The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-09 00:00:00

MR. MILL.,

The Conservative papers, having grown weary oi
attacking Mr. Mill for his Radicalism, are now vary-
ing the entertainment byaccusing him of plagiarising
from an old Tory writer. The two charges don't
).old together very well. But that is of no conse-
quence. Any stick is good enough to beat a
dog. They have, further, produced a long list of
writers, in which they say they have discovered the
same ideas as Mr. Mill's. Very probably. Political
economy is not poetry. A political economist cannot
invent principles any more than an astronomer can
invent the movements of the heavenly bodies. But
of course the Tories could not be expected to know
this ; they could not be expected to understand that
political economy is a science, seeing that their whole
career has been an attempt to violate its first prin-
ciples.

.3111. ROEBUCK.
We give it up.: The Sheffield election has long'
puzzled us, but it ie now become a hopeless mystery.
We said some time ago that Mr. Roebuck was being
most unfairly treated by the trades unionists because
of the part which he took in denouncing the Sheffield
outrages, and we said that little as we ever expected
to wish Mr. Roebuck's election, the unionists
would drive us to that. But 10, presto ! the scene
changes, and Mr. Roebuck has received the alle-
giance of Broadhead. Broadhead owes it to Roe-
buck that he has been exposed as a murderer, has
escaped the gallows only by the promise of pardon
upon confession ; and yet Broadhead has raised
the banner of Roebuck for ever! Can any
one—can even Mr. Spofforth, who knows all things
else connected with elections—explain this combina-
tion ? It is to us utterly inexplicable; but it relieves
us from all further embarrassment about the Shef-
field election. We did not wish to see the advocate
of the publicans in Parliament—the man who " spat "
upon the Sunday Closing Bill, and who is now
backed with Messrs. Bass's money. We do not wish
to see the nominee of Broadhead the murderer
there.

THE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.
The address to the Queen against the disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church is said to have received
nearly half a million of signatures. Of course the
great bulk of the signers are Englishmen. Among
them is the Irvingite Duke of Northumberland, Mrs.
Disraeli, and Mrs. Disraeli's husband, who now asks
the Queen to support the Church which his historical
conscience assures him he rightly condemned as
" alien."

A GOOD ANSWER.
The John Bull lately fell foul of Mr. Furse, vicar
of Staines, because, being, as our contemporary
alleged, appointed to that living by Lord Chancellor
Chelmsford, he was supporting Sir Bounden Palmer
at Oxford. Mr. Furse replies, that as a matter of
fact he was appointed by Lord Westbury; but even
supposing the John Bull had been correct,
does that journal really mean to assert that a
clergyman on receiving promotion should bind him-
evar.l. on a partisan to vote acQording to his patron '.§

The John. Bull strongly urges upon Mr. Disraeli to
appoint Bishop Wilberforce to the archbishopric
of Canterbury, and Archdeacon Denison (a letter-
writer and leader-writer in the Aim Bull) to the
bishopric of Oxford. If Mr. Disraeli means to take
our contemporary's advice, we may be certain that
we shall hear nothing of the appointments
after the elections are over. Two such seleetions
coming together would convert what Macaulay called
" the bray of Exet 3r Hall" into a shout of execration
that would be unpleasant on nomination day, still
more unpleasant on polling-day. Dr. Harold Browne,
Bishop of Ely, is much spoken of as a likely
man for the metropolitan see. Ho would
probably give the least dissatisfaction of any man
on the bench. The Low Church party in his
diocese claim him *a a friend; the High Church
party generally believe that at least he is not an
enemy. He is a scholar, a theologian, and in every
way superior to another prelate who has been spoken
of—Dr. Jackson, of Lincoln. If he were translated
there are a good many Cantabs who would like to
see Dean Goodwin take his place. But it is under-
stood that the royal veto has been recorded against
the Dean. So there is no hope of promotion for a man
who certainly deserves it a hundred times more than
Mr. Prothero, the Court chaplain at Osborne.