The Sun. — 1858-04-12 (London, England)

GLADSTONE—who inasmuch as he has no followers, fights a la HARRY Gow, " for his own hand," will turn that " hand against every man," and assail each in turn, whenever it suits his purpose to do so. Where, then, we repeat, is the majority ? It is nowhere, and it is fortunate for the people that is so. A dictator may be very well during an emergency, when everything must yield to an overpowering necessity, and the nation must submit to one evil, in order to avoid another of still greater magnitude. Should the nation pronounce against Lord DERBY, merely because he is Lord DERBY, although his measures were all that could be desired, it would confer an absolute dictatorship on Lord PALMERSTON, for at present the choice virtually lies between the two, inasmuch as there is no reasonable chance of "the calm JOHNNY who upset the coach" being able either to form a Cabinet or to hold office for a single month. Whatever he was pleased to offer should be accepted " with bated breath and deep hu mility," " the Conspiracy to Murder Bid" should be swallowed, Lord CLARENDON should be reinstated in the Foreignoffice, Sir G. C. LEWIS at the Exchequer, and that talented and well-informed statesman (!) Mr. VERNON SMITH at the India Board. There is but one way of avoiding such calamities, viz., by giving fair play to every man who may be selected by her MAJESTY, or rather by Parliament—for their choice virtually rests with Parliament—to form an Administration, and to deal with him according to his deserts. In other words, the old party division should be forgotten, and " measures, not men," should be looked to by the chosen representatives of the people. We shall soon know whether this will be the case. If not, it will afford another and a very powerful illustration of the gross ignorance of persons occupying seats in the Legislature, of the real state of public opinion, and of public feeling.  So Lord CLARENDON'S list victim is now free. PARK, as well as WATT, is out of King BONIBI'S clutches, and will doubtless soon be home. We say advisedly Lord CLARENDON'S victim, for he has been " aeeessory," as the phrase now is, and though not " before," yet certainly during "the fact." Had Lord MAradzsnr.nty instead of Lord CLARENDON been Foreign Minister last July, and Lord DERBY been his Premier, we believe that both WATT and PARK would have been soon out of durance, and something more than apology demanded for wrists blackened with bandcuffl, and for imprisonment in a dungeon little better than a cesspool. We hope Lord MALmEsnunx has not done with the affair yet ; he has still to show, by obtaining a becoming compensation, the contrast between his own and the CLARENDON tactics. It is for him to prove to Europe that the peasant and the mechanic of England is iu the view of the Peers of England as much an Englishman as any Peer hift.self ; it is for him to reverse the impression produced by Lord CLARENDON'S complaisance to depots, and to let the whole tribe know that it is at their peril to insult England by persecutit'g the humblest of her citizens.  Lord CLARENDON knew at the beginning that the men were perfectly innocent. His correspondence, now before us, proves that he knew yet we find nothing but the most ignominious concession to the Neapolitan Government of their right to retain these notoriously innocent men, and to try them by their law. Everything is asked as a matter of favour, not demanded. When part of the Sardinian crew were liberated, Mr. BARBAR was to ask the same gracious justice for Lord CLARENDON'S two fellow countrymen. He was to beg the favour of seeing the accused, as their adviser ; everything on behalf of the innocent sufferers was to be asked with the most maiden modesty and bashfulness, from the brutal Neapolitans and their