The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

WHITEBAIT POLITICS:

(From the Owl.) that
I am a Whitebait. You may imagine, perhaps
Whitebaits have no feelings ; at all events, no Politics
feelings. No doubt you would not expect me to care yen/
much whether, after I left the neutral grease in which
am fried, I were eaten by Conservative or Liberal jaivat
but there you are mistaken. We talk these matters over
good deal during the season, when the natural ansietdie_
or our precarious existence give us a little leisure, an
can assure you that the prospect of being swallowed 11:
Gladstone, or digested by Clarendon, gave quite a pleasa°'
shudder to many a delicate little fish. How delicious tot
have entered those lips from which so many eloquent
plunge into stet'
pity.have issued, even though it was a
pity. How amusing to have given the F
a lesson in intervention by sticking in his throat, or tickle_
his persuasive tongue by the pepper which was always s°
handy to him in the person of Mr. Layard. I could biol
readily resigned myself to the appetite of the DJ-Ik°
Somerset, feeling certain that at all events I should La'"
been sure to have been treated with a dignified coati
and swallowed as became a duke. Now, how different
will be. Should I fall to the lot of the First Lord bjj3f
most likely be taken at a gulp, like the reconstruction °t
the Navy. We have been in a state of mind for the las
week or two as to our right to Meet in large nutlatt
Some of our friends who met a Yarmouth bloater, OP
°reign Secretaryd
hq.cl had the advantage of being wrapped up in a 11°rrs;
paper, and had carefully read it, told us that there had bilea
a great row in London about great meetings of PeOle,„ir
public places. We don't understand how this can bet '"
the moment it was mentioned to us we immediately set-
tied, as regards us, that large meetings were a great red.
take, as they inevitably led to Our being captured in
rous bodies. It is, therefore, very possible that we 0,
obey the orders of the Home-office and move about sing'
But then, of course, we shall be, like the Adullamites, very
hard to catch for the Tory Cabinet. What torture it will bs
if I find myself poised on the kindly but uncertain fork °
Mr. Walpole. Whether, unlike the Reformers in the Pat
I shall be admitted into his mouth, or whether I shell
kept outside, and afterwards removed by the waiters, 0-47
appear, like Beales, a rechaufd at a more plebeian reps.
is a bewildering uncertainty. Cranborne will take us like b(ei
did the Indian Budget. He will be helped by the waiter, en
swallow everything in blind confidence that it is all rifSbt;
How different to the painstaking way in which De Grefl
would have investigated us through his eyeglass. 14°-;
Stanley, we fear, will not appreciate us as his predeecsa°-
would have done, and, accustomed to rely on Mr. I:04-,
mond, will, I fear, fail in the performance of his (let/ 1'
us. Altogether the prospects of us little fish are not et'
couraging, and we fear that we shall disagree with WM'
but if we do, they had better call on Dr. Beales, 50(1'1:
ho seems to enjoy their confidence in his treatment of ""
inside of the park, they surely would allow him to prescribe
for their own.