The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-01 00:00:00

sions, of nations are confided. A modern army has a
great deal of the locomotive about it, tremendous in its
power, unreasoning, unfeeling, but yet easily subject to
control. It is singular how the mechanical spirit of the
age has overtaken and subdued this like everything else.
As the farmer depends upon his implements, the mer-
chant on the rail and the steam-ship, the manufacturer
on the iron fingers at work for him untiringly in his
mill, so rifle and battery, skilful evolution and steady
discipline are doing away with the rough and desperate
extremities of close quarters, cross bayonets, and hand-
to-hand encounters. Sham fights would be contempti-
ble as pageants if they did not bring out and present
for contemplative observation the immense progress
which is still making in the art of war, and the high
state to which it has already attained.

NORTH DERBYSHIRE ELECTION.

(From the Derby Reporter.)

On the day of our last publication the closing scene of
the North Derbyshire election was being enacted at
Bakewell. Mr. W. Pole Thornhill, our new Liberal re-
presentative, was escorted to the hustings, by a body of
electors who were welcomed by the triumphant Tory
squires of the division ; and was greeted by the entire
absence of the Liberal country gentlemen of North
Derbyshire. Ancient Tories who had hitherto been seen
at Bakewell only in the hubbub of a nomination, and
never before at a declaration of the poll, flocked round
their protege ; and the "Io Foots' of our member,
zealous for an extension of the suffrage and pledged to
Free Trade, were sung by Mr. Palmer Morewood, and
echoed in chorus by his Protectionist followers.
A fortnight since we said that Mr. Thornhill's return
would be considered a Conservative triumph. And why ?
Mr. Thornhill had done his best to create a division in
the Liberal interest, He has succeeded by gaining the
votes of the Tories and of the tenantry of the great Libe-
ral proprietors who were directly (but we believe unwar-
rantably) canvassed by Mr. Thornhill's friends in the
names of their landlords. And having coalesced such in-
fluence, and having carried his election against thegreat
,bulk of the Liberal constituency, undoubtedly Mr.
Thornhill was entitled to the gratitude of his Conserva-
tive friends and supporters—and they certainly gave him
their countenance to the utmost ?

The same assembly that listened to Mr. Thornhill's
maiden speech was indulged also with his printed ad-
dress ; and as the literature of the one and the eloquence
of the other are much upon a par, we will devote a few
paragraphs to the first published exposition of Mr.
Thornhill's political sentiments.
" Ye* have vindicated your independence. The victory
you have achieved is your own, it &not mine !"

How the independence of the Liberal electors can be
vindicated, by the minority of their party coalescing with
the Tories,a nd returning a candidate whom the majority
of the Liberal electors were not prepared to support--is
a question far beyond our limited powers of comprehen-
sion., Had Mr. Thornhill congratulated the Liberal
party on being the victims of a somewhat unprincipled
coalition, he would have been more just if not more for-
tunate in his sympathies !
But what are we to say to Mr. Thornhill's self-gratu-
lations in the following paragraph ?