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

Lord PALMERATON'A Minlmterlal arrangements—
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-
enced of Governments.

The happiest selection of all, however, has been
that 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—be 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 EtChequer
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 n'bles,
there are no less than three Dukes in this popular
Cabineb—the Duke of ARGYLL, the Duke of Nicw-
CASTLE, aad the Duke of SCSMISIT. There are
two earls, the Earl of ELGIN and the Earl GRAN-
VrLLE,—one Viscount, Lord PALMERSVIIN —one
Baron, Lord CAMPBELL, and one nobleman by
courtesy, Lord JOHN RUSBELL. 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
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, Selavohians, Styrians, Galicians,
Transylvanians, Moravian, and Hungarians.
Pitted one-against' the .othet, awing one another
into obedience to the wily centrailauthority—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
him :obat there was treachery towards CHARLES
ALBERT on the part of the Lombards, compelling
after withdraw before the forces of RADETZICY,
having
dr:ven .th_..i:.;,-... eviously back, back to
the foot of the ran ~.: '
•.an Alps, subject-
ing the royal leadgi:iiiiiii,e:: .4-,::6'' cause in 1848-49
at Xpvitral: ' :..,thit Russia
to the final disastes .
was called in by the desjaMng .:
'c'ui';'ils of the
House of Hapzburg to crush dewilby the 'weight; of
her barbarian legions the conquered independence
of the heroic Hungarians—Austria, we are-certain,
must Have collapsed ten years ago, instead of being
reserved up to this moment to be now once mare-1
threatened. with dismemberment.
Remenabeiing:the peculiar conformation of the
Austrian Empire; Wappears indeed almost prepos-
terous to talk of"toealising the war in Lombardy,;
taly is not more eaglr, for emancipation from the
aldom of Vienna. thitik Hungary is at heart.
And the like also might' to said of Galicia and
Transylvania, and so aqi throughout, ex-
alone that wretched little atom of
'roper, extending between the Noric Alps
)uth, and the extreme point of the Bahmer
the north, skirting either bank of the
'rom its confluence with the March in the
is confluence with the Inn in the West, at
In 1849 Austria had the aid of Russia—
her falling fortunes at the last extremity.
,ns at the same time had to trust entirely