The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

of the army of Italy who were killed or wounded THE .RIGHT
at Magenta and Malegnano. That list, in which
there were some material errors, is now very
nearly completed by further returns which have
reached the Minister of War from head-quarters,
and the following may be considered as correct,
according to the returns received up to the 20th :
Slagenta : Officers, 52 killed, 194 wounded ; rank
and file, 512 killed, 2,951 wounded, and 735 mis-
sing; making a total of 246 officers, and 4,198 rank
and file. Malegnann : Officers, 12 killed, 56
wounded ; rank and file, 141 killed, 669 wounded
and 64 missing ; making a total of 68 officers, and
874 rank and file.

A letter from Belgrade in the Lloyd of Pesth
states that Prince Couza has issued an edict for-
bidding the use of such titles as " excellency, illus-
trious, &c.," hitherto attributed to official person-
ages, as being contrary to the institutions of the
country. All functionaries are to be henceforth
addressed simply by the title of their offices.

" The ground chosen by the Austrians for accept-
ing battle," says the Nord," has been thoroughly
studied by their generals, as these positions have
been frequently used for their grand autumnal
manoeuvres. This fact is well known at the French
head-quarters, and it is probable that proper pre-
cautions have been taken in consequence. The
ensuing struggle is expected to be terrible, and
quite unprecedented in the military history of
modern times."

GLADSTONE.

Mr. Gladstone has set at nought several rules of
common sense,—first, in writing his own defence
to the electors of Oxford, which we published yes-
terday ; then, in wishing to be defended at all.
He would much more wisely take that high ground
which is above all defence and all accusation. The
critic who makes Homer's heroes respectable country
gentlemen, and his frail heroine a model of Chris-
tian penitence, should not himself stand upon trifles
or expect universal appreciation. No, Mr. Glad-
stone is the orator, philosopher, and prophet of
Oxford, with all the virtues and all the failings
of the mercurial race. Nobody
.expects an oracle
to be consistent, else we should simply collect and
analyze all its former responses, and then shut up
the shrine, sell the tripod for old brass, and put the
priestess on a pension. What he represents are not
measures or men, nor yet principles, in that form
in which they are stated at a Conservative meeting,
but sentiments ; and a man must be not only very
ungracious, but also very stupid, to deny Mr. Glad-
stone a large share of that sentimental philosophy
which constitutes in this day the best aspect of
Conservatism, and the only relic of Toryism. Nature
made him for the expression of a sentiment. In
early life he was an honest and enthusiastic ex-
ponent of liberty and progress, against Iron Dukes
and wooden divines. The Reform Bill pulled him
up. He wept for Gatton and sighed for Old Sarum.
With pious toil worthy of Old Mortality, he scraped
out of the moss and lichen the sacred names that
had represented a hundred rotten boroughs. T till
he developed the principle of Church and State,
first his readers, and at last he himself, discovered
that he had left neither Church nor State, but
something between, which, under existing circum-
stances, it was impossible to work. Happily Sir
Robert Peel, though he could not read his book, saw
the nature of the man, found work for his intellect,
and a place for his affections. As Peel's chief lieu-
tenant, Gladstone became really a great man; and
when Peel's work was done, his careernded, and his
opponents placed in power by the help of his
enemies, Gladstone and some half dozen others
were in the right, and all England in the wrong.,
But-this was a post of honour too high for mortal
man. It is not good to be so much in the right,
and to have so excellent a case against all mankului•
The apostle who had heard unutterable things ha"
a thorn in the flesh to kill self-conceit, and the
Peelites would have been the better for some such
visitation. Perhaps they have had it, but, on the
whole, they have remained too much like those of
whom it is written on their gravestones that " the
world was not worthy of them." Overmuch virtue
is a sore trial of temper. At last, from mere indig.
nation and disdain, wantonly and suicidally, Glad
stone became—we blush as we write it—incon-
sistent. He did wrong, as the witty King said
when his brother chose his ill-favoured mistress for
self-mortification. Sentiment carried him here and
there, till it was evident that Gladstone's rule, were
it right or wrong, was not the rule of the world, or
of any known class in the world.
We shall not undertake to harmonise a career
which will prove a fruitful and not unworthy
subject for the historian and biographer. An
excess of sentiment, however, will account for a
good deal of its apparent inconsistencies. Senti-
mental people are at once too quick and too slow.
They act on the present impulse, and do
not give themselves time to consider how far it
should yield to reason and circumstances. From
Mr. Gladstone's share in Sir Robert Peel's noble
work he derived a certain dream of industrye
,
abundance, peace, happiness, and all that peopl
sa two great
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wtraasden.eeeSso
necessary
could not
nations should spend a hundred millions
he
for apie
tce,
and a proportionate quantity of human life,
sole purpose of compelling a third to moderate its
pretensions. The thing was horrid, wasteful, re-
trogressive, unchristian, and an indulgence of every
kind of bad feeling. This sentiment, laudable
enough in a lady or a country clergyman, made Mr.
Gladstone quarrel with the best statesmen of the
day, and play into the hands of the men who had.
driven Sir R. Peel from power.
His personal
regard for his old master, and a thatlittlemorePeorfnl
a
personal hatred which, say what people will, is
necessary to human affairs, would have kept him
much straighter. As it was, the sentiment of a
free-trade millennium brought him round to the
enemies of free-trade. By and bye they seized the
when, as it happened, his course w
opportunity of overthrowing
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and his fault that he was trying t
an angry and terrified man. Had Mr. Gladstone
oa
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they deserved, he would have given his voice for
given these new circumstances the consideration
peace ; was against Lord Palmer-
bhuits he ply
wlyhaiochted on the impulse. then pos-
sessingdsteoend,—tfhoer
ihtuwmabalhere
wofhoßdiusdsiiat—.
the world in his published letter, felt it his duty to
hile at
vh
then, as ads
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give the Tory Government every. chance. He sup-
ported their Indian Bill, defended the most damning
omission of their Reform Bill, and made an elaborate
argument in favour of nomination boroughs, which
were not then in question, though they were when
Mr. Gladstone made his first speeches on the sub-
ject at the Oxford Union in 1831. In fact, it was
the anacrhonism of theman who, having preached a
good sermon to a convict on the eve of his execu-
tion, reproduced it in its turn to his own
parishioners, who were not in that unhappy pre-
dicamen t.
Mr. Gladstone now says that he did not like the
Derby Reform Bill, and exceedingly disapproved
the Derby dissolution. It might have been expected,
Shen, that he would join in the vote which dis-
missed Lord Derby from power. No such thing.
He still moved sluggishly by the old impulse, as if
unable to receive a new direction, whatever the
fresh circumstances. The result showed that
somewhere and at some time he must have done
wrong, and that there was something to be re-
pented of. When a new Government had to be
formed, and Mr. Gladstone was compelled to give a
comprehensive survey of public affairs, he found no
good reason why he should not join the Ministry of
the man he had done all he could to turn out
last year against the men whom he had helped
to bring in, and whom he had supported to the
very last. 'We pass over several minor inconsis-
tencies and absurdities, only excusable on the
ground of sentiment, but we do not forget that two
years ago Mr. Gladstone helped to do irreparable
mischief by compelling a most imprudent and un-
ainst
fortunate reduction of the estimates, ag the
protest of the Minister. Mr. 'Gladstone himself
twaaksesanpolenaosatincte
dorfeahmis.visne wakes up, to the
and it is no
lonian Isles. It
more. For a delightful hour he yielded to the sweet
sense of power and fostered a world of fond expec-
tations, The sentiment doubtless survives, but the
fact is forgotten.
The obvious inference is that Mr. Gladstone
should have his place as a high and generous in-
fluence, but under the direction of more practical
and political minds. Nobody so good to represent
a University, which should have its weight in every
discussion, yet never take the lead. No country
could long survive 'a Government by scholars and
divines. It has been tried once in this country,
_ and
we know how it ended. The philosophers of Paris
hardly made a worse failure. Mr. Gladstone is
justly appreciated by his University. Its junior
members read his speeches with delight, and are
re-assured that neither eloquence nor conscience
has gone from the land when they hear of the
House of Commons being swayed round by that
torrent of persuasion. Lord Chandos is put up
against him, but it is useless to compare Mr.
Gladstone with any one competitor ; it is the entire
House of Commons that he should be measured
against. Achilles against an army—lesser com-
parisons are ridiculous. Lord Chandos may be an
able and excellent man, but he has not more title
to stand for the University when Mr. Gladstone is
in possession, than " Haydn's Dates" to take the
place of " Thucydides" in the schools. Mr. Glad-
stone represents the feeling, the philosophy, the
language of the University. The aspirants
Union learn to wield his thenders and gath.er
themselves for his periods. The pro'foundeat.
it
dom is lost on youthful wits. It is awkward t
silent ; it is dull. What is the use of it to mere
with much to learn
youths, all sense and sympathy,
and little to do? Mr. Gladstone may, be somewhat
have
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like the King who never said
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universities a
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Oxford as Mr. Gladstone.—Times.

TIIE CROPS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.--Since our
last report, says the Bristol Times, the weather has been
everything that could be desired to promote the growth of
all sorts of crops. The country now presents a picture of
luxuriant vegetation, and should we be blessed with a con-
tinuance of such favourable weather the crops in this county
will continue to present a most promising appearance.
Mr. Robert Kettle, of Glasgow, having left some
tracts at the house of a friend, he found them, on calling
of
a
few days after, serving the purpose of paper curls to
the young ladies. " Well,' said he, " I see ye made use
o' the tracts, only ye hae put them on tho wrang side o'
your head, lassie."
LARGE ROBBERY OF WATCHES.—At the Liver-
pool Police-court, yesterday, a young man of respectable
appearance, named James Stein, was brought up charged
with stealing 16 gold and 12 silver Geneva watch s, which
were found at his lodgings the same day. appeared
that the prisoner had shown the watches to the boarding-
housekeeper where he lodged, and suspicion being excited
the police were informed of the fact. When visited by two
detectives he denied, in the first instance, having any
watches in his possession. A search was then made, and
the above number were found among his luggage. He
then stated that he had obtained them from a commercial
traveller at Manchester. A remand was granted to allow
further inquiries WAS made.