The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

That speech will be found in extenso in another
part of this day's impression. It is of a similar
character to the Ministerial appointments, giving
no great cause for congratulation to any side—
but " just as good as could have been anticipated
under the circumstances." The new President has
profited by his European experience, and has ap-
proximated to the vagueness of a Royal Speech,
He has not delivered himself of a short pamphlet
—de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aiiis —as had
been the habit of predecessors, but given a general
outline of policy to be filled in according to the
tastes or prejudices of the readers. He commits
himself to nothing, although giving some indica-
tions of his own views.

At the very commencement he declares his deter-
mination of not becoming a can dida te for re-election,
thus setting aside any imputation of being desirous
of resorting to any " dodges" for the sake of in-
fluencing future votes. This is an excellent an-
nouncement—one that affords the most auspicious
auguries respecting the good conduct of the new
Government, and inducing reasonable hopes that
it wilt look rather to national than individual
objects. It is a constitutional declaration which
should be demanded from every future candidate.
We know that such promises are easily disregarded
—that events may occur to induce a change of
sentiment. The advanced age of Mr. -BUCHANAN,
however, gives additional validity to the pledge
thus voluntarily given. At seventy years of age
—which he will be at the termination of his pre-
sent Presidency—he may be well contented to

retire into the enjoyment of the ovum cum digni-
tate which he will have nobly earned, if hie
power during the interval be applied to the
advancement of the welfare and prosperity of his

fellow-men. Ho will have attained the life al-

lotted to mankind, and noed not desire t 3 increase

Vie 1 thour and trouble that must inevit tbly fall on
tik,so strong enough to live to four-score years.

The next topic to which he addresses himself is
the cordial union that ought to subsist between

the different Stit3s of the Republic. He recog-

vises the full danger of the ordeal through which

the Republic has recently passed, and desires to

remove, so far as practicable, the " perils
that threatened a separation. Under this

view of the subject, the Kansas difficulty could
not be passel sub silentio, and this, he declares,
shall be solved under the simple rule that " the
will of the majority shall govern"—or, in other
words, that the majority of bona fide settlers shall
decide the important question of domestic slavery
in the territories. This is as much as could have
been t-xpected, and we willingly abide the result,
satisfied that when the " border ruffians" are no
longer permitted to overrule the free expressicn
of popular judgment, the event will be in accord-

ance with the dictates of truth and justice. He
wishes that all agitation on the subject
should cease, but that manifestly cannot be
until there has been a satisfactory solution of the
grand problem.

To put aside corruption in St Ate affairs—to
render the purity of the Governrue nt beyond sus-
picion, is a laudable aspiration, an d we earnea'y
hope that he may be enabled to a ccomplish that
great desideratum, which would eft title him to the

meat of which the Premier himself participated,
together with most of the. leading Statesmen
of our time—the discreditable and disgraceful
Peace implicating in the odium attaching to the
fact of its Acceptance, or in that of a mere con-
nivance at if, all Parties, in the Lords and in the
Commons, indiscriminately !
But—looking "at home," instead of "abroad"
—how about the "progressive improvements ? "
It is all very fine, and very witty, and very
humorous (not one moment's doubt of it !) to
hear our vivacious Prime Minister, at seventy-
three years of age, winding up a brilliant and
chivalric oration with the assurance that " So
long as we [Ministers] feel that we are to be
backed up we shall set at defiance the 'accidentAl
concurrence' (loud laughter) of unconcerting and
uncommunicating gentlemen (cheers, and laugh-
ter), who, by a strange fatality, naay find them-
stives united to turn out the Government of the
day. (Loud cheers.)" Capital, every word of
it ! BUT " backed up"—for what S For " pro-
gressive improvement ?" For what " progressive
improvement ?" Let us hear that, Lord PALMER-
STON That is why we are demanding so ear-
nektly and so perseveringly your Manifesto in ex-
planation

We may alike congratulate Europe and Ame-
rica on the great fact that Mr. PIERCE is no
longer President of the United States 1 He bid
largely for a renewed tenure of office. He would
gladly have endangered the peace of the world,
could he thereby have retained the occupancy of
the White House for a further term of four years.
But all his convulsive efforts were fruitless. The
very steps which he thought best calpulated to in-
sure success proved ruinous to his interests, and
the Democratic party unquestionably selected a far
better candidate in Mr. BUCHANAN, and probably
owed their success in the closely contested
election to that circumstance. Mr. BU-
CHANAN was unquestionably their trump-card ;
and it was played at the right time. Other-
wise the triumph of Colonel FREMONT would
have been decisive ; and the Planters would have
witnessed the inauguration of the Northern Stan-
dard Beare, in the position long held by their
nominees. ks it was, the battle was sharply con-
tested ; and althDugh Mr. BUCHANAN eventually
obtained a plurality of votes of such a character
as to turn the scale in his favour, there is, we be
lieve, no doubt that the actual majority polled for
Colonel FREMONT.

The next question was as to the manner in
which the newly-elected President would use his
victory I Great anxiety was naturally felt at both
sides o>i the Atlantic for any decisive indications as
to the policy which he should pursue. He had,
by his participation in the "Ostend Manifesto,"
his advocacy of Filibustering principles, his
avowed hostility to England, and protection of
the " domestic institution," excited considerable
and apparently well-founded apprehensions, both at
home and abroad. Still, as a man of great expe-
rience and unquestionable ability, it was hoped
and believed that he would subside into a milder
tone when the necessity of " electioneering cries"
had passed away, and he was comparatively free
to, act in accordance with the dictates of a
sounder judgment ! The first point was the
nomination of the subordinate members of his
Administration I The programme put forward
might have been better, but it also might have
been much worse. General Cass, the nominal
Premier, had been apparently bitten by the Anglo-
phobia that so long prevailed in the States, but
the selection of Mr. COB➢ to the next most impor-
tant office, was certainly as good as could have
been anticipate;], taking the vary recent declara-
tions at the hustings into account. There was
nothing therein t) excite extraordinary hopes, or
fears on either side, and the assumption of office
—the inaugurating Message, was therefore awaited
with intense curiosity. It was, in fact, by far
the most important Presidential Speech since the
proclamation of national independence.