The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-03 00:00:00

fight the people. The : times has, indeed, found
out, at last, that Conserr atives are mortal politi-
cians, have the failings and the good qualities of
other mortals, and that one of these better qualities
—one which does so much towards making us all
" kith and kin"—is that they really do covet the
approbation of their fellolv-mortals. What they
obstruct in opposition, to annoy political rivals,
they pass, when in office, to, please those whom it
is pleasant to gratify, an,d would but indicate
sourness, not firmness, to re: dst.

For our part, we frankly c onfess that we do hope
more from a Government still in the position to
need popular support than frorn one which has got
the habit of thinking it conbrs a boon on the
people by taking office. Even the Times now con-
fesses that Lord JOHN and his rival have acquired
too much of the feeling that they are indispensable
to the Liberal party. Till they thoroughly unlearn
that notion, they will be of rto use to it. The real
Liberals have more hope of th e Tories than of them,
and we shall not be surprised if events do not
speedily justify that hope. Of course', to our
haughty Whig leaders, as well as to Conservatives,
the door of repentance is always open. Cher rfully
should we welcome them if they came to us co nfes-
sing their errors, and pledging themselves to
amendment, but it must be amendment worth ac.
ceptance before the country will ever give them its'
confidence and a majority which could make itself

respected. •
The Whigs must see their two great faults. They
have enslaved the counties, and they have given
representation to the absence of population. By
their Reform Bill they have made a small minority
of electors masters of the House of Commons—•con-
verted landlords, and lawyers, and bankers into
political slaveholders, and the tenants and depen-
dent classes into political slaves. Till the Whigs
consent to emancipate the counties by the Ballot,
and to give representation to boroughs in some fair
proportion to population, they may keep in Opposi
tion with our most cordial goodwill. We want
our measures, but we do not want one set of men
more than an9ther, if neither will carry them.

It is certainly very amusing to observe the ex-
traordinarily ingenious proposition thrown out by
excellent Mr. SCHOU:FULD down at Birmingham,
with a view to the reconniling, at the very last ex-
tremity, of all the notorious differences at present
dividing old subdividing her MAJESTY'S Opposi-

tion.
If, says Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, the two noble lords,,
the rival chiefs of the Opposition, should prove tor
be still incapable of making up their igng quarrel
with each other satisfactorily—THEN--says Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD—Iet us choose another lead,,,:r of the
Great Reform Party—let us choose a man, for
example, like my honourable colleague, and m2der
his guidance transform the Liberal Opposition inN)
a Liberal Government.

The proposition, you will observe, is so practic-
able from first to last! It is so reasonable on the face
of it ! It is so very rational a scheme throughout!
Precisely because the Opposition has already
too much in the way of leadership Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD argues, of course, that they must
have—a little more of it. There are too many
heads of polies already on the left hand of Mr.
Speaker—therefore, says Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, we
must have yet another head of another Party, and
so solve the difficulty. "A DANIEL, yea! a very.
DANIEL come to judgment !" And that new leader,
Who is to outshine lord JOHN RUSSELL and
ViscountPAL3rEusToN—who is to rally all the Great
Liberal Party in its various sections harmoniously
unaler his banner—is, of all men in her MAJESTY'S
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ham. It is so likely that the haughty Whig aris-
tocracy, with their sympathetic following, would
throw Lord JOHN over, and take up with Mr.
BRIGHT instead. It is so probable that the be-
lievers hitherto in the firebrand of Europe, the
lEoLus of Christendom, would give the go by—of
all moments, at the very period of a great war in
Northern Italy—to Lord PALMERSTON ! And that
in place of the old, heraldic, emblazoned oriflamme
of the most chivalrous among all our great chiefs of
diplomacy, these believers hitherto in Lord RAL-
I‘IERSTON should now march through the Coventry
of Quakerdom under the twopenny-halfpenny
white pocket-handkerchief stuck at the
end of a rattan—the meek little snivel-
ling type of the policy of the Peace-at-any-
price Party ! A most wonderful conception, truly.
If these are the happiest projects that can be con-
cocted on the side of the Opposition, there is but
small chance indeed of our witnessing any speedy
installation in Downing-street of a strong and
united Liberal Administration. Mr. ROEBUCK has
a tolerably fair prospect before him of surpassing,
by the triumphant success of his political predic-
tion the happiest among the many ingenious
failures of all the brilliant race of racing prophets,
in regard to the recent Derby. Others have been as
confident as you may please in the happy fortunes in
store for the old time-honoured favourite, " The Pro-
mised Land" of Whigdom—Lord JOHN RUSSEL4L.
Others, again, have set their heart in implicit
reliance upon the triumph in store for that wonder-
working, self-reliant, self-glorifying " Trumpeter"
—Lord PALMERSTON. A few have looked hopefully
askance, even at an impracticable Australian
importation like " Dalnamoon"—otherwise Moon-
shine, by Calne, out of Kidderminster. Hardly
any among all these loud-speaking prophets
has bad a gsod word to say for the Oriental
" Musjid," who bas nevertheless kept high on the
list among all the fluctuations of the betting, in
spite of all the sneers of his depreciators—in de-
fiance of the heavy odds offered against him by the
Particularly Knowing Ones—and who is yet ,com-
ing in with an easy stride ahead of them all, hardly
before Mr. DENISON can well settle himself com-
fortably down in the umpire's chair. Mr. ROEBUCK
is the only one among all the prophets who has
had the skill and the courage to pick out the win-
ner in defiance of those who had no faith in him at
all. True-Blue Jacket has 'already turned the
Tattenham Corner of the Parliamentary Course, and
the favourite and his fellows are fast falling back
into the ruck—to find themselves just nowhere at
the resettleMent of the Derby—Government. In
sententious comment upon the triumph of Musjid,
it has been remarked that—" The Ring will be the
sufferers." For " the ring"—read the Magic Circle,
the proud, exclusive circle of the great Whig
party : those, above, all will certainly prove
the sufferers'
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The Address in answer to her Majesty's Speech
will, it is stated, be moved in the House of Lords by the
Earl of Powis.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday
next at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Atholl has arrived at the St. George's

The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have ar-
rived at the St. George's Hotel.
The Earl of Donoughtnore arrived in London
yesterday from Portsmouth.