The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1859.

It is amusing how soon the good poeple of Paris
forget the gravity of political changes, for the more
congenial anticipation of pleasurable emotions, or
any excitement of novelty or wonder. The cause
of the Italians is overlooked, for the moment, in the
exstacies of the amnesty, which seems to afford
unbounded and real satisfaction. We truly hope
its beneficial effects may be of long and lasting
duration.

The settlement of the Duchies is, for the present,
at a sort of stand-still, not from the exigence of the
question, but from the position in which it rests
from the unofficial character of the proceedings.
NAPOLEON has only whispered in doubtful
hints, which may bear varied significations
from the emphases placed on certain words.
While, whatever the Emperor of AUSTRIA promul-
gates is of questionable importance, as being the
opinions of the vanquished. We observe that the
press in this country generally adheres to the
same opinion as ourselves. The cause being that
we all reason more upon hypothesis than fact.
A little time may throw more positive light upon
the subject than its present importance seems to
indicate.

The correspondent of the il!orning Post says that
" the people of Paris are in extacy "at the idea of
the Leviathan being about to bz. made a spectacle of
at Cherbourg. The Eastern Railway Company is
organising pleasure trains at a moderate price,
which will carry the sight-seers on board the ves-
sel, give them a splendid dinner, and return them
safe to their homes for 50f. The second week of
September is mentioned as the time, but it would
seem that this cannot be definitive if the announce-
ments made in England of the departure of the ship
be correct." We are truly glad, for the sake of the
great venture, that the direct )rs of the ship have
resolved on going to New York instead of Portland,
for the very cogent reasons assigned by a correspon-
dent in yesterday's Sun. The present appears to
be the busiest of all the seasons for commercial
enterprise in the United States, and as New York
is both the London and Liverpool of the far West,
what port so valuable or desirable as the one com-
prehending the very essence of the whole, both in
a commercial as in a monetary sense P The com-
pany, naturally, want to make money of their
wondrous enterprise, but in the prosecution of the
one object they ought not to lose sight of another,
which eventually may be quite as valuable—cha-
racter.

The Government of India seems to give us a 3
much trouble as our hopes magnified the value of
its acquisition. We are placed in much the same
position as the over-clever fellow who had " caught
a Tartar !" We cannot do without our Indian
Tartar, nor can we well manage to get rid of it.
To some it may appear that we are attempting too
much all at once, but there's no better remedy than to
buckle to, and that with a deperate energy worthy
of our character and the rich capabilities of the
prize.

Our Eastern dominions have yielded wealth to
tens of thousands of our countrymen now living
among us like nabobs, while the empire at large
has profited immensely by the boundless contribu-
tions to our national exchequer. But while per-
sonal and Imperial interests have largely benefited
by die system in the previous years of our rule,
the system itself was too anomalous to last. It
was found that divided authority produced a species
of divided allegiance which seemed
to work against
itself and confound its administrators in theexeri
cise of their duties. Uniformity was wanting, but
to secure that end, one responsibility was created,
and the authority of the QUEEN was established
for the general benefit.
But in the management of this change therewas
rather undue precipitancy and want of consideration
for some the interests involved. The executive
both here and in India seem to have been at cross
purposes on many points, and individual expecta-
tions were overlooked in Imperial assumption. The
civil and the military authorities too frequently
clashed before matters could settle down to ordinary
working. The jealousy of one Department too
frequently thwarted the purpose of the other, and
hence a sort of dead-lock impaired the efficiency
of both.

This uncongenial beginning naturally increased
in bitterness of spirit as,onc party was compelled
by the necessity of circumstances -to defer to the
other. There was too much attempted at the same
time, "and the want of cordiality added to the diffi•
culty of its due performance. There was first the
civil emit then the military organisation to be ad-
justed. "But while the transfer of the civil adminis-