The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-20 00:00:00

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
aro arranged in order of latitude.
TUNBRIDGI—S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. -
STROOD—N.E. gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—E., breeze—cloudless.
CAMBRIDGE—E. gentle breeze—cloudless.
YARNOLITII—S.i., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock :
ForAcEsToxx—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
TUNBRIDGE—N.B., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GREENWICH—S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SinitooD--N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
B/RMINGHAII—S.E., calm—cloudless.
HOLTIIDAD—S.,_gentIe breeze—fine.
DARLINGTON—N.E., gentle breeze —cloudless—frost.
SHAD— S.E. by E., calm—partially cloudy.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1854.

Doctor JOHNSON, among the many wise things
he said and wrote, once observed, " The King
who makes war on his enemies tenderly, distresses
his subjects cruelly." The reflection is just now
particularly worthy of remembrance. Especially
when the Prime Minister of England avowedly
adopts as his motto that of the Duke of LEEDS,
that motto of Pax in bello, expressive of a system
of warfare altogether relaxed and incompetent.
A very little time has elapsed since the First Lord
of the Treasury declared as much, almost in so
many words, when he asserted, in the House of Lords,
his determination to emulate the pious conduct
of the brave old Covenanter, of whom we are told
that he still muttered "Peace, Peace," while in
the act of buckling on his armour. That acknow-
ledgment, from the lips of Lord ABERDEEN, gives
the clue to the whole mystery of these systematic

delays in the carrying out of our warlike prepara-
tions. It accounts for everything that might
be otherwise inexplicable. It explains every
successive pause, every consecutive procrastination.
It proclaims the whole secret plainly enough for
anybody's apprehension. It proves that there
is really a " method" in the " madness" of al]
these distracting "delays, doubts, and hesitations.
Bearing the avowal of the Prime Minister of
England in remembrance, we can understood-at
once all, that might be otherwise entirely incom-
' prehensille. We can, for example, account for the
long waiting o£ our troops at Malta, after they
had once set out from home on their way towards
the DarcLanelles. We can detect the meaning of
this as well as of every other kindred show of
hesitation or indifference--ex, gr. the tarrying of
our chief .officers up to the latest possible, moment
before taking -their departure for the precon'
carted rendezvous—the protracted stay made by
the combined fleets in the Bosphorus--the absence
up to thi2; date of the 20th of April of any direct
communication between the military and mari-
time arm tments of the Western Powers and the
head-quauter.3 of OMER PACJIA in the Princi-
palities.
we repeat, is explained by the
avoEwveedrYv-ietv: of the Prime Minister of England,
the opinions notoriously
entertained by the Earl
of ABERDEEN and certain of his colleagues in the
Government. Are these the men for a time
of war? We doubt it. We doubt if thetarl of
ABERDEEN can be regarded as the fitting conser-
vator of the interests of the country, or of the
dignity of the Crown, at a period when England
is called upon, together with France, to aid Tur-
key in repelling the advancing barbarism of
Russia, and in fighting once for all the moment-
ous battle of civilisation. We question very
much whether the Earl of ABERDEEN is the states-
man, of all others now living, who ought at a
crisis like this to be placed at the head of the Ad-
ministration—the Earl of ABERDEEN, with his
notorious sympathies for the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg ! The Earl of ABERDEEN, the
admired and beloved of Louis PHILIPPE