The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1860.

The news from Italy are varied, though still
reassuring. The game has hitherto been played
with a bold hand and a fixed purpose. Singleness
of heart and a holy aspiration for freedom seem to
influence the national mind. There is no precedent
for greatness—lT makes itself—and GARIBALDI
stands out illustriously in his magnificent majesty
of action. He thinks only of his country, and works
for her deliverance like a man inspired beyond all
others. He has devoted his life and his fortunes to
his country. Her freedom is the aspiration of his
heart and her independence the burning glory of
his soul. He has already achieved wonders in the
eyes of men and will work miracles before he has
done. Glory and bright success attend his hal-
lowed efforts ! His very name has acquired a magic
charm that sways the hearts of men with
a spontaneous enthusiasm. Wherever he
goes they follow with a willing devotedness
which they can neither resist nor withstand.
And why is this ? Simply because they all feel
and believe that his heart and exertions are de-
voted to their cause, and the redemption of their
fatherland from the long endurance of slavery.
And what does he promise to himself as the reward
of his devotedness ? Simply the glory of doing
good.

We hope to be able by Monday to inform our
readers that the die of BOURBON dynasty is cast.
Already we learn that GARIBALDI has gone
on a mission and left the command of Sicily
to the custody of General SIRTORI. This was on the
10th, or perhaps the 11th, for on Sunday, the 12th,
an Order of the Day was issued to the army and
navy announcing the fact. We have no doubt
that the daring Dictator has crossed the Straits
of Messina at the head of his adventurous fol-
lowers, and seized not only Reggio but other com-
manding positions in the Calabrias. When his
advent once becomes known the whirl-
wind is but as a type of the wonder-
working enthusiasm that will inspire the ex-
pectants and pervade the mass of the people. As
we said the other day the very ardour of his ex-
pected coming will rouse the people to a state of
impatient frenzy, and so act that the whole na-
tion will be up and doing for their own deliver-
ance from a thraldom so unspeakeable as only to
be felt in its dire enormity.

That the success of GARIBALDI is considered
certain may be inferred from the uneasiness of
beholding nationalities. France is wavering, and
Austria trembles even in her bravado. She will
and she won't, and while she hesitates the game
of mercy to millions will be played out by GARI-
BALDI to the amazement and delight of a wonder-
blessing world. Then will come the critical point
of action. Be moderate, but be firm, say we to
GARIBALDI, and who shall act against the Libera-
tor of Italy? If Louis NAPOLEON stir, Austria
will move, and a conflagration will ensue, the con-
sequences of which no one can forsee. Let Eng-
land be prepared for the battle, and Italian inde-
pendence will be permanently secured.

The appointment of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY
as Postmaster-General cannot fail, we are satisfied,
to give universal satisfaction. Among all our
Whig Administrators there is not one who enjoys
a more amiable, a more unsullied, or (we will go
so far as to say) a more enviable reputation. As
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department,
as Secretary of the Treasury, as Paymaster-
General of the Forces, as Under-Secrotary of State
for Foreign Affairs, as President, and previously
as Vice-President, of the Board of Trade, the
noble lord has evidenced his ability in the
conduct of public affairs in various depart-
ments both prior to and subsequently to
his elevation to the House of Lords during his
father's life time as Baron EDDISBURY. His lord-
ship's present appointment is, if not the most re-
sponsible certainly not the least intrusting or the
least opportune he has ever received as one of the
Dii Majores of her Majesty's Government.
Scarcely one of the departments of the public
service admits at this present moment, more freely
or more obviously, of improvement. The abuses of
the Post-office are many of them flagrant—a few of
them have latterly been gaining an unenvia-
ble notoriety: A bold hand is urgently re-
quired in St. Martin's-le-Grand to effect
there hardly so much a series of re-
solute innovations, as a complete and compre-
hensive reorganisation. What has probably re-
tarded the commencement of any well-considered
attempt, even at this long-required revision and
rehabilitation of the Post-office System, has been
the frequent Ministerial changes of late years, the
rapid sequence of Administration upon Administra-
tion. A cursory retrospect of the most recent of
these Ministerial changes, so far as they relate to
the conduct of affairs at the General Post-office, in
St. Martin's-le-Grand, will be amply sufficient
to convince any one of their detrimental cha-
racter—and to demonstrate clearly at a glance
the fatal influence of their frequency
upon this particular department. Reverting to the
close of the last PALMERSTON Administration—don't
we all of us very well recollect that it was the
nomination of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
to the then vacant office of Postmaster-General
that may be said to have put the last straw
upon the camel's back of public endur-
ance, and to have dropped the last drop
into the brimming cup of popular indignation.
Scarcely was Lord CLANRICARDE'S appointment
gazetted, when down came with a sudden
crash the whole stately fabric of the boasted
strong Government. The Government that
immediately succeeded to office, the late
—the second—but who shall venture to say the
last Ib—DERBY Administration, installed at the head
of the complex machinery of the Post Office a noble
earl whose repute had been that previously of a
gallant tar rather than of a skilled chief of one of
the great Civil Service Departments of her MA-
JESTY'S Government. It cannot be deemed invi-
dious, even by the noble lord himself, or by the
noble lord's staunchest personal friends and ad-

mirers, ifwe remark that among all the late Premier's
Ministerial nominations, perhaps the nomination

of the Earl of HARDWICKE to the office of Post-

master• General was—to put it in the mildest
terms possible—about the least well considered.
It was certainly not the right man in the right

place. It was the round man in the square hole,
or vice versa. Lord HARDWICKE would have felt

more at ease, more in his element—we may be
quite sure of this—at the Admiralty than at St.
Martin's-le-Grand. However, at the Admiralty
there was installed (happily for our defences)—if
we must needs have a civilian there—one of
the most energetic and patriotic First Lords Eng-
land has had for a long while, in the person of the
Right Hon. Sir JOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON.
And so—the sailor Earl of HARDWICKE went as
a stop-gap to St. Martin's-le-Grand as Postmaster-
' General. As though some fatality weighed over
this department—no sooner had Lord DERBY
and his colleagues been ousted from office,
and the formation of another and a stronger
Coalition Government than formerly again en-
trusted to Viscount PALMERSTON, than the new
Premier (to all appearance quite wantonly) threw
away one of his chief trump-cards—put unques-
tionably the Right Man in indisputably the
Wrong Place—by appointing Lord ELGIN (of all
men !) to (of all offices !) the office of Postmaster-
General. It was like nominating a recently
returned and triumphant Generalissimo to the
conduct of the Commissariat ! The third Chinese
war broke out, as if for the express
purpose of demonstrating the absurdity of this
appointment almost upon the very morrow of Lord
ELGIN'S installation over the letter-bags in St.
Martin's-le-Grand. The noble earl had to drop
the winged wand of office as Eugland's Mercury,
when :the petasus of the Post-office was scarcely
yet warmed in his grasp and to return
with all possible dispatch to the scene of his
late diplomatic achievements at the north of
China as her MAJESTY'S Envoy Extra-
ordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
EMPEROR of the Celestial, and that great Asiatic
, Potentate's Government. His lordship's vacated,
or at least partially vacated office—for the Earl of
ELGIN was constrained to " drag a lengthening
chain" after him as far as the Isthmus of Suez as the
still-unresigned Postmaster-General !—was en-
trusted,: until it could be seen whether this
third Chinese war must prove really in-
evitable, and the consequent abandonment of
the Post-office by Lord ELGIN to be abso-
lutely unavoidable this half-vLicated place
in the Cabinet, we say, was entrusted pro tem. to
his Grace the Duke of ARGYLL—already there, in
the Cabinet, in the purely ornamental office as Lord
Privy Seal. Now, it must be acknowledged, in re-
gard to the Duke of ARGYLL, that his grace was
the very last Postmaster-General who had won for
himself anything like distinction in that office by
his conduct of affairs at St. Martin's-le-Grand.
The Duke of ARGYLL had been the immediate
predecessor there of the Marquis of CLANRI-
CARDE. It was during the regime of the
Duke of ARGYLL that the metropolitan
daily " deliveries" were so remarkably mul-
tiplied—that the London districts were so ingeni-
ously mapped out •alphab.etically. But now—no
sooner had his Grace generously undertaken to
keep the Earl of ELGIN'S Ministerial post
open for him until such time as it should
prove inevitable that Lord ELGIN must
really in spite of himself resign it alto-
gether for the purpose of proceeding further
eastwards to his Chinese destination—no sooner
had the Duke of ARGYLL consented to be pro tem.
Postmaster-General as well as Lord Privy Seal,
than his Grace was taken in—/Pith the measles.
The fatality seemingly born:of Lord CLANRICARDE'S
appointment appeared to be pursuing relent-
lessly that unfortunate office of the Postmaster-
generalship. The evil spell is at length,
however, definitively broken. We may rest
perfectly well assured by the admirable and
judicious nomination to the vacant post at St.
Martin's-le-Grand of one of the most able, and po-
pular, and respected among all our many able, and
popular, and respected Whig administrators—Lord
STANLEY of ALDERLEY. We are satisfied, in fact,
that this nomination of Lord STANLEY of ALDER-
LEY as Postmaster-General will be recognised by
all parties as one of the most auspicious and judi-
cious—as Lord CLANRICARDE'S nomination to the
same office by the same Premier three years since
was the most inauspicious and injudicious—of all
Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministerial appointments.

Glancing the other day at the " Marriages" in.
one of the papers, we saw, to our surprise, the
names of a gentleman—an old acquaintance—and of
a lady, whose father we also know well, and both
of whom. live ordinarily far away in the country,
as having been married in a church in London.
We well knew that the lady was the sister of the
deceased wife of the gentleman.
_A pretty exem-
plification, we immediately thought, of the working
of Bishop BLOMFIELD'S interpolating his "not"
into Lord LYNDIIURST'S Act. A stronger case
could hardly be conceived for the desirableness of
the marriage in question. The widower had been
left with six children, all as young as the course of
nature permitted, who needed a foster-mother; he
was, therefore, so situated that, sending his
young family from home or marrying again was
almost his only respectable alternative ; and
whither should the heart of such a bereaved parent,
looking daily on his helpless babes, tarn, but to one
whom he had seen often during his wife's lifetime
caressing the children with a fondness hardly less.
than that of the mother ? How naturally the heart
of woman would respond to such an appeal we need
not suggest. All was natural, desirable, and good,
for all parties concerned, from beginning to end ;
and was Bishop BLOMFIELD'S " not" to stand in
the way ? Religion and human nature equally said
no. .

With a practical people, such as we are, one un-
varnished fact often weighs more than columns of
acute argument. And rightly so too. Logic and
criticism may blunder; facts cannot mislead us.
We have given, therefore, the simple particulars
of one case, as far as propriety permits, for
which we pledge our word. We may also add,
that the gentleman is a man of high character. We
may, on such a subject, be further permitted to say,
he is one whom all his neighbours would designate
as a sincerely religious man ; while the father of
the bride is a gentleman also of large property,
landed and otherwise. Two more perfectly unex-
ceptionable specimens of England's best middle
class we do not know. Now, are we not entitled to
ask those who wish to impose their faith in the
canons on others to consider fairly, and in a states-
manlike spirit, such an illustration of the working
of their law as this ? It is not an exceptional
case, but the common one. Can it, apart from
critical discussions (which we yet believe to be
wholly in favour of our view)—can it be right to
maintain a law which flies so completely in the
face of. the best and purest feelings both of men
and women of unquestionable character that they
will disobey it. We believe the instances in which
the law is violated must be very numerous. We
have not better means than others of becoming
acquainted with them ; and•yet, besides the case
we have mentioned, two others have come under
our notice within about a year. Both of them, also,
were of the best character, though at pretty nearly
the extremes of middle class life. One was
that of a gentleman who was an artist—a deacon,
and active member of a Dissenting church; he, as
in the case just referred to, defied the law at home.
The othei was a country magistrate, a gentleman of

arge landed property, and almost, of course, a pretty
decided, if not High, Churchman. He went abroad
to marry ; which, as the decisions now stand, was
of course, legally, a futile expedient. In his case
we know that the subject long caused him great
pain of mind; but at last his conviction of the
claims of his children being far above those of an
artificial and unreasonable human law, decided
both him and the lady to brave all consequences.
We feel, no doubt, that contempt for, and viola-
tion of, law—on a subject on which all parties, who
are ever placed in a position to feel its pressure,
perceive at once that no man has a right to fetter
another,—is rapidly increasing. It must increase.
The example of all the three parties we have ad-
verted to would be stronger than any law in their
respective neighbourhoods: They are known there
to be gentlemen who would all, naturally, pay the
utmost deference to law—gentlemen who viould not
fill up their Income-tax returns in their own favour
or do a shabby action, for the world; and gentle-
men, we need not say, whose word is, at all times,
sufficient. Yet these gentlemen all evade the law.
The most wealthy of the three visits the continent
in contempt of the recent decision. The other two
prefer to make an equivocal declaration, and to re-
main at home. Detection by clergymen and regis-
trars is, of course, from the diversity of names, and
from distance, impracticable. Punishment is out
of the question. We almost wish it were not, for
it would, we believe, be the death of the law. All
must be left to the conscience of the individuals ;
and their conscience tells them that they are not
bound to disobey the dictates of nature, and
their own convictions of duty too, because
the legitimacy of the Duke of BEAU-
FORT could be purchased from a pragma-
tical Bishop, only by prohibiting, in future, all
such marriages as that from which the Duke him-
self sprung. This, indeed, were to purchase immu-
nity for a single aristocrat at the cost of the whole
community. It is a striking feature in all these
cases that the parties do not choose to associate toge-
ther without, so far as in them lies, binding them-
selves by the forms which they and their friends
regard as the line between licentiousness and
honourable marriage. This itself is plain evidence
of the real character of all concerned.

We have adverted to these facts because, hardly
had the first we mentioned occurred, when we
found in our Parliamentary report the astound-
ing statement of petitions for repeal of the episcopal
—" not "—from more than one hundred corpora-
tions ! Lord CLARENDON, at this period of the
session, declined to make a speech on the subject ;
perhaps no speech was needed. And yet our aged
Lord Chancellor could unaccountably assert that
the feeling against the law was not extending ! He
must excuse our asking what evidence would con-
vince an aged and Scotch lord that one of hie pet
notions must be given up 1' That he mast allow
other persons to have their notions too ; especially
on a purely practical and personal question—and
one, too, on which the course of action adopted by
individuals could not injure others. Can a fairer
representation of our middle classes be found than
that supplied by our corporations ? As the rule,
they must consist of all the well-to-do, the staid,
the non-theoretical part of the community; and no
one will deny that they would be a favourable re-
presentation of its morality. The petitions have
been obtained without excitement ; by fair repre-
sentations only; since we had not even heard of
what was doing. To small bodies of respectable
persons this was the most appropriate mode of ap-
peal. To us it appears that after the numerous
proofs Parliament has had of the objection to the
prohibition in question, the corporation petitions
ought to decide, All the Protestant Dissenting
bodies object to having the church canon fastened
on them by episcopal legislation. The House of
Commoirs has repeatedly voted against it. Numer-
ous petitions have been presented against, and very
few, and those chiefly clerical, on the other side—
will the House Of Lords refuse longer to listen to
reason, and to public opinion ? Let it be remem-
bered demand is—not to compel any one
to do what
w thathathe
objectionable to himself ; but, that
t is
others shall not be coerced to conform to their
neighbour's scruples.

e have much pleasure in announcing that
ntary
Lord Stanley of Alderley will succeed Lord Elgin as Post-
master-General. lord Stanley has had long and varied
official
experience, and is an excellent
man of
andbu p
business.
inaeram
slsi
. We trust that in his hands the Post-
office will redeem its character, and that the scandals which
have so long disgraced its administration will cease.
The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, has left Trentham
on a visit to Lord and Lady Blantyre at Erskine House,
N.B. At the close of their visit the noble duke will em-
bark on board his Yacht at Glasgow, and sail to Loch Inver
whence his grace will proceed to Dunrobin Castle, Sather-
landshire.
The Countess of Verulam leaves town to-day for
Gormanbury-park, nuts.
Lord Hubert de Burgh, Secretary of Legation at
Turin, has arrived at the Marquis of Clanricarde's residence
in Carlton-house-terrace, from Italy, on leave of absence.
Lady Emily liesketh and Miss Hesketh have
left Torquay for Gwrych Castle, Denbighshfre.
Sir Cornwallis and Lady Caroline Ricketts have
left Grosvenor-place for Pencarrow, Cornwall, the seat of
Lady Molesworth.
The Right Hon, B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor,
Bucks.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert will leave town
on Tuesday next for Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Wyndham have left the
St. George's Hotel for Innellan, Argyllshire.
We hear that Major-General Lockyer is likely to
be succeeded in the Ceylon command by Col. O'Brien, now
Assistant-Quartermaster-General at the Horse Guards.
Col. O'Brien, although never engaged actively in the field,
has rendered useful service in almost every part of the globe.
lie is a capital linguist, and an efficient administrator, and
a popular off-leen—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.—The Count and
Countess de Persigny, who have been visiting in Pencar-
row, in Cornwall, the seat of Lady Molesworth, arrived on
Thursday morning at the South Devon Railway Station,
Plymouth. The French Ambassador and Ambassadress
were also accompanied by Lady Molesworth, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Sligo, the Marchioness of Aylesbury,
the Marquis of Bristol, Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Colonel
Ai/Ty' &c., and were received on the platform by Lord
Churston, who took them to a house in the Esplanade,
Plymouth Hoe, prepared by his Lordship for his noble
visitors. Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, Acting Port-
Admiral, placed his yacht at the command of the Count,
who, with his friends, proceeded first to the grounds of
Mount Edgecutnbe, and then returned to the Hoe to wit-
ness the contest for the prizes at the regatta.
Mr. E. T. Smith, the indefatigable lessee and
manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, ever on the alert to give
encouragement and patronage to native talent, has engaged
a new tenor in the person of Mr. William Parkinson, the
young gentleman who took the town by storm during the
late opera season at the Surrey Theatre. It is said Mr. E.
T. Smith has sent, or contemplates sending, Mr. Parkinson
to Italy to finish his musical education, and to receive that
careful instruction which will soon qualify him to break a
lance with Mr. Sims Reeves.—Court Circular.
We understand that the marriage of M.
Wieniawski, solo violinist to the Emperor of Russia, with
Miss Hampton, niece of the popular composer and pianist,
George Osborne, has just taken place. The event was
celebrated at Pierrefitte, near Paris, where Mr. Stevens
,avo a handsome dejeuner in honour of the occasion, fol-
lowed by a concert. Madame Catherine Hayes sang " Qui
la voce.' The worthy host sang a morceau, which Rossini
did him the distinguished honour of composing expressly
for him. Mr. Osborne and Mr. Oury also lent their aid to
the gratification of the company, which comprised a whole
host of celebrities in music, literature, and art. M. Rossini
was present.—Court Circular.

MORE DRAMATIC ALMSTIOUSES.—We hear Mr.
Dodd is still determined to present his promised land near
Windsor to the theatrical profession, and proceedings are
in progress to carry out his intentions. int ependent of a
free gift of the ground, he will gener,usly endow the build-
ings with a sum of £B,ooo.—Era.
We are requested to contradict the statement
that Dr. Vaughan has been appointed to the Chancellor-
ship of York Cathedral.

The Agincourt has arrived from Melbourne with
43,663 ounces of gold, worth about £174,000 ; and the Bre-
men and Vigo from New York, with £36,000 and £84,000.
The amount of the remittances by the steamer
Pera on the 20th will be £321,333, of which £314,541 is
silver, £9,792 gold. Of this total £4,778 is for India,
£312,015 for t_ hinn and the Straits, and £7,540 for Alexan-
dria and Aden. (iloverEment, it appears, on this occasion,
despatches X6/)84;.3 in silver to Hong 'Long.