The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

WIND W.S.

DAILY • 'NEAT HEE TABL

iftate of the Wind and liVeathezi• zt, each of the following
pti4.4r. at Nine o'c7oek yesterday Tuorning.—The stations
sr' arranged in order of latitude.

EA117:10:•••••Wind lr2sh breeze—overcast.
Eo untAmFros—Wind S.. strong breeze—rain.
FOLKP:47:O2.TH—ind. S., light airs—rain.
Tirsalitricis—',iina E., Anti° breez3 --overcast.
ottEEss.,l, Win 0 E.. strong breeze—rain.
t,Tll.oois....Willd W., Calrrifoggy.
floixiii.An— Wind S , gentle breeze—rain.
Snap—. Wine. E., calm—overcast.
I,f.aTroca—Wind S., strong breeze—cloudless.
Ile returns tram tus tollogin..7 places indicate the state of
the wild and wnithsr on Saturday morning at nthe

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%In:4 breeze-_heavy rain.

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tlo bree7.e.--partially cloucty.

N. tv., gentle bre,!:...e—principally clear.
BHArrovg— Wind gentle bucze•—overcast.

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claiming them again and again upon every available
opportunity—least of all shall we refrain from de-
manding for them the homage of the gratitude and
admiration of the multitude, now that Lord JOZN
RUSSELL is no longer in the proud position of First
Minister of the Crown of England, now that that
eminent man and his colleagues are denied the prero-
gatives and relieved from the responsibilities of go-
vernment. Henceforth, therefore, as we have already
rr.peatedly insisted, and as we still at this moment
insist with no less than all our former emotions of
carnestness—henceforth it will be remembered by the
people, and asserted by the historians of Great Britain,
that the RUSSELL Cabinet was great in 1847, when
resisting the simultaneous advance of the twin
demons of Famine and Pestilence, and in 1848

when opposing its energies to the wiles of Anarchy
of Revolution. The recollection of
theseanri thtiemfersevD,zY will never fade horn the remembrance of
the population so long as moral courage and Minis-
terial skill can be in the smallest degree appreciated.
It can never be forgotten that in those terrible junc-
tures the political ()Ousts of 1852 where in undis-
puted svcendancy—end, whatever may be said iu his
disparegement under other considerations, either by
curselves or by those who sympathise with us in
opinion, Lord JOHN RussLu can never be deprived
of the very enviable renown of having occupied at that
crisis the lofty andresponsMe post of Prime Minister
of England, in which capacity upon each of those
specified occasions he acquitted himself—the world
knows it, and history will attest it—as 'became the
Leader of the British Government !

Yet, apart from 1847 and the Famine, apart from
1848 and the Revolution, justice compels us to speak
no less decidedly of the legislative short-comings, and
of the administrative incapacity of the RUSSELL Ca-
binet, in the most stern and uncompromising language
of indignation. Vigorous administrators though the
members of that Cabinet showed themselves to be
when confronted with a dread and awful calamity, or
when threatened by a sinister and menacing insurrec-
tion, they proved themselves for the most part, at
other times and under circumstances, to be shuffiers
in the Chambers of legislation, and incapables in the
offices of Government. They were traitors to the
cause to which they had pledged themselves while
still numbered amongst the ranks of the Opposi-
tion. The friends of Reform out of power—in
power they were its most bitter and systema-
tic antagonists. Hansard from 1846 to 1851
inclusively yields unfortunate evidence of this in a
thousand particulars. It was in consequence of the
disgust inspired by this shameless treason to those who
had been hitherto their most devoted supporters that
the ex-Ministers found themselves at last, after nearly
six years barren tenure of office, thrust out of place,
pension, and prerogative, and compelled to make room
for more worthy successors to the pomps and respon-
sibilities of Administration. Under this aspect of af-
fairs, the DERBY Ministry was inaugurated—and in
pursuance of the astonishing and inexplicable system
of politics to which we have before alluded, the mem-
bers of that Consarvative Cabinet have no sooner found
themselves fairly organized into a regular Government
than they reveal their readiness to forward, one after
another in rapid succession, a series of liberal end
comprehensive innorations. Having virtually placed
themselves at the outset of their administrative efforts
in accord,with the great mass of the Free-traders con-
stituting the majority of the inhabitants of Great
Britain, t& DERBY Ministers have already frankly
intimated their willingness to carry a variety of re-
markable reforms-through Parliament. They have
declared themselves in favour of reforms in regard
to national education, of reforms in regard to ssni-
tary improvements, of reforms in regard to the better
equalization of the ter.es, of reforms in regard to the
abuses of Chancery, in regard to those of the .liecltsi-
astieal Courts, and in regard to the evils militating
against the existing system of colonial and financial
organization. Scarcely half a year has :elapsed
since their names were gazetted in February,
and they have already contrived to break
down some of the venerable and destructive mechanism
of the Court of Chancery—to secure a new and more
effective Extramural Interments Bill to the metro-
polis—to prepare an extended scheme of militia,
whereby these islands might be less perilously placed
in the event of any invasion—to direct the commercial
energies of the nation into the fruitful, but hitherto
almost unpenetrated, regions of South America—ha
adopt active measures for the encouragement of those
fisheries in the Atlantic which h,a 1,
abandoned to the mast shameful and uninterrupted
depredationt—and to bring about a variety of changes
in other and not less scattered directions, auguring
well for the libt rality of the character of
their projected hut still unannounced policy !
And so the chrysalis of a Tory Cable et
expands into the full-blown butterfly of a reforming
and enlightened Administration ! It is well. The
couptry still as ever awards its confidence to the
Men, according to the satisfaction inspired by the
nature of the Measures. And thus the jealousy
with which the Earl of DERBY and his colleagues
were not unnaturally regarded in February is al•
ready giving way in October to eager and, in some
directions, confiding expectation.

It was remarked by Liv; after all the malignant
aspersions that had been indulged in upon the same
subject by preceding annalists, that ALEXANDER, in
his Asiatic expedition, did nothing more than per-
servere in his noble and well-conceived enterprise,
despite of idle remonstrances—" Nil aliud qudm bene
ausus vana contemnerer Let the PRIME MINISTER so
act that the future historian may speak in like terms
of his enterprise—an enterprise not of spoliation, but
of good government—and his advent to power will
be remembered not ES a curse, but as a blessing, not
as a barrier in the path of the national progress, but
as an appreciable impulse to the great onward move-
ment of civil:zstion.

Governor-General of India, actually went to the seat
of war to cur on the slow and dilatory General. His
eft-aloe, as v/3 shall presently show, was against tie
wait-a-while polley (or irnpDlicy) of el:•.tal
GODWIN.

The commander commanding the naval forces (Us-
! patched a flotilla of five light steamers, commanded
by Captain TARLETON, to survey the river Irrawaddy
as far as the city of Prorne (which is half-way to
Ava, the terminus of the campaign), and to ascer-
tain the position and proceedings cf the
enemy. " General GODWIN," continues the dispatch,
" appears to have been opposed to the proceeding."
The Friend of India remarks on the want of cor-
diality and co-operation between the naval and
tary commanders, and says that, therefore, the com-
modore was " obliged to undertake this enterprise,
not only without any co-operation, but amid much
disapprobation." But whet was the result ?—Cap-
tain TARIATON advanced to A-kouls-toung, the
point where the Burmese force for the citftnce of
Procne was posted (origleall: 40,000 men, with 35 heav3
guns, commanding the channel, which is there 400
or 500 yardi wide),---slipped past this dangerous= posi•
tion, through a channel pointed out by a friendly
native (the bulk of the natives aro friendly), went et,
to Prorne, end there captured 23 pieces of ordnance,
and might uninterruptedly have gone on to Ave,—
returned to A-kouk-toung, when he found the
Burmese army confusedly advancing to the
rescue of Prome,—captured and destroyed between
40 and 50 boats containing warlike stores,—
landed at the abandoned works of A-koula-tong,
and there captured 28 dismounted cannons, making
56 guns taken on the expedition. He had been ex-
pressly forbidden to ascend to Ava—a place then
utterly defenceless, and the capital of the empire !
The Commodore (and the result shows that he was
right) had guaranteed to land 5,000 men at Prune,
within five days, " but it is understood that General
GODWIN was desirous of an undivided triumph, and
that he considered the advance should be made en-
tirely by land, and declined the responsibility of
moving forward until the dry weather had set in, and
the force under his command had been trebled." And
so, that this .old man may have "an undivided tri-
umph," 20,000 troops, with artillery, are to march
overland from Rangoon to Ava, a distance of 500
miles at least, which will occupy some weeks, proba-
bly leaving a third of this force on the way (whereas
the steamers could easily convey them in a few days,
without the slightest interruption from the enemy),
and must await dry weather and triple increase in
numbers.

The Governor- General is stated to have adopted the
go-ahead views of the Commodore (so well borne out
by the success of Captain TARLEToN's expedition) in
preference to the wait-awhile policy of the aged
General. The question is, what will he do ? Lord
DALHOUSIE is said to have asked for the immediate
occupation of Prome; General GODWIN to have
declined being responsible for any movement until
December. It appears doubtful which will be
determined on—advance or delay. It might be.
thought that Lord DALHOUSIE, as Governor-General,
should be able to carry on the war as he pleases, but
he actually cannot supersede the aged commander
whom he appointed, with whore conduct he has
reason to be dissatisfied—the Government at home,
it seems, alone can do this. All the accounts from
India are unanimous in the opinion that the troops
now on the spot are sufficient for the conquest of
Burmah, provided the dash be made at once. We
trust, if victory is to crown our arms in the East,
that the great obstacle—the aged GODWIN—may
forthwith ba put upon the shelf.
The conquests of NAPOLEON were achieved by
young leaders, taken, for merit, out of the line of
seniority. Whe❑ he himself was appointed General
of the Army of Italy, at the age of six-and-twenty,
end one of the Directory commented on his youth,
the reply was, " In six months I shall be a dead man
or an old general." Even in the case of our own
WELLINGTON, had seniority alone been the rule, he
would not have commanded in India, over the heads
of senior officers, nor have been trustedito leed the
army of the Peninsula. Where seniority forms the
chief, if not the only qualification, it ought to be set
aside, and command entrusted to more vigorous,
more youthful, and more determined men. Is it

likely that a General of the Namn, or HARDINGE
stamp would have determined, after a firat defeat of
the enemy, to whit vaZuily for four or fcvA months
("rem Aurrn=l tr. December), ;27 order to obtain "an
undivided triumph" by means of an accession of
military force, declining the naval aid actually
as%ii.lable on the spot ? The original error (pointed
out at the time) was the appointment of such a❑ old
mm E.% General GODWIN, simply because he was old,
and had served in the former BurmeEe war. The
way to correct that error is to recal him, and place
the command in the hands of a soldier better fitted,
by years and temperament," to lead our troops to im-
mediate contest and triumph.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of,yesterday.
The Government has received the following tele
graphic dispatches :

" Montpellier, Oct. 1, Half•past Two P.M.
" The Prince arrived at the terminus at half•past
twelve. He was received -amidst cries, a thou-
sand times repeated, cf " Vivo I'Empereur !"
The crowd was immerse on his passage, and
the people were animated with an indescribable
enthusiasm. From the railway the Prince went
to the cathedral, where he was received by the
Bishop, at the head oi his clergy. The Prince has just
entered the prefecture, where a bouquet and grapes
were offered to him amidst cries of • Viva l'Euipereurr
by a group of young girls dressed in white."

"Four P.X.
" The Prince Las just been present at On siege of
the citadel. He was received, as in the morning, with
unanimous cries of Vise l'Empereurr The filing off
of the communes is beginning at thePeyrou."_