The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-25 00:00:00

TILE NAVAL REVIEW.

The Houses of Parliament—Lords and Commons
—are most genuinely angry, and so much in ear-
nest in their anger, that they are not very parti-
cular whom they fall foul of. And, to say the
truth, one cannot expect that men should be 'in a
perfectly reasonable state who have just returned
battered and worn, with their wives tired, tattered,
and torn, from a calamitous journey, undertaken
to see a national spectacle, got up for their special
amasament and instruction, but which, after all,
though they were dragged out of their beds at five
o'clock on the one morning, and kept out of them
till six the next morning, they only succeeded
in being too late for. It is very natural, too, that
the faithful Commons should be especially annoyed
and disgusted at the Admiralty treating them with
some parsimony, the practice of which they have
so often forted upon the country, and their tables
on hoard their pleasure steamers spread on the
same pi inciple which they have for years so syste-
matically applied to the public service. The legis-
lative temper could not stand such a practical joke
as this—turning the tables on them by making a
contract with Mr. Quartermaine of Crown and
Sceptre renown for seven shillings and sixpence
a-head for breakfast and dinner. Only beer and
soda water on board the Perseverance and Transit,
while champagne flowed on board the Pacific ; only
cold roast beef and plain roast fowls on the tables
of the former, while those of the latter were covered
with truffled turkeys, and what, in the language of
artistes, are termed the delicacies of the season—
all suppliel in perfection by the same host of the
Crown and Sceptre. It was too much of a joke to
he taken as a good one. Sir Charles Wood has
done wisely to keep himself sheltered at Ports-
mouth duriug the burst of the Parliamentary
storm.

However, it must be owned, to use the terra
made famous by the paragraph in the Royal Speech
on the battle of IN avarino, that the Southampton
business was an "untoward" affair, and we suspect
" the raven down of darkness of Parliament will
take a good deal of stroking before it smiles again."
A personal collision with the House of Commons
the Government may find a much more awkward
affair to manage then a political difference, and we
should not be the least surprised if the house
was to take its revenge to-night by putting an
extinguisher upon the fireworks which have al-
ready made such a splutter and fizzing. It is a
pity that this question of the fireworks, which the
Government has contrived to stumble over, was
not brought under the notice of Parliament in a
different manner. If a member of the Administra-
tion had just come quietly down, and, at the pro-
per time, simply stated that, in accordance with
precedent, it was intended to have a display of
fireworks to celebrate the ratification of the peace,
and that the Board of Works intended to put up a
building in each of the parks for the purpose, the
proposition would have been accepted, as a matter
of course, and nothing, in all probability, would
have been thought or said about the matter. But,
from the mode in which the business has been
done, the house has conceived a notion that there
has been an attempt to jockey them, and they are
proportionably angry. There was, no doubt, no
such intention, and steps being taken without first
consulting Parliament was, probably, the result of
simple bungling inadvertence. The awkward part
of the business, however, is that the hesitation
of the house, and the discussion that has ensued
and promises to be continued, has tended to give
a new and untrue aspect to the question; and the
letting off of these fireworks may come to be con-
sidered as bearing a political significance, and as
furnishing to Europe an indication of the feelings
of the British people upon the peace. If such as
idea should gain possession of the public mind, it
will create, in all probability, considerable hostility-
to the display; for the couutry, upon the whole, is
not disposed to rejoice in the conclusion of the war.
Reason is satisfied, no doubt, by the peace, in fact
and in terms, but Feeling is not contented. Every
man must recognise it to be a truth that the Go-
vernment would have been most unjustifiable—nay,
wick ed—to have refused peace when
_such terms
were offered as have been secured; but a very large
proportion of the population would rather, as a
matter of feeling, that peace had not been tendered,
and that Russia has given us fair occasion to show
in a new campaign what we could do with the com-
plete army and the magnificent navy which has
been organised by the vigour and ability of our
Government. We believe there exists a very ex-
tensive and strong feeling of this character, and
those who entertain it will unquestionably view
with reluctance any display which can be construed
abroad as being an indication of rejoicing that we
are relieved from the burden of continued ear,--
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