The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-06 00:00:00

hold:word in French ears like that of Marengo
and Austerlitz.
It does not appear whether Louis NAPOLEON
took any personal share in the contest. The tele-
gram is from himself to the Empress, and, of
course, he could not speak of his own ex-
ploits, or boast of his valour at the head
of his troops. The details are altogether
wanting. But unless something important had
been achieved such a message would not have
been published, nor would Paris have been so
brilliantly illuminated. A hoax of such a character
would be more injurious to the EMPEROR than
even continued inactivity' or an actual defeat.
The accounts from Vienna declare that the com-
bat was undecided, and that a further fight was
expected. We must, however, receive these state-
ments with considerable reserve. Of course every
party is anxious to make the most of a victory,
or to smooth over a defeat ; but the truth eventu-
ally oozes out, and the habit of exaggeration does
not in any degree benefit those who indulge therein.
As Austria may now understand her true
position, and as notwithstanding the vauntings of
the Augsburg Gazette, she may understand that
neither England nor Germany will interfere to
maintain her maladministration in Italy, or her
undue interference with quasi independent Powers,
she may now make the ;concessions which she ought
long since to have granted; and we:earnestly hope
that Louis NAPOLEON, in the hour of victory, will
be satisfied with what he required before the com-
mencement of hostilities.

All the hopes of the Liberals are entirely depen-
dent at this moment, as every one knows perfectly
well, upon the chance possibility of harmony aris-
ing, after all, out of the chaos and discord of the
Opposition. Hence the motley concourse assem-
bled together to-day in the fashionable concert
room of King's-street, St. James's—a concord of
sweet sounds being there produced for a while as
strangely and as marvellously as any ever drawn
by the magic baton of a conductor from pipes of brass
and tubes of ebony, from the vibration of catgut,
or the resonance of parchment. During one, two,
or three delightful hours the assembly this after-
noon has listened there, delighted, of course, to the
contrasting tones of Whig and Peelite, of Radical
and Liberal-Conservative. It was like playing at
score from the extempore imaginings of several
great masters together upon all varieties of instru-
ments from all varieties of orchestra 3. Tweedle-
dee and Tweedle-dum had at length joined hands
—all their past differences are to be forgotten, and
in celebration of the reconcilement of their nume-
rous and prolonged differences, there is performed
to-day, appropriately enough, upon ,the platform
in Willis's Rooms, a grand concerted: piece, the
execution of which has been distributed among all
sorts of performers. The preliminary distribution
of the parts possessed somewhat of the effect, it is
true, of one that some of our readers may remember
to have witnessed in a certain wonderful comic
scena, presided over by the greatest of a .11 the great
bassiprofondi—alas! now no more—the. late Signor
LABLACHE. Before the commencement of the
overture enter the maestro MSS. in hal id—the said
maestro there taking them up in his right hand,
MS. by MS., from the pile held in -his left, and
scattering them one by one among tt .e expectant
musicians. Cannot we recognise the comic
scena here anew—beholding now, in. place of the
riant and jovial basso, the gay ania humorous
Viscount ; one who quite as dearly :loves a joke,
and does the comic business alwayt; with such
spontaneous and inexhaustible unctic )n. When
Signor LABLACHE scattered the parts ; among his
expectant auditory, it was with indications thus,
in broken English, of the manner of their distribu-
tion :—" Violin flute hautboy long-drum
cymbals harp trumpet—long drum ! —double
bass serpent —violoncello— LONG- DRUM ! !—bas-
soon— triangle—trombone clarion. at— ophicleide
--LONG-DRUM !! ! Throwing with a sonorous
and lengthened utterance of the last u'ords the whole
of the remaining MS. in a catarac rt to the mono-
polist performance thus indicated. The analogy is
perfect in the present instance if, am ong the motley
concourse of those taking part, or aspiring to take
part, in this new concerted piece --Peelites and
Radicals, Liberals and Conservatives„ Conservative-
Liberals and Liberal-Conservatives'—we read in
place of the all-absorbing LONG-D -UM, the insa-
tiable little, arrogant, domineering party of the
O:LD WHIGS, having their hea il-quarters at
Woburn Abbey, and trolling the st icks variously
in. the hands of GREYS, ELLIOTS, WI )ODS, PETTYS,
FoxEs, and RUSSELLS ! Drubbing 'through gene-
ration after generation to the old, hollow, rub-a-
dub ranpataplan tune of Civil and Religious
Liberty. An Old Party for all th world as like
as two peas to that thundering Old .PETER in Mr.
TACKERAY'S " Chronicle of the Dr a m," who—

" Says he, In my life's ninety sum= ers,
Strange chances and changes Pc e seen,
So here's to all gentlemen drumme'
That ever have thumped on a ski i I.' "
nue, in the self-glorification of th e toast to the
raonotonous iteration of that aphorisl n of the Old
'o,Thig Party, " nothing like leather"-- —nothing like
pour true GREYS, ELLIOTS, and RUS 3 ELLS. Faith-
fitl to that tedious repetition of the told tough fare
---the toujours perdrix of the VIPON lrs, served up
under their auspices at the Cabinet ( 21ouncil board:
a the sight of which perpetual daint y- there chimes
back upon the memory the familiar Vonderment of
ct:tiildhood—

" Oh, wasn't that a dainty dish to set be fore a King I"
But the Old Party has been at it agi tZin this after-
oon—Long Drum greedily waited h is lion's share
;in the distribution of the parts in 11 ?ILLIS'S Con-
; ert Room—the gay and vivacious tn, z estro having
to satisfy the cravings of the hungry .monopolist—
t o give the monster this and that, a a id the whole
'of the rest ! A word, however, befor E parting to
the prototype of Mr. TRACKERAY'S " PETER, the
Drummer"—a quatrain from the C. hroniele of
the latter, which the former may per haps derive
;some solace from on the result of t he coming
i livision

"Cheer up ! 'tis no use to be glum, boys,.
'Tis written since fighting begun,
That sometimes we fight and we conquer,
And sometimes we fight and we run.'

The present Parliament has re :eked a
smaller number of apprentices than any of
ale three preceding ones. The ne w mem-
Tb
ers—we mean those who have neve' been in
]Elarliament before—are only ninety-one, which is
from sixty to eighty fewer than in '47, '5: !,
and '57.
Indeed, much less
deed, the change altogether has been .
than usual. A neat little table .13. 54 in
Vacher's Parliamentary Companion) indicates
p:recisely what the change is; it result& ; that in
th is Parliament no fewer than five h ti; ndred and
eleven members resume their old seats I In 1857
only 452 did so ; and in the two preced: it ,g elections
fewer still. • Besides, thirteen mei dbers have
mcrely changed places ; and forty h. Lv,e been re-
turned who have sat in previous Parlia metas. For
twelve years, therefore, we have no' ; had so few
changes at a general election ; the country has
taken Lord DERBY'S dissolution mucl more good-
temperedly than the Honourable Mc,tubers them-
selves did; and undeniably, and as a matter
of hard fact, it has given him, by f ifty-two votes
on a division, a better position khan before.