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

TAKING UP IN BOW-STREET.

Private Carriages waiting to take up in Bow-street will form along
the south side of Great Russell-street, Covent-garden Market, Hen-
rietta-street, and C;,andos-street, entering by St. Martin's-lane,
keeping clear all crossings, and, after taking up, will drive off by
Long-acre.
TAKING UP IN THE PIAZZA.

Private Carriages waiting to take up will form on the south and
west sides of Covent-garden Market, close to the EoundarY line, and
on the south side of King-street, entering by New-street and tit.
Martin's-lane, and, after taking up, will draw off by James-street
and Long-acre.
RICNIA.RD MAYNE,
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Office of Metropolitan Police, Jan. at, 1835.

DRI7RY-LANE.—Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.--
Reduced Prices as tuual.—A Horning Performance every
W4'4'14,54117. at Two o'clock.
THIS ETENING, ne. 2,
Wnl be Performed the Drama of TEE WEDDING GOWN.
After which, the rfroo of OUR NURSE DOROTHY.
To conclude with the Pantomime of JACK and JILL.

of NEWCASTLE to the charges preferred against his
administration. We have aIIN •ays protested against
the Noble Duke being made t ho " scape-goat " for
matters for which he could not fairly be held re-
sponsible, the victim for the sins of others. He
has certainly clearly shown that there was no
want of industry on his laart—none of that
"carelessness "or " indiffer( ce," that would in-
deed be truly discreditable. That he has acted
to the best of his ability is mapdfest, and we fear
that even that "ability " has been materially cur-
tailed by the conduct of others. Lord .ABERDEEN,
not the Duke of Nrive.AsTtn,, was the real delin-
quent, and on his head should the well-merited
retribution bo visited.

Thus it was with the DuTito, whose 'e commend-
able ambition" led to his :appointment to the
War-office. He freely declared, on the separation
of the departments over which he had previously
presided, that he was prepared to hold " either or
neither office." He did not therefore create the diffi-
culty. There is no doubt that the vast experience
of Lord PALMERSTON would have been fully ap-
preciated by the nation, and that his appointment
would have been the most popular and most bene-
ficial that could have been made. But the fault
was not that of the Noble Duke. He only yielded
to the unanknous requests of his colleagues, and it
would be unreasonable to cast all the blame
on him. Although there may be adequate
grounds for the Duke of NISI/VCASYLB sur-
rendering the seals of the War Department,
there nothing to prevent him from serving her
MAJESTY in some other department, where his
unquestionable assiduity and high ability may be
useful, although be'has failed in the War-office.
We believe that it is the result of the system
rather than of the individual, and we regret that
the victim thereof, should. 'be one pessessed of so
many meritorious qualities. as th e late Secretary
1 for War.

No Ministry can dare to continue the late
administration of the War. The verdict of Mon-
day night will put anji• new Cabinet on its mettle.
The War Minister had better live in rustic) quiet
than grasp the reins if he want the Itrength and
skill to use them. We almost wonder, indeed,
that any set of men dare stop into tho vacant
posts. The disasters to be retrieved are so great,
the vengeful obstructiveness of self-sufficient and
thwarted officials will be so difficult to overcome,
the impatience of the nation to see the whole
course of things put promptly into a new train so
exacting, that a man had need be justly conscious
of no ordinary knowledge and rapacity to un-
dertake just now higher offices connected
with the War. Sone of the worst blunders
are indeed in prccess of rectification, but
there will be new demands yet on that
foresight and pre-arrangement for contin-
gencies which ought to have been looked for, but
which has been so singularly wanting in the late
War Ministers, and., in truth, in the whole Cabi-
net. The Minister who again has to rest on the
plea of non putdrom can hardly survive conviction
of the first offence. The last set have been turned
out for inability to foresee and provide, and their
successors must expect even less indulgence. We
cannot afford to send a second army to the grave
or the hospital.
There is, however, some danger of the more
pressing want of the hour absorbing attention too
exclusively. However Lai the conduct of the
War, so far as it depended on the two War Mini-
sters, its conduct in the higher sense, for which
the Premier and the whole Cabinet are respon-
' sible, is equally bad. No terms are too strong
for deneuasing all the spring and summer dealings
with -Russia. Lord ABEMDPIPLY and his colleagues
have been guilty in reality of the treachery for
which poor BYNG was no doubt unjustly shot.
They deliberately carried on war on the principle
of hurting the enemy as little as possible. To let
alone the Baltic question, the conduct of the War
en our part in Turkey and on the Danube was
imbecility itself. Not till nearly nine months
after the passage of the Pruth was war declared
against Russia. The former event tcok place on
the 2d of July, 1853 ; the latter on the 28th of
March, 1854. Ii is difficult now to believe that
we tolerated such supineness. During that period
(November 30, 1853) occurred the horrible mas-
sacre at Sinope. Then indeed our fleet, which
had hitherto kept at respectful distance, did enter
the Black Sea ; yet even then entered it
with orders to salute the Russian flag, while
the Russian navy was to be required to keep at
home. War was not yet declared, therefore our ad-
mirals were to treat the savage enemies of our
ally with becoming courtesy. And oven after
the declaration of war, mercy to Russia seemed
the ruling principle. Odessa was left, after a
harmless bombardment, to capture the Tiger, to
forward troops to the Danube, and afterwards to
send the same troops to Inkerman. A few of the
weakest Circassian forts only were destroyed. No
blockade was enforced, as our merchants know to
their cost ; our soldiers and sailors were pining
for something to do—and there was plenty to do
—but Russia was spared. Lord ABBRDERN and
his Cabinet were not in earnest. They consulted
the dignity and the feelings of the CZAR, when
they were bound to have smitten him without
mercy on every accessible part. They ought to have
denuded the coasts of the Black Sea of everything
Russian, and they might easily have done it. It
would have kept up the health and spirits of the
squadron. There was one commander there who
only wanted the order, and to be put in the place
of the easy-going DITSDAig, and. he would have
Feffected all his country wished in a trice.
But all has been of a piece from the commence-
, meat. Diplomacy when we should have been at
war, and war to hurt the enemy as little as pos-
sible, when unsparing vigour was the one essen-
tial. Consideration for the dignity of Russia !
fear of humbling her er irritating her too muck !
principles of ABEADERN
—these were the cardinal
war policy. All which seemed better at last was
due to the pressure from without, not to ABER-
DEILN. Our readers well know what we be-
lieve to be the chief cause of all this. Ouic
Primo Minister was A willing tool of the
Coburgs and the pro-Russian despots of Ger-
many. To this we trace the dilatory, Rua-
sianised management of the War. The cousins
on the Continent are bound up with the accursed
system of which NICSOLAS is the hoed. An inter-
married net-work of Royalties surrounds all free-
dom with its meshes. Burst the net anywhere,
and the people may tear the whole to pieces.
This is the dread of all the puppet-princes, of the
greater ones too, and of all the Royal families of
other countries into which they have married. Our
own aristocracy, in too many instances, sympa-
thises in a measure with them, and nothing but
the force of events will make this a war for the
emancipation of nations.

Now, we warn the incoming Government not
to palter with their country on the general con-
duct of the War any more than to neglect so
shamefully its administration. If they do, they
also will soon be turned out by a two to one
majority. Administration was the immediate
question this time ; but the next time, all that
having been put to rights, the question will be,

THE SUN, LONDOI 4, FRIDAY JRVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1855.