The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-01 00:00:00

ORATIONS BY M.R. T. 214450 N JONES.

Mr. Mason Jones gave his oration on Edmund
Burke at Willis's Rooms, on Monday evening, to a
large and fashionable audience. Ile delivered his
discourse.without any note or memorandum, and
spoke throughout with the greatest readiness and
fluency. Several passages were eloquent and
forcible, and the general tenour of the oration
showed extensive reading and reflection. He
briefly enumerated the chief incidents in Burke's
political career, his acquaintance with Fox, John-
son, Garrick, and the other celebrities of his
time ; his vehement defence of the American
colonists against the reckless policy of Lord North ;
his speeches on Indian questions, his impeachment
of Warren Hastings ; his reflections on the French
Revolution, and his policy on that occasion, con-
cluding the lecture with some remarks on the
present state of Europe. Mr. Jones's excellent
memory enabled him to quote several passages from
Burke's speeches, many of which produced great
effect, and his oration throughout was listened to
with marked attention, and frequently applauded.
In speaking of Burke's junction with the Rocking-
ham ministry, and his exclusion from the cabinet, he
remarked that the real reason for his ignominious
position was not to be found in the professed
excuses of Lord Rockingham and Mr. Fox, but in
the fact that he did not belong to any family of
territorial dignity or political influence—an allu

sion to the well-known tendency of Whig states-
men which was loudly applauded. In treating of
the trial of Hastings, the speaker had a difficult
task to avoid comparison with Macaulay's eloquent
description. In alluding to Burke's reflections on
the French Revolution he remarked that he thought
his views on that subject entirely mistaken, as'
most Englishmen did at the present day. In his con-
cluding observations on the present state of affairs on
the continent, Mr. Mason Jones strongly upheld
the policy of neutrality. and the loud applause of
his audience testified that they shared his opinion.
The room was crowded, and the audience appeared
to be highly gratified by the discourse. On Satur-
day, June 4th, and on Friday, June 10th, Mr.
Mason Jones will give his two concluding orations
on Sheridan and Curran. Those who have not
yet heard him should take those opportunities of
judging of an eloquence which is entirely natural,
and which, with experience and cultivation, pro-
mises
future distinction.

TILE FRENCH LOAN.-REPORT TO
• THE EMPEROR.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow-
ing:—

PARIS, May 28.
SIRE,—The administration has just received the
Last communication touching the loan of 500
millions. I hasten, as in duty bound, to render an
account`to your Majesty of the final result of the
subscription, and make known to the public the
bases upon which the rentes that have to he sub-
s2ribed in the ledger of the national debt will be
distributed amongst the subscribers. On the day
after the closing of the operation, when I had the
honour of addressing my first report to your
Majesty, the returns from the departments had
only partially arrived. I could then only indicate,
as 1 took care to announce, temporary estimates,
which have been since found to be far below the
reality, and are now completely ascertained. As
the subscription approached its term, the desire of
the public assumed more and more the nature of a
patriotic demonstration. The annexed list, which
states for each department the exact number of the
subscribers and the amount of the capital subscribed,
is an eloquent testimony to the sentiments of
confidence and devotedness that have impelled the
people to enter the subscription offices ; I have
much happiness in laying it before your Majesty.
According to this list the number of persons who
took part in the subscription by paying into the
receiving offices of the State the earnest of one-
tenth, amounts to nearly seven hundred thousand
(690,190).
In itself alone this total surpasses by more than
a hundred thousand share-takers that of all the
subscribers to the three first loans taken together.*
I need not point out the full importance of this in
a political and financial point of view.
It is thus divided :
At Paris
In the departments 445,165
The sum subscribed is above two milliards five
hundred millions (2,509,559,776 fr.) ; it is equal to
more than five times the sum demanded.
Paris has supplied

The departments

A HUNDRED 70 ONE ON LORD
DERBY.

(From. the Freeman.)
LORD DERBY'S BETTING-BOOK.

In these days of mesmerism and clairvoyance no
one need ask how we saw and heard Lord Derby
soliloquising with his betting-book in his hand,
which, in his most private apartment, he had just
drawn forth from his pocket, to console himself
after having had to make all pleasant with a
neutrality deputation—with those plebeian cits who
have no sympathy with the majesty and gentleness
of Austria, who would not even draw a cheque of
fifty pounds to save her from subsidence in Austria
Proper.
No .v, said his lordship to himielf, his little book,
and the four walls—now then, is the time to make
up for all I lost on Toxopholite last year. A pretty: ,-,.
round sum I ha'd to make good for backing him: !:
on the Derby; this time I'll bet, not for the Derby,
but for Derby himself. Yes, yes, the master will ,
do better than his horse. If I can't win the Derby, •
I say, Derby shall win. Ha capital. But what •:
shall the odds be, ten to one, or a hundred to one?
Let me see, there can surely be no doubt that I
am safe to win. Twenty-six seats I know I have
gained—let them get over that. Fifty-two on a. ,
division, my Lords Palmerston and Russell! what ,
say you to that? Yon crammed the House to the
uttermost, you inflicted a majority of forty votes,
save one, upon me, and you see what you have got by
it—gained a loss of sixteen votes! My lords and
gentlemen, you of the Whigs I mean, I shall beat
you by much more than half a neck or so, I shall
win in a canter. I really must say a hundred to
one on Derby and Dizzy. [Servant enters.]—
"Please, my lord, did you call me ?" " Oh, no,
John; this gout is, is—very plaguing. John, w
should not swear ; but bad as it is, I was only
laughing to myself to think how I have dished the "
Whigs. I don't tell you, John, not to let out what
you found your master laughing at ; it may be useful
at Chesham-place or the Reform Club ; and, perhaps,
at Cambridge House, too. You'll meet some of the
servants soon, no doubt." "I understand, my lord,
—l'll tell them all not (o repeat what I ought not
to have told them, and then all the Clubs, and The
Morning Post, too, will soon know of it." [Exit
John.]
A clever fellow that! something will surely turn
up, before we are turned down, for him. Derby
and Dizzy, I was saying—why, yes. What an odd
race this‘is. Hem ! A pair of us on both sides.
Derby and Dizzy, little Johnny and Pam. Odd
that ! Who can say which is first—whether 'tis
Dizzy and I, or, as Old Wolsey would have said,
I and Dizzy ? Well, any how, I can't win
unless Dizzy and I reach the post together,
nor can the Rthers unless they both are in first
ha, ha! rich, that. But then my pair are a pair.
We never try to get ahead of each other. He
is best pleased to be first in his way and 3 in mine.
But those two Whig jades—if one sees the other
ahead he would rather lay hold of his tail and pull
him back if he could, so jealous is one lest the
other should be nominally first. Blockheads ! Why
Russell and Palmerston must both be really in any
Cabinet they were both in, just as I and my pair;
I hope they won't see what fools they are before
the grouse wants them, and then we are all safe
enough till 1860. Yes, I think I'm safe with a
hundred to one for Derby and Dizzy against
Russell and Palmerston.
[Takes up " The Morning Post" of Monday.)
Oh, fudge—" no schism in the Liberal camp
"
isn't there ? " The assertion of irreconcilable
differences or personal rivalry between the two is
a pure myth." Well, The Post ought to know. It
was no myth, however, that Lord John turned
Lord Palmerston out in 1851 for acting too
in depez dently (I keep Malmesbury in better order),
and Palmerston paid Lord John out the next year;
and then that Vienna business ;—no, these are not
myths. "No reason to doubt that, when_Prcsign"
—yes, when I do—first catch your hare—" I shall
advise her Majesty to send for Lord Palmerston"--
yes, will I—" and if the Queen should say she
would rather have Lord John, the old Foreign
Secretary, who has so willingly assisted so
many Administrations, would again place himself
at the disposal of his friend.' Friend !—hem ;
well. The Post should know.• " Assisted
so many Administrations." Ah, well, that's true
enough—a very Talleyrand—none ever came amiss
to him. Yet, why wouldn't he come to me ? Only
Saturday last my wife and daughter were at Lady
Palmerston's reception ; yes, here it is in The Pagt!
I don't., however, quite like this talked-of friend-
ship; they- may both join against me; but how long
will they keep together ? [Very gravely and
slowly]—l don't like- it, no I don't. Ten to one
will be safer.
[Looking at a "Morning Star."] These penny
papers—wonderful things to be sure, but can't
last. Bright's organ, they say, that. "I don't
know that person" don't recollect that I
ever saw him. Cotton lords I—hang them all
!
Ah, but South Lancashire, though ! Well, some
of them are patriots. And this Bright broad-brim
—Dizzy says he's really a wonderful fellow, and he
did us good service last session. Aye, and so he
may this. He and his dont't care a rap for either
of the two lords.. They want their Low Borough
Franchise, the Ballot, Church-rate Abolition (hang
that cool-headed son of mine), and they won't vote
with the Whigs unless Messieurs lee Vigs give
them some of these things. We must work that
dodge, then, and we -will, too. We'll get it
round to friend Broadbrim, and Roebuck, and
Gibson, and the rest of them, that the country
will utterly despise them if they sell themselves to
the Whigs, and if they get none of their demands
in return. And then if Lord John does concede
any substantial Reform, why he and Palmerston will
never weak together. A bright thought that, friend
Bright. You and yours will certainly act independ-
ently. Our journals shall praise your freedom from
faction, and your consistency, and your determination
not to be made the football of party. Well, then—let
us reckon ae-bain. Fifty majority they pretend to make
out of the returns, although I turned their majority
of thirty-nine into a minority, by my twenty-six
new seats, At the worst, I fancy, the Radicals will
muster many more than fifty—they will walk out,
if we manage them well, on a party motion ; and I
shall beat 'em, that I shall. Yes—yes—it shall be
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fellows after all. They shall do a little more service
in the House yet, besides what they did at the elec-
tions. Why that Ecclesiastical Titles Bill of Lord
John's—what a fool the fellow was to affront the
Catholics,—that Bill has given me half-a-score votes,
or more, this very election ! Well, well, the short
and the long of it is, I mean to win--what with the
Pope, and John Bright, and Wbig quarrels, and
Downing-street good things, Derby and Dizzy shall
be the winners ; Derby and Dizzy shall eat the
whitebait dinner. It shall be a hundred to one
for Derby and Dizzy.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
THE WAIL
Accounts from Cork speak of the melancholy and
deserted state to which that harbour is reduced
by the war in Italy. Instead of a great crest of
masts, from which floated the flags of all nations,
there is now nothing but a silent waste of waters.

1 THE O'CONNELL FAMILY.
A final meeting of the committee formed for the
purpose of collecting a fund for the family of the
late Mr. John O'Connell was held yesterday, Mr. J.
D. Fitzgerald, M.P., presiding. It was announced
that the subscriptions amounted trotsthdee
rigargoshotspseumof
soon hahon.
of £5,100, which was to be invested in trustees for
the benefit of the widow and children of the favou.
rite son of Daniel O'Connell. Mr. Serjeant Deasy
was second chairman, and in moving the usil;al vote
ofthanlltog
the Mr.
pleasure Fitzgerald
oaddress
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gentleman by another title.

TRINITY COLLEGE.
The examination for the fellowship commences
on the 15th of next month. It being the first
vacancy for some years past, the competitors will
be unusually numerous. At present no less than
nine candidates are in the field, but it is probable
that this number will be diminished when the ex-
amination day arrives.

CALEDONIAN AND CRINAN CAN AL.--A tourist
who has taken the field somewhat earlier than usual informs
us that, notwithstanding the recent disaster at the Crinan
Canal, the communication along that line known as the
Great Glen of Scotland continues uninterrupted. The
eight or nine miles of the Crinan Canal are, indeed, wholly
dry. strewn with enormous boulders, fragments of rock, wood, sand, and other debris of the flood, but parallel witli
the bed of the canal runs a good highland roan, and omni-
buses have been placed on it, conveying passengers from
one steamer to another with expedition and ss.fety. " There
were about 40 of us on Friday last," adds our correspon-
dent ; " the day was fine, and the drive was an agreeable
variety. We found the inn at Banavie, new Fort William,
much enlarged—about 40 new bedrooms, an• d altogether the
dAmn
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fellowrou te wpa se e comfortableeaesegers were as it
the DukweasofPiNcturorfeB9ol kluaen
Scott, of Abbotsford, who, like the rest of t is, were charmed
with the lake voyage and with the moos stain panoramas
constantly opening up as we proceeded, If athe4 in glorious
sunshine'"