The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS.

THE COALITION " BYGONES."
(From the Morning Herald.)

"Let bygones be bygones." -
There are two lights in which this remarkable appeal
requires to be contemplated—namely, 'the ineffable mean-
ness of those who can make it a second time, and the
equally ineffable folly which those who make it must
attribute to the persons whom they think capable of
being gulled by it.
It is, in fact, an affront to the common sense of the
nation, similar to that which we have before recorded in
the complaint of an Irish alderman against a certain
Lord Lieutenant of that country—namely, that' the
" Viceroy insulted his intellect by the traneparenoy of
the untruths he told him."
Lord Derby said—and the sentiment was worthy of
himself and the party he represented—that "he would
not be a Minister on sufferance." What are we to think
of a Coalition which would persuade the nation to per-
mit of their continuance in office out of contemptuous
pity ? The meanness of the appeal is patent. Let us
come to the folly of those who could accede to it.
Let bygones be bygones ! What are those bygones ?
1. An attempt to prevent the possibility of the French
alliance by gross abuse of the Emperor and nation.
2. Credulity or connivance with regard to Russian
aggressions.
3. A year and a half wasted in absurd, if not treacher-
ous, negociations.
4. An army sent out without preparation as a demon-
stration.
5. Au army left four months at Varna, to die of
cholera.
6. An expedition sent to the Crimea, to gull Parlia-
ment, iu the fall of the year, when the winter was com-
ing—the force not being one•half the strength required
to do the work.
7. An array left without any reinforcements till it is
too late to send them for any other purpose than to save
the lives of those who are compromised.
8. A war on 'whiCh the liberties of Europe depend
starved to indulge a financial crotchet.
• 9. Permission to a false ally to destroy our own troops
by paralysing the action of a sincere one.
10". Neglect to furn;sh our troops with, hospital neces-
saries, or even surgeons, and leaving them till far into
the winter without clothes and without proper food.
11. Pushing the war into the winter, and thereby
losing in one gale of wind 32 transports, and damaging
our men-of-war, "

12. Those proceedings have .cost us in all, 20,000 of
the best soldiers of the world, and left us on, the Ist of
December as- far from eur object, the taking of Sebas-
topol,. as we were on the Ist of. September.
These are S. few, and only a few, of the bygones we
are expected to forget L-and that without a single proof
that Ministers even possess a determination to do better
in future. Really, the Dublin alderman had not half as
good cause of complaint as the British public.
Fancy the bowl of the TimeB had Lord Derby's Go-
vernment made a plea of let "bygones be bygones."
Why, they are not yet forgiven, and never will be, their
conscientious opposition to the bubble of free trade, al-
though eight years have elapNed ; and time, with wheat
at 808. a quarter, has proved that they were perfectly

in the right.
Our Ministry have net even given up their crochet of
robbing Turkey to pace the Principalities in the hands
of the Power which has directly caused all our losses in
the Crimea.
If they have, what means the ominous sentence which
we'quote from the Aberdeen organ?
"Better would it be fur the Porte to lose altogether
provinces which it has ceased to govern, and cannot af-
ford to defend, than to hold them by so precarious a