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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1881

Apropos of the Appropriation of Seats (Sudbury
and St. Alban's) Bill—coming on again for the
consideration of the House of Commons this even-
ing—there are the Parliamentary changes conse-
quent upon its passing. There is the new member
set apart for the Liberal, Free-trading constituency
of South Lancashire. And that, it is very well
known, means the Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE,
her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Whatever may be the ultimate decision arrived at
by the House in regard to the other portions of
Sir GEORGE LEWIS'S measure, it is pretty safe, we
take, it, that South Lancashire is to obtain this
supplementary representative. And equally within
calculation is it that Mr. GLADSTONE, and no other
than Mr. GLADSTONE, will be that new
representative. Hence, these probabilities being
so very plainly before both parties in
the House of Commons, it becomes the
most natural thing in the world that an eye
askance should be cast, by Liberals and by Conserva-
tives alike, to that prospective vacant seat at the
University of Oxford—the seat there in all human
likelihood about to be left vacant by the removal
of Mr. GLADSTONE northwards upon his transfor-
mation into the new M.P. for South Lancashire.
And so the Derbyites, the Derby-Disraeli-ites, talk
of putting forward their future Chancellor of the
Exchequer, as Mr. GLADSTONE'S successor at the
University—to wit their late able Secretary at the
Treasury, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, now M.P.
for the borough of Stamford, and latterly high in
the favour of the House of Commons as a man
having about him all the "makings" of a skilful
Financier. In opposition to Sir STAFFORD NORTH-
COTE as the Opposition candidate at the University
of Oxford contingently upon Mr. GLADSTONE'S
resignation of his post there as the University re-
presentative, the Ministerialists talk, as we were
the very first to intimate (about a fortnight ago!)
that they would talk, of no other than their new
Solicitor-General, Mr., or (shall we call him ?) Sir
ROUNDELL PALMER, as the candidate, down at the
University of Oxford, on the side of her Majesty's
Governmeqt. But seriously militating now
against the prospects of the new Solicitor-General
down at Oxford University—there is the borough
of Richmond, in Yorkshire, actually vacated only
the other day, for Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER'S con-
venience, by its worthy fifteen years' member, Mr.
RICH! Aware that the interests of the Cabinet,
but still more of the Great Liberal tarty, required
that a seat in the House should be found somewhere
for Mr. PALMER, Mr. Rim at once volunteered
magnanimously to carry out an intention he appears
(according to his letter of Farewell to his constitu-
ents) to have long meditated, namely, that of re-
tiring at length altogether from public life by with-
drawing from Parliament. Mr. RICH having thus
resigned. for that express object of enabling Mr.
ROUNDEML, PALMER to return to the House
of Como:eons as M.P. for Richmond —we
hardly [lee in truth how, in honour or in decency,
Mr. PALMER can now cry off" from this par-
ticular ierrangemeet ! Simply, too, that he may
upon second thoughts, or perhaps, we ought rather
to say, upon third thoughts carry out the original
design of party by going over to the University
of Oxford., for the purpose of being elected (ed sera
possible) as Mr. GLADSTONE'S successor. The
chances now we cannot but feel persuaded are
decidedly against Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER—sup-
follow his third thoughts
posing him to be so exceedingly ill-advised as to
(with a tolerable cer-
to.inty of ceoming off second-best) by going down to
Oxford University for the purpose of opposing Sir
STAFFORD NORTHCOTE.

True they are both of them deci dedlyPaseyite-ieh
—the rightcolour—the true blue or rather the true

Purple ye rging towards the Scarlet—down at Ox.

The Rescript addressed by the Emperor of Aus-
TRIA to the Diet at Pesth is now before us in
full. We may acknowledge that it is not, from
the Imperial point of view, so insulting a docu•
meat as the telegrams had led us to expect.
If we understand the Rescript rightly, the EM-
PEROR is not unwilling to consider its subject
matter, but he thinks the form too objectionable
to allow of its reception without compromising his
Royal rights. After his objections to the form,
he adds, " We have nevertheless the strong desire
to pronounce without reticence on the questions
of high importance contained in the address of
the magnates and representatives," and therefore

" invites" them to adopt the form used by the coro-
nation Diet of 1790. This is certainly different
from the statement of the telegram that the ob-
jections extended to the matter as well as to the
form of the Address. Doubtless the Germans
object to that too, strongly enough, their object
being to incorporate the noble kingdom of Hun-
gary with the little Archduchy ; still the Rescript
expressly reserves the " questions of high import-
ance in the Address" for consideration.
As we had anticipated, the Diet has acceded to
this request. When the division was so near that
the objectionable form was carried in the Lower
louse by a majority of three only; when there was
no difference of opinion on the matter of the ad-
dress ; when it was known that the House of Mag-
nates objected also to the form only of the address,
though they did not wish to differ from the Lower
House—while both houses concurred in the state-
ments and arguments so ably drawn by M. BEAK—
it would have exhibited the Diet as factiously per-
tinacious before Europe had they declined to yield.
And, while we think the EMPEROR exceedingly
foolish for making a point of the "form," we think
the small majority would have been more so to
haggle over it. The majority was right; and M.
BEAK'S form, which they rejected, was not so
conformable to strictly legal technicalities as theirs;
M. DEAR did not deny this, but he, the first jurist
in the country, and a thorough patriot, contended
that they were warranted in accepting the de facto
sovereignty of the Emperor, while pointing out so
clearly as they did in the address that he was not
legally King, and consequently all his acts would
be but provisional, till he was crowned with the
legal oaths. M. DEAR'S original form of the
address will now therefore, we presume, be pre-
sented by the Diet, and we shall see what the
hereditary King of Hungary will do towards
becoming a real King. It is now conceded that he
shall be addressed as "the Sacred, Imperial, and
Royal Majesty," &c. ; but the most moderate party
are no more prepared than the ultras to give up the
laws of 1848—laws enacted prior to the revolution
—as their last legal status.

Things do not, however, look very promising for
a pacific solution. If the Germans feel themselves
strong enough they will yet force on a bloody
quarrel. They calculate upon distracting the
Italians by fomenting brigandage in Southern
Italy, they concentrate their savage soldiery in
Hungary, they disperse the Hungarian regiments
in parts of the motley Empire where they are lost
to their own country, and thus hope to overpower
a country without the means of resistance. We
only hope they may have calculated vainly. Twelve
millions of brave people, and in a country difficult
for military operations, a people determined to
suffer rather than to yield, may be yet a greater
difficulty than Germans imagine. Italy may be
more ready for action than they expect. KOSSUTH
is certainly at Turin. Hungarian regiments, though
" buried" in larger bodies of troops of other nations,
may yet prove like gunpowder in the midst of them.
We trust events will show that it was madness for
Austria to rely on violence in Hungary. She is now
with a large annual deficiency retaining and even
increasing her three large armies—may she be over-
whelmed by her revolutionary expenditure, and be
obliged to turn back " for want of pence," when
she would not turn back from loyalty and good
faith It cannot be too clearly kept in mind, that
the cause of Hungary is the cause of Constitu-
tionalism a thousand years old, the cause of law, of
the obligations of the most solemn compacts, and of
national rights—and that that of the Archduchy, its
Germans and Emperor, is the cause of revolution,
of violence, of perfidy, and of destruction of nations,
in the ambitions interest of a worse than worthless
family. And this language is the language but o
sober truth and fact.

We do not like the look of things in St. Domingo.
We refer now, not to the occupation of that part of
the island by the Spanish, accomplished, as it noto-
riously was, by violence and fraud, but to the last
telegrams. What mean the " attack of St. Do-
mingo by Hayti"—and the advance of Santana and
the Spaniards to the frontier ?" What means great
enthusiasm among the Spanish troops ; not among
the Dominicans, who, if the attack were on them,
might have been expected in some way to show
their feelings ? Did they show any emotion, and
was it such as could not be mentioned P What
mean the great armaments made in St. Domingo
and the despatch of sixteen vessels with troops from
Cuba ? Is a comparatively immense force necessary,
because the Dominicans are waiting to cast off the
yoke which the treason of their bribed leaders
and the irresistibleness of a Spanish fleet and army
placed upon them ?

Or, is the truth of the case this :—Two patriots
trusted by the native Dominicans, CABRAL and
SANCHEZ, have put themselves at the head of a
patriotic rising of the people. They can hardly
hope to succeed unaided against the Spanish
regular troops and fleet ; they have sought, there-
fore, help from Hayti, and the " attack" is the
marching of the Haytiens to the aid of the Domini-
cans to assist them in expelling the Spaniards from
the island. With ourpresent imperfect information
this seems to be a not unlikely version of the case.
There is, however, no fathoming the iniquity of
such Courts as those of Spain and Austria. They
have inherited the basest treachery and cruelty as
points of honour, and there is nothing which
they would not justly think it consistent with
family traditions to stoop to, to extirpate heresy or

freedom—freedom of mind, or freedom of person.
It is quite within possibility that movements may
have even been stimulated in Hayti to give the
Spaniards a pretext for conquering the whole
island, before the United States shall be at liberty
to drive them out of it. The readiness with which
ships and soldiers could be sent from Cuba looks
like preparedness for what has occurred; it was
evidently expected, whether the result of dark in-
trigue like that which put St. Domingo into their

hands, or of hasty patriot zeal, the indications o:

which had become plainly apparent to them. We
only wish our Foreign-office had been skilful

enough to resist the annexation. We are quito
sure it will not have skill enough to prevent St.
Domingo becoming a new slave mart.

ERRATUM.—By an error of the press in the report
of Lord Shaftesbury's speech on ladia, on Friday last, he
was made to say that 45,000,000 personsthei in the manufac-
turing districts were dependent for the supply of cotton, instead of 4,000,000 col:islyo,l3aor'zlo.upon
CANNING'S POLIGY.—It is enough to
say
Yf
juncture here
that his policy was that of Peace at a
interior agitation; and his purpose was, in the first l 8 h
place,
to break up the Holy Alliance. He proved himselfac a,
progressive statesman by holding these views in such a
practical way as that the continental rulers at once found
that they would have no aid from England in any scheme
of aggression whatever—against any neighbour, or
in coercion of their own subjects, native or newly
attached. As the South American provinces were ac-
tually released from Spain, Canning treated them as
free. Everywhere ho accepted clear facts, and acted
upon them, instead of wasting time and breaking
hearts over political fictions. It required a progres-
sive statesman to do this. So much for his policy, in
which he might easily be a representative man. In
regard to his oratory, he was altogether exceptional. States-
men constitute a class ; but orators do not, nor ever can •
The power is unique in each case ; and all that we have to
do hers with Mr. Canning's eloquence is to note that it
was the organ of the diffusion over the world of his progres-
sive statesmanship.--Once a We/.

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PARIS, JULY 8

The Muniteur• of this morning contains an Impe
rial decree, appointing M. de Lagueronniere a mem
ber of the Senate.

The Bourse has been heavy, and very little busi-
ness was done. &entes closed at 67.75, or 10c.,
lower than yesterday.

MADRID, JULY 7.
The principal chefs of the Republican party are
in tho hands of the troops.
It is almost cer`ain that none of them will

escape.
The country is quiet.

PESTH, JULY 6 (Evening;

To-day the Upper House of the Hungarian Diet
adopted the resolutim passed yesterday in the
Lower House to sena the address to the Emperor
in the form originally proposed by M. Deak.
Both houses assembled this evening for the pur-
pose of signing the address.

PESTH, JULY 7

The Presidents of the two Chambers of the Hun-
garian Diet left yesterday evening for Vienna with
the address.

The Vice-President of he Hungarian Chancellery
has tendered his resignation because the proposal,
submitted by him to the Austrian Government at
Vienna, to postpone the military execution for the
recovery of the taxes until the termination of the
harvest has been agreed to by the Ministry.

BUCHAREST, JULY 5 (Evening;

The Legislative Chamber, in its sitting of to-day,
passed, by 32 against 23 votes, a vote of want of
confidence in the Ministry for having permitted
the circulation of a petition advocating electoral
reform and the union of Moldavia and Wallachia,
also because they had not presented the budget to
the Chamber, and had done nothing to accelerate
public business.

This attitude of the Chamber has produced general
dissatisfaction. The capital and the surrounding
districts are preparing an address to the Govern-
ment congratulating the Ministry on their firmness
and on their having everywhere maintained order
and tranquillity, notwithstanding the intrigues of
the old political parties.

The Metropolitan has refused to vote against the

Government.

MADRID, JULY 6.

The Madrid papers of to-day publish a telegram
from Cadiz, stating that the Haytians had invaded
the territory of San Domingo. Santana, Pelaez,
and Alfan were marching in haste to the frontiers.
Great armaments were being made in San
Domingo.

Enthusiasm prevailed among the Spanish troops.
A squadron of 16 vessels, with troops, had been
despatched from Havana.

Financial affairs at Havana were in a bad con

dition.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6.
The royal mail steamship Arabia, from Boston
on the 26th and Halifax on the 28th ult., arrived
here at 1 p.m. Landed mails and passengers, and
proceeded for Liverpool at 1.15 p.m. All well.
She brings 80 passengers. She passed the Great
Easterp 1,196 miles from Cape Clear.
News generally anticipated.