The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

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Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministerial arrangements-- 1
the mistake has been in awarding nothing worthier
than the management of the Post-office to one of
the most remarkable administrative intellects in
the range of even this most skilled and experi-
eneed of Governments.

The happiest selection of all, however, has been
hat of Lord CAMPBELL for the Chancellorship. It

is the one which reflects the highest honour upon
the chief of the Admistration. It was due to Lord

CAMPBELL that he should at last take his seat upon
the woolsack as the fitting climax to his own high
judicial career—he who has recounted, in such
luminous pages, the history of its former occu-
pants. To the annals of the Lord High Chancel-
lorship his own honourable biography is now con-
tributed. The law .reporter has won his way
triumphantly to the pinnacle of his profession.
During the last ten years almost he has discharged,
with unwearied assiduity, the onerous duties de-
volving upon the Lord Chief Justice of England—
an office of which, in like manner, he has been
successively the historian and the occupant.
Chancellor of Ireland but for a few days, it is to
be hoped that Lord CAMPBELL may not have been
nominated to the Chancellorship of Great Britain
ominously for his colleagues in this new Coalition
Government.
Perhaps the most strictly experimental appoint-
ment of all out of the whole list of the sixteen is
that of his Grace the Duke of SOMERSET as First
Lord of the Admiralty. As Lord SEYMOUR, his
grace has, it is true, been successively a Lord of
the Treasury, Secretary of the Board of Control,
Under Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, and Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests.
But he has yet to show that he is in any way com-
petent to preside over the destinies of the Royal
Navy of England.
Such are, in a manner, so to speak, the three ex
ceptional appointments made in his new Coalition
Cabinet by Lord PALMERSTON. The rest of his
colleagues making up (with himself as Premier) the
grand total of sixteen : in the same Administration
may be described with perfect truth as rather
unequally distributed thus among the three great
sections of the Liberal Party—TWO of the ultra-
reformers, Mr. GIBSON and Mr. COBDEN—FOUR of
the Peelites, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT as Secretary
for War, Mr. CARDWELL as Secretary for Ireland,
the Duke of NEWCASTLE as Colonial Secretary, and
Mr. GLADSTONE as Chancellor of the Exchequer—
and, together with these (as it may be remembered,
was distinctly enough threatened at the very out-
set) fully HALF-A-DOZEN of the dear old Whig
Party pure sang, true blue-and-buff, drilled and
marched in, in solemn procession by my Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. There is JOHN himself, the very imper-
sonation and incarnation of all the hereditary pre-
tensions appertaining to a man of the Great House
of Vipont. There is the Right Hon. Baronet who
for two or three years actually wore the livery of
the Whigs, in his capacity as editor, from 1853 till
1855, of the blue and buff old Whig Quarterly, the
Edinburgh. There is, besides, Sir GEORGE LEWIS,
and the Duke of ARGYLL as Lord Privy Seal. There
is the Earl GRANVILLE as Lord President of the
Council. There is Sir GEORGE GREY as Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster. There is that dear,
delightful, inevitable, intolerable Sir CHARLES
WOOD as Indian Secretary. A cluster of Six
Whigs out of the full complement of sixteen. But
two members of the Manchester Party. But four
Peelites. But three comparative Independents—
and the Premier himself; and there you have the
entire sixteen in the Coalition ! And in this popu-
lar Cabinet of sixteen—exactly one-half of the num-
ber, just precisely eight, are noblemen. Three of
the remaining eight being baronets—Sir GEORGE
LEWIS, Sir GEORGE GREY, and Sir CHARLES
WOOD—leaving but five Messieurs out of all the
sixteen, viz., GLADSTONE, HERBERT, COBDEN,
GIBSON, and CARDWELL. And of the eight nobles,
there are no less than three Dukes in this popular
Cabinet—the Duke of ARGYLL, the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE, and the Duke of SOMERSET. There are
two earls, the Earl of ELGIN and the Earl GRAN-
VILLE,—one Viscount, Lord PALMERSTON—one
Baron, Lord CAMPBELL, and one nobleman by
courtesy, Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Altogether, view-
ing the Cabinet as a whole, the Coalition is a Whig
Coalition, and an aristocratic Coalition—a Coalition
in which the Great Houses combine to conduct the
on greatest house of all—the House of Commons.
•

However much it may be—and undoubtedly is—
desirable to localise the present war now raging in
the North of Italy, restricting its operation exclu-
sively 'within the limits marked out by the Lom-
bardo-Venetian territory, the task, if not absolutely
impossible, is calculated certainly to prove, from
first to last, wonderfully difficult. It would be
difficult, for that matter, to confine any war upon.
the extremities of any country to that extremity—
bidding it, like CANUTE upon the seashore, to go
thus far but no further ! But most difficult of all
must it necessarily be, in the instance of an empire
so peculiarly constructed as that of Austria—an
empire consisting of an unnatural association of the
most diversified and heterogeneous nationalities,
Italians, Croatians, Tyrolese, Dalmatians, Bohe-
mians, Germans, Sclavonians, Styrians, Galicians,
Transylvanians, Moravians, and Hungarians.
Pitted one against the other, awing one another
into obedience to the wily central authority—these
nationalities are nevertheless ripe for disseverance
from that central authority immediately the first clear
signal-note for that disseverance has been sounded.
Ten years ago there was proof of this to the East
and to the South—in Lombardy and in Hungary.
But that there was treachery towards CHARLES
ALBERT on the part of the Lombards, compelling
him to withdraw before the forces of RADETZKY,
after having driven them previously back, back to
the foot of the range of the Rhoetian Alps, subject-
ing the royal leader of the Italian cause in 1848-49
to the final disaster at Novara—but that Russia
WAS called in by the despairing councils of the
House of Hapzburg to crush downby the weight of
her barbarian legionstheeonciuere
wdie arende certain,pendence
of the heroic Hungarians—Austria,
must have collapsed ten years ago, instead of being
reserved up to this moment to be now once more
threatened with dismemberment.
Remembering the peculiar conformation of the
Austrian Empire, it appears indeed almost prepos-
terous to talk of localising the war in Lombardy.
Italy is not more eager for emancipation from the
thraldom of Vienna than Hungary is at heart.
And the like also might be said of Galicia and
Transylvania, and so on throughout, ex-
cepting alone that wretched little atom of
Austria Proper, extending between the Noric Alps
to the south, and the extreme point of the Bohm
Wald to the north, skirting either bank of the
Danube from its confluence with the March in the
East, to its confluence with the Inn in the West, at
Passau. In 1849 Austria had the aid of Russia—
to redeem her falling fortunes at the last extremity.
The Italians at the same time had to trust entirely
to themselves—and so likewise was it with regard
at the same moment to the Hungarians. In 1859
Austria can look nowhere, for assistance. Germany
—notwithstanding all its late blustering—is held
back by considerations of prudence, and still more
by a sort of instinctive jealousy. England,
Russia, and all the lesser powers of Europe are kept

from---the see tie of action by their unanimous adhe-
sion to the i n inciple of Neutrality. And in the
meantime,vh i lo Austria is abandoned entirely to her
own resource,q , how is it with the Italians, and how
also, for th a t matter, is it even with the
still non-insu, rgent Hungarians ? Why, as for

Italy herself, h. as she not the French EMPEROR in
person to her aid now, with an army of a quarter
of a million of lighting men, and those fighting
men about the bent soldiers in all Christendom—
the Grenadiers of the Guard and the soldiers of the

line, the Zouaves and the Turcos, the Chasseurs

d'Afrique and the C, Masseurs de Vincennes—

" 0 a gall mt sans peur
Is the me. Ty Chasseur,
With his fanfaron horn, and his rifle ping pang ;
And his gra tud havresack
Of gold on I tis back,
And his pistol crick crack,. and his sword cling clang."
Together with his ally of Sardinia, NAPOLEON has
already, as we know, ente red in triumph the capi-
tal of Lombardy—the way' to Milan having been
opened by the victories won. in rapid succession at
Montebello, at Palestro, at Ntagenta, and at Maleg-
nano ; the adventurous GA.ItIBALDI hovering the
while upon the flanks of the iretreating and discom-
fited Austrians ! Such is the merest epitome of the
auspicious position already ati`,ained by the Italians.
While in regard to the Hungarians—have they
not already heard thrilling to their heart the war
trumpet, sounded to the right and to the left, here
by the lips of GEORGE KLAI'KA, there by those
of Louis KossuTH? The heroic ex-Governor of
the Hungarians is understood to have but just now
quitted our shores, after a decadc of exile, to place
himself, at Genoa, with the sanction of the Emperor
NAPOLEON and King VICTOR E3IMANUEL, at the
head of the Magyar volunteers. The valiant de-
fender of Komorn has again but very recently ad-
dressed himself to his compatriots in the Austrian
service, under the command in chief—yesterday of
GYULAI, to-day of SCHLICK. " Guerrieri !"—he
exclaims to the Hungarians enumerating first
of all the bitter wrongs they have together en-
dured " Ten years have elapsed since the
flower of your countrymen were immolated on the
altar of their native land—slaughtered by the exe-
cutioner's hand ; for ten years past our Hungarian
' country has endured the yoke of Austria—for ten
years the Austrian dominator governs with arbi-
trary will, and tramples on our most sacred rights
—for ten years the Hungarian warrior serves as a
slave the foreign lord, who replies to just complaints
with blows, and rewards love of country with
scaffolds and with bullets." " The hour of ven-
geance," he adds, " has struck. Already the
storm gathers over the fraudulent House of Aus-
tria. Its friends abandon it. The Czar of Russia
himself now arms in a very different sense from
ten years ago, and will break its pride.
Already the Italians, our brethren in misfor-
tune, brandish arms to conquer independence. And
you, Magyar warriors, how should you remain in
the enemy's ranks ? How should you fight against
those who have risen to shake off the yoke of ser-
vitude ?" The latter is an appeal to their nobler
instincts and sympathies, such as must result in no
partial defection from
,the army of the KAIZER.
Having reminded them of their sorrows, he
next recalls to them some of their past
glories. " You cannot have forgotten,"
he says, " how many times the Austrians were put
to flight by your bayonets. You cannot have for-
gotten the glorious days of Isasezeg, Pisti, Szolnok,
Nazy-Sarlo, and Komorn. Nor will you have for-
gotten that Hungary has been free and great. Be-
hold the time arrived to re-acquire that which has
been lost, and to revenge the sanguinary banquets
of Pesth and Arad, which raised throughout the
world a cry of horror." " Now," moreover, he
writes, "we are no longer alone and abandoned.
The heroic King of Piedmont stands at the head of
the Italian army, and by his side is the powerful
Emperor of the French. The flags of the two nations
combine; France and Italy—that is the signal of
attack. They already reckon upon us, they expect
us ; how should we be the laSt to take part in a
war on whose result our liberation depends ? Unite
yourselves, courageously and with confidence, to
the French and Italian armies ; for none but the
vile can doubt of the successful result—none
but a traitor fight under the banner of Aus-
tria. Hasten, then, to the Hungarian standard,
which we have raised for you. At the same time
war will break out in Hungary ; the Emperor of
the FRENCH and the King of PIEDMONT have re-
cognised the holiness of our cause, we possess their
sympathy; the Italian soldiers will join us, and so
do you join yourselves to them. Let us form in
Italy an Hungarian army, with which, after fight-
ing on Italian ground, we may return to our own
country to take part, also, in the war of indepen-
dence and honour of the Magyar nation. The inde-
pendence of our ancestors conquered, and defended,
and for centuries maintained it ; and we with our
blood are bound to reconquer it." Such is the im-
passioneil and inspiriting war•cry of KLAPKA to his
fellow-countrymen in the Austrian army. It can-
not fail to be responded to with enthusiasm. The
Magyar volunteers are already multiplying from
hundreds to thousands at Genoa. By the time of
KOSSITTII'S arrival amongst them there will be a
corps worthy of placing itself under the banners of
the former Captain of Komorn and the whilome
Liberator of the Hungarians.

We are pleased to see our old fiiend Sir BEN

JAMIN HALL raised to the Peerage by the title of
his own Welch castIe—LLANOVER. In other days
Sir BENJAMIN as plain Mr. HALL was rather

conspicuous among the patriot-Reformers of the
Welch Mountains. Indeed, we believe that he was

the very life and soul of Reform in the dark

days of ultra-Toryism, when every man was almost
afraid to whisper his political opinions to his neigh-
bour. But Sir BENJAMIN emerged from his moun-
tain fastnesse; and came to a more congenial
soil—the metropolis —where his patriotic and
fearless career as a true Reformer had long
made him a favourite among the denizens of
freedom, and in due time he was elected
for Marylebone—the greatest and the richest of
our metropolitan boroughs. He sat for that
borough twenty-two years—was elected no less
than eight times in that period—a sure test
that having done his duty admirably, he
was
t appreciated accordingly by a discriminating
grateful constituency. Any praise beyond
were mere surplusage. In due time Mr. HALL
was raised to the baronetcy for his consistent and
liberal conduct in the House of Commons.

Originally a thorough-bred and independent Radi-
cal, he gradually became fascinated by aristocratic
associations, and gradually slid down the slippery
slope of Whiggism, but chivalrously spurned its
meanness. During thedliadst memPoail.egrosotodnitaon Ministry
theme_
he became Chief Commissioner of the Board of
hist administration than all
in office for the last
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This is no small praise,
thirty years.
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nt actually
hl m-
who precededal
but it was amply merited, and now that Sir
BENJAMIN is raised above the turmoils
of electioneering squabbles, we wish him a long
and happy enjoyment of his new title of Lord
LLANOYLIi.