The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-09 00:00:00

the Himalaya : " Why does she return so
soon ?" Why, indeed ! As to the Admiralty
messenger going in search of Sir BALWIN WALKER
on board of that ship--Que diable allait it faire
clans cette galere ? The Admiralty adding in this
pithy, and laconic, and very suggestive telegram
[quite in the spirit of Lord RAGLAN] " What is the
state of the weather ?" Yet although the reply
flashed back from Plymouth to Whitehall was, in
respect to the weather, not by any means un-

satisfactory, all thing's considered—nothing at
all came of it ! The Admiralty, on the con
trary, peremptorily telegraphing—at 3 p.m.—

4, The Himalaya need not be sent in search

of the Narcissus, in addition to the Avon !" No
matter, meantime, about the Avon being the merest
tub. Perhaps that, indeed—certainly that, indeed,
was all for the better ! A tub thrown to a whale

being quite good enough in its way—why, might
not the old tub of an Avon be quite good enough
for this Chase of an Admiral, which is assuredly,

'n its way (to borrow a tolerably familiar phrase

From "Hamlet")—" Very like a Whale !" What.

ever may be thought about the contrivance hit upon
by the Admiralty—hit upon it was, and acted upon

t was with all un-reasonable slowness. At 3 p.m

—not sooner—" The Avon proceeded under
steam" in pursuit of the Narcissus That, was
literally the intimation signalled about 3.30 from
Plymouth to the Admiralty. So that all the while
the telegraphic messages were maundering about

he weather and so forth, neither Avon, nor ye

Himalaya, nor yet anything else had gone after
that inconvenient old admiral, who had stolen
away on board the Narcissus. Be, all the time'
putting more and more distance between himself

and his intended pursuers. At last—at last—the
old tub of an Avon went forth and saw—nothing.
and then came back again. The Admiral had got
away right cleverly—as the Admiralty intended
he should. And then three nights afterwards, in
answer to certain vexatious enquiries put to him
by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty rises from his official seat in the House and
reads categorically, seriatim, verbatim et literatim
those excessively ridiculous and silly little tele-
grams. And so the matter is to drop quietly on
one side and be forgotten—the Admiralty thinks
very probably. Supposing the Admiralty to
think which—it certainly never yet was
more mistaken. Sir BALDWIN WALKER

must appear sooner or latter coute qui
coute, bon gre mal gre, willi nilli, or however, you
may please to express it—he must appear before
the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the House
of Commons. That—we take it—is just simply a
settled point. However he may be got at—return
he will, and answer one after another the few hun-
dred and odd questions that will have to be put to
him by that inquisitive Committee. And now, as
to the manner of getting at him. Like the stranger
in the old love ditty, he is " Off, Off, and Away."
Whether the Narcissus be or be not worthy of
description as the " light barque" flying " over
the silvery spray." As to cutting the Admiral off
in his flight now by means of the Avon or the
Penguin, or any other vessel sent from our own
shores, that obviously is no longer for an instant to
be thought of. But another means of getting at
Sir BALDWIN WALKER, of intercepting him long
before he gets into the latitude of Ascension
Island or of Table Bay, into the vicinity
of either the turtles or the gorillas,
there indubitably Is. It is a means for intercepting
him yet, that we ourselves at once pointed out in
our impression of yesterday. It is suggested
gravely, as quite a new and original idea in the
Times of this morning, in the words following :
"We have at this moment several war steamers
lying idle at Lisbon. A telegram to our Minister
there would reach him in about four hours, when
he could at once despatch the fastest vessel upon
the station for Madeira, where she would arrive
within 72 hours, and no doubt lor.g before Sir
BALDWIN WALKER, in the Narcissus, would be
there."

Our own suggestion of this very means for
yet recalling the escaped Admiral before he can
have got much further on his southward voyage,
having appeared yesterday in The Sun in the
words subjoined :
"If the Admiralty be in earnest in their
wish to cut off ' or catch Sir BALDWIN
WALKER, they might have telegraphed to Cork,
some three hundred miles further west, to send
one or more vessels out —or they might even
telegraph to our Naval Authority at Lisbon to
send a vessel on a cruise for the same purpose."
It is identically the same suggestion now repeated
this morning by our leading contemporary. Let it
but be adopted by the Admiralty—no matter from
whomsoever it may have emanated—let it but be
adopted even thus tardily by the Admiralty, and
Sir BALDWIN WALKER will go no further than
Lisbon—thence returning upon his course home-
wards for the purpose of revealing all those myste-
ries that he was to carry away with him
locked up in his own heart so very conveniently.
Even when he has actually come back again, and
is delivering up his secrets at the mandate of the
committee —the shabby little trick by which he was
thus suspiciously being shuffled out of the way will
certainly not be forgotten. It is far and away the
paltriest dodge upon which the Coalition has ad-
ventured since the date of Lord JOHN'S Dog-in-the-
Manger Resolutions.

We must wait with patience for a little more
than a week to know how the new President en-
tered on office. We shall not be surprised to learn
that he confined himself, even at his inauguration,
to generalities. Though he has all the patent facts
of the case before him, he may, if he thinks it
better, reasonably ask time to render himself fami-
liar with all the documentary details of the past,
before he adopts any special measures; but on the
other hand he will, we should think, almost cer•
tainly let the revolutionists know that he will exe-
cute the laws as he finds them, and sustain the
Federal rights of the Union, not acknowledging
the utterly illegal acts of the South.

We know of only one opinion which Mr. LIN-
COLN has yet avowed, which we much regret; we
refer to his timidity on the Tariff question. Coming
as he does from an agricultural State, he ought to
have well understood the folly of protection. The
produce of his own State, like that of the Southern
States, seeks the markets of the world ; to obtain
these it needs that the produce of the world should
freely enter the Union in exchange. Perhaps Mr.
LINCOLN well knows this, but he may know also
that the North will not hear of anything but pro-
tection to native industry. Mr. LINCOLN, however,
should, not only in the interests of commerce, but
in those of reunion with the South, have honestly
exposed the injustice of making American con-
sumers pay tribute to Ameriean manufacturers.
The South has always, and with justice, resented
the Northern protection tatiffs. On this point the
North is at least as selfish and wilful as the South
is on the subject of slavery. At this moment we
are fearing to hear by every mail that the new
Tariff has passed Congress, and been signed by
the PRESIDENT. It has been fenced through the
Houses with great haste, since the secession of the
Southern representatives, because the North had
it all its own way then, and its object was the
exclusion by prohibitory duties, of English iron and