The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-26 00:00:00

THE RAILWAYS AND THE POOR.

The following statement has been drawn up to show
the facts which make some consideration of the
question of building new dwellings for the poor in
Westminster absolutely
i necessary. The Metro-
politan Union Railway n passing through West-
minster will destroy a large number of poor
houses. In the district of Christ Church, in a
distance of 300 yards, 104 houses will be taken by
the railway. Eighty of these houses were visited
last year, and the number of inhabitants and their
occupations, as far as could be found out, noted
down. There will be 212 tenements in the 80 houses.
Each tenement was inhabited by numbers varying
from 1 to 12, and consisted of one, or, in some few
cases, of two rooms, let at weekly rents, varying
from Is. 6d. to ss. a room. There was also a block
of four houses held by one person, in which 44 men
and women lodged. The total number of men,
women, and children in these 80 houses was 281.
It may therefore be fairly assumed that in this dis-
tance of 300 yards, 1,000 will be ejected. The fol-
lowing list shows the ocoupations of the people in
the 80 houses :----Navigators and labourers, 97 ;
masons and bricklayers, 9 ; costermongers, 29 ; laun-
dresses, &c., 34 ; hawkers, 19 ; needlewomen, 17 ;
charwomen, 14 ; army accoutrement makers, 10 ;
shoemakers, &c., 16 ; shopkeepers' assistants, 13.
There were also tailors, farriers, cab-drivers, ostlers,
servants, carpenters, wheelwrights, harness-makers,
plumbers, metal workers, scale-makers, sawdust
dealers, sweeps, scavengers, engine-drivers, painters,
crossing-sweepers, wood-choppers, lime bargemen,
coal-heavers, basket-makers (principally for Covent-
garden), nurses, glove-makers, cat's meat vendors,
and porters. These statements only refer to a small
part of the demolition which will be effected by the
railway ; and there is no reason for supposing that
other districts through which the railroad passes
are less densely populated. Many houses have
also been destroyed of late for improvements, &c.
More than 2,000 poor people were ejected from the
houses which stood on the site of the new buildings
for the Foreign-office. The consequence of all this
demolition is that the houses are crowded more than
they ever were, and rents are rising every year;
last year in part of St. John's parish they rose 10
per cent. It is important to remember that a poor
man who is driven out of Westminster must go
some distance for a home. He must cross the broad
belt which isolates Westminster from our poor
neighbourhoods, and go beyond the parks of White-
hall, or the river, or Belgravia. It is needless to
remark on the hardship to the poor of being thus
compelled to live at a distance from their work,
but it may be as well to point out that the cheap
trains will not at all benefit many of the poor.
They are useless for all, except those who go to
work in the morning and do not want to return
until the evening. Cheap trains at fixe 1 hours
cannot benefit those who, like the charwoman,
shoemaker, &c., often find that their work depends
on their being within call at any time of the day.
If the capital necessary for the erection of suitable
buildings can be subscribed, there is no difficulty
whatever about obtaining eligible sites on fair terms.
Communications from persons interested in the
subject will be gladly received by Mr. J. G. Talbot,
10, Great George-street, S.W.

ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—There are 138 ori-
ginal applications for admission as attorneys in the ensuing
term, commencing on the 2d of November.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.

There was but little to interest ono to-day, after the great
event of yesterday. Tho card, laden with those 10 sovs
sweepstakes which the Newmarket authorities so much de-
light in, presented not a single event worth braving the
gale that swept with fury over the heath, and a more tedious
afternoon's sport has rarely been witnessed. In the Glasgow
Stakes, Monarch of the Glen, Mr. Naylor's Derby horse,
showed ho could gallop a little, for, though not quite pre-
pared, he defeated Beelzebub, on whom they laid 5 to 1.
Moulsoy cantered in some 100 lengths in front of Shake-
speare in the £5O Plate. Lord Glasgow had a turn of good
fortune in the 50 sovs Sweepstakes, over the Ditch Mile,
with his Maid of Masham filly, and Llphus added to the
two or three good things Lord Westmoreland has landed
this week.

An accident occurred on the heath yesterday, which, we
regret to say, terminated fatally this morning. The horse
of the Hon. Henry Blackwood, while galloping towards the
judge's chair, came in contact with the cords, pitched his
rider, and fell heavily upon him. Mr. Blackwood was im-
mediately conveyed to the town, and medical attendance
procured, but he never rallied, and died from concussion of
the brain. The deceased gentleman, formerly a Queen's
messenger, was well known in society and in turf circles.
Optional Selling Stakes of 50 sovs., for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. Weight for ago, with selling allowances. The
winner to be sold for 300 sovs ; if entered to be sold for
250 sovs., allowed 41b ; if for 200 sovs, 91b ; if for 100

sovs, 141 h ; if jor 50:sovs, 211 b. Cambridgeshire Stakes

Course.
Lord Westmoreland's Orloff, 3 yrs £5O (ileartfield)
Mr. F. H. Jennings's Lady Kinghorn, 3 yrs, £5O
(Salmon
Mr. Howard's Discretion, 3 yrs, £5O (Storey
Mr. Carr's Guardsman, 4 yrs, £5O (S. Adams
Mr. W. Hogg's Le Marechal, 5 yrs, £50...(J Grimshaw)
Mr. E. C. Clayton's Idle Girl, 4 yrs, £5O ...(Tomlinson)

Betting-5 to 4 agst Orloff, sto 2 agst Le Marechal, sto
1 agst Guardsman, and 6 to 1 agst any other.
They loft the post nearly in a line, and ran so to half way
in the distance, when Orloff, with Lady Kinghorn on his
whip hand, singled themselves out, and ran a fine race
home, the former winning rather cleverly atleast by a neck;
Discretion finished a bad third. Mr. Jennings claimed the
winner ; Mr. Howan, Lady Kinghorn ; and Mr. Hogg
Guardsman.

Subscription Plate of £3O sovs ; for 2-yr-olds, ist ; 3-yr-
olds, Bst. 121 b ; the winner to be sold for £350 if do-

manded, &c. T.Y.C.
Sir F. Johnstone's Miss Lavinia colt, 2 yrs (J. Grimshaw)
Mr. H. Savile's Polly Perkins, 2 yrs (Carroll)
Lord Exeter's Knight of St. Michael, 2 yrs (Dunbar)
Mr. T. Jenning's Crossbow, 3 yrs (H. Grimshaw)

The following also ran :—Salisbury, Bendigo, Glendale,
Blackthorn, Bigote, Viceroy, and Scandal colt.
Betting-5 to 4on the Miss Lavinia colt, 6to 1 agst
Knight of St. Michael, and 100 to 15agst Polly Perkins.
The winner, after they had traversed the first 100 yards,
took a decided lead, was never after approached, and won
in a canter by four lengths ; Polly Perkins finished half a
length in advance of Knight of St. Michael, who was a
similar distance in advance of Crossbow; Viceroy was fifth,
Bigoto sixth, Glendale seventh, and Blackthorn next. Ben-
digo was last, beaten off.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds and upwards.
Weight for age. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs.

T.Y.C. 8 subs.
Mr. Ten Broock's Dawdle, 4 yrs, 9st llb (Saunterer) 1
Mr. F. Fisher's Reindeer, aged, 9st 41b (Hibberd) 2
Mr. R. Sutton's Jezabel, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (Thomas) 3

The following also ran :—Hornblower, Indian Star, and
Vabalathus.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Ilornblower, 3to 1 agst &indoor,
4 to 1 agst Indian Star, and 6 to 1 each agst Dawdle and
Jezabel.

Jezabel got away with a slight lead, which she retained
into the dip, where she was headed by Reindeer and Dawdle,
who came on together to half way in the cords, when Ford-
ham came with a rush, and won a fine race on the post by a
head. Jezabel a bad third. Vabalathus was fourth, Indian
Star fifth, and Hornblower last. Mr. Fisher claimed the
winner.

Handicap Plate of £5O for 2-yr-olds. T.Y.C. The highest
weight left in at 10 o'clock the evening before running

being Bst 71b, it was raised to Bst I.olb, and the others in

proportion.
Mr. York's Catapulta, Gst 101 b (Elphick) 1
Mr. G. Bryan's Brenta, 7st 101 b (S. Adams) 2
Mr. S. Thellusson's Actaaa, Bst 101 b (Fordham) 3

The following also ran : —Skirmisher filly, Hurunui,
Whitby, Happy Wife, Victoria, Chivalry, Chessman,
Roland colt, Hazledean, Blackface, and Exeter.
Betting-100 to 30 agst Catapults, 7 to 1 agstVictoria, 10
to -1 each agst Acttea, Happy Wife, Hazledean, and Chess-
man, 20 to 1 (at first 4 to 1) agst Brenta.
Catapults, in the centre of the course, was the first in
action, and came on with the running, closely followed by
Brenta, Happy Wife, Chessman, and Roland to the dip,
where Brenta took a clear lead, and came on with the lead
to within a dozen lengths of the chair, when Elphicic
brought up Catapults, and won a good race by half a
length ; a similar distance separated the second and third ;
Victoria was fourth, close up, and Chivalry next.
Renewal of the Glasgow Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for
2-yr-olds, Bst 101 b. Last three-quarters of R.T. 14
subs.

Mr. Naylor's Monarch of the Glen, Bst 101 b (French) 1
Mr. Launde's Gunlock, Bet 101 b (Thomas) 2
Mr. Merry's Beelzebub (late Devil's-hoof), Bst 101 b
(Edwards) 3
Betting-5 to 1 on Beelzebub, 6 to 1 agst Gunlock, 10
to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen.
Gunlock was the first away, and made the running at a
true pace, having the favourite in attendance with Monarch
of the Glen lying off. They ran thus into the Abingdon
Mile-bottom, when they got upon closer terms, and as they
reached the cords the latter came up on the right, and ob-
taining a slight advantage won a fine race in the last stride
by a head, a neck only separating Gunlock from the
favourite.

Fifty Pound Plate, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for
age, with maiden allowances. The winner of 500 sovs
to carry 71b extra. A.F.

Lord Bateman's Moulsey, by Teddington, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
(J. Grimsbaw) 1
Mr. Deacon's br g Shakespeare, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Loates) 0

_ . .
Betting-5 to lon Moulsey, who made all the running,
and won by a dozen lengths. _ _

Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst
101 b, and fillies, Bst 81b. Winners extra. D.M. 9 subs.
Lord Glasgow's b f by Young Melbourne, Bst 81b
(J. Osborne) 1
Count F. do Lagrange's Equivoque, Bst 81b (T. French) 2
Mr. Naylor's Vlie, Bst 81b (T. French) 3
Lord Coventry's Cotillon, Bst 101 b (J. Adams) 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Equivoque, 3to 1 agst Vlio, and 5
to 1 agst Cotillon.
The Maid of Masham filly cut out the work to the cords,
where she was headed for a few strides by Equivoque, but
again resuming the lead she won very cleverly by half a
length. There wero throe lengths between the second and
third.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b,
and fillies, Bst 71b. The *inner to bo sold for 70 sovs.

T.Y.C. 6 subs.
Lord Westmoreland's Ulphus, by Newminstor J. Goatee
Mr. Savilo's Kinghorn (Fordham
Mr. J. B. Morris's Florida (Cannon'

Mr. Johnstone 's Chasseur d'Afrique (Morris:
Mr. Beadman's Mariana (lleslop
Prince Soltykoff's Fernleaf (J. Mann;

Betting-6 to 4 agst Kinghorn, 3to 1 agst Ulphus, 9to
2 agst Mariana, 6 to 1 agst Fernleaf, 8 to 1 agst Chasseur
d'Afrique, and 12 to 1 agst Florida.
Ulphus, with Kinghorn at his girths, mado the running
to half-way in the cords, where the former quitted his com-
panion and won in a canter by a length and a half ; a like
distance divided the second and third.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards,
weight for ago. The winner to be sold for 40 sovs. T.Y.C.

8 subs.
Major Fridolin's Lord Ronald, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b
Grimshaw) 1
Duko of Boaufort's Convent, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b ...(Cannon) 2
Capt. Macholl's Hope, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (J. Grimshaw) 3

The following also ran :—Discretion, Echo, Regina,
Romola, and Pink.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Lord Ronald, 7to 1 agst Echo, 4to
1 agst Hope, 6 to 1 agst Romola, and 7 to 1 agst Convent.
The three placed ran in front throughout ; Lord Ronald,
who always appeared to have the best of it, winning
cleverly; Regina was fourth, Echo fifth, and Discretion
next. Pink and Romola were the last two, beaten off.

SEIZING A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A local journal
publishes an account of the seizure for debt of a railway
train on the Spanish frontier. It appears from the pub-
lished statements that certain extensive iron manufacturers
obtained a judgment in the Commercial Court of Paris
against the North of Spain Railway Company for £4,000.
They applied through their law officer at the Paris office
for payment, but were answered that there were no funds
there belonging to the North of Spain. The Paris huissior
then forwarded the judgment to a colleague at Bayonne,
who, knowing that the trains belonging to the Northern of
Spain Railway Company pass the frontier to arrive at Hen-
dayo, obtained assistance, and seized a train composed of
six travelling carriages besides the locomotive and tender.
The whole was placed under the care of a lieutenant of
the customs corps, legally appointed as officer of the Court
above. The company at once telegraphed to their agents
in Paris announcing the seizure, and the following day the
amount of the judgment was paid. A telegram was imme-
diately transmitted to the office at Holiday() in charge of
the train, and then only was it permitted to continue its
journey to Spain.

ADvERTisEmExTy
W —Holloway's Pills.—Functional Dis-
orSers.—ho would be well must see that every organ of
the body does its duty fully and fairly which every one
may certainly insure by occasionally resorting to these
pills, or by taking a course of them, according to the printed
directions folded round each box. Stomach, liver, kidneys,
and bowels aro all searched by their purifyind, and correc-
tive powers, and any departure from their natural action is
strenuously resisted and order and regularity enforced.
Health may always be preserved by attentive obedience to
Holloway's directions and by using his medicine as advised
by them. All obstructions will by this means be removed,
the blood purified, and its free and faultless circulation
established.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIMES.—The domestic politics of America are
assuming an aspect of great importance, and of no '
slight interest to the world at large. The question
of Slavery is again uppermost, though in a new
form. It is still combined with sectional enmities
and political rivalries, and threatens to affect no
less a work than the reconstruction of the Union.
In this work, as our readers have seen, President
Johnson has proceeded in a conciliatory spirit, but
upon principles essentially Democratic in character,
and strongly obnoxious to a powerful section of
that Republican party which carried the election of
Mr. Lincoln, and maintained, in spite of all reverses,
the prosecution of the war. These " Radicals," as
they are now designated, regard the compered
South with feelings half suspicious and half vindic-
tive. They see in the people of the late Confederate
States a body of political enemies, if not designing
rebels, and they desire, by way partly of precaution
and partly of punishment, to keep them excluded
from the Union for some little time. They would
reduce the Seceding States to the rank of Terri-
tories, or even keep them under military govern-
ment, in a condition of probation, until all political
questions bearing upon the late differences had been
settled without their voice. The Presideirt, on the
other hand, pursues a very different policy. His
one object is the reconstruction of the Union as
fairly and as speedily as possible. He insists upon
the total and absolute abolition of slavery, and the
return of the Seceding States to their old connexion,
but he exacts no condition beyond these, and is
content to accept the submission and amity of the
South without inquiring too curiously into the sin-
cerity of its purpose. Up to a certain point he can
proceed of his own authority. When the Conven-
tions of the States recently in insurrection pass the
requisite ordinances for rescinding the resolutions
of Secession and recognising the extinction of
slavery, he can withdraw the military forces from
their towns and leave them to self-government once
more, and in this course he has been steadily ad-
vancing. He has also been very indulgent in con-
doning the offence of rebellion, and has granted
pardons with such liberality that Mr. Jefferson
Davis is now almost the only Confederate of note
excluded from the amnesty. Indeed, it is reasonable
to conclude from the President's reply to the South
Carolina deputation, which we yesterday published,
that even this exclusion will not be long maintained.
But, although the President can do this much to-
wards reconstruction, the consummation of the
work is beyond his power. That can be achieved
by Congress alone. The Seceding States can only
re-enter the Union by re-entering Congress, and
Congress can determine the conditions of re-admis-
sion. Of these conditions one is selected for en-
forcement. The Republicans, or rather the Radical
section of the party, demand not only the social but
the political enfranchisement of the negro. They
maintain his right to the electoral suffrage. That
right must be settled by the several States themselves
but Congress can dictate the proceedings before re-
admitting the States to representation. Consequently,
at this moment the ultimate policy to be observed
towards the South depends, not on the President,
nor on the Government, nor even entirely on the.
public opinion of America, but on the temper of a
Parliament elected at a time of passionate excite-
ment. It is curious to observe as a constitutional
phenomenon that the policy likely to be thus ex-
pressed is not considered to be the policy of the
country. The opinions reflected will be the opinions
of a minority. We are assured that the Republi-
cans, as a body, are not disposed to carry the
emancipation of the negro further than it has been
carried already. They have gladly abolished Slavery,
but they have no desire to make a black man a white
man's equal or to see the two races placed upon the
same level. That this assertion too is substantially
correct we may infer from the proceedings of the
Republicans generally, who at the recent elections
have not ventured to adopt negro suffrage as a cry,
or go to the poll on that issue,while their opponents,
the Democrats, have eagerly proclaimed it as the
only question at stake, doubtless with the conviction
that it was the weak point in the defences of
the enemy. However, the present intelligence
informs us that the Republicans have just
succeeded in carrying the States' elections,
not only in Ohio, where their preponderance
was always decisive, but in Pennsylvania, and lowa,
where it was thought that the Democrats might
possibly win. The result of this success may be
most important. The Radicals were strong in Con-
gress already—strong enough, perhaps, to impose
conditions of their own framing upon the returning
South ; but they might have hesitated to exert this
power in face of declared opinion. These elections
will give them confidence, and urge them, it is
thought, to use their strength in direct opposition to
the President and his Government. Probably the
question of slavery is still at the bottom of all this
strife, at any rate in the minds of the Radicals.
They represent the original Abolitionists, who main-
tained the doctrine of emancipation through all
trials, and at length saw it carried out. They may
naturally and logically hold that the work will be
incomplete until a black man is recognised as a white
man's equal in one respect as well as another, and
that in a free country no citizen should be subjected
to disabilities on account of his colour. But it can
hardly be doubted that political antagonism is at
work also. The Radicals, in opposing the policy of
the President and advocating negro suffrage, are
really attacking their old adversaries, the Democrats,
and repelling them from what would otherwise be a
formidable position. It must not be forgotten that
the return of the Southern States to the Union
would be equivalent to a powerful reinforcement of
the Democratic party in the country. Democratic
principles have been uniformly predominant in the
South, and the chief leaders of the party, indeed,
have been Southern Statesmen. If the Democrats of
the North could be strengthened by the accession
of their Southern brethren, they might once more
prove too strong for the Republicans and resume
their monopoly of political power. If, on the other
hand, the Southern States could be kept awhile
under a species of ban, and if their elections could
be influenced by a large constituency of blacks, the
prospects of the Northern Republicans would be
proportionately improved. In this country opinions
and sympathies on the question thus raised will
doubtless be divided. It is impossible not to admire
the magnanimous policy of the President, and the
firmness and consistency with which he carries it
into execution. It is obvious, too, that in this policy
of conciliation and compromise lie the best hopes of
the reviving Union. The unexpected leniency of the
Government has to all appearance disarmed the South
more effectually than the victories of Grant or Sher-
man, and though the prospect of power as well as
pardon may have quickened this repentance, Mr.
Johnson acts with the true wisdom of a Statesman
in closing his eyes to the presumption. It is enough,
in his view, to get all the States of the Union once
more assembled in Congress together. If there be
duplicity in the politics of any of them that cannot
be helped, and the consideration is of comparative
insignificance. So long as battles are fought in Con-
gress instead of on the field, so long as the Union is
unbroken and America undivided, party strife may
run its own course. Nobody imagines that slavery
will ever be re-established, and, with the extinction
of slavery and the reconstruction of the Union, any
other results may be cheerfully accepted. That such
views are wise and statesmanlike there is no denying;
but, on the other hand, there is much in the policy
of the Republicans on which Englishmen, of all
others, will look with sympathy. Slavery touched
us more nearly than any other issue of the war, and
this is the issue which the Republicans now wish
finally to decide. When they say that a race which
has been rescued from slavery at the cost of so
dreadful a contest should not remain under political
proscription, and that a man who is good enough
to fight his country's battles is good enough to enjoy
the institutions which he has defended, it is impos-
sible to gainsay their words. The Radicals may be
few in number, but they are sincere, ardent, and
active, and they have been able, as we now see, to
impress their policy in three great States upon the
majority of their party. Perhaps this policy, in-
deed, may be theoretically the most justifiable, but
the misfortune is that it tends to prolong the dis-
ruption of America, and to impede a work which
was proceeding with unexpected success.
HERALD.—The organs of the Ministry are
awkward advocates. The best recommendation
one of them can find for Lord Russell's Cabinet is
a disparagement of its chief. The public is invited
to accord high honour to the noble lord's colleagues
for the self-denial and absence of personal motives
they have displayed in tendering him their support.
Are the claims, then, of Lord Russell to the Pre-
miership so small in the opinion of his most faithful
supporters? Is he unfitted for the post by lack of
ability or defects of character, or is there a difference
of opinion between him and his leading colleagues
on vital questions which they have sacrificed in
accepting him as their leader? That is the only
sacrifice they could make. No one of them has
claims to the Premiership equal to his. No one of
them could feel it ignominious to serve under him ;
and, what must have been a conclusive consideration
with every one, only by accepting his Premiership
could they keep office at all. The refusal of their co-
operation would have had only one result, the break
up of the Ministry. Mr. Gladstone might have
acted a " Dog in the Manger" part, and kept Earl
Russell out of the Premiership, without getting it
himself. That he chose a more prudent course,
and consulted his interest instead of his vanity, is
creditable to his common sense, but it certainly
evinces no self-denial and calls for no admiration.
It must be said for our contemporaries that the case
they have to argue is a difficult one. It was the
singular and unprecedented popularity of the late

Premier which alone sustained his Administration.
Out of their confidence in him men bore with pa-
tience the blunders and inefficiency of his colleagues.
The distrust which the Radical tendencies of some
members of the Cabinet naturally excited was
quieted by the belief in his Conservatism. People
felt confident that affairs could not go very wrong
with him at their head, and even the alarm which
Lord Russell's extreme activity at the Foreign
Office so often occasioned was allayed by the con-
viction that before any great mischief could be done
the Premier would interfere. The new Ministry is'
as its apologists neatly puts it, Lord Palmerston a
Ministry minus Lord Palmerston—that is to say,
minus the one man in whom the country placed its
confidence, and for whose sake it tolerated the
wrong heads and thick heads who composed the
e
rest of the Administration. What can be said T
recommendation of such a Cabinet except that it is
a temporary necessity ? It does not represent the
country; it does not represent even the majority
of the new Parliament. Individual members
have a following, but that following only 810148
from a belief that they are disposed to favour a
policy diametrically opposed to that for which some
of their colleagues are advocates. The so-called
Liberal majority is, as the supporters of the Govern"
ment are constrained to admit, not a Liberal. ma'
jority prepared to support any Liberal Adininistra"
Lion. Its members were not elected as supportere
of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone, of a sweeping
parliamentary reform, and a confiscation of the
property of the Irish Church. They were sent ta,
Parliament to support Lord Palmerston, and Lora
Palmerston, as everybody confessed even then, Was
a Conservative. There is a fraction of that majoritY;
of course, sincerely desirous of great constitutions'
changes, but its support can only be won by the
adoption of a policy which the henchmen of the
new Cabinet fear with good reason would alienate
the best part of the nominally Liberal party. 117.?
grant to our contemporaries willingly enough that,
these Palmerstonian representatives are not at re'
sent prepared to support a Conservative Admin.'s'
tration, and that they would desire to see a Govern'
ment calling itself Liberal on the treasury benches;
but they will lend no support to such a Liberai
Government if it proceeds to carry out the Liberal
programme, and if it does not attempt to cal,
out that programme it will lose the goodwill 01
the Radicals, who have looked so anxiously for
Lord Palmerston's death aas their opportunity
The position of the Government is a very difficult
one, and it is ridiculous to affect, as some of the
Liberal organs do, a confidence which is utterly;
unwarranted, and which rests upon the very villa
assumption that the majority elected as supporters
of Lord Palmerston, and pledged to oppose Radio;
measures, is a Liberal majority upon which Lord
Russell and Mr. Gladstone can rely as firmly as
Lord Palmerston could have done. The appeal, ad
mzsericordiam, which the especial organ of the net
Premier addresses to the country, evinces a roll('
better knowledge of the situation, and deserves fi
generous acceptance. We can promise Lord Busse.
th. at he will have the " fair play" from the OpP°s.iii
ton which he again asks. The Conservatives lvt,
make no grasp at office ; they have no desire tO
take it unless they can do so with the assurance
of a working majority in the House of Commo.e'l
There will be no ungenerous attempts made against
Lord Russell's Government at the threshold by ts,,
Conservative gentlemen of England, who recognise
in the noble lord the legitimate successor to the
vacant post. The Opposition will make every
allowance for the difficulties with which the De.,
Minister has to contend, and it will give him.l7,
co-operation in the difficult task of carrying
on the Queen's Government. But there is,,:
condition which the Opposition must put to its
support. It will give the new Premier fair pig'
but it will not sacrifice its principles to his o 011;
venience. If Lord Russell desires to escape ,
attacks of an': Opposition to which he can ,01'
so little defence he must abstain from the introdUe'
tion of measures to which he knows the Opposition
must give a determined resistance. It would
.be
absurd for him to ask the favourable consideration
of the Opposition, if he intends to carry out
policy which some of his adherents promise for Inel,„;
and employ all the infiueuce of his Government 'f
assail the institutions which it is the chief care °r
the Conservative party to protect. It will be fo,
him to say how long the truce, which naturally el'
pired with the death of Lord Palmerston, shall ,„
prolonged. If de decides to embark his fortunes iii
a Gladstone Reform Bill, it is at once at an ell':
and he will meet in the new Parliament an OpP
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sition prepared to do its utmost to thwart and ed..
feat him. There must be no mistake about
matter. The Conservatives, not aspiring to t°
possession of power themselves, will offer its posss'
sors no factious opposition ; but they will not all",
their forbearance to be abused. They are strong
enough to control the Government ; strong enoug
to defeat it if it will introduce Radical measures,
and if the challenge is made they will not fail
take it up. Whether it will be possible for Lord
Russell to keep his Government together without
essaying some Radical move is a matter for the
consideration of himself and his friends ; but if .
does make the move, the Conservatives, who, if
will only " rest and be thankful," will tolerate biro
for a time, will certainly lose no pains and 1)3o
over no opportunity to checkmate him.