The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-26 00:00:00

CRICKET.

M. C. C. AND GROUND V. KENT.—This match WAS
resumed yesterday at Lord's. At the close the score
stood as follows :—Kent, Ist innings, 104 ; 2d innings,
150. M.C.C. and Ground, Ist innings, 157 ; 2d inn-
ing! (4 wickets down), 98.
UNITED ALL ENGLAND ELEVEN V. 22 OF NORM
AMPTONSHIRE.—This match commenced on Monday at
Northampton. At the close of the day the following
was the score :—England, Ist innings, 117. North-
amptonshire, Ist innings (7 wickets standing), 51.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1854.

Well, the Vote of Credit has been carried—and
without even a division. Three Millions of
Pounds sterling are placed at the disposal of the
"excellent" ABERDEEN, to deal with as he thinks
proper, and Parliament has nothing more to do
until required by the Financial Minister to sanc-
tion any imposts he may deem it expedient to
propose for the purpose of redeeming the obliga-
tion thus contracted. Lord ABERDEEN is virtually
dictator for six calendar months. He may act,
or rather not act, as he thinks proper, " with the
concurrence of other Powers." He may, if so
minded, take Prussia for his guide and example,
exhibiting the most implicit confidence in the pro-
fessions of his friend of forty years' standing. We
had certainly hoped that the British House of
Commons would have exhibited greater zeal and

nergy—that they would have shown themselves
better qualified to meet the existing emergency—
and more mindful of their own rights and privi-
leges, and of those of their successors throughout
all generations. The Noble Lord, the member for
Marylebone, stood forth boldly and independently.
He afforded a locus peaitentice to all desirous
of rescuing themselves from the imputations that
might otherwise b 3 cast upon their fair fames.
But his manly effort elicited but a feeble response.
The prospect of the autumnal Session WAS too
much for the virtue and patriotism of Hon. Gen-
tleeien. Visions of cool breezes on sea or moun-
taill; rendered irresistible by the intense and suf-
fo(l4tinglieat of the weather, prevailed, alid the
I:l.llzewa, rrriness„ if not fro:zing intnift.—
re
'PYllart64 Cu') Lord from pressini
his mot4ri,to

el, we P '"OT
at kast whit two l'ave to
1-n-Laihlenton thq
IVlerisberss of the Fourth Estate" to defend the
intereSts that have been forgotten, or at least
di.iregarttgl, by tiose of the "Second and
The The 'duties that have been abandoned
by the
ch4sen representatives of the people must be
164,tned by the public journalist; and they will
be sustained and strengthened by the support and
con tidenee.of the community. They have indeed
received'au unei.pected recognition, for even the j
Ministerial 'Leader of the House 'of Commons
has referred to the reports of his statements
the daily journals, and do..
appearing in
olared his -willingness to abide thereby—and a 53
i appears that Lto divisions are to be taken at
t
any time, but that Hon. Gentlemen, while ex-
pressing a total Want of confidence either in an
individual Minister or in the entire Cabinet, are
to give proofs of the most pezfect trust, we fancy
that the opinions and comments of the Journalists
on the events of each succeeding day will be just
as worthy of notice as if put forward by parties
Who. could attach the magic initials to their re-
spective names. On the Press,
then, the people
of the United Kingdom must exclusively depend
until the month of February ; and we believe
that, with few exceptions, they will be faithful
and. ei4eient champions of the national honour and
the national security. They will at least have
this striking advantage over their legislative rivals,
that there cannot be 8° many painful discrepancies
between their "sayings and doings" as we have
had to deplore during the preSent and several

preceding Sessions on the part of the representa-
tives of free and independent constituencies.
Lard JOHN RUSSELL attempted to ride off on
a collateral point, to make the question one of
" Confidence" or "No Confidence." He said,
" If we are fit to be Ministers of the Crown we are
fit to have that discretion. If we are not fit to have
that discretion, on the other hand we are no longer
fit to remain Ministers of the Crown 1" Now, we
must earnestly and emphatically protest against such
an argument—one, indeed, that might be pushed
to any extent, even to making the lives and pro-
perties of the people dependent on the will and
pleasure of the Minister for the time being. We
are well aware of the efficacy of so very signifi-
cant a hint respecting a change of Ministry—a
hint carrying with it not merely the " delicious
treat of an autumnal session," but the inestimable
blessing of a general election, with all its noise and
turmoil, and its innumerable demands on the
rime, the patience, the energies, and the pockets
of those who are to determine the matter, and
many of whom would be guilty of an act of poli-
tical suicide, signing their own death warrants as
public men. We repeat, then, that it is not fair
to make use of such a threat in order to induce
the guardians of the public purse not merely to
abdicate their functions, but to transfer the power
constitutionally reposed in them to any Ministry,
however popular. As we have already stated,
" the most trusted, and the most trust-
worthy, should not demand so great a sacri-
ficei, nor should the chosen representatives
of the people, disgrace themselves by establishing
iireeedent so fraught with danger to popular
rights and privileges."

The dangerous example has, however, been set—
the precedent has been established." The three
millions now granted may be quadrupled, or more
than quadrupled, another time. A still greater
responsibility than that so boldly assumed may
be encountered by future Ministries, more un-
limited confidence (if that be possible) may be re-
posed in the discretion of Ministers, until the
liberties of the people be sacrificed to the magni-
tude of a discretion more suited to a Turkish
Vizier than a First Lord of the Treasury of the
United Kingdom !
.A similar " discretion" will, we suppose, this
evening be insisted on for capitalists who are prac-
tically to be allowed to raise funds for the use of
the AUTOCRAT if the dividends offered be deemed
satisfactory. That " discretion," as we have
Already explained, may operate very prejudicially
to the interests of the tax-payers of Great Britain
and to the cause of European Civilisation. And, in
like manner, the unlimited discretion of rulers
trust promote the cause of "despotism." What,
in fact, is the principle of " Autocracy" but " un-
invited discretion " for the ruler to do as he
,pinks proper, without being accountable to any
pcn.son or persons whatever—to "do as he likes
his own"—without let or hindrance. And
this is the course in which the House of Com-
mons has made a very decided step by its
vote of last night. We trust that the time will
speedily arrive when the voters, aye, and non-
voters, of the United Kingdom may express their
opinions on the propriety of such a proceeding.
The fear of a dissolution is the true secret why
members have neglected their duty. But their
time is coming—and that soon !

A reviewer in the Edinburgh has manifestly not
followed the advice of Sir JAMES GRAHAM ; but
has, with wonderful industry, been. carefully
" pottering ever blue-books ;", and this, more-
over, in reference to the very.subject in regard to
which this same pottering was originally depre-
cated, namely, in reference to the Diplomatic
History of the Eastern Question now ripened into
a war between the Russian and the Allied Go-
vernments. The first article in this recently-pnb-
iiiihed number of our great Whig contemporary
is nothing less than an elaborate piece of special
pleading, to prove that the matter here particu-
larised has been treated from first to last with the
most consummate ability, and the most high-
minded patriotism, by the members of her MA-
JESTY'S present Administration. A rather diffi-
cult thesis to have selected truly—one, the
difficulty of which the Edinburgh Reviewer at
once virtually acknowledges by the exquisite dis-
play of preparatory caution with which he adven-
ttures upon it. If Mr. BOUNDERBY was correctly
cleaned as the "Bully of Humility," then might
the critic in the Whig Quarterly be happily de-
signated the •Braggart of Candour. Never was
there a more blusterous affectation of lucidity, a
:zero obtrusively paraded anxiety to be clear and
explicit. The effort destroys itself. Any reader
would inevitably be roused into suspicion as to the
honesty of the argument carried on with such au
officious air of exactitude in regard to names, and
dates, and facts, and documents, even to minute
punctilios—supposing them to have been pre-
viously unacquainted with any of the particulars
in reference to the matter under examination.
But as to the actual matter iu hand, scarcely
any one can sit down to a perusal of the leading
article in the new number of the Edinburgh with-
out having a previous knowledge of results glar-
ingly demonstrative of the culpability of the
ABERDEEN Coalition. The reviewer has entered
resolutely upon his task, in defiance of all the
notorious evil consequences of the diplomatic cor-
respondence in regard to the Eastern Question,
in spite of the obvious ill effects of the War into
which that correspondence has been developed.
The argument is ostentatiously carried back at
the outset to a distance of time amounting to
I nearly a quarter of a century, to the year 1844, ,
at least, when the Eastern Question, or, to speak I
more plainly, the question of the destruction of
Turkey, to be followed by the subsequent division
of spJils among the destroyers, through another ,
grand act of territorial dismemberment, was first
mooted lsy the Emperor NICHOLAS to three _mem-
bers of her MAJESTY'S Government. it is all o-
Other:prOposterbus for the admirers of my-Lord
ABERDEEN to endeavour to 'screen their " dear"
and " excellent " favourite •under the shadow ".of
the great names of those who were admitted with
him_ in 1841 into the CZAR'S confidence. There
can be no doubt, of course, whatever that the
AUTOCRAT, in revealing his intentions, or rather,
perhaps, we shou.d say merely his views in regard
to Turkey in 1844, upon the occasion of his visit
to England, did so not only to the Earl of ABER-
DEEN, but at the same time also to Sir ROBERT
I PEEL and the Duke of WELLINGTON. There is
I 110 doubt, there can be no doubt, we say,
as to Sir ROBERT and the DUKE having shared
nEs
jabrillit;f ABERDEEN in the privilege
aas to whether, in
of the Russian EMPEROR'S con-
e. But there is a doubt in the minds and
withhearts
eet sl
of the
the people of England
of . those two great men having been
the event
spared to the country so long, they would, or
could, consistently with that-own fame as patriotic
statesmen, have consented to act as timorously,
B
land gingerly, and doubtfullY
i once, disgracefully, as Lord A, and,
titb E let
uN uhsassaLteadt
eru to the
t en.
in his scarcely even pretended antagonism
infamous designs of the Russian y
" That is the question." Aud, therefore it is
beggingaltogether idle, it is simply, in truthbeggingthe
question, and waving the difficulty to assume, as
the friends of the Premier have assumed, that he
is entirely exonerated from blame as associated
with the policy of the CZAR NICHOLAS, by the
mere coincidence of his having, in 1844, shared
in the personal confidence of that potentate with
Ministerial colleagues as illustrious as Sir ROBERT
PEEL and the Duke Of WELLINGTON. No—the
people of England are at this moment (right or
wrong) labouring under the conviction that the
Prime Minister has acted neither well nor wisely
in his conduct in reference to the AUTOCRAT. A

deplorable circumstance at a time of war—this
popular unbelief in the head of the Government.
A circumstance, however, which cannot be altered
by any mere " pottering over blue-books," by any
mere special-pleading, in a hundred thousand ela-
borate articles like that adorning, as a political
curiosity, the current number of the Edinburgh.