The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 9.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1857.

Somehow it is constantly turning out thal
Nrilat our solemnly wise contemporaries sneer a.

as Radical restlessness or incredulity, proves to be
but the wisdom of phin, straightforward, English
honesty. We could, but that it might look like
vanity, or like imitating the closing paragraphs of

a QUEEN'S Speech, recall to recollection some
(1,.z ti or more illustrations of our remark, since

the installation of the "All the Talents" Minis

try, (luring the Russian War, at and after its ter-
mination, and during tho late Double Session. A
Inetely honest appreciation of men and their posi-

t►on, has compelled us to pronounce an opinion,
Bich was thought by the self-constituted leaders

of the press to be gratuitous and unfounded sus-
-P;cion, or to advocate a course which was pro-

dtimed to be "Radical perversity." Yet the
i3sue has been that these same parties have been
found at no great distance of time, not owning
that they were wrong and others right, but
changing their note without any indication that
it -was a change at all, or that the opinion newly
a.dcpted had been strenuously urged long before,
and while they were opposing it.

Oao of these cases seems to be now in progress ; the humblest shareholders. The distinguished
and for once we invite the attention of our readers patronage under which it was inaugurated, and
to It is now being hinted in "influential the extraordinary privileges conferred Ou it, sti•
qiurters" that India is likely to cut out the Re- ululated what mightjustly betarmed the "mania." li
fora,. Bill of 1853, that the Premier is to be re- Every person with a few pounds to spare eagerly
leased from his promise because ho cannot fulfil it. sought so beneficial an investment, and the (To-
lle drew a nine months' bill on liberal credulity ! rations were conducted on a scale far beyond
Wien the New Parliament met, Mr. ROEBUCK anything which the bona fide capital warranted
wdrsd the bill in the name of the Liberal party, We shall not term it a gigantic gambling thatitu-
theugh wholly unau',horised to act for them, an tion, but its operations were unquestionably of a
imprudent piece of assumption, for which some highly speculative character, such as might 'we-
'll-R
-I's awell ae ourselves, could but censure him ceed under peculiarly favourable cireumetancee,
eeeeeely at tte time. After that most merrily but which were liable to collapee at any moment
di
Premier and his majority jog on together and to occasion serious losses, if not absolute ruin
tar eleh le Session, at least so far as Reform of to many of the parties concerned.
Peri;atneet erae concerned. Honourable Mem- The French Government soon found that they
tears thougM
they, needed no reformation, the had given too great encouragement to the under-
remier thought the same, so all gladly deferred taking, in which the Count Da MORNY, said to be
Per Terre to the more convenient season. Every the greatest speculator in Earope, had taken so
proposal of Parliamentary
Reform, however im- leading a part. The privilege of issuing bonds fir
pertant or trivial, whether acknowledged by all largo amounts payable at a future day, or, in
the Liberal party to be right,
or open to some other worde, something analogous to the We ;t-
-discus,,ion, was shelved almost with the hurrahs minster improvement bonds, was refused. The
of the House. For tho Session the cry Was, prohibition of new companies deprived the jostl-
r "elnierston, and No Reform.'
tution of sources of considerable profit, and the
New our readers will remember well enough, cheek
given to speculations on the Beurso cut off
how decidedly we censured this Parliamentary other
gains of no ordinary magnitude, but of
f l'y. We tau k always two grounds—that mea- more than doubtful expediency and propriety.
snros so obviously required and open to so little While the field of operations was thus net--
dieeete as the Abolition of the Property Quali- rowed, other causes concurred to discourage the
ten for Members of the House of Commons— shareholders. The failure of a very influential
Mr. Loeice KING'S motion for equalising the
!
director, M. PLACE) by which it was said maey
L....le:hie° in boroughs and counties—or the ab°li-
of his fellow-directors incurred heavy losses, was a
tiee of Viet useless plague, the Rate-paying clauses • heavy blow, and great discouragement ; and the
—vbet measures whose utility no honest Re- i evil was greatly enhanced by the subsequent with•
leireeere could far a moment deny, should be idrawal of the Count do MOnNY,
who Seemed to be
pee:eel at 01103 On their own merits. They were a connecting link between the
Company and the
liut mixed up with any questions of detail forming I Government,
neciesarily part of any larger measure ; they The break down of the Russian Railway pro
to, have wasted no time in discussion ; they iject which ho had negotiated, and the concession