The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-13 00:00:00

(From the London Review, July 14.)
In private life there is scarcely to be found a more
objectionable and mischievous character than the
amiable man of good intentions, who loves his own
ease better than high principle, who desires in all PRIVATE BUSINESS.
emergencies to "make things pleasant," and who is
The Scottish Drainage and Improvement Company,
cursed with the inability to say " No." His moral
Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, Laud Loan and Im-
cowardice continually leads him into difficulties,
provement Company, and Hayling's Railway bills were
from which he can escape only by pecuniary or perso.
read a third time and passed.
nal sacrifice. He adjourns the unpleasantness which
he cannot hope to avoid. He encourages aggression TIIE BIBLE IN INDIA.
by his weakness, and in his weakness he succumbs to The Duke of MARLBOROUGH presented petitions in
it. His children become undutiful, his servants favour of the use of the Bible in India.
ungrateful, and his friends, even if they MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND.
affect to love him, despise him in their The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that he would
beat ts. He is the prey of beggars and swindlers, to• morrow lay on the table a bill to amend the law of mar-
and of all the sharp-sighted knaves who learn riage in Scotland.
that to threaten is to subdue him. By dint of CHURCH PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION.
being continually pleasant to everybody, he ends
by making an atmosphere of unpleasantness all Lord RAVENSWORTH gave notice that to-morrowr
in the absence of the Archbishop of York, he would move
around him. He dies without securing that peace for the committal of this bill.
and ease which were the objects of his life, and is STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.
dismissed into oblivion, condoned but despised, The Earl of DERBY gave notice that on this day week
with the contemptuous epitaph, that he was "no he should call the attention of their lordships to the state of
one's enemy but his own." public business. His remarks would not be of a party
It will be a bad day for England if our states- -
character, neither should he at tempt to cast any blame on
man shin shall permanently assume a character such her Majesty's Government, but he should confine himself
as this, and if our leading public men shall become entirely to the conduct of the business in their lordships'
the political cowards which some of them are. Of house.
14te years there has been too decided a tendency to DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN BOOTY.
this unworthy good nature—too strong a desire to The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH sail he had given
"make things pleasant," and to forget, despise, or
notice previously of his intention to put a question relat-
adjourn the consideration of those high and en-
ing to the booty captured by the forces in India. He
nobling principles of conduct which have made us
wanted to know the reason why . the booty
a great and powerful nation, especially when their
captured by Sir G. Whilock's forces in Bundlecund had
assertion threatened to hasten the easy jog-trot of
not yet been distributed among the captors. The
political hacks, and to cost much exertion to men
delay in distributing prize money was calculated
in office, or much money to the State.
to produce much dissatisfaction in the army. The
To tide over the evil day appears to be the highest
property was captured in 1858, and he was unaware
object of such men. To conciliate opposition suits
them better than to conquer or overbear it, espe- of any order, in council, if such existed, for its
distribution. The soldier who had risked his
cially if the conquest be attended with any personal
life in the services of the country and to
sacrifice; and to yield all demands, however de-
grading, which it is inconvenient to resist with no secure booty of this kind, deserved to have it with the
other than a barren remonstrance against the least possible delay, either to send to his family or enjoy at
wrong, is the highest effort of virtue which they once. He believed the booty in this case was £130,000 in
appear to be capable of. It was in this way that bullion, £300,000 in jewels, and £900,000 in money. This
our statesmen made default, when the late Czar ought to have been distributed long ago, and he should
Nicholas threatened to march his armies across like to know the cause of its not being so.
the Pruth for the conquest and humiliation of The Duke of ARGYLL said the reason of the delay was
Turkey. A bold message from the Prime Mini- that no report had yet been received from the Government
ster of Great Britain, at the very commencement of India on the subject, and the Government could not
of those difficulties, notifying that such a step would Proceed without it.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said the answer
have been a declaration of war against this coup-
of the noble duke made the matter worse rather
try, would infallibly have prevented all the horrors,
than improved it. The Government had had in
bloodshed, and bootless glory of the Crimean cam-
its possession £1,139,000 since the 3d of June, and steps
paign. But our responsible statesmen were timid,
ought to have been taken to dispose of it long ago.
and allowed the critical moment to pass by. The
consequence was one of the most useless and un- Lord MONTEAGLE coxdemned the delay in distribut-
observing
satisfactory wars recorded in modern history—a in funds in the possession of the Government,
that on frequent occasions he had had to call the attention
war in which we neither saved Turkey, nor seri-
of their lordships to the subject. The Government here,
ously checked Russia—a war in which our ally
notwithstanding the neglect of the Government of India,
gained all the credit, and we all the hard blows,
and which was brought to a termination against could not have failed to know that it was in possession of a
our will, at a moment when our blood had just large sum of money, with which it had to do something.
been sufficiently roused to enable us to do some- The Duke of ARGYLL, in explanation, said he did not
thing effectual for the future peace of the world. impute any neglect to the Governor of India. It was
A curt and decisive negative to the demand impossible that he could know what were the difficulties
of the Emperor of the French, when he with which this subject was surrounded. 'Whatever was
called upon the Ministers of Great Britain to alter the cause of the delay in India, the captors might rely
the criminal jurisprudence of their country in the upon the Home Government proceeding with its distribu-
matter of the trials consequent upon the wicked tion at the earliest possible moment.
attempt of Orsini on the Emperor's life, would have SAVOY AND NICE.
saved the Palmerston administration of 1858 from The Marquis of NORMAN BY said the noble marquis
an ignominious defeat, and raised not only the opposite had a very important notice on the paper
moral status of British statesmanship, but the for that evening- - viz., to call the attention of
prestige of the country throughout the world. But the house to the correspondence relating to
Savoy
such answer was not given, and the Anglo-French and Nice lately communicated to Parliament by
alliance has ever since exhibited symptoms of cool- command of her Majesty. He thought it would be im-
ness and dilapidation ; not so much from the fact possible to discuss the matter properly that even-
that the ruler of the French was uareasonable, but
in
from the worse fact that the responsible chief of the and he therefore hoped he would postpone
proceeding with it for a short time.
British Ministry was much too good-natured to The Marquis of CLA.NRICARDE said his desire was to
say "No ;" and far too anxious to " make things have the subject considered very dispassionately, and if it
pleasant " to a powerful neighbour, to perform a was thought inconvenient to prscecd with the question he
disagreeable duty. should not object to postpone it for a few days. He would,
The same sort of amiable but mischievous weakness therefore, not bring forward the question until Monday
is to be seen in the conflict of powers that has un-
next. :.,
fortimately broken out between the Lords and THE JEWS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Commons on the vital subject of taxation. As Upon the order of the day being read for the committal
usual, our excellent Prime Minister desires to of h
make things comfortable. The House of Lords is tis bill,LordL y
LYNDHURST said that when the bill first came
told that it has done wrong in attempting to re-
up from th e other House of Parliament it was not his in-
impose the excise duties upon paper, after the tendon tohave taken charge of it. The amendment which
House of Commons has determined to abolish them. he was about to propose having been inserted, he had con-
It is softly admonished not to interfere with the rented to take charge of the bill. Of course their lordships'
power of the purse; and politely informed that its intention had been that a resolution of the House of Com-
breach of privilege, and usurpation of an authority
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not belonging to it by the recognized practice of theshould have the force of a standing order; but the
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Speaker was of opinion, on the contrary, that it must be
Constitution, is to be endured for this time only,
renewed every session, as a resolution founded on an act of
and must not be repeated,—otherwise the house of
Parliament could not be controverted into a standing order.
Commons will have the unpleasant duty of remon-
The object of this bill was to avoid the inconvenience of
strating again—perhaps a little more sharply than
renewing the act every session. He would, with their lord-
before, but certainly not to the inconvenient extent
a an open quarrel and a counter course of action. ships' permission, read the bill, which consisted of only four
or five lines. as it would steed with the „
amendment in.
There could be no ranker political poltroonery on
bested. It was to the effect that, "Whenever the Tr,,..,,r
the part of the House of Commons than this. Such
Commons shall order than any resolution framed pursuant
a tampering with a sacred principle, though it may
to said act shall have the force of a standing order, any
give the Administration a lease of office until
member professing the Jewish religion may thenceforth be
February, 1861, must of necessity create new and
sworn in pursuance of the standing order, so long as the
greater difficulties—either for this Administration
or its successors—and will indubitably foment a same shall continue in force." The effect of the bill was,
therefore, nothing more than to enable the House of Cora-
great and very serious quarrel, out of what might
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both be stultified, unless means be found to give
practical effect to the resolutions carried by the aid
THE NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL.
of the too-willing Opposition on Friday last. To
This bill was committed pro forma, to be recommitted on
collect, on the authority of the House of Lords, a
Monday next.
tax abolished by the House of Commons, whether
the tax be abolished by a great or a small majority,
or be in itself considerable or inconsiderable in
amount, is a beginning of strife for which no man
can foretell the close. Better to stop such an evil
at its outlet, when it is but a little stream, than
allow it to swell into a flood. Most people admit
the question of the abstract right of the House of
Lords to refuse its consent to the repeal of the
paper duty, or any other tax ; but, after the exer-
cise of that right, the functions of the House of
Commons again come into operation, to assert the
prior and paramount right of the popular branch
of the Legislature, and to reaffirm its first deter-
mination. There are many abstract and theoreti-
cal rights which wisdom and common sense will
not exercise. It is a man's right, if it so please
him, to cut off his nose ; but none, except fools or
maniacs, would exercise such a power. It is the theo-
retical right of the sovereign of these realms to reject
measures passed by the Lords and Commons, and to
make successive appeals to the country to elect a
Parliament subservient enough to give effect to the
Royal will; but what king or queen would be
insane enough to stake the tranquillity of the coun-
try and the popularity of the monarchy on such an
un workable principle .?
lied this country unhappily,
such a sovereign to rule over it, a civil war, and
perhaps the destruction of the monarchy, would be
the result if the chief of the State unluckily hap-
pened to be as obstinate as he was unwise.
In the present state of Europe, we should deprecate
and deplore any dislocation of the British Ministry
that might tempt the despotic Powers of
the continent to combine for the extinction of
the nascent liberties of Italy, or for the mutual
aggrandisement of the confederates. For this
reason, among many others equally cogent, but
not perhaps so pressing, it is to be hoped that Lord
Palmerston, and the colleagues who agree with
him as to the inexpediency of resisting the House
of Lords, by acts as well as by words, will recon-
sider their determination, and exhibit the moral
and political courage which the occasion demands.
Mr. Gladstone and Lord John Russell owe it to
their own honour and reputation, and to their
chance of future usefulness to the country, either
to convert Lord Palmerston to their bolder and
sounder views, or to leave the Administration.
Courage is the best peacemaker, and if a majority
of the House of Commons do not see their duty to
resist the encroachment at the present time, the
day will assuredly come when they will either have
to fight a still fiercer battle, or resign their place
as the governing power of the nation.

INDEMNITY BILL.
This bill was read a third time.
LOCAL TAXATION RETURNS BILL.
After an observation from Lord DUCIE this bill was read
a second time.

RAILWAY CHEAP TRAINS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
AUGMENTATION OF SMALL BENEFICES
(IRELAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
THE ANSTRUTHER UNION HARBOUR BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
THE UNIVERSITIES .AND COLLEGE ESTATES

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, July 13.—Wind this day at noon—North;
fight breeze, and very fine weather.

PLYMOUTH, July 12.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Hawke. Sailed—Chinoto, screw steamer,
for Syria.

SOUTHAMPTON, July 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—
Shannon, steamer, from the West Indies. Sailed—Mas-
silia, steamer, for Alexandria.
Liv EnrooL, July 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—City
of Washington, screw steamer, from New York.
CARDIFF, July 12.—Wind NE.—Sailed—Homeward
Bound for Callao.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.

Wind N.B.
Arrived, July 12—Tenora, steamer, from London.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning,
Wind calm ; tide, first hours' ebb ; weather very light
Arrived, July 13—Rosa, from Dunkirk.
DEAL, Friday Morning,

Wind N.N.E.
Arrived—Frisko, from Bremen for NOW York.

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/FRANCE AND NAPLES._The Government has
to " denationalise" the two French vessels lately
France
for Garibaldi. The obvious conclusion is that
reforms cei,neans to support the Neapolitan Government in the
piedrooilt'tnd concessions it offers to its people, and to. force
Naples. to accept, as sincere and real, the declarations of