The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

All the larger constituencies, without exception,

throughout the land enforcing the all but unani-

mous opinion expressed by their representatives

through the minority of 247. A circumstance

(this last mentioned) which was intimated yester-
day with characteristic pleasantry by gallant, out-
spoken, honest Tom DIINCOMBE—M.P. and Pet of
the Finsbury constituency! An enthusiasm, afar
spreading and spontaneous enthusiasm such as this,
will more than compensate to Ministers, we should
conjecture, for the " sixteen" majority of that
astonishing medley of parties which we shall take
the liberty of designating—.

TIIE OXFORD MIXTURE
The Voice of the Country expressed thus loudly

through its constituencies, will tend, let us trust,

not only to inspirit the Hopes of the Cabinet, but
to strengthen, if that be possible, the firm deter-
mination of the Government—to vindicate the

honour of the British Empire, to maintain invio.

late the glory of the British flag, to protect at

all hazard, and at all cost, the lives and proper-
ties of British citizens—what though to accom-
plish this it becomes imperatively requisite to
carry fire and sword to the heart of an empire
having a population of 300,000,000.

As we predicted, there is to be an appeal to the
country. Lord PALMERSTON last night announced
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the constituencies to exercise that privilege which
the Constitution places in their hands. In the
meantime they will only call upon Parliament to
pass those provisional and temporary measures
which may be necessary to provide for tho public
service until the earliest period at which the new
Parliament can assemble. This is as it should be!
This is the straightforward and Constitutional
course, which the manly and independent characd
ter of the Noble Premier induced us to antici-
pate. It would have been a betrayal of the
trusb reposed in his hands, to have deserted his
post in consequence of the temporary
success achieved by a factious vote. Lord PAL'
MERSTON owed it to his sovereign, to himself, his
friends, and, above all, to the people, to appea
from the decision arrived at, to the only legiti-
mate tribunal—the Court of public opinion ; and
he is abundantly justified, under the circunl.

MERSTON completed his brief but comprehensive
announcement of the determination arrived at by
her MAJESTY'S Ministers—when Mr. DISRAELI,
without one mordent's hesitation, intimated his
readiness to facilitate by every means within his
power those preliminary labours of the session
which are absolutely requisite before Ministers
can venture upon the bold measure of a Dissolu-
tion. The conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Buckinghamshire, upon the occa-
sion of the present conjuncture, as upon that of so
many previous emergencies, cannot fail to be re-
cognised, upon the instant, by one and all, as indi-
cative on his part of a view of affairs at once most
statesman-like and most magnanimous. Here, at
least, in the instance of the Leader of the OW'
sition, there is nothing factious—there is no evi-
dence whatever of the "petty jealousies" which
were said last evening to have encompaased the
reputation of the Prime Minister, and to have in*
terfered detrimentally with the operations of his
Government.
Neither thus magnanimous, however, nor thus
statesman-like, were the views taken of the Minis"
terial resolve by the other (motley) Chiefs of the
late very singular Combination. Politicians, hi
the way, so thin-skinned and so irritable, that
they must needs carp and cavil, with almost spiteful
resentment, at the mere matter-of-fact application
of that one simple word "Combination" to the
miscellaneous gathering of the representatives Of
all parties in the lobby of the Opposition !
" Combination" that strange assembly Morelli
was in the strictest meaning of the word—Whet
ever may be the virtuous indignation expressed
about it by the Noble Lord the Member for the
City of London, or by the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman the Memberfor Sheffield, or by the Right
Honourable Baronet the Member for Portsmouth.
Conservatives and Radicals, Gladstoneites and
Cobdenites, the Manchester Party and the Toll
Party, Manufacturing Representatives and AO'
cultural Representatives combining—whatever
they may say to the contrary, there upon the divi-
sion list is the indisputable fact—combining hi
walking out amicably together into the vole
lobby to vote upon a grave question of the veil
first importance against Her MAJESTY'S Govern.
ment. However painful it may be to such exceed-
ingly sensitive men as Mr. GLADSTONE, and hfrci
ROEBUCK, and Sir FRANCIS BARING, and my Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, to be told so ; there, in the event g
Tuesday evening, or rather of Wednesday morning
is the glaring and undeniable fact of their having
lent themselves—literally, and positively, and ad-
visedly be it said—to A COMBINATION! There 35
no mistake at all about it. The fact is there b
fore us clearly and incontrovertibly. They—'4
—combine ! The plain and simple reality of the
fact is not to be got over. It is written legibly
in every individual name in that long catalogue
of 263 of perhaps the most diversified and Wen:
grous members out of the whole body of our 655
representatives. Yet Lord JonN, for mangle'
with the absolute fact of that Combination before
his eyes, within the recent experience of the
House, and under the recent cognisance of the
whole community..—haughtily and arrogantly re'
pudiates the bare idea of any Combination 1 The
Noble Lord—bungling even beyond this-,--.Per-
versely denounces Lord PALMERSTON'S strictly
constitutional and only rational course under the
present conjuncture of circumstances as--a Pena
Dissolution ! Incited to this astounding demur
elation by his infatuated veneration for Mr. F.
and his no less characteristic infatuation in favour
of that old abstract object of his idolatry—Pre'
cedent. " A Penal Dissolution r' exclaimed
Lord PALMERSTO,N, in sarcastic amaze last even'
ing, in the course of his very masterly and dig'
nified explanation in Reply—" Why, I should
have thought the supporters of last Tuesday.
night's successful Opposition instead et
regarding an Appeal to the Country ae
a Punishment, would rather have looked
upon it in the light of a Triumph r' It
was a significant, though wholly unconscious;
admission, however —that unfortunate epithet
blurted out by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that blue'
dering epithet of a Penal Dissolution—it was A
significant, though unconscious, admission of
weakness and insecurity on the part of the Opfgr
sition. An admission loudly and wondrously
corroborated by the intelligence now fast throng'
ing in upon us from all quarters of the United
Kingdom. Intelligence of the extraordinary
effect produced simultaneously, far and wide, hi
the spreading news of the late majority of Sixteen'
Liverpool merchants upon 'Change affixing their
names, with enthusiastic eagerness,
.to 14/1
Address to the Prime Minister of England'
expressive of their admiration- of the held
and patriotic course hitherto pursued by his Go'
vernment ! Citizens of London rapidly crowding
their signatures to a Requisition entreating Lord
PALMERSTON to allow himself to be put in mini'
tion upon the ensuing elections at the Guildhall