The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-21 00:00:00

OCT. 21.
THERMOMETER, IN TRES slung.
As—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.
Ballo:m=11-29.84; still falling.
WlND—Easterly—moderate; with dull weather.

Conservatism is still looking up. It is putting
the best face upon it. And if anything is to be
gained by mere cheerfulness, by mere hopefulness,
by the simple avowal of confidence as to the future,
Lord DERBY'S party Ls certainly not likely to be a
loser.

The autumnal vacation affords but small oppor-
tunity for political movement of any kind. What
there is of it, too, is so generally associated with the
agricultural interests, that the Tories have it almost
entirely to themselves. Wherever there is a "har-
vest home" to which a member of either House can
be invited as a guest—particularly if that guest
chances to be a notability of any kind—there, as
certain as fate, the Conservative party (as it is but
reasonable indeed that it should do) seizes eagerly
upon its opportunity. And so it has come to
pass in this way as usual that while politicians
of other colours and of other interests have been
very differently engaged—" shooting the wild deer
and following the roe" in Scotland, fishing in Nor-
way, clambering with their alpentstocks to the
summit of the most picturesque and perilous acclivi-
ties in the Tyrol or in Switzerland—the Conser-
vative chiefs, greater or lesser, have been availing
themselves, here at home, of every reasonable
opportunity for obtaining a hearing from their
fellow citizens just as occasion offered. Not an
agricultural meeting of any importance has there
been now for the last month or two, at which one
or other of the more conspicuous members from the
side of the Opposition has not spoken ; and spoken
too,
it cannot but have been remarked, almost
invariably, not upon matters agricultural, but
directly to the point, upon matters political. In
this manner, and not in the smallest degree with
anything like ostentation, we have been favoured
with Manifesto after Manifesto from the side of the
Opposition. We have heard the views in this way
more than once of Mr. HENLEY.
We have been
enabled to obtain an inkling or
the opinions of
General PEEL upon the Situation
of things in
general. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON has not been alto-
gether silent. Mr. WALPOLE gave expression a
few weeks back to some of his more profound and
earnest convictions. And while the public atlarge
has been recently brought thus, as it were, face to
face with the late President of the Board
of Trade, the late Secretary for 'War, the late
First Lord of the Admiralty and the leader
for the time being under Lord DERBY'S premier-
ship of the Home Department—the Conservative
Secretary of State for the Colonies went yet more
resolutely and comprehensively to work, in sounding
the note of preparation for next session, so soon as
:the right hon. baronet could, in his own part of the
country, contrive to ascend the rostrum of his
a gricultural opportunity. It will be remembered, of
elarse, in that instance, how the speaker at once
d .
Wain:led at the very outset of his remarks any
ih' ltraltirvz hatever of talking to the farmers about
U. tilt kind irrigation or manuring, or anything of
reminding them whimsically while so
doi, ng that he was representative not of long I

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 21, 1861.