The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-14 00:00:00

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nature of the constituency who are to choose the
elected members. It is proposed that it shall be
composed of persons who have previously held
military commissions or civil appointments in
India in her MAJESTY'S service or in that of the
Government of India, or who may possess a direct
interest, to an amount to be specified, in some
property charged or secured on the revenues or
territories of India.
This will be the basis of the franchise. Wo
confess that we greatly regret that the first inten-
tion of giving representatives to some large towns
trading largely with the East has been abandoned.
Men may have a considerable interest in the wel-
' fare and prosperity of the Anglo-Indian Empire,
may possess the most accurate information as to
its wants and wishes without ever having trod its
soil, or possessing any securities charged on its
revenues. The addition of the mercantile element,
as proposed by the Government in the first
instance, would be a decided improvement, not
setting aside any of those contemplated by the
resolution, but making a large and valuable addi-
tion to the constituency.
It may now fairly be anticipated that no
further efforts will be made to give a factious

character to the proceedings, and that the inte-
rests of India and of the United Kingdom—for
they are indivisible—will alone be looked to.
The Whigs, albeit with a bad grace, have
acquiesced in the inevitable necessity of retaining
the present Government, which has hitherto given
so much satisfaction to the nation, that an appeal
to the country would be decisive in its favour.
They can only inflict petty wounds, or indulge in—
" The whi.pered hint, the shrug, the hum or ha—
The petty brands that calumny doth use."
Their organs are obliged to content themselves
with indicating the acts accomplished, or that will
be accomplished by their means. The Jew ques-
tion is virtually disposed of, the property qualifi-
cation abolished, and there are strong grounds for
hope that the Church-rate difficulty may he sur-
mounted even during the present session, and the
county franchise considerably extended, on the
principle indicated by Mr. LOCKE KING. We have
had the differences with France settled in a
manner creditable to both nations, have ob-
tained the liberation of Mr. HODGE, and
not only the liberation, but handsome com-
pensation for WATT and Perm, and the restoration
of the Cagliari and her crew. These are great
achievements ; and surely the community at large
have reason to be thankful for the change which
substituted Lord DERBY for Lord PALMERSTON
Lord MALMESBURY for Lord CLARENDON. Mr.
DISRAELI—whose budget won the approbation
even of the Palmerstonians—for Sir G. C. LEWJS
—Sir JOHN PAKINGTON for Sir C. WOOD—Lord
STANLEY for Mr. VERNON SMITH, and Lord
CHELMSFORD for Lord CRANWORTH•

The leaders of the Liberal minority—the men
who taunt Lord DERBY with governing by a mi-
nority, and who yet, being themselves in a mino-
rity of sixty to two hundred and twenty, assume
to head what they call their party—these mine- i
rity opposition leaders have at last taken fright.
Last Tuesday all these great men—Lords PAL -
MERSTON and RUSSELL, Sirs G. C. Lewis and
CHARLES WOOD—all voted against the Ballot,
and enjoyed the enviable honour of
giving a majority of ninety-seven to
the party to which they are opposed. That
party, of coarse, acted reasonably as a party. How-
ever much we differ from them on the Ballot, we
cannot deny their wisdom in keeping together.
We have reason to know that there are those
among the Conservative party who do not
object to the Ballot, but they either
voted with their party or kept away.
The great Whigs could not, on Tuesday,
condescend to that. Like a great monarch of old,
they would say, "The Liberals—we are the Libe-
rals." They found out, however, their mistake.
They learned that, if they were the Liberals, then
there were no such beings as Tories, for, one and
all, they found their great names associated with
all the good old representatives of landlord-ridden
counties and pocket boroughs. They counted up their
numbers, and, behold ! they were just sixty against
two hundred and twenty-two, whom they had
deserted.

What should they do ? They would fain.
have persuaded themselves that wherever
they were, there was the Liberal party.
Would not the country, on looking over
the division lists, believe that the names of
RUSSELL and PALMERSTON must prove any divi-
sion list to be a liberal one ? Unfortunately, the
country would look at the tellers and see the
names of Sir W. JOLLIFFE and Col. TAYLOR ; it
would look again, and find not only the names of
B. DISRAELI, Mr. WALPOLE, and other reason-
able Conservatives, but those of all the old im-
moveable Tories—many even of the celebrated
fifty-three who gave extreme unction to Protection
in 1852. No ; the country would never be per-
suaded that that was the Liberal list ; it would
not believe that the great Whigs had brought
over such a host of Tories, and such Tories too ;
it would, it must believe, that PALMERSTON,
RUSSELL, and Co., had gone to the Tories. That
would never do! It would strengthen the present
cry of " No difference between Whigs and
Tories." People would surely say, what
should we turn out the Tories for, if when
we are most in earnest for a Liberal measure,
they and the Whigs act heartily together. Some-
thing must, therefore, be done. The Whigs
must try and make-believe that they are not
Tories.

Now, we are not in the secret as to when the
meeting was held. Whether, as before
the CARDWELL resolution, there was a
Sunday meeting at Cambridge House, or whether
two " Lords" and two " Sirs" had a
pleasant dinner and champagne together, or
whether the lobby of ;the House of Commons
sufficed—having no secret-service money to spare, I
we have no spy reporters, our functionaries of
that class reporting only what every man has a
right to know—but somehow an understanding
was come to. There was Mr, LocKE KING'S
County Franchise Extension for the 10th
--could not that be made to redress the
awkward appearances of the 2a ? True,
under one pretext or another, they had all
managed to vote and speak against it before, but
pretexts might be, found to vote for it now. First,
and chiefly, it would not give independence to the
counties ; the new voters would, in fact, be al-
most all of them, even those in the small towns,
in the power of the landed gentry. Next, though
it is almost the same thing, it would not make
the voter absolute master of his own vote. Again,
they could spoil the thing in committee, a fact
PALMERSTON rather awkwardly let out. Then
they were quite sure the Lords would not pass ;:v
—they would have been plagued enough already
with liberal measures. It would look nicely libe-
ral, yet, so far as tl2,eir intentions went, there
should be no lih,ralism in it.
The For the second
reading of title bill, therefore, they would vote.
Y would then, at least, for once in the session,
be separated from the Tories, join again the
Liberals, and be once more in a majority.
So on Friday forth came the division lists, and

the four leaders of the Liberal minority had
actually joined the Liberal majority, and saw
themselves therefore in a majority of fifty-eight
in the House of Commons itself. They, no
doubt, felt more comfortable ; yet the looks
of some of the staunch Liberals must
almost have said to them, " What ! you with us
again ; what does it mean 1" We hope you will
keep here now you have got here." Well, they
will keep there IF the staunch Liberals do but
"give them a bit of their mind." If they give
the ex-leaders to understand that, being the
Liberal majority, they do not intend to be danced
about by a small minority any longer—if they tell
them plainly—We mean to have our measures
carried, and if you don't carry them the Tories will
or shall—if they point to this session and
show them how much the independent Liberals
have gained by letting the Tories in—if they
assure them that they would rather have the
Property Qualification for members of the House
of Commons abolished, the Jews admitted to Parlia-
ment, and a Church-rate Abolition Bill sent up to
the Lords than the Whigs in office—if they
finally let them know that carrying the
Ballot is the only condition of return
to office, then the Four and their followers will
keep, where they appeared on Thursday night, at
the head of the Liberal majority, and may in due
time find their way bask again to power.

As it is, they have plenty of time for repentance.
By voting against the Ballot they have excluded
themselves for this session, and they will have
till next February to show by their conduct that
they are real penitent. Tho country has noted
the change in position of the Liberal ex• Ministers
on Thursday night. It knows full well the
reason ! Their conduct, then, must be veryex-
emplary. There must be no vacillation in com-
mittee, no shirking the most liberal view of the
clauses ; no dividing on any of them with the
Tories against the majority of Liberals, or we may
assure them that all is up with them. We do
not want to drive away our worthy old leaders,
but we want them to do two things, or we must
utterly renounce them—they must vote with the
majority of the party through whom they would
rule, and they must associate some of the popular
advanced Liberals with them in the next Cabinet.

The Leviathan has, during the last fortnight,
been daily "on view" at ber moorings. For a
magical half-crown, procurable at Mr. SAMS'S
Library, at any reasonable hour between morning
and evening, the Londoners have been enabled in
swarms to be whirled down by railway, or in
shoals to be floated down by water conveyance, to
that particular spot between Blackwall and Dept-
ford where the great monster steam•vessel rides
at anchor—an object to every one who sees her of
perpetual wonder and admiration.

Although the mammoth ship is still so far from
a state of completion that it is calculated it would
take a thousand men five months' unceasing toil
day and night to fit her out entirely—there is
still, in all conscience, quite enough of her visible to
enable any reasonable mortal to arrive at some
adequate notion of her matchless magnitude and
of her unrivalled magnificence.

When Sir CJusAcK RON EY' S ingenious scheme for
carrying out the original project without any fur-
ther delay whatever shall have been consummated
as vigorously as it has certainly been commenced
—not very much, we fancy, will be left then to
mere conjecture. The stupendous reality will
then tangibly and palpably surpass the day-
dreams of all the day-dreamers who have
ever had romantic visions of what might ulti-
mately, by a stretch of the imagination, be accom-
plished in regard to the possible wonders of naval
architecture. We shall then have before us, if
we pay another visit (as who will not ?) to The
Leviathan, when absolutely completed—what is
now at this moment there most majesticallyfore-
shadowed.

There already, in that gigantic hull, is the
symmetrical structure of a ship made out of
30,000 wrought-iron plates, knit together by
iron rivets, numbering exaatiy 3,000,000 ! There,
in other words, is an iron ship, the mere shell of
which weighs fully 10,000 tons ! A vessel, in
her length fully 700 feet, or, in other words,
from stern to stern, measuring along that clear
flush deck, fore and aft, one-eighth of a mile !
In breath, 83 feet ; so that, without her paddle-
boXes, she would stick in passing through one of
the broadest streets of London—Pall-Mall ; while
with her paddle-boxes, measuring as she then
does 120 feet, she would come to a dead lock in
going down the broadest street, of all in London--
Portland-place.

Remove one of her outer funnels and lay it
horizontally on the ground—and a man, six feet
high in his stockings, c.)ulcl walk up-right through
it without rubbing the top of his head bald iu the
process.

Unship one of those Brobdignagiau patine
wheels, and try, and you would try vainly, will

all Mr. COOKE'S horses, and all Mr. COOKE'S men
(for the diameter of the wheel is considerably the
larger) to depssit it iu the circus of ASTLEY'S
Amphitheatre.

Collected together, and weighed in the balance
of some good-natured Cyclops—the anchors and
wire-wrought cables alone weigh 253 tons alto-
gether 1 But then her anchors are to be 10, and
her chain cable is to be measured oat to the tune
of 800 fathoms.

Remember, for a moment, that the Leviathan
is constructed to be worked alternately, or all at
once, by wind and steam, by canvass, paddle-
wheel, and screw propeller.
Considering her capacity as a sailing-vessel, it
is not surprising, surely, to find that four at least
of her six masts are to be made of hollow wrought
iron, that three out of the number are to be
square-rigged, with iron spars ; that the rigging
is to be of wire, and that the huge shrouds of
this material are to be 81- inches in cireurnfer-

For the handling of capstans and warps there
will he a crew of 350 sailors and engineers---to
whose aid, however, will come the power of cer-
tain auxiliary steam engines, for the purpose of
working pumps, heaving anchors, and hoisting
sails—sails capable of spreading forth 6,500
square yards of canvass.

- It would be idle, we have seen, to dream of
fitting one of her paddle-wheels within the circus
of Astley's Amphitheatre. It is not at all surpris-
ing, therefore, to find that a diameter of 24 feef:
has been given to her screw-propeller, 'which is to
have, moreover, a weight 150 tons, and a
length of shaft of 10,;(-4 foot.

As
thoy are to be brought
into
boilers and of 100 fur-
naces. the
b y clitt the a
aidta ofg in
10'
They stand 50 in height, th©y are to
give, at a pressure of 251 b. to the square inch, a
total average of 2,600-horse power, though
capable, if requisite, of being worked to a force
of upwards of 10,000 horses.

No wonder the speed to be realised is esti-
mated at 16 knots, or, in other words, 20 miles
an hour—the whirl of a railway ! So that, at
any rate, in one month's time by the Cape of
Good Hope, might be accomplished the whole