The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-21 00:00:00

every practical department of Government that
the blame would always fall on the right shoulders,
and that it would be the interest of none who
owned a pair of shoulders to have the blame rest-
ing on them.
The commissions to the Crimea are to us evi-
dence rather of identity than of difference be-
tween the New Cabinet and the old one. They
spring of course from its Whig section. Whigs.
and Commissions must go together. We must
think Lord PALMERSTON wholly failed to meet
Mr. LArARD'S remarks on Monday night. Com-
missioners were sent out to inquire where no in-
quiry was needed, and double authority originated
where the grand necessity is, one compe tent
authority. The Commander-in-Chief and the
Commissary-General need nothing but superce ssion.
Both are too aged for actual service, and the ap-
pointment of younger and competent men in their
places is the thing needed to reassure both army
and nation. Both of them have utterly failed—
worse the thing cannot be, let others try their
hands. The same principle applies to numbers of
worthy old gentlemen in the Crimea.

Then, again, there is Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
Germanism and Poland. We want some reason-
able ground of hope that Saxe Coburg is not to
be as powerful at the New Vienna Conference as
England, and that his Lordship is not gone to
ask very moderate things in the Black Sea, and to
leave Poland incorporated with Russia. He must
see that his countrymen understand the business
as well as he does. Bath has followed Bridge-
water in asserting the necessity of a free Poland
to a secure peace. Lord JOHN will appear but a
very small statesman a few years hence, much as
he is now bepraised, if he leave Russia master of
Warsaw, and of a strong line of inland Sebasto-
pols, threatening all Germany and Europe. For
ourselves we have little hope from such a devotee
to Austria as Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The Minis-
ter who could tolerate the Russian suppression of
Hungarian liberties to please Austria, who could
put her into the Principalities, who could for her
sake refuse a Polish legion, and even keep Turkey
from forming one, and who could see our army
dying before Sebastopol rather than hoist on the
trenches the Polish flag, who could allow her to
drive political refugees out of Wallachia, and
could crown all by wishing Russia to retain all
her stolen territories—such a statesman► is not
one from whom we can hope for a peace worthy
of the Allies, or worthy of England's sufferings.
We want some niinimurn demands specified.

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 20.

The Imperial Palace on the Hradschin, at
Prague, has been burning since an early hour this
morning.

The ex-Emperor and Empress are in safety.
The reigning Emperor has sent Prince Charles
Lichtenstein, the Lord High Steward, to their
Majesties.

BERLIN, TUESDAY, FEB. 20.

The Borenshalle states that the Russian Govern-
ment has ordered a forced loan and fourfold re-
quisitions for provisions. Every " hide" of land
in Poland is to pay 15 roubles.
The Preussische Correspondenz explains that the
arming of the militia in Russia is a defensive
measure, not opposed in character to the peace
conferences at Vienna. The Emperor in his mani-
festo states that a continuance of bloodshed is
contrary to his wishes.

We have received the Moniteur of yesterday.
It does not contain any political or local news of

interest.

Under date of Jassy, January 21, it states that
it was expected. that the electric telegraph would
shortly be completed between Jassy and Czerno-
witz, Vienna and Galatz.

The following telegraphic despatches are given
in the foreign journals :

ST. PETERSBURG.

Two new measures have been taken by the Go-
vernment simultaneously with the ukase decreeing
a levy of the militia. The first is a fresh appeal
for subscriptions and voluntary offerings. The
second orders a forced extraordinary contribution
throughout the extent of the Russian empire.

BERLIN, Fzs. 19.

A despatch, of the date of the Ist inst., from
the Austrian Government to that of Bavaria, for-
mally announces that Austria considers the estab-
lishment on a war footing of the Federal contin-
gents as a preparatory measure to their mobiliza-
tion, the proposal for which will be renewed.

HAMBURG, FEB. 20.

The Second Danish Clamber not admitting
the constitutional legality of a Grand Council
common to both parts of the kingdom, rejected
yesterday the credit demanded to cover the ex-
penses of that body.