The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-10 00:00:00

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pliments, signifying nothing, all in good-humoured
recognition of the high and mighty dignity, attained
in due rotation, one after another, by the City
Aldermen, who are called, each in turn, to assume
the Chair as London's Chief Magistrate.

SINCE the day when the great fight between MACE
and O'BALDWIN did not take place, there has been no
more ludicrous fiasco than the duel which has not
come off between The O'DONOGHUE, M.P., and Mr.
GEORGE H. Moonm, M.P. MACE had a friend who
obligingly informed the police, and so prevented the
arranged encounter with his gigantic opponent. The
OTOONOGIIITE has also been blessed with a friend,
who, instead of entering into his duties as
second, according to the usual routine, has
displayed an originality of devotion that Mr. WINKLE
sought for in vain in Mr. SNODGRASS. Every one
knows that the rule of a " second " is to press forward
a meeting with as much eagerness as though commis-
sioned by a lover to prepare an interview with his
mistress. The second, or friend, is bound to magnify
the gravity of the insult that has been offered, to
prove that nothing but the death of the injurer
or the injured can efface it; that every
minute which is passed until that result is
effected is an intolerable existence to his
principal ; that the more murderous the weapon
chosen the better he will be pleased, and that, in
short, the gentleman whom he represents means
business of the most decisive character. But The
OTIONOGHTTE had a friend of a very different sort.
He was no mere routine-ist ; he was quite ready to
strike out a new line for himself if he thought he
would thereby please the member for Traloe. So,
instead of urging on matters to an extremity; and in-
sulting Mr. MOORE'S second in order that they might
"pot"at one another for the love of the thing, and so
have a double duel (as pleasant to an Irish fighting
man as a double wedding is to an English brides-
maid), the representative of the Glen chieftain drew
back in proportion as the representative of the
member for Tipperary pressed forward. It takes.two
persons to make a quarrel, and four to fight a duel,
and as the chieftain and his second were evidently
bent upon backing out of the meeting which they
had challenged—they had clearly thought better of
the proposed trip to Boulogne—Mr. MOORE and his
second, being not the challenger but the chal-
lenged, had no alternative but to give up the intended
picnic. If a man has invited you to mortal

ombat, and then gives you to understand that he
would rather not fight you, what else can you do but
say that while you would have been most happy to
oblige your challenger by putting a bullet
through his head, you have no particular wish
to do so, and will therefore surrender the offered
privileges ?

We are sorry for The O'DONOGNETE. He has made
a laughing-stock of himself, and he belongs to that
Beltic race with whom laughter is said to be fatal.
We fear that it will prove so in this present instance,
so far as his official career is concerned. This is the
more to be regretted, because he is evidently a
man ofgreat ability, and of no little influence in Ireland;
and because he was clearly in the right when re-
buking Mr. MOORE for his incendiary and traitorous
utterances. Unfortunately this is the second blunder
that The O'DONOGHUE has committed. He once
challenged Sir ROBERT PEEL, because the then
Chief Secretary for Ireland called him a
mannikin traitor, and Sir ROBERT brought ridicule
upon The OTONOGIRTE on account of his challenge.
He has now become ridiculous by withdrawing his
challenge. Two such escapades as these can scarcely
be condoned. The hon. chieftain is 36 years of age,
old enough to know better, old enough to control
even hot Milesian blood. Fancy what the Opposi-
tion journals would have said if he had been a right
honourable and a member of the Cabinet 1 What
Minister will venture hereafter to expose himself
to the reflected ridicule that would fall upon him if
he had for colleague a gentleman so ready to offer
cartels of defiance to the death, and so ready to with-
draw them after they have been offered? Neverthe-
less, The OTIONOGHTIE has deserved well of his
country. He has made the duello as ridiculous as
MACE made the prize-ring. For that let the irascible
chieftain have due honour and thanks.

AN article in the new number of the Quarterly
I?eview, on the past and future of the Conservative
party, has deservedly attracted much attention. The
writer, who is believed with very good reason to be
the Marquis of SALISBURY, strongly condemns the
policy pursued by the Conservative leaders for the
last twenty years—the policy of sacrificing principles
for place, of gaining power by alliances with
their most inveterate foes, the extreme Radicals.
Every vital defeat of the Whigs since the death of
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has been brought about by
a coalition of the Conservatives and the Radicals;
every Tory Ministry has won the seals of office by
some flagitious concession to the most advanced of
its opponents. It is to the invariable practice of
this ruinous principle that the Marquis of SALISBURY
attributes the present desperate condition of his
party. He contrasts the conduct of the Whigs
before the first Reform Bill with the Conser-
vative policy of our own time. For many
long weary years after the outbreak of the great
French Revolution the Whigs were the weaker
party. Their numbers were small ; their leaders
had not the confidence of the nation. But during
the long period when they were consigned to the
cold shades of Opposition they never attempted
any combinations similar to those which
have amazed the present generation. On no
occasion did they sacrifice their principles to win
deserters from the Tories. They preferred living
honestly in the wilderness to entering the Promised
Land by fraud, and their consistency at last met with
its reward. In exhorting his party to go
and do likewise, to content themselves with
constitutioLal Opposition until their fortunes
revive, and to renounce alliances save with
politicians akin to themselves, the Quarterly Reviewer
gives candid and sound advice. But he seems to
have overlooked one momentous consideration. The
Whigs during the latter half of the Third GEORGE'S
reign were in a great minority in both houses. The
Conservatives of to-day are
the weaker party in only
one. If the former by a manoeuvre of the DISRAELI
type had " dished " their adversaries in the
Lower House, their finesse would have availed them
nothing against the hostility of the peers. But the
conviction that they had only one difficulty to over-
come has ruined the modern Conservatives. If they
got over their minority in the Commons all was plain
sailing in the Lords. To dish the Whigs in both
branches of the Legislature at once would be an experi-
mentPon to manufacture a
too hazardous and impracticable to come within
the range of actual political warfare; but,with a majority
in the Upper House, the temptation
"bogus" majority in the Lower was more than
flesh and blood could stand. Hence arose
the unnatural alliances of the Conservatives and
the Radicals. And hence, too, it has happened that the
Conservative majority in the Lords—supposed to be
the constitutional sheet anchor—has indirectly done
more to bring about the rapid
innovations of late
years than any other influence in the State. Nor is
it at all improbable, unless the constitution or the
nature of professional politicians be changed, that the
same phenomenon will occur again.

THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The Prince of Wales is
the Senior Master of the Bench of this Inn of Court, and
yesterday being his birthday, the Master Treasurer (Mr.
Greene, Q
health of his Royal Highness, which was received with
during dinner in the hall, proposed the
loud cheers by the Mastets of the Bench, the barristers,
and students.

Ma. PEABODY'S FUNERAL—The funeral of Mr.
Peabody in Westminster Abbey will be solemnised on
Friday next, at half-past one o'clock, in compliance with
the express wish of the Dean of Westminster and friends
of the deceased. The north and south transepts will be
open to the public. The choir and the nave will be
devoted to the followers of the funeral, admission to
which will bo given by tickets, which aro placed at the
disposal of Sir Curtis Lampson and others interested in
the ceremony.

ENGLAND'S "FLYING SUN."

The latest news from Karakondye is good; he is grow-
ing in fame and favour, and has just been feasting his
poor relations. Karakondye, be it known, is an Indian
chief. In England we call him Prince Arthur, and think of
him as a slim young officer of the Rifle regiment ; but with
other skies, other manners and other names. In British
North America, and among the dusky children of the
Six Nations, Queen Victoria's third son is nothing less
than a chief, and has received the syllabic name we have
mentioned, which signifies " the Flying Sun .° Other chiefs
have been named for swiftness ; there have been the Flying
Arrow, the Flying Foot, the Flying Cloud, the Flying
Wrath, and so on ; but there is a reason, so
Chief John Smoke Thompson tells us, why Prince
Arthur should be called the Flying Sun. It is
because his royal mother's power, like the great
orb of day, blesses the world with warmth and light. On
the occasion of this speech the Prince had blessed the tribe
with a roasted fat ox, of which the chiefs and braves, with
their women and children, were assembled to partake. It is
satisfactory to read that they spent a happy afternoon, and
parted without mishap, after giving three cheers for their
new Chief.—Daily News.

THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE
BELGIA.ATS.

Tho general committee, organised for the purpose of
making arrangements for the presentation of an address tc
the King and Queen of the Belgians on their intended visit
to London, held a meeting on Saturday at the committee-
rooms, 21, Albert-gate, Hyde-park. Captain Wells, RN.,
who presided in the absence of the Duke of Wellington,
having opened the proceedings, Captain Charles Mercier,
the hon. secretary, said that the address which it had been
proposed to present to the King and Queen of the Belgians
had already received the signatures of 170 of the chief
magistrates of counties, cities, and towns in England
and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The Duke of Cam-
bridge had desired him to convey to the committee
his Royal Hig-bness's good wishes for the success of the
project specified. Several offers of subscription to promote
the object of the meeting were announced. After the trans-
action of some further formal business the meeting termi-
nated with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman,
Sir A. Conyngham, Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
the Mayors of Halifax and Dover, and Mr. Cunliffe Brooks,
M.P., have joined the general committee, and the subscrip-
tion (limited to one shilling each for volunteers and others).
for tho purchase of a silver casket to contain the address of
be presented to their Majesties, progresses most favourably.

COLONEL WILSON PATTEN AT PRESTON.

At Preston, on Monday night, the inauguration meeting
of a new Conservative club was held inthe Corn Exchange.
The principal speaker was Colonel Patten, who, in the
course of his speech in favour of the organisation of
a Conservative Club, first eulogised the late Lord
Derby, whom he had personally known for many years,
and then proceeded to argue that it was necessary for the
welfare of the State that there should be two political
parties, in order that each might guard and check
political irregularity, and that a due consideration
might be given to all matters vitally affecting the welfare
of the State. At the last general election the cry on the
Liberal side was the Irish Church and Financial Economy.
He had always opposed the Irish Church scheme of the
Liberals. It was argued that if carried it would pacify
Ireland, but events which had transpired since
its enactment refuted this notion The Conser-
servatives handed Ireland over to the Liberals with her
laws and her liberties freed from previous enthralment.
The present position of the country showed that no mate-
rial improvement had been effected as to financial economy.
What the Liberals had done since getting office might have
been accomplished long since, but it never occurred to
them to exercise their economy until the cold shade of
opposition rendered it necessary for the Conservative party
to be thrown out of office. He deprecated the move-
ments made, and attributed them to "human nature,"
with a weakness for office. Mr. Hermon, M.P., and Sir T.
G. Hesketh afterwards spoke.