The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1860.

Granted that so many of our dearest hopes in
respect to this Parliamentary session of 1860 have
been entirely disappointed—still we cannot look
back to it without expressing in its regards sen-
timents of profound gratitude. It has undoubtedly
failed to yield us any one of the great reforms anti-
cipated from it. It leaves again for another year
altogether untouched the paramount requirement
among all our great political desiderata—the re-
form of our system of popular representation. It
has left unbroken the most galling of all the links
binding Church and State together—that irri-
tating link of the Church Rates, fretting to
the quick so many millions of dissentient indepen-
dents. It has allowed once more to be " dropped
through"—" shelved"—" cushioned"—so very many
of those vitally important legal reforms which, in
the early spring time, seemed actually in the hol-
low of the nation's hand ; so entirely within our
grasp that our fingers had but to close upon them.
Insomuch that not only is the criminal code unad-
vanced by a single step, towards its yesterday's
seemingly inevitable consolidation, but even Sir
RICHARD BETHELL'S latest masterpiece, his com-
prehensive revision of the laws relating to Bank-
ruptcy and Insolvency, has vanished into thin air
leaving nought behind to tell of its where-
abouts—absolutely as though our lawgivers and
jnrisconsults had been idly blowing soap-bubbles
like so mans children. The session is bequeathing
to us, in fact, little beyond—that lamentable and
illusory Commercial Treaty, negotiated on the sly
and passed in a fit of delirium—that monstrous
experimental Budget which, almost upon the mor-
row of its triumphant introduction to the House of
Commons, suffered so ignominious a collapse—and
conspicuous among all the anomalies of that boasted
Financial Statement, the discreditable reimposition
(of all years—in the year 1860 ! of all men—by
Mr. GLADSTONE!) of the most cruel and grinding of
all the taxes upon industry, the detested Income Tax
—an income tax of 10d in the pound, or of £10,000,000
sterling within the twelvemonth ! Such are, un-
questionably, the most glaring among the sins of
this session—sins either of Omission or of Com-
mission. Yet—in spite of all which, in vivid remem-
brance of all which—are we still to the last, as we
have said, disposed to bear gratefully in our recol-
lection the political doings of 1860, to cast down
the apparently doleful vista of these last six
months a retrospective glance of absolute and undis-
guised exultation.
For this henceforth memorable Parliamentary
Session of 1860 is, at the very least, remarkable ;
for, inasmuch, as it has exposed at length
to richly- merited scorn and derision about
the most monstrous among all the politi-
cal impostors of our generation. Mr. JOHN
BRIGHT, M.P. for Birmingham, stands forth by
this time completely un cloaked and unmasked before
his fellow-countrymen, And he does so simply,
solely, and notoriously by a series of the most
suicidal proceedings. The impeccable tribune has
proved himself to be after all little better than the
most sordid, the most venal, the most huxtering
of vulgar demogogues. The unrivalled debater
has turned out to be the merest flatulent windbag
—.the
.archdebater has been dwindling down to
as unmitigated bore. One after another the
whole of the hundred arms of this Parliamentary
BRIAREtiS have
been stricken with paralysis.
The boasted Boanerges of St. Stephen's has proved
to be so little of a son
of Thunder that he has
eventually been compelled--in spite of himself—to
sing small. We don't know
any man who has
lapsed during this session into a position at once
-so powerless, so contemptible, or so ridiculout.
out of the way
ConDEN, sneaking
Not even Ms.
there at Paris all this while with his Peddling
Treaty—unwilling to show his face even for a
single sitting, from February to August, in his
accustomed place in the House of Commons down
,at Westminster ! Not even Mr. GLADSTONE
'with his Burst Budget, his shameless rt.
svival of the Income-tax, his ruined reputation

a financier, his degraded position as a statesman,
and an administrator Pre-eminent, even beyond
these—stands forth, in kindred plight, Mr. BRIGHT,
the Bumptious BOANERGES of Birmingham.
If anything had been really needed to cap the
climax of Mr. BRIGHT'S proceedings daring all this
session—that capping of the climax would incon-
testibly have been discoverable in the blinded
malignity and fatuity of his almost (even by him-
self) unparalleled proceedings in the House of Com-
mons on Friday evening. As it happened, however,
those proceedings of Mr. BRIGHT'S came before the
House, and through the House before the country,
as a superfluous supplementary exposure at one and
the same time of his spite and of his powerlessness.
Judging of others, we are left to presume by what
he knows of himself, he could enly attribute cer-
tain words, written or spoken, in respect to the
now intimately associated subjects of the Paper
Duties, and the House of Lords to the meanest mo-
tives well imaginable. The high-priced press
generally, but especially the Times-.-the Coalition
Cabinet generally, but particularly its veteran
chief Lord PALMERSTON—were grossly vilified by
Mr. BRIGHT for the course they had pursued
in this matter, affecting alike the repeal
or retention of the paper duties and
the rights and privileges of the House of
Lords—the Tiwes and Lord PALMERSTON with
peculiar roncour in every imputation against them,
were assailed by Mr. BRIGHT'S particularly viper-
like vituperations.. Who was it, of whom Lord
BROUGHAM once said—that while his mouth was
yet overflowing with venom as abundantly as ever
he had happily lost the perforated tooth through
which to squirt it? The remark is certainly at this
moment not wholly inapplicable to the member for
Birmingham. It is at any rate applicable
to his splenetic but wholly innoccuous
display of Friday. Lord PALMERSTON has
never, perhaps, in the whole of his long and
illustrious career in the House of Commons, re-
pelled the most malignant of his assailants with
amore easy or a more dignified hauteur than he did
upon that occasion. Our leading contemporary
the Times has certainly never before vindicated
its character with more superb completeness, it
has never before justified more nobly or more
effectively its eminently, or rather pre-eminently,
powerful position in journalism, than it has in-
dubitably done now, in casting back in Mr.
BRIGHT'S face his paltry and disgraceful impu-
tations. Altogether, this really lamentable incident
of Friday—an incident so discreditable to its origi-
nator's character as a popular representative—
altogether we say, this really lamentable incident
serves only to recall vividly to our remembrance
that famous ejaculation with which the late Lord
DENMAN (then Mr. DEN3IAN) opened, and at the
. same moment epitomized his retaliation upon the
' Plaintiff in a memorable State Trial, in which that
great forensic orator appeared as the Advocate of
the Defendant. Applying to Mr. BRIGHT that same
historic apostrophe, we might here also epitomize
a whole retaliatory phillipic in these few words—
" Stand forth thou Demagogic Slanderer !"

Under the title, " The Conservative Reaction,"
the Quarterly has sung a kind of palinode in
regard to Mr. DISRAELI ; not a very humble one,
for the boast really is that the young lord, or the
squad of young lords, have brought the great Tory
leader to repentance, or, at least, to what divines
tell us is the essence of all repentance—to Reforma-
tion. "We will not pay," says the Reviewer—
whom, of course, we take to be the same who did
not deny the authorship of the former article when
challenged with it in the House of Commons—
" We will not pay the Conservative party the bad
compliment of believing that their leader is now
prepared to act on the principles which his
thoughtless advocates avow." Whatever his
past views, his conduct in regard to im-
portant measures this session is declared
to be without reproach. He has flinched
from no Conservatism, he has made no attempts
to " boil down" Conservative principles to suit the
palates of his Radical allies. The past was, indeed,
chargeable with " reckless ambition ;" but Mr.
BRIGHT'S " ferocious denunciations" show that the
Radical leader no longer calculates upon it. Credit
is also given to Mr. DISRAELI for being a genuine
convert—one who will not fall from the grace
given him in his new baptism. "We have a right
to assume that the change is permanent," says the
noble Reviewer, " and that Mr. DISRAELI has
abandoned for ever the unholy alliances and the
trimming tactics of which events have proved the
hollowness and the shame."

Not yet—says the Reviewer, very firmly; to any
needy Conservatives who may be gaping for the
spoils of office. The functions of Conservatism are
two—the first to maintain a " certain set of princi-
ples ;" and it has also to " obtain office for a number
of its principal debaters." The former is among "the
highest object to which a human being can devote
himself ;" the other is rather a " matter to beex-
tenuated and apologised for" by taking into account
the weaknesses of mankind. Office, to be sure, best
enables you to carry your principles into effect ;
but practically the choice, now, is between a
weak position in Government and a strong
one in Opposition ; and Lord DERBY'S hon-
ourable language in 1355 is quoted to
illustrate the writer's conception of the " humilia-
tion and impotence of an ill-supported Ministry."
Moreover much is held to be due to Lord PALMER-
STON for vindicating so nobly the right of the
Loris to tax the people. " Every Conservative
owes a debt to him for his manly and patriotic
bearing when the vote of the Lords was under
discussion, which it would be ingratitude for mere
party motives to forget." The state of affairs
abroad is also represented to be such as would
render it altogether undesirable to supplant
Lord PALMERSTON. The aspect of the political
horizon abroad, is, indeed, exceedingly well—be-
cause truthfully described, with the assertion that
party movements at such a time would be sicken-
ing to the country ; and the implication that no
man would weather the impending storm better
than Lord PALMERSTON.

The grand object, indeed, of the Reviewer seems
to be, to show that Mr. DISRAELI serves Conserva-
tive objects better in opposition than in office—a
view of things, doubtless, unpalatable enough to a"
great number of honourable members. They must
choose, he says, between tampering with their
principles in office, or upholding them in opposi-
tion ; and the latter he thinks infinitely the better.
In the former part of the Review the " Reaction "
had been illustrated, chiefly in connection with
Church-rates, the Reform Bill, and the Pap r
Duties—and it is observed that during the
past session the Conservatives have been able to
" expose and explode a Reform Bill, to save the
Paper Duties, and to give the movement against
Church Rates the most damaging repulse it has
received ? " It is then triumphan.tly asked, " Can
they say the same for the year they were in office ?
In which direction did these three questions move
during that short and disastrous triumph ? "
Questions these which surely justify the political
wisdom of those of us who declined to be parties to
any
factious displacement of the Tories. There
were not wanting at that time persons who sus-

pected, or professed to suspect, our liberalism—they
may now see how Tories, enlightened by events,
view the same things. Had Tories been continued
in office, we have little doubt that We should
have had a tolerably useful instalment of
Reform ; and, if they would not have
emancipated the penny press by putting
the penny on the poor Income-tax payers, they
would in all probability have *brought us to the
close of the Church-rate struggle. The working of
things is too obvious to need explanation ; the
simple fact is that Tories are as liberal, in office, as
the Whigs are. That they of course do not oppose
their own liberal proposals, on which they rely for
popularity ; that the Whigs, much as they would
like to do it, in opposition, dare not,—and thus we
get something. As to the personnel of Ministries,
we cannot comprehend how sincere Liberals should
not be most supremely indifferent to it.
A most amusing part of the noble lord's review
is the way in which he shows, too often with self-
evident truth, that Mr. BRIGHT has been this
session the most valuable ally of the Conservatives.
"Mr. BRIGHT has secured the Church-rate for this
year, perhaps for many years to come." Four Minis-
ters had already tendered their submission to Sir S.
TRELAWNY, and the cause seemed almost hopeless,
when Mr. BRIGHT'S unpopularity in the house
brought down the majority of seventy to its last of
nine ! So the maintenance of the Paper Duty was
the next achievement of " Conservative alarms,"
aroused by Mr. Bii.IGHT'S "unguarded tongue."
"This triumph was all his own," for Mr. COBDEN
and Mr. GLADSTONE were but "agents executing
his commands." And this was the "cruellest
blow of all," for the repeal of this tax was his own
darling project, and "it was a cruel freak of fate,
or rather it was a just NEMESIS upon his unbridled
and unscrupulous tongue, that his own should be
the hand to frustrate, upon the very verge of vic-
tory, the dearest object of his political career." But
this is not all, nor by any means the most important
service which Conservatives themselves now con-
fess Mr. BRIGHT has rendered to their cause. " No
one can fully appreciate the gratitude due from
Conservatives to Mr. BRIGHT, who does not take
into account his effective aid in resisting the Re-
form Bill." Everything, as the Reviewer shows at
length, seemed to indicate that a Reform Bill
must pass this session. It needed a man of
energy and attractive eloquence to reiterate
truths which it was wholesome for the nation
to hear, and "in the hour of her necessity
Mr. BRIGHT was not wanting to his coun-
try." He achieved the great object of showing
the middle classes that Reform " was only desired
for the purpose of laying the whole burden of tax-
ation on the shoulders of a single class." We fear
there can be little doubt that the bold threats of
Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. GLADSTONE, that next year,
it would be for enlarged constituencies to decide
whether direct taxation should be increased or not,
had more to do with the indisposition of the House
and the constituencies to urge on the " poor little
Bill" than any other cause. The middle-class
electors were frightened.
The reviewer says that to breathe into the nos-
trils of his subsidised organ, the breath of a genuine
circulation, was a necessary condition of maintain-
ing the position of Parliamentary umpire, into which
he had dexterously struggled"—and the letter we
publish to-day certainly seems to show a very close
connection between one penny paper, its whole
staff—editors, writers, contributors, and partizans—
Mr. BRIGHT—and the Manchester school. The
writer expresses himself warmly, with all the ear-
nestness of a zealous politican, but his facts he is
in a position to give correctly, and we have not yet
seen their falsehood exposed, though the "subsidized
organ" naturally denies them. Refutation would
be more to the purpose. We have, indeed, no more
suspicion than the reviewer, ofpersonalobjects on the
part of Mr. BRIGHT, but we can as little doubt, in
assenting to his view, that he has been the great
Conservative Helper, the great Liberal marplot of
the session. We may certainly adapt to him an
old motto—nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, et—PER-
DIDIT.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess Persigny, who have been staying at Pencar-
row, Cornwall, on a visit to Lady Moleswerth, will leave
to-day on a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley, at
Townley Hall, Lancashire.

His Excellency the Swedish Minister and the
Countess Platen are staying at Pencarrow, on a visit to
Lady Molesworth.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, who ar-
rived in town a few days since from Goodwood Park, Sus-
sex, have left for Gordon Castle, near Fochabers, N.B.
to entertain a large circle of friends during the shooting
season. The duke, we are happy to learn, is enjoying im-
proved health.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left
town on Saturday, to pass a few days at Tottenham Park,
near Marlborough, Wilts.

The Earl and Countess Spencer contemplate
leaving Spencer House, St. James's, early in the ensuing
week, for Althorp Hall, Northampton.
The Earl and Countess of Harewood have been
during the past week entertaining a select family circle at
Harewood House, Yorkshire. The Hon. George and Lady
Louisa Lmcelles, Colonel Smyth, ALP., &c., have been
staying there.

The Count of Campo-Alegres has left the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for a tour through the Unitcd
States.

General le Comte Michaelvitch, accompanied by
the countess and family, has arrived at the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
Herbert return to town to-day, from Wilton House, near
Salisbury.

The Right Hon. Edward and Mrs. Horsman have
left town for the Highlands.
SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT
—The Court will sit on Thursday next for bail cases and
for motions. The Chief Commissioner will preside on the
occasion at ten o'clock instead of eleven.

Owing to the increased pressure upon the financial
resources of Turkey, consequent upon the military opera-
tions in Syria, much curiosity is felt as to the means of re-
lief to be adopted. The Turkish Ministry, it is said, desir-
ous of maintaining the good faith of the country, have made
strong representations to England on the point ; but the
granting of further assistance is out of the question, unless
it shall be preceded by a thorough and guaranteed reorga-
nisation of the fiscal administration of the empire.
THE EMPEROR'S LETTER.—The Independeince
Beige says :—"Though the Emperor's letter to Count Per-
signy, being an entirely personal communication, could not
receive a direct answer from the cabinet of L. ndon, it was
not possible to ignore it altogether, and our London corre-
spondent informs us that the difficulty has been solved by a
despatch which Lord John Russell, in his capacity as
Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressed on Thursday last to
Lord Cowley on the subject of the imperial letter. At the
same time the contents of that 1 tter have been the subject
of several conversations between Lord Palmerston and the
French ambassador at, London. Our correspondent con-
fines himself to stating that the result of this confidential
exchange of views anopinions will be favourable, but that
its effect will not be felt till after the settlement of the affairs
of Southern Italy and the accomplishment of the objects of
the French expedition in Syria."
STEAM VESSELS.—From a Parliamentary return
it appears that the total number of steam vessels registered
in the United Kingdom, on the Ist of January, 1860, was
1,863. The return contains detiiled information as to the
length, breadth, depth of hold, tonnage, and horse power
of each of these vessels, the aggregate tonnage of which is
636,513.
SUBMARINE CABLE BETWEEN FALMOUTH AND
GlBRALTAR.—According to a correspondence lately pub-
lished regarding the submarine cable which was originally
constructed to be laid between Falmouth and Gibraltar,
but is now intended to connect Rangoon and Singapore,
three-fifths of the entire outlay are to he borne by the
British Exchequer. The shipment and laying down are
alone to cost £135,500, a contract having been made with
Messrs. Glass and Co. by the Board of Trade to that effect.
The Board of Trade state that they also invited tenders
from othar parties, and it appears that responses were re-
ceived from Gibbs, Bright, and Co., Leach, Harrison, and
Co., Adam Bake and Co., and Lindsay and Co., nominally
on lower terms, but the whole of which were objectionable
according to the opinion chiefly consulted by the Board.
Looking at the heavy expenditure thus about to be in-
curred in a new experiment it would be satisfactory if the
public could have been informed that the parties respon-
sible for the mishaps of the Indian cable have had no voice
in the matter.

A crown of gold, worth 5,000 piastres, and re-
presented as of great artistic merit, has been offered to the
Spanish Duke de Tetuan (O'Donnell) by the province of
Alicant, as an acknowledgment of his political and military
services.

lIHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram
dated Naples, August 11 (evening), which asserts
that, on Thursday night, the Garibaldians at-
tempted to land at Altafiume, near Reggio, and at
Candritello,but were repulsed by the Royal troops.
Two hundred only are said to have succeeded in
landing, and were pursued into the interior.
The population of the whole kingdom is perfectly
quiet.

PARIS, AUG. 12.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes a decree fixing
the interests of the bons de tresor for five months at
lt per cent., and for one year at 2 per cent.
The Moniteur also announces that on Friday
night a fire broke out at the barracks of the Em-
peror at the camp of Chalons, near the room of the
Imperial Prince. The fire was promptly subdued,
and the Prince was not even awoke.

The Moniteur also publishes an article on the
labours of the legislative session, and states that
the trial made of the Imperial Constitution has been
favourable. The Constitution of France can bear a
comparison with the most vaunted organisations.

SALZBURG, Aim. 12.

The inauguration of the railway from Salzburg
to Munich took place to-day.
At the dinner given in honour of the event the
Emperor of Austria, in proposing the health of the
King of Bavaria, said :
" The sentiments of unity which, as neighbours,
we bear towards each other, I apply to all German
Sovereigns. I cannot but joyfully direct my
thoughts to the day on which I grasped the hands
of the Prince Regent, to strengthen the unanimity
of sentiment which brought us together."
The Emperor concluded thus :
" The health of the King of Bavaria : cheers for
the brave people of Bavaria."
" Long live the unity of the princes and peoples
of Germany."
The King of Bavaria, in acknowledging the
toast, said—

"I hail with joy and full of hope the late friendly
meeting of the rulers of Austria and Prussia. That
meeting is a guarantee for German unity, for
therein lies our power and strength.
" The health of the Emperor of Austria ! Cheers
for Austria's true and valiant sons ! Cheers for the
unity of the two German great Powers ! "

TURIN, AUG. 12.

The subscription to the New Loan is closed
Three times the amount required has been sub,
scribed.
Signor i\lanna has left for Paris.

NAPLES (via Marseilles), AUG. 7.

Garibaldi is said to have been in Naples on
Saturday last, and to have conferred with the prin-
cipal inhabitants. He left again on Sunday. It was
decided to await the assembling of Parliament, the
elections to which will take place on the 19th inst.
Refugees are the candidates preferred by the elec-
tors. They openly declare themselves for the
annexation of Naples to Piedmont. One electoral
district has elected General Cosenz as its represen-
tative.

The Sardinian Admiral has arrived in his ship
from Palermo, and has been visited by the Count
of Syracuse, who pronounced himself favourable to
annexation. Notwithstanding the severities of the
King and Count d'Aquila, numbers of naval officers
have refused to fight against Garibaldi.

ROME, AUG. 7.

Tranquillity reigns in the city. The municipality
of Rome, fearing a dearth, has demanded the pro.
hibition of the exportation of corn.