The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

" CLATV ME, CLAW THEE !"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
sue,—Your enlightened journal has long appeared to
me net only the earliest in the kingdom for all Parlia-
mentary and foreign intelligence to those residing out of
London, but likewise the most willing to insert in your
cohunns, without rejections from party motives or un-
fair and Partial decisions, the contributions that reach
you from many who have not the means of displaying
their oratory and sentiments on platforms and at public
dinners, but are compelled to' use their pen in animad-
verting on the scenes before them, and the career and con-
duct of public men. I hope you will give this letter for as
ralach as it is worth (comparing it with other anonymous
offerings, of which no doubt you have a multiplicity) in
Yaurjotn.nal. As a quiet and calm looker on, I cannot
but feel an inexplicable wonder and disgust at the late
exhibitions which England, Ireland, and Scotland have
been favoured with by the prominent, wise, veteran
statesmen of Aberdeen's grand Coalition. It would ap-
Pear to me that this blessed harmonious Cabinet left
their antiquated Thane, and the best writer of their
tribe, to keep up in Downing-street their kites as to mo-
41fitations, their official notes on conference or the whole
conference, while the remainder seem to have set out on
an itinerant expedition through the land, with the pre-
cious understanding between each—

" Mind, I will puff you,
If you will puff me."
They Seem to have agreed--It is unsafe to talk of what
Ive will do, because we don't know. It is unwise for
any of us to commit even individual opinions, as no two
pongst us may think alike. But if we all mystify by
artg each other, look big, and dwell on the past
Wisdom and success of each individual's statesmanlike
ea'ller, assuming all the credit of all the past to our-
selves, we may throw dust in the eyes of the mass in the
gtorant and curious crowds that may assemble to greet
a Cabinet Minister's arrival, and we may get rid of the
mess We have created, and the fix we are in, by a skilful
toeurrenee and display of all our gone-by brilliant ser-
Vices. Short-sighted fools !—as if they were ignorant
of that great bard who writes—
" To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion,
Like rusty mail, in monumental mockery."
Lord John opens the ball at Greenock, and not a syl-
lable of the Eastern question—not a word of scarcity or
14:11etaq Panic, or the curious complication of our do-
IL,Te affairs at home—no recurrence to any immediate
ra, Prospect, or measure, but exclaims—" Only exa-
-ile, gentlemen, all the grand conceptions and success
14.4437 f°rty-five years' public service as a statesman."
Passing from this puff direct of himself, let me
proceed to Lord Palmerston, albeit the greatest states-
of the age, the cupid and juvenile Whig of former
.ears becoming Conservative as time passed on, and,
x"usuly
the great sheet-anchor of the ricketty Coalition
r:"lire• Far be it from me to derogate from his
tCnacendant abilities ; but it is rather sickening to see
°
f.ll4Vrom the puffing presumed contract) the panegyrist
fe Man who, not very long since, ousted this model
of° a-
1"r Foreign Affairs, who was neither the Minister
tria, the Minister of Russia, nor the Minister of
Af;aaa, but the " Minister of England," as the worthy
Yor
P informs
the public again from Sir Robert Peel's
Big ech- To see, I repeat, two great statesmen eulogis-
tiai the
champion of civil and religious liberty, forgetting
'aroed letter to the BishOp of Durham, Cardinal
eolaeruan, and next styling him the originator of all our
ilarnercial policy and prosperity, as if Sir Robert Peel
I n?,° real credit for free trade, and winding up his
'.-'B•l3oured oration on the great efforts and wonderful
•44,11eulasui rem the Government with which he was connected
traffiellintting an end to that abominable and odious
vigoren 184.ves--which measures, by the by, were more
and the 7 acted upon and directed by Lord Castlereagh
censors, -,!ike of Wellington than by any of their suc-
speechme ask where you see in either of these
affai " a sentence applicable to the present position of
at this crisis
would become a wise politician to address
to
for the fi a large assemblage of people ?So much
i
enbord rat act in Scotland, where both these eloquent
derr
4buates seem to have cast into oblivion l'excellent
we
cod
Aber their lawful chief and commander.
Ador the A . en to Ireland, and we have the First Lord
taste and to
et y atf
Cork, and pray mark the wonderful
being eat his discourse. Having
a horror of
or part, de!ulsed, he stipulates beforehand for no politics
sids. 'lB.oll,lB'l°A- Truly Scottish—to be safe on all
British 11"
he claims unbounded praise for bringing a
boon Iris fleet fleet into Cork Harbour as a great
dependa, ut the
of exhibitin only
any otherone to be afforded, as Ireland must
W
upon itself for advantage. But by
y
them he has app
gJUStice to Ireland, he points out to
appointed
and one Irish
two Irish Admirals to the fleet,
u Secretary' own burs Now, whether
of the right sort to his
a • Whether O'Brien be of the right
sort is as much unknown to the public at large as whe-
ther Graham be of the right sort.
We then are led to the second act is Scotland. Having
left Ireland and England to the specious cajoling of the
Scotch baronet, we have the great financier at Dingwall
and Inverness. In his public discourses I find a better
exposition of the general interests of the country,
although silent on the funds, the banking rate discounts,
and on his own schemes of his budget, as any one of his
spouting colleagues ; but with the same patriotism as the
First Lord he concludes his puff to the excellent Aber-
deen, although it would appear from its feebleness it is
like and equivalent to the last whiff of a stinking cigar,
and as blown out not very flattering even to the anti-
quated Thane. These, sir, are my short opinions on the
itinerant performers in Scotland, Ireland, and England,
and on their happy return to Downing-street I hope
they will not fail to remember that they succeeded to
the Funds at 100, with twenty-three millions and a half
in the coffers of the Bank, and that we now are blessed
with Consols at 90, and only fifteen millions and a half
in the Bank.

Your admirer as a writer, being
A CONSTANT READER AND LOOKER-ON.