The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1857

Viscount PALMERSTON has at last issued his
Manifesto to the Country, according to the old-
established usage ever observable under similar
circumstances. He has spoken indirectly to al'
the possessors of the elective franchise through-
out the three kingdoms by addressing himself di-
rectly to his own immediate constituents. He
has, for the most part, repeated deliberately in
his Epistle to the Electors of Tiverton, what he
had already expressed cursorily in his after-dinner
speech at the hospitable board of the Mansion-
house. Nothing more ! Or, if anything, some-
thing so very trivial in the way of additional sup-
plementary explanation, that it would require for
the purposes of scrutiny to be placed as it were
under the lens of a Political Microscope I
Now, in a very great measure, of course, this is
disappointing. Not to comment upon the mat
ter at all in the language of exaggeration, this is
at the least, we repeat, disappointing. It is dis-
appointing when we are hearkening with the most
eager curiosity for some explicit, minute, formal,
categorical statement, to find ourselves in refer-
ence to the very topic in regard to which we are,
wait Mg, as we have before intimatA, for every
imaginable de'ail, and for the utmost possible degree
of particularity—listening only to the most vague
generalities It is disappointing when we are
prepared to receive the utterances of the Oracle
to hear actually, for the most part, little else than
the "foam and fury"—(really just now "signifying
nothing ")—of the presiding Genius of the
Delphos of Government. We are surely no,
speaking ( xtravagantly when we venture to
observe that Silence or Evasion in regard to the
Great Questions of the Hour, at such a time and
from such a sJurce, appears to us really, after all,

very—d isappoi nti ng.
Yet it must be remarked that Lord PA Malt-
STON'S Address to the Electors of Tiverton is,
with one exception, altogether admirable in what
it expresses. That one exception being, as a
matter of course, the c,mplimentary, or rather the
eulogistic, reference to the Peace with Russia, a
Peace never to be glossed over in our opi-
nion, a Peace in regard to which we, at any rate,
can never b© cajoled into a sort of an after-thought
of admiration ! Apart from the really preposte-
rous and wholly inadmissible encomiums upon the
Treaty of Peace, and upon the Diplomatic Negotia-
tions through the means of which it was brought
at length to the date of its ultimate ratific.tion
—the Premier's Address to the Electors of Tiver-

ton is altogether admirable, we repeat, in what it
expresses. It disappoints us solely iu regard to
what it leaves un-expressed. As an enunciation

of the Prime MiniAcr's Foreign Policy it ig, in
the very highest sense of the term, inspiriting
and satisfactory. But in regard to that policy we

really needed no info: nation whatever. It is

patent to the whole community. It cannot, in
common parlance, bo ignored. It is part
and parcel of the National History during the
past Half Century. It has already become the
theme of our popular annalists. It may still be
carped at by the more jealous and the more c3p-
tious, by the least generous and magnanimous
among Lool PALMERSTON'S contemporaries. But

with reference to the impartial judgment of Poste-
rity, Events have long since secirted for it its most
signal and decisive vindication. Therefore the
mere circumstance of the Prime Minist.,il's rest rid-
ing himself almost exclusively, its this his formal
Political Manifesto, to the detailed enumeration of
the more recent and more c3nspicnous, and then--
fore doubly wd!-known phases of his Foreign
Pclicy—"eS really and truly appear to us to be
a mode of proceeding, to say the very least of it,
quite superfluous l Instead of recapitulating
what everybody by this time knows so perfectly I
well, Lord PALMEINTON would have done much,l

better, we conceive, by ennilciating what scarc.tay