The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

[The following admirably clever, wise, and witty
jeu d'esprit we take not only with acknowledgment
but with the liveliest satisfaction also from the
August number of Blackwood.]
When a man is beslobbered by high and liy low,
Tn our Senates and Schools deemed a Light of the age ;
When his censures on all he aspires to bestow,
And the multitude hails him a Statesman and Sage,—
'
Before we just venture
To own such a Mentor,
Let us see if he's fit this position to fill :
Let us canvass his labours,
As he does his neighbours,
And examine the claims of the great Stuart Mill.

His System by some very shallow is reckoned ;
Three facts, or three fallacies, fill up his cast :
Sensation comes first, Recollection is second,
And then Expectation, the third and the last.
Wo feel something present
That's painful or pleasant—
We repeat or recall it by Memory's skill:
What happened before, sir,
We look for once more, sir,
And that's the whole Soul of tho great Stuart Mill.

At a glimpse of things real we never arrive,
Nor at any fixed Truth that we try to explore:
In some different world two and two make five,
Though appearances hero seem to say they make four.
Our mental formation
Has small operation
The mind, if we have one, is passive al
We are ruled by our Senses,
Through all our three tenses,
Past, present, and future, says great Stuart MM.

What we never have witnessed, we cannot conceive ;
What we cannot conceive must a nullity be:
In a God or a Devil can any believe,
When the one or tho other they don't feel or see ?
A future existence
Had best keep its distance,
Till there's ocular proof that the thing's a true bill :
Any childish emotion
Of Faith and Devotion,
Is fully explained by the great Stuart Mill.
Three different stages of changing opinion
Are travelled by men in this planet of ours :
In the first Superstition exerts its dominion ;
In the next, metaphysical Forces and Powers •
When these two are past, sir,
Comes the best and the last, sir,
Comte's Positive Laws every purpose fulfil
But about the Great Cause, sir,
That founded those Laws, sir,
There's nothing in Comte, and as little in Mill.
Yet without any God a Religion may be,
Which in priesthood andpower with its rivalsmay cope;.
Which in Dead Men and Women may Deities see,
And have Comte for its Prophet, and Mill for its Pope.
But what's called Right and Wrong, sir,
Is just an old Song, sir;
Neter tell me of Duty, Good actions, or III:
Being Useful or not, sir,
Determines the lot, sir ;
So Bentham found out, and so thinks Stuart Mill.

Doctor Cumming predicts that the World's near an end ;
Stuart Mill says that Coal will soon dwindle away:
Cumming preaches that therefore our ways we should mend;
Mill exhorts that the National Debt we should pay.

Whichsoe'er may come first, sir,
Or turn out the worst, sir,—
The Great Conflagration, or General Chill,—
We've to thank the men both, sir,
But I give you my oath, sir,
I don't half believe either Cumming or Mill.

Mill allows that the Franchise he'd fearlessly lower,
To admit all the masses who read and write ;
Which would make him, Ifear, of much mischief the sower,
If Loritner's project don't keep it all tight.
But here by appealing
To chivalrous feeling,
Mill hopes he'll succeed in well gilding the pill ; •
To throw open the poll, sir,
To every Fenzme Sole, sir,
Is the gallant proposal of good Stuart Mill.
If a Viceroy, defending his difficult post,
Show a zeal to have Treason audßloodshed suppressed;
And if thereby some turbulent lives should be lost,
He is guilty of Murder—for doing his best!
But the plot of Orsini,
The schemes of Mazzini,
At which most of men's bosoms with horror would thrill,
These, from all I can gather,
Are laudable rather,
Or but deemed Civil War in the judgment of Mill.

Now, let all men have freedOm to speak and to write,
And let others who differ stand up for the Truth ;
But I think we should pause as to those we invite
To make laws for the land, or to train up our Youth.
To the helpless and young, sir,
You do a great wrong, sir,
To give them a Teacher false views to instil ;
And I won't, by your leave, sir,
Pin my faith to the sleeve, sir,
Of so godless a guide as the System of Mill.*

* See Mr. Mill's works passim : his' Logic,' a common
text-book at Oxford ; his Utilitarianism ; his Auguste
Comte ;' his ' Liberty,' with the note on Tyrannicide ; his
Examination of Hamilton ;' and his recent speeches in
'Parliament. Other Philosophies—Hamilton's, Ferrier's,
&c.—are essentially Theistic. Mill's system, in our opi-
nion, is—we will not say Atheistic—but Untheistic ; it
may not deny, but itdoes not assert, or presuppi,se, the
existence of a Detiy ; it ignores the idea of a Providence ;
and as we think it false as well as dangerous, we have
taken the liberty to say so.

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are not, like clergymen, excluded from the House of
Commons. Philosophers are beyond price, but phi-
losophy is frail, and party politics are seductive.
And as " good things corrupted are the worst," so
philosophers, when they are once off the poise, are
apt to rush into intolerance with the fury of rene-
gades. Mr. Mill's late exhibitions illustrates this
very provokingly. As Liberals, we regret this, be-
cause, whereas formerly in Mr. Mill's alliance we had
the sentence of a judge in our favour, we feel that
we have now, so to say, only the protestations of
an advocate. But we are deeply sorry for the trans-
formation on other grounds too. Henceforth, when
Mr. Mill writes of social or political matters even
his old admirers will read him with misgiving.
What he would write would be in too flagrant con-
tradiction to his present practice. But, indeed, just
now the philosophical faculty has departed. He is
a lost philosopher. We should like to know what
Mr. Tennyson or Mr. Arthur Helps
,could say for
him now. No doubt Mr. Mill receives large com-
pensation of a kind in his political importance. But
what a falling off there must be in philosophical
temper if such compensation can ever be sufficient !
He has given up to party, and party in its pettiest
sense, what was meant for mankind. All that ab-
straction and disinterestedness which gave him
authority has vanished. He is no longer umpire,
but a party to the squabble. Instead of hardly con-
descending laudari laudatis—instead .of the cold
proud attitude which seemed to show he thought it
almost too mercenary even to accept the esteem of
the estimable—we see Mr. Mill now readily " help-
ing to make a mob," and apparently rewarded quite
to his taste by a popularity which would have once _
seemed to him misconception, if not an insult. Of -
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than their owLi• weight, amt4that ::weight is not
always great. The false oracle is detected by
the false prosody. It is not only the philosophical
temper which is impaired in Mr. Mill, but the logi-
cal cogency. The fallacies he has been all his life
exposing he now finds very handy weapons. A
petitio principii is no longer the contemptible device
he once pronounced it. He says, for instance, in
his speech on the Hyde Park Riots, " the people
were already in an excited state upon another sub-
ject," &c. Although not only was it not proved
that " the people " were " already excited," &c.,
but it was pretty notorious that the " people " were
so far from " excited" that those who wanted to
ride them were au desespoir at not being able to
spur them into anything like peace. Hence, in
fact, the organisation of the Hyde Park demonstra-
tion altogether. Such a logical dodge, as we must
call it, as that involved in his question, " whether
a meeting held in Hyde Park once in every two or
three years would cause one-thousandth part of the
interruption to the ordinary uses to which a park
is put that is caused by a Volunteer review " would
in the days of Mr. Mill's " Logic " have been shown
up with the coldest scorn. But when he says that
" the present Government seems determined, as
far as depends on them, to frustrate the anxious
desire of all well-wishers of their country that the
necessary changes in the Constitution should be
made without the least alienation or ill-blood
between the governing classes and the governed "
he is trespassing very near the line which separates
the pitiable from the culpable in false reasoning.
Every one knows that the present Government is
just as guilty of "frustrating " 8.7 e. e., of pre-
serving Hyde Park as a scene of beauty and plea-
sure), as the late Government, and no more. If
Mr. Mill desired to descend into the political arena
with the originality becoming him, why did he not
try candour ? Is it absolutely necessary that a
man who disdains to misrepresent the opposite
party be suspected by his own ? The Conservatives
will probably give us plenty of ground for legiti-
mate censure before we have done with them :
why should we discredit ourselves by ac-
cusing them falsely ? Omnia dat qui junta
negat. Mr. Mill is here depreciating himself even
as partisan ; but, however efficient he may become
in this capacity, we for our part shall always regret
the philosopher.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Organ News.

(From the Musical Standard.)

A new organ has just been erected by M. Ca-
vaille-Coll in the Roman Catholic Church of St.
Simon Stock, at Kensington. This, we believe (says
the London Review), is as yet the only organ in
England by this maker, whose name, however, has
long been celebrated even here as the constructor of
the magnificent instru.nent in the Madeleine at
Paris, besides others in various churches of the
same city and the French provinces. Our contem-
porary goes on to express his hope that this impor-
tation "will act as an incentive to English organ-
builders to enter into a nobler competition than that
of rapidity and cheapness of production." After
expressing his opinion that M. Cavaille-Coll is
" perhaps the most complete and satisfactory of all
organ-builders, past or present, scarcely excepting
even the great Silberman," the same writer ob-
serves:—

" The organ at St. Simon Stock is not an instru-
ment of very great size, but it is an admirable ex-
emplification of those high qualities which have
placed its builder at the head of his profession, and
entitle him to rank as an arsotii..isisntivnorcefantthieorn than a mere
manufacturer—in the same way as the constructors
of the best old cremona violins are not to be con-
sidered as mere fiddle-makers, but as the producers
of works of art. The organ now referred to (which
is rather disadvantageously placed, out of sight, in
a corner recess of the church), has two rows of keys
(claviers) from C C toG (fifty-six notes) —two and
a half octaves of pedals, with four independent stops;
besides many pedals of combination (composition
pedals and twenty stops in application to the keys.
The instrument contains one thousand four hundred
and thirty-four pipes, the deepest note being that
known as sixteen feet C" (C C C as the Germans
would call it). The quality of tone, whether in
combination or in detail, is of the highest order of
beauty—the reed stops are admirable for their round,
full, yet mellow quality and promptness of speech
—the flute, violincello, and vox-humana stops are
all remarkable for their resemblance to the originals
which they profess to imitate—and the mixture stops
are bright and sparkling without the least approach
to harshness. In short, the organ, in its full powers,
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and exercising at the instant of pressure a counter-'
acting influence so as to relieve the finger of the
player from nearly the whole labour which it would
otherwise have to exert. In this and in other me-
chanical respects, M. Cavaille-Coll's instruments
are almost as admirable for their ingenious construc-
tion as for their musical merits."
We quote the above without undertaking to en-
dorse the opinions of the Review's advocate of M.
Cavaille-Coll.

Several friends of Italy having expressed them-
selves ready to subscribe on behalf of the Italian wounded
soldiers, the Marquis d'Azeglio states that, although he is
not instructed by the Government to open a list to that
effect, he shall consider it his duty to receive and forward
to the central committees privately organised in Turin or
Florence any sum of money or parcels destined to the
wounded Italian soldiers, volunteers, or sailors. Subscrip-
tions and parcels will be equally received at any of the
Italian consulates in the kingdom.
At Darmstadt a Russian envoy has arrived with
orders to look after the interests- of the Grand Duke, the
Czar's brother-in-law, the town being occupied by the
Prussians. With him came a number of Russian gentle
men, who, taking up their quarters in the houses of the
aristocracy, hung out Russian flags, as so many claims to
exemption from having soldiers quartered upon the pre-.
mises. The Prussians have not thought it worth their
while to dispute the justice of the claim,