The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-30 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1854.

The Observer, the Government organ of the
weekly press, yesterday announced that " A tele-
graphic despatch, with intelligence from the seat
of war in the East, reached the Foreign-Office
about 12 o'clock yesterday (Saturday), and was
immediately communicated to the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE (the Minister for War), the Earl of ABER-
DEEN, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, and the other Mi-
nisters in town. The despatches were also for-
warded to the QUEEN, at Windsor Castle, and to
the other Cabinet Ministers at Present absent from
London." We have no reason to doubt the ac-
curacy of this statement, or that, if Ministers
pleased, the doubts and fears by which the minds
of the people are disturbed might be set at rest by
the publication of trustworthy intelligence. It
seems, however, to be a part •f the recently
adopted system to withhold all information re-
specting the important and interesting events now
occurring in the Crimea. The latest official
tidings from the English authorities is to the
2sth of September, or four weeks and four days
ago ; and yet we know that Lieutenant lintity,
who arrived on the 22d instant, was the bearer of
despatches to the War-Office from Lord RAGLAN,
dated the 10th inst. ; and we have reason to be-
lieve that further d,espatches to the 18th or 190 h ar-
rived on Saturday. The public are thus deliberately
kept in the dark. They are yielded up as victims
to unconscientious speculators, who obtain enor-
mous profits by the circulation of entirely false or
grossly exaggerated rumours. This obstinate
silence is the more remarkable, inasmuch as it is
in direct opposition to the pledge voluntarily given
by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, and honourably re-
deemed so far as the publication of the earlier
despatches from Lord RAGLAN were concerned.
The first, of which Lord BURGIIERSII was the
bearer, and containing the official account of the
glorious victory of Alma, were very properly pub-
lished in a Gazette Extraordinary on Sunday, the
Bth instant. The next, containing particulars to
the 28th ultimo, including the brilliant flank
movement on Balaklava, were also published
without a moment's unnecessary delay. But
after that there was a total change of system ;
and the accounts since arrived have been delibe-
rately kept back.
The natural conclusion that would follow from
this contemptuous indifference to the public
wishes would be that the accounts had been of a
very disastrous character, which it was desirable
to suppress in order to avoid creating a panic in
the public mind, and that to avoid so great an
evil the plighted word of a Cabinet Minister
might be deliberately disregarded and his promise
broken. From the publication of General CAN-
ROBERT'S despatches we know, however, that this
is not the correct interpretation of the mystery.
Nothing untoward had occurred up to the 10th
instant which it was essential to keep back. We
must, therefore, seek another explanation, and
endeavour to find out who is the party really re-
sponsible for a matter of which we have not
ceased to complain since it was ascertained that
the despatches delivered by Lieutenant KIRBY
would not be communicated to the public.

We cannot believe that the fault is attributable
to the Duke of NEWCASTLE. With a very cre-
ditable desire to relieve the public solicitude his
Grace published an addition to the telegraphic
despatch which he had just received from Lord