The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1845.

The public is so apt to forget, in the easy enjoyment of
any novel, but very signal advantage, the price which may
have been paid for it through the personal experiences, inces
sant fatigues, and inflexible perseverance of some individuals
endowed with more than the ordinary average of moral
courage, that we are very unwilling to see it relapse into
this evil habit—for it is not a question of bad feeling—in re-
ference to one of the most remarkable persons among our
townsmen of this metropolis. We have very recently, and
on many precious occasions, seized the opportunity of di-
recting attention to the extraordinary merits of Lieutenant
WAGHORN, R.N., in devising, accomplishing, and organis-
ing the route for the overland mail between India
and Great Britain. It is scarcely possible for any
one to doubt the vast importance to be attached to
the achievement of this great object, which, by bringing,
so to speak, Great Britain and the noblest of her depen-
dencies th?ee months nearer to each other—(and this is no
longer a solecism either in expression or in faot)—has opened
a new channel, developed new methods, and created new In-
terests of communication, of a value and sig,niflcarte pro-
portioned to the magnitude of the results which are bound
up in the intimate and perfect connexion of those two noble
regions, so remote from each other in geographical position
singularly identified in the evolution of political events,
and the collision both of European and of Asiatic interests
with one another. If any disparaging estimate could be
gravely entertained by any of our countrymen of
the high character to be attached to Mr. WAG-
services to the commerce of the East with
this empire, we should refer such sceptics to the
earnest, yet temperate, discussions on the subject, that from
time to time appear in the French newspapers. The topic is
ably handled by our Contemporaries on the other side of the
Channel ; but all of them, of whatever shades of party or
opinion in the political contentions of the day, are una-
nimous, and unqualified in the praise they award to Mr.
WAGHORN ; and in the zeal with which they press the
momentous sequences that may ensue on the full esta-
blishment and working of his lately tested route
to Engisunl rid Trieste, on the profoundest deliberation of
Louis PHILIPPE and his Ministers. Far from affecting to
undervalue the interest of France in retaining the trans-
mission of the overland mail, they plainly treat it as an inte-
rest of most extensive relations that must be absolutely sacri-
ficed, if the Executive do not forthwith so materially im-
prove their steam service and packet flotilla as to accomplish
the distance from Egypt to Malta, and from Malta to Mar-
seilles, in a period of time abridged to an extent greater
even than the difference between the present route rid Mar-
seilles, and that which has just been so successfully tested by
Mr. WAGHORN, Via Trieste. Independently of the incalcu-
lable advantage realised by his overland mail to our
commerce with the East, we must remember
that he has achieved a benefit for universal
Civilisation and peace, by the influence which he, of all Euro-
peans, first practically exercised over the powerful mind, but
strong will, of the Pacha of EGYPT, in not only convincing
that Illustrious Chief of the feasibility of the plan, and the
advantages to be derived from its operation to Egypt as well
as to England; but in holding the PAcIIA steadily to the
same pomtaintil the route was laid out, secured,
and worked
on the presentosystem. To the Pacha MEREMET Au, him-
self, we nitist..,ail concede the distinguished praise of having
recognised the paramount claims of peaceful commerce to
protection through his Own territories, at a time whey ho