The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, -

Conservative minority victories on three immures
of the first class in the course of a single session.
No one who was not possessed of Mr. BRIGHT'S
unequalled powers of irritation could have effected
it. We would not be understood to say that he
"carried off all these triumphs without help. Such
an assertion would be very unjust to several esti-
mable men, whose opinions are quite as extravagant
and have been quite as artlessly disclosed. Dr.
FOSTER no doubt shares a large part of the glory
of saving Church Rates; Mr. GLADSTONE'S weak•
ness for the Peace Society, and his anxiety, by dint
of a crushing finance, to keep down the military
spirit of the English people, were nturally valuable
aids in upholding the Paper Duty; and Mr. GEORGE
POTTER has rendered service not to be despised in
discrediting Reform. But it is evidently from Mr.

BRIGHT that this indiscreet school of revolutionists
have taken their cue in abandoning the slow under-
mining method which was previously in favour, in
atta?king by storm instead of by sap. They are merely
the staff of devoted imitators and lieutenants, whom
a great strategist will always form around him."
Nor in all this is there any extravagance. It is a
tribute to which Mr. BRIGHT is fully entitled.
Palmam qua meruit feral. And to him cer-
tainly is it mainly attributable that Reform
has been again so very effectually given
the go by—that the Church Rates still re-
main untouched that the paper-duty-abolition
has been so glaringly unpopularised. Whatever
may be thought about Dr. FOSTER'S share in the
quashing of the Church Rate movement, or of Mr.
POTTER'S participation in the postponement of the
Reform of Parliament—in regard to the Paper
Duties the Quarterly Review insists with a glow
of fervent admiration—" This triumph was all Mr.
BRIGHT'S, was all his own ; " adding " for
Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. COBDEN were less
in the position of allies co-operating for a
common end than of agents executing his com-
mands." The inopportuneness of the juncture
selected for the proposed remission is emphatically
specified in one overwhelming sentence, where the
reviewer remarks—" It was clearly rash, with so
slight a margin of surplus, and so many clouds on
the horizon, to hazard the irretrievable loss of so
rich a tax." Shortly after which the writer adds,
with an almost spiteful sneer, in regard to the
particular duty in question. " The tax is not an
unexceptionable tax, though its incompatibility with
the existence of penny papers is far from being its
most serious disadvantage." As to the Commercial
Treaty negotiated between England and France by
the unadorned diplomatist, the reviewer observes,
not less truthfully than humorously, that Mr.
COBDEN had been flattered and coaxed into
selling England's concessions in the cheapest
market and buying France's gratitude in the
cfearest." Mr. GLADSTONS'S rather eccentric
course is quaintly illustrated by the remark that,
" Though he has undoubting confidence in the par-
ticular bend of the zig-zag along which he is at the
moment travelling, the retrospect, even to a man of
his sanguine temperament"—must be occasionally
cheerless and saddening. Speaking of the doubt
expressed by the hon. and learned gentleman the
Member for Peterborough as to " whether his
dignity as a Member of Parliament remains the
same," after the late terrible affront put upon
that House by the House of Lords—as when he
first graced its consultations, the Quarterly Re-
view speaks of this with delicious gravity of
manner, as—" a comparative investigation which
will, no doubt, be interesting to the students of
microscopic sciences!" Altogether, it may be ob-
served in reference to the position assumed of late
by the Quarterly, as one of the more prominent
among the organs of C-mservatism, that what it
has lost in dignity and influence it has gained in
vivacity and satiric force. If its voice can exercise
no influence whatever upon the division lists—it
has grown humorous enough and witty enough to
be provocative of peals of merriment.

THE GAME OR LIFE.

(From " Once A Week." )
BY ELIZA COOK.
With eager hand Hope deftly weaves
The mantles that our pride would don,
While busy-fingered Care uniftraves
The garments as we put them on.
We rear our palaces of joy,
And tread them with exulting shout,
Till, crumbling round, 'tis plainly found

Some corner-stones have been left out.
And thus we play the game of Life,

Shadow and substance ever blending ;
'Mid flowers of Peace and tears of Strife
Gaily beginning, sadly ending.

The maiden greets her swain to-day,
They jar to-morrow, and she flouts him ;
Now she believes whate'er he'll say,
A month has gone,—alas 1 she doubts him ;
The lover hangs upon a glance,
With glowing trust and earnest sueing, ;
Next year he rouses from his trance,
And scorns the one he late was wooing.
And thus we play the game of Life,
Our dreams dispell'd, our plans defeated,
And when we've lost with pain and cost,
Still stand, as ready to be cheated.

The cooing infant's rosy mouth
Aptly receives the sweeten'd potion ;
When waves are calm, and winds are south,
None see the death-rocks in the ocean.
The rich man toils "to gather up,"
Meaning to bask in Fortune's clover,
And while he pours into his cup,
Perceives not it is running over.
And thus we play the game of Life,
Now simply snared, now wisely brooding,
Now bribed by smiles, now spreading wiles,
Living deluded and deluding.

The Poet prattles to the stars,
Philosophers dissect the thunder,
But both are stopp'd by crystal bars,
And stand outside to watch and wonder.
We moralise on battle plains,
Where blood has poured, and fame was won,
We turn and see the baby's glee
Over his mimic sword and gun.
And thus we play the game of Life,
'Twixt holy Thought and tearful Deed.
Some only stay to work and pray;
And some but live for Crime and Greed.

Our feet of clay trip up each other,
Our wings of ether seek the sky ;
We breathe—we are—child follows mother,
Yet none can tell us " How ?" or "'Why ?"
Our hearts, like clocks, keep ticking fast,
We climb and laugh, we fall and weep,
Till, tired of guessing, at the last
We solve the riddle in a sleep.
And thus wo play the game of Life,
In motley garbs of Grief and Pleasure,
Till we are drest in that green vest
For which the sexton takes our measure.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his
Serene highness the Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein, the
Marquis of Exeter, and Major Greville, joined the circle
partaking of the hospitality of the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond, at Goodwood, on Tuesday evening.

His Highness the Prince Ponia.towski and the
Marquis of Gaviria have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Rome.
The Duke and Du3hess of Buccleuch and the
Ladies Scott aro expected to leave Belgrave .square on
Saturday first for Drumlanrig Castle, N.B.
The Marquis of Lansdowne will leave Lansdowne
House in a few days for his residence at Richmond.
Count and Countess de Flahault arrived at Coven •
try House yesterday from Brighton.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave
town on Saturday on a visit to her Majesty at Osborne.
Lord Clyde has left Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park-
corner, for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.
Lady Mary Pelham died on Monday last, at the
wager Countess of Chichester's residence, in Grosvenor-
place, after a short illness. Her ladyship was eldest
daughter of the late earl, and was born in 1802.

Mr. and Lady Isabella Schuster have left town
for the Lakes, en route for the Earl of Orkney's seat in
Scotland.

LATEST

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, JULY 26.

The Constitutionnel has an article, signed M.
Grandguillot, congratulating the London Times on
the leading article on Syriq, published in that jour-
nal yesterday.

" The language of the Times," says M. Grand-
guillot, " seems to be in accordance with British
feelings, and to express the real policy of the
Foreign-office."
The Constitutionnel also says :

"The expedition which Franca has been pre-
paring for the last three days with marvellous
despatch will, as a matter of necessity, be carried
out. The early departure of our troops may be
expected.

" The part of France will be neither that of
occupation nor intervention.
"We are about to give our support to Turkey to
assist her in repressing disorders which would
infallibly result in the loss of the Turkish Empire.
"The Eastern question, as it at present stands,
does not appear to be susceptible of dividing
Europe; but, on the contrary, of uniting the
European powers for the defence of interests and
principles which impose the same obligations on
, all the Christian States."

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The health of the Princess Frederick William
and the Royal infant being quite satisfactory, no
bulletins have been published to-day.

TOPLITZ, JULY 26,

The Prince Regent arrived here yesterday at
6 p.m., and was received at the terminus by the

Emperor.

His Majesty shook hands with his Royal High.

The Emperor wore the Prussian military uni-
orm, and the decoration of the order of the Black

Eagle.
The Prince Regent wore the Austrian uniform,
and the decoration of the order of St. Stephens.
Count Rechberg was not present at the ter.

minus.

TURIN, JULY 26.

The object of the mission of the Marquis de la
Greca is to bring about a compromise by which the
King of Naples would accept the result of univer-
sal suffrage in Sicily should the Western Powers
guarantee the integrity of his Majesty's dominions
on the mainland, and prevent Garibaldi from effect-
ing a landing there.

CONSTANTINOPLE (via MARSEILLES)

JULY 18.

The Ambassadors have received accounts of the

recent massacre at Damascus.

The Druses and Bedouins, in returning to
Kaman (?) passed through Damascus, and proposed
a general massacre of the Christians to Abd-el-
Kader, who refused to countenance it. The inha-
bitants, however, became accomplices in the murder
of the Christians. The other details are in accord•
ante with those already known.
It is confirmed that some of the Turkish soldiers
assisted the assassins. Their General, Ahmed Bey,
took to flight, but the other authorities remained in
the fortress.

The Turkish reinforcements sent to Syria are
said not to exceed 6,000 men, as it is not possible to
withdraw the troops from Roumelia on account of
the agitation prevailing there.

Sir Henry Bulwer has received a telegram from
London, and immediately had a long conference
with the Sultan.

MARSEILLES, JULY 25.

The indirect packet-boat from Syria has arrived
with dates to the 7th inst. Nothing fresh had

transpired.
The direct packet from Syria is expected to
arrive on Tuesday next.

• TURIN, JULY 25.
The King has received the Neapolitan Ambas

There is no news of Garibaldi.

PARIS, JULY 25.
The Constitutionnel contains the following :
"The latest news from Syria announces that the
state of things was still serious.
" Ten thousand Druses were marching on Damas-
cus, where the Christians run the greatest danger.
" A prompt European intervention is absolutely
necessary to rescue the remaining Christians from
being massacred.
•It may be added that a perfect good under-
standing prevails between France and England.

" The last measures have been taken in concert
with the English Cabinet, and nothing delays the
departure of the expedition for Syria."

The Pays of this evening says :

" Reports are current that a treaty between
Austria and Prussia preceded the conference at

Toplitz."