The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD.

The Telegraph declares that in bright and welcome con-
trast with careers which have brought disgrace upon
noble names, and thrown ancient houses into the shadow
of evil repute, that of the Marquis of Salisbury culmi-
nates in the high dignity attached to the Oxford Chancel-
lorship. The honoured nobleman is young enough, no
doubt, to reap many another distinctfon in the fields of
social and of political renown; but, having arrived so early
at so conspicuous a position, his lordship finds him-
self, as it were, upon the Table-land of Dignity
and all the other prizes of ambition which he
may desire to annex lie within view, attainable
by pleasant travel rather than laborious ascent.
To prove how eminent is the Chancellorship of Oxford,
it would be enough to remark that the late Lord Derby
was prouder of the style and title derived from that
august seat, than of any ornamental glory attaching to
his earldom. Rarely as such a distinction can be con-
ferred, and special as the career must be which is crowned
with so much and such early dignity, there is yet, in the
event we believe, a most ordinary moral taught by the
young nobleman to his order. It all Iles in the words
that Mr. Robert Browning uses when writing upon
the corpses laid out upon the slabs at the
Morgue. " It's better,' the poet moralises,
" being sane than mad—it's better being good
than bad!" And so it is ! by proof of every pathway
in life, and by all the manifold dénouements of human
dramas, from the brilliant spectacle to be witnessed at
Oxford to those ghastly tables at the dead-house in Paris.
It is much that a young man, even with fortune and
birth to help him, should, by choice of manly and intel-
lectual pursuits, arrive so early in life at such a point of
seniorage. We do not think, however, that Lord Salis-
bury is the man to forget how much of his dignities he
owes to circumstance, or what obligations they lay upon
him as an English statesman ; and hence it is only the
more easy and becoming for his countrymen to remember
how high-toned and consistent his political course has
been, how full of self-reeved his conduct and his private
reputation.

MONOPOLIES.—The House is evidently in earnest.
Not content with reducing taxes, it recently aimed a heavy
blow at the Pennsylvania monopolists. The tariff sections
which Mr. Schenck proposes to add to the pending Tax
Bill included anthracite in its additions to the free list.
Practically that amounts to nothing. The House, how-
ever, by a vote of 113 to 79, has declared in favour of
free coal generally, and has instructed the Ways and
Means Committee to bring in a bill repealing the present
duty. The relief thus provided will be of great impor-
tance to the Atlantic States ; and in providing it the
House strikes down one of the worst abominations of the
tariff as it now is. We are not without hope that the
salt monopoly will next receive its quietus. —New York
Times.

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