16 JULY 1870, Page 3

We are glad to welcome Mr. Childers back to his

place, the more so because of the rumours which banished him from public life. Of all men in the Cabinet, Mr. Childers has been the most virulently attacked, and of all men in the Cabinet perhaps the public understand him least. He is like a picture by a great painter who cannot paint atmosphere. Ten years hence the atmosphere will suit the picture, and then the cool Australian gentleman, who can govern, and plan, and inspire vigour in great bodies of men, though he does hold Radical ideas, will be recognized, and people will wonder why they rather welcomed attacks on the First Lord. God keep us from it, but if it is to come, a great naval war will, among other results, reveal Mr. Childers to the English people.