The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

nacy of statesmen only as the delaying cause o

domestic improvements. The stupidity of Lords
in office was provoking ; still it was not ruinous.
We could wait awhile till the tide rose sufficiently
high for the Dame PARTINGTONS of Downing-
street to throw down their mops in despair ; and
some will have it that Catholic Emancipation,
Parliamentary and Municipal Reform, the Repeal
of the Corn Laws and Free Trade, were all the
better relished and digested because of the lone
chase we had had to catch them. It is even
asserted, in defiance of THOMAS CARLYLE, that
statesmen must always lag behind their people, it
being their business to introduce and carry out
the measures for which public opinion is ripe.

Whether Mr. CARLYLE be right for times of
peace or not, we will leave him and the Repub-
licans to settle ; but for the time of war no ques-
tion but his CROMWELL is the model man. The
present moment shows the correctness of Prince
ALBERT'S and Mr. HALLAM'S judgment, and their
delicate and exquisite taste ix excluding his statue
from those which were to commemorate, in the
Senate House, the governors of England. What
blushes, if statesmen can blush, has the exclusion
spared. When any of our Cakineteers, or their
underlings, were lourishing away about carrying
on the War " with vigour," what a speech would
it have been for Mr. ROEBVCK only to have
pointed to the statue of CROMWELL. The mere
imagination of such an administrator in charge of
the Russian war,—with our mechanical means,
our ships, and our soldiers and sailors of the same
stuff as when lie smote with them the despots of
his age, as with " The ervuill of th© LORD and
GIDEON "--verily it must have forced their little-
ness, littleness both of mind and heart, upon
their own sight. We must have Ministers ade-
quate to the occasion in war, however we may
make shift with waiters on public opinion in
peace. Money is flowing out like a river, and
disease and the rifle destroying valuable lives by
thousands, while one Minister prates of peace like
the first JAMES, and another tries to be as witty
as the Second CHARLES.. Timidity and humour,
however, will not purpose to bring Russia to her
knew.,, to convert her stolen territories into an
eternal bulwark against her barbarous ambition,
and make our soldiers and sailors feel that they
are sent out by the enemy's hearty enemy, and
superintended by a mind alert to everything which
could harass the foe.

All our Ministers in this War have been miser-
ably behind their work, because they have been s
behind the people. Their paltry policy has para-
lysed what ability they had. Had they shared
the people's wishes they would have been other
men. Think or Lord PALMERSTON, the Prince's
German connexions not obstructing him, scouting
an Austrian alliance with the same contempt as
his countrymen—think of him resolved to omit
not a march or a cruise which could harass the
aggressor—think of him seeking every honest
ally, Poles, Swedes, Circassians, all who had
smarted under the butcheries, conscriptions, or
oppressions of Russia—think of him determined
that not a naval or military force should be
wanted adapted to each locality attacked—ima-
gine such a purpose in the mati, and can we
doubt that by this time not only Sweaborg, but
Oronstadt itself, would have been shattered by
our gun-boats and mortars ;,. Sweden would have
\ joined us, seeing us determined to resuscitate
Poland ; and in the Black Sea our. unopposed
nuvy -would have laid in ruins._ every town and
.fortress within -reach of shot and shell.
Generals and admirals always catch the spirit of
the Minister they Serve. CROMWETL'S command-
era imbibed his spirit Lord T) ;ALMERSTON'S have
caught his. The fault is in the man from whom
' they take their orders... We are confident we
have BLAKEs and InEron now. but they want a
vp:QgwLL at this end of the electric
liefftsraplif
telegraph.
cihb,..;• imagine a flow of suctge.i-
Hearty
. of
soul-stirring
congratulations for Success, thrilling
along the mysterious wires ; why, under
such inspiration, there, is nothing which
our
brave tars and their comrades ashore would not

accomplish.
England is hearty, bat England's Ministers
are heartless. This is the account of the,
vole pOiition: It explains money and men,
Oships and guns, superabundantly offered and pro-
vided ; it also explains—everything too late—
routine commanders—Lords and striplings pro-
nioted and rewarded with good-service pensions—
merit dying unhonoured, and living unused
Indian troops and officers thrown aside for the
silliest etiquette—Austria in the Principalities—
Russia each year unhurt in the Baltic till too late
to.follow it up, and spared in the Black Sea till
our soldiers have felt it twice in LIPRANDT'S
cavalry, guns,
and rifles—Poland despised while
eager to fight for us, and Austria caressed while
befooling
A. heartless Government explains
it all.

WI 4Pea"'then again, as we have done before,
to an honest.hearted people. not cajoled
eitiet`Wtlle;l6`ithr, ditegnatilig-Minitterial prcles-
slows of vigour, or by-the cunning of the Cobden.
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