The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

TIIJ SUN, LONOON,

stand their own value, and the effects of
an efficient organisation. Never was, there
an occasion more imperatively requiring a
combined and energetic effort. The fate of the
Ballot, and of Legislative Reform generally, may
greatly depend on the demonstration of Tuesday
next. Should there be any lukewarmness or vacil-
lation displayed by professing Liberals ;—should
there be even a slack attendance, full advantage
will probably be taken of the difference ; and the
just and salutary measure will receive the go-by
from the leaders of all sides.

It is notorious that Lord PALUERSTON and
Lord JOIN RUSSELL are strongly opposed to that
which would strike a death-blow at bribery and
intimidation, whether that of landlord, priest,
employer, or customer. Nothing but a very strin-
gent pressure from without, and the necessity of bid-
ding high for Liberal support, could induce either of
the Whig leaders to swallow the unwelcome dose.
But they are made of squeezable materials, and
when they cannot dictate tt independent Mem-
bers, will be content to swallow their leek, albeit
with a bad grace.
TLere is, we believe, a much better chance of
carrying the ballot with the DERBY Government,
than if Lord PALMERSTON either remained or
was reinstated in power. It is by no means
improbable that they would greatly prefer
waiting for the general measure which may
be anticipated next year ; but they have yielded
with a good grace on the question of
Property Qualification, and earned an immense
accession of strength thereby ; and should
t►,ey adopt a similar policy in respect
to the Ballot they would render their position
far more secure, and disappoint the cravings of
their rivals for office for a very considerable
period. It would gain the good will of at least
150 representatives of independent constituencies,
who would greatly prefer the ants of Lord DERBY
to the specious and plausible pretensions of Lord
PALMERSTON Or Lord J. RUSSELL.

The latter Noble Lord has already coquetted
with the question. It is true that he avoided
committing himself personally ; but when his seat
for the City was seriously imperilled, he per-
mitted his brother to throw out oracular hints as
to what he might be disposed to do ; and although
these hints were received by many staunch advo-
cates of the Ballot as tantamount to a decla-
ratien in its favour, they were never contra-
dicted of explained away until after his return,
and when many doubtful votes had been given
in consequence of the ambiguous speech.
Lord DERBY has aLeeady shown an inclination
to recognise the clearly expressed will of the
popular branch of the Legislature, and he would
be the more ready to do so in a matter closely
relating to the constitution of the House itself,
and of the mode of conducting the elections
of its members. If the Liberals muster
strong on Tuesday, if absenteeism is considered
just as bad as a hostile vote, there will be ade-
quate reasons for the concession, which can
scarcely be rejected under such circumstances. It
is the pure Whigs who have hitherto retarded
the passing of the measure ; and its friends and
advocates should now clearly ascertain the course
to be pursued by the leaders of the different parties.

A startling instance illustrative at once of the
cruelest injustice and of the basest ingratitude at
the same time, was descanted upon by ourselves,
a few days since, as indicative of the official incom-
petence and the heartless contempt for Merit, when
unaccompanied by Interest, habitually manifested
under the e•sgime which has now been branded for
ever by lir. DISRAELI with the name and title—
not of the " Cabal," no, that is its mere offshoot,
hut of—" THE OBSoLITE OLIGARCHY 1"

We allude, of course, to the harrowing tale of
the great wrong done to a humble but heroic
Alater in the Royal Navy, one ROBERT ROBERTS,
dead at 38, still a Master in the Navy and no
more—killed (as his medical attendants plainly
declared) by the denial to him of the promotion
he had earned by his extraordinary services—his
stalwart frame bowed down, his tough constitution
broken by his preternatural exertions, body and
soul, heart and mind, in the cause of his country,
his spirit crushed out in the heyday of his life by
the meanest injustice and the bitterest disappoint-
ment.

It will be remembered how we explained at
length what great deed it was that this obscure
but heroic sailor had accomplished--that he, that
one solitary Master in the Navy, had, single-
handed, contrived (to the wonder and admiration
of the Admiral of the Fleet and of the Comman-
der of the Forces) to land the British Army at
Eupatoria at the time of the memorable com-
mencement of the great Crimean Expedition.

It will be remembered how the Government
was besought by Lord RAGLAN; by Lord LYONS;
by one after another of the chiefs naval and
military, out there, at the seat of war, to reward
this brave, intelligent man, to give him (of course)
compensation for the money he had expended out
of his own pocket for the benefit of the country
at large, but, beyond this, to recompense his signal
services by promoting him from the post of a
Master in the Royal Navy to the rank of a Cum-
wander.

It be remembered with a painful vividness
more clearly than all, how, when poor ROBERTS
(htill a Master) was brought home, slowly and
miserably dying, his last manly, touching, elo-
quent, irresistible appeal was responded to by a
harsh, callous, wretched, pert little holograph
letter, addressed to the noble-hearted Tar by the
Right Hon. Sir CHARLES WOOD, Bart., of Hickla-
ton Hall, Yorkshire, and then, unhappily, lord
Paramount among the Lords Cimmissioners of
the Aciminilty.

The long sad story of the wrongs of ROBERT
ROBERTS may be tersely enough epitomised—
Alpha, Omega—born and dead-38—to the
last a Master in the Navy—their Lordships at
the Admiralty never dreaming for an instant, of
course, of making merely a Sailor (true salt, true
man, true British Heart of Oak, though he was) a
C )mmander.

We have revived a recollection of these shameful
facts, because we want to place one Picture in
broad contrast to another--a picture, this latter
one not of Great Merit wholly Unrewarded
of Powerful Interest enormously Recompensed.
but
d.
We want to speak now for a few minutes not
of the pluck, the skill, the intelligence, the
self-devotion, and the self-sacrifice of Master It.
W. itosEnTs, but of the fortunes of Mr. WILLIAM
AUGUSTUS TOLLEMACHE, one of the last but not
least favoured proteges of the " Obsolete Oli
garchy" as represented in L )rcl PALMERSTON'S
Government. Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TOLLE
gACHE may be a very brave man, a very clever
'van, a man singularly gifted and admirably
heroic—but we never heard it. We don't deny
that he is all this, but we never heard it. Whatever
his brain or whatever his nerves—his blood, how-
belt; is unmistakeably good. Not quite the blood of
the HOWARDS perhaps, or of the COURTENAYS
—but good, decidedly good, as blood
goes. His lineal descent, however, is not the
mainstay of his fortunes. That is discoverable
ratter in—Lis family
connections.
As offspring
of the late Admiral and Lady ELIZABETH TOLLE-

11[A.C1,11E, Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS is brother-in-law
of the Right Hon. WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER,
M.P. for Hertford, and late President of the
Board of Health—and beyond this, as every one
knows, the son of Lady PALMERSTON by her first
lord, the fifth Earl COWPER. It is, therefore, dis-
tinctly as brother-in-law of the step-son of Lord
PALMERSTON that Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TOLLE-
MACRE has rapidly advanced through twkor three
distinct professions. The brother-in-law of the
step-sou of the late Premier began his remarkable
public career with a commission in the Life
Guards. Very soon blasé with this he enters
diplomacy. He is at Paris and at Rio, as paid
attaché, successively. Tirod of the Guards, tired
of Diplomacy, he becomes agent to one of the
Foreign Legion Regiments. And, at last, settles
down comfortably, we hope, as Treasurer to the
Kent County Courts.

Such, rapidly sketched, is the public career of
Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TOLLEMACHE, brother-in-
law of the step-son of Lord PALMERSTON.
Contrast that career, happily not yet ended,
with the career (alas ! long ago irreparably closed)
of poor ROBERTS, Master, R.N., dead at 38,
after services really and truly in their way mag-
nificent.

No measure of recent days has been received
with more general approbation than that of the
Attorney-General for Ireland, for the sale and
transfer of land. Not a word was uttered against
the salutary principles enunciated, and even the
Right Hon. Gentleman who last night suggested
that it should be referred to a select committee,
declared that if, by so doing, its passing during
the present session could be at all endangered, he
would withdraw tho motion.

The operation of the Encumbered, Estates Act
has proved the importance to the community of
creating Parliamentary titles, which should be
wholly unimpeachable. Property to the value of
some twenty-two millions sterling has been trans-
ferred under its operation, and there are nearly
7,000 landed proprietors in the sister kingdom,
who can sell or mortgage their estates without being
required to go back beyond the date of their pur-
chase. This was an inestimable advantage, which
at once raised the marketable value of their pro-
perties fully 10 per cant. There was but one
drawback. It was unfair to the more prudent
parties, who had not embarrassed their estates,
and who were consequently subjected to great
disadvantages if they desired to bring their lands
to the hammer, or to offer them as security for
temporary advances. Indeed many ingenious de-
vices were resorted to in order to bring property
within the jurisdiction of the court.
The object of the present bill is to render per-
manent, and materially extend the principles
which have already worked so beneficially. A
new tribunal is to be established, to be termed the
Landed Estates Court, which shall have jurisdic-
tion over all real estates, whether encumbered or
unencumbered, and to order the specific perform-
ance of contracts for the sale of lands, and to con-
vey the same, with an unimpeachable title, to the
purchaser.

So far, it may be remarked, the effect was only
to place all real estates on the same footing, and
to confer on the solvent proprietor the advantages
enjoyed by the insolvent, or, at all events, em-
barrassed persons. But the present act goes fur-
tlier, enabling persons to bring their titles under
the Court without selling the property. This
is one of its most valuable provisions. Why
should a gentleman who desires to bequeath
a clear and unquestionable title to his children
be compelled either to encumber or sell his here-
ditary 'domains, getting them back by a circuitous
and expensive process ? Why should he not, if
he deemed it expedient, be enabled to submit his
deeds to the jurisdiction of the Court, and obtain
a judicial declaration respecting the validity of
his title, that would prevent the possibility of
future litigation? There should be an easy mode
of doing anything directly which might be done
indirectly ; and that will be accomplished by the
admirable measure of legal reform introduced by
the Irish Attorney-General, and which we hope
and believe will ere long be cztended to this
country also. _ _

We do not at present enter into the details,
but there are ample materials for enabling the
Hous3 to dispose of them judiciously and properly
without risking the fate of the bill by the delay
that must inevitably have attended the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee.

At a Plivy Council held at Buckingham Palace
at 12.30 this day, Sir Edward Balwer Lytton
was duly s Norn in a member, and the Right
Honourable Gentleman and Lord Stanley were
respectively confirmed in the offices to which they
have recently been appointed as one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State and Presi-
dent of the India Board. Lord Stanley previously
resigned his seals of office as Secretary of State
for the Colonies, which were then delivered to
Sir Edward Bulwar Lytton.

It is generally anticipated that L')rd Stanley
will, on Monday next, make a general statement
of the intentions of the Government with respect
to Indian Legislation. It must be borne in mind
that this distinguished Nobleman, whose aid has
been courted by every Administration of late years,
is, although young in years, one of the oldest
Indian Reformers. In 1853 ho proposed the
abolition of the East India Company's charter, at
the time when Sir Charles Wood succeeded in ob-
taining a renewal of the charter.

DEPARTURE OF THE COVRT FROM THE

IdLE OF 117t.illT.

.
The royal family embarked from the Trinity
Wharf on board the Fairy at three o'clock this
afternoon. A royal salute was fired from the
Royal Yacht Squadron Battery ; and a 3 the royal
yachts Fairy and Elfin steamed through the Road-
stead, the Danish corvettes Thor and Heimdahl
saluted her Majtsty with 27 guns each, dipping
their flags in compliment to the Queen of England.
The Prince Consort is expected from Germany
on Monday next.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—HER MAJESTY'S FIRST
VISIT.—The new theatre is this evening to be honoured
with the presence of her Majesty and the Royal Family.
The opera to be performed is " I 1 Barbiere di Siviglia,"
in which Bosio, Itenconi, and Mario, will sustain the
leading characters.
HAYMARKET TIIE.ITRE.—Her Majesty, accompanied
by Prince Victor of Hellenlobe and
u t
night, to see the comedy
of Unequalr
A letter from Marseilles of Wedncyclay last informs
suite,
i:eie t
IhnaeetasCsthr ," now being played nightly.
e last
U 3 that e-tvarti pieces of arqllory ha 1 ben firwa ded tlat
lay fro.n the ars.lial there for the defence .1 the Gulf of
Cioti,, awl the small port of Cassi-. Pa:x%an guns o
30 ce i re tree and howitz re of 22 centimetres are to
ne p'ace.l on the Chateal of C_.es's. the Croat fo t
neruuard, at the battery of Maletas L s Lecque, and
other 11,e83 on the coast. All Ouse batteri.
Nhich hayl Lean unatmcd since the year 1815
are now Meg rep sired, Two hattPlies are likewise
bout t. ke erected on the pier of the new Napoltot
Dock at Marseilldp. Tne,e batteries are intended to
producs a Cr39:i fire with the guns of Pinede de Croix, t o
a; to prot c.; the entrance of the several ports on at
coast. Captain Aozdt, of the. Engineers, had prepared a
plan to be presented to the Emperor, for the comnlee
defence ef the pert of Marseilles, which, it may be re-
collected, was entered by Captain Usher, comrranding
the frigate Undaunted, in February, 1814, in spite of
uetht"atpl'itoSna,x°;liaterfidoamy,
for her destiny-
the (11 forts.
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