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

ABERDEEN----it is time that we, like the French, should have a change. New tad 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 OLIVE, 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. Lot him name the individual whose merit and capacity he can priwe, and let him, if rebellion show itself at the Horse Guards or at Buckingham Palace, stake continuance iu office on carrying his point. 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, are 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 h obliged to defend. Something, it is thought, approaching to a crisis is requisite to enable an English Prime Minister to displace an incompetent General, 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.  pass without adding to their already formidable defences, or in devising new impediments to those who may undertake the escalade of the key of Sebastopol. He is too well aware that every day nay more, every hour wasted must materially enhance the difficulty of the task, and the losses that must necessarily be sustained in achieving a victory as decisive as that of the 7th of June. He requires no stimulus to urge him on to the discharge of his arduous duty; and we may therefore confidently await the issue, which will not, we venture to assert, be very long deferred.  It is strange that our chief information on these points should be obtained from Paris. It is said that there have been several breaks in the line of telegraph through Austria ; but surely the French despatches would have been subjected to similar delays as our own, and we might as easily have heard from Lord RAGLAN as our Allies from General