The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1358.

The Ministerial arrangements are yet inccm-
plete. Indeed complications have arisen that
render the foriaation of a Cabinet a work of
gloater difficulty than had been anticipated. It
is said that Mr. GLADSTONE and the Aberdeenites
are coy, that they have rejected all overtures from
the Derbyite camp, and are determined to remain
neutral—at least for the time being—until they
can perceive the most beneficial terms for them-
selves. We confess that, in our opinion, Lord
DERBY has suffered no great loss in the rejection
of his offers by Mr. GLADSTONE. We fully re-
cognise his extraordinary eloquence and general
ability, but unfortunately the obstinacy with
which he maintains his own peculiar crotchets is
equally notorious. He will not yield on any
point, and must virtually be the dictator of any
Ministry with which he is connected, although
nominally filling a subordinate position. His
views on the Income Tax and Bank Charter Act
are alike opposed to equity and expediency, and
ought to prove fatal to any Ministry by which
they are promulgated. We should entertain
hopes of beneficial legislation from the Dabyites,
who are made of squeezable materials, but th,s,
would be greatly deteriorated if Mr. GLADSTONE
occupied an influential position as head of the
financial department.
So many rumours are in circulation that it is
impossible, as yet, to speak with any degree of
certainty respecting the future arrangements. Mr.
DISRAELI will, of course, be Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and we confess that we greatly prefer
him in that department to Mr. GLADSTONE.

" Protection" has been consigned to the " tomb of
eat tho c.pulets r' The monster can never be
resuscitated under any circumstances, and we
should be glad to hear " a financial scheme" sub-
mitted by the Conservative Leader in the House
of Commons, just to compare it with the Whig
bantlings, for which Lord OVERSTONE stood spon-
sor, and many of which were framed under his
inspection. We say this because the fate of the
new Government will always remain in the hands
of the people. Lord DEIC.BY will only hold office
"dam se bens ge3serit," or on " good behaviour,"
as it is termed in the vernacular. It will be
utterly useless to attempt the formation of a
Cabinet unless he is prepared to accede to
the reasonable requirements of the community.
A. large and comprehensive measure of Re-
form has been promised by Lord PALMERSTON.
It must be carried during the present session, and
any,ttempt at evasion, or even procrastination,
will be strictly scrutinised. The ex-Premier kept
his secret ; not an inkling of the nature of the bili
was suffered to ooze out. He can thus rise in
his biddings when the proper time arrives. But
this"we say, and all the competitors may accept the
hint, that unless "the ballot" be included,
nothing else will be acccpted. In office any of
the rivals might neglect its claims ; but when

sweet sweet voices" of the electors, it is no harm
there are three candidates seeking
to allude to the talisman that will give success to
". the most
the \
Ballc, traypa by which it is first grasped. " The
will prove the Enchanter's wand on the
present occasion, ensuring a triumph to its pos
a eeSer.
On this point of reform there can be no-delay

or procrastination. A Fabian policy cannot and '
will not be tolerated. The first interrogatory to
be exhibited to the new leader of the House of
Commons, whoever he may be, will relate to that
all-important topic, and should he refuse to re-
turn a clear, distinct, and unequivocal answer, a
trial of strength may fairly be demanded. This
rough lesson will teach the new Government that
the popular will must be respected, and that it
can neither be shelved nor shuffled over for an
indefinite period.
Lard PALMERSTON, in office, has maintained
his Tory predilections. He would yield not a single
point so long as he was surrounded by an obedient
majority, ready to back, per pas aut nefas, any
the dispenser of " the
now be prepared to
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promulgated
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is situation, and to
speak out more plainly than ho has hitherto done.
His future position, nay more his reputation as a
Statesman, will mainly depend on the course pur-
sued during the present week. Should ho be
found wanting, Lord JOHN RUSSELL will be avail-
able after all, the author of the modern Magna
Charts, has many claims on our sympathies. As we
his speech and vote on the
gone far to redeem former
have
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repentance and reformation ready to condone all
grievances, and to work litrmeniously with our old
driver, albeit he did continue "to upitt the
coach" on more than one occasion.
The few days fur which the House has been
adjourned aro pregnant with important results.
On what may occur within that brief period will
depend the future prospects of the competitors for
the Pramiership; and rival parties—Whip,
Tories, Radicals, and Independents—will all be
weighed in the balance. The winner—whoever
he may be--must make a handsome offer, and
whatever it may be, it is tolerably certain that it
will be exceeded. There is a time-honoured
apophthegm that tells us that " When
(Statesmen, we suppose, should supply the hiatus)
honest men come by their own." We
hope that it will be verified on the present occa-
sion, and that the peopla of Great Britain will
profit by the changes looming in the future, and
which will rapidly succeed each other.

It is surely very frightful that there should
actually be found amongst us earnest, and even
enthusiastic advocates of the ruffianly Sepoy 'Mud-
neere. It is frightful that it should be so, but it
cannot be said to be unparalleled. There have
been earlier, and yet more astounding instances of
judgments so warped, of ardour so distraught that,
in periods of great popular excitement, and in
vindication of abstract
morality—chaus principles of political
pions have appeared, ready, not
merely to extenuate, but oven to eulogize, and
incredible though it may sound, absolutely to
deify the enormous national delinquents. Nay,
not simply enormous national delinquents, but
systematic outragers of all the dictates of our cons-
mon humanity. There was MARAT, the "Friend
of the People," ono of the most atrocious monsters
of all the many gigantic miscreants of the Great
French Revolution. No sooner was this wretched
creature dead in his bath—struck to the heart by
the dagger of CIIARLOTTE CORDAY, the "Angel of
Assassination "—than the squalid buffoon was
raised into a Divinity. The Convention solemnly
decreed him to be a God. The worship of MARAT
became an organized Institution. Prayers wore
offered up to his divine nature ! On the morrow
of his murder the populace hung garlands at his
door. His bust was inaugurated in the chamber
of the popular Assembly. His miserable body
was embalmed. He was buried in the Pantheon
with the pumps and splendours of an apotheosis.
It was proposed by some of his worshippers that
his body should be carried, as a holy and conse-
crated relic, through the departments to the very
limits of the world ; and by others that
an empty tomb should be erected to
him under every tree of liberty, as
au altar for his adoration. These things are not
of some mad poet scrawled upon
dungeon, and there read with a
shudder of pity by thetlie dwrailvl -se lloifn gh3is
some casual visitor of Bedlam.
They are the actual records of Modern History—
comparatively speaking, of yesterday—
occurrenceswith the advanced manhood of our
Afterwards—very little more than
even
within the remembrance, nay, even
t
contemporaryinonth afterwards—another violation of
a tiv eigrandfathers.twelvemonth
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his doctrines with the execrable MAR/I.T,
thmisAxt
all the laws of humanity, kindred by his acts if
not simply after
his dissolution,
the
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but absolutely during his very
TIIEOS, and Dorn GERLE, and their
not
ts
by
yreated with divine honours,
paid by
however, only obeyed,
These, it is true, the
virtual dictate of the object of their reverence.
lifetime.
deluded CATHERINE
disciples, 1 l itne
6 3 t o
Of whom M. o _ d L
....AMARTLNE once wrote—" He
put himself in the place of GOD. He desired to
be the exterminating and creative genius of the
Revolution. He forgot that if any man thus
made a deity of himself, there could only remain
coo man upon the globe at the end of the world,
and that the last man would be the assassin of all
the others 1" It can hardly be surprising, there-
fore, remembering these things, that there should
be found amongst us nowadays apologists, cham-
pions, oven eulogists, of the ruffianly Sepoy
Mutineers.

It lamentable, however, than that, to
our t
that there should actually be not
merely advocates of the Sepoys, but deprsciators
is
and vilifiers of their heroic antagonists, our own
gallant and dauntless countrymen. Nevertheless,
so A has absolutely come to pass. The bravest of
our soldiers in India have had their valiant actions
depreciated, have been themselves loudly vilified
—vilified almost, be it said, in the language of
execration. NEILL has been scouted for his deeds
at Cawnpore--though one would have thought
that the daring soldier might have been permitted
to lie unscoffed at in his heroic grave, if only in
consideration of that awful " well" choked up
with the mangled remains of English women and
English children. WILLOUGHBY has been tra-
duced for an act of unsurpassed audacity and self-
sacrifice, the ordering of the match to be applied
to the magazine of gunpowder at Delhi—though
he knew that the explosion frightfully jeopardised
his own life—and the explosion in reality did
so fearfully mutilate him that he died not long
afterwarth. The daring captors of Delhi again
hare been assailed as men dishonoured—because
forsooth the princes who had been at the head of
that fiendish revolt and saturnalia received at last
the punishment their infamous career had so
richly merited 1 Again, we ;:ay, it is very lament-
able that there are Englishmen who could speak
thus in abhorrence of our own glorious soldiers at
the same time that they extenuate the conduct of
the wretches who have so notoriously and so
foully outraged humanity, in the wanton ven-
and our innocent children.
geance wreaked by them on our helpless women

DUBLIN, .sloctiay.—Tne trial of Father Ryan has been
postponed till next term on the application of the defen-
dant. A material witness is alleged to be absent. The
Attorney-greneral consented.

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PRUSSIA.

A telegraphic despatch from Berlin announces
that the Prince of Prussia, in returning on foot
from the theatre on Saturday night, fell and seriously
sprained his left foot. A bulletin issued at midday
yesterday stated that the swelling and pain had
diminished, and that H.R.H. had passed a quiet
night.

A letter from Berlin of the 20th says—" The
Princess Frederick 'William was one of the august
party at a concert of sacred music given by the
Prince and Princess of Prussia on the evening of
Ash Wednesday, where Madame Viardot Garica
gained additional laurels, but on the following
day (Thursday) she was obliged to excuse herself
from the dinner given by the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, and also from the concert at the Sing-Aka-
demie performed that evening. On that day her
Royal Highness was obliged to take to her bed in
consequence of a severe cold, and remains still a
prisoner ; but, as far as I have heard at present,
therein nothing more than acold to be deplored, and
the weather has been so changeable within the last
few days that it is almost extraordinary to find any
one not affected with catarrh in some form or
other."
The Prussian Mouitour publishes the following ;

"From the moment of our touching the Prussian
soil, after our marriage, we have received so many
precious testimonies of the sincere interest taken iu
our happiness that the remembrance of them will
never be effaced from our memory. We have only
been able to express those sentiments to a few per-
sons and to thank them for all the manifestations
and presents which have been made to us. By thus
publicly expressing those sentiments to the whole
country, we do it with the following prayer. 'May God
bless our dear country with his richest gifts now
and for over r

FREDERICK WILLIAM,

4 4 VICTORIA..

" Berliu, 19th Feb."

The Neuf Prussian, Gmette says :—" Many appli-
cations having bsen lately sent in for commutations
of punishment or for pardons, probably because the
idea prevailed that a decree of amnesty would be
published on the occasion of the marriage of Prince
Frederick William, we are authorised to declare
that no document of the kind .will be issued."