The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-14 00:00:00

PROVING TOO MUCH:

Stonor ! Lawley ! ! O'Flaherty !! ! To what are
We mounting up ? In this ratio of progression, what
Will be_ the urth ? And the worse the appointment is,
the more blameless the Minister concerned is in making
it. There was some little confession of error in the case
of Mr. Stonor, but the choice of Mr. Lawley was fault-
less, and as for Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Gladstone shows
most clearly that if he had to do the thing over again be
could not do better. The testimonials were irresistible.
does not even now seem to occur to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer that the testimonials, irresistible as 'they
were, were bad. If a tithe of what is alleged be true,
proceedings ought to be taken against the authors of the
testimonials, for the offence of giving a false character.
But unhappily there is not this redress in the case of
public servants.

It is much to be lamented that this Ministry is always
so very much in the right. Caesar does never wrong
without just cause. Bad things are done with the very
best motive and the very best judgment. If faults in
either re4pect had been admitted, hope might be enter-
tained for the future ; but as everything has been done
just"as it ought to have been done, but only with the
most unlucky results, there may be repetitions of the
same miscarriage by the same blameless process, with-
out end.
As these accidents happen when Ministers mean so
Well, who can say what would happen if they tried not
to be so very good ? As they do not with the most care-
ful aim hit the mark, suppose they were to make 'the
experiment of a random shot now and then.
' But if that be asking too much of a Cabinet of Catoes,
;let them at least mistrust the best testimonials. What
!final
the Tartuffe would have produe‘d before his
!final exposure ! To a certain class of persons, character
,is a stock in trade, to be turned into cash or money's
!worth. And there is this fallacy in accepting reports of
'character that a sort of character passes in the society
i which calls- itself par excellence good, which will not
pass with the public; which has not the same indulgence
or the same set offs to influence its judgments. This is
strikingly apparent in the fact that men who have utterly
lost character with the public, are nevertheless received
and petted as usual in " good society ;" their faults or
vices being condemned in consideration of their amusing
qualities, or the more substantial merits of their casks
and wine merchants. If the public could be diverted
by these folks, or fed by them, the public might be as
forgiving or as tolerant as the great world ; but that
cannot be. After all, what is a testimonial but an ad-
vertisement, and what is an advertisement but a testi-
monial ? In the columns of the Tinies you • read of a
thousand excellencies, but you say the offers are too
good, or, with the French, la mariee est trop belle. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer must disoount his testimo-
nials if he would avoid another O'Flaherty affair.
By-the-bye, we are glad to see the 0 'before the name,
because it distinguishes the familyifrom sitiother race of
Flahertys who properly should have prefixed the 0, but
of the head of whom Jekyll said, that he had taken the
0 from the beginning of his name and clapped it to the
end of his income.—Examine,..

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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.,

BARNSTAPLE ELECTION.—This bortnigh;•aflAW having
been deprived of its Parliamentary representatives for
some time, in consequence of the disgraceful bribery
which took place at the last election, is now abotit to go
through another contested election. • :expectatic.n of
the writ being shortly issued, Mr. Tite, the eminent ar-
chiteA of London, and a gentleman by whose instru-
mentaiit•r chiefly the North Devon Railway was con-
structed, has come forward in the Liberal interest. The
hon. gentleman, in the address which he ha, just issued,
states that he is most anxious for an honest and earnest
carrying; on of the war, as the best means of obtaining
an early and lasting peace, An Irish gentleinin, named
Guinness, is named as a Conservative candidate, and
there are also rumours that other Conservative gentle.
n.en will contest the borough. Lord Ebrington, it is
said; has declined to come forward.
CANTERBURY. —There are still six candidates for the
choice of the electors, purstib,g their canvass with un-
abated vigour, viz. :—The Hon. Charles Lennox Butler
(brother to one of the members unseated on petition at
the last election), a Conservative ; the }lon. George
Smytt e, Peelite ; Sir W. Somerville, Whig t' Mr. C. M.
Luslfington (soli of the Right Hon. S. R. Lushington,
who represented the city for nearly twenty years),
' Liberal Conservative ; Mr. C. Parton Cooper, the
Chancery. Q.C."; 'Whig Radical ; and -Mr. Achmuty
Glover, who announced himself as a Liberal-Conserva-
tive, but has since advocated Radical views. Colonel
Romilly has just issued his farewell address.
are already five candidates In the
field for the representation Of thiS boiniigh,—/infl two
others are sprikuti,of lie likely to comelorward' before the
day .of nomination. The present candidate are Messrs.
G. M. W. Peacocke and T. BramleY-Moore.(Cimserva-
tive), Messrs.- Lentraid and Q. •DiCk (Wlsig4),.- and-4111r.
Harridance;, a resident of this.borough,,whnhas hitherto
been a staunch supporter of Mr. Lennard..
Run ELECTION.—The writs were ' 'receive/Pm Hull
on Saturday morning, and, the sheriff , fixed
Thursday
next for the day of nomination. The' candidates in the
who
field are—on the Tory side, Mr. S. A. `Dickson,'
last geiet cs., and Mr.
/ .election ;
was defeated at Reading at the
and on the Liberal side, Mr.Watson,_
actively engaged in. cta
parties are
W. D. Seymour, an eminent L.ondotinvamsesrihegh,anatn. d Bbootthh
declare themselves certain otfhsatticce Mr.ss Watson . Tahtiser6enisaandprety
l general opinion, however, Mr.
Seymour will be returned.

occurred in the London Hospital. One
OSPITAL.—On Saturday two fatal
f nurse lately employe:l in the institution,
• that o a
case was
' 3 few hours. The second patient was a
who died after . .
turtle who was brought in a cab, but she died notwith-
cases T HE
of LcroDl cholera
f;andinff all the remedies that could be supplied by the
medical staff' of the establishment. The increase in the
duties of the surgeons has been so great that additional
medical men have been supplied to wait upon the out-door
cases of choleraic diarrhcea, and 300 have been prescribed
for during the last three days. A ward has been fitted
up in the hospital expressly for cholera by order of the
directors, and a great number of malignant cases have
been admitted. The principal portion df the applicants
lave been men employed on the river and in the docks.

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