The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1869.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times thinks that Mr. Gladstone seems bent on
following the footsteps of Mr. Pitt in the making of peers,
baronets, and knights. The great son of Chatham, as dis-
dainful of all shows of honour himself as be was ambitious
of real power, is traditionally reported to have avowed the
principle that any gentleman of sufficient estate who wished
to be ennobled ought to have his claim admitted. It was
ask and have. Mr. Gladstone differs as widely a 3 possible
in temperament from Mr. Pitt, but he appears to arrive at
the same practical conclusions. First a few knighthoods, in-
cluding the re -pectable and able electioneering agent of the
Liberal party. Then a bundle of baronets of unquestionable
respectability. The outgoing Lord Mayor takes his place
alone in the procession, as becomes his signal distinction ;
and now ten Peers are added at a stroke to the House of
Lords,—offers of Pcerages were made to at least two
others,who declined the glitteringgift,the historian of Greece
being one of them—and the cry is still that more are coming.
This ennobling of ten Peers at a batch is an argument,
if any were needed, for re-considering the question of Life
Peerages raised by Lord Russell last Session. Unex-
ceptionable as we believe all the new Peers to be, it is
impossible not to have some feeling of uneasiness at seeing
ten springs of • descent grafted at a stroke in the House of
Lords. The sons of Whigs elevated to the Peerage—nay,
Whigs themselves to whom the accident happens—often
drop behind into Conservatism ; and how is a House
of Lords perpetually increasing in numbers, and
always inclined to reaction, to be reconciled with an elec-
tive assembly rigidly restricted in numbers, and daily more
jealous of its authority? It is a severe trial of our faith
in the nnaltorableness of the future, and if our analysis of
the feelings of the new peers be correct, life peerages:would
have satisfied the greater part of them. They accept their
honours mainly from personal motives ; and though they
would doubtless be pleased that their sons should be
similarly honoured, they would be satisfied if they were
advanced in a similar fashion to themselves by the choice
of a Minister as they advanced in years.
The Telegraph remarks that Oxford fins just chosen the
Marquis of Salisbury Chancellor of the University, in the
room of the late Lord Derby. Convocation settled the
matter on Friday afternoon in a quiet and respectable
manner, with so little active discussion of rival claims that
the solitary vote given for Lord Carnarvon was almost felt
to be "out of order." The office is almost purely orna-
mental, and any question which could arise about candi-
dates must have turned, therefore, upon personal conside-
ration. We do not call to mind any duty or ceremony
which the Chancellor has to discharge, that is not of the
most formal and perfunctory character. Lord Derby was
hardly ever seen in Oxford after his installation, when he
presided in the Sheldonian Theatre, and made a batch of
D.C.L.'s—among whom was his own son, now his
successor. The predecessor of Lord Derby was the Duke
of Wellington, who, in point of dignity and position, was
indeed an ideal Chancellor; although irreverent men in
the University still recall with zest the awful false quanti-
ties made by the famous and worthy Warrior in his Latin
address. We are inclined to felicitate the Universityupon
its new Chancellor. Perhaps no choice could have been
better, in view of the advantages which the institution
must reap from the presence of an energetic and not too
full-banded representative in the House of Lords,
4.nd we must admire the prescient wisdom with
which Oxford thus links herself on to the progress of
legislative events, and transfers from the old Toryism to
the new the custody of her curule chair. The transfer, we
believe, slight and mild as it is, will by-and-by cost her
something ; but that is not the question at the present
momenta She had to replace Lord Derby, and, in doing
so with the Marquis of Salisbury, she has obtained a noble-
man of high station and increasing influence ; though she
has thereby proved, what was already but too well known,
that she has, as now constituted, no sympathy with the
march of legislation. It will, nevertheless, proceed.
On Thursday last, says the Standard, Bishop Wilber-
force formally anti finally took leave of the clergy and
laity of the diocese which he has served faithfully and
well for close upon a quarter of a century. The occasion
was no ordinary one, and the farewell charge which the
Bishop designate of Winchester delivered in the chapel of
Christ Church, which is also the Cathedral of Oxford, was
well suited to the occasion. There probably never was a
prelate who in the course of a long and active career,
which it is to be hoped, for the good of the nation
and the nation's Church, may yet be continued for
many a year in the province to which he has been
summoned, has been exposed to a great variety
of charges and a larger frequency of attacks than
has fallen to the share of Dr. Wilberforce. As Bishop of
Oxford there are errors, perchance, which Dr. Wilberforce
may have committed, just as there are errors which all
conditioned beings commit. The enthusiasm of faith and
the championihip of belief are not, and cannot be, the
sure conditions of human fallibility. Moralists tell us
that the value of our act is to be weighed byits intention.
It is to this test that Dr. Wilberforce's career should be
submitted :it is this test—the severest test of all—which
it will satisfactorily stand. Such men as Dr. 'Wilberforce
the Church needs. It is because ho has done all he has
done that it is so easy to forget all differences of
opinion with Dr. Wilberforce ; that the sorrowing
regret which he leaves behind him amid his Oxford
clergy is so prevalent ; and that the loss of one diocese is
the gain of another. Preacher, writer, speaker, controver-
sialist, Dr. 'Wilberforce will be remembered by the clergy
of Oxford as all these, but he will leave other memories
behind him—memories of many an act of spiritual and of
worldly kindness done to the cottage poor of Oxfordshire
and Berkshire ; memories of many a sermon full of honest
exhortation and of Christian solace, preached to village
congregations and workhouse inmates. No wonder that
Bishop Wilberforce should have found it difficult to bid
adieu to the diocese in which he has so long been in-
stalled, "The last word almost refuses to be spoken."
We do not know, says the Daily News, what precise
amount of truth there may be in the rumour that Mr.
Goschen is about to resort to the use of the extreme
powers reserved to the President of the Poor Law Board,
and to take the management of the St. Pancras Workhouse
out of the hands of the guardians. But it is plain that
public opinion is becoming ripe for such a proceeding. These
gentlemen by their utter inefficiency, their stump oratory,
and their rowdyism, are educating the people to call
for centralisation, or anything else which they
would have been frightened at a few years ago,
in order to be delivered from the disgraceful
state of things now perpetrated under the name of local
self-government. The meeting of the guardians last
Saturday shows that, far from learning by experience, the
warnings they have received have only made them more
obstinate and perverse than ever. The Spectator recom-
mends a suspension of self-government in St. Pancras for
five years, to give the parish a respite from mismanage-
ment ; while the Saturday Review would put a few of the
guardians in the dock at the Old Bailey. The public at
large regards these matters with too much indifference;
but if once it should come to be generally understood that
these shameful squabbles are endangering the health of
the population beyond the boundaries of St. Pancras by
favouring the spread of relapsing fever, short work will be
made of the pretensions of the guardians.

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The Post declares that the increasing distress which the
metropolis has witnessed during several years is rapidly
developing itself into a new phase of misery, and there is
before us for the winter upon which we haVe entered work
that will tax our utmost energies, and all the skill and
vigilance we can bring to bear upon it. The state of
semi-starvation in which so many thousands of
the working classes of London have been steeped
for the last four or five years has assumed the
form of famine fever. Towards the latter end
of last year several cases were Admitted into the
Fever Hospital. During the first four months of the
present year the epidemic struggled to establish itself
without success ; but as the year wore on it began to make
greater way. It is not a hungry and half-clad population
which we have now upon our hands. It is a population
amongst whom famine fever is progressing with frightful
rapidily, only to be curbed by prompt, energetic, and libe-
ral measures. It is most essential that the sick should at
once be removed from amongst the healthy. The
circular of the Privy Council states that "ample
hospital accommodation is an indispensable con-
dition for limiting the extension of the disease."
From all this it is clear that our work this
winter will not only require relief committees. They will
probably have to be more active than ever. Both to
prevent people from taking the fever, and to help them to
recover from it, the grand essential is nourishment. But
for the intermediate condition we want hospitals, doctors,
and nurses, supplied upon the most liberal scale; and
perhaps still more important is the visitation of houses in
the poorer quarters of the town, and the application of
whatever remedies for their purification the sanitary
authorities may direct.
The herald is afraid the "Roving Engli3hman's" con's,
dente in his country's institutions must by this time have
been sorely tried and sadly shaken. No matter in what
quarter he has looked he has found every man's hand
against him. The whole nation appears to have entered
into a cruel conspiracy to drive him from the land of his
nativity, and to deprive bins of the rewards to which he
is entitled for the services he has rendered in
sundry diplomatic or quasi-diplomatic employments.
Possibly, if the world knew its greatest men, the
• good deeds of Mr. Grenville Murray would' be
blazoned on the scroll of fame ; heralded forth to admiring
audiences wherever the British name is known, and treated
as ample justification for any eccentricities in which a man
of so much ability and versatility may think proper to
indulge. But Lord Romilly made very short work of
Mr. Grenville Murray's application. His lordship decided
that the doctrines of constitutional law were no less the
doctrines of our equitable tribunals. Tho Foreign
Office has tho right of appointing or dismissing its
own servants, and the latter have no pretence for
treating the sums which Parliament annually votes
for their salaries as a permanent fund, provided
for their especial benefit. Tho Sovereign is served by her
Ministers, and upon them the duty of retaining or dismis-
sing their subordinates is east. Mr. Murray has deservedly
failed in his endeavour to improve the position of a ser-
vant of the Crown holding office during good behaviour,
and always dependent for his salary upon an annual vote,
into that of an independent gentleman,with a life-interest
in a sum of £600,00t) a year, paid into the Treasury by
much-enduring taxpayers.

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