The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICZ, JULY 17.

THERMOMETEIt, IN THE SHADE.
81highest since noon yesterday.'
68—lowest this morning and during the night.
79—this day at noon.
BAROXETER-30'10, falling.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine, broiling
weather.

JrLY 18.
THEILMOUBTEIty IN THE GRADE.
82—highest since noon yesterday.
74—lowest this morning and during the night.
80—this day at noon.
BAnomErzs-29.89, still falling.

WIND, South-Westerly; rather fresh, with fine, cloudy
weather. The heavy passing clouds seem to indicate a
coining change. The sun is, however, still oppressive.

NAPOLEON has arrived in Paris !—no, not in
Paris, but at St. Cloud, some miles remote. Oh !
what a glorious promise of joyous hope blessed his
departure for the once fair land of liberty—and
what a funereal gloom hangs over his sepulchral
return ! Never in the annals of war did such re-
joicings greet the august redeemer of the enslaved,
as the plaudits bursting from the warm hearts of
thousands upon thousands of enraptured individuals
who crowded round his carriage on that ever me-
morable occasion ! And where are they now? And
echo mutters where ?—as if afraid to awaken the
reflection of the great warrior who steals silently
along in the shadow of his forlorn return. I It is
not the Engineer hoist with his Own Petard, but
the Macchiavelian depressed with the damnation
of his evil doings ! He has drank the cup of glory
till his very heart sinks within him, at the accursed
cauldron which he mixed up for others, but now
fin& the poisoned chalice commended to his own
nnlboly lips ! So may it ever be to those who attempt
to follow his example. What has he done ? Only
sent a hundred thousand brave Frenchmen, besides
thousands of deceived Italians, to die on the battle-
field.. While more, even many more, Austrians fell
that tyranny might triumph and liberty be trodden
under foot from "the Alps to the Adriatic !" Surely
the man must be a madman or a demon, it matters
little which. But his day is surely coming, and he
who is now

" The arbiter of others' fate"

may before long become

" A suppliant for his own !"

The abrupt and unexpected termination of the
war has come upon mankind with as much surprise
as its commencement was sudden. If the beginning
was allowable on the score of helping an ally
struggling for the freedom of oppressed nationali-
ties, the untoward result is disastrous beyond the
wildest apprehension of believing mortals. Hope
was quickened into a frenzy of joy only the more
surely to be blasted into the very depths of despair.
And all for what ? To play out a diabolical game
of ambition.

" And millions die that despots may be great."

The heart sickens at the contemplation of such
stupendous—such utterly reckless atrocity.

Various as futile are the reasons or opinions
as to the causes of this masquerade, and the conse-
quences likely to result from it. We offer no
opinion on a matter as inexplicable as it is iniqui-
tous. Some say that there was treason in the camp.
It may be so. Others say the French Emperor
was imposed upon by the machinations of the
Italian Priests—Pope, cardinals, and all. Again,
the health of the army was in jeopardy from the
marshes surrounding Mantua, exhaling poison under
the burning suns of July. While some saw in the
frowning attitude assumed by Prussia, backed by
the cold reserve of England, which might have
"warmed into jealous hate, and produced a combus-
ti°'l in the Fatherland of excited Germany—quite
enough to make NAPOLEON hold his hand, in the
11011 r of victory, while yet master of his own destiny.
Another, an
ii by no means an improbable suppo-
sition, was, that if he proceeded to make Italy free,
his own 41.117 might ask to let France partake in
that blessing a
also. This idea was felt to be the
more grave that young Prince NAPOLEON was not
to be trusted by his uncle !—the less so that he was
at the head of a largs force composed of French
and Italians. Else why should Prince NAPOLEON
be kept in a manner inactive, until the
EMPEROR had achieved the -victories himself.
Indeed, the marked non-observation of the
King of SARDINIA was almost as significant as the
Studied care of keeping Prince NAPOLEON in the
background.. Now all these speculations may be,
some true, or some untrue, and the real murder
Play come upon the world before they open their
4les to-morrow morning ! For, after all, the deeds
Of evil az e shrouded in mystery, and he who keeps
the keys of PANDORA'S Box may, in prying into
the futut .e, get so confounded at its contents, that
he will 9 earch in vain for hope at the bottom ?

It vr: as a frequent taunt directed against the
chiefs o if the late Cabinet by their antagonists, that
as a 11 iinistry they were moribund. As the leaders
of a ; great Party, however, they are certainly not
ram ibund—judging from the magnificent demon-
ition made in their favour on Saturday evening

last, in Merchant Taylor's Hall, in the City of
London. A more remarkable evidence of devotion,
of confidence, or of admiration has not been accorded
in our recollection to any living statesman than
that which was thus spontaneously offered on
Saturday, the 16th instant, to the Noble Earl, late
First Lord of the Treasury, and to the Right Hon.
Gentleman the ex-Chancellor of Her MAJESTY'S
Exchequer. It was a voluntary testimony of the
complete satisfaction, and even the earnest grati-
tude with which the services of those two eminent
public men are regarded by the great and united
body of the Conservatives of the United Kingdom.
The number of those assembled together at this
banquet, to do honour to Lord DERBY and
Mr. DISRAELI, and through them to their late
ministerial colleagues, tallied almost to a nicety
with the exact number of their supporters in the
House of Commons. It is the three hundred, let us
say, of the political Thermopyles ! "An imposing
array" the Times reporter calls it, "of about 300
guests, all more or less well-known for their adhe-
sion to the cause of Conservatism." That other
still more imposing array—for party purposes—
ranged now upon the left hand of Mr. SPEAKER
numbering as we all perfectly know by this time also
an aggregate of just three hundred ! So that, nume-
rically as well as otherwise, the demonstration of
Saturday evening was peculiarly appropriate. It
was more than appropriate ; it was auspicious, and,
for those assembled there, replete with tokens full
of encouragement. The demonstration, in truth,
was such in its whole character and bearing, in the
unaffected unanimity of its enthusiasm, that it
afforded a full and complete justification of the
almost exultant words of the late Prime
Minister, when referring to the circumstances
of his withdrawal, together with his Mi-
nisterial colleagues, from the conduct of
the affairs of Government—" But, my lords and
gentlemen, although we are defeated, I am happy
to think that we are not disgraced ; and
if I rightly appreciate the tone and charac-
ter of this meeting, not only are we not disgraced,
but we are not discouraged or disheartened." As if
to make assurance doubly sure to the Conservative
leaders, there comes to them, upon the very morrow
of their dispersion as a Cabinet, the inspiriting in-
cident of this unwonted and, in many respects,
very memorable demonstration.
It can hardly be matter for surprise to any un-
prejudiced observer to note the haughty satisfaction
with which the Earl of DERBY referred, on Satur-
day, to the reiterated, though doubtless reluctant
tributes offered to the ministerial policy and adminis-
trative proceedings of their immediate prede-
cessors by the members of the present
" motley" Administration. Enumerating three
alone of the great departments of the State
to begin with—Lord DERBY observed "If we
speak of that which is the most pressing, and
which has been among our most anxious cares—
the position of the foreign affairs of this country—
we are told by the Prime Minister who has suc-
ceeded us, that it will be the earnest endeavour of
her MAJESTY'S present Government to walk in the
paths which we have chalked out for them.
If we advert to the efforts which we have
made for the restoration of the great arm
of this country—its navy—to a proper state
of efficiency and power, we are congratulated
by our opponents upon the energy and vigour dis-
played by my right hon. friend late at the
head of the Admiralty. If we speak of the
position of the army, hardly any terms are
deemed warm enough in which to eulogise th e
services of my right hon. and gallant friend
lately connected with that department." And so
on. Until the noble Earl is fain to add at last to
the long catalogue of commendations thus strangely
conceded to the late Administration. "If, then,
this harmony so happily exists between the late
and the present Government, we are almost
tempted to ask, Why is it that we are sitting upon
the left and not upon the right of the Speaker ?''
To which inquiry (and no wonder) there is ap-
pended to the report of Lord DERBY'S speech—even
in the Times—" cheers and laughter." The DERBY
Government while in power was reprobated spite-
fully and speciously, we all of us remember
for not preserving a strict neutrality, for
bungling the administration of the army, for
adventuring upon an unnecessary and extravagant
expenditure in the extension and multiplication of
our maritime armaments. Yet no sooner by a dis-
graceful trick is the DIRE' Administration driven
from power upon these very pleas, than one after
another they are abandoned as untenable by the
very men who had been the loudest in the promul-
gation of the accusations. The blue book relating
to the recent diplomatic negotiations—when too
late—is published : and lo ! Lord MALMESBURY'S
course throughout is proved to have been one of the
strictest, the most loyal, and the most dignified neu-
trality. Insomuch that the leader of the new Go-
vernment avows the intention of his Ministry to
walk carefully along the line chalked out by their
predecessors. It is thereupon good humouredly re-
marked by the recently maligned but now eulogized
ex-Foreign Secretary, that he don't half like the
phrase through which the foreign policy of the
Coalition is thus indicated ! Chalk, says Lord
MALMESBURY, is a very crumbling and perishable
material ! There is reason to fear that the " line"
spoken of thus by the new Ministers may in the
course of a very short time be obliterated under
their shuffling footsteps ! Happily, however, as yet
the present holders of office are pledged to carry
out their predecessors' policy of Neutrality, and
while doing so they are likewise pledged no less
distinctly to follow out the patriotic course of the
DERBY Ministry in furthering to the uttermost the
increase and reorganisation of both the military and
maritime departments of the public service. That
double increase, that twofold reorganisation must be
recognised as if anything more than ever requisite—
now when 'a perillous War has for a while given
way to a Peace that may perchance yet more
disastrously jeopardise the fortunes not of Italy
alone, but of all Christendom !
Reverting :thus for a moment to the past--anti-
cipating thus for a moment the future—we would
here, if but in gratitude (as impartial spec-
tators) for the high-minded and magnanimous
policy of the late Derbyite Administration, reite-
rate the graceful and eminently deserved panegyric
pronounced on (Saturday evening upon the two
chief leaders of that Administration, by the heir to
the Dukedom of Richmomd ! When apply-
ing those household words to the Conservative
leaders in the Lords and Commons, the Earl of
MARCH exclaimed, in far-famed and familiar lan-

"With more than mortal powers endowed,
How high they soared above the crowd !
Theirs was no common party race,
Jostling by dark intrigue for place ;
Like fabled gods, their mighty war
Shook realms and nations in its jar;
Beneath each banner, proud to stand,
Looked up the noblest of the land !,"
And we would remind Lord MARCH, we would re-
mind the Conservatives, we would remind the
country at large that in the passage immediately
preceding this quotation from Sir WALTER SCOTT'S
" Marmion" there is another kindred passage which,
we are satisfied, had occasion required during the

existence of the late Mi• aistry, would have admitted
of a no less direct avid appropriate application to
the Conservative Lea, ders in the two Houses of

Parliament :

" WHEN EUROPE CROUCH ED TO FRANCE'S YOKE,
AND AUSTRIA BENT, AN. D PRUSSIA BROKE,
AND THE FIRM RUSSIAN 'S PURPOSE BRAVE
WAS BARTERED BY A TM OROUS SLAVE,
EVEN THEN DISHONOUR'S PEACE THEY SPURNED,
THE SULLIED OLIVE BRANiCH RETURNED,
STOOD FOR THEIR COUNTRIT'S GLORY FAST,
AND NAILED HER COLOURS TO THE MAST."

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Old Corn Exchange, Hull, July 16.
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THE SUN.
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1859.