The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-23 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1855.

Ministers have not after all profited greatly by
the ingenious device practised on Monday even-
ing. It has already produced very unexpected,
and by no means satisfactory results. The aban-
donment of his position by Mr. MILNER GIBSON
has brought a new and more doughty champion
into the field. Yes ; Mr. DISRAELI, albeit, at

the eleventh hour, has at length shaken off his
apparent apathy, and has flung down the gauntlet

to Ministers. He has long played the waiting
game—has given an ample supply of rope to his
political opponents: The anticipated result has
followed in due course. They have recklessly
sacrificed their own reputations, and laid sacrile-
gious hands on their own characters as public
men ! The only matter to be regretted is that
the retribution should have been so long deferred
—that they should have been permitted to play
such " fantastic tricks before high Heaven" for
so protracted a period with impunity. In fact,
Mr. DISRAELI played too fine a game. He en-
dangered his own position from too great
forbearance. The Fabian policy is very well

in its way, but it may be carried too far. It is
dangerous when it occasions equal mischief to
friends as to enemies, when calculated to produce
a general disgust towards all parties, to create a
universal feeling similar to that of the dying par-
tisan, when he emphatically prayed—

" A plague on both your Houses."
We shall, however, be quite willing to accord a
complete amnesty if the night ll,)nourable Gen-
tleman at length display the vigour and energy
so long laid aside, and if he bring the momentous
question to a determinate issue even before the
vacation. •

Everything now promises a decisive contest.
There can be no doubt that the motion is equiva-
lent
to a vote of censure on Ministers. It has
been accepted as such, and on the division, which
in all human probability must take place during
the present week, will depend not merely the
fate of the Cabinet, but the honour and wel-
fare the United Kingdom ; aye more, the
freedom of the world from Cossack domination.
Under
thet v
he elderee _Drorn,io, the ABERDEEN Govern-
ment,Had. theel of the State " drifted into war.''
slightest
thdegree of vigour or energy been
exhibited when
firstc hints were thrown out
as to the division of ,
i:he sick man's" assets—had
the earlier aggressie
been promptly and de-
cidedly repelled—had we
not continued
and
ccontinued "waiting
for Austria," truckling to
showing that we still suffered the
goodship
to
remain under the control and management of
I
inefficient pilots, we should altogether
have I
escaped, or long since terminated. the serious
evils already sustained. The People now clearly
understand the
price paid for a Coalition Ministry.-
They also perceive the more formidable peril now
impending—that the State play " drift into an
ignominious peace "—that a hollow and illusory
truce may be patched up, fatal, in the first in-
tal'ee, to our faithful Ally ; in the next, to the
prestige and influence nay more, the security, of
the United Kingdom, '
a •
for the temporary benefit of
Coburg-Germanism,
_ _ .

Mr. DISRAELI cannot now avoid the conflict
Which he has
provoked-i-eannot recall the gage