The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

THE MAN IN THE MOON.

It appears that the " Man in the Moon " has been
caught at last. A landlord at Brecon has been com-
mitted by the magistrates for trial on a charge of
bribery in the Conservative interest. The evidence
disclosed a curious tale of a man in the railway em-
ploy IL.,,Ting a parcel containing five pounds dropped
into his hand. The station master marked them, and
some one marked the man. An agent in the matter
has also been committed, supposed to be the veritable
"man in the moon." This is a specimen of a bird
both rare and shy. We await the trial with interest.

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THE OPENING OP PAHLTA3IENT.

There are not wanting sgns that it is the intention
of the Queen to open Parliament by Con mission,
and it is announced that immediately after the
anniversary of the death of the Prince Consort, her
Majesty will go to Osborne. The assembling of the
Parliament elected under the Reform Act of 1807
will be one of the most memorable incidents
of modern times, and the piesence of her
Majesty to welcome the representatives in
whose wisdom she is accustomed formally to
express confidence, would be a satisfactory assurance
to ourselves and to the foreign critics of our institu-
tions that such confidence between Queen and people
really existed. Rumour is rife as to the repugnance
with which her Majesty views the verdict of the
people, but we trust it is neither disgust nor indiffe-
rence which would keep the Queen from -West-
minster upon such an occasion. Tier Majesty's
advisers will do well to ask her to break through the
habit of absenting herself on these occasions, rewind-
ing her that the present is no ordinary one.
MR. GLADSTONE AND " MEN OP TUE VORLD.'•

The Daily _Yews publishes a letter from Mr.
Edward Strachey, in which the writer attempts to
shew why it is that Mr. Gladstone has failed to con-
ciliate and organise certain portions of his party, and
why he is so much disliked by certain of the Liberal
newspapers. Mr. Strachey declares that it is the
uprightness of the right hon. gentleman with which
they are displeased. They want him to become and
act as " a man of the world." Lord Palmerston, he
says, had for many years ruled the country on the
man of the world principle and method ; his head
was (to adopt the phrase of the Pall Mall Gazette)
" clear of all nonsense on moral and religious
subjects ;" and when Mr. Gladstone succeeded
to the leadership of the House of Commons, with
his known character for referring to moral
and religious principles upon all occasions, Lord
Palmerston's House of Commons put the ques-
tion clearly to him, Will you fall down and worship
us as the condition on which we offer you the ruler-
ship of England ? He refused ; and Mr. Disraeli—
the very incarnation of worldly wisdom—was set up
in his place by the union of the " men of the
world "of all parties. Mr. Gladstone stood firm
to his faith in God and the truth, and the people
of England have declared that they do care for
moral and religious principle, the London clubs
and newspapers notwithstanding, and that they will
have the moral and religious man for their leader.
" if," the correspondent continues, "the day should
ever come in which the worldly wisdom of the Pall
Mall Gazette becomes the faith, or no-faith, of the
English people, Mr. Gladstone would be no fit leader
for them ; but while they continue to be a moral and
religious people, es they have now shewn themselves
to be, even in their most mistaken opinions, they
will have Mr. Gladstone just because he will not
fall down and worship the ,Pall Mall Gazette and its
compeers."

THE HAYMARKET NIGHT-HOUSES.
The attention which has lately been called to the
scandal of the night-houses in the West-end of
London has unmistakably proved that the. Act of
Parliament which provides for their closing at ono
o'clock is set at nought in the most outrageous
manner. Following the remarks of Mr. Tyrwhitt
the other day in dismissing a summons, as to the
necessity of more stringent legislation, there
is another case, resulting in a conviction, which
shows still further the unsatisfactory character
of the law. A refreshment-house keeper was
summoned. A policeman had found four men
drinking and smoking at half-past one in the morn-
ing in his house. The defendant declared that the
refreshments had been served before one o'clock.
Mr. Tyrwhitt thought that the refreshments were
served long after the proper time, and fined him. It
was only the day before that the police found men
and women drinking in a night-house long after this
time. The evidence shewed that some of them had
become drunk in the interval of two visits after ono
o'clock, and yet Mr. Tyrwhitt held it could not be
found that they were served during the prohibited
hours. It does not appear how the two decisions can
be reconciled.

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