The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-28 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1858.

Mr. BniGurr's admirable speech, yesterday, at
Birmingham, has sounded the trumpet-note of Re-
form for the next session of Parliament. It rings
clear and loud upon the ear of the nation ; and will,
happily, be echoed for some time to come from
journal to journal as distinctly as by a series of
audible reverberations. The Reformers of Eng-
land—and we may count them in almost any direc-
tion by hundreds of thousands—have again reason
to be grateful for the complete restoration
to health of the most eloquent of all their
great advocates in the Legislature. We say
this quite as cordially, as unreservedly, as un-
affectedly as the most infatuated of the political
followers and personal friends of the ex-member
for Manchester, now M.P. for Birmingham. Mr.
BRIGHT is by none more sincerely respected or
more heartily admired than by ourselves. Yet
upon many questions, and some of these vital ques-
tions too, we have often been, we shall probably
very often be, diametrically opposed to him. We
b:lieve him to be as thoroughly conscientious a
politician as ever, with the rarest witcheries of
oratory, charmed the senses and led captive the
judgments of an assembly of Englishmen. But we
don't by any means regard him as infallible in his
own judgment. We conceive him to have often
been, and still to be upon many points, egregiously
mistaken. And, by the same right that he him-
self utters those opinions which appear to us so
very fallacious, we presume frankly and explicitly
to declare them to be, according to our view of things,
erroneous. For our exceeding audacity in so doing
Mr. BRIGHT has, before now, fallen foul of us with
the utmost possible degree of discourtesy. That
he has so retaliated upon the independence of this
organ affects our judgment in his regard not in the
least particular. His abilities will still find in the
columns of The Sun an ever cordial recognition.
His arguments will still be examined by us
neither in a captious nor in a sycophantic
spirit—but with a candid regard to their
intrinsic value in our own unbiassed estimation.
It is with these sentiments that we have always
hitherto scrutinised—that we shall continue still
hereafter to scrutinise—the reasoning of Mr.
BRIGHT upon all those important subjects so inti-
mately affecting the welfare of the community—
subjects discussed by him with the ready mastery
of a man at once of genius and of common sense,
both within and without the walls of Parliament.
As a Reformer we go with Mr. BRIGHT heart and
soul. As a Peace-at-any-price man, we are opposed
to him absolutely. Of his whimsical pugnacity
in insisting upon his views in the latter character,
he himself almost perversely, certainly very gra-
tuitously and superfluously, afforded a new and
somewhat striking illustration at the outset of the
brilliant oration delivered by him yesterday in the
Town-hall of Birmingham. Now—in 1858—he
must needs go harking back to the old irritating
question—the vexed question and the vexing ques-
tion—of the war of 1854 between the Allies and
Russia. He reminds us of what we only too well
remember—How at the time when that great war
aPPpeared to be imminent he insisted upon it, from
his place in the House of Commons, that it
was in no way worth the cost and sacrifices it
would inevitably necessitate. Mr. BRIGHT at
that time was in a conspicuous minority.
He is so to this moment. At the
period he refers to, the Crown, the State, the
Country thought otherwise. And, thinking other-
wise, war was declared. At an enormous cost, with
very fearful sa4crifices that war was continued—
with many blunders, with precipitate, with in-
sensate haste it was brought to a conclusion. And
now that three years have elapsed since the date of
its close, Mr. BRIGHT-still in a minority, no doubt
a conscientious, but still a very ridiculous minority
—signalises the commencement of the first
great speech he has yet delivered outside the walls
of Parliament since his happy restoration to health
—by taunting; the Crown, the State, the Country
with the qu cry, " Was this war really, after all,
worth this enormous cost, these terrible sa-cri-
flees ?" He t pikes pains to bring before the national
ken as vividly as possible the mournful penalties of
the war—th .se aggregate of 40,000 lives lost by
England, t h e total of £100,000,000 sterling
spent by :England in the agonies of the
Crimean str lio•gle. Was the war worth all this P

We answer, Yes ! We answer that there are re-
sults now visible upon the face of Europe which
proclaim distinctly—notwithstanding the inade-
quate terms of the peace so unhappily because
precipitately and inadequately concluded—that
even through that miserable treaty of Vienna,
there were results gained that were worth
yet more lives and more money• than we know
to have been actually expended.
Constantinople, once in the grasp of Russia, and
Modern Civilisation would be driven back half-a-
dozen centuries. The European capital of Turkey
is politically—the standing point of ARCHIMEDES.
Let any one of the great Power's of Christendom
obtain a mastery of that, and it would at once
secure an enormous preponderance—a preponde-
rance so considerable that the balance of power
would be at once a thing of the past. We do not
agree to that most dastardly of all political axioms
which tells us that there is nothing in politics that
is worthy of the shedding of one drop of human
blood ! Much less can we subscribe to the opinion
that there is nothing politically worthy of
the expenditure of a single guinea! It is
nothing, to our mind, at "all to the ;purpose if an
appraiser appears with his note-book upon the yet
reeking battle field to calculate the value of
all the gold lace and broadcloth dabbled in
blood and mire in that chaos of slaughter. How
many died at Thermopylae—what was the cost of it
—does it matter? NELSON expired at Tra-
falgar—more was the grief of the nation
at the calamity—but was the victory worth
gaining or not—though the national ob ituary
was so mournfully increased, and though so large
an item was added that year to our war expen-
diture ?

No—we are as entirely opposed to Mr. BRIGHT,
in what we believe to be his most mistaken, though
eminently conscientious opinions as an advocate of
Peace at any Price—as we are with him earnestly,
heartily, enthusiastically, as a champion of Reform
in the Constitution of Parliament.

What will tne French say of us now ? We
have harboured assassins ; we have conspired
against an Emperor ; we have been guilty of a
thoroughly selfish Free-trade ; we have flooded our
markets with cheap foreign goods that we might
benefit ourselves and ruin the world ; we have
talked of responding to Cherbourg and steam rams
with an increased navy and other steam rams ; we
have kept M. LEssEPs,rwhat in us lies, out of the
Isthmus of Suez ; we have filched the barren rock
of Perim from Turkey ; we have laughed at Popish
miracles, and been very irreverent to the POPE'S
toe and to Cardinal Wiseman—indeed, there is no
end to the perfidies of Albion ; but the end is
coming—we have at last actually hissed a bishop!
yes, one of our own bishops, an Anglican bishop,
a Right Reverend Father in GOD—an audience has
been found on British ground rude enough, pro-
fane enough, to hiss a bishop.

What could the wretches mean ? This was no
ordinary bishop. He had been tutor to the QUEEN,
and, hissing him, was it not like hissing all to
which he could claim of intellectual and moral father-
hood in her MAJESTY herself ? He was a bishop
no less—some think a great deal more—by grace of
the Court of VICTORIA than by the grace of
GOD ; and to hiss the memory of the Court of the
QUEEN ! and that too with the very same voices
which but a very few weeks ago were heard in the
adjoining town of Leeds shouting, Long live the
QUEEN ! Inconsiderate profanity and disloyalty, to
say the least of it, which we may hope QUEEN and
Bishop will both forgive. And then, again, our
Bishop was on such a holy errand—he was pleading
the cause of his Society De Propaganda Fide; the
pet society of the Anglican Church, the society of
that Church, and not, like the Church Missionary
Society, the society of Lord SHAFTESBURY and
Lord EBURY, and the clique self-designated Evan-
gelical. This was the real Evangelical Society, since
it is one for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. Why, Lord DERBY wrote a book for it
which we reviewed some time this summer, and
ROBINSON CRUSOE, or DE FOE, no matter which,
wrote another for it, for it is very properly one of
the Society's stock publications. Oh ! men of
Bradford, fie on you for ever to hiss a Bishop, when
urging, too, the claims of the SocietyDePropaganda
Fide—the fines of ROBINSON CRUSOE, and a very
good faith too, far better than half the credos issued
by half the societies.
But what had the Bishop done ? Bradford has
not been a turbulent place of late ; very busy—
busy under the patronage of a Bishop, too—of
Bishop BLAIZE, whom to this day it does not forget
—whom it honours as surely as his anniversary
comes round. It was a little unsettled, to be sure, in
Chartist times, and it was said (that of course was
slander) that, under Tory stimulus, FEARGUS
O'CONNOR being leader, it would hiss down JOHN
BRIGHT and RICHARD COBDEN. And once it
turned out Major-General, then Colonel, THomPsoN;
and worst of all, it would not have Church-rates,
and made the Churchwardens spend three or four
times the amount of a rate for nothing at all. Such
things we have heard of : but we never .heard of
Bradford's hissing a Bishop before. The town, too,
has wonderfully taken to music of late. We be-
lieve the vast and noble hall in which the Propa-
ganda met was built formerly for music ; how
could the town go back again so far, and back even
to hissing ?

We consulted our reporters but in vain. There
was nothing to hiss in the speech—nothing, at
least, unless the speech could be interpreted by the
man, as wise people say prophecy is interpreted by
the event. And there is confessedly something in
this—for the first of Roman rhetoricians lays it down
that an orator ought to have the good-will of his
hearers ; that is, he should have behaved himself
well, as they say of judges, and can fill the office
of orator only quam diu se bene gesserit. And this
was no doubt the explanation of all. Boyn Hill
was shouted aloud into the Episcopal ears ; but the
Bishop, nothing daunted, took the enemy in front
and flank—he cared nothing, not he, for " those
nasty hisses from nasty mouths." They and cer-
tain " nasty articles in nasty newspapers" were the
last resorts of intolerance, which had fled from
every other spot in the land—the Bishop must have
forgotten the House of Lords and the bench of
Bishops there. The Bishop exulted in the martyrdom
of hisses, and it was no doubt infinitely better than
the fire and faggot of old HARRY, or the dungeons
of QUEEN BESS, or the voluntary banishment of
the pilgrim fathers, whom the Bishop praised for
their conscientiousness, but bid them freeze for
their Presbyterianism.
But the fact was the confessional story had
reached Bradford. Oh, the mischiefs of telegraphs
and railways, and, above all, " of nasty articles" in
intolerant newspapers ! In Puritan times the
village of Bradford would never have heard of such
doings at Oxford. Now, no sooner done than
known, and the nasty doings of Boyn Hill call
forth nasty hisses at Bradford. The Bishop did
talk exceedingly well. He professed most loudly
—nay, we thought the Bishop did profess too much
—his loyalty to Anglican Protestantism, and he
lauded the Bible and the Prayer 800k—not the
Bible only—that is not Anglican Protestantism—to
the very skies again and again ; they—the two

books--had done no one can tell what for Englan d
and would do as much for any country which
would but accept both. But with all this, these
profane hissers would interpret the words by the
man, and they would believe that SAMUEL of Ox-
ford did like the confessional after all. They
thought he stood by his Father Confessor of Boyn-
hill as long as he could—that he appointed a com-
mission for a very similar purpose to that for which
the Crimean Commission was appointed ; and, that
only when frightened by the revulsion of public
opinion, and perhaps by hints from high quarters,
he wrote his celebrated recantation, kissed the rod,
and begged pardon of modest females and indig-
nant husbands and fathers.

Well, we know not what to say to the men of
Bradford. If we censured them, they would tell
us that we sometimes hissed in print, and we fear
we must plead guilty ; but we humbly advise the
Bishop of OXFORD to stop at home, and make no
more speeches, till be gets to the Lords again. If
he ventures on the platform of public meetings, he
will find that he is but too well known ; these nasty
newspapers and their nasty articles have, in the
language of the nursery song, put
" Rings on his fingers, and bells on his toes,
And we shall have hissing wherever he goes."

BIRTH OF A DANISH PRINCE.

HAMBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Princess Louisa of Denmark was safely delivered
this afternoon, at four o'clock, at Castle Bernstorff, near
Copenhagen, of a prince. The princess and her child are
both doing well.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 27.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess
Helena and Prince Alfred, drove out yesterday afternoon
attended by the Equeries in Waiting.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party.
Her Majesty, with Prince Arthur and Princess Helena,
walked and drove in the Home-park this morning.
The Prince Consort, attended by Captain the Hon. D.
de Ros, left Windsor at 10 o'clock, for Portsmouth, with
Prince Alfred, who embarked this day on board her Ma-
jesty's ship Euryalus. Major Cowell, R.E., is in attend-
ance on Prince Alfred.

The Prince of Wales joined the Prince Consort and
Prince Alfred at Basingstoke, and also proceeded to Ports-
mouth. After accompanying Prince Alfred on board the
Euryalus at Spithead, the Prince Consort returned to
Windsor Castle, and the Prince of Wales to the White
Lodge, Richmond Park.
Early in the morning Prince Alfred went to Frogmore to
take leave of the Duchess of Kent.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judge, Queen's
counsel, &c., at his Lordship's residence in Eaton-square,
on Tuesday next, the first day of Michaelmas term at 12
o'clock.

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