The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-11 00:00:00

ONCE A W E E K.
No. 3 will contain a New and Original Poem by
ALFRED TENNYSON, with an Illustration by J. E
MILLAIS.
Price 3d.—Office, No. 11, Bouverie-street.

DRURY-LANE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
MR. BALFE'S BENEFIT.

LA ZINGARA.
Victorie liialfe, Guarducal, and Giuglini.
THIS EVENING (Monday), LA ZINGARA (The Bohe-
mian Girl), with the following cast :—Arlina, Madlle. Victoire
Balfe ; Regina, Madlle. Guarducci ; The Count, Signor
Fagotti ; Lorenzo, Signor Mercuriali ; Devil's-hoof, Signor
Lanzonl ; Thaddeus, Signor Giuglini.
Conductor—Mr. M. W. Balie.

To be followed by a Ballet Divertissement.
Private Boxes, Two to Six Guineas each : Stalls, 219. ;
Dress Circle, 7s. ; Second Circle, 58. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Galleries,
25. and le.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the danagement of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be re'ived Shakspeare's Tragedy
of HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen
Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FITS.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
a new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in
which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear,
After which, MARRIED FOR MONEY.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.
Commence at 7.

.ISTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billing-ton.
After which, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. John
Mildmay, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Potter, Mr. Charles Selby ;
Hawksley, Mr. Billington ; Mrs. Mildmay, Mrs. Billington ;
Mrs. Sternhold Mrs. A. Wigan.
Followed by NEVER JUDGE BYAPPEARANCES. Mr
and Mrs. Henri Drayton.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Selby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Mice 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, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
Miss A. Burditt.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
After which. CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
OTHELLO. Mr. and Mrs. H. Vezin.
Followed by THE MASKED MOTHER. Mr. and Mrs.
C. Calvert.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jule, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOURs, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc
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 EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
78—highest since noon yesterday.
72—lowest this morning and during the night.
74—this day at noon.

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BenomETEB,-30.28.
WIND, S.W. ; light, with fine weather.
JULY 11.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
78—highest since noon yesterday.
75—lowest this morning and during the night.
83—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.32.
WIND, S.W. ; light, with very fine weather.

A friendly meeting this morning between the
emperors IN APOLEON and MRANCIS JOSEPH lip,.

been the first result of the five weeks' armistice.

It took place at nine o'clock on this henceforth

memorable Monday, the 11th of July, 1859, at Villa-
franca. The incident is to be followed forthwith

by the return of the French Emperor to his capital

—an occasion doubtless to be celebrated by his

triumphal entry into Paris as the conqueror of
Solferino. Afterwards will come a tempting op-

portunity for the diplomatists of Christendom—an
opportunity by duly availing themselves of which
they may, if their councils be but wisely directed,
transform a few weeks' truce into a permanent pacifi-
cation. There may now be mooted once more the

project of an European Congress for the settlement
of the Italian difficulty, by arbitration. And this
time it is just within the limits of possibility that

the project of such a Congress may at length
be actually realised. If so—Sardinia must

this time be admitted to the conference. She has

won her right to the privilege at the point of the
sword and the bayonet, the mouth of the rifle and
the cannon. She can no longer be superciliously
contemned by the German Princelings as a power
in no respect upon a footing of equality with the
major, or, even for that matter, with some of the
minor divisions of Fatherland. At Montebello, at

Magenta, at Malegnane, at Solferino the arms of
Piedmont vindicated the right of VICTOR EM-

MANUEL to take his place upon a footing of equality,
at any rate, in heroism, among the contracting
Sovereigns.

Ana the conditions upon which this suppositious
Congress can alone be brought about with

any hope of its leading to a satisfactory
settlement of the Italian Question, and

thereby to a secure and permanent Euro-
pean pacification? Those conditions we know
by this time, we should imagine, far and wide
throughout the States of Christendom. They have
been again and again explicitly stated by the very
Potentate whose generalship and valour have swept
back the invading armies of Austria from within
the boundaries of Sardinia, back across the whole
width of Lombardy, back beyond the line of the
Mincio, until brought at last desperately to bay in
the covert of the Quadrilateral ! Before the war
had been commenced by the lawless invasion of the
Austrian troops into Piedmont, the preliminary
conditions for the solution of the great political
problem of Italian independence had been indicated
plainly and unmistakeably by the Ruler of the
French—now apparently destined also to be the
Liberator of the Italians. Those essential conditions
have, since the war was thus begun, been
reiterated, in clear and trumpet tones, in the Em-
peror NAPOLEON'S Milan Proclamation. The very
dating of that proclamation from " Milan" was an in-
timation
that the liberation of Northern Italy was
already more than half accomplished. Subsequently
to which period every step taken by the Allies has
been a step taken in advance, until, as we have
seen, and as we have said, the German foe, succes-
sively taartialled by GYULAI, and SCIILICK,, and
HESS, and ,eventually by the KAISER himself, were
driven ba ck at a rush across the Mincio, and
brought 'to bay (we repeat it), were literally
brought Ito bay at last, in a position of absolute
deepest ion, in the Quadrilateral ! Then, and
then a nip, when Peschiera was beleagured
by the; Piedmontese, when Verona was threat-
ened, -with assault, when Mantua was being

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, JULY 11, 1859.