The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-17 00:00:00

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nately, at the suggestion of that dreadful, inquisi-
torial, " Finance !" Each department is a very
polypus in its way : with ravening arms—more
numerous than those of Briareust--stretched forth
at all points, hungering, thirsting, all-devouring!
The feelers of these consuming polypi of the State
are many-named—secretaries, assistant secretaries,
auditors of civil list, auditors of accounts,
principal clerks for colonial businesss, for revenue
business, for financial brusiuess, for legal and
criminal business, first-class clerks (many), second-
class clerks (more), third-class clerks, and actually
in a vague unnumbered way, " other clerks," ac-
countants, and assistant-accountants—always " as-
sistants," observe, to do everything! Tot fours
perdrix et wive la bagatelle ! It is like the "gag"
of DIGGORY in" She Stoops to Conquer " :
"Dig. What be you going to do ?
Serv. Nothing.
Dig. Then I'll help you!"

At the Circumlocution-office they have plenty
of DICGORIES. And besides the " first-Chop "
officials— the upper-crust of the departments—they
have, of course, a "second-chop " class of almost
equal abundance—office-keepers,housekeepers,door-
keepers, lamplighters, coal-porters, messengers,
and what - not, lower arms of the State
polypi less aspiring in their reach,
stretched forth as it were horizontally, yet in
their way, too, hungering, thirsting, devouring,
ravening ! The polypus, by the way, is conveniently
suggestive of the hydra—and the hydra of the
punishment inflicted upon it by the mythical
HERCULES ! And the Great Evil-Destroyer again,
does he not yet more opportunely bring us round
once more to our amiable friend " Finance," who is
fain to exclaim at list, " All that one can. do"—
(beholding " such gigantic financial profligacy")—
" All that one can do is to live and hope that some
day a HERCULES will be born who will have the
power of turning the full tide of the public resent-
ment right through this heap of waste and extra-
vagance !" The suggestion, merely regarded as a
possibility, is refreshing to contemplate. Let us
cherish it, if only as a day-dream. And let us cling
still to that halcyon hope, that timely ventilations,
like these just vouchsafed by " Finance," may lead
in the end to a clearing away of the profligate ex-
penditure thus " ventilated" -- a clearance bold,
complete, though rough !

The devotion of Lord DUDLEY STUART to the
cause of Poland has very recently been most touch-

the hall of the noble earl's country seat (Sandon

ingly commemorated. It has been commemorated
by the Poles themselves. And this at the instance
of the most venerable and illustrious among all the
hiefs of that heroic race now living—the Prince
ADAM CZARTORYSKI. A voluntary subscription
raised among the Polish Exiles and the Polish
population having furnished the means of realising
(in answer to Prince ADAM'S Appeal to his fellow-
countrymen) this exquisite project of a grateful
and affectionate testimonial—here is the testimonial
itseif in the form of a most beautiful medal of
commemoration. A medal pourtraying in front
the faithful effigy in profile of the departed noble-
man—here simply but eloquently designated in the
truthful inscription, "DUDLEY C. STUART, Cause)
Polonire Indefessus Vindex, Exulum Polonorum
Amiens et Fautor." If ever man deserved those
enviable and honourable titles, this man did—for
during three and twenty years he was in very deed,
in the knowledge not only of England and of
Poland, but'of all Christendom, The indefatigable
champion of the cause of Poland, The Friend and
Advocate of the Exiled Poles. Throughout the
principal part of his chivalrous life his sympathy
was with that cause, his aspirations were for
the restoration of the rights of that people ; but from
the close of the last struggle of the Polish multitude
for the revival of their national independence in
1831, down to the day of his premature demise in
1854, at Stockholm, "every energy of his soul," as
Prince ADAM has said very recently, " was given
to it, and he remained faithful to it to the last
breath of his admirable.life." How dear his memory
is to the hearts of the Polish peop'.e, but especially
of the Polish exiles, they have now forcefully indi-
cated through this appropriate commemoration.
A description will be found in another part of
our impression of this evening, a detailed and
deeply-interesting description of the presentation
to the husband and son of the late Countess of
HARROWBY, sister of Lord DUDLEY COUTTS STUART
—of this gold medal, offered by Poland (1859) as a
token of gratitude. The ceremony of this presen-
tation to the Earl of HARRowsv and his lordship's
son and heir, the Viscount SANDON, took place, as
will be observed, on Monday last, in that part of

Hall) known as " The Polish Vestibule." The
sentiments with which this gold medal was
proffered to the surviving relations of Lord
DUDLEY to be held by them and their descend-
ants its an heirloom, were variously expressed with
great eloquence by that beautiful memento itself,
by the admirable words addressed to Lord HAIL-
ROWBY at the moment of its presentation by Major
SZULCZEWSKI, and by the dignified and pathetic let-
ters transmitted to the noble lord at the same time
by the Count ZAMOYSKI, and by that general's ill as-
trious and venerable kinsman, the Prince ADAM
CZARTORYSKI. The significance of the great

"cause" itself *is epitomised exquisitely in the
beautiful map traced upon the reverse of the com-
memorative medal—a map of the kingdam of
Poland as it was, as it may yet be again, a glorious
dominion stretching across Europe from the Baltic
to the Euxine, watered by the Vistula and the
Dniester, walled by the Carpathians—Poland as it
was in 1580, when Riga became a Polish Port
under STEPHEN BATOR'S', at it was as far back as
9G5, when, under MIECZZSLAS 1., that lair and
fruitful land was first converted to Christianity.

In the extract which we give from the Sydney
Morning Herald,the editor concludes with a very just
remark or two. The Ballot Society seems to have
sent him a number of queries respecting the work-
ing of the Ballot in New South Wales; and, natu-
rally enough, to have asked whether the moral ob-
jections so pertinaciously alleged here, were found
to exist in the colony. The remarks of the Editor
are interesting, as illustrating the state of the
colony, but in the last paragraph he lays his finger
on the real objection felt by the opponents of the
Ballot in England, which coincides with that which
we, and all interested in honest elections here, have
always pointed out as the true one—that it would
really place the power in the hands of the electors.
The moral objections do not, he says, weigh a fea-
ther in the colonies. But in the colonies they quite
comprehend the true difficulty in the mother coun-
try—" to reconcile the governing classes to a total
surrezder of their political power." The moral
objections strike colonists as " frivolous, at least of
comparatively little force." He might have com-
pleted the old formula, and have said, " frivolous
and vexatious."

To us, we confess they are exceedingly vexa-
tious. It is not Lord JOHN RUSSELL and
others being " against" the Ballot that annoys
us. All Englishmen are prepared to respect their
political antagonists, and to like them none
the worse for being so. It is the hypocrisy of
our opponents which disgusts us. Why can they
not-manfully say at once--" We don't like to part