The Sun. — 1866-10-10 (London, England)

MODERN LIBERAL STATESMAN.  The following political character of Lord Melbourne is published in the " Life of Archbishop Whately" by his daughter. It appears to have been found in the Archbishop's private note-book : "After all, Lord Melbourne's plan was to let everything alone, good or bad, till forced to make a change. Ile was the highest Conservative I ever knew. For he was not like many so-called, who have really persuaded themselves that such and such alleged abuses are really good ;,he saw in many cases, and has often pointed out to me, the evils of such and such institutions ; adding, however, that he was very sorry they should ever have been meddled with : ' I say, Archbishop, all this reforming gives a deuced deal of trouble, eh ? eh ? I wish they'd let it all alone.' Any change, in whatever department, was to him so much greater au evil than the continuance of any abuse that he would always avoid it if be could. But then he had, which most Conservatives have not, shrewdness enough to perceive when it was unavoidable, and then he always welcomed it with so much gladness that many people were alarmed with a dread of his going too far ; and thus he offered the most effectual check to innovations. For John Bull becomes furious at a very obstinate opposition to some change which he conceives called for; but if it is readily granted, the innate conservatism of the nation is called forth very strongly. He is like a restive horse, which, if you turn his head away from the ditch he is backing towards, and whip and spur him from it will back the more violently ; but if you turn him towards it, and seem rather to urge him that way, will shrink from it. Lord Melbourne took the latter mode. Yet, though he thought with the Tories and acted with the Whigs, I always vindicated him from the charge of inconsistency. A man is not a traitor for surrendering a town to the enemy when untenable, instead of waiting to have it stormed and sacked ; though iu so doing he is acting with those who wish the enemy to have possession of it, while his feelings and wishes are with those who are for holding out and dyingin the breach. He differed from the Whigs in deprecating all changes, good or bad ; he differed from the (other) Tories in conceding readily what he saw to be inevitable. Yet this man will probably go down to posterity as a zealous reformer. A monument to Sir Robert Peel and the Duke, as the authors of catholic emancipation and free trade and the Maynooth grant, and to Lord Melbourne as the friend to Parliamentary reform, tithe reform, the Irish Temporalities Act, and the abolition of slavery, these should certainly stand side by side, and a most laughable pair they would be. "I say Archbishop, what do you think I'd have done about this slavery business, if I'd had my own way ? I'd have have done nothing! I'd have left it all alone. It's all a pack of nonsense ! Always have been slaves in all the most civilised countries ; the Greeks and Romans had slaves; however, they would have their fancy, and so we've abolished slavery ; but it's great folly, &c." And this was the general tone of his conversation, and a specimen of his political views.  MADAME TusSAUD'S. —A full-length portrait model, taken from life, of the criminal John Richard Jeffreys, who was executed in front of Newgato on Tuesday last, for the foul murder of his little son, six years Of age, by hanging him in a cellar in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's, is now added to Madame Tussaud's celebrated Chamber of Horrors in Baker-street.  The Bishop of Nancy has issued a circular letter to his clergy, directing a general collection on behalf of the ,sufferers by the inundations,