The Sun. — 1855-06-25 (London, England)

ABERDEEN—it is time that we, like the French, should have a change. New and younger eyes will discern new plans, and younger energies will carry them out. The success of the War must not be sacrificed to the conceit of the Guards ; we must take the right man wherever we can find him, whether it be from the QUEEN'S or the Indian Service, or even, like Lord CLIVE, from the counting-house of a merchant. Lord PALMERSTON is now responsible for procuring a military genius who can do the country's work. He must act the dictator. Let him name the individual whose merit and capacity he can prove, and let him, if rebellion show itself at the Horse Guards or at Buckingham Palace, stake his continuance in office on carrying his noint. Both would soon have to bow to the country. The disasters of the 18th may, indeed, if turned to the account they ought, be the military redemption of the army. The disasters of the winter have been its Commissariat salvation. Never will another British army seven miles from the port be starved to death by hunger and cold, or its wounded half murdered in what should have been hospitals. But the annihilation of Horse-Guards and Court favouritism has yet to be accomplished. The nation strongly suspects that Premiers, though responsible for the selection of the General, arc not allowed free action. It is believed that so strong is the pressure exercised by irresponsible influence in a very high quarter that a Premier cannot easily make the appointment which he is obliged to defend. Something, it is thought, approaching to a crisis is • requisite to enable an English Prime Minister to displace an incompetent Gene• ral, and to nominate, irrespective of all precedent, the man of proved ability. If the rumours of the 18th be true, they may at least issue in silencing mischievous and irresponsible interference, and enabling or compelling Lord PALMERSTON, no one daring to intervene, to cream the service of India and of England, in deference to universal and irresistible demand, perhaps in deference to necessity itself. It is deplorable to think that nothing but the imperative necessity of redressing unbearable calamity can get rid of the necessity of a Premier's yielding to those whom the Crown itself cannot resist.  If the unparalleled demonstration in Ilydepark has not taught Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR and the party whose work he is doing a lesson they will profit by to the last hour of their lives, it is because bigotry and intolerance have placed them so far beyonl the pale of reason that no warning can be of the slightest possible service to them. Though it was notorious that the observance of Sunday as a day of rest was more general than at auy preceding time—that the public had not got over their exasperation at the Act closing public houses for several additional hours on Sunday, and that our social system, more especially as exhibited in the metropolis, presents contrasts it is not well for the poor to brood over, Lord ROBERT GROSVERNOR and the Sabbatarians must wring yet further the withers of " the galled jade," and by an interference with Sunday trading, which would deprive thousands of their Sunday food, and spoil the Sunday dinner of ten thousand more, hazard all the progress Sunday observance has made, and provoke a war of classes by exasperating the toiling poor against the rich, and that at a period when the nation cannot be too united. So pestilent is the folly of your Pharisaic legislation, and so dangerous is it to give way to it.