The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-17 00:00:00

LONDON, TVERNESDAI, OCT. 17, 1866

If the intelligent foreigner who was at one time
so often referred to as the theme of suppositious
comment were now to arrive among us, and inquire
into the cause of this excitement of Mr. BRIGHT'S
creation, he might well be surprised to hear that
there has been nothing to demand it, and that no
public exigency has called it forth. Very little
difference is to be found in the meaning of these
speeches, whose name is
that Mr. BRIGHT
keeps on addressing to numerous meetings from
what there was in those of seven or eight
years ago, but the matter has somewhat
altered. Always vehement, Mr. BRIGHT has now
become violent ; and ever exaggerated, he is posi-
tively unguarded to the last degree in his present
discourses. In the address be delivered last night
at Glasgow we may search in vain for any expres-

sion of faith or confidence in things that exist, or
in persons who hold positions of influence; on the
contrary, old things are to pass away, and all
things are to become new. There is much to be
done, however, before we arrive at the realisation of
Mr. BRIGHT'S Utopian dreams, and much to be said
also if we are to judge by the numerous speeches he
deems it necessary to make. The pertinacity with
which Mr. BRIGHT continues in all his speeches to
decry and abuse the upper classes is the worst fea-
ture in his addresses and that most calculated to do
injury; but, besides this, he is not a true-hearted
Englishman ; he is not proud of his country, and
seems to appreciate nothing in its laws or customs
but the license they give him to rail at everybody
and everything not exactly in accordance with his

wishes.
The Parliament seems to have fallen under the
bann of his censure last night, and again we must
declare our opinion that Mr. BRIGHT discourses
upon this subject with a total lack of that respect
which is due, and in a tone and manner that are
quite inadequate. Who and what is he that he
should thus sit in judgment upon an assembly that
represents the learning, the genius, and the spirit of
the country? Perhaps a little feeling may have
been engendered in his mind by the conviction that
he is not in his right element there. Ile cannot im-
press an educated assembly by distorting facts, and
confuting things to suit his purpose ; and he was
told pretty plainly last Session that he could not
bully the House of Commons. Really, if
we are to take Mr. Bittern-es observations
au pied de la leltre, we might fairly presume that
the present House has incurred the penalty of ex-
tinction, and that, like the doomed cities of old, it

We may say
should faint out of sight of men. at
once that we consider Mr. BRIGHT'S defence of

himself as a perfect failure, and that the tone he 1
adopted would be impertinent did it not deserve a
severer designation. He declares that it was a per-
fectly just description which Mr. BEALES gave of
ourrepresentation when he said that it was "steeped
in corruption;"and goes on to say that if it existed in
any other country NIT should be the first to find fault
with it; he may well say " if," for even his assertion
does not say it does. It is because all must know
that Mr. BRIGHT is fully aware of the immense
superiority of our constitution over that of other
lands that his reriiiiteuey in diatorting facts ty sttit