The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1858.

Lord DERBY cannot afford a second time to offer
to the country merely the half-ready contents of
the Whigs' measure-basket. He has taken office,
and, if he would avoid political disgrace, must do
something worthy of his position. None of his
colleagues' addresses up to Saturday night were
permitted to foreshadow, ever so faintly, the
knowledge to be imparted, we may hope, to-night.
The first appeals to the country merely said—Gen-
tlemen, you know us ; the names of DISRAELI,
PAXINGTON, and HENLEY are not strange to you ;
elect us for what we have been ; what we are to
be, take upon trust from the past. Even Sit
FITZROY KELLY, who does advert to some points
of Representative Reform, is very conveniently
vague. Well, this may, so far, be politic
and convenient, but it is only so far and no fur-
ther. Lard DERBY cannot afford once more to
say, Let us hold on a little while by sufferance ;
enable us to allege that we made a few good law
reforms all ready to our hands, and passed the
necessary financial bills ; then leave us to shoot
and hunt for half-a-year ; and after that we will
tell you what we have made up our minds to. We
can appeal to his Lordship whether we have not
on former occasions demanded fair play for his
Administration, and we demand it now ; but we
demand also a policy, a frankly-avowed policy wor-
thy of fair play. We can hardly ask for him exemp-
tion from factious oppositions, if by reticency, or by
half-measures, or unpopular proposals, he himself
invites that opposition.

There is one journal, of not the humblest preten-
sions, which, perhaps not liking to turn too 11001),
is openly threatening Lord DERBY with the im-
possibility of evading a stiffish Reform Bill. This
game journal was fain to allege a few weeks ago,
that nobody wanted reform, but that somehow
everybody was looking for it, and the Premier
had promised it last year, he had even put that
promise in the QUEEN'S Speech ; so, a Reform
Bill, though quite needless, and though it could be
attended to any year, in the course of the next
ten or
~twenty years, yet must be brought for-
ward. Now, however, it is the one thing inevit-
able I Even India may wait, and the Corporation
of London surely may ; but Representative Re-
form—the Reform demanded only in political
imagination—this has become the one thing which
cannot wait ! We have, of course, always taken
the directly opposite view, and have demanded a
substantive Reform Bill as the honest wish of the
great body of those who take any interest
at all in politics. We have always hoped,
we may say believed, that a sham
Reform Bill would have ruined Lord
Pailtss.sTox, and we therefore cannot be thought
to press the subject on Lard DERBY merely to em-
barrass him. On the contrary, we believe that he
has quite as much good will towards representative
Reform as Lord PALZ:.,TraONe ;r and that he may
which
for bringing
consistently allege
weo:pldehave
forward a Reform measure
been the impelling motive with the
namely, that the country will have it, and that the
Parliament had been elected to carry one. Lord
DIM is the Minister of England, and if England
demands a certain measure it is his duty to pro-

pose it.
Last year Lord DEBIT did us the honour to
quote our Reform catechism in the House of
Lords ; he did it then for Lord PALmEßsroN's
instruction ; he will, we trust, now gi►e it his best
attention for his own sake. If hostile journals
bAullt him with the promised Reform nil; be must

!yet remember that fas esi ab hosee doceri, for they '
would not pitch just upon this difficulty, unless
they felt that it was the difficulty for him. On
the other hand if, as old and honest Reformers,
instead of lamenting, as we have at times done,
popular apathy on the subject, we now tell him,
from our knowledge of our own party, that we
are strong enough to insist on Reform ;
that we have often been baulked of it, but
do not mean to be baulked again. Surely our
opinion of the position of the question may reason
ably pass for something. We ask of Lord DERBY,
then, to look the question fairly in the face, for
evade it he cannot. Lord JOELX RUSSELL, pos-
sibly Lord PALMEr-STON in opposition, the Radi-
cals certainly, will be awake to their advantage.
He will not be suffered, if we divine rightly, to
burke reform under temporising pretexts ; and
to oppose it will make a ♦ote of no eonfidence
perfectly easy. Individual proposals, and per-
haps a bill of considerable pretensions, will be
offered, and on these he will be defeated by large
majorities, till he will be unable to carry on the
Government. In the ♦ery house which gave
Mr. GissoN a majority against the Government,
:here would not have been a less majority than
sixty, had the vote been taken on a Liberal ques-
tion. It was fifty-three against Church Rates the
Wednesday previously ; for the Oaths Bill it
would be overwhelming ; so it would undoubtedly
be for any of the principal points in Representa-
tive Reform.
We would then suggest to Lord D➢RBY and his
colleagues whether their acceptance of office (unless,
indeed, they avow an intention to dissolve on the
Reform question)—their acceptance of office with
the present Parliament should not be taken as an
avowal of acceptance also of the chief demand of
the nation. The Parliament was, notwithstanding
the Canton affair, elected for the great objects of
Liberals. The constituencies could not be con-
fined to the cry of PALMERSTON' and YEE ; the
association everywhere was—of those seeming
ecompatibilities—PA.LMEßSTON and Reform 1
The general shout for Reform, notwithstanding
he Chinese diversion and the Tory-headed
Cabinet, must convince a less practised politician
than Lord DZEUIT of the political want of the
hour.

itself, we can sympathise with those so severely
tried, and rejoice at their providential escape.
The intelligence is all couleur de rose so far as it
goes. Sir C. CAMPBELL, at the head of 250 (mani-
festly intended for 2,500 or 25,000) men, and with
about 70 pieces of ordnance was collecting sup-
plies and means of conveyance at Futtyghur for
the intended onslaught on Oude, whore rebellion
still rears its unnatural head. It was generally
believed that it would be invaded on
the 25th of February from different parts, so
that the crisis will come on sooner than was anti-
cipated. Sir JAIIES OITTRA.M was holding his
position at the Alumbagh without any difficulty.
The rebels, warned by three decisive defeats,
had become cautious, and abstained from any
further annoyance. Their former attacks had,
without doing any serious mischief to the garrison,
been visited with severe retribution. They
profited by the salutary lesson, and refrained from
again " kicking against the pricks."

Sir JAMES OUTRA.II had been reinforced
by her MAJESTY'S 34th Regiment, which had
marched up from Cawnpore, conveying a
quantity of valuable stores. A party of the
Rifles had taken up a position on the
Lucknow road, one day's march from Cawnpore,
where they would remain for the purpose of
maintaining the communications open. This is
an important movement, which promises to be
attended with the best results.

The rebels were manifestly losing heart. They
were anxious to negotiate, but in the meantime
were fortifying Lucknow, where it is probable the
last serious struggle will take place. It was said
that they numbered 100,000 fighting men, but
formidable as that vast army may appear
on paper, it cannot withstand an European
Army commanded by a triad and experienced
general, whose very name is a tower of strength.
It is fortunate that they are so closely massed,
that a single blow may prove decisive.
Sir Iluou ROSE had not only relieved Saugor
but had captured the strong fort of Ratgnrh. Its
garrison, however, escaped over the walls. The
Rajpootana field force had also captured AVM,
said to be the strongest town in that garrison. The
gallant (!) defenders also flying in much admired
confusion, during a frightful storm of thunder and

It is for the new Premier to say how far he
will go. His appeal to Lord GREY, now avowedly
Ls much a Tory, in all but name, as Lord DERBY
himself, is to be sure ominous enough ; but we
regard it as certain that details arranged in ac-
cordance with the vague Tory generalities of
Lord GREY would insure immediate rejection by
he nation, we believe by the House of Commons
►lso. The Conservatives must look the fact in
the face that Conservatism itself must now rely
not on bearding the people, but on friendly co-
Teration with them. Aristocracy must increasingly
trust not to its mere titles, and to keeping power
from the hands of the nation, but to cultivating
its advantages, and acquiring and maintaining
superiority in intelligence, education, and capacity
for Government. Our nobility, and their offspring
still more, will be obliged to face competitive
examinations, and a far more exacting standard of
qualification than hitherto.

rain.

The most auspicious omen of any was the
anxiety of the inhabitants to cultivate the soil,
and the readiness with which the demands of the
collectors of revenue were met. It would almost
seem as if nothing unusual had taken place.
Perhaps the Income Tax collectors in London have
been more stringentin their proceedings, and found
greater difficulties than those who were making
their demands in a district where rebellion was
lately rampant.
Nothing more favourable could have boon an-
ticipated, and the habitual croakers are deprived
of the power of exercising their vocation in the
present instance.

This evening the promised Ministerial expla.
nations will be given by the new Premier in the
House of Lords. The seats of the members of the
Cabinet in the House of Commons having been
iecessarily vacated by their acceptance of office,
we can only judge by the addresses to their re-
spective constituents of their views. Of course,
it could scarcely be anticipated that they would
forestall the statement of the First Lord of the
Treasury to any considerable extent. Generally
speaking, therefore, they have contented them •
selves with declaring their desire to meet the
wishes of the nation and to maintain its honour,
and contrraute to the welfare and happiness of
the community.

We are fair advisers of Lord DERBY, since
we care not a straw for men, but for measures
only. We belong to no party. We are
indifferent whether Whigs or Tories give us what
we want, so that we do but get it. Our political
gratitude goes to those who give the people what
they ought to have. Unless Lord DERBY com-
mits himself by ignoring or opposing Reform, or
by proposing some such treacherous measure as
we expected from the fallen Minister, we shall,
so far as this all-important measure is cc neerned,
give him our ungrudging support. We tell the
Noble Lord, however, plainly, that if he resort to
any Whiggish evasion, if he want to defer a
Reform measure till next year, or to push it off
till too late for discussion in both Houses, or if he
bring forward a scheme to place the chief power
of the country in the hands of landlords, and
their tenants at will—none of these things will
the country endure. He will be outvoted imme-
diately ; he could but appeal to the country ; and
if he did that as the opponent or the perverter of
Reform, he would be in a smaller minority than
he now is.

Sir FITZROY KELLY-whose address to the
electors of East Suffolk will be found in another
part of this day's newspaper, and who, as Attor-
ney-General, is unquestionably the right man in
the right place—is more explicit. His profes•
sional claims will be universally recognised. He
has proved himself to-be a staunch reformer of
legal abuses—pruning the excrescences that have
collected about the venerable trunk, with firm,
but gentle hand. While declaring that it would
obviously be premature to enter into the views or
intentions of Government, which has yet scarcely
come into existence, he still expresses a
hope that if supported by the constituencies, they
shall " bring to a satisfactory conclusion the great
questions affecting the fate of our dominions in
the East, and advance the cause of Law Reform
and of the civil administration of the affairs of the
StAte, so as to satisfy the just expectations of the
country !"

Some persons, naturally, will laugh at the
idea of " DERBY and Reform." Yet we remem-
ber seeing him doing vigorous battle for the first
Reform Bill ; he would but have to return to his
ant love. The same might be said of his coadju-
tor in the Lower House. its to the Sir Roberts
and Sir Harrys—they, of course, must eat their
leek, and grumble about danger to our glorious
constitution in Church and State, but follow their
leaders they must, for they have none of their
own. We believe it is in the power of Lord
DBREY to fix himself in power without dishonour.
When it was a clear political fact that Catholic
emancipation, and the repeal of the corn laws
, must be carried, it was not held dishonourable for
the great leaders of the day, to avow that the
time was come—that the thing must be done, that
they could do it, and that they would do it.
Surely reform is in the same position. No
one can deny that the representation is
now full of discreditable anomalies in re
gard to the assignment of members to
constituencies, that it would give stability to the
Constitution, as well as be right, to admit large
numbers, now excluded, to the full privileges of
citizens, and that the secrecy of the vote is essen-
tial to the repression of election abuses and the
freedom of suffrage. We hold that if Lord DERBY
intends to keep in office, he ought at once to
avow these changes to be necessary, and promise
his bill, at latest, immediately after Easter. Or,
if he chose to dissolve at once, with the offer
of the Ballot, he would have a majority of two to
one.

On the Indian question, and that of law-making
to please bullying counts and colonels, or even to
please our "distinguished ally," the House of
Commons has spoken loudly enough. He cannot
be mistaken there. Neither can he well misun-
derstand its opinion on Church-rates. If he
could, his able and honest son could enlighten him.
Let him not mistake on Reform. No voed has
been taken yet on that, but the vote of the coun-
try was given unmistakeably last spring, and
Lord DERBY must choose between the alternative
of respecting that vote or of dissolving Parliament
and asking the country what it thinks of DERBY
and REPRESENTATIVE REFORM.

But this is not all. He touches baldly on the
great cause of Parliamentary Reform, and shows
that, at least, as much may be expected
from Lord DERBY as from Lord PALMER-
STOY. He says,—" Whenever the time
shall arive for the consideration of this
all-important question, I shall be found ready to
support and assist in any measure for the exten-
sion of the elective franchise to every man in Bri-
bin qualified by property or by education to
exercise it with independence and intelligence.
A redistribution of the boroughs and towns pos-
sessed and unpossessed of the franchise, so that
all above the rank of villages may be represented
in the Legislature, is, in my opinion called for
upon every principle of justice and expediency."
Emphatically adding, "For why should Yarmouth
send two members to Parliament, while Lowe-
stoft is without any representative at all.
I think also that the proportion
between the numbers of the population and
the representatives should be much more just
and proximate through out the counties and towns
of England, Scitland, and Ireland." This is as it
should he. If he only touched on " the ballot"
it would leave nothing to be desired.

It however shows that Lord DERBY will at tend
to th© Reform question. If he dues so, what
more can the nation require ? It cares not for
men ; it is useful and popular measures that are
required ; and these are far more likely to come
from Lord DERBY than Lord PALMERSTON. By
his acts we shall judge him, giving that fair play
and reasonable allowance that is dear to every
English heart. Already we can discover that
Lord DERBY has rested his Ministry
on a far wider basis than that of his
Whig predecessors. He does not reject men of
talent and experience because they have not azure
blood in their veins, or that they sprung from
the people. Genius, ability, and judgment
have at length a reasonable chance, although the
possessors do not belong to the fortunate famili.:s
by birth or marriage. Nlihy then should we join
in the interested outcry of those who only
desire a monopoly of " the loaves and fishes,"
scarcely consenting to the appropriation of "the
crumbs that fall from the table" by the unprivi-
leged outsiders? The Attorney-General's address
gives a reasonable hope that the new Ministry will
bid fairly for popular favour, and if they do so,
there is nothing to prevent their enjoying a long
tenure of office.

Another telegram has been received from India.
It arrived at the Foreign Office, this morning, at
6.15, and indicates the nature of the intel
ligence which had arrived from Bombay,
per the Pottinger, at Alexandria, on the
evening of the 23d. ultimo. very remarkable be There is nothing
yond the relief of Saugor
by Sir H. Rost, and men and childrenthe rescue of about 100 wo-
fro
for m the perilsby which they have
been environed more than six months. Their
sufferings during that awful period must have
been of a very fearful character. Imprisonment
alone in such a climate would wwoausldadhdaevdeanloeuennebeaaad.
• f 4 fat© far worse than death
pb,rolibuents7oh:no
le:: no;

We understand that Mr. Michael Williams, MT •
for
dement et rnwall, toted against Mr. Milner Gibsor, 's
ani
on riday, the 19th February, on the motion
for the second reading of the A,jea Bill.

TitE Seri, LiCINDON MONDAS ITVENI NG,' IVIARCH 1; 18,5._

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The Arabia has arrived with advices from New
York to the 17th, and 598,390 doll. in specie.
The Niagara had arrived out.
The Senate had instructed its.; Committee on Fo-
reign Relations to inquire into the expediency of
abrogating the Reciprocity Treaty with Great Bri-
tain.

The alleged slaver Banchetta, captured and sent
to New York for adjudication, had been released
on the ground of insufficient proof.

At Ilavannah, on the Bth, the stock of sugar was
64,000 boxes ; prices unaltered. Exchange on Lon-
don 13 to 14i prem.

At New York money was exceedingly abundant.
The Bank statement continued favourable. The
rates for first-class commercial paper were 5 to 7
per cent. for 60 to 90 days. Stocks had been very
active ; the latest quotations were as follows :
Virginia Five=, 92 ; Missouri Sixes, 84. New York
Central shares, 86 ; New York and Erie shares,
29t ; Reading Railroad shares, 584 ; Michigan
Central shares, 70 ; Michigan Southern shares, 24k;
Cleveland and Toledo shares, 46i ; Panama Rail-
road shares, 103/ ; Illinois Central shares, 97i ;
ditto bonds, 95 ; Chicago and Rock Island shares,
81.

Exchange on London, 109 k to 110 k.
_Ashes firm.
Cotton had declined ie.
Flour and wheat were dull, but with little change
in price. _

Iron, molasses, sugar, and tobacco quiet, and
unchanged in value.
Freights unaltered.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

Up to going to press the following were the appoint
meats definitively made :

IN THE CABINET.
FIRST LORD OF TME TREASURY.. Lord Derby.
LORD CHANCELLOR... Sir F. Thesigor.
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL The Marquis of Salisbury,
LORD PRIVY SEAL I ord Hardwicko.
FOREION DEPARTMENT
EIOME DEPARTMENT
FOR THE COLONIES Lord Stanley.
Fon WAR General Peel.
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Mr. Disraeli.
ADMIRALTY Sir J. Pakington.
PRESIDENT OP THE BOARD OF CONTROL Lord Ellenborough.
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE„Mr. Henley.
BOARD OF WORKS Lord John Manners.
CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF
I Duke of Mout, ose.
LANCASTER
J

NOT IN THE CABINET.
POSTMASTER-GENERAL Lord Colchester.
PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD MT. SalleTotl Estcoult.

LORDS OF THE TREASURY Colonel Taylor.
'fr. Whitmore.
.
SECRETARIES OF TUE TREASURY.... Mr GA. Hamilton.
Sir W. Jolliffo.
SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY Right Hon. bury Corry
XTTORNEY-GENERAL Sir F. Kelly.
SOLICITOR-GENIsRAL Mr. Cairns.
JUDGE-ADVOCATE.GENERAL. .. Mr. E. Egerton.
Mr. Inglis.

LORD-ADVOCATE
UND
OFFER SE E
CRETARY AT THE FOREIGN- } Mr. Seymour Fitzgarald
IC
UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE HOME }
Hr. Hardy.
DEPARTMENT

UNDER-SECRETARY FOR Wary Viscount Harding°.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES Earl of Caruaryon.
VICE-Ps ESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE
}Mr Athlerley.
OF COUNCIL OF EDUCATION...

VICE PRESIDENT OF TIIE BOARD OF
}The Earl of Donoughmore
TRADE

LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND The Earl of Eglinton.
SECRETARY FOR. IRELAND Lord Naas.
LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND 'Ur. Napier.

ATTORNRY•GENERAL FOR IRELAND ..•Mr. Whiteslde.

MISTRESS OF TIIH ROBES Duchess of Manchester.'

LORD CHAMBERLAIN Lord De'alum
LORD STEWARD Lord Exeter.
MASTER OF THE HORSE.., The Duke of Beaufort.
MASTER OF THE BUCKHOT.7NDS The EArl of Sandwich.
VICE•CHAMBERLAIN Lord Newport.
COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD COI, Forester.
TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD Lord C. Hamilton.
CAPTAIN OF GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS Earl Talbot.
ELord LOVAINE will be a Lord of the Admiralty,
The Solicitor-General for Ireland has not ye'
been appointed.

We believe that the following appointments have
been made :

Chief Equerry and Clerk Marahal—Lord CoL-
VILLE.

Lords in Waiting—Earl of VERULA3I'
SHEFFIELD, ViSCotzut STRA.THALLAN, Lords BATE-
MAN, BYRON, CROFTON, POLWARTH, and RAGLAN.
Lord in Waiting to the Prince Consort—Lord
BAaoT.

MINISTERIAL ADDRESSES.

STAMFORD.

On Saturday Sir Frederic Thesiger (who was first
returmed for Stamford at the general election of 1832) took
leave of this constituency in the following address :

" To THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF STAMFORD.

" Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been graciously
pleased to commit the Great Seal to my keeping, the tie
which so closely connected me with your borough is neces-
sarily dissolved.
" I cannot, however, separate myself from you without
expressing my gratitude for the confidence which you ma-
nifested towards me in choosing me to be your ropresenta
tive, and for the kindness with which you have invariably
recognised my earnest endeavours faithfully to fulfil thi
duties of the important trust which you confided to me. I
assure you I shall always have a most grateful recollection
of this period of my life, and can never cease to feel the
deepest interest in your prosperity and welfare, I bog
respectfully to bid you farewell.
I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
" Your faithful and obedient servant,
" FREDERIC THESIGER.
" Eaton-square, Feb. 26."

On the same day the now candidate, Mr. John Inglis,
Dean of Faculty, of Edinburgh, issued an address to the
electors of the borough of Stamford. The writ had not
been received on Saturday night, but it was expected yes-
terday (Sunday), and in all probability the election will
take plus. on Saturday next.