The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. Billington,
Stuart, P. Bedford, C. Marshall' C. J. Smith, Garden ; Miss
Marian Lacey, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. Billing,ton.
Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE
WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Rburne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING
PAIL,
After which, A. SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS. -
Commence at 7 o'clock:

VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eve:
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING}, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
76—highest since noon yesterday.
66---lowest this morning and during the night.
81—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-291107—falling.
WIND, South-Westerly ; light and fine, but very sultry.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tun DAY.—Morning, 10h. 55m.—Afternoon, 11h. 38m,
To-Moßflow-Morning, —h. —m.—Afternoon, 12h. 13m,

THE SUN.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1859.

The news from abroad are still very peaceable,
and we hope may long so continue. The only or
chief wonder in these days is that when England
has ceased to carry out her reform principles, how-
ever much Lord JOHN RUSSELL may boast to the con-
trary, Austria of all other States on the continent is
actually planning a system of Reform which time
will work out, and for her good, we pray heartily.
Not only does she now see that her boasted army,
disciplined to a fault, is no match for others, who
act much more than they boast, but that they can
and do upon a pinch work out their own deliver-
ance, while they put others in peril of their very
lives, and the freedom of all who place faith on
their boundless courage !

Nor is this all. The young EMPEROR has had
his own eyes opened by the course of events on the
field of battle. In the Cabinet, as in the
camp, he heard nothing but of the invin-
cibility of his glorious army ; but the field of
battle unfolded the sad truth of how much
he was deceived by his own professed friends!
He found that adversity is not afraid to exhibit
her stern face in the presence of flatterers, and
to challenge them to attest the truth of her doings!
It was so from the very beginning of the war,
and proved so unto the end. Well may
FRANCIS JOSEPH now take counsel with him-
self, and moralize on the facts which he
witnessed with his own eyes, however,
humiliating the scenes were to an Emperor
who found all his fond hopes of victory dashed to
the dust in blood-red fields of disaster ! From
henceforth, we hope, he will take courage and
amend.

We earnestly commend the attention of every
thoroughgoing Liberal and advanced Reformer in
the land to the speech delivered on Monday even-
ing by Mr. LINDSAY to his constituents, the free and
independent electorsof Sunderland. It is a very re-
markable speech. It is the speech of a practical man,
a man of the people, a true Liberal, a hearty Re-
former—and yet one who voted, as we ourselves
wrote—against that shabby little party move led on
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, which effected the over-
throw of Lord. DERBY'S Government ! Why we
opposed that miserable little party move we had
the opportunity of explaining from day to day, and
we did accordingly so explain it clearly, evening
after evening, while the struggle was yet going on
in the newly-elected House of Commons. We op-
posed it in the Press as Mr. ROEBUCK opposed it in
Parliament. As Reformers, as Liberals, as really and
truly bent upon getting something at last actually
done and no longer merely talked about and promised
in the way of an immediate and eomprehehsive revi-
sion of the existing system of our popular representa-
tion. A bitter and heart-breaking'experience foryears
past had told us as plainly as facts could speak, that
it was idle to dream any longer of obtaining the
wished-for boon of Parliamentary Reform from the
Whigs or the Peelites, from the Aberdeenites or
the Palmerstonians. That boon had been kept
dangling before us session after session, like the
ripe fruit before the lips of TANTALUS, whet-
ting our appetite instead of appeasing it.

Not even affording us the sorry compromise
of a mock measure that might, in Shaksperian
phrase, have kept the word of promise to the ear
to break it to the hope.
Since the abolition of the Corn-laws by Sir ROBERT
PEEL—no grand measure of importance had been
vouchsafed by the so-called liberal and reforming
statesmen to strengthen the foundations or to adorn
the superstructure of our Constitution. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL had held the supreme post of First
Minister of the Crown, aided and abetted in his
do-nothing rule as such, during upwards of five
years consecutively, by all the chiefs and a great
many of the scions of the great Whig families—
that uppermost section of the Upper Ten Thou-
sand. After a ten months' interregnum of the
Verbyites,
who were precluded from the chance of
even attempting anything in the way of Parlia-
ment ary Reform by having to fight fiercely all
throuA la those ten months for the retention of
the co ign of vantage to which they had been
throwt by circumstances—came the Ministry
of All the Talents the famous effete, faineant, laissez
oilier ABE RDEEN Coalition. All we got from that
—shallhoes ever forget it 9—was the drifting into that
sanguinary? and expensive Crimean War, which
might 11;1vo been prevented by the due display at
the propel • moment of a decision befitting the dig-
nity of the t, -test gigantic, the wealthiest, the most
free and power -fal empire in Christendom. Instead
of which—as e man at the helm himself said—
we " drifted" on, idiotically, into the storm, and
the whirlpool, and tL'e hurricane. So disgracefully,
in truth, were affain managed by the ABERDEEN
Coalition, that the wittiest and in many respects

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