The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-20 00:00:00

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 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 TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 20.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
81—highest since noon yesterday.
67—lowest this morning and during the night.
74—this day at noon.

BA.nommTEn--30.08.
WIND, S.S.Easteily ; light, with now fine sunshiny
weather. In the night we had some heavy rain, and this
morning, lightning thunder and rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. oBm.—Afternoon, Oh. 15m,
To-Moßßow-Morning, .sh. 32m.—Afternoon, sh. 49m.

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1859.

There was a grand display last evening at St.
Cloud. The Emperor NAPOLEON received the mem-
bers of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, and then gave his reasons for so suddenly
abandoning the war—a war which was undertaken
to serve the independence of Italy by going against
the mind of Europe! Why, has not the Em-
peror NAPOLEON waged war against the
mind of France ever since he attained
to power ? No, no, the excuse comes too
late, and will not now avail. He was evidently
frightened at his sudden acquisition of military
fame, and shrunk from working it out as his glori-
ous uncle would have chivalrously done. The pre-
sent NAPOLEON may conceive great deeds, but the
first NAPOLEON boldly carried them out, and
that before his opponents could have supposed the
achievement possible.
It now appears that the neutrality of England
and the attitude assumed by Prussia, backed by the
German effervescence, really appalled the liberator
of Italy, and made him sue for a peace which
the vanquished FRANCIS JOSEPH was but too
ready to grant ! After the sacrifice of so many
lives for little or no purpose, the grand presump-
tuous boast of the war has ended in smoke ! We
could weep for the man who could have so
falsified the promised hopes of millions, merely
to extricate himself from so disgraceful a dilemma.
NAPOLEON has made a false step, and the mind of
Europe will not help him to repair it—nor the long-
suppressed mind of France either. Again, we can
but pity him in his subdued extremity, and we do
it in very scorn !

Frequently though attention has been drawn,
before now, to the extraordinary injustice of the
Income-tax as it has been hitherto, and as it still

is, unhappily, to this moment assessed—the cruelty
of the system was, perhaps, never more strikingly
indicated than it was on Monday evening by the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for
Sheffield. Mr. ROEBUCK reminded the House that
he spoke feelingly—he spoke, to a certain extent,
from his own bitter personal experience. He spoke
a professional man, and as a professional man
as
who had in mid-career been suddenly stricken down
with a severe and, at the first moment
it appeared, almost fatal malady. Fortunately
for himself—fortunately for us all—the hon. and
learned gentleman has long since recovered his
health if not in all its pristine energy at any rate
with a semblance of it—retaining throughout in
all its original vigour that clear, strong, virile in-
tellect which has now for fully one quarter of a
century been dedicf ted consistently and undeviat-
ingly to the championship of the rights of the people
and of the honour and happiness of the
commonwealth. As a representative of the
middle classes—as one called to the Bar—Mr.
ROEBUCK might havebeen more actively dependent
upon his profession—he might when attacked a
few years since by that apparently mortal illness
have been precluded entirely thenceforth from
further participation in the labours of public life,
from the continuance of his prolonged and energetic