The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Daily News of this day.)
Berlin is at this moment inundated with the
most alarming accounts of the sanitary condition of
the Austrian army of observation on the Polish
frontier. The dragoon regiment " Bavaria," is re-
presented as reduced to a mere skeleton ; the infan-
try regiment " the King of Belgium" is said to have
lost more than half its numbers by sickness. All
these reports come from Vienna, and appear to be of
o, semi-official Character. If they may be relied upon
the winter condition of the English army before
Sebastopol was not worse than the spring condition
of the Austrian army in Galicia. It is an ill-
timed sickness. The tone of such members of our
own Government as aro in town—and indeed the
tone of our Government offices generally—is be-
coming very warlike. The idea that Russia will
accede to any terms upon which the French and
English Governments can honourably conclude a
peace is scouted—scoffed at by one and all. If this
view of affairs is correct, the time must be near ap-
proaching when Austria is bound in honour to draw
the sword. But all the antecedents of Austria have
evinced an anxious desire to put off that evil day as
long as possible. This being the case, it is with
something nearly allied to incredulity that men
listen to inflated accounts of a dreadful epidemic
breaking out, at such a critical moment, in the
ranks of an army hitherto believed by all to be in
the enjoyment of a fair average state of health.
The alleged sickness in the Austrian army bears a
most suspicious resemblance to the politic sickness
of the Earl of Northumberland in Shakspero's
when the nobles in arms against that
Henry Iv.,
monarch were counting upon the earl's assistance
in the field.
If Austria plays us false in this emergency, it will
be no more than Austria has done before on similar
occasions. Since the days of King John, the policy
of the House of Hapsburg has been ever trimming
and shifting—ever, characterised by a readiness to
listen to the last plausible speaker, and to sacrifice
its honour and its permanentinterests for the attain-
ment of some petty immediate advantage by crooked
means. It is one consolation that the Austrian
Government has uniformly been the greatest suf-
ferer by its own indireetnesses. Other nations can
afford to look with scorn on the paltry Jesuitical
trickster, and dismiss it, contemptuously bidding
it "go hang a calf-skin on its recreant limbs."
There is little time to waste thought upon what
such a versatile and timid Government may (10.
The main concern of England is that the English
Government should be true to itself. We have
adverted above to the warlike tone in which our
rulers have for the last few days been indulging.

The • re:asacml)iing—of—Parliainent, now at hand,
will enable the public to . d,cide whether the
actions of Ministers aze in keeping with their lan-
guage, -They can have no excuse for acting irre,o-
lately. Tee nation is as high of heart, and impa-
tient of delay, as when this war first commenced.
The people of England are still "straining lik
greyhounds in the slip." The militiamen who were
provoked to retire to their homes by the Mandel.
ing paltering of Ministers—and the insidious whis-
pers of the perby-Disraelites about the ill-usage
they had received—are ilocking,rbaok to their colours.
The elite of our artisans and less wealthy mid:lle

classes are eagerly asking permission to fora, volun-
teer corps. Young men of education are crying out
for the embodiment of regiments of a slightly ex-
clusive class, in which they mightserve as privates
without losing caste. Day after day crowds of British
officers are passing through Vienna, on their way to
England, to solicit employment in the Turkish con-
tingent, or any service that can be pointed out to
them. The Mussulmans of India—the hardy Goorka s
and other bill tribes—the races of Hindostan—who
for intelligence and moral and physical stamina rank,
nearest to the Europeans—are burning to aid the
cause of the successor and representative of tha
Caliphs. The universal British Empire is eager
to put forth its full strength. The sincerity of our
Government is on the eve of being tested. If they
are as fully convinced as they pretend that a pro-
longation of the war is inevitable, they will with-
out delay proceed to organise the formidable
amount of moral and physical force unreservedly
placed at their disposal. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer's Budget will show whether they are in
earnest. If they are resolute for war, he will at
once have recourse to an adequate and avowed
loan. If he persist in the petty shifts for raising
the " ways and means" contemplated by Mr.
Gladstone, he will show that he and his colleagues
are like Ancient Pistol at the bridge, "speaking
brave 'orts " without the courage or sense of honour
that prompts men to action.

(From the Morning Chronicle of this day. )
Whatever be the result of the pending negotia-
tions at Vienna, we cannot regret that the voice
of the people of England has been raised in indig-
nation at the bare mention of a contemplated com-
promise. Unworthy but futile attempts to cast
the odium of suggesting that compromise on the
Emperor of the French have met with the fate they
deserved. No man in the three kingdoms, who
uses his thinking faculties, for one moment be-
lieves so monstrous and improbable a story as
that the successful and respected C3hict of the
French nation would make shipwreck of his glory
and his power, by initiating any proposition so
fatal to the honour of his own country and so de.
grading to the position of ours. It is satisfactory,
however, to perceive, from the anxiety exhibited
to get rid of the imputation, that the friends of
her Majesty's Ministers, and the secret abettors of
Russian policy and interests, are alike ashamed of
so dishonouring a charge.
We should regret to be supposed to advocate
war for the mere sake of war. The line of policy
adopted by this journal, from the commencement
of the dispute with Russia to the present hour,
ought to protect us from any such charge. It is
impossible to exaggerate the blessings of peace.
To every people not predatory in their habits
peace is desirable, but to a country like this, de-
pending for the well-being of its multitudinous
working population upon manufactures and com-
merce, it is a necessity. War, however, is one of
the conditions on which society has hitherto
existed in all ages. Unwarlike States have
never permanently prospered, and even those
which have attained to great military glory have
ever been compelled, from time to time, to renew
their laurels. Nor will any nation, in the pre-
sent condition of mankind, permanently prosper,
which on system turns the sword into the
ploughshare. We must pay something down
for our permanent prosperity. Aggression is
still the secret principle of even civilised Govern:
meats ; and although by international treaties its
too frequent action is kept in check, still those trea.
ties themselves are only observed because the seve-
ral parties would be prepared to punish an infringe-
ment.

If by any of the arrangements which have been
g,
attempted at Vienna a real, lastin and sufficient
peace could be ensured, uo minor considerations
ought to stand in the way of their accomplishment.
It 11 one thing, however, to aim at a peace for the
attainment of great national objects—another to
grasp at it in furtherance of the interestseint of a party.
If Russia could be supposed to be a
faith, and, under her new Sovereign, togdiensirgeoa%l
end to a war begun in arrogance ita
rrnotet
itarmthhriloeulsli
then we could believe that a peace, iv
the combined wisdom of the distinguished men
at Vienna, might be accepted as a satisfactory
now
settlement, even though the military operations
might have been inadequate to the dignity of the
empires allied against the common enemy. But if,
as is undoubtedly the case, the peaceful professions
of the Czar are the mere pretences of diplomatic
hypocrisy, and if, instead of combined wisdom,
self seeking pliancy alone were at work on the part
of the Allies, then a peace might be adopted which
'would be not only an immediate disgrace and hu-
u",lriation, but also a permanent injury.
• ...4ciso who wish us to agree to such a peace lose
Slgiat a the
the w motives of the late Czar in commencing 1
varded ..,,Tile„ Patience of a life had at length been
of a -.67„,.,nau opportunity. With the contempt
Emperor, iiietal,_ for the pursuits of industry, the
Passion of th,Er vsueered at the money-making
done before hi g uml--as the first Napoleon had
not embark M a war'ld predicted that they would
calculated,
too, onibht:t lutene:muredTthreke - ' He had
land,. and had al- .ad-eydi,allll, ion of France and Eng-
deneies of the Frree
commercial ponresni-,.."arde thhoas,vegrowing ten-
andmanufacturing
wealthy. Is it to he-R.:whilh
thatel.:ade England
ii of so ephemeral a cli-a-rpaPnßecterd
be regarded as having be-
3n that thir ~ss,ia,n policy
of an individual monarch-i` Vy the ra-Perali" may
the case, Alexander the Seco-n; rat from arils being
cause to revere the wisdom and(- would onlis hemng
father, if he found the Pleni t PeuetratiniYi have
courting a compromise, and Zr:inntiaT c'f -nogl his
France to adopt the same ignorninfot-el‘liniatarn3
rersev DP. ;
striking feature of the Russian e spolicy. Oile
diplomatic.,, and
political system is its permanency.
its law. The secret policy is hereditary,
trans-
mitted from one monarch to another, with era___ ,s
.only the
slight modifications resulting from their individual
character.
.., A treaty such as that which rival party chiefs in
cingland, bidding for the electoral support of the
the Emperor interested in peace, would have forced upon
of the French, amounts to an induce-
ment to Russia,
and to consecrate that policy of per-
manencePer;tverar;e. Let us suppose the fa-
vourite scheme
peace-mongers, of the varioes
shades, accomplished.
d Let us suppose some ped-
dling compromise,spared, and theßussian
which Sebastopol should be
naval force limited in the
Black Sea—France,
England, and Turkey, each

maintaining a corresponding number of vessels of
war. Accompanied as such an arrangement would
be by the tight of Russian vessels to penetrate the
Straits, who that has studied the policy of Russia
does not see that the restriction would be as nothing
compared with the new privileges thus conferred ?
We must never lose sight of the great fact, that we
are dealing, not so much with a European, as with
an Oriental system of diplomatic strategy. Any
treaty we may conclude must be signed, not with
the feeling on our part that it will be kept by the
enemy, but that it will be broken. We may not al-
ways be so closely knit together, here in the West.
Or, some profligate Coalition Ministry—such as that
which "loomed in the distance "-not long since--
might find it convenient to regard the English as
a " nation of shopkeepers," and to turn the cold
shoulder to appeals by Turkey for aid against sur-
reptitious and insidious augmentations of Russian
power in the Black Sea ! Where, then, would be
the reward for all that we have done and suffered
during the last campaign ?
We must not confine our attention to the mere
superficial and technical parts of the question. As
far as words go, it may seem very reasonable, this
" limitation" of the Russian naval force in the
Black Sea. Technically, " the objects with which
the war was commenced" may seem to be compass-
able by an assent on the part of Russia to our inter-
pretation of the Four Points. But, looked at from
another point of view, and in a wider sense, what
would be the effect on the prestige of the nations
concerned, of a compromise such as that now ad
vocated by the open or secret friends of a peace ?
If it were proclaimed that the two greatest
nations of Europe had nerved their strength to the
destruction of the Russian stronghold in the South,
and that they had accepted terms which saved it,
would it not at once be believed that Russia was
stronger than those two great nations together ?
We allude more especially to the effect in Asia, to
which direction the aggressive activity of Russia
will be turned with renewed vigour, should she
succeed in baffling the present European coalition
We do not hesitate to say that Russian prestige in
the East would be enhanced a hundred-fold by
such a result to the efforts of the European Powers
in resistance to Russian aggress:on.
It was to prevent these eviis that Lord Palmer-
ston was made Premier. As demagogues, when in-
vested with office, become tamed into a kind of
A01.6.,11 and apathetic despots, se Lord Palmerston
has abdicated that peculiar character as a Foreign
Minister which gave him his unparalleled popti-
Jarity ! We speak not of his occasional esca-
pades on the subject of " oppressed nationalities"
—these were probably the clap-traps which, in a
popular" Foreign Moister, are akin to the
" cries" of the domestic demagogue. But Lord
Palmerston was supposed to he profoundly versed
in all the designs of Russia, and capable of frus-
trating them. He was invested with an imaginary
cliempionship of his country against the enslaver.
tie was another Hannibal. His enemies even—
not to speak of his admirers—at least gave hint
credit for thus much of spirit and patriotism.
The last thing expected of him was that he would
connive at a craven compromise—that he would
betray his country to consolidate his party—that
he would forget all his knowledge of the past his-
tory of. Russia, all his frequent forewarnings as to
her probable future, in order to countenance a
mode of settling the present dispute, which would
put into the hands of that Power the means of
effecting, at no very distant period, the ruin of
Europe.

(From, the Times of this clay.)

The amusements of the Easier vacation are drawing
to a close, and, as far as appearances go, the country
seems a; easy and contented as its legislators. Consider-
ing what has happened during the last winter, and what
may he happening even now, this state of things is to us
surprising, and would be entirely unaccountable, but for
the supposition that it may arise from a firm and unhe-
sitating confidence that the Ministry of Lord Palmerston
is doing everything that the utmost care and assiduity
can do, in order to reorganise every portion of our mili-
tary departments, and to carry on the war with that
vigour of which we hear so much and see so little. To
those who may be labouring under this pleasing halluci-
nation we beg to present, in military phrase, the follow-
ing state of the staff of the War-office for this, the 12th
day of April, 1855 :
Lord Panmure, Secretary of State, laid up with the
gout.
Mr. Peel, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, absent.
Colonel Mundy, Permanent Under-Secretary, absent.
Mr. Roberts, Permanent Under-Secretary, dismissed.
Total of effectives, Mr. Hawes. •

The office is " working itself" like its sister establish-
ment of the Colonies, which administers the affairs of 1
fifty States by a Secretary at Vienna and an Under-
secretary in Ireland. Patience is a virtue, but those
who are patient now must find some other excuse for
it than the activity of the authorities of the 'War De-
partment. Government seems determined to put down
popular clamour by a system of defiance. Objections
are made to the preference of aristocratic connections
to merit, and a cry is raised for new men ; so.L,,rd
Palmerston makes a Government more aristocratic
and more exclusive than any we have known before.
The system of our public offices has been subjected to
much unfriendly criticism, so, by way of defence, the
officials of our two most important departments de-
sert them in a body, and leave them to the care of
t. 11 A el Pr kla - _

We cannot but regard such a proceeding in the War-
office at least as somewhat premature, for there, at any
rate, something yet remains to be done. To prove this
we beg to call attention to the doings of a department
which has hitherto scarcely received its fair share of
public attention, or, we should rather say, bas escaped
merited chastisement, from the more glaring and promi-
nent iniquities of its fellows. We 'request the attention
of a confiding public to the present state of the Ordnance
Department. The Master-Generalship of the Ordnance,
and one-half of the salary, are at present the property of
Lord Raglan, who has, we suppose, energy sufficient for
this office over and above that which he devotes to the
management of the campaign. The other half of the
salary, together with the practical management of the
Ordnance Department, is made over to Sir Hew Ross,
who is besides Deputy-Adjutant-General of Artillery,
keeping the pay and living in the house attached to that
office, but discharging its duties much as Lord Raglan
does his, through the medium of another assistant peed
by the public for this purpose, and who, in addition to
being Master-General of the Ordnance virtually, and
Deputy-Adjutant-General nominally, is also Colonel-
Commandant of the Horse Artillery. If this depart-
ment be well conducted, Sir Hew Rosa and his assistants
must be more than men—much more than men of the
age to which they have attained, for surely such a con
catenation of jobs was never brought to bear on one un-
fortunate department. When we add to this, that the
vacancy occasioned by Colonel Maule's death has only
lately been filled up, and that the Deputy-Adjuta,it-
General's office has been kept almost in abeyance,
because it was in time of war kept below the esta-
blishment required in time of peace, we. have said
enough to ace 'tint for anything and everything that
may occur under such a regime. We are eegaged
in a great siege, and an affair mainly of stores and
artillery. Tee officer who should see after these matt• rs
commands the army, bdt keeps his place at home, his
duties being discharged by another officer advanced in
years and already overworked, whose duties are dis-
charged by a paid assistant—at least, so many of them
as are discharged at all;
Theory would not lead us to expect much from all this;
let us see what consolation practice affords. Complaints
have been male of the fuzees of our mortarsoin-
plaints only too well confirmed by the results of experi-
mental trials. Orders were given for new fuzees to he
made ; they were made two months ago, but the friends
of Russia need not tremble, for these fuzees have winged
no death to the garrison of Sebastopol, hut sleep undis-
turbed in the stores of Woolwich. -We need nothing
1 so much as expert artillerymen, and the winter should
: undoubtedly have been employed in training gunners to
supply the consumption of the siege, but this has not
been done, for frost and snow prevented it. A mode-
rate sum spent in a commodious shed, lighted with gas,
would have enabled the drill to go on independently of
the elements, but the men who should have been per-
fected in this difficult service have been wasted in dis-
charging the duties of sentinels, which might have just
as well been confided to policemen. Perhaps the 'loss
of these foot drills is the less to be regretted when we
consider that they are intrusted to a Colonel of Horse
Artillery. Again, riding is an essential part of the train-
ing of an artillery soldier, but the Riding-house was only
available during the few hours' daylight of a short win-
ter's day, and the long night was lost for want of a
small expenditure in gas. At the head of every depart-
ment is placed some aged officer, and the maxim of the
service seems to be to keep young men down, to deny
or conceal defects, and to carry on matters entirely
on the old system. The war has rendered promotion
in the Artillery more rapid, but this, though it
does much for the individual, does little for the ser-
vice, for the older men remain at the top, and the
younger men are squeezed out, from the hopless-
ness of further promotion. We have heard of a person
being employed to construct some new machinery, and
being directed by one of the board that ordered it to
delay it as much as possible, in order not to do injury ti
the Birmingham manufacturers. Much more we have
to say on this subject, but we think that the revelations
of this morning are sufficient to do all that we propose
to ourselves—that is, tai illustrate the manner in which a
department so constituted discharges its duties, and
how jobbery in the distribution of office leads to the
i inevitable result of corresponding delinquencies in its
1 execution.
'\of Of course the partial exposure which we have made
the
manner inwhich this most difficult and import int
branch of the
iisual churn
know not xvshOf
ourselves theytaal
service is conducted
denial and indignation,ti the
etedwill call forth
and we really
should be perpetualy taking upon
light abuses the :1 public accuser and of dragging to
odious to those whoxposure of which is naturally ino,t
after it no manner ofir6't by
them, and seems to draw in the most pacific) tina°esrre.ction or amendment. Never,
be pardoned for giving- om,,l3eeti:oda when officials might
tion, was there such a- e.,8
n_em.,7ttigoutos
al is paraded I '
neglect and dereliction at dteuty easeanl oasintdenrtaetir;ol.l:ais.
v lisfieulty, of danger,
eyes of the nation in these days cf d. 'e,,•re the,
and of anxiety, when not Iner I
more are
first-rate
have been wantonly saerificed, aned teTustlis of lives
at stake, but the position of this nation
Power, and the reputation we bare earned is il go tom
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bloody battles by land and sea, are in jeopardy. We
have no right to expect from a Cabinet chosen on the
principles which have notoriously guided the selection
.)f the preqent commanding ability either in speeeh or
action ; but we have a right to ask from them, at least,
indefatigable industry and a total abstinence from all
favouritism to individuals, and all practices having a
direct tendency to weaken the efficiency of the public
service. How little these just expectations have been
realised our readers will have gathered from the fore-
going sketch of the Ordnance Department. It is for
the House of Commons and the country to say how long
the frustration of these expectations can be tolerated
without dragging down public prosperity to the level of
public virtue and public spirit.

(Front the Morning Herald of this day.)
Lord Palmerstln's unpopularity becomes daily more
apparent. From the hour in which the member for
Tiverton grasped the Premiership he has rapidly declined
in the estimation of his fellow-countrymen. The eleva-
tion which he so long coveted, and which by a very
questionable expedient he at last obtained, has proved
too severe a test for his patriotism and ability. In the
presence of the ordeal, giant though he once was, he has
dwindled down to a very feeble and despicable political
dwarf. His words are big, but his deeds are contempt-
ible ; and he furnishes a la-nentable addition to the long
catalogue of over-rated men. Every appointment, every
act, every jest of this wayward politician serve to excite
Mill further the disgust of the nation. Even those who
were most strenuous in their advocacy of his speedy ac-
cession to power now make wry faces and shudder at
the bare mention of his name. Deserted by all impar-
tial and independent men in the House of Common.,
and unsupported by the country, Lord Palmerston stAry3s
in terrible isolation, and seems bent upon sacrificing the
interests of the community to his own wretched ambition
for office.

The grand civic banquet given by the Lord Mayor at
the Mansion-house on Monday evening last afforded
one more proof of the unpopularity of the second Coali-
tion which Lord Palmerston, after consuming two
months in unparalleled intr:gues and desperate exertions,
has calledinto existence as a Cabinet. Everybody knows
that the occasion to which we refer was no other t'inn

the usual c,lebrat'oa of the annual dinner, at which the
chief magistrate of the metropolis receives the Ministers
of the day, with other distinguished company.
Several members of the Aberdeen Administration, in
spite of numerous misdeeds and deficiencies, were wel-
comed at. just such a banquet last year with a certain'
amount of satisfaction and enthusiasm. Though declin-
ing in influence, and not regarded with much favour in
any quarter, that Ministry had not been censured by a
vote of t',e Cummons of England. If their ejection frota
power was looked upon a 3 a certainty, the fiat hal not
then gone forth. They were not desperately clinging to
office in spite of a solemn &ciion of the Legislature

against them. It is true they pail no hr.•,ed'io many
ominous tokens that to more spirited statesmen would
have served as sufficient warning ; yet this weaknes4
was generourly overlooked al a constlintional defect of
legislators of their echool. Moreover, it is not at festive
sf:enes that Englishmen usually pass ctmnre upon their
rulers. Only when the wro?.g is open and flagrant do
they notice it upon such occasions.
The Government on Mornlay erening last seeme l to
shrink f..orn an appearance in public. But one member

tf Lord Paliner,L;n's Ministr:y, the Chancellor of the

Excheqner, came to the Lord Mayor's hspitabie board ;
and when this worthy functhmary arrived the guests had
been seated some time. In solemn silence the health of
her Majes'y's Ministers was received, being in strik-
ing contrast to the enthusiasm that greeted the healthy
of hor Mjesty and the Duke of Cambridge, and
in fact :di the other toasts of the cvcnin2'.
Nor can the coolness of the reception accorded
ti this particular toast, and the sole representa-
tive of the Coalition present on the ommsion, be
attributed to the unpoptilar!ty of the war. This is a
fallacy emanating from the Manchester politicians, and
most assiduously circulated by them. The war is not,
however, unpopular ; although it has been so vilely
tnisma raged, aad a.though the myrmidons of two Coali-
tion Cabin: t•. have done what they could to make it dis-
tasteful. It the war be unpopular how are we to ac-
count for the enthusiasm of the crowds that sallied forth

to welcome the Duke of Cambridge, one of the heroes
of the strife ?—the applause with which the Lord
Mayor's guests received the toast " The United Fleets
and Armies of Great Britain, France, and Turkey ?"
how explain the reiterated acclamations during the pro-
gress and at the end of tho martial, spirited, and no'le
harangue of Admiral the Viscount de Chabannes ?
These are so many proofs that the war is popular, and
had the English Government conducted the war in a
vigorous and patriotic manner, no political differences
of opinion upon other matters, nor party distinction,s
could have operated to their prejudice. As faithful
guardians of our national liberties, and vigilant protec-
tors of the interests committed to their trust, they would
have been welcomed and applauded everywhere and on
all occasions. Their healths would not have been re-
ceived in solemn silence at a public banquet ; there
would have been no need for them to keep as much out
of the way as possible—to shrink from merry meetings
and festivities, and to seek to silence the expression of
general indignation by retirement from the gaze of the
people and ignomici-me seclusion.
Yet, in defiance of public dissatisfaction, and in di-
rect contradiction to all that was passing around him,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in returning thanks
for the Ministry, with evident Irad taste assumed that
they enjoy the confidence of the nation. If the Coali-
tioetete feel convinced that they are not only popular,
but in high repute, why do they systematically avoid
anything likely to test the extent of their influence ?
Why did they keep all important questions in abeyance
whilst Parliament was sitting ? Why have they extended
the recess beyond its usual duration ? Why did they, in
a most extraordinary and unexampled way, absPnt thtn-
night ? These shuifiinge and evasions are Lot the acts
of men proud of the support cf the Legislature and of
the nation. If Ministers are indeed so firmly seated in
the affections of the community, why net show them-
selves a little ? A passing cheer or a stray encomium
would sound like music in their ears just now ; and they
are not made of such impenetrable stuff as not to be
pleased by cordial demonstrations. Popularity-hunting
is an old game with them ; in any direction would they
start in pursuit of the coy nymph. But they are bank-
rupt at last ; and seek to brazen out the matter. With
modesty they are over-burdened, nor is the Chancellor
of the Exchequer by any means an exception in this re-
-1 Tect. Quiet self-examination, and a proper attention to
the general feeling of the country, would have kept all
these men out of office. The most confirmed partisan

and placeman amongst them must perceive that they are
a Government without followers, a Cabinet existing. per
se. A division in the House of C9llltllollB would scatter
them in a moment. Strong, however, in their own self-
conceit, they seers' willing to act in defiance of prece-
dent and parliamentary custom. What are constitu-
tional safeguards or public censures to them ! "We
are men of talent and official experience," they de-
clare ; "connected by family ties," they might very
justly add Intolerable self-sufficiency is their bane.
They look upon themselves as heaven-born legislators.
Only twelve months ago, during a debate upon one
of Mr. Locke King's annual absurdities, Mr. E. P.
Bouverie gave a rather startling illustration of the fear-
ful extent to which this Coalition feeling of superiority
is carried. In the course of a not very eloquent speech
this gentleman sought to prove thatyounger sonsusualy
display greater energy and are blessed with a higher in-
telligence than their elder brethren. 'Dien followed the
names of certain celebrated men, the two Pitts, Wel-
lington, &c., who were younger sous ; and at length the
modest confession—the ridiculous t eaching upon the
sublime— that he himself, the orator, Mr. E. P. Bou-
verie, was elso a younger son. This vanity, this self-
laudation, may be good material for making Coalition-
ists; but. it is not the stuff out of which great statesmen
are made. With lofty merit there is usually a certain
amount of modesty ; it is only the impostor and the
charlatan who deem themselves infallible.
This is akin to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's as-
sertion that the Coalition enjoys the confidence of the
country. The meeting of Parliament is at hand, and
then most probably the delusion will be at once dispelled.
In the meantime we would counsel moderation and re-
flection to these misguided legislators. We would ad-
vise them not to mock at the devastation they have
wrought, by shutting their eyes to the evidence around
them. The legislature, the people, and the public press
have passed censure upon them ; an are demanding their
dismissal, and awaiting the accession to power of better
men, as the sole chance yet left us; and for these Minis-
ters, without support either in Parliament, in the
country, or from the public press, to assume that they
possess the confidence of the nation, is, to say the least,
a very senseless and unjustifiable proceeding. We do
not believe that any Government was ever so generally
condemned and despised, and if Lord Palmerston and
his colleagues question the truth of the assertion, we
refer them to those who have hitherto been their sup-
porters. From their lips they may hear some very dis-
agreeable but candid criticism, if they have only the
courage to makeithe necessary experiment.

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