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London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1866.

Of course it can surprise no one that Mr. BRIGHT
has taken every opportunity to come forward this
autumn, and to express himself vehemently about
things in general. The fact of the DERBY Govern-
ment being in power is quite enough to excite and
enrage him beyond all bounds ; and it may be ob-
served that in this last speech of his, at the Reform
Demonstration at Manchester yesterday, he devoted
all his energies to the task of abusing and reviling
the Conservative party, and more especially their
leaders. After an address, -which was couched
in such extravagant terms that it was a dis-
grace to those who presented it, Mr.
BRIGHT
addressed his audience. Surely it is enough for the
chief actor in such a scene to outrage common sense
and exaggerate everything without others following
in his wake. When we find such language as this
employed, we recognise the excitement of partisan-
ship, and not the avowal of deep conviction and the
exposition of public sentiment. The Chairman said
they presented an address to Mr. BRIGHT, " whose
Inane in the house of Commons was a terror to
evil-doers, and who, with the late RICHARD COB-
DEN, had earned a name which would be for all
time endeared to the people of England." We
think that it was never more plainly shown than
it was this last session that Mr. BRIGHT'S reign
even in the House of Commons has greatly decreased
since the famous days of old, when the Anti-Corn-
Law League was in the zenith of its reputation,
and he was its redoubted champion. Many then
who did not agree h
it his politics or coincide
with his way of advocating his views admired his
talents and respected his earnestness; but since then
he has retrograded, and sunk from the advocate of
a popular cause to the political agitator, who
loses the representative in the demagogue. As for
the notion of Mr. BRIGHT'S returning to Parlia-
ment not as simply the representative of a single
borough, but as the elected tribune of a mighty
people, it is quite preposterous. We beg to recall
which
to the recollection of these devotees the manneri
eh
h in
e
which Mr. BRIGHT left the Parliament to h
is to return in such an enviable position. It was
properly denounced at the time as quite un-
worthy. He could not, or would not, appear in
Parliament to state his opinions, where they could
be called in question, but he could spare time to
indite letters from his retirement, which stirred up
the people against the law, and drove the ignorant
and infatuated to acts of violence. Mr. BRIGHT
never did himself more discredit during his whole
career than when hethuil xefiorted to expedieno to

annoy his opponents and serve himself. If he con-
sidered the conduct of the Government to be so
faulty, he ought to have said so in his place in Par-
liament.

But this is always his way of proceeding ; he never
speaks so well as when no one can reply to him, and
he is addressing those whom it is his purpose to excite
to the utmost against all who differ from him. This
is conduct that is neither fair nor straightforward,
and those who clamour about obtaining their rights
should show a little more respect for the claims of
others. There is one part of Mr. BRIGHT'S speech
in which we cordially concur, and that is where he
says that he has no ambition for leadership because he
" has no fitness forsuch an office." He has not indeed,
and never could succeed in getting a large following.
A speech of Mr. BRIGHT, which contained no abuse
of the House of Lords, would be, indeed, " Hamlet,'
with the part of Hamlet omitted, and so we are
not surprised to learn from this last declaration of
the oracle at Manchester that that august as-
sembly abrogates its inheritance mad forfeits its
privileges. "It gives its votes, its power, its
proxies into the hands of one man, and he often, as at
present, not by any means the wisest of men." After
this it is not astonishing to find this doom predicted
for it, " Decay and darkness will settle upon it."
Is it not an insult to the understanding of those he
declares are worthy of the suffrage denied to them
that Mr. BRIGHT should talk in such a clap-trap
style to them ? The working classes are not to rise
to the level of those now in power, but they are
to take their place, for which they have shown
themselves to be so manifestly unfit.

Perhaps nothing can better illustrate the one-
sidedness of Mr. BRIGHT'S argument than this sen-
tence : "I regard the county representation to a very

large extent as a dead body tied to the living body
of the borough representation." This is exactly the
view which he and his friends take of the matter
whenever the question of Reform comes forward,
and, in fact, it forms one of the chief obstacles to
its satisfactory settlement. We believe that a
Reform Bill which did seriously affect the interests
of the country party, and curtail their power and
influence, would never meet with the approval of
Mr. BRIGHT, however liberal might be its provisions,
and however great the advantages it conferred upon
the working classes. Mr. BRIGHT resorted to the
worn-out dodge of quoting the particular pas-
sage of Mr. LowE's speech which referred to elec-
tions, in order to implicate Lord DERBY with the
responsibility of it, because he had proposed to
that gentleman to join his Government. Now, who
would have been more ready than Mr. BRIGHT to
characterise the new Administration as a clique
and a party monopoly had no proposal been made

to those not in the ranks of the Conservative party?

Of course we find America and her institutions
extolled at the expense of ours, and the superior
education of the people of New England vaunted.
We think the events now taking place in America

are a sufficient proof that knowledge is not power

without discretion to guide it. Mr. BRIGHT
himself is far more American than English in his
intolerance of opponents and extreme self-sufficiency.
Mr. BRIGHT is ready to stake everything he has
in the world upon the notion that "if the platform
of the National Reform League were embodied in
an Act of Parliament, they would not pass over
three sessions without making a full provision for
the thorough instruction of every working man's
child in the kingdom." If this is the case, how is
it that Mr. BRIGHT is so opposed to the educational
franchise, and to those propositions which
he stigmatises as " fancy-franchises ; " and,
again, why were he and his friends against
those who laboured to shorten the hours of labour
for children, and prevent those of tender years from
being employed in factories ? " The man who is
now Prime Minister of England" has, indeed, much
to answer for, according to Mr. BRIGHT, but we
hesitate not to affirm it, that if there had been one
man present in that assembly who ranked truth
above making a sensation, and considered fair play
of more consequence than the furtherance of politi-
cal prejudice, he would have risen and tqld Mr.
BRIGHT that his charges against Lord DERBY could
not be tolerated in a city where he had shared
so much zeal and assiduity in the cause of the suffer-
ing poor. We do not believe that the men of Lan-
cashire really forget this, but they are confused and
bewildered by the statement of their leaders, and
thus injustice is done, and facts mixed with fiction.
" Lord DERBY'S failures are in the annals of Eng-

land for thirty years past." Lord DERBY was con-
cerned in passing the Reform Bill of 1832 ; and
we mention a fact, which history will confirm
when this generation has passed away, when
we say that Mr. BRIGHT never aided in
the passing of so important an act. We
really do not think that we can exhibit the bon.
member for Birmingham's intolerance and unfair-
ness better than when we quote his own words and
replications of most notable passages from the
melee of extravagances and vituperation with which
his speeches abound. " The same Lord STANLEY
came forward in 1852 to stem the tide of democracy,
in 1859 he was at the head of a Government which
introduced a Reform Bill of a most fraudulent cha-
racter, and in 1866 he is at the head of a party which
has destroyed an honest Franchise Bill, and over-
thrown an honest and patriotic Government."
The reason for all this comes out pre-
sently, Mr. BRiGIIT has read in the news-

papers that Lord DERBY is not in the least
degree disabled from dealing with reform. Of
course this is dreadful news, and hence he gives
utterance to language which is, if possible, more
vehement than any he has ever yet made use of.
If Lord DER" does introduce a Reform Bill, it
will be a " juggle or dishonest trick," something
base, like means by Which they overthrew the bill of
Lord RUSSELL. We believe Mr. BRIGHT prides him-
self
good memory, but what, we ask him,
is his upon
recollectionworth if he ignores the affair at
se 1
Willis's Rooms, and the means he and his friends
resorted to to overturn the DERBY Government in

1859. We are willing to borrow Mr. BRIGHT";
own words in reference to the last measure
before Parliament, and apply them to the
Conservative Reform Bill. "If that bill
had passed, moderate as it was, I undertake to say
it would have been received in every part of the
United Kingdom with the liveliest satisfaction."
Who prevented it passing, we may well ask ? There
is no man in England more responsible for the
country being still without a second measure of
Reform than he who so glibly denounced his op-

ponents last night at Manchester. how dare be

get up in the presence of his countrymen and charge
Lord DERBY and his friends with practising a

uggle when he was foremost in the

greatest juggle in the memory of politicians,
—namely, getting Lord RUSSELL into power
on false motives ? How dare he also

charge them with setting class against class, when
he knows that it is the object of all his public
speeches to do so himself? "The men now in office
cannot govern Britain," says he. We may retort
upon him, neither can they who follow his leader-
ship. We would say to those who cheer
to the echo all the assertions of this violent agitator
Eat before they clamour for Reform they had
better begin at home; for, if they suffer them-
DRIGUT would
501ye6 to copfuhe things as Mr.

says

- have them do, they are not worthy to send
representatives to Parliament, and they are
injuring the very cause they profess, to advo-
cate. Mr. BRIGHT declares that it is "on broad,
and just, and liberal principles alone that
England can maintain her place among the
nations of the world," and in so doing
utters his own condemnation, for we can
recognise no indication of these in his intolerant
discourse, which exhibits a bitterness of spirit and a
prejudiced feeling that are quite out of character in
one who addresses a public meeting.

The programme, however, was carried out, and the
following is the result of the races :

Prix de Glatigny, 4.oool.—Willis, 1; Auguste, 2
300 f. to the second horse.

Prix de la Prairie—Castagnette, 1 ; Coresia, 2
Comedienne, 3. Castagnette was claimed for 8,5501
by M. de St. Roman.

Prix de Madrid, 3,000f.--Cantiniere, 1 ; Balan-
celle, 2 ; Bagdad, 3.
Grand Prix du Prince Imperial, 10,000 f., for horses
three year old—Etoile Filante, 1 ; Victorieuse, 2 ;
Fleurette, 3. Amount of the prize, 10,825 f. ;
1,128 f. to the second horse.

Prix d'Automne, 2,ooof.—Le Magicien, 1 ; Chan-
tilly, 2.
Letters from Constantinople state that the new
Turkish Ambassador to the French Court, Mehemet
Djenil-Pacha,has postponed his departure to assume
his functions at Paris until the mouth of November.
The Prase, of Vienna, says that as soon as the
Venetian question shall he settled, Trieste will be-
come the seat of a military government, at the head
of which will be placed Field Marshal Lieutenant
Baron Alleman, now Governor of Venice. By the
abandonment of Venice and the loss of a war port,
which is the consequence, Trieste will assume im-
portance as a maritime station. A new war port is
also spoken of.
There are symptoms of improvement in the
weather. The sun has been scarcely visible to-day,
but there has been very little rain, and the tem-
perature was agreeable.

The arrival of the Belgian brings us news from
New York to the 14th. The old story is repeated
in the details of the PRESIDENT'S progress. He is
in turn welcomed and denounced, feted and abused,
cheered and petted. At Pittsburg ho met with
strong opposition from the crowd ; at Louisville
and Cincinnati, it is stated, he was received
with enthusiasm. The struggle between the conflict-
ing parties is strong and as fierce as ever, and before
long it will reach its crisis. The elections are going
on, but as yet afford no indication of the probable
issue. Vermont and Maine were certain to return
Radicals, while Massachusetts was scarcely less so.
The latter State has, however, distinguished itself
by its selection, having nominated General BUTLER!
The tug of war is yet to come in those States in
which the issue is uncertain. Should the Radicals

Picard, of whose trial for murder I gave a report
at the time, was executed on Saturday at Rouen.
He exhibited great patience and resignation. His
age was only 25. It is ten years since there has
been an execution at Rouen.

win the day, which is happily more than doubtful,
we may easily guess what sort of a programme we
shall have for the next session. Mr. STEVENS, their
recognised spokesman, in a recent speech in Penn-
sylvania, thought it necessary to apologise for the
shortcomings of Congress during its last session.
The rebels were not punished, the freedmen were
not enfranchised, but Mr. STEVENS is resolved to
make amends for the omissions of the past. He
proposes to present sweeping Confiscation Acts, and

The latest invention in Paris for robbery is clever
but calculated to excite melancholy for the depravity
of its origin. A little girl of twelve has been trained
by her parents to amass purses by what is styled in
the slang of the day the " kiss robbery." Taking
Judas for her model, she deceives by a kiss. This
little girl, Marie Victorine Lachaux, watches in the
street for a lady who seems likely to have money
about her, and throws herself into the lady's arms,
saying, " Oh, my dear aunt." The lady who is
kissed tells the child she is mistaken, and gently re-
leases the child from the loving embrace, but finds
that in the brief moment of the kiss she has lost her
purse. The child then goes to a wine shop with the
money, and her father and mother are ready to re-
ceive her. The father, mother, and child have just
appeared at the Tribunal Correctional Police. In
the case which led to the charge it could not be
proved that the parents sent the child to rob in this
way, but there was no doubt that she had stolen a
purse from a
young woman whom she accosted in
the Place Dauphine, and the Court has sent her to
the House of Correction until she shall attain the
age of 21. Reluctantly the court set the father and
mother at liberty, for complicity could not be
proved, but several similar robberies were proved
against the child.

to divide the property of the rebels among the loyal,
by which he probably means to take the lands from
the white men and give them to the black. As no
one is now attempting to resist the central autho-
rity, but all agree to recognise the Washington
Government, it is not easy to see upon what
priu ciple of selection Mr. STEVENS intends to act,
unless he accepts the broad distinction of colour.
In Mr. STEVENS'S opinion the Conservative Con-
vention at Philadelphia was a " convention of
traitors," " rebels," and " sympathisers from the
North who ought to have been South." We can
hardly believe that such men as this can be the
deliberately chosen exponents of the American
people. If so, it augurs ill for the future of the
great free people of the West—not for the Union
alone, though its days would be numbered were
the Radical programme carried out—but for the
Americans themselves, who would thus be
proved incapable of rational and constitutional
self-government. It is said that the PRESIDENT'S
somewhat rash and intemperate language on one or
two occasions has damaged the Democratic cause ;
but this would be not a little singular in a country
like America, where vehemence and political

license are the order of the day. In the excitement
of such an open contest as the present, irritated by
unmeasured abuse and most vindictive opposition,
it is not likely that Mr. JOHNSON, in haranguing
mobs, would always remember the dignity of his
position, but the Americans ought to be the last
people to be influenced by extravagance of language.
If words are to weigh, the speeches of the Radicals
in Congress, in Convention, and on the platform, are
surely intemperate enough to damage their cause
more than anything which the PRESIDENT has said
or done could injure the Democrats.
It is said that the PRESIDENT has determined
that if JEFFERSON DAVIS is not tried in October
he will release him on bail. The fact is that
the Radicals are averse to have Mr. DAVIS
tried, fearing that when the case is decided
President JOHNSON will exercise his undoubted
prerogative of mercy, and put an end to the pro-
tracted confinement of the illustrious and unfortu-
nate Confederate ruler.

The aspect of American affairs may well make
well-wishers watch with some anxiety for the result
of the elections, and we can only hope that a greater
degree of moderation and enlightened patriotism
may prevail than are at present perceptible.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO3I OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Monday Evening.
The followir.g is all that the AToniteur contains
respecting the affairs of the continent of Europe. It

" That the Gazette Officielle, of Florence, an-
nounces that the Royal troops have entered Palermo
without encountering much resistance, and that
they suffered very trifling loss. The Government
has rapidly concentrated in Sicily considerable
forces, and there was no doubt that the movement
would be speedily suppressed."
The Journal des Debats says :
" We receive from Florence some further parti-
culars respecting the events in Candia, but it should
be noticed that the despatch which brings them, via
Messina, was sent from Corfu. Without entirely
suspecting its truth and exactness, because of its
Greek origin, we think it right to mention the fact.
It is, however, a private, and not an official, tele-
gram which announces the defeat of the Egyptian
troops. After having suffered a loss of 5,000 men,
the Pasha, who commanded, was compelled to
capitulate with the whole of his army. If this be
so, it is a grave event, which will render very un-
certain the success of the mission tardily confided
to Mustapha Pasha.

" With respect to this private telegram from
Corfu, which is dated the 18th—let the date be par-
ticularly remarked--we cannot help remarking that
in our publication of the 22d of September we
printed an official telegram from Corfu, dated
September 19, and consequently of a later date than
that which we receive to-day, announcing that the
insurgents of Candia, led by Candist officers, had
attacked the Turco-Egyptian army on four sides at
the same time, and that the Turco-Egyptians were
completely beaten with a loss of 3,000 men.' The
official telegram arriving one day after the private
telegram is quite silent in regard to the alleged
capitulation of the whole Turco-Egyptian army. In
these days of hasty news and sudden events, it is
sometimes useful at least to take the time to read
and compare."

The following is an extract of a letter from
Vienna, dated Sept. 20 The organisation of
the army is the order of the day. The regiments
and companies are reduced, a selection is made of
officers to be retained on service' and efforts are
made to have a gun superior both to that of Dreyse
and Chessepot. Such a gun, it is thought, has been
found, and also a fulminating composition of the
effects of which most marvellous accounts are given.
Public attention is also much occupied with the
subject of telegraphic aerostation. Experiments are
being made with the principle adopted four years
ago at the Camp at Chalons, but with various, im-
provements. The Government particularly directs
attention to the navy. Half a dozen frigates, and
and as many corvettes and gunboats, have been
placed upon the stocks at Trieste and Pola. Where
the money is to come from to pay for these naval
demonstrations nobody knows. As to Hungary, it
seems impossible to agree with her relative to the
nomination of a responsible Ministry, and Count
Belcredi has decided that this Ministry shall be
elected by the Landtag of Hungary. This point
seems likely to excite turbulent proceedings in
Bohemia."

l'hero being a minor deluge yesterday, the autumn
races at Longehamp were but thinly attended.

THE Su N, LONIJUN, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1866.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

INUNDATION IN FRANCE.

PARIS, Sept. 24.

AUSTRALIA.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galle.)
MELBOURNE, Aug. 24.
Mr. Manners Sutton, the new Governor o:
Victoria, has arrived, and been well received.
Parliament has been prorogued till the 2d of
October.

A new Queensland Ministry has been formed. A
petition is being signed in the colony for the recall
of the Governor.

Advices from New Zealand state that disconten
prevails among the natives in Taranaki.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, Sept. 24 (Evening.)
Garibaldi has arrived in this city.
The volunteers are concentrated at Lecco, appa
rently for the purpose of being disbanded.

Inundations have taken place in the departments
of Allier Haute-Soire, CLite d'Or, and Lozere. The
railway communication between Moulins and Nevers
is interrupted.