The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TimEs.L---The more ardent of the disappointed
Reformers make a point that its catastrophe shall
be avenged by an instant dissolution. Nothing will
satisfy them but the capital punishment of the
offending Legislature, and a heavy penalty to be in-
flicted on the members by the process of re-election
in which the innocent will suffer as much as the
guilty. Indeed, in this case it is not easy to say
who arc the guilty and who are the innocent, as
compared with the rest. About nine-tenths of the
Liberals nave voted black and white with Govern-
ment for every clause in the Bill, and in many cases
given votes which they felt it necessary to expiate
the next day by clumsy explanations and ignoini-
nious confessions. Whatever may be thought of
them, they hardly deserve to be fined on the ave-
rage three thousand pounds a-piece. Neither can
the Opposition be proved guilty on any indictment,
except one of that vague and constructive character
which despots and democrats can draw up so well.
They have maintained a very open and consistent
opposition to a Bill confessedly intended to alter
the political balance by taking from them twenty
or thirty of the seats now under their influence, and
to oust them effectually from all prospect of power.
They had promised nothing but Reform in a ve7y
general sense of the word, and to this moment there
can be only a natural and yet unfriendly inference
that they would have rejected a fair and reasonable
measure. They must be judged, nct by the mea-
sure of our suspicions, hut by the measure of the
actual occasion in which they have been tried. Mr.
Gladstone had the choice of putting them to one
test or another. He might have brought forward
a measure so equal and fair to all parties, classes,
, and interests that to reject it might be called a crime.
In this case he would not have gained much for his
own party, or for any occasional ally ; and such a
success he might possibly not prize. He had also
the option of a measure in the nature of a political
invasion of his foes, and a march into their coun-

try, with the view of annexing some of their ter-
ritory and of their subjects. In this case there
was the chance of a brilliant success. But there
was also the greater risk of failure ; and, in
the event of that failure, there could be no com-
plaint, no invocation of the just deities, no demand
for satisfaction, no excuse for summary vengeance.
This is the choice Mr. Gladstone—perhaps we ought
to say his chief in the other house—has deliberately
made. He went in for the higher stakes and the
greater advantage, without regard to claims founded
on the existing state of things. He has failed, as
many another assailant and would-be conqueror has
failed before, and will fail again. He has been met
with weapons and tactics at least as fair and open
as his own. He has avoided a direct issue, and
tried to circumvent his opponents. He has been
neither beaten ror even circumvented, but simply
wearied out by a purely Fabian policy. He has
given in. Who, then, is to blame, and who is there
to punish? The unsuccessful are ready to punish
all the world, and even themselves, if that is neces-
sary to the general execution. This is the whole
case for a Dissolution, and there is nothing more to
be said for it. There is an obvious inconsistency in
this violent wish to refer the present question to the constituencies when the very ground of the
appeal is an opinion that the constituencies are cor-
rupt usurpations, with no substantial right to call
themselves the people and to elect the Parliament.
It is impossible to pay a higher compliment to the
existing constituency, and the existing state of our
representative system, than by insisting on an im-
ameede. iate reference to tem on any question of import-
n 'Why
as
alter
opportune
revolutionise
and a
infallibletribunal
which regard
saviour of the country ? The classes now en-
franchised may, then, be safely trusted with the
most vital of responsibilities. They are, then, sure
to send us not only law makers but also men cap-
able of making a Constitution itself, and widening
the basis of this vast political edifice. This is
not our eulogy. From our lips such praise might
seem fulsome and interested. It is the impartial
testimony of the men who inspired the Reform Bill,
and who now loudly appeal to the British constitu-
encies to avenge its failure. The appeal, we believe,
would be simply wasted. Of course, it would be
out of all reason to expect that a general election
now should return the very same men as one nine
months since. But no human being can venture to
say how they would differ. If half-a-dozen men
should lose their seats for their votes against Go-
vernment, it is quite possible that af
we may ven-
s many would
forourselves
supportingit
I
loseture theiron seats
any
prediction
it is that the appal-
ling spectacle of all Europe rushing to arms will
have the same sobering effect as it had 70 years ago
when the confusion and • • •
rmseries of the civilized
world led us to endure with . l%
ar—.y a complaint the
anomalies and the abuses of
tem for another 40 • 5 ears. But Dissolution, of
course, is revolution as far as it goes. It is equiva-

rustrates the truth of our assertion, and it is to
this event that we would direct the public attention.
Not many months have elapsed since lawless men
from the Southern States organised in the Canadian
territory the most unjustifiable raids into the United
States. Canada looked placidly on while bucca-
neers endeavoured to establish piratical cruisers
on the American lakes, and gangs broke into
the States of the Union on a mission of murder
and plunder'. It is no wonder that the action of
the Canadian people excited the greatest indignation
among the Americans. These few months passed
away, and the state of affairs became totally
changed. The great war which had threatened to
split the Union into halves was at an end. The
Northern people had triumphantly carried out the
objects for which they had taken up arms, and in
the peaceful solution of political difficulties
left by the war, found little time to give that
attention to the designs of an unprincipled band
among their people, but not of their people,
who had styled themselves Fenians. These designs
were no less than to make war against the British
Empire, and to base their operations from the
United States. The Canadians- found the same
style of organisation threatening their own quiet
homesteads from the United States which but a few
short months before had threatened the homesteads
of the Union from Canada. What wonder if Amseri-
cans chuckled a little at the strange turn
events had taken, and looked on—half in compas-
sion, half in amusement—at the terror and anxiety
of their neighbours over the border ? The
Republican giant, however, was satisfied with
the vietorica he-had achieved and the manhood Ile
had shown—now acknowledged by all the world. In
the hour of his triumph he was not in the mood for
petty jealousies and petty spite, and the action of
the American Government in the emergency is
worthy of the mighty nation it represents. No
sooner had the Fenian bands committed themselves
to an unlawful act than Uncle Sara stretched
forth his great arm—and crushed them. The
whole frontier bristled with American bayo-
nets, and the greatest of American generals has-
tened to the spot to direct the operations. The
President put forth a Proclamation, and the
Fenian chiefs were at once arrested. Now, here is
an example how loyal nations should act towards
each other, and we feel sure it will not be lost on
the British people. In England's long career she
has committed and suffered for many mistakes, and
among the greatest of these mistakes has been her
sluggish action in the matter of the piratical cruisers
which the Southern States managed to get to sea
from these shores, as well as the St. Albans' raid
affair, which has been so fitly punished at Fort
Erie. Of all nations in the world England is that
one which should most jealously suppress piratical
and brigand expeditions, for she is the nation most
exposed to their depredations both on sea and land.
The American people have taken most noblerevenge
—and one which will do them the highest honour
in history. But if Providence has ordained
that nations should be punished here on earth for
their sins, the converse of this is also true ; and it
has been decreed that the good deeds of a people
should meet with a great and prompt reward. The
action of the American Government was as wise as
it was good : and we venture to predict that had
the same game to be played over again we would
hear no more of Alabamas escaping to sea, or
Southern conspirators organising murderous expe-
ditions from British Territory.

THE LATE MR. HUME.—In reference to the
alleged refusal of a baronetcy to Mr. Joseph Hume,
his daughter, Mrs. nume-Rothery, writes to the Manchester
Eramiuer :—" It is a complete mistake that my father ever
wished for a baronetcy, which I can confidently affirm he
would not on any consideration have accepted, had it been
ever so pressingly offered. All who knew my father inti-
mately are aware how entirely foreign to his views and
principles was the idea of founding a family,' 'making an
eldest son,' or anything of the kind, for which alone any
hereditary distinction is desirable. A Privy Councillorship
was the one thing he would haya accepted if offered, because
h e could have done so without compromising his perfect
independence ; but he was quite incapable of experiencing,
on such a ground, the kind of disappointment attributed to
him because.of its not being offered. My father, not long
before his death—certainly within the last 12 months of his
life—when this question of the Privy Councillorship was
once publicly alluded to, told me that it was true so far
that he would have accepted it in earlier years, especially
if offered him soon after the accession of her present Ma-
jesty, which it might have been in acknowledgment,bo not
only of his long public services, but of what. mayth con-
sidered his personal services to the Throne in
Lodgee exposure
and discomfiture of the CumberliTil
con-
spiracy. But,.' my father. t 0 added,o would Orange,,ninso tultini kye istunfßoew
if they offered it to me ; is. late.'
naturehathat
the ofn non-bestowal
bfeelingost
ow a on
upont h e subject,him
eve andeven
of
o
which he would have accepted, never
rtlt aafilsnithedqnwuheiittedisshespteiureanrceace,tioon; cost him so much as an hour's sleep
or an hour's enjoyment of the rare intervals of leisure
which his public labours left him."

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1 HART STREET, IS TIIE DEPART-
-I-1 lIENT for JUVENILE CLOTHING of every description,
At E. MOSES & SON'S.

HART STREET, IS THE DEPART-
MENT for HATS and CAPS,
At E. MOSES & SON'S.

0 HART STREET, IS THE DEPART-
MENT for LADIES' RIDING HABITS, LIVERIES, and
other CLOTIIIVG MADE TO ORDER,
At E. MOSES & SON'S.

137 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD,
is subivided into Departments for FIATS and
CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES, and SHIRTS, HOSIERY,
POgTMANTE AIL
AUS, and RWAY RCGS,
At E. MOSES SON'S.

12,Q TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD,
is subdivided into Departments for OUTFITS,
MECHANICS' CLOTHING, OVERCOATS, DRESS and
FRoCK COATS, and READY MADE CLOTHING Of
every description,
At E. MOSES Lit SON'S.

283 EUSTON ROAD, IS SUBDIVIDED
, into Departments for JUVENILE CLOTHING,
-A
CLOTH' ADIES' RIDING HABITS, LIVERIES and other
x 0 MADE TO ORDER,

At E. MOSES & SON'S.

N.U.-ALL ARTICLES ARE MARKED IN
-eLAIN FIGURES THE LOWEST PRICES,
FROM WHICH NO ABATEMENT CAN BE
MADE.

At E. MOSES & SON'S.

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N.8.-SHOULD ANY ARTICLE NOT BE
APPROVED OF IT WILL BE EXCHANGED
oR THE t
E MONE
OSESY WILL BE RETURNED, A. M & SON'S.

LIST of PRICES WITH FASHION- CARD,
AND RULES FOR SELP-mEAsußEurosT,
GFATIS AND POST-FREE.
At E. MOSES & SON'S.

MOSES & SON'S ESTABLISH---11EN
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are closed every Friday at Sunset till Saturday at
Sunset., when business is resumed till 11 o'clock.

MOSES SON, CORNER OF AIINORIEs
ftti d ALDGATE, :NEW OXFORD STREET, Corner of
HART STREET, and corner of TOTTENHAM COrRT
ROAD and RUSTON ROAD ;
also at BOADFOUD, 1' (.IZIi9FIIRE.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the c•re and condort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOIS itAGON, announces that he 'has transferred his Estab-
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chatty accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fit ty
nunutes from Ox'ord. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a SA n,if soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, tre garden, (1017. plantation. and recreation
grJands. For t;rms and forms of admission address the
propritta.

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