The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1881

We pity Lord PALMERSTON. Col. FRENCH
threatens to be more formidable to him than the
French. He can build iron ships against the latter,
can summon kis volunteers to the aid of his regu-
lars, and is absolutely without fear of them. But
against the Cot. FRENCH he has no protection. He
cannot even fight by proxy—he must meet him
himself early next session, and meet him on the
floor of the House of Commons. It was really too
bad of Col. FRENCH to threaten his lordship's inter-
sessional peace of mind in this way. Cheery, to
be sure, not easy to depress, is the temperament of
our political veteran ; yet, when the amusement or
business of the day is over, to think every night of
Col. FRENCH demanding House of Commons jus-
tice on the Government which dared to annul the
Galway contract is enough to disquiet the nerves of
any Premier. It must be all the worse because now
Lord PALMERSTON could offer him more than he has
offered without humbling his Government to open
political jobbing, it is not easy to see. Great are
the Premier's resources and the fertility of his in-
vention, but what he can further invent that will
please Col. FRENCH, and not displease every honest
Englishman, puzzles us to conjecture—and then,
the Colonel will be able to muster strong on a
division. It will be all Ireland, and all the Tories
of England against all the Liberals of England,
minus JOHN A. ROEBUCK—a stiff match that for
the poor Liberals. If they make it a vote of con-
fidence-question, we should nit be surprised if they
were bowled or caught out.

Lord PALMERSTON appeals, indeed, to the verdict
of the committee. It was, as it could but be,
favourable to the Post-office. But then his lordship
went on to say as civil things as he could for every-
body. The Tories, who began the job, meant, not
to purchase Irish votes, but to benefit a country
which needed a little generous aid from wealthy
England. Then, though the company were so un-
skiltnl, the poor shareholders were patriotic persons.
They had not thought merely of pecuniary advan-
tage, but of benefiting the trade and commerce of
their green isle. Even for the company he had much
pity, some of these disasters beini, such as happen
to all ship companies—disasters arising from causes
wholly beyond their control; nor did his lordship
good responsible companies
unkindly mention that
always make provision for the certainty of such acci-
dents occurring sooner or later. More forbearingly,
more kindly, no public servant cculd speak of those
who had hopelessly failed to fulfil their contract
obligations to the public.
Then, again, what could Lord PALMERSTON
offer more. He will give up in behalf of the
patriotic Galway shareholders a principle sound in
all other transactions. Contracts for the Govern-
ment ought to be submitted public competition,
the best bid, with adequate guarantees to be taken.
But in the Galway case he is willing to depart from
this rule. There is ample time before the opening
of Parliament—if the Company will by the time
Parliament meets again put itself in a position,
in regard to capital and machinery to perform the
required service, if it will on such a basis make ap-
plication to Government on reasonable cohditions,
the Government will look favourably on the pro-
posal, and will lay it before Parliament. Lord
PALMERSTON very rightly thinks that after all
that has passed it would be impossible for the Go-
vernment to make any contract with the company
without the explicit sanction of Parliament. He
reserves indeed the whole subject for the considera-
tion of the Legislature as well as the Government—
and as if to please all partses, were that possible,
he leaves the port itself of departure, still
an open question. What it is that is not quite
satisfactory to Colonel FRENCH, unless it be that
the Government will .not engage to obtain for Ire-
land
seTentS eighty thousand a-year of the
public money, for
Na lue either received, or not
received, we cannot te'l. No Englishman can lower
himself to lower tern's than those offered by the
Premier.

opporeunitate m ortis, says a groat historian
of a great Roman who, thoagh
great conqueror,
Wan Nobly alive to till: tieserts of the British of his

day. And the historian of the session just departed 9
may eertainlr rePeat the remark of the biographer
of AGRICOLA, when he records that an intended
long speech by Mr. SCULLY, a speech which he had
just begun, to end Heaven knows where—for the
Irish member abounding in words was just com-
mencing the endless tale of Irish grievances—that
this Irish speech on Ireland and the Government,
was ruthlessly cut short by the entrance of the
Black Rod !—some honourable members profanely
laughed—but the honourable and learned member
laughed not. Deeply did he grieve, not so much
over the grievances of Ireland, as over a much
greater grievance, the loss to Ireland and the world
or, what is the same thing, to Irishmen all over the
world, of that pathetic picture he had readyin his me-
mory and imagination. Short, indeed,was his speech,
but full of beginnings most hopeful for Ireland and
the Irish; it was big with promise of eloquent recitals
of duties omitted and sins committed against the
much-wronged land of the Galway Contract, when,
suddenly the fates, in the person of her MAJESTY'S
Commissioners, summoned him and his audience to
another place ! Col. FRENCH, we are told, could
not suppress his evident sorrow—he looked on the
other Irish members, then on the learned member,
and again thinking of the speech so prematurely
sent to the shades, he exclaimed—
Ostendent terris hunc tantum feta, neque ultra
Esse sinent
Heu miserande puer 1 si qua fats aspera rumpas,
Tu Marcellus eris.

But the house laughed—and thought itse;f happy
in dying just at that moment ! Strange: that it
could listen with interest to speeches on Italy, on
Switzerland, on Nice and Savoy, on Syria even,
but would laugh at death rather than listen to an
Irish speech on Ireland. We are disposed to think
this laugh should be catalogued amongst the Irish
grievances, and amongst the greatest of them, too.
Mr. SCULLY will, doubtless, commence the next
session with the speech meant for the end of this,
just as Colonel FRENCH means to renew his Galway
eloquence, with which he finished his part of the,
session, early in that of 1862. Mr. SCULLY
can then add to his long list, by which
he will endeavour to awaken to peni-
tence and reformation—the sin above all sins
against beloved Ireland through him, that the
house laughed when SCULLY was silenced. It
knew what was coming—it knew that Administra-
tive neglects and wrongs, and Legislative neglects
and wrongs, and the great wrong of doing right on
a postal contract, and the wrongs against Ireland in
Italy; wrongs against Catholics, wrongs against
Protestants even, wrongs against landlords, and still
more against tenants—it knew that it was to hear
a tale of wrongs that might have touched political
stones, but it preferred not to be touched ! It laughed,
followed Black Rod, heard its own funeral service,
and joyfully went off as if to the Elysian fields.
Happy, but too happy, to find in sessional death a
passage from VINCENT SCULLY and Irish grievances
to the seaside and the country-seat, to anywhere
and everywhere but to the House of Commons.
During the Parliamentary session which ter-
minated yesterday—the great do-nothing session of
1861, the session of the Wednesday defeats—an
unusual number of changes took place in the House
of Commons. A brief epitome of these changes
among the M,P.'s of England we have already
excerpted in the form of a readable little paragraph
from the columns of bne of our morning contempo-
raries. The circumstances therein referred to, rather,
we should say, perhaps, therein hurriedly enume-
rated, hastily massed together, are some of them so
peculiar in themselves that -we cannot but deem
them worthy here of some more careful analysis, of
some more minute and deliberate examination.

Altogether, between the meeting of Parliament
early in February and the prorogation of the two
Houses early in this present month of August, there
were no less than twenty-four elections or re-elec-
tions among our representatives. There were, in
fact, six re-elections—simply pro forma—and
eighteen electipns, some with, some without, oppo-
sition. The half-dozen re-elections were attributable,
of course, to the circumstance of the members con-
cerned, in each instance, having accepted office in
one shape or another—involving an appeal to
their respective constituencies. The Premier, for
example, had to demand once more the
suffrages of the electors of Tiverton by reason of
the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports having been
awarded by the CROWN to the Lord Viscount PAL-
MERSTON. Mr. JOHN LOCKE, again, had to appeal
to his constituents at Southwark upon the occasion
of his acceptance of the Recordership of Brighton,
as the successor of Mr. EDWIN JAMES, Q.C., and
late M,P. for Marylebone. Sir WILLIAM ATHER-
TON'S re-election at Durham was necessitated by
his promotion from the Solicitor-Generalship to the
Attorney-Generalship, when Sir RICHARD BETIIELL
advanced to the woolsack in the robes of the Lord
Chancellor. Sir GEORGE GREY, quitting the seclu-
sion of his sinecure post as Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, to resume his old position as
Secretary of State for the Home Department, had
to be re-chosen by his Morpeth constituents. Sir
ROBERT PEEL had to secure again (a matter of not
much difficulty) the votes of the electors of Tam-
worth, on his nomination by the Prime Minister
as the Chief . Secretary to the Irish Lord-
Lieutenant. The Right Honourable EDWARD
CARDWELL had yet again to walk over the course
down at the City of Oxford, upon his removal, it is
somewhat difficult to say upon his promo-
tion, from that .office of the Irish Secretary-
ship to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of
Lancaster, left vacant by the advance to the
Home Office of its present Chief Secretary.
Such use then are the half-dozen instances of re-
election rendered necessary this year either by
the acceptance of office, or the exchange of office
by these six among the national representatives.
Now, as to the
eighteen new elections, making,
with these six re-elections, the full number of
Session, twenty-four during the
timated. 'Half of the eighteen
seen directly that there
were (af(for
rexactlyjtwill be
already
nine) in
-
were consequent upon deliberate resignations on
the part of the late representatives. Theeni
remain-
ing
to nine being attributable—four of them
Death—five to elevations to the Peerage. Three
out of these five elections to the peerage being
the results of new creations, the other two of
simple inheritance.
The resignations to the number
o
altogether may be readily enough recalledtfnine
altogether ie
recol-
lection.
Mr. JosEPri CROOK having
withdrawn
from the further representation of Bolton-
i e
-rdoo
was succeeded there by Mr. BARNES. At tile
borough of Bradford, again, Mr. TITUS SALT, by
his retirement into private life, necessitated an-
other election, and was succeeded by Mr. W. E.
FORSTER. The great metropolitan constituency of
Marylebone, suddenly startled by the abrupt dis-
appearance from public life of its late popular
representative, Mr. EDWIN JAMES (at a doubly pro-
voking juncture, too, in his career, seeing that the
Solicitor-Generalship was all but within his grasp)
—had to choose a new representative in his place,
and in so doing eventually carried Mr. HARVEY
LEWls's name to the top of the poll after a stormy
contest—putting his name, in fact, fax in advance
_ of All the other candidates, including Sir Roßll3a

CARDEN, Mr. WINGROVE COOKE, and Mr. TWELVE- 1
At South Shields, Mr. HUGH TAYLOR
resigning, was succeeded by Mr. HODGSON. At
Banffshire Major GORDON DUFF gave place to Mr.
R. W. DUFF AEERCROMBY. At Longford, Colonel
HENRY WHITE, by tendering his resignation, made
way for (the merest change of a Christian name !)
Colonel LUKE WHITE. At Richmond Mr. HENRY
RICH, the old time-honoured Whig member for the
borough—(a terrible bore in the house, by the way,
as a long-winded dull speaker, but very much re-
spected nevertheless in spite of his long-winded-
ness)—at Richmond Mr. RICH generously giving
way at last to the exigencies of party, and to his
own yearning for repose after long service, made
way for the return into the House of Commons,
through that vacated seat, of the new Solicitor-
General, Mr., or as we must now call him after his
knighthood on Monday by the hand of his Sove-
reign, Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, M.P. for Richmond.
At Andover—rather an unpleasant recollection this
for many parties—at Andover Mr. WM. CUBITT,
now the respected Lord Mayor of London, with-
drawing from the representation of that snug little
borough for the purpose of being put in nomina-
tion as the Tory candidate for the City of London,
simply yielded up a seat to Mr. H. B. COLES, the now
member for the Lord Mayor's forsaken constituency.
Finally, to complete the catalogueof the nine resig-
nations, there was the resignation of Mr. ALLAN
LOCKHART, as M.P. for Selkirkshiro, a resignation
that has resulted in the acquisition of another vote
by the Tories through the successful candidature
down there of Lord HENRY SCOTT, son of the Duke

TREES.

of BUCCLEUCH.
The four deaths during the session may be yet
more readily enumerated than the foregoing list of
resignations. Dr. JOSEPH NOBLE, M.P. for the
borough of Leicester, was succeeded there by Mr.
HEYGATE. While at Pembroke, family influence
was so powerful that, as the merest matter of
course, by a sort of right divine, Sir JOHN OWEN
was succeeded in the representation by Sir HUGH
OWEN, the new baronet. Mr. DAVID PUGH,
late M.P. for the Montgomery Burghs, has
scarcely breathed his last when he is replaced
there as member by his son-in-law, Captain
WILLIS JOHNSON. The most regretable de-
mise of all, because the most premature, being
that, in the thirtieth year of his age, of the Hon.
THOMAS EDWARD MOSTYN LLOYD MOSTYN, late
M.P. for Flintshire, the lamented deceased being
the eldest son of Lord MOSTYN, and therefore heir
to the title and estates. The Hon. THOS. ED.
MOSTYN being succeeded in the representation of
Flintshire, not, however, as was at one time ex-
pected would be the case, by a Tory, but, on the
contrary, by Lord RICHARD GROSVENOR, son of
the Marquis of WESTMINSTER.
There remain now only to be notified
the five elevations to the Peerage—three by
new creations—two by right of inheritance. The
five vacancies thereby left at intervals among the
ranks of the popular representatives being filled
up by the return of Lieutenant-Colonel BATHURST
for South Wiltshire—of Mr. LESLIE for Aberdeen-
shire—of Sir DAVID DUNDAS, for Staffordshire—
of Mr. WESTERN WOOD for the City of London—
of Mr. WEGUELIN for Wolverhampton. The
vacancy in the instance of Aberdeenshire being
caused by the advance of Lord HADDO to the
House of Lords, upon the death of his father,
the late Earl of ABERDEEN—the vacancy
in the instance of Staffordshire by the
advance of the Marquis of STAFFORD to the
Lords, upon the demise of his father, the
late Duke of SUTHERLAND. Everyone may
count off the three new peerages of the session,
necessitating the election—respectively at London,
at South Wilts, and at Wolverhampton—of three
new representatives. There was the elevation
to the House of Peers of the Right Hon.
SIDNEY HERBERT as Lord HERBERT of Lea—
prior, alas ! only to his disappearance altogether
from the midst of his admiring contempo-
raries. There was the elevation of Sir RICHARD
BETHELL to the peerage as Baron WESTBURY,
simultaneously with his yet higher elevation to the
Woolsack as Lord High Chancellor. And, to com-
plete all these, there was the elevation of Lord JOHN
from the House of Commons to the House of Lords
as Earl RUSSELL—a removal, of itself, sufficient
to render for ever memorable, in the annals
of the legislature, the recent session of Imperial
Parliament.

The Duke of Newcastle and the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., have postponed their departure for the
country until after the interment of Lord Herbert, at which
his grace and Mr. Gladstone purpose to be present, out of
respect to the memory of their late personal and political
friend.

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.—We regret to an-
nounce that information reached London yesterday which
gives but very faint hopes of the Bishop of Durham's re-
covery. His lordship appeared some days ago to be getting
gradually better, but he suffered a relapse, which has given
the greatest alarm to his family and friends. The Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., the Bishop's brother, and Lady
Teresa Lewis, his sister, have both left London for Auck-
land Castle. The Archbishop of York has kindly under-
taken to discharge the duties of the diocese of Durham
during the illness of Dr. Villiers.
THE ROYAL WESTERN YACHT CLUB.—Her Ma-
jesty has been graciously pleased to present to this distin-
guished club a splendid prize cup, to be sailed for at the
forthcoming regatta. This cup, nominally valued at 100
guineas, is from the manufactory of Mr. Hancock, the emi-
nent jeweller and silversmith, of Bruton-street, and is in
the highest degree worthy of the European reputation of
the firm. It is, indeed, a remarkable work of art, designed
and executed with all his wonted fertility of invention and
felicity of taste, by the celebrated sculptor Signor Raphael
Monti. The composition of the figured subjects is free and
bold, and all the accessories and details are exquisitely
finished.

MERITORIOUS CONDUCT.—On Saturday one of
those pleasing international recognitions of humanity and
bravery, which are of no very unusual occurrence, took
place in the Liverpool Sailors' Home. The occasion was
that of presenting a silver medal from the Emperor of the
French to Wm. Morgan, captain of the steamship Marger-
ton, in acknowledgment of his services in saving the crew,
five in number, of the French sloop Euphrosyne. The pre-
sentation was made by Mr. Smith, a member of the Local
Marine Board, who, in presenting the medal, intimated to
Capt. Morgan that he had been invited to receive at his
(Mr. Smith's) hands the gift of the French Emperor. The
gift, a very handsome silver medal, was a recognition of
Capt. Morgan's having done a highly meritorious act in
saving the lives of the crew of a vessel at great personal
risk to himself. The present was the first occasion in which
such a service had been acknowledged by a medal of honour
presented to a British shipmaster, and it must, conse-
quently, be looked on as one of the highest honours which
the French Emperor could confer. The medal bore the
subjoined inscription :—" Au Capitaine William Morgan,
Commandant le Navire Anglais Mangerton. Service ala
Marine Marchande Francaise, 1854." In receiving the gift
Capt. Morgan said he felt altogether inadequate to make
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that in the spring of thepresent
with the Euphrosyne in a disabled condition, about fell in
miles off Baltimore, on the west coast of Ireland. He tco-k
the vessel in tow, but she sank about eight miles off the
land; and by dint of great exertions, it blowing a gale at
the time, he succeeded in getting all her crow on board of
his own ship.
Inde-
pendence Belga, which yesterday mentioned as a rumour
that a serious political conspiracy was discovered at St.
of the conspirators was to
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RUMOURED CONSPIRACY IN RUSSIA.--he
Petersburg, says that the object d
put aside the present Emperor and his family, and to give
a constitution to Russia. A senator, who was at the head
of the affair was arrested, and two noble ladies who were
compromised were banished.
A Berlin letter states that a new order of knight-
hood will be created to commemorate the coronation at
liseaigaberg.

L E T NEW k 47.

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
NEW YORK, JULY 27.

General M'Clellan has arrived at Washington to
take the command of the Federal army. The
Union army is being reinforced. The War Depart-
ment is accepting all regiments that are offered.
The War Department has received information
that the Confederates are advancing to attack
Harper's Ferry.

Three Federal regiments have returned to New
York, and met with an enthusiastic reception.
The New York press and the Union Defence
Committee attribute the disaster at Bull's-run to the
incapacity of the Federal Cabinet.
The New York Times correspondent at Fort
Pickens states that Admiral Milne has officially
informed the British Government that the blockade
is totally insufficient.
According to advices from Havannah to the 18th
instant one of the prizes captured by the privateer
Sumter had been released. The remainder were
detained to await instructions from Madrid.

The difficulties between Spain and Hayti had
been satisfactorily settled.
QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 7.
The City of Washington, on leaving New York,
passed Prince Napoleon's yacht, bound in.
She also passed the Etna and Persia, bound west.
The City of Baltimore was intercepted off Cape
Race on the 25thult.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AUG. 27, MORNING.
Stocks lower. New York Central, 743 ; Erie,
231- ; Illinois, 62. Exchange on London bankers'
bills, 1071 to 108 ; very firm. Money abundant.
Cotton steady. Sales of to-day, 1,800 baler. Mid-
ling upland is quoted 151, to 16.
Wheat firm, and prices advancing. Flour good
inquiry. Corn flat. Provisions dull. Coffee good
inquiry. Sugar steady. Molasses firmly held.
PARIS, AUG. 7.

The lifoniteur of to-day, in announcing the arri-
val of the King of Sweden, says:—
" The Emperor cordially embraced his Royal

brother.

" On Friday next a grand review of the Imperial
Guard and the garrison of Paris will be held in
the Champ de Mars.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 31,
(via MARSEILLES).
Sir Henry Bulwer had an audience of the Sultan

to-day.

His reception was most warm.

In replying to the congratulations of Sir Henry
Bulwer, the Sultan expressed his deep sense of the
friendship of England, and his determination to
effect large reforms.

Pensions have been granted to the recently
dismissed members of the Grand Council.

A forthcoming general circulation of c%imes is

announced.

Exchange is rising.

AUGUST 6.

Ali Pasha has been appointed Grand Vizier.
The Imperial Hatti, dated yesterday, in announc-
ing this appointment to Ali Pasha, states that it
had been deemed necessary to relieve Mehemet
Pasha of his functions, and says :
" We are convinced that by fidelity, intelligence,
and prudence you will be able to worthily fulfil
my instructions relative to the great affairs of
Europe."
Fuad Pasha has been appointed Minister for
Foreign Affairs, and Kianil Pasha President of the
Council of Justice.