The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

INDIA. OFFICE, 15th October, 1868.
By order of the Secretary of State for India in
Council.
Notice is hereby given, that packages, stated to contain
reserved articles from the estates of deceased Officers and
soldiers of the late East India Company's Service, and of
Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to
time been received from the Governments of the respec-
tive Presidencies in India.
Packages containing articles reserved from the follow-
ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:-
11. Babington, W. R., Assistant Surgeon, Madras
Medical Department.
12. Briggs, F. W.' Rev., Madras Establishment.
17A. Barclay, T. S., Captain, 39th Madras Native
Infantry.
20. Coust, H. A 0., Captain, 2d Madras Native Veteran
Battal:on.
21. Carkr, C., Captain, 38th Madras Native lef:.ntry.
26. Chancy, A., Lieutenant, 39th Madras Native In-
fantry.
33. Donne, J. T., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
42. Dillas, R., Lieutenant, 3d Madras European Regi-
ment.
48. Edmonston, W., Sergeant-Major, 28th Madras
Native Infantry.
52. Penning, D. A., Colonel, let Madras Light Cavalry.
63. Grinelack, E., Private, 104th Foot.
65. Harris, D., Lieutenant, 28th Madras Native In-
Infantry.
69. Hawes, .f. C.' Brevet-Maior, Ist Malras Fusiliers.
7". Halliday, J., Sergeant, Bengal Establishment.
79. Johnston, J. McM., Captain, 4th Madras Native In-
fantry.
83. Keighly, F., Lieutenant, 24th Madras Native In-
fantry.
85. Kensington, H. 8., Ensign, 32d Madras Native In-
fantry.
117. Owen, M., Lieutenant, 38th Madras Native Infantry.
128. Redmond, J. J., Lieutenant, 7th Madras Native In-
fantry.
134 A. Ryan, P., _Deputy Commissary, Madras Sappers and
Miners.
142. Shedden, Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical De-
partment.
1508. Stothert, IL, Major, 4th Bengal Native Infantry.
154. Walker, A., Captain, Madras Establishment.
165. Walker, I'., Sergeant-Major, 7th Madras Native In-
fantry.
170. Wright, W., Sergeant, Madras Sappers and Miners.
Applications for such packages should be made by next
of kin of the deceased, or by the legal representatives of
such next of kin. to the Military Secretary, at this Office.
In the event of any of the packages in question remkin-
ing unclaimed for the turther period of six mouths from
this date, they will ho opened, the contents he disposed of
by sale, and the amount realized be credited to ti o estate
of the deceased.

T. T. PEARS, Major-Genera!,
Military Secretary.

PRICE.... fd.
STAMP 'I) 51.

M W YROP OL 17 AN G OSSIP--Thursday.

A week ago I stated my conviction that, all rumours to
the contrary notwithstanding, the elections would be com
pleted in November, and Parliament would have time to
hold an ante-Christmas session. That conviction your
readers will see was well founded, and it is now probable
that members will take the oaths even before the
first of December. Politicians are now making up
their books, and calculating the majority which
Mr. Gladstone will have. That he will have
a considerable majority is admitted by both parties ; but the
number varies from 30 to 130. This wide diversity is due
to several causes. One of them is the increasing divisions
among the Liberal party. Scarcely a day passes but what
some fresh Liberal candidate starts up to do battle with a
Liberal. In Marylebone, for instance, there are now four
Liberal candidates contending against each other, and the
consequence is that Mr. Stanford, an old Conservative
ex-M.P., has come forward, in the hope of profiting by this
schism. Even old and tried Liberals, who have h€ld
office in Liberal Administrations, like Sir William Hutt,
are opposed, and both he and another Wig ex-official, Mr.
Bouverie, find themselves compelled to go to the poll after
about a quarter of a century's unopposed elections. This
is one source of hope to the Conservative party. Another
reason which induces them to place the Opposition at the
low figure above mentioned is the strong Conservative
feeling which has been found to exist among the
working men of Lancashire. I hear of this
from politicians of both sides, and both seem equally
surprised at it. The upper stratum of this class,
such as foremen and viewers, are undoubtedly Liberal ;
these possessed the franchise before. But the lower
stratum, who are now enfranchised for the first time,
have displayed an amount of downright Toryism which
has amazed no one more than the Tory leaders themselves.
They used to talk of the Conservative working man, but
they did not believe in him. Now, however, they find
that he is not entirely the man of straw they thought
him. This unexpected deposit of Conservatism
appears to be due to several causes. In the first place, the
working classes have not forgotten nor forgiven the oppo-
sition which was offered by the manufacturers to the Ten
Hours' Bill and the subsequent Factory Acts, The bene-
fits of that measure are now seen to be so great that those
who have profited by them are irritated by the thought that
any one should have attempted to deprive them of those
advantages. In the next place, there is always an anta-
gonism between the foremen class and the ordinary
operatives, so that if the first had been Conservatives
it is very probable that the second would have been
Liberals. Thirdly, the conduct of Lord Derby and several
other distinguished Conservative noblemen during the
cotton famine contrasted in a very marked manner with
the conduct of certain well-known manufacturers, of
Liberal opinions, and not at all to the advantage of the
latter. Lastly, there is in Lancashire a war of races and
creeds of which sour readers living in other parts of
England can have no conception. It is this antago-
nism which makes a measure like the disestablishment of
' the Irish Church tell greatly against the Liberal party.
That measure is doubly objectionable. It is in the esti-
'nation of the working man a concession to Irishmen ; it
is a concession to Popery ; and therefore it is that a large
number of them will probably make the first use of the
franchise by giving it to the Conservative candidates.
In consequence of these and other causes too numerous
to mention, the Conservatives expect to win several seats
which an ordinary observer would have supposed safe for
the Liberals. My 'Yory friends tell me that they are safe
for one seat in Manchester and even in Salford, which has
never yet returned a Liberal. In the latter borough a
large number of operatives are canvassing, when their
day's work is over, without payment, in behalf of the Con-
servative candidates. For the county seats in Lancashire
the contest will be very severe. Lord Derby is devoting
all his energies, and a very large sum of money, to defeat-
ing Mr. Gladstone in one division and the Cavendish
interest in another. Some time ago it was confi-
dently expected that Mr. Gladstone would be beaten,
but the registrations have been sa far favourable
that the result is extremely doubtful. Mr. Gladstone, I

know, is tolerably sanguine, and has written within the
last few days to an influential member of the late Govern-
ment expressing satisfaction at the progress he has made ;
but there is no doubt that the contest will be very close,
and the Liberal party' have prepared for the worst by
amalgamating the Gladstone committee with the Salo-

mons committee at Greenwich, and rigidly suppressing all
superfluous Liberal candidates. This is absolutely neces-
sary, as I happen to know that when a third Liberal
candidate was talked of, a young artillery officer at
Greenwich immediately began canvassing in the Conser-
vative interest, and obtained a large number of promises.
Now that the Liberals have closed their ranks he has
withdrawn. In North Lancashire, where the Houses of
Stanley and Cavendish are fighting, the Marquis of liar-
tington is spending £l,OOO a week. In Carlisle the con-
test will be very keen. Dean Close's manifesto has
frightened a large number of Churchmen who ordinarily
vote for the Liberals, and Sir Wilfrid Lawson
will have to fight hard to prevent a repetition
of the defeat which he sustained in 1865. Per contra,
at Frome Mr. Hughes will walk over the course,
for Mr. Walmesley has retired. This is due in some
measure to the conduct of the vicar, Mr. Bennett, who
was so disgusted with the treatment which he received at
the last vestry meeting from the Low Church and Con-
servative party, that he has withdrawn from politics alto-
gether, and has even taken his name off the books at
Oxford, so that he will not vote for Mr. Mowbray.
At Canterbury the election excites unusual interest
from the fact that Mr. Butler-Johnstone, who has
for some time past disavowed Mr. Disraeli's
leadership, has at last openly joined the Liberal ranks, as
another clever young Oxonian, Mr. Auberon Herbert, had
done before him. Both stood as Conservatives at the
last election ; both stand as Liberals now. In this they
do but represent the "Young Oxford" party, do but set
forth visibly the rapid and startling change which has
come over that once most Tory university—a change
which has driven forth from its professoriate, Mr.
Goldwin Smith, Mr. Thorold Rogers, Mr. Congreve, and
which would perfectly amaze some of the old-fashioned
country clergy, who remember Oxford in the days of the
" Tracts."

Of all the elections, none, except South-west Lanca-
shire, excites half the interest that the Oxford University
does. There again the contest will be very severe. The

Liberals have picked out the very best man they could
have chosen. The same can hardlrbe said for the Con-
servatives—at least if it can it does not speak well for
Conservative statesmanship. The issue, however, will not
depend entirely, perhaps not chiefly upon the personal merits
of the candidates. The matter is complicated by theological
considerations. For instance, Sir Roundell Palmer is a
High Churchman, and will receive the support of Dr. Pusey,
and no doubt of Mr. Liddon (though the Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol intended to make every effort to convert the
latter distinguished divine when at Gloucester yesterday).
But in spite of this support, Sir Roundell Palmer is likely
to receive the support of a large number of the Low
Church party, who profess themselves disgusted at
the recent Church appointments of the present Govern-
ment. That the Bishop of Carlisle should canvass in
behalf of Sir Roundell Palmer is not surprising, consider.
ing that Sir Roundell married Bishop Waldegrave's sister.
But other well-known Low Churchmen who supported Mr.
Hardy in 1865 mean to support the ex-Attorney-General
on the present occasion. Among them is Canon Champ-
neys. On the other hand, Bishop Anderson has promised
to join Mr. Mowbray's committee.
While Mr. Disraeli fully expects to be beaten at the
elections, he is not at all cast down. He has carried on
Government with a minority for more than two years, and
he sees no reason why he should not continue to do so.
The Irish Church question is, of course, hopeless. He knew
that long ago ; he knew that directly he saw the Noncon-
formists were not to be converted by the cry of "No
Popery." Even Sir Stafford Northcote now refuses to
pledge himself to vote against disestablishment.
What has passed in the Cabinet within the Cabinet—
what the triumvirate have determined to do, the public has
yet had no means of knowing, for neither Mr. Hardy nor
Lord Stanley has yet spoken on the question of the day.
But I have very good reason to believe that the Premier
is contemplating another great coup, another great feat of
strategy, by which he will once more "dish" the
Liberals. This is not the adoption of the Ballot—
though that will probably be very shortly an article
of the Conservative creed—but the introduction of a large
measure of tenant-right in Ireland. He believes
that the land, far more than the Church question, is the
source of Irish discontent ; so, while Mr. Gladstone is ham-
mering away in speech after bpeech at the Lich Church,
proving what no real statesman can deny, though he may
affect to do so, Mr. Disraeli is quietly engaged in working
out a great measure for pacifying her Majesty's subjects in
Ireland, which will probably be laid upon the table on
he first night of the session. With this measure
he hopes to render it impossible for the Liberal
party to act together. The Irish Liberal members and
the English Radicals will, he believes, refuse to support a
vote of want of confidence in the Ministry which has