The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00

IVITALLEY_ AND NEIVDEGATE.

The recent confessions of Messrs. Whalley and
Newdegate are too good a theme for the Saturday
.Review to miss. Our contemporary compares the
M.P.'s to the rival Christy Minstrels who are now
singing in London, each invoking the royal patron-
age, each declaring themselves to be the only original
minstrels. Ordinary persons suppose that there is
very little difference between them, butr, as a
matter of fact, Cesar and Pompey are very
unlike, especially Pompey ; the difficulty is that
spite of one cannot, in this unlikeness, tell
which is Cvesar and which is Pompey. Mr. Newde-
gate asserts that Mr. Whalley has made Protes-
tantism ridiculous ; Mr. Whalley asserts that
Protestantism has (as he was warned would be the
case) made him ridiculous. Apparently Mr. Whalley
and Protestantism act and react upon each other,
to the promotion of general hilarity. One thing
seems certain from these confessions. Mr. Newde-
gate thought that the chestnuts were warm, and
advised that some enterprising person should be
engaged to take them off the fire. Mr. Whalley was
engaged, and the chestnuts certainly were warm.

lIAYNOOTH AND THE 44 ADVERTISER."

The Morning Advertiser is sorely out of heart.
After instructing the publicans for the last twenty
years day by day in the mystery of the Papal
iniquity in general, and the wickedness of Maynooth
in particular, our contemporary finds the House of
Commons determining by a tremendous majority
to it endow" Maynooth with 8365,000. But
nil desperandum ; there is vengeance in store.
"It is no trifling consolation to us to feel
assured that a considerable number of those members
who sacrificed their Protestantism to party interests
will have to pay the penalty of the loss of their seats
for their tergiversation." Does the Advertiser really
suppose that the aforesaid members would have ven-
tured to "sacrifice their Protestantism" if they had
not received the full permission of their constituents
to do so

PRESIDEI\77IAL PA7RONAGE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Senator Ross was astonished and pained by this
declaration of the PRESIDENT " that where any
man bad held office during the past year and a half,
it was ►resumptive evidence that he was a JOHNSON
man." We also are pained and astonished, though
for a different reason, for Mr. Ross only saw in
General GRANT'S declaration the dismissal of his
friends from office. To him, t 4 it plainly said that
notwithstanding the fact that fully one-half the
offices of the country wore filled by earnest and
faithful Radical Republicans and soldiers—the PRE-
SIDENT'S warmest political friends and supporters
—they must give place to the hordes of bargaining
politicians and Place-hunters who for the past few
weeks have blocked the balls and swarmed in the
avenues of the capital." Gen. GRANT has acted on
the old principle, to an extent for which the country
was little prepared. The time-honoured story has
been repeated, and the play:has been in accordance
w Mahe well-known programme " to thevictor belong
the spoils." The declaration attributed to General
GRANT has, however, a wider bearing than that given
to it by Senator Ross, for it contains more than every-
thing that is objectionable in the American system.
Does the PRESIDENT divide all his fellow-citizens
into Johnson-men and Grant-men, as Rhode Island
is divided into Spragues and Browns. Is America to
descend to the faction following of a paltry Italian
town in the Middle Ages?—and, if not, why does
he, the head of the Executive, use so objectionable
a term? Bad as this is, the real vice is not realised
therein. ANDREW JOIINSON was the lawful Pre-
sident of the United States. The men, his suc-
cessor thus stig,matized, for it is clear he intended
it as a term of reproach, were the public servants
acting for the country, in their keyeral Official capa-