The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-25 00:00:00

TWO CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS.

" Consolation presentations " are lugubrious affairs
enough, and the Tory papers are glad to be able to
relieve them occasionally with accounts of "triumphant
celebrations." To their manifest delight two such
meetings have very recently taken place. Lord
George Hamilton has just returned thanks for his
election for Middlesex ; Mr. Stewart Hardy,
the son of the late Home Secretary, has made
speeches to his supporters at Rye. Lord George seems
to have been rather surprised at his election, and he
puts it forward as a precedent for contesting even
the most hopeless seats. That principle, however,
can be carried out on both sides, and will doubtless
prove as efficacious in one case as the other. Both
his lordship and the member for Rye thought some-
thing might be made from a Conservative point of
view out of the discordant elements of which Mr.
Gladstone's majority is composed. They were
gentlemen, said Lord Hamilton, of every religion
and no religion ; of moderation and extremes—Mr
Bright and Mr. Lowe.
Mr. Hardy addressed a "series " of dinner meet-
ings, and replied to his health at each. One point in
his addresses should be noticed. He attacked very
strongly the economical policy of the Government.
" They begin,.' said he, " by diminishing our dock-
yards, by turning hundreds and thousands of indus-
trious workmen out of employment in the winter
months, thereby increasing the rates and taxation of
the country. They propose to do all this to save,
perhaps, a penny income tax, or something of that
sort. I cannot approve of such a rough-and-ready
economy as this, so hard-hearted and so cruel to
those who have no other means than their labour of
gaining a living. I think some other means might
be found, and I would prefer payine, an additional
income tax rather than that thousands' of my fellow=
countrymen should be left without work in our large
dockyards."

EARL RUSSELL AND DR. SANDWITH.
A correspondence has taken place between Lord
Russell and Dr. Sandwith on the subject of a letter I
witten by the latter gentleman in the Star. n
this Dr. Sandwith declared that " we acted, if reports
be true, a very scandalous part in aiding the Turks
against the Montenegrins in 1863." Further
on he said that "Earl Russell had employed British
men-of-war to cruise in the Adriatic with orders
to seek any Garibaldian sympathisers who might
cross," &e. The noble earl declares that he has
made inquiries at the Foreign Office, and has found
that no orders were given on the subject referred to
in 1863, but that in 1862 he heard it reported that a
Garibaldian expedition was likely to invade the
territories of Turiey, Austria, or ureeee. ne 6fiesre-
fore caused instructions to be given that the Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean should send
any information of this kind to the authorities cf
Lose countries which were in peril from the attack.
Latta- on in the same ye:ir he expressed an opinion
that if any of her Majesty's crulscrs should fall in
with Garibaldi's squadron information should be
communicated to the British authorities according to
the direction in which that squadron was steering. To
this Dr. Sandwith replies that he disclaims the
slightest. intention .of being personal in his attack,
but that he adheres to his opinion, which every Eng-
lishman has a right to publish, that" we" as a nation
hale acted in a " scandalously" partial manner in
bet& of the Turks, _ • _22s, -