The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-29 00:00:00

(Front the Morning Advertiser of this day.)

Great exertions will be made by Ministers and their
friends—now, happily, daily diminishing in number— to
defeat the motion of the member Sheffiield. Bat they
must not be permitted to succeed. It is indispensable
to the common weal that t':e motion be carried. No-
thing else can save the c.,untry. No attention must be
paid to promised modifications of the Ministry. No
doubt assurances will be given, in the course of this
evening's debate, that there wilt be a reconstruction of
the Cabinet ; but no reconstruction that theGovernmcnt
ca❑ undergo will meet the exigencies of the case. There
must be an entire change. The head of the Ministry
mu:4 go. Ws want a new head. That is the great ne-
cessity of the hour. With anything short of that, we
shall be just as badly off as we were. It is to the head
of the Government that we are to trace our manifold.
evils. Lord Aberdeen is the source of them ail. Any
changes, therefore, which would allow him to remain
where he is would leave matters substantially as they are.
He must be got rid. of. He is the grand evil, at the root
of which the axe must be laid. Mr. Roebuck's motion,
if carried, will eject the noble lord from the premiership,
and on that account every friend of his country to whom
an electoral body has confided the right of voting in Par-
liament must this evening give his support to the mem-
ber for Sheffield. •

It is right that the members of the House of Commons
should be especially reminded at this momentous crisis
that the country confidently expects that they will do
their duty. Our destinies are in their hands. They
will this evening have it in their power to decide whe-
ther we are to bo saved front the disgrace and ruin with
which we are menaced, or whether these evils are to
come upon us. Their vote this evening will either seal
the doom of the Premier, or afford him an opportunity
of deepening the dishonour, and adding to the injuries,
which he has already brought on the country. It be-
hoves, therefore, the members of the House of Com-
mons to be very careful how they act this evening. If
the vote of the House—which, however, we cannot be-‘
lieve to be possible—should be in opposition to Mr.
Roebuck's motion, and Lord Aberdeen, with all his
notorious Russian predilections, and forty years' friend-
ship for the Czar, be permitted to remain at the head of
affairs, they will incur both a moral and constitutional
responsibility, which may. well make them quail and
quake, and which they will, in all probability, have
cause, before long to regret, in a way and to an extent
in which they never before regretted any action of their
life. It will be well they should remember that there
are limits to the patience of the people. If our repro•
sentatives persist in doing what is notoriously wrong,
they must prepare for a speedy and severe day of reck-
oning.

The question is sometimes asked, by way of assigning
a reason for tolerating the present Ministry, " Who is
to succeed them ?" We are not at present called on to
answer the qeestion. Suffice it to say, that when they
are but others will be got to take their places. A worse
Aelministra,tion we cannot have. Come what changes
may, they must be for the better. Let any cne traverse
the length and breadth of the land in search of A Man
most manifest
eaa
c-
who would make a more incompetent Premier than the
nobleman who at .present fills that office, and he will
I, he
red
have to report, at the end of his jroou_rßntelYs:
an that p
been engaged in a fruitless search. To the
incapacity Lord Aberdeen unites p
tions of so marked a character that no one can mistake
them. Whoever, therefore, is to be the
,noble lord's suc-
cessor must needs be an improvement on nim. But there
can be no question that not only are better men than
Lion to be had, but that
,men of first-rate capacity can be
obtained. We_(rave often pointed out, one nobleman
who, notwithstanding the deleeti in his political charac-
ter which we have had so often to deplore, is just the
man for the hour. We should like to see Lord Palmer-
' stun in the Premiership, were his term of office only to
last so long as the present crisis continues. Let the
Sovereign summon him to her presence for the purpose
cf. receiving her Majesty's commands to form an Ad-
itimis,ration, and he will b:s able, before many days have
elapsed, to construct a Cabinet in whom the country
will have entire noafidell".