The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

SPIRT C OF TaE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The more ardent of the disappointed
Reformers make a point that its catastrophe shall
be avenged by an instant dissolution, Nothino• will
satisfy them but the capital ptmiNment of") the

offending Legislature, and a hemary penalty to be in-
flicted on the members by the process of re-election
in which the innocent will suffer as much as the

guilty. Indeed, in this case it is not easy to say
who are the guilty and who are the innocent, is
compared with the rest. About nine-tenths of the
Liberals nave voted black and white with Govern-
ment for every clause in the Bill, and in many cases
given votes which they felt it necessary to expiate
the next day by clumsy explanations and ignomi-
nious confessions. 'Whatever may be thought of
them, they hardly deserve to be fined on the ave-
rage three thousand pounds a-piece. Neither can
the Opposition be proved guilty on any indictment,
except one of that vague and constructive character
which despots and democrats can draw up so well.
They have maintained a very open and consistent
opposition to a Bill confessedly intended to alter
the political balance by taking from them twenty
or thirty of the seats now under their influence, and
to oust them effectually from all prospect of power.
They had promised nothing but Reform in a ve'y
general sense of the word, and to this moment there
can be only a natural and yet unfriendly inference
that they would have rejected a fair and reasonable
measure. They must be judged, net by the mea-
sure of our suspicions, but by the measure of the
actual occasion in which they have been tried. Mr.
Gladstone had the choice of putting them to one
test or another. He might have brought forward
a measure so equal and fair to all parties, classes,
and interests that to reject it might be called a crime.
In this case he would not have gained much for his
own party, or for any occasional ally ; • and such
success he might possibly not prize. He had also a
allrleg'ierEd rLeiutTsaEl of 3 a la.liumE.—ln reference to the
y to Mr. Joseph Hume,
the option of a measure in the nature of a political his daughter, Mrs. Hume-Rothery, writes to ,ta athattheManchester
invasion of his foes, and a march into their coun- Erani;n•er:—" It is a complete mistake father ever
try, with the view of annexing some of their ter- wished for a baronetcy, which I can confidently affirm he
ritory and of their subjects. In this case there would not on any consideration have accepted, had it been
was the chance of a brilliant success. But there ever so pressingly offered. All who knew
was also the greater risk of failure ; and, in mately are aware how entirely
was the
.foreign to his views and
the event of that failure, there could be no corn- principles
plaint, no invocation of the just deities, no demand eldest son,' or anything of the kind, for which l a one a.ny
for satisfaction, no excuse for summary vengeance. hereditary diStinction is desirable.:i Privy
Councillorship
This is the choice Mr. Gladstone —perhaps we ought was the one thiughe would have
pted if offered, because
to say his chief in the other house—has deliberately he could have done so without accepted
compromising his perfect
made. He went in for the higher stakes and the independence; but ho was quite incapable of experiencing,
greater advantage, without regard to claims founded on such a ground, the kind
of disappointment attributed to
on the existing state of things. He has failed, as him because of its m
not b •ug offered. My father, not long
many another assailant and would-be conqueror has before his death vr tainly within the last 12 months of his
failed before, and will fail again. He has been met life—when this question of the Privy Councillorship
was
with weapons and tactics at least as fair and open once publicly
alluded to, told me it was true so far
as his own. He has avoided a direct issue, and that he that
would have accepted it in earlier years, especially
tried to circumvent his opponents. He has been if offered him soon after the accession of her present Ma-
neither beaten nor even circumvented, but simply ai ' t sy, which it might have been in acknowledgment, not
wearied out by a purely Fabian policy. He has only of his long public services, but of what may be con-
given in. Who, then, is to blame, and who is there sidered his per
nsonal services to the Throne in the exposure
punish to punish ? The unsuccessful are ready to and discomfiture of the Cumberland Orange Lodge co-
all the world, and even themselves, if that is neces-
spiracy. ' But,' my father added, ' I would not take it now
sary to the general execution. This is the whole if they offered it to me; it is too late.' This may suffice
case for a Dissolution, and there is nothing more to to show the real nature of his feeling on the subject, and
be said for it. There is an obvious inconsistency
in
I am quite sure that the non-bestowal upon him even of
this violent wish to refer the present questionground
to the that one distinction, which lie would have accepted, never
existing constituencies when the very
of the ruffled his peace, or cost him so much as an hour's :Jeep
appeal is an opinion that the constituencies are tor- or an hour's enjoyment of the rare intervals of leisure
ntr
rapt usurpations, with no substa •al right to call which his public labours left him."
themselves the people and to elect the Parliament. ..wrisEmENT ]—Consurn non and all bilious,
It
.is impossible to pay a higher compliment to the stomach,fA and liver oomplaints,Pia every stake,rerv°lls‘
are only ag-
existing constituency, and the existing state of our -
,ravate i and acceler tted by drugs of every description, but
representative system, than by insisting on an itn- pertec.ly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta
Arabia Food, as proved' by thousands of cases which mediate reference to them on any question of import-
(dyspepsia),which nazi
been considered hopeless; such as indigestion
ante. Why alter and revolutionise a tribunal
cough,hcea,alalsgt
anstaticcdmestituhmoption, habitull constipatioadir
which we regard as the opportune and infalliblee,omuesnuts, heeororrhoids, liver coln--
saviour of the country ? The classes now en- plaints, flatulency, net;
franchised may, then, be safely trusted with the throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, biliousness' fevers, sore
most vital of responsibilities. They are, then, sure head and ears, rheunististat influenza, n)lees In the
gout, impurities, eruptions.
to seed us not only law makers but also men cap- hysteria. teural4la, irritability,
able of making a Constitution itself, and widening ptiat:on, 1 h
AcasLurn, headache, sle'splessness, acidity, pal-
t:veth'bilitY, dropsy, cramps;
the basis of this vast political edifice. This is nmsra', nausea end sickness
sill? i ngi fits, bronchitis, scroiulan tiin.ipre,„.•nancy or at .-^,
not our eulogy. From our lips such praise might
scan fulsome and interested. It is the impartial itt,..nswitt the pit Of the stomach and d „beitt,nrees,sn
theof tsh,leotieldi.::t,
testimony of the men who inspired the Reform Bill, timber i'tiq"ute a jew.
—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr.' James' Robe' r2S,
and who now loudly appeal to the British constitu- lungs, s erchant of Frire 'ley Surrey; of i hirty years' discascd
encies to avenge its failure. The appeal, we believe, ness.__lltinq °I bl 1
_ ood, _iv, r derangement. and partial deaf-
ure, No. 47,1& lkli:s Elizabeth Jacobs, or , Ntr.Toe
would be simply wasted. Of course, it would be nervousness,iirindiest on, gatherings, !ow spirits, aLuoddneirv.4.•uus
out of all reason to expect that a general election lancies.— 1,771. Lord Stuart de I.),:cies,..
....._•
now should return the very same men as one nine tenant of we't is '
a .erfard, of many years dyspepsia—Nol'J b. i 4
months since. But no human being can ventur l'' I'
eto 1•y years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
say how they would differ. If half-a-dozen „ asthma co spasms sickness, eta
Cough, const patiea, flatulency, • .
should lose their seats for their yot, • Ina-1
vomiting—Maria'''No ct•.o6• p'i'e ne"an'es r•
Jolly.- Cure •_• . •
es against Go- vi ilidigestion and Lapinity
vernment, it is quite possible that as m cam beil, Fakenhant Neirois,
lose their seats for supporting it. if
Nv any would of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.
lose
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In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 61; Sib, Its;
tore on any prediction ourselves it •thate may
Ten-
ls the aim 1 n
spill
i-B.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ;
ling spectacle of all Europe rushing dealers. 8, King William-street ; ltkewi:e
to arms will also Phillips, tea -'ll , 49 r.
have the same sobering eff •
„ ect as it 'o gat._
at 61 Cracechurch-stre..t ;4. t, cad side; , ,Ishops • ,-
g years ago, and 295, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ;
When., the confusion and miseries had
street' Within ; 63, 150.
dl of the civilized 54, Upper Baker'
ton,
; 103, Tottenh un-court-road ; 96,
world led us to endure withi h
anomalies and the abuses of ar
y a complaint the upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace. St.
our own political sys- Broth
tern for another 40 years. But Dissolution, of John's-mood: and all respectable 7rocers ant che.
course, is revolution far mists.—BCWarc of spurious imitations.
as as it goes. It • •' is equiNa-

it was good; and we venture to predict that had
the same game to be played over again we would
hear no more of Alabamas escaping to sea, or
Southern conspirators organising murderous expe-
ditions from British Territory.