The Sun. — 1858-03-09 (London, England)

DISRA.ELI suggested, that their political " burial should be consummated in the most decorous, and even splendid manner." That a bill will be forthwith introduced by the Government for that purpose, and we must patiently await the promised explanations as to its details.  As to the Reform Bill the Right Honourable Gentleman clearly exposed the mode in which the public were bamboozled during the last seven or eight years. Every pretext for procrastination was eagerly seized on. There could be no reform while war was pending. The nation had not sufficiently recovered its equanimity after that war had been concluded, and a Ministerial defeat on the Chinese question and an appeal to the country was the excuse for further procrastination. The Times and Post again wanted delay, but the feeling of the country could not be trifled with, and therefore something was promised ; of which as yet nothing is known. Can it be supposed that if Lord PALMERSTON were reinstated in once, that the anticipated bill would be brougint forward during the present session? Most certainly not. There would be an adequate excuse, which would be eagerly seized on, and therefore we may as well see what Lord DERBY offers, and how much better will be the biddings of his opponents. Mr. DISRAELI eanphatically repudiates a Government on sufferance, and he has proved his title to do so. His views on this point, if properly regarded, may prove useful to his political opponents.  It is said on good authority that the Government have, at all events for the time being, abandoned the " Conspiracy to Murder Bill," and that the resolution has already been announced to the Cabinet of the Tuileries. This is as it should be. This is, indeed, listening to the voice of public opinion, and showing that " deference to the feeling of the country" that ought to be exacted from every constitutional administration. We are not now yielding to untenable demands or blustering menaces. It will be distinctly and unequivocally ascertaiked, before another month has elapsed, whether the existing law is, as declared by the highest legal authorities in the House of Lords, adequate to punish such abuse of the hospitality supplied to every claimant, or whether there is a deficiency that would reason ably require amendment, not on account of urgen  demands, but for the sake of public justice. As we have repeatedly explained, the contemplated change in the law which led to the overthrow of the PALMERSTON Government could not, in the slightest degree, conduce to the security of the EMPBROX, the great object desired by the French Government. Men who " have set their lives upon a cast," and are prepared to " stand the hazard of the die," will not be deterred by substituting transportation or penal servitude for a protracted imprisonment. The plottings will still continue whenever political fanatics have worked themselves up to the requisite degree of  excitement. If they can be so wrong-minded as to consider that assassination could be justified under any possible circumstances, they would persevere although the code were rendered far more sanguinary, and the penalty were life itself in place of exile. As we have repeatedly stated, it is not the severity, but the certainty of punish ment that proves effectual. The most Dracon ic regulations frequently defeat themselves. Juries will refuse to convict, points of law will be conceded in favorem vit,e, and still worse, parties relying on the protection supposed to be afforded, will neglect suitable precautions to avert the impending dangers. As a morning contemporary justly declares that Loris NAPOLEON and his advisers scorned the Conspiracy Bill and never attached any value to it, save so far as it indicated that "its authors were squeezable, and afforded grounds for hope that persevering pressure might extort still greater concessions from them." The precedent, too, was useful, inasmuch as it might be made a pot ent weapon of coercion against minor states. How could Sardinia or Switzerland hold on, when even azsleaat mighty England truckled to the irresistible Emedlticotiai.ailoln;tsTlehgeitFimreantceh Government ha s oa and. surrendered her most cherished trod:s ft et".„ il::::htsiasespa,lo passport te m farpomwoerres. stringent I t has ile professing to afford an the sacred taken care that no frosarelisoil 'Without a cert. . apeyris'ounn sti°lall touch withhvrsiaao: t Gov erinneLt. ficate of character Nor is it contented done in France, but it has more than invited thas ration of other Governments, so that it map not °t. stand alone is the stringency of its regulations. Should England succumb, other nations must also yield, so that there would not be a really free country on this side of the Atlantic, It is, there