The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

aside his well-merited title of honour, for what title
could be higher than that represented by the simple
words, " HENRY BROUGHAM ?" That name will be
remembered when dukes and marquises are forgot-
ten—when earls are numbered With the past.
HENRY BROUGHAM has witnessed the career of
many "representative men," of whom the nation
and the world may well be proud ; but
there are few, if any, that will descend to
posterity under better auspices than himself ;
and that, although they have had an advantage
which can never belong to him, of having their
praises proclaimed by the silver tongue of HENRY
BROUGHAM.

Long may he live to speak of the shining lights
of past generations; to cast a halo round the
memory of a NEWTON, and to show the versatility
of his own genius, and the extended grasp of his
intellect. Long may it be before another, however
worthy, may be empowered to speak of him as one
of the mighty dead.

Lord BROEGIIAM well and faithfully discharged
his duty. Although having passed the allotted life
of man by a full decade, his existence has not be-
come mere " labour and trouble." He still enjoys
lifb. He still toils for the benefit of his countrymen
and of mankind in all parts of the globe. Long
may it be so, and long may his brilliant intellect
remain bright and unclouded, to promote the social
welfare of his fellow men, and serve as a bright
example to the workers in all future ages.

Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, too, has clearly exhibited
the interest which he takes in the great cause of
Educational Progress. It is not recently, or since
he became a Cabinet Minister, that the
First Lord of the •Admiralty had displayed
his zeal and anxiety to promote the welfare
and happiness of the rising generation not
merely of the upper or middle class ; not merely of
those who could pay their way and cause no ex-
pense to the nation, but of the poor and destitute,
of those whose minds required instruction, as their
bodies required food. He declared his
profound conviction of " the extent to
which the welfare of the country depended on
the education question, and that so long as he was
able to take an active part in public life, whatever
situation he might hold, whatever might be his
position, he should never cease to feel the deepest
interest in promoting it."

Nor were these mere empty words. He had but
that morning promptly and handsomely responded
to an application to give a vessel in the pro-
motion of an institution intended to bring
up boys, whose energies might otherwise be
misapplied, either for the Royal Navy or
mercantile marine. We earnestly hope that
this boon may not be restricted to Liverpool ; it has
unquestionably a very prominent claim. But there
are other parts of the United Kingdom where such
a gift can be turned to great advantage, and where
it will doubtless be duly appreciated not only by
the inhabitants, but by the entire community. Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON has proved himself, in many
respects, a truly efficient Minister, but he
will permanently merit for himself the 'thanks and
gratitude of the country, by carrying to its legiti-
mate extent the admirable suggestion referred to.
England is essentially a maritime nation, and
everything that promotes and advances our naval
skill, or adds inducements to those by whom it may
be properly manned, will be of the greatest im-
portance to the nation—to all classes, from the peer
to the peasant.

We are, then, surely to have the Ballot at last.
Sir HENRY STUACEY is a convert to it. Ourreaders
will remember a rather hotly-contested election for
East Norfolk last midsummer, in which Sir HENRY
was defeated, by a rather narrow majority, by the
son of the late Earl of LEICESTER. A milk and
water liberalism—liberalism altogether inferior to
that of his well-known father—did something for
the Whig; but we believe, we might say we know,
that the Whig screw was put .on in many cases,

and that it may well have been that Sir HENRY
andToryism would have triumphed with the Ballot.
And. Sir HENRY is a thorough Tory—no mistake
about that. He will follow Lord DERBY through
thick and thin ; not because he does not think
Lord DERBY much too liberal, but because he is
the best leader of the day, and a man that will
keep his promise. Unlike the Whigs, he will do
more than he has exactly promised, and though he
did not promise a Reform Bill next year, yet,, as he
denounced keeping the question dangling before the
eyes of the people, and promised to consider it, he
will bring forward a bill, and very likely one which
will give an extended franchise, and members in
proportion to the population of the country.
But on the Ballot Sir HENRY s quite decided—
as decided as Mr. DISRAELI was five-and-twenty
years ago—decided, too, from the results of expe-
rience, not from radical philosophical theorising.
He would support the Ballot if in Parliament !
he would support it, believing it best for the Con-
servative cause ! He would. support it, because
corruption, especially the abominable screw,
could not be worse than it is under Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S little Bribery Bills ! We reprint
the Tory Baronet's words, and commend them to
the attention of all concerned :—" The question of

he ballot was one which Conservatives had always

looked on with horror, and he must acknowledge
that no one had a stronger feeling than he had on

the subject. He had felt that the influence of pro-
perty ought always to be felt, that it ought to be
known how that property was represented—that
is, how persons voted ; and he had also considered

that property would not have its proper influence
if vote by ballot were established. But he had
now had a certain amount of experience in social
and political life ; he had been engaged in two
elections ; he had fought one contest single-
handed, and as far as his experience went upon the
latter occasion, he had been led to the coneluSion
that the Conservative cause could not have been
injured by the ballot. He was quite convinced
that the Conservative cause, not only in Norfolk
but throughout the country, could not be injured by
the ballot, if honesty of principle were to prevail
without that abominable thing called the screw.'
Of this he was quite sure, that the present
laws at any rate did not prevent corruption, which
had been general throughout the country ; and
could things be worse with the ballot ? He very
much doubted whether they would not be a great
deal better, and he thought the experiment was
well worth a trial. If an honest man had an
opportunity of exercising his judgment freely, he
believed the Conservative cause, in consequence of
the exercise of that honesty, would be in the end a
gainer. Possibly some of them might not agree
with him on this subject ; but Lord STANLEY, who,
as had been ably observed, was a government in
himself, had voted for the measure—so that at any
rate he was not forming a very erroneous judg-
ment; and he felt himself justified from personal
experience in declaring himself in favour of the
Ballot."

One word of advice now to our Whig friends—

if this practical view of things spreads among the
Tories they, the said Whigs, are lost—lost for, it
may be, a quarter of a century. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL will issue a November letter in vain.