The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION. - CENTRAL
lI COMMITTEE for PROMOTING the ELEC-
TION of Mr. LABOITCHERE.
Chairman—PASCUE GRENFELL, Esq.
- , Berkelu. M.P. P.
Brand, tht H. B. \V.; M.P.
Buxton, Charles, E-q., M.P.
Chambers, Montagu, Eq., g.c., M.P.
Chambers, Thomas, Esq., M.P.
Clay, James, Esq., M.P.
Cogan, the Right Hon. W. 11. F., M.P.
Edwards, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Eykyn, Roger, Esq., M.P.
Forster, \V. E., Esq 2 M.P.
Gibson, the Right hon. T. 1.1., M.P.
Goscben, the Right Hon. G. J., M.P.
Greufell, H. R., Esq., M.P.
Gridley, G. H., Esq., M.P.
Grosvenor, Captain the lion. R. W., M.P.
Hayter, Captain A. D., M.P.
Hodgson, Kirkman D., Esq., M.P.
Hogarth, J. R., Esq.
,Hugessen, E. H. Knatchbull, Esq., M.P.
Hughes, Thomas, Esq.. M.P.
Kinnaird, Hon. A. F., M.P.
Lawrence, Alderman W., M.P.
Leeman, George, Esq., M.P.
Lefevre, George J. S. Esq., M.P.
Lewis, Harvey, Esq.,
Locke, John, Esq., M.P.
Lusk, Alderman Andrew, M.P.
Marjoribanks, Sir D. C., Bart., M.P.
Neate, Charles, Esq., M.P.
O'Donoghue, The, M.P.
O'Beirne, J. L., Esq., M.P.
O'Brien, Sir P., Bart., M.P.
Osborne, R. Bernal, Esq., M.P.
Potter, Edmund, Esq., F.It.S., M.P.
Rothschild, Baron Lionel N. de, M.P.
Stansfeld, James, Esq., M.P.
Torrens, W. T. M'C., Esq., M.P.
Trevelyan, G. 0., Esq., M.P.
White, James, Esq., M.P.
Breton, P. 11. Le, Esq.
Brewer, W., Esq., M.D.
Bruce, A. S., Esq.
Busk, E. T., Esq., J.P.
Clarke, Joseph, Esq.
Churchill, Lord Alfred .
Delapryme, Charles, Esq.
Davenport, George, Esq.
Edwards, Henry, Esq., J.P.
Freeman, R., Esq.
Elodrich, F., Esq.
Gardiner, W., Esq.
Griffith, Wm., Esq., M.D. •
Humphreys, John, Esq., Coroner
Jenkins Henry, Esq.
Lubbock, Sir John, Bart.
Newton, Wm., Esq.
Monson, the Hon. E. J.
Michael, W. H., Esq.
Porter, Colonel
Pignet, Charles, Esq.
Richards, J. G., Esq.
Rough, Robert., Esq.
Snell, Charles, Esq.
Walden, W., Esq.
Walker, W., Esq.
Weguelin, Christopher, Esq.
Wilkins, John, Esq.
Werrott, Charles, Esq.
Westerton, Charles, Esq.
Younger, Henry J., Esq.
ITHOMAS GILBERT, Jun., Secretary.
Committee Room, 66, Charing-cross, S.W.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—It will probably occur to many persons
to contrast the proceedings in the two analogous
cases of Russian America and Luxemburg. The
Emperor of Russia, without troubling himself about
anybody's opinions on the subject, has sold to the
United States a piece of territory conterminous
with our own, and so placed an ambitious and en-
croaching neighbour on our very borders. The
country thus transferred overlaps British America
exactly as the Duchy of Luxemburg overlaps Bel-
gium, and the proceeding might beyond question be
viewed as menacing more or less remotely the security
or independence of our possessions. In fact, the in-
stincts of the British public actually took alarm at
the first intelligence of the transaction, but the
agitation quickly subsided, and the news which we
yesterday published of the final ratification of the
bargain was received with something very like un-
concern. In the case of Luxemburg, however,
the people, who may be said to represent our own
part in the transaction, have protested so vehe-
mently as to interrupt or prevent the proceeding.
The Germans say that their powerful neighbour and
possible enemy shall not acquire this position of
advantage to their prejudice, and though they can-
not very well impeach the title of the vendor, or his
right to part with his property if he pleases, they
overrule all such considerations in favour of their
own interests, and say that the sale shall not take
place. A generation or'two ago we should prob-
ably have held the same language respecting Rus-
sian America ; but the two cases, though nearly
parallel, are distinguished by some important dif-
ferences. In the first place, an element in the
question of the Luxemburg is wholly wanting in
that of Russian America. There are inhabitants of
the country to be consulted. Luxemburg has a
population of 200,000 souls, well entitled to a voice
in the determination of their own destinies. Rus-
sian America has no such population. All the
settlers in the country could be carried away in a
single steamer, the rest of the inhabitants being