The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1855.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

For the last- two or three months the manage-
ment of the Gazette seems to have got into new
hands, since which it has been delayed in its pub•
lication for upwards of an hour beyond the
usual time, whether by design, ignorance, or in.

competency we know not. The inconvenience to

the public at large -# the commercial, mili••
tart', and naval—has become matter of greats
complaint and loss. Whose fault it i:t

we know not, but the culprit will be brought to
the bar of public opinion early next week, and
answer for his misconduct, unless he speedily

mend his ways.—En. Sun.
[The above appeared in our Third Edition of
last evening. The object of the mano3uvre would

seem to be to prevent the evening papers from
supplying the public all over the United Kingdom
with the Gazette as usual for the last thirty years.
We shall see.]

The new Premier has stumbled over the very
first impediment that opposed his progress. He
has appealed to the popular branch of the Legis-
lature to rescind its former vote—its deliberate
and decisive vote—to stultify itself by surrender-
ing its functions into the hands of an Adminis-
tration, so similar in every respect to that just
expelled by an overwhelming majority, that no
disinterested or unprejudiced person can recog-
nise any distinction. The Syracusan DRONITO an-
ticipates the support denied to his brother. Al-
though no difference can be discovered on the
closest inspection, although microscopic scrutiny
fails to identify the real Simon Pure, the nation
is called upon to repose unlimited confidence in
the one which was refused to the other. We have
a repetition of the Shaksperian dialogue, when
the elder born and more effete of the two ex-
claims—

"I, sir, am Dromio, command him away !"
anti the other exclaims—
"l, sir, am Dromio, pray let me stay."

The permission will, however, depend on the
energy and efficiency of the new servant, and we
must see sufficient grounds before we repose that
ample reliance, that unhesitating confidence so
modestly demanded. Lord PALMERSTON was
expected to display a vigour and energy adequate
to the emergency. He has, however, in place of
exhibiting any originality, gone back to the con-
demned, and we had hoped obsolete, recipes.
" Commission, commission, commission," was
the -Whig pan'acea ; and the new Doctor adopts
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c'itx prescription, in all its integrity.
He is,
fact, to parody a rhetorical figure
applied to the old Lords of the Pale
—" more red-tapist than red-tapism itself."
There must, i
all probability, be a consider-
able rise' in consequence of the increased de-
mand—and a suitable supply
of the raw material
of Commissioners will become a question of no
ordinary interest. The nation will not, however
so easily dispense with the requiredinvestigation,
It must be fairly and bona fide carried out, with-
out fear, favour, or affection, the public good
being tho only object aimed at. The names
already suggested, viz., Messrs. ROEBUCK, LAYARD,
and DRUMMOND, Sir J. PAXTON, Lord STANLEY,
and Messrs. ELLIcz, DIsRAELI, WHITESTDE,
BUTT, Low; and MILES, appear to have been
very impartially selected, so that no reason-
able objection can be made. If the House
of Commons shows itself to be resolute and per-

severing—if it resolves that its former verdict,

solemnly and deliberately returned, shall not be
5 izg t Aside on merely formal grounds—the new
r',,
rftniermust bow to the decision. There is no
11/4',.:;.ANiclinl:lAs to his yersatility and genius. He has
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