The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

CAIWIF ELL WV PUBLIC Airli'Alle,S,

It cannot quit its place of birth,
It will not live in other earth

but, as it strikes its roots deeper, and acquires a firmer
hold upon a broader stratum of the community, we have
reason to hope that in the same proportion it will extend
its branches higher, and contribute more and more to the
happiness and prosperity of the country. The last
change which has taken place is due, not to the party
with which I have the honour to be connected, but to our
opponents in the senate ; and, in my opinion, in some
respects this has been attended with solid advantage to
the country. I will not pretend that I can altogether
congratulate them on the result, because if the object was,
as we are told, to turn a minority into a majority, the
result has not been exactly correspondent with the expecta-
tion. With regard to the mode in which it was done, I shall
only say this, that it appears to me that finding they
could not bring the majority to their opinions, they
thought the best course would be to carry their
opinions to the majority. Thus, I say it is most fortu-
nate that this great change has taken place without •
severe struggle, and that, SLOW that the contest is over,
all parties can combine without any painful recollections,
or any remembrance of conflict, and can all co-operate
together in the new phase of the institutions of the
country on which we are about to enter with one
sincere and harmonious desire to make them work for
the general benefit of the whole people—and that we can
do that in such a way that there shall be no distinct
tion between those who have been added to the con-
stituency and those who possessed the franchise before,
but that the whole body of the English people shall con-
sent to a tribunal of appeal to which all questions con-
cerning their welfare may be referred." After discussing
what was to be the proper use of the new power given by
the extension of the franchise, Mr. Cardwell turned to
Ireland, observing : " What I wish to say about Ireland
is this. We are told sometimes that her grievances
are sentimental grievances. My answer is, that there
cannot be a worse grievance than a sentimental
grievance. There is none so deep seated ; there
is none to which it is so• difficult to apply a
remedy ; there is none which it is so difficult to
know and examine. During the last century the griev-
ances of Scotland were perhaps to a great extent senti-
mental grievances, but Lord Chatham made Scotland
loyal by enlisting the sentiment of Scotland on his side.
In India the greased cartridge was a sentimental griev-
ance, but it nearly lost us our Indian empire. In Ireland
the people have long felt that they have not been treated
as equals, but as inferiors ; and I venture to say that you
never can govern and never will govern any people
within the pale of a free constitution unless ycu can
eradicate the sentiment and impress them with the belief
that you regard them as equals with yourselves. Now
what has happened ? They feel at last that they will
no longer be treated with indignity. They cannot imagine
now that the English people entertain towards them
sentiments of dislike or disregard. They have seen one
Government outvoted ; they have seen an appeal made to
the country in order that the voice of England and
Scotland might be expressed, and that under a
new Goverr ment measures may be introduced
for the purpose of doing what they believe to
be justice to Ireland, and eradicating the sentiment
which has rendered Ireland hostile to England.
Perhaps I may be permitted to say that when you succeed
in infusing into the Irish mind the belief that you regard
them as yourselves, and that whatever interests them will
interest you, as if it were a question relating to England and
Scotland—when that day comes, and I perceive that it is
coming, you will have overcome Irish grievances, you will
have reconciled an alienated people, and you will be able,
having laid the foundation, to build up a superstructure
of wise and judicious policy based upon the corner-stone
equal justice to all.

Une nunared and seventy pounds have been sub-

Abed for the purpose of raising funds for inserting a
Memorial window into Christ Church, Todmorden, in
memory of the Rev. A. J. Plow.

MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The attention of the Secretary of War having
been directed to the large expenditure incurred by
the military and civil departments of the army in
telegraphic messages, an order from the War De-
partment has been issued directing that the utmost
caution be observed in the recourse to this mode of
communication, which should be adopted only in
cases where the delay involved in a letter by post
would really prove prejudicial to the public service.
At the meeting of the Chatham Local Board of
Health yesterday they had under consideration the
necessity which exists, both in connection with the
military and naval establishments as well as for the
public in general, for an electric time gun to be fired
daily, as in the case at many of the other large
military and naval stations, in order that correct
Greenwich time may be notified. The Board unani-
mously decided to apply to the Government on the
subject, and a deputation, consisting of the Mayor
of Rochester, the High Constable of Chatham, and
other persons, was appointed to wait on the autho-
rities to request that the necessary arrangements
might be made.

The following detachments of the Royal Artil-
lery—namely, two officers and 86 men from Wool-
wich, six men from IVarley, one officer and 79 men
from Maidstone, and two draughts of men from
Sheerness, are under orders to proceed to Ports-
mouth on the sth instant to embark on board the
steamer Helvetia for conveyance to Bombay, via
the Overland route—the two former detachments
to join the 14th and 18th Brigades of Field
Artillery and the latter the E Brigade, Royal
Horse Artillery. The Crocodile troopship was
appointed to take out these detachments, but hay-
ing broken down in her machinery the Helvetia has
been substituted. The number forming the draught
for the 14th Brigade is 56, namely, 42 rank and
file, 8 women, and 6 children ; and that for the
18th Brigade, 35 rank and file. The detachments
will he under the command of Lieut. Shortland,
R.A. Another draught is under orders to proceed
from Sheerness to British America, but the date of
their departure is not yet fixed.

Her Majesty's screw unarmoured frigate Are-
thusa, 35, 3,141 tons, 500 horse power, Captain H.
Coote, has returned her shot, shell, guns, and most
of her War Department and other stores into the
Ordnance establishment and dockyard, and has
been dismantled by her crew previously to being
put out of commission in the tours) of a few days,
and placed in the fourth division of the steam re-
serve in the Medway.

The arrival of her Majesty's Indian troopship
Jumna at Bombay on the 31st ult. has been an-
noun(;ed by telegratu.

The following list of British subjects embarked
on the 9th of November, 1863, at Angostura,
River Paraguay, and brought to Buenos Ayres
on the 14th of November, has been received at
the Foreign-office:—Dr. John Fox, M.D., Mrs.
Nesbit, Miss Nesbit, infant child Nesbit, Mrs.
Shoot, Harriet Shoot, and Maria Shoot, chil-
dren ; Alfonso Cambridge, Mary Ann Cambridge
and Margaret Cambridge, orphan children ; John
Wright and Emily Wright, orphan children ;
John Trudgeon, aged 16 years ; and William
Chartres and Mary Ann Chartres, orphan chil-
dren. Some British subjects who might have
be kiguglit off preferred to remain iu rttrastuty.

Mr. Cardwell, who was present at the anniversary
dinner of the Ancient Order of Druids, at Oxford, thus
delivered himself on public affairs :—" The first thing that
strikes me when I think of the year 1868 is that it has
closed that series of Parliaments which commenced with
the year 1832, when I was living what I think Paley
called the happiest period of any man's life—the life of an
undergraduate in the University of Oxford—in which
series of Parliaments, by your favour, I have had the
honour of sitting for a very large portion of time as one
of the representatives of this city of Oxford.
That calendar has been an honourable calendar,
and I think we ought not to let it pass without notice at
this time. That Parliament began with the abolition of
slavery and with the extension of the franchise ; they
abolished taxes upon food and upon the prime neeessariel
of life. They have set free the press, and they have
passed a list of useful measures unprecedented, I believe,-
in the history of any representative assembly. The
reflection that occurs to us, when we see how various
changes take place in our Constitution, and how, after
these changes, they have not the effect in any way of
impairing their vigour or diminishing their efficiency, but,
on the contrary, that after such changes greater efficiency
and greater vigour are exhibited—it nrtkes us reflect that,
after all, possibly it is not so much in the institutions
themselves as it is to the national character to which those
institutions are applied that we must look fur the great
advantages we enjoy. Endeavours have frequently been
made to extend these institutions to other countries, but
almost always without success. It may be said of our
Constitution, in the words of the poet, that—