The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

too, it must be repeated, of the most brutal and
fiendish character. The evidences of murder found
months before inside that other carpet bag on one
of the abutments of Waterloo-bridge, we all remem-
ber with a shudder to have been, as we have said
from the first, glaringly apparent. Yet to this
day in neither instance has there been traced by
one inch the faintest clue to the perpetrators
of these hideous assassinations. Our Detectives are
all of them at fault. Mr. BUCKET is evidently a
creature wholly born of CHARLES DICKENS'S vivid
imagination. There is not anywhere to be found in
the whole police corps the most shadowy semblance
of the original of that character. The Detectives
of England are manifestly but a small improvement
upon the old Bow-street Runners, who were so
effectually -baffled by the undiscovered destroyer of
ELiza GRDIWOOD. The murderers of that mysteri-
ous somebody whose boiled bones were lowered in a
bundle over the parapet of Waterloo Bridge by an
old woman with grey hair, a mole on her face, and
the strength apparently of a coal heaver—go to
this day scot free and wholly undetected. The
murderers (evidently) of that other victim under
the shadows of the cliffs to the east of Ramsgate
are equally undiscovered and unsuspected. There
is a manifest delusion we cannot but think from
all this—a glaringly manifest delusion in
the popular mind as to the extraordinary
skill of our English Detectives. Their reputed
sagacity is again and again, we repeat, entirely at
fault. Added to which unwelcome consideration
comes the growing thought, that SHAKSPERE spoke
in error when he declared•that—" Murder, though it
have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous
or'smn!" Or, if it does always so speak, it is some-
times in a language yet unlearnt by our Detectives.
Concluoive testimony of which has surely been
afforded of late somewhat frightfully in that mur-
der at London, and in that other murder at Rams-
gate !
" Murder ?
Murder most fNI, as in the best it is ;
But this most fol.ll, strange, and unnatural."
[hamlet, act i., scene v.]

A testimonial of no orOinarY character has fol-
lowed Sir ARTHUR H.A.LLA3: ELTON, Bart., and
late M.P. for the City of Bath, in his retirement
from the representation of that fickle and petulant
constituency. It is a testimonial of more value
than gold or silver—being, in fact, a scontaneous
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and cordial Address, signed by one hundrCd and
eighty of the: leading Liberal anti Conservative
Gentry and Tradesmen of Bath, signed 22d of
April, 1859, and among other things declaring on
the part of the subscribers—" We hesitate not to
record our deliberate opinion, that during a period of
great State difficulty, when the contest of parties has
more than usually influenced the judgment of the
representatives of the people, you have discharged
your duty to the Parliament and-your constituency
with honour, integrity, and solicitude for the pub-
lic interests; and although you have deemed it your
duty to retire from the representation of this city
in Parliament, we are yet anxious to express our
appreciation of that truthfulness and independence
of character which have uniformly marked your
conduct in the House of Commons." The address,
while expressing at the commencement of it un-
feigned regret that Sir ARTHUA ELTON'S political
connection with the City of Bath should have been
so suddenly terminated, intimates, before its close,
a confident. hope that a fitting opportunity may be
afforded, " at no distant period," by availing himself
of which the hon. baronet might be again enabled
to take his place in the council of the nation. The
reasonableness of that hope we instantly recognise
—with it we fully concur—in it we cordially sym-
pathise. It is by no means improbable, indeed,
that Sir ARTHUR ELTON may eventually experience
from the electors of Bath an evidence of repentance
as timely and as welcome as that once upon a time
afforded to Lord (then Mr.) MACAULAY by the
elector's of the capital of Scotland—Mr. MACAULAY
having been rejected by Edinburgh in the July of
1847, and returned again as M.P. for Auld Iteekie
exactly five years afterwards, when in the July of
1852 he was returned again as M.P. for the city
of Edinburgh without attending the election, or
even issuing an address to the constituency !
In responding to the very gratifying communica-
tion addressed to him by 180 of the Bath electors—
both gentry and tradesmen, both Liberals and
Conservatives— Sir ARTHUR ELTON remarks as
frankly as judiciously—" With reference to the
difficulties impeding of late- years the progress of
legislation, and the action of Government at home
and abroad, to which allusion is made in your
address, it is common to attribute them to the un•
rely caprice of the various sections into which the
House of Commons has been divided." Adding,
" I hold, however, that the blame attaches not to
political parties, but to those who on either side of
the house profess to lead them. There was no want
of intellectual vigour or earnestness in the last Par-
liament. Why were not those valuable qualities
turned to better account ? Whose was the fault ?
I answer without hesitation that the fault lay with
our foremost public men, and not with the bulk of
the Liberal party." "If, instead of labouring for
party objects," continues Sir ARTHUR, "any
one of our present statesmen had boldly
thrown himself on the manly sense and
honest instincts of the House of Commons, I
believe he would have commanded an amount of
support most influential in determining the conduct
of Government, whether Whig or Tory, to the
great advantage, not merely of England, but of the
civilised world. Immediately following upon which
retrospective observations, there follows the earnest
avowal of the writer's conviction that there now
devolves both upon the Ministry and upon the
Parliament which will be shortly assembled a
weighty responsibility. So obviously solemn and
inevitable is the responsibility, that it is scarcely
credible for an instant that any one of thoso despi-
treelaetaEuro-
pean pa-
triotic, despi-
cable party designs recently heard of can be seri-
ously entertained in the presence of a
war, by the most factious, by
by the most selfishly ambitious statesmen
upon the side of the Opposition. A mere vulgar
scramble for power, with all its patronage
and perquisites, at the moment the oppos-
ing hosts of Austria and France are meeting
in deadly conflict upon the soil of Sardinia, would,
to say the very least of it, be but a discreditable
spectacle in the presence of Christendom. What
the new Parliament has to decide now is not the
advantage of this or that party, but the strength
and integrity of the position occupied by the Go-
vernment of England in the midst of the clashing
interests of the Courts and Cabinets of Europe.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Buckingham Palace early in the en-
suing week from Gibraltar and Italy. The Osborne, which
left Portsmouth on Sunday, has gone to Gibraltar ex-
pressly to convey the heir-apparent to England.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
hqs been suffering from the effects of a violent cold, which
prevented her Royal Highness attending the confirmation
of the Princess Alice at Windsor, and also the Queen's
Drawing-rpom on Saturday. On Sunday her Majesty and
the Prince Consort visited the Duchess at her residence at
K. ow.

Accounts from the German Bourses state that
ni:tny of the Italian capitalists and speculators wbo were
active sellers of Austrian securities before the commence-
ment of the war have since come into the market as buyers.
Probably in most cases, however, the change of operations
has been merely (Ur the realization of profits.
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