The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA' EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1858.

club. But Mr. Fox deserted a far more august con-
gress of Imperial, Royal, and Senatorial magnates to
meet in the working-men's hall at Oldham tl e pro-
bably unwashed operatives of that busy pace, as
well as their better off employers ; and it certainly
was not a bad hit at such a meeting, when their
worthy Member told them, that "instead of being in
the Parliamentary retinue at her MAJESTY'S heels,
he was face to face with the creators of Parliaments,
with those by and for whom Parliaments and Kings
and Queens also existed."

The Hon. Member's picture of Imperial France
was one that every Frenchman ought to read. It
tells truths which are at most but thought of by a
few at Cherbourg. Her policy of maintaining im-
merve armies wholly beyond what she needs for
regular defence, and its mischievous re-action on the
military and naval expenditure of other countries, is
utterly to be condemned. It can be defended only
by two arguments—one, that despotism must occupy
France in the military sense, because otherwise it
would be immediately swept away; the other that it
furnishes an opening for providing innumerable per-
sons with an employment much coveted among a
military people, and thus extends Government pa-
tronage at the cost of vastly-increased taxation.
Both arguments too true to be uttered while Count
WALEWSKI and the army are masters of the press.
How melancholy is the contrast of France
Imperial with France Republican in the
nobility of its aims ! The orator of the evening could
recal the time when she gave the watchword of
liberty to the nations, and was the enthusiastic
apostle of liberty, equality, and fraternity to all
nations. She is now, as indeed she was under the
former empire, the apostle of despotism, treading out
every spark of liberty wherever she can,—menacing
it in Belgium and Piedmont, and utterly suppressing
it in Rome. With Mr. Fox we must believe that
this noble nation has a nobler destiny than to put
back the cause of progress in the world, and to utter
through her press only what the censors
of an Emperor and the bullies of the
Army permit. French genius, intelligence,
'and spirit, }nest one day scatter in hopeless ruins the
showy but unsubstantial amphitheatre of the second
Empire.
Mr. Fox was able to give a better account than
usual of what his house had accomplished. On no
subject has the Member for Oldham been more, al-
most habitually, eloquent than on that of re-
ligious liberty. He has aroused public meet-
ings, and even interested the House of Com-
mons itself to the last on the worn-eut Jews'
question. his soul was in it, because of the prin-
ciple involved ; and it is natural, therefore,
that he should deeply feel the triumph
of religious freedom in this matter over
the disgraceful bigotry and little-mindedness of the
Peers of England. "It was the first question on
which he had spoken in the House of Commons,
eleven years ago, and the last which he bad spoken
on a few days since." He could also congratulate
the meeting on having secured at length one point of
the Charter ; and on having secured a valuable India
Bill, if not exactly the bill which could be desired.
Mr. Fox began to distrust Lord PALMERSTON
when he let off the criminals who had lost us one of
the finest of armies in the Crimea. He adds to that
offence his indifference to the fate of the Neapolitan
prisoners, and his truckling to the bullying of French
Counts and Colonels. Mr. Fox overlooked, in the enu-
meration, one of his greatest delinquencies—his con-
senting to a peace with Russia, which left her mis-
tress of all the countries she had stolen, from eircas-
sia to Finland and the Aland Isles. The peace of
Paris we can never forgive Lord PALatERSTON and
his Foreign Secretary ; it was his business then to
have given Russia a lesson which would have taught
her better than to come immediately after the war
and ask England and Europe to give her forty mil-
lions worth of military railways. The peace of
Paris was a piece of despot jobbing, and PALmErt-
STON was their agent—their tool.
Mr. Fox does not despa'r of some sort of a Re-
form Bill from the present Government. It may be
notorious enough that Lord DERBY would infinitely
rather do without one—but Lord DERAY is "at
the mercy of the people. He must, and he will,
concede what the people are determined' to have.
Besides, as he observed, Lord DERBY is not the
whole Cabinet. Lord STANLEY IS well known to be
a thorough man of progress, a great favourite With
the House and the public, and certainly, though he
might be better placed, will not like to oppose what
he inwardly approves, and lose both popularity and
a good conscience to please some obstinate or
antiquated Tories. Mr. DIqIAELI would like a
Reform Bill which should greatly extend the basis
of representation, and he may yet have to advocate
the Ballot a second time. The counsel of Mr. Fox
is certainly thoroughly sound—to trust ourselves and
to rely on no Minister or-Cabinet whatever. All the
great ref)rms have been carried hitherto by the
people. They must still be carried by the same
power. Every election should tell the Ministry
what we wish for. All the rejected liberal measures,
such as Church-rate abolition and the Marriage
Bill in the Lords, Loci; E KING'S Bill and the Ballot
in the Commons, should be pressed on every candi-
date fin. a popular constituency, or for nny consti-
tuency. Our belief is that squeezing Cabinets
is the only means by which popular measures can
be carricd, and that the present Cabinet is fully
as squeezable as any Whig one we have had since
the Reform Bill.

AMERICA.

(By Electric Telegraph.)

LIVERPOOL, WED-NE;DA-T AlowsiNG.
The North American has arrived from Montreal
with advices to the 31st ult.

The Kangaroo left New York on the 29th for
riivercool with 5200,000 on freight.

The United States' Government was chartering
vessels for the expedition against Paraguay.

The Canadian Ministry has resigned, in conse-
quence of their defeat on the following motion
" That it is the opinion of this house that the city
of Ottawa ought not to be the permanent seat of
Government for the province."
The Tariff Bill had passed the Canadian Legis-
lature.

The United States Government was despatching
an agent to Fraser River.
At Havannah,-on the 22d ult., engar had ad-
vanced. The stock was 170,000 boxes. Freights
better. Exchange on London, 13.
An Atnerican shyer had been se;zed by the United
States Consul.

At New York, on the 30th, flour W3S a shale
firmer, with fair demand. Grain, with a good ex-
port dtmaud, had improved. Pork lower. Beef
firm. Stocks were dull, and lower. Sterling ex-
change dull and urehanged.
The timber trade at Quebec was inactive. Freights
to Cardiff 289. 9d.