The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1868.

An explanatory pamphlet by Mr. GLADSTONE, en-
titled " A Chapter of Autobiography"—a Fenian
demonstration in Hyde Park under the direction of
Mr. FINLEN, the ex-judge and jury advocate and po-
litical incendiary—an accident befalling the Prince of
Wales when out hunting with the Emperor NAPO-

LEON at Compiegne—a Banquet at Brighton to the
American Minister, during his speech at which Mr.
REVERDY JOHNSON almost pledged himself to the eter-

nal amity of England and the United States—these,
together with the formal rejection of the Liberal
Leader, as their Chancellor, by the members of the
University of Edinburgh, upon his being brought into
competition before them with the Lord Justice-General
as the Conservative candidate for that distinguished
position, are to-day among the principal items of news
contending with each other for our more particular
consideration. And yet each in its way, when it
comes to be looked at, has, comparatively speak-

cg, hardly any importance whatever.

Happily

it is so with regard to the, at first, alarming
announcement of the casualty at Compiegne. The
accident, there, to his Royal Highness the Prince of
WALES being of a piece with those previous accidents
of a similar character by which the public at large
have at different times before now been startled.
Once when his Royal Highness was unhorsed in
Rotten Row by a chance collision with a restive
horse, ridden by a gentleman who, in point of fact,
was rather to be pitied than assailed, yet who
nevertheless was scurrilously dubbed by an
over-zealous loyalist contemporary the Galloping
Snob, a sobriquet by which he is still held in many
peoples' remembrance. Another accident more nearly
resembling the ono which has just now befallen the
the Prince at Compiegne occurred, it may be remem-

tiered, durink his sojourn as a guest at the Russian
Court—when, not as now a stag, but a far more for-
midable antagonist, a wild boar, was the cause of
11.R.11. being unhorsed. Fortunately, in each in-
stance, the injury inflicted was insignificant. A
Pagan Prince would have now turned back after an
incident (as he would have regarded it) so peculiarly
inauspicious, and would have abandoned the pro-

jetted tcur altogether. Christians not being fatalists,
however, all thought of the casualty is dismissed with
an Absit omen; and—with a sense of relief even
among the most loyal subjects in the land, and a
feeling of gratification that it was happily nothing
worse—the generality turn at once to the considera-
tion of the other items of intelligence. As to that
contemptible firebrand Mr. FINLEN, who was the
means a few months back, according to the Saturday
Review, of dragging Mr. GLADSTONE down into the
Gutter, he would beneath any one's notice for a single
instant, only that his appearance thus at intervals at

the head of even the most despicable mob in London,
in the most conspicuous and fashionable of all our Me-
tropolitan Parks, and that, moreover, in the midst of
the dull decorum of an English Sunday, is really and
truly, in point of fact, a flagrant outrage to public
opinion, the recurrence of which henceforth any one
might naturally rejoice if the authorities could but hit
upon some effectual means of preventing. As to the
American Minister's latest expres,ion of good feeling
towards the English People and the English Govern-
ment, while there is hardly anyone amongst us but
will regard it with sensations of complacency, we

cannot but fear that the ultra cordial sympathy it
articulates is being rather too gushingly reiterated,
and that Joitx and JOHNATHAN are hardly to be

thus festooned together by garlands of roses and

Cursorily glancing thus over the principal topics of

the day, one cannot but feel that Mr. G-LXDS roNE is
still left, in every sense, the monopolist of one's re-
gard and the Master of the Situation. It is not simply
thus, because he has met with a local rebuff expres-
sive, if of nothing else, of partizan obtuseness, and even
of partizan discourtesy, in connection with the Chan-
cellorship of the University of Edinburgh, now handed
over in preference to the Lord Justice-General as the
candidate put forward in opposition to him by the
Edinburgh University Conservatives. It is not thus,
even, because, according to the returns already num-
bered up as the result of the recent General

Election only 519, he has a clear majo•

rity (as yet) of 141 at his back the
Liberals numbering 330 against 189 Conservatives.

There comes to us, over and above all this, the Bens?,
that to-morrow will be the polling day down in
South-west Lancashire, and that to-day witnesses
the publication, by Mr. MURRAY of Albe:narle-street,
of a half-crown pamphlet-volume of exculpation
from the Right Hon. Gentleman the member for—
Greenwich. There is hardly a man in Eng-
land, we take it, who will not regard as
altogether an error of judgment, an act
of indiscretion, a violation of good taste,
a wilful and wanton and self-abasement—the issuing
from the press, at the present moment, by Mr. GLAD-
STONE, of that Chapter of his Autobiography. Qui
s'excuse s'accuse, says the wise and witty French
proverb, and in that proverb there is more than a
grain of wholesome truth, we may be sure of it. Be-
sides, the crying sin of Mr. GLADSTONE, both in the
house and out of it, with friends and with foes alike,
is the flux of words with which, spoken or written,
he is perpetually inundating us. Spoken mostly,
with a glib tongue that knows nothing whatever
of the charms of terseness and condensation.
I But, latterly, written also—written in rashly precipi-
tate letters, addressed now to a newspaper, now to
an individual constituent—declining explanations at
one moment to some person who has been catechising
him, and at the very next moment giving them (the
explanations) fully and categorically to some other
less curtly treated corresp3ndent. " 0 that mine
enemy would write a book" was the utterance of in-
spiration. But, here, it is, as. if Mr. GLADSTONE were
perversely anticipating a more eager longing on the
part of all the Conservatism of England—
" 0 that mine arch-enemy would write a
Pamphlet." Worse than a book as a means of
making a clean breast of it—a Pamphlet And a
Pamphlet written currente calamo, and in the midst
of all the hubbub and excitement of a General Elec-
tion. It will be very long indeed—we may be sure
of this even now at the very first glance—it will be
very long indeed before Mr. GLADSTONE will hear
the last of it.

LOOKING back upon last week's elections, upon
Liberal triumphs far exceeding the most sanguine
expectations of Liberal agents, the Conservatives,
naturally enough, find some consolation in the fact that
they have won several great victories, Numbers
are against them, but personally they con-
sider themselves victors. The Lib erals have
indeed unseated the ATTORNEY-GEN'ERAL and
the SOLICITOR-GENERAL of the present Govern-