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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1860.

The China war has completely settled another
quarrel. The battle between the Lords and Com-
mons might yet have become a fierce one, but
money is proverbially the sinews of war, and the
Chinese have emptied our Treasury. " Unconsti-
tutional," "insulting," " aggressive," " innovating,"
as was the return of £700,000 by the Lords to the
Commons, the latter do not know what to do with-
out it. Setting aside the fortifications business,

even the £700,000, barely enables thG Chancellor
of the Exchequer to balance accounts for

Chinese treachery up to this time—while a much

heavier bill is yet in prospect, before the war is
ended, for next year. The Exchejuez balances,
which should have gone in diminution of the Old

Debt of the country, had to be taken to pay off the
bill which the Tartar General SAN-KO•LIN has
compelled us to run up.
It was under these circumstances, and while the
pleasure of escaping additional Income-tax by
mulcting the Gin Drinkers, was fresh in the minds
of Honourable Members, that Lord FER3IOY
brought forth his resolution last night. Its fate
was matter of certainty. The House dared not

carry it, if it "meant business," while if it was,
vox et prceterea nihil, it would have been foolish to
carry it. 'With the Chancellor of the Exchequer
we place the resolution under the last description.
It was conspicuously, almost ostentatiously, nothing
but words. After a commencement, which was but

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a second edition of what we have already had, it
added, that " it is incumbent on this House to adopt
a practical measure for the restoration of its rights
and privileges." Why this was worse than the
famous resolution of the mice to bell the cat. The
practical measure, to prevent future aggressions of
Pussy, was indicatedby that, though it had, of course,
one little disadvantge. But Lord FERMOY proposed
to escape that difficulty by what even the mice
would not have resolved. Only think of the poor
timid little things proposing," that it is incumbent

on the mice to adopt a practical measure, to preven
the aggressions of the cat." They would have been
about as wise, we imagine, as Lord FERMOY with
his motion. The trembling little animals had no
more doubt on the necessity of a practical measure
than Lord FERMOY had ; probably not so much ;
for in truth we question whether Lord FERMOY
wanted a practical measure ; if he did he ought to
have proposed it.
We strongly suspect, indeed, that the motion was
a hustings one ; and that its supporters regarded it
as such. They all knew that it was sure not to
be carried, and that they might at the same time look
tt little bold, and yet run no hazard. We would not
saY this of every one of them. Some of them,
doubtless, so resent the Peers' interference that
they
Would vote for fifty synonymous resolutions
against it, but the generality of them surely
thought of
nothing but the next election. Mr.
GLADSTONE justly asked, "To what does this
resolution amount ? To so many words, and
no more than -words •
it does not advance
one inch to a
practical solution of the question,
while it gives to the country an appearance of being
in earnest without any pledge or
guarantee for our
sincerity. So far as words are concerned,
we have
used them in sufficiency." We have
indeed, and
we object as strongly as Mr. GLADSTONE to any-
thing more which has the aspect of mere bluster.
The truth is the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has settled the question. He has taken the
£700,000, and thereby condoned the offence, or so
much of it as was left by the very harmless resolu-