The Sun. — 1868-10-14 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A DYER.-On Monday an inquest was Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE On MO Dates with wonder and gratitude for its almost . neld at Halifax on the body of Thom, M•I ndcy evening made pressed in certain quarters for the persistency with great deed •• ' g from the as i ner, his first electioneering address t ' on crisis is past ant 1 the relative position menced, has succeeded in escapine invariable accuracy, and for its certainly extra- slop dyer. On the previous mornino• 1 ,„ le was found by bis o his constituents which the Government kept office this year, but f li•t .4- an, w e ea..-- __ -, . . . ow i e and black a little mere clearly depicted. country. ordinary comprehensiveness. wife lying dead outside the house door, with his throat cut  Speeches to the constituents are fast multiplying upon us, and it is easy to see that expectation is rife as to the chances of the ensuing campaign. The Hon. F. STANLEY has addressed several meetings of late, and at one in Stalrnine, he passed some observations on Mr. GLADSTONE'S address, which are intesesting to notice. The hon. member alluded very significantly to the circumstance that the Liberal party, thr,;ugh its spokesman, is taking the credit of the Reform Bill to itself, whereas though the House of Commons lent most powerful aid to the Government, the measure was due to the exertions of the Conservatives. Not content with this wholesale appropriation, these zealous exponents of the truth go on to say that the Conservatives are responsible for the bad parts of the bill, while they and their friends contrived to secure to the country the better portions of it. It is not to be wondered at that Mr..STANLEv should make some attempt to set this right before those whom he addresses, and he recalls some rather awkward facts to mind—as, for instance, that it was not au unusual thing to be seen that Mr. GLADSTONE and his more immediate followers went into one lobby, while the Government and its supporters went into another whenever what was called a " vital" part of the Bill was to be decided upon. This work of " co-operation," to say the least of it, is one of a very novel character, and it is hardly likely to impress the minds of those who can at all appreciate the meaning of the thing. In referring to the circumstances which led to the introduction of the Bill in 1862 to the house, the hon. member dwelt upon the great difficulties which lay in the path of the DERBY Government, and it was only the strong sense of duty on the part of the noble earl which induced him to undertake the task. He and his colleagues had indeed no light endeavour before them, and they ought to be appreciated for their energy and enterprise. It is an ungracious thing, now that the time has arrived for the decision °of the country to be taken on the affair, for those who failed themselves to contradict plain statements and begrudge their opponents what is fairly due. Whether through mismanagement or incapacity Mr. GLADSTONE did fail in the endeavour to get a Reform Bill through the House of Commons, and that with a majority of sixty or seventy to bear him out, and if the present Administration had not set to work with might and main the country would still have the vexed question in the future and not the past. The greatest indignation has been expressed in certain quarters for the persistency with which the Government kept office this year, but they had not in reality finished their self-imposed work of Reform, and this only reached completion a few days before the close of the Session. One battle ground during these election contests is to  The news by the mails from New York to the beginning of the month show that the unfavourable condition of the finances is attracting a good deal of noticti. Mr. DELMAR'S statistics have startled the commercial circles, and the Treasury has thought it desirable to give them a semi-official contradiction. The Department states that Mr. DELMAR failed to include in his estimate a sum of over one million dollars, the balance on hand from last year. Mr. WAsiincENE, the chairman of the Committee of Appropriation, reports that the receipts from the customs during the fiscal year will be $370,000,000, and he calculates the decrease in the expenditure at $67,000,,000. However well founded these more favouralVe computations may prove, it is certain that the present system of military administration in the South entails most needless burdens on the people. The disturbed coneSition of the Southern States can hardly be expect ed to alter until the great election crisis is past ant I. the relative position of white and black a little more clearly depicted. At present there is a consta• it struggle between the rival parties, and while we, hear by one mail that negroes are elected to sea' in one of the State Legislatures, we are told 1 a the next that they must