on
the voter, he would not have descended to retail
the trashy arguments of those whom he has else-
where designated as fourth rate men.
But it is on the American War that Mr. A. J. B.
BERESFORD HOPE is in his own opinion greatest,
and, we should say, altogether un-English ; so much
so, that, should the foolish Liberal split not be
healed, he will be returned, even by Tories, not be-
cause of, but in spite of his views. Mr. HOPE told
his audience that he is no convert to Southern
views; he was always a Southerner in his American
politics. Other Englishmen may have been made
Southerners in their leanings by Bull's Run, or by
the Trent affair, or by the Tariff—not so Mr.
HOPE. "He was a Southerner in sympathy before
Bull's Run.' He did indeed avow his horror of
slavery, and he had remonstrated with his Southern
friends on that point, with what profit we may hope
hereafter to see. But the South was his first love,
and he is faithful to it. Few Englishmen, we trust,
can say as much. Is Mr. B. HOPE, of all persons,
ignorant of the special point in Mr. LINCOLN'S and
the North's programme, which caused the South to
secede ? Does he not know that it was the ques-
tion—whether slavery should be extended into the
yet free territories, and the Constitution worked in
the interest, not of slavery, but of Freedom! Mr.
A. J. B. HOPE must know that this is not
only the never denied fact, but the avowed
charge of the South against the North, and that the
tariff was a mere afterthought. It was not felt to
be oppressive, while the North would encourage
slavery ; while it would pass fugitive slave laws ;
tolerate decisions from the Bench that the coloured
man had no rights which the white man was bound
to respect—and even refuse passports to coloured
gentlemen and ladies because they were not citizens.
As long as the North would sell itself uncondi-
tionally to doing the bidding of the Southern demon,
the South would remain in the Union. As soon as
the North refused longer complicity in the vilest
abuses of slave power the South seceded.

We do not deny, we have severely enough cen-
sured, the Northern conduct since the war began,
on the negro question. But we confess we do
blush to find an Englishman not ashamed to de•
Clare himself A lover of the South. Bad as the
North may be, that cannot justify us in attachment
to a Republic which avowedly, for the first time
in the world's history, and the year of our redemp-
tion, 1862, lays down slavery for its corner• stone
—proclaims it a Divine institution—denies civil
right, social rights, matrimonial rights, parental
rights to its negroes. Which refuses their evi-
dence in its courts of law; which deals
with them as more animals, chattels, and pro-
perty ; which refuses them education, keeps
them in compulsory ignorance, and which
in its hellish madness of tyranny refuses any law
which can ameliorate their relations to their pro•
prietors, or tend to elevate their condition and cha-
racter. Mr. LINCOLN and the North have faults
enough to answer for—we admit them, we have
exposed them. But the audacity which in an
English borough can stand on a platform and pro-
claim its sympathy with such a pandemonium of
men who are more even traitors to humanity than
to the North, is a disgrace to our country. If we
cannot love the Yankees, much less can we love the
South. We detest the North for dealing so gently
with the accursed system ; how much more
must we detest the South, which revels in
the curse, and glories in its shame. All
the Liberals of Stoke-on-Trent ought to unite, if
only to prevent the disgrace to England of electing
as a Member of Parliament a gentleman who loves
the most politically depraved community of Christee
dom, and who avows that he always loved it. The
only thing to be regretted is, that the North should
have done so many things as to enable Tories to
make a diversion in favour of a community of slave-
holders by dwelling on the errors of their anta-
gonists. Our hope is, that the North will so far
conquer, as to shut up slavery and its abomina-
tions within the fewest States possible.

Sympathy for GARIBALDI! are the watchwords
now calling together in various parts of the coun-
try large assemblies of earnest Englishmen. There
was sa immense meeting only the other day at
Newcastle—a meeting convened simply for the pur-
poseexpressing that sympathy for GARIBALDI.
The o f
There has a
like been another
since then os ramoe ns
object,
inga tkind, and for theseell: same
Gateshead.
And in the midst of these spontaneous
evidences of
admiration for the Fallen Hero—as
about the most
practical token of the sincerity of
aroa
has
be
the sympathy expressed towards him, there is an
intimation that has just D
effect that an English medicalw g
oattendantbd to the
en
sent out to the aid of the illustrious sufferer, now
prostrated upon a bed that it is beginning to be
feared may unhappily prove to be his deathbed,
unless the calamity dreaded may, with GOD'S help,
be averted by some such timely assistance.
Whether this report be correct or not, as to an
English
bydoctor having already been sent out to
Spezzia,
and ene • rgetic o
p sympathisers
pertun i
tiyn
forthi s
certain of GARIBALDI'S more earnest
now
is a magnificent of our
leading men in the • ose
medical profession ! SupP
some world-famous surgical operator,.
like Professor
any"u no
tnreY
SYME or Professor FERGUSSON, were to make a
holiday of it at their leisure time of the year, when
nearly all the gay world of their West-end patients
might be safely described as afoot
among the baths
of Germany, or the chalets of Switzerland,
and
taking steam across the Mediterranean, were to
pay a visit to the wounded Captive, now lying
mutilated and lamentably neglected in the prison
fortress of Varignano ! In a merely professional
point of view it would not be time thrown away.
To say nothing
of the admiration that could not
fail to be excited by so noble an effort to alle-
viate the sufferings, and to diminish, so
far as might be the peril
practicable,
threatening the life of a great man reduced ,
by A most memorable reverse of fortune to very