The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

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6, OXFORD-STREET.

This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals. powerful band, and chorus)
from "Macbeth" and " tin Ballo in Maschera." both operas
bVerdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonc,rhmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves),
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, Stalls, Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. ed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, t7h. 48m.—Afternoon, Bh. 18m,
To-mounow.-Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 30m,

THE WEATHER..--SUN OFFICE, JULY 31) 1661.
THEIRNOMETIIP, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.07.
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doubtful, weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1881.

The triumph of Liberal opinions in the City o.
London is, with us, of coarse, a theme for very
earnest congratulation. It would have been almost
disgraceful had the great metropolitan constitu-
ency returned any other than a Reformer and a
Liberal to fill up the vacancy left in the represen-
tation of the City of London, by the elevation to
the Upper House (after twenty years' service in the
Lower as M.P. for The City) of a statesman like
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The determined support given
yesterday to the Liberalcandidate, Mr. WOOD, now
now M.P. for the City of London as Lord JOHN'S
successor, saved the metropolitan constituencyfrom
the disgrace, at least, of that " contretemps. -
successor of Earl RUSSELL in the representation o
that leading constituency is at anyrate (if we can say
nothing more of him) one who would not hesitate to
he marshalled under the banner (supposing that,
banner ever to be raised anew) of the Great Whig
Statesman who has, during eight and forty years,
been labouring, more or less, earnestly in Parlia-
ment as a R( former, as a Champion of the glorious
principles of civil and religious liberty, as an up-
holder and improver, wherever practicable, of our
free and powerful Constitution. Of Mr. Wool),
individually, the electors of the City of London
know scarcely anything. Now that he has been
chosen their member they will have to begin to
make his acquaintance. All they do know of
him as yet might be summed up almost as laco-
nically as the rival claims to the Presidency of the
French Republic, facetiously placed by Punch in
the mouths of the princely aspirants to that
honour—H.l.H. Prince Louis NAPOLEON and
H.R.H. the Prince DE JOINVILLE ! The former
illustrious personage, according to our London
Charivari, appealing to the French multitude thus
suis le nevue tie mon oncle ! The latter thus
—Je suis roncle demon nevue ! Thus precisely it
has been now, so to speak, with Mr. WOOD, the
Liberal Candidate, on his first appearance before
,the metropolitan constituency. His claim was not
So much (if we may thus express it) that he was
himself—as that he was the Son of his Father. As
the Son of Alderman WOOD, the true-hearted,
open-handed, liberal-minded Alderman WOOD, who
stood forward so manfully years and years ago in
the cause of that unfortunate Queen CAROLINE—
simpIy and exclusively as the son of Alderman
WooD, the Liberal candidate, now the chosen M.P.
for the City of London, appeared before the metro-
politan constituency. In that one perfectly
comprehensible character he was introduced to it.
And as such
he has now been formally and deliber-
preference to one of tne
atelv accepted by it—in
most popular and one of the most generally respec-
ted Lord Mayors that has ever presided over our
metropolitan corporation.
As to the position into which the Lord Mayor
has been deluded by his over zealous friends there
is really but one thing to be said of it. The Lord
Mayor, in point of fact, has been regularly sold. It
would be unfair to say of him that in dropping the
small constituency of Andover to grasp at the
larger constituency of the City of London, I
Lord Mayor CETBITT has in any way been imitating
the course indicated in that old fable of lESOP'S
about the Dog and the Shadow. For it has not
been the perversity of the Lord Mayor egotism or
ambition that has carried him into this political
quandary—it has been rather the officious pertinacity
of those who thrust upon him their promises of
support, only in many instances to leave him in the
lurch, when the time for the fulfilment of those
promises arrived. The result being that Mr.
CUEITT—no longer M.P. for Andover—
baulked. in his endeavour to become
.1). for the City of London—has now no seat
'whatever large or small in the Commons House
of
Parliament. It was in answer to a very earnest
requisition that the Lord Mayor in compliance with
the wishes of his City friends consented to resign
the seat he had
occupied for fifteen years consecu-
tively in the
Rouse of Commons as member
for the borough of Andover, and to allow
his name to. be put forward as a claimant of
the suffragrs of the electors of the metro-
politan con stituency.
Promised upwards of six
thousand v otes before the polling commenced,
the LORD 3 f.A.Yott had the gratification yesterday
of seeing thi It poll close at four o'clock leaving him

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with very little more than 5,000 votes altogether re-
corded in his favour—leaving him, in fact, in a mino-
rity but very little short of a round " five hundred,"
upon a comparison of the support accorded to himself
with that given by the Liberal electors to his
successful antagonist. In all this, while we
rejoice heartily ourselves at the triurr ph of Liberal
opinions in the City of London, we cannot but
think that the LORD MAYOR has been very un-
fairly dealt with by his over-zealous and exces-
sively officious friends and supporters (so called),
who would have done much better in his behalf
if they had left him quietly alone in his modest
political character as M.P. for the Borough of
Andover.

Mr. GRIFFITH could not last night coax Mr.
DUNLOP'S despatches out of Lord PALMERSTON.

It was in vain to tell the Premier that he ought to
keep the House well informed on Hungarian affairs,
and that they could contain nothing objectionable,
unless it were more liberal views towards the Hun-
garians, than our Government was inclined to
adopt. The Minister had his answer ready. The
Government wanted thoroughly confidential in-
formation. No person could be expected to give
it, especially respecting individuals, unless he
thought his letters would not be made public.
A very good excuse, we confess, but, as far pro-
bably, from the real one, as Mr. GRIFFITH'S sug-

gestion was near it.
On the general question of Hungary and Aus-
tria, Lord PALMERSTON was of course the thorough
old Whig. Not one word of moral support would
he give to Hungary, while all that could be said he
would say for Austria. He was quite sensible he said
of the great importance of the events now passing
between Austria and Hungary. We attach due
importance to the maintenance of the Austrian em-
pire as a great Power in the centre of Europe
holding, I may say, a sort of balance between
opposite and conflicting interests, and we should
consider it a great misfortune to Europe if that
empire were to be dissolved by any internal
convulsion which could possibly be prevented.
But he never dropped one word on ;the justice
and legality of the demands of Hungary, expressed
no hope that Austria would yield to manifest legal
right, nor any fear that Austria must be a weak
Power, " as a balance between conflicting interests,"
unless she sought strength in a strong and con-
tented Hungary.

He proclaimed not only non-intdivention, but
neutrality. We certainly think this unworthy of
England. This country is not and cannot be
neutral when a despot seeks, by sham paper 'con-
stitutions, to subvert the free and ancient constitu-
tion of an old kingdom. He points to a similar
neutrality in the American quarrel. But
in the dispute between two pro-slavery con-
federations, England is really neutral. We
are not so in the case of Hungary, no
more than we were in that of Italy. Our rulers
represented us faithfully in respect to the latter
country ; we did not wish to fight, but we did wish
well to Italian unity and liberty. Our Foreign
Office acted openly on this wish ; and there is no
doubt that, but for its popular foreign policy, so
feebly liberal has been the action at home of the
present Ministry, that it would have been thrown
overboard long ago.
Now we warn Lord PALMERSTON that he has
a good card in Hungary. As good a one as he
had in Italy. So far as international law is con-
cerned, he has a far better case in regard to
Hungary than he had in regaid to Italy. The
provinces of Italy united themselves under the

crown of VICTOR EMMANUEL, in defiance of the

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of very long standing. Hungary on the contrary
asks but the fulfilment of the plainest engage-
ments, it appeals to treaties and to laws
whose obligation no one can deny. It
is in conflict with a revolutionary monarch, a
practical usurper. Hungary's demands, if acceded
to, would create a stronger kingdom by far than
Austria can ever be while her monarch defies
all right and law in pure despotic wil-
fulness. Our Government, therefore, has every
inducement, except old aristocratic prejudice in
favour of the Hapsburgs, to declare openly that the
right is with Hungary, and that it would be for the
good of Austria herself and of Europe, that Austria
should no longer oppose bayonets to right.
Referring to Mr. GRIFFITHS, Lord PALMERSTON
observed, " When the hon. gentleman says he
wishes to know whether we take part with
liberty against authority or with authority
against liberty, my answer is, that we leave
liberty and authority to settle their own
disputes. I don't presume to judge which narty
is in the right and which in the wrong. What-

ever opinion we may entertain on the matter, we
don't feel it the duty of the Government to express
that opinion, nor do we think there would be any
utility in expressing it or endeavouring to give it
force. I therefore have only to say that we hold
with regard to the unfortunate dissensions in
Hungary the same course we hold in regard to the
dissensions on the other side of the Atlantic—
namely, a position of entire neutrality,
and I should hope that the hon. member
will knot press for the production of de-
spatches which could not be given without
detriment to the public service. We are sorry
that Lord PALMERSTON has so little " presumption"
in this case. He has not always been so bashful
and unpresuming. He has presumed to affront
most Governments in their turn. The truth is he
will not " presume" to do what he does not like to
do. Which we presume to think very natural, but
in the case of Hungary deeply to be deplored.

According to private advices from America— I
says a contemporary—the present struggle is likely
to be settled by a compromise. Can it be ! our
readers may exclaim. We see no reason why it
should not. It is
true—w e
but this merely
are told—there is a
Universal cry of " No compromise,"
1 refers to the determination of the
North not to enter
into public negotiations for peace until the South
shall unequivocally acknowledge the supremacy of
the Federal Government. Meanwhile it is believed
that a large number of politicians in each section
of the country are endeavouring privately to come
to an understanding as to the terms that the North
will grant to the South, provided the South will
waive the point of honour as to their right of
secession, and that these terms are likely to be
such as should amply satisfy all Southern desires.
We should certainly not be at all surprised at
such a termination of the struggle. The course
taken by Congress, which we alluded to yesterday,
with some such evidence of Northern power and
prowess as NI ould make it not discreditable to yield,
will be quite enough to enable the Southern leaders
to draw their necks out of the halter into which
they have thrust them. The South evidently can-
not long cope with the North in the Border States.
When this becomes apparent to all, it will also be
apparent that the purely planting States have no
chance by themselves, and they will be but too
happy to make the best of a bad job. M'CLEL-
LAN'S victories will tell, we imagine, very power-
fully on the South, and when it is found that the