The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1866.

PAMPHLETS RELATING

TO "MK' r LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Two MASTERLY PAMPHLETS, BY Mr. DUDLEY
BAXTER, M.A., of Trinty College, Cambridge,
have recently been publisled by Mr. Edward Stan-
ford, of Charing-cross. The earlier of the two has
already been honourably mentioned in the House
of Commons during the late debates there upon the
subject they refer to—among others, in terms of
high praise, by the Right lion. baronet the member
for Herts. This earlier of Mr. Dudley Baxter's Two
Pamphlets on the New Reform Bill being a brochure
of 44 pages, having inscribed upon it as its title, " The
Franchise Returns Critically Examined." Together
with this critical examination of the Franchise Re-
turns, moreover—returns that were laid upon the
table of the house in such a hurry-scurry, at the
eleventh hour and three quarters, and evidently,
at the very first glance through them, in a state
that might be described (without the smallest
hazard of exaggeration) in Stephen Blackpool's
phrase, as " aw' a muddle "—returns, in fact, so
faulty, so glaringly and undeniably erroneous,
that they were repudiated upon the earliest oppor-
tunity in open house, and in the hearing of Mr.
Gladstone, by that right hon. gentleman's
.fidus
Achates, the member for Birmingham—together
with this critical examination, we say, of these
most unsatisfactory Franchise Returns, Mr.
Baxter supplies us in his first pamphlet, with
" A Table of the Future Constituency," and
with an account—his account of course (neverthe-
less he fairly challenges contradiction and therefore
ought to be listened to)—as to the " Proportion
of the Working Classes in Each Borough." This
earlier of the two pamphlet now more immediately
referred to has already, by this time, become so
thoroughly well known among the politicians of the
day, both within and without the walls of the
legislature, that it needs no other allusion to it
here beyond the notification of the fact of its
re-issue in a revised form—a supplementary
but unmistakable attestation of its success. As a
companion pamphlet in every way worthy of the
one just now particularised, Mr. Dudley Baxter has
yet more recently issued fr)m the press, through the
establishment of Mr. Staaford, another brochure,
this time one of 37 pages, relating to the second
moiety of the piecemeal Government Reform Bill,
and having as its title " Tie Redistribution of Seats
and the Counties." The motto selected by Mr.
Dudley Baxter for his new argument (of course
antagonistic to the Ministe'ial measure) is a thought
or aspiration rather from £schylus to the senten-
tious effect--ro B'et, vocaro.—" May the Right Pre-
vail !" So soon as the Hous( fairly gets into Commit-
tee upon the Two Bills, w.th the amiable intention
(suggested by Mr. Bouvere) of rolling those Two
Bills into One (if that ingenious feat should only
prove to be in any way practicable), certain are we
that Mr. Baxter's newly prmaulgated arguments
this time in reference to the tedistribution of Seats
will be mentioned, and that moreover, as formerly
upon the other Branch of the Reform Bill, authori-
tatively.

MR. LOWE'S GREAT SPEECH on the Second Read-
ing of the Representation O. the People Bill—deli-
vered in the House of Comnons on Thursday even-
ing, the 26th of April, 1866—a speeoh which for
two hours and forty minutci held one of the most
densely crowded houses we have ever seen collected
together at Westminster, enchained in breathless
attention—the orator being interrupted again and
again by explosions of admiration during the deli-
very of it—has just been published in the form of a
fourpenny Bvo. pamphlet of 31 pages by R. J. Bush,
of Charing-cross : the report thus issued separately
being carefully corrected and revised throughout by
the Right Hon. member for Calne himself.

REFORM AND REFORMERS—is the title of a read-
able little slilling brochure, edited by John Tillot-
son, and published by S. 0. Beeton. It relates to
the Question of Reform as it stood exactly one
generation since—namely five-and-thirty years ago.
The Reformers sketched off—some of them " to the
life"—being the great men of those times. Among
them Major Cartwright, William Cobbett, Daniel
O'Connell, Joseph Hume, and Jeremy Bentham,
Earl Grey and the Marquess of Lansdowne, Richard
Cobden and Sir Samuel Romilly. Happily there
are others who are still surviving—foremost among
them the Leader of Reform in the House of Com-
mons of those days, still the Leader not only of Re-
form in these present times, but the Leader also of
the Government —meaning the Earl Russell, K. G., of
to-day, the Lord John Russell, M.P., of yesterday.
Another veteran Reformer, great amongst the great
then, great amongst the great still, is not only
commemorated in these pages, together with his
then contemporaries, but has his engraved effigy
printed upon the cover of the little volume as an
apt symbol of the energetic fervour then, and let us
hope still, actuating Reform and Reformers. This
vera effigies being the counterpart presentment of
Henry Lord Brougham.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

THE WAR CRISIS.

BERLIN, MAY 22.

The Prussian Government has prohibited the
exportation until the Ist October next, of corn,
hay, or straw, across the frontier from the Vistula,
near Thorn (inclusively) to the frontier bordering
on the kingdom of Saxony, near Seidenberg.
The prohibition will also apply to exportation
across such other parts of the Prussian frontier as
border on those States of the Zoilverein, which
shall refuse to decree a similar prohibition.
CASSEL, MAY 22.

The Austrian Colonel Wimpfen has arrived here
to make arrangements for conveying Austrian
troops through Hesse Cassel.
VIENNA, MAY 23.

A telegram received here from Jassy, announces
the entry of a combined Russian and Turkish corps
crarme'e into Moldavia yesterday.
Omar Pasha commands the Turkish, and General
Kotzebue the Russian troops.

At the Paris Conference Prussia alone raised any
objection to the proposal of the Porte for a joint
intervention in the Danubian Principalities. Russia
even is said to have agreed with Turkey on the
subject, and the proposal for intervention as agreed
to by them was submitted to the Conference.
France, England, and Austria intend to protest
against the enthronement of Prince Charles of
Hohenzollern.

HANOVER, MAY 22.

Prince Sohns, General in the Austrian army, has
arrived here unexpectedly. It is understood that
he is instructed to open negotiations with the
Government of Hanover respecting the passage of
Austrian forces through Hanoverian territory.