The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

WHO LOST BARS ?

Who was it lost Kars? Can any one tell ?
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe ?—Lord Clarendon ?

well,
It might have been either—l'm not very sure ;
Perhaps it was Omer Pasha--or Panmure.
Who was it lost Kars ? Who was it—who, who ?
The Turks or the English ? Or, can it be true,
All lost it on purpose, that some one might find
A fitting occasion for Peace to his mind.
Who was it lost Kars ? Oh, Whiteside, do, do !
Insist on your motion, so that if not who
Did lose it we know, yet the loss of its fall
Shall fall on some traitors, if not on them all.

THE LAY OF SOUTHAMPTON PIER.

So weary—so weary ; and who, then, are ye,
With hunger-sharp faces, that stand by the sea ?
.8-11c1 whence have ye journey'd ? —and what seek yo here
So many—so many, ou Southampton's pier.
" Oh ! we are those passing through strange tribulation,
h o fatuous, the great ones of this mighty nation,
For steamers relied on that fail to appear,
Who wait, sad and weary, on Southampton's pier."
What ! Earl and Marquis, " my Lorl," and " your Grace,"
Like merest of nobodies, stuck in this place !
And You, Britain's chosen —four hundred M.P.'s—
't wore Balaklava, in mud to the knees.
ooLl heavens! why, 'tis over with everything—Queen,
Church, Army, and Navy, as they ne'er had been ;
All things of the past, empty visions—a myth,
With nothing more in them than in Ire non Smith.
The Peers and the Commons to lose the Review !
tremble, I shudder—it cannot be tr o.
The Queen gone without you—the groat fig.t.t fought out
And You not to see it !—oh, horrible !—shout,
Cry, groan, hiss and bellow—debate for a week.
hP, my Lord Ravensworth—speak, Stafford speak
~,ave at them—no quarter—show up the whole, crew
ow in all things a failure—in sham Wa", or true
Alike, feeble, helpless—from first to the last,
The Flag of Confusion nailed up to their mast.
ofr, of with the remnant !—no more of that set !
Their War ye might pardon, their Peace may forget;
Spent millions forgive them ; but, if ye aro men,
Romemb'ring Southampton, be merciless then I
Edinburgh, 28th April

J. W. P.

UNIVERSAL 'SUFFRAGE IN FRANCE.

"Anlo-Norman," in writing to the Morning Advertiser,
"Ys :—" The accomp!ished Jesuit, M. de Montalembert,
has been much praised for condemning the judgment of
the Court of Caseation, which has decided, in accordance
to the will of Louis Napoleon, that citizens are not to be
allowed to distribute voting cards for any except Govern-
ment candidates. There may be very little use in having
the right of universal suffrage acknowledged if people are
not allowed to exercise it ; bnt the difference between M.
de Montalombert and Louis Napoleon is merely this :
Louis Napoleon, while pretending to concede universal
suffrage as a principle. withholds it in practice ; while M.
do Montalembert would neither allow it in principle nor
practice. He therefore, in fact, agrees with Louis Na-
poleon where ho pretends most to condemn him. Like M.
de Montalembert, oar oligarchy at home--both Whig and
Tory—when out of office, are very prone to condemn others
for not doing those things which they themselves would be
the last to carry into practice, had they place and power."