The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-26 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 26.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and daring the night.,
51—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.25.
WIND, Westerly, ranging from S S.W. to W.N.W. ;
1 ight, with fine cool weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1858.

The Times of this day, bears candid, but, per-
haps, unwilling testimony to the advantages
which the nation has derived from the recent
change of Government. It has, at length, dis-
covered that something may be gained by the dis-
placement of what they considered " a strong Ad-
ministration," width° concession of what they also,
ex cathedra, are pleased to term a weak one.
While "the penny whistles" were " frighting the
isle from its propriety" with shrill squeaks re-
specting the certainty of a retrograde policy ; the
worst the "Jupiter-tonatts " of Printing-house-
square could allege was that we should only obtain
a rechauftlis of dishes prepared by their predecessors
to suit the popular palate. We were not greatly
~T,RApd by these announcements. We could not
perceive anything terrible in the new men, taking
what was good from the old advisers. We cared
for measures, not men ; and so long as the public
business was conducted in a satisfactory manner,
it was of trivial importance by whom it was car-
ried on.

But now the Leviathan has a more serious
charge. The Derbyites have changed places
with the Palmerstonians. They have actually
effected within a few weeks what had
previously been grossly mismanaged, or totally
neglected. The French difficulty has been
satisfactorily arranged ; and now the Neapolitan
annoyance has been almost adjusted. The Delhi
prize-money placed on a satisfactory foundation ;
and the energetic and efficient services
of Sir HENRY LAWRENCE recognised. Ministers
may plead guilty to these charges. They need
not traverse any of the allegations. We reproduce
the bill of indictment, which, be it remembered,
proceeds from the Times. It is as follows :

"There is certainly this advantage in a change of
Ministry—that a whole string of popular demands
is likely to be at once conceded. The Government
are still bound by their Opposition speeches, and,
as an Opposition, of course they found fault with
the late Ministry and pointed out the necessity of
an entirely different policy. It is also a matter of
common prudence to begin by obtaining a little
popularity, which it is always in the power of a Go-
vernment to do if it will quite pedantry and rou-
tine for aseason. Then, the new men actually see
things in a different light from the old. No matter
how shrewd and comprehensive may be the judg-
ment of a politician, it is likely to be weakened by
five or six years' tenure of office. Every Govern-
ment must be more or less conservative, and from
resisting independent members of Parliament, and ,
baffling tkeir suggestions and inquiries, the states-
man SAA an actual love of differing from the
public att:r..., and having his own way in spite of
them. His successors, before they become offi-
cialieed, may be depended upon to reverse many of
the judgments to which he would have clung dur-
ing his whole career.
" The present Ministers have had the sense to
see that the country had become impatient of the
delicacy with which the King of Naples had been
treated. Lord Clarendon had naturally been led
into the policy of forbearance. When the Cagliari
was captured it was declared to be a piratical craft
and in Neapolitan waters. The English engineers
were on board, and must consequently be brought
to trial with the rest of the crew ; they might be
innocent, but the trial would be necessary to prcve
this and until they had gone before the Neapolitan
tribunals it would be against the law of nations to
interfere. This was considered at the time an un-
answerable argument, and there was nothing left
but to lie that Watt
and Park had a fair trial, if
any Neapolitan process can deserve that character.
But no sooner was it discovered by the King that
no interference would take placo thin the two
Englishmen were treated with every kind of harsh-
ness and contumely. They were kept in a wretched
prison, without sufficient change of clothes, and
were not allowed tocommunicate with their friends.
At last, in• the eighth month of their confinement,
they were brought to trial; but not until one of
them had been deprived temporarily of reason and
the other worn out by fatigue and sickness. It
might certainly have been well to interfere more
sternly when it became evident that the King was
violating the laws of natural justice, but the late
Cabinet had been committed to a temporizing
policy, and the cessation of diplomatic relations
with the Two Sicilies rendered it difficult to act.
it
is possible that the engineers might now be
inrewtheiiinerm
ieon hd a it not been for the advent of a
Ministry. Lord Karnes-
bury was able trinTrie:Taleeith a vigour from which
band
rhimself, and the
Lord Clarendon
result is that Watt has
health now
doubt, soon be
in England safe aMi irapre,i„i4td,a4tl is now
Park IS out on bail, and win, no
set completely at liberty.
I A matter of almost equal importance is the dis-
tribution of the
Delhi prize-money. We do not
indeed, say t
bat an old Ministry would have denied
the soldiers what so justly
. belongs to them, but
still a young
and
popularity seeking Government
act with more satisfactory prom pi t ode. The groat
exploit of the Indian war,
and mixed a force
the gallant siege and
assault in which so small
triumphed over such obstacles, is not to be re-
warded merely with six months' batta. We can-
not but think that the illiberality
of the iormer
aarrangementent would have been productive of the