The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1868.

COMPLETE LIST OF THE NEW
PARLIAMENT.

* New Members.-4 Old Members for ew uonstituencies.

Constituency.

)lembers.

ABINGDON ...
ANDOVER ...
AYLESBURY .

Mr Lindsay
Mr Fortescue
Mr N Rothschild
Mr Smith
Mr Mellor
* Mr Davies
Hon G C Morgan
Mr T Cave
* Captain Williams
Mr Whitmore
Mr Samuelson
Mr Tite
* Mr Dalrymple
Mr Whitbread
* Mr J Howard
* Lord Bury
* Mr J Stapleton
Sir 11. Edwards
* Captain Kennard
* Sir R Glass
Mr John Laird
Mr John Bright
Mr Dixon
* Mr P H Muntz

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
A NGLESEA
BRECO s Hinz
BARNSTAPLE

BR/DONORTH
BANBURY
BATH

BEDFORD
rERWICK

BEVERLEY

BEWDLEV
BIRKENHEAD
BIRMINGHAM

BLACKBURN

BODMIN
BOLTON

BOSTON

BRADFORD

BRIDGWATER

BRIGHTON

BRISTOL .

BUCKINCIIIAM
BURNLEY
BURY
BURY ST. EDMUNDS

BEDFORDSHIRE

B Ft IDPORT
BE MARIS ......
BRECON
BUCKINGII Allt 11 llt

BERSSuutz

CUMBERLAND, EAST

CUMBERLAND, WWl' .

CAMBRIDGE

CAMBRIDGESHIRE 1

CANTERBURY

CARDIFF
CARLISLE

CAMMARTUEN
CARMARTUENSHIRE

CA R NA RVON
CA RNARVONS HIRE
CHRSHIRIC, MID

CHATHAM
CHELTENHAM
CHESTER

CHICHESTER
CIIIPPEN HAM
CIRENCESTER
CLITHEROE
COVENTRY

CALNE
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERS

CARDIGAN
CARDIGANSHIRE

CHELSEA

CHRISTCHURCH
COCKERMOUTH
COLCHESTER

CRICKLADE

CORNWALL, EAST

CORNWALL, WEST

CHESHIRE, EAST

CHESHIRE, WEST

DFNBIGII
DLNBIGHSUIRE

DEVONPORT

DARLINGTON
DERBY

DEVIZES

DEWSBURY
DOVER

DnoiTwicu
Du 11.11A31

DURHAM, NORTH

DURHAM, SOUTH

D }r.cn wSTER
DUDLEY
DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH

DERBYSHIRE, EAST ...

DEABYSIIIRr, NORTH .

DEVON, SOUTH

DEVON, NORTH

DEVON, EAST

DORSETSHIRE

EVFSHAM
EXETER.

ESSEX, Souris

ESSEX, WEST

ESSEX, NORTH-EAST

EYE
FINSBURY

FRomr.
FLINT
FALMOUTH

FLTNTHHIRr
GLAMORUANSHIRE

GATESHEAD
GLOUCESTER

GRAVEAENI)
GREAT G!tIMSBY
GREENWICII

GUILDFORD
GRANTHAM

GLOUCESTER., EAST .

CLOUCESTEIt, WEST

HANTS, SOUTH

HERTFORDSHIRE

ITA.CIEN EY

HALIFAX

ITASTI NO S

lIELSTON
HERTFORD
HEREFORD

HEREFORDSHIRE

EIuLL

HYTITE
ILANTS, NORTII

HARWICH
HUNTINGDON
lIARTLEPOOL
HAvEarottnwi ST
IIonSIIAM

nuNTIRGDoNsiIIRE....

HUDDERSFIELD
lrswicn

ISLE OF WIGHT
KENT, WEST

KENT, MID

KENT, EAST

KING'S LYNN

KIDDERMINSTER
KNARESBOROUGIL
KENDAL
LAMBETH

LEEDS 1

LEICESTER

LEICESTER, NORTH ....

LEICESTER., SOUTII.

LANCASHIRE,

LANcAsninz, S.E

LEOMINSTER
LUDLOW
LONDON CITY

LONDON UNIVERSITY
LYaLI 1c 0 TON
LA UNcESTON

Lls coLN

LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH

LINCOLN, MID

LINCOLN, SOUTH

LISICEARD
LEWES
LICHFIELD
LivEaroot

LANCA.SIIIRE, NOR= ..

LANcAsuiax, N.E.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE
MALLoN
MARLOW
MIDIIURST
MACCLESFIELD

MAIDSTONE .. , .

MALmrsBuRY
MA NCUESTER

MARYLEBONE

MERTIIYII TYDVIL

MoNmorni
MAuroN

NIA TtI.BOROUGH
virtioNETTlsma
MIDDLESBOROUGTI .• •
MOSTGOME KY
MORPETH
MOSMOUTIIS num

MIDDLESEX

NORFOLK, SOUTH ...

NEWARK

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,

NEweABTLE-UNDIt-LVM,

"NowrirAttratToN .
NORTMCMPTON

NORWICII

NOTTI NG II A M

Nr.wror.T. I. OF WIGHT
NORFOLK, NORTH

NonroLs, WEST

NORTHAMPTON, NORTH

NOLTEIAMPTON, SOUTH

NOTTS, NORTH

NOTTS, SOUTH

NORTRUMBZRLAND, N.

NORTHUMBERLAND, S.

OXFORD UNIVRRSITY,

01;FORDSHIIIE

Mr W II Hornby
Mr J Feilden

Hon F L Gower

Lieut-Colonel Gray
* Mr J Hick
Mr Malcohn

* Mr 'l' Collins
Mr W E Forster
* Mr Ripley
Mr A W Kinglake
Mr Vanderhyl
Mr James White
Professor Fawcett
Mr Ti Berkeley
* Mr S Morley
Sir Harry Verney
• Mr R Shaw

Mr Philips
Mr Hardeastle
Mr Greene
Mr F C H Russell

Colonel Gilpin
Mr T A Mitchell
Hon W 0 Stanley
Mr Howel Gwyn 1
Right Hon B Disraeli
Mr Du Pre
* Mr Lambert
Mr Benyon
Colonel Loyd Lindsay
* Mr John Walter
Hon C Howard
t Mr W N Hodgson
Captain Lowther
Hon P Wyndham
* Colonel Torrens
* Mr Fowler
Lord George Manners
Lord Royston
t Right Hon H Brand
Mr Butler Johnstone
* Captain Brinckman
Colonel Stuart
Mr E Potter
* Sir Wilfrid Lawson
* Colonel Stepney
* Mr Sartoris
* Mr John Jones
Mr W B Hughes
* Captain Parry
Mr G C Legh
Hon W Egerton
Mr Otway
* Mr H B Samuelson

Earl Grosvenor
* Mr Raikes
Lord H G Lennox
Mr GOdney

Hon A Bathurst
Mr R Assheton
Mr Eaton
* Mr Staveley Hill
• Lord E Fitzmaurice
Right Hon S Walpole
Mr Beresford Hope
Sir Thomas Lloyd
* Mr Richards
* Mr C W Dilke
* Sir Henry Hoare
" Mr E Haviland-Burke
* Mr J Fletcher
Mr Rebow
* Dr Brewer

Sir D Gooch
* Hon F Cadcgan
* Sir John Trelawny
* Mr B Willyams
Mr St Aubyn
* Mr P Vivian
* Mr E C Egerton
* Mr W Legh
Mr Tollemache
Sir Philip Egerton
* Mr Williams
Sir Watkin Wyinie
* Mr Morgan
Mr M Chambers
* Mr Lewis
* Mr Backhouse

1 Mr M T Bass
I* Mr Plimsoll
Sir T Bateson

Serjeant Simon
Major Dickson

• hlr'Jessel, q.O.
Sir JohnPakington

Mr Henderson
Mr Davison

Sir II IVilliarnsou

* Mr }:lliott
Mr Pease

➢lr Beaumont,
Colonel Sturt

Mr H B Sheridan
* Sir T Gresley
* Mr R Smith
* Hon H Strutt
Hon Captain Egerton
Lord G Cavendish

Arkwright
t Sir Massey Lopes
Mr Kekewich
Mr T D Acland
Sir Stafford Northcote
Sir L Palk

t Lord Courtenay
Hon Mr Portman

Mr Floyr,

Mr Sturt

Col Bourne
Mr Coleridge
* Mr Bowring
1* Mr W Baker
1* Mr A Johnstone

Lord Eustace Cecil
Mr S Ibbetson
* Mr Round
* Colonel Brice
Lord Barrington

Mr MT Tonens

Alderman Lusk
t Mr T. Hughes
Sir John Hanmer
" Mr Fowier
" Mr Ea.stwick
Lord It Grosvenor
Colonel Talbot
Mr II Vivian.

lion Sir W Hutt

Mr Mold(

lf Wingfield
,t Captain Tonilif le
Mr A Idennan Sa
f It t lion 1V E Gladstone
'Mr t hislow
* Captain Cliohncley
* Hon 1" Tollemache
Sir M Beach
Mr ilidf,,rd

Kingscote
* Mr Marling
Right flon'W C,wper
Lord k Scott

iron H Cowper

Mr A Smith'
• Mr H Brand
1* Mr C Eced

* Mr Helms
11fr Stansfeld

Co!onel Akroyd
* Mr T Brassey
* Mr F North
* Mr Young
Mr R Dimsdale

I Mr Olive
* Mr Wyllie
Mr Bialulph

Mr Bailey'
" Sir 11. Croft

Mr James Clay •
Mr Norwood
Baron N de Rothschild,
Mr AV B Beach

Mr Sclater-Booth
Major Jeri-Is
Mr T Baling
• Mr Jackson
* Colonel Edwardes

Mr Hurst 'double .
* Major Aldridge return
Lordtt Montagu

Mr E Fellowes-
Mr E A Leatham
Mr H E Adair
* Mr West. QC
SirJ Simeon
* Mr Mills
Mr Talbot
Lord Holmesdale
Mr Bart Dyke
Mr L Pemberton

• Hon G Milles
Lord Stanley
• Hon R. Bourke
* Mr Lea
Mr lilingworth
_

Alderman J Lawrence
* Mr W M'Arthur
Mr Baines
* Alderman Carter

Members.

THE AMERICAN MINISTER AND MR.

SIII,ILLEY.

(&om the Anylo-Anz,?riean Times.)

The London correspondent of the New York
Tribune has written a long letter to the Daily News
to convey to the English a statement of the true
feeling in America regarding Mr. JOHNSON'S course
in England as the representative of the United
States. Mr. SMALLEY asserts that it is injurious to
the interests of his special mission, the settlement
of the Alabama and other claims, as well as preju-
dicial to the general interests of the countries; that
it was calculated to revive the bitter animosities
left by the war, which had in a certain measure
been mollified ; in truth, a skimming of the oil off
the troubled water. He maintains that Mr. JonN-
sox's language is delusive, and ill-calculated as
such for the settlement cf a dispute of which, to un-
derstand the causes of quarrel as well as the temper
of the other side, were the first preliminaries. In
proof, he produces extracts from the leading Ame-
rican papers, choosing the most moderateand influ-
ential. We are bound to say that Mr. SMALLEY
does not exaggerate the present tone of feeling in
America as expressed in the press ; and although
we have modified our statements of it in obedience
to a sound rule, not to assume the momentary irri-
tation, and the strong expressions in consequence
uttered, as the genuine tone of public opinion, unless
accompanied by symptoms which show it to be not a
mere hasty expression of popular indignation. What
the true strength of the feeling isagainst Mr.REVERDY
JOHNSON we cannot with our present means gauge.
It may be as Mr. SMALLEY represents it, in which
case the present American Minister will be recalled;
but we do not think that it is so deep, and there-
fore so lasting, as Mr. SMALLEY believes. Those
who carefully read even the extracts he has selected
will find that the current is not running against
England, but against Mr. JOIINSON. It is not a
national animosity, but the irritation from the
supposed humiliation of their Minister's con-
duct, especially at the Liverpool banquet, in
his ostentatious reception of Mr. LAIRD. That
from an American Ambassador was irritating to his
countrymen, as it wholly misrepresented them, and
therefore was not only injudicious, but false to Ameri-
can feeling, which the Minister ought to have known,
and which not knowing proves him unqualified for
the post. But, beyond this, what harm has Mr. JOHN-
SON done to deserve recall, and so loud an outcry
against him. Notwithstanding Mr. SMALLEY we
believe the objects of the mission will be happily
achieved in Mr. JOHNSON'S hands, and in failure
one of those rare opportunities may vanish which
come and are lost, it may be for years, and it
may be for ever, because fools who cannot see ne-
glect them. Americans suppose that it is England's
interest to settle this dispute, and their's is to keep
it open, with a view to retaliation hereafter. They
take it for granted that England will go to war
before them, just as they did when the Representa-
tives of nearly all the other Powers agreed to aban-
don privateering as a means of carrying on war,
little supposing that their own commerce would be
the first attacked. Men are never wise in attempt-
ing to erect themselves into a providence, and the
best statesmen are those who make the most of
things as they are, and wait upon HEAVEN'S de-
crees. There is this good in fostering the enmity
of the countries to a point of hostility short of war,
that it effectually prevents either from going to
war. In withdrawing as far as possible from
European complications, England was probably
much under the influence of the feeling that she
dare not take an active part in the face of American
enmity, and Prussia may have had her unchecked
swing from this cause. None can tell how these
cases ramify, reacting upon the original agent,
and it is not wise to throw bommerangs against
which the thrower has to guard and is in danger so
long as they are in the air. Suppose America did
keep this question open, what then is the position.?
Both nations are aware if they go to war that their
commerce may be materially damaged by the priva-
teers sent out by the other, and each has a fair start
in the future to annihilate property, doing as much
harm at as little benefit as can well be conceived,
even to the cap turers. England, however, starts a
long way ahead, having already had an innings in
the past. Now, it is this innings which makes it
better worth the while of the United States than of
England to settle the question for the past, although,
taking all contingencies, it may be better worth the
while of England than of the United States to settle
for the future, calculating the changes as well as we can.
The past is positive—the future is problematical,
and time's wheel often turns us heels over head in a
jiffy, working our brains upside down, and showing
what poor things the best of us are. It is therefore
of doubtful wisdom to sacrifice a present advan-
tage at the expense of another nation, for the hope
of being able more grievously to injure that nation
in the future, when the chances are not far from
even that the Power which foregoes the advantage
will be the one first involved in the difficulties it
anticipates for the other. Indeed, on a grand scale,
it is not dissimilar to the notice a Southerner some-
times gives another, that he " will shoot him on
sight ;" whereupon the other goes about with his
hand on his pistol, and takes the first opportunity
of waylaying and shooting him who sent the no-
tice. When two men walk about a town, each
knowing that from any corner, in a brilliant room,
at a bar, talking to his friend, he may be killed, he
is disagreeably kept on the qui vise, to the great injury
of his business as well as of his peace of mind. He
has the alternative of being shot, or of shooting a
fellow-creature, and being arrested and tried for
murder, each almost equally pleasant in its way,
and a proceeding which speaks volumes for the good
sense of those who originated the eastern. Why per-
petrate as a nation something of this folly of indi-
viduals? The opportunity is open, and whichever side
closes the gate of reconciliation may soon have bit-
ter cause to regret the madness. To-day it may be
America's turn to throw cold water on England's
desire for this settlement—to-morrow it may be
England's turn—but both may depend on the fact
that this see-saw will not long continue, but end in
a catastrophe which may change the destinies of a
country. Thus nations and individuals are for ever
playing with their opportunities and losing them.
Should the American Minister be changed and the
Alabama claims remain unsettled, they will assume
at once a totally new phase, for England will be
persuaded that America does not mean a settlement,
and must prepare accordingly. The next Minister
will be received with civility, but with nothing
more. A day which cannot then be recalled will
be gone for ever—for the same overtures we are
satisfied will never again come from England. We
would therefore regret if America saw fit to do more
than to repudiate, as a true representation of her
feelings, the proceedings of her Minister in his re-
ception of Mr. LAIRD. The Tribune's correspon-
dent has had no small share in creating the feeling
which he describes in the columns of the Daily
News, nor should Mr. SMALLEY forget that his
chief, Mr. HORACE GREELEY, is said to aspire
to Mr. JOHNSON'S post. his well-written
letters put the worst aspect on the Minister's
conduct, at a time, too, when the circulation of
the 7ribune had perhaps never been equalled
by any paper. The " scurrilous " journal, as the
Standard unfairly calls it, was circulating as a
campaign organ all over the country, and was in
every one's band. Such appeals to American pride
could not fail to produce an effect, and would ac-
count in no small degree for the indignation being
so general. But the American people cannot blame
the English for desiring to do their Ambassador
honour as a complimect to them, meaning it as
plainly as a nation can act as a proffer of the hand
of reconciliation. The rebuff would be indeed felt
were it rudely rejected, and why ?—because an
American sent by Americans met with courtesy, men
who had expressed enmity to the- North, among
them a trader who had built and sold at a profit the
most destructive of the Confederate cruisers. At
best this would be but a poor reason, though the
case would widely differ if Mr. JOHNSON failed in
an honest and intelligent discharge of his duties as
an Ambassador. This is far from being shown ;
indeed there is reason to believe that the reverse is
the case, and on this Mr. JOHNSON'S merits as a
Minister must be tried. We cannot then think
that there is the depth in the recent ebullition in