The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1857.

It is really something remarkable to note the
extraordinary vengeance wreaked upon those who
voted in favour of Mr. COBDEN'S motion, by the
constituencies. Out of the 265 Ayes, or " YETIS'
(including the Tellers), who walked into the lobby,
or, as the saying LI, performed the kotoo into it,
as so many atoms in the fortuitous cancurrence
(increased t 3 289 by the 24 who Paired against
Government) ninety-eight are without seats in the
new Parliament. just ex tc-Cy two short of a
clear hundred Thirty nine have " retired "
modest gentlemen ! Fifty-nine have been "re
jested," same of them twice rejected—by different
constituencies ! A cursory analysis of this melon.
choly cat ilogue shows that out of these " thirty-
nine " retirements—" one " has been in Ireland,
" three " have been in Sc tland, and " thirty-
five" in England ! While of the "Fifty-nine"
Rejections—" three" have been in Scotland,
"eight" in Ireland, and "fifty-one" (" Think of
that Master BROOKE !") in England. Ninety-
eight altogether, scornfully " walked out" of the
Legislature by their indignant Constituen-
cies ! Thirty-nine--shown the door ! Fifty-
nine—kicked out of it ! That is literally
the fact : and it is a fact in every way
worth noticing. That, we maintain, according to
a popular idiom, is about the size of it ! Viz,—
" Ninety-eight !" According to the famous war
song, or insurrectionary ballad across St. George's
Channel, we may now ask— •
" Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight "
Assuredly, if any one, the Yehites or Cobdenites
—every individual Parliamentary atom in that

ever-memorable fortuitous concurrence ! For it
is a magio number, symbolical at onco of ven-
geance upon themselves and of triumph to their

great antagonist, Lord PALMERSTON !

“Ninety-Eight—that sound of fear, alliances, and now that another is on the tapir,
Unpleasing in a Yehite's ear !” that it has been decided on, and arranged
And out of that "Ninety Eight" —how many without the advics of Parliament, it is
celebrities, small and great, good, bad, and in- essential that the utmost care and vigilance
different, have gone the way of all who are should be exercised. The House of Commons
inconsistent. The Lords, and Baronets, and may not be enabled to prevent the inauspicious
Honourables, and Right Honourables who have union that will render the PRINCESS ROYAL or
been thus summarily given the "go by," we have England the future QUEEN of Prussia, the first
already, upon a former occasion, enumerated. Be- cousin of the AUTOCRAT. But it should not en-
yond these, however, there are sundry notabilities courage that which will be regarded with sorrow
worth specifying incidentally. Foremost among the and regret by every true-hearted Englishman. It
Political Suicides, every one will note with a cer- should not only refuse to sanction an extravagant
tain feeling of chagrin —we ourselves observe dower, but to bestow any dower whatsoever.
with a mingled sense of regret and indignation— It would, of course, exhibit its wonted liberality,
the "Hon. Member for Nineveh," as Punch calls of which so many startling proofs have been
him, AUSTIN HENRY LAYARD—who has pulled afforded, to German connexions, if the marriage
himself down, and tumbled himself in the mire, met its approbation. But when all the objections
and wilfully and perversely subjected himself to to that most unfortunate proceeding are taken into
all sorts of ignominious treatment down at Ayles- consideration it would be merely vindicating its own
bury, and afterwards down at Wigtownshire. We honour and character to refuse any participation
don't know when we have been more egregiously therein, or if it granted an appanage to couple it
disappointed than we have been in the instance of with conditions that any future contingent right
Mr. LAYARD—a young Politician who promised to the British Crown should be
permanently sur-
so well and failed so deplorably—who entered I rendered. We cannot contemplate the possible
the Hous© of Commons as the Pet, 1 annexation of Great Britain to Prussia without
through
left it as the Little Pickle ! A very terror. The Government of England, throug
good Antiquary, and Archaeologist, and Topogra- a Prussian Viceroy, would occasion fearful
pher, no doubt of it, but a wonderfully bad Par- calamities, and the danger should be averted in
the first instance. There should be no temporising
liamentary Representative. A Reformer so full
of whims, and crotchets, and twists of judgment, ion such a point. Prince ALBERT ought to have,
and warps of prejudice, that there was no count. and we believe actually possesses, ample means to 1