The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-05 00:00:00

Tilt SUN, LONDON, 'THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1859.

Kinsale and Mallow—relate to the United King-

dom. And here it is, of course, that the returns

will tell more decisively in favour of the
Derbyites. It is simply preposterous, therefore,

:o be blinking the fact that Ministers have even

now obtained a really marked advantage over their
antagonists as the result of the late disolution. A
clearmajority of fourteen—and the clear majority of
fourteen chiefly von in the boroughs—a majority of
fourteen, equivalent on a division to TWENTY-EIGHT,
is surely something considerable in the way of such
an advantage. But the Ministerial feast of gains
in this general ehction is very far from ended as yet.
" There are piipins and cheese to come." The
fourteen alreadygrasped by the Government, giving
them this secure balance upon the division list of
exactly 28 on the Opposition, are but fourteen in
an aggregate of 523. That aggregate still shows
131 yet remaining to be apportioned to complete the
full complement of the popular branch of the Legis-
lature. Before the actual assembling of the house,
when all the remaining returns shall have been
made, the result of the General Election may, of
course, be pretty accurately estimated. This, from
the mere nomenclature of parties, under the colours
of which the different members, old and new, will
have been returned to Parliament by their consti-
tuencies. But that result can only be conjectured
approximately. For no one can possibly tell, until
the first division, how the conflicting opinions enter-
tained by different parties, and sections of parties,
upon the side of the Opposition, will
(valor. and how long,
All that, we repeat, will, after every one of the
retiring officers shall have done their duty, still
remain problematical. The enigma can only be
explained by the tellers—and that hardly even_ so
soon as the division upon the choice of.a_Spenkm
At the initiatory struggle for the choice of a
Speaker there will, of course, come a " tug of war"
—but scarcely the" tug of war." That—must be re-
served fora more momentous occasion. Particularly
seeing that, apart altogether from mere considera-
tions of party the odds are already decidedly in
favour of the right hon. gentleman the member
for Cambridge University, late her MAJESTY'S
Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment. The contest for the chair will hardly
be between Mr. WALroLE and its present °cell-
pant. The Right Hon. EVELYN DENNISON
has a tolerably fair prospect before him of gaining
a peerage more quickly even than Speaker ABER-
CROMBY. For the latter was twice elected to the
chair of the House of Commons—firSt of all in 183:5,
in preference to Mr. M. SUTTON, his predecessor ;
and, secondly, in 1837, without any opposition.
And it is hardly probable that the Speaker of the
last Parliament will receive a similar mark of una-
nimous confidence in the next, in which party feel-
will probably be more strongly developed than ever.
Ile likelihood being, at this juncture, that while
Mr..EVELYN DENNISON is promoted to the Upper
House through a Barony—Alr. WALPOLE will
appear as the Government candidate . for the
Speakership, and Mr. FITZROY as the candidate put
forward on the side of the Opposition. In every-
thing but personal popularity in the house Mr.
FITZROY:WouId be a formidable successor enough—
in everything, we repeat, but the most essential
quality of all in such a contest, that already speci-
fied-namely, personal popularity. Everything,
indeed, appears to indicate dearly enough that the
ex-Home Secretary will, before another month. has
passed away, be another illustration of the " right
man in the right place," as Speaker of the Commons
House of. Parliament.

• 31.4117.1\711M THE .2.I7AVY.

Yesterday the greatest excitement prevailed at
the East end of the metropolis, and the vicinity of
the Naval Rendezvous, Tower-hill, was surrounded
by hundreds of men and lads wno were anxious to
join-the service of her Majesty. A great number
of able seamen were selected by the Government
officers as low as five feet, but landsmen were not
received under five feet five inches and a half. No
lads.have been taken into the service at present,
but a day will soon be appointed to hear the
applications of all boys and youths considered
suitable for the naval service. The bounty money
for those already duly appointed will not be paid
until five. weeks after they have passed the exami-
nation of the chief officer. The crowdwas so great at
the principal rendezvous, facing the Tower, that a
body of the H division of police were stationed at
the several entrances, under. the direction of Ser-
geants Egerton and Foay, to preserve order, and to
facilitate the ingress and egress of .the applicants.
At all the Government offices in Ratcliff-highway,
Shadwell, 'Yapping, Ratcliff,• Limehouse, Poplar,
BlaCkwall, Deptford, and Greenwich, able seamen,
n
and a vast number of dock labourers
who
been out of work for a considerable pe-
riod, joined the Queen's service - under the new
regulations, and many were taken on board the
Crocodile, lying off the Tower, to undergo the
usual training, and to receive instructions prior to
being sent to Portsmouth, Plymouth, and other
places for embarkation.
About 500 agricultural labourers from the coun-
ties .of Essex, Berkshire, Kent, and Surrey, came
up by the Parliamentary trains yesterday morning,
and proceeded- to the several places at the East-en
for enlistment, and many were successful, while
others were unable from the number of applicants
to gain an interview.
Additional orders were.. received yesterday
morning— from Whitehall, at Portsmouth, Ply-
mouth, Sheerness, and other Government dock-
yards, for. the authorities to take on 300 mechanics
andlother artisans, with a quantity of labourers for
the purpose of fitting-up Without delay several
first-class . men- of-war, required for immediate ser-
vice; under the official directions of the - Lords of
the Admiralty, and no time was lost in putting on
the necessary number in the various departments.

Telegraphic messages were transmitted from the
War-office to Woolwich, and other arsenals, with
strict orders to the officers in command to • prepare
large quantities of naval stores, ammunition, &c.,
without delay, which are to be ready for, going on
ship-board within forty-eight 'hours: