The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

THIS EVENING. THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr.
J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss Woolgar, Miss
M. Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly.
Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C. Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Simms. Miss Laidiaw.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Selby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington.
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 will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
THIS EVENING, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J.
Rogers and Miss F. Hughes.
After which, KENILWORTH.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

AS'rLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager. ..... ...Mr. William Cooke.
Last Night of the Season.
For the Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, proprietor.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a variety of interesting Entertainments, including THE
DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, in which Miss Rebecca
Isaacs will appear.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's
family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic
concentration of unequalled male and female talent; Madlle.
Francisco ; Miss Holloway.
To conclude with a Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is.
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.

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., 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 EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 25.

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

BAnontETmt-30.02.
WIIcD, Southerly ; light, with fine weather.

Our readers will perceive that, as we anticipated,
another engagement of a most decisive character
has taken place. Fortune, as before, has declared
herself on the side of the allies, and the successes
of NAPOLEON THE THIRD in Italy seem worthy of
his brilliant predecessors. The telegram is dated
Carriano, Friday evening. It gives, as is'usually
the case, with the first intelligence of a battle, but
a very brief summary of events ; but it is evident
from the 'mere outline given, that it has been the
most hardly contested field of the campaign.
The Austrians having assembled their whole Throe,
which extended over five leagues, appear to have
made a desperate attempt to retrieve their former
reverses. They were unable, however, to withstand
the onslaught of the victorious allies, inspired on
the one side by hatred of the oppressors, and fired
on the other by the recollections of Lodi and
Marengo. The battle lasted sixteen hours, which
proves the severity of the contest. Com-
mencing at four o'clock yesterday morning,
it did not terminate till eight o'clock in the
evening. The losses on both sides must have been
considerable, but the Allies, we are told, have
taken all the Austrian positions, and captured
many cannon, flags, and prisoners. To-morrow,
we shall no doubt have further particulars as to
the exact locality of the engagement, and the
number of killed and wounded. The gallant
Allies, we fear, must on this occasion have sus-
tained the loss of many brave men,
but the discomfiture of the Austrians appears
to have been complete, and it is not likely
they will again risk an encounter on the battle-
fields of Italy, the scene to them of so many
disasters and defeats. They have done little to
increase their prestige as a military power, and
their merited discomfiture may teach despots that
it is hopeless to count on efficient service
from the enforced levies of oppressed na-
tionalities. They will now probably display
that dexterity and rapidity in retreat by which
they compensate for their inefficiency in combat.
Austria must finally surrender those fair Italian
provinces which' she has held so unjustly and ruled
so tyrannically. It only remains for the victorious
allies, having gained the vantage iround, to dis-
play in the readjustment of civic affairs a rnag-
namity which shall equal the heroism which
has so brilliantly distiriguished their military
manceuvres.- Let them wear worthily the
laurels they hare so gloriously won and prove
themselves in deed as well as in name the Liberators
of Italy. If NAPOLEON 111. can resist the tempta-
tions that surround him, and seek no sway in Italy
save over the grateful memories of its people, he
will occupy a nobler position in the records of his
age, than, if, like his great predecessor, he dic-
tated terms on the outskirts of Vienna and wore
the iron crown of Lombardy.

We do not wonder at Sir CHARLES NAMER per-
sisting in his motion for a Committee to remodel
the present constitution of the Board of Admiralty.
We readily admit that the administration of the
late board under the presidency of Sir JOHN Pig-
INGTON was a great improvement on the working
of its predecessors. But we must not take excep-
tions, however good for the time 'eing, as a gene-
ral rule. No. We want a good plan or system
that shall work of itself, be the managers, or, it
may be, the incumbrancers ever so clever in their
own opinion. We want a system that shall work
independently of My Lords," be they Whig, Tory,
or Liberal. Of all public departments in the State
that of the Navy is the very soul and pride of Eng-
lishmen; and yet, strange to tell, that department,
on which our national salvation depends, is made
the very sport and disgrace of office. And why ?
Because Englishmen are so bound up in their pride
and natural respect for the true blue, that they
cannot imagine anything can be wrong at head
quarters in the management of their darling Pet.
Thus it comes of over-confidence, and the sharks of
office seize on the credulity of honest men, and
turn their ignorance to selfish profit. Nor does the
evil rest lane matters are wrong at hem'.

quarters the areruption spreads most magically
throughout every department—to the dockyards at
home and abroad--in short, wherever there is any-
thing to be made out of the frank genet osity of the
tax-payers—all is right, for—" wh cares for the
country," is the sardonic grin witir which those
rats in the national granary disport themselves.
Nobody cares for the country in private
practice, but everyone blusters loud enough in pub-
lic about " our national interests—and the sacred
independence of our fellow men." Aye ! strike up
the National Anthem, and every brave speaker will
talk you asleep about upholding the institutions of
the State—tho QUEEN (GoD bless her), and that he
would die to raaintain her crown, dignity, and all
the rest of it.

Now, what we want is fair play for the country
at large, and for her brave sailors in particular.
Her soldiers are now better provided for—no thanks
to the Horse Guards—a right Royal Institution,
which seems to take more care of animals, because
they cannot complain, than of poor merit, which
may weep out its soul, and die none the better.
Still the " Horse Guards " has its redeeming quali-
ties—it does good by fits—albeit, those fits ema-
nate from a favourite fountain. But all men, and
all public institutions have their weaknesses, at
which the greatest wrong-doers are the first to find
fault.

Now, in every change of Ministry the Lords of
the Admiralty have to turn out, be it first, middle,
or morning watch—it's all alike—the ship has
struck, and all your fairy top-gallant sails now
flutter in the wind—the cold wind of Opposition—
just for nothing, or something worse. And why
should this be ? Simply for political patronage.
The very life-blood of the nation is to be at the
mercy of a political Butcher. Rome was not built
in a day—nor was the British Navy—and yet with
every change of Ministry we have a change of
" Ship Husbands," as they are termed, for man-
aging the office of the "Lord High Admiral." If
we have that on the very arm, which is our only
and true salvation, why not in the army. Wait a
bit. The one basks in the sunshine of Royal flat-
tery "ashore "—the other finds—

" Its march is on the mountain mares—
Its home is on the deep I "
and a very cold home it often proves.
Now, what we ask is this !—Why should the
Board of Admiralty be changed with every factious
change of Political Fortune-Hunters ?—and the red
tapists be allowed to wave their banners in the
wind of indolence and Royal favour.

Everything in the way of rational legislation
has, for this year, been disgracefully prevented by
those most unpatriotic party measures of the so-
called Liberal Opposition, now transformed into
the Coalition Government. Never was any year
more clearly or more:perversely wasted, for mere
selfish ends, than 1859. Instead of being, as it
might easily have been allowed to be—a model
year in the way of bold, sweeping, and comprehen-
sive legislative improvements—it has been com-
pelled by the Whig leaders, aided in this evil work
by their abettors and accomplices—it has, we assert,
been compelled to degenerate into one of the most
fruitless years of Parliamentary toil and trouble
upon record. Considering 1859 apart from merely
party struggles for place, power, and patronage—
it will figure as nil upon the pages of Hansard.
Yet, with a trifling modicum of self-abnegation,
the leaders of the quasi-reform party, yesterday
seated upon the benches of the Opposition, might
have so regulated the proceedings of the House of
Commons that _Hansard should have recorded a
the most remarkable changes and improve-
ments.

A reform in the popular representation was
actually within our grasp, including within it
almost every one of the great boons we have so
long, and hitherto almost hopelessly, clamoured to
possess. A cluster of legal reforms were prepared,
and some of them introduced to the House, by Mr.
WALPOLE, as late Home Secretary ; by Sir FITZ-
ROY KELLY, as Attorney-General ; by Sir HUGH
CAIRNS, as Solicitor-General—such as would have
added many a luminous page to the statute-book,
and have tended greatly to the advantage, more or
less, of the entire population. Colonial reforms
were being rapidly carried out, with a daring yet
cautious aptitude for organisation, by the creator of
British Columbia, and—but for this untoward
interruption of the labours of 1859—the destined
destroyer of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly.
The navy of England was rapidly advancing
towards its entire reconstruction. The army of
England was gradually progressing to the goal of
perfected efficiency. The Indian Empire, under
the governance of the Crown of England, bad been
brought within view of a more complete and
rational scheme of administration. The depart-
ments were all in full activity. Much in each
might by this time have been securely and happily
accomplished. Now—reforms of all kinds have
been swept aside for 1859—by the so-called Re-
formers. Everything will have to be deferred until
1860—now the Coalition ha.s undertaken in that
year to inaugurate the new political millennium.

Although the greatest social reform of all—
National Education—advances but slowly, and, so
to speak, incidentally, it does make way neverthe-
less. Of this we have positive and reliable Assur-
ance, upon authority, in the substantial form of a
blue-book, numbering no less than 700 pages alto-
gether—a historical document, comprising within
it the annual report for 1858-1859 of the Committee
of Council on Education. It is an attestation that
the department recently presided over by the Mar-
quis of SALISBURY has, during the past twelve-
months, lacked neither zeal nor industry. It is an
evidence at the same time—yet more welcome—
that the good cause flourishes. Within this last
year of grace, the blue-book tells us, 376 additional
schools have been built in various parts of the
United Kingdom. Within the same space 287 of
the old schools haveipro v
improved.
d.
either bee
Duringn
this
last
year
other-
wise greatly m
whole of this vast intellectual hive has been thus
busily peopled—under the direction and supervision
of fifty-four inspectors ! Namely, peopled by a
noble aggregate of 821,744 scholars—distributed in
clusters among 9,38-1 daily schools—those daily
schools being conducted by 5,495 certificated
teachers, and as many as 13,281 minor teachers,
who are apprenticed. Besides these day schools—
there arc no less than thirty-eight separate training
colleges, containing a total of 2,709—students,
schoolmasters, and schoolmistresses. There are
118 reformatory, ragged, and industrial schools—
having exactly, in all, 7,793 inmates. And in
addition to this, there are 539 schools for pauper
children, having inmates to tho very considerable
aggregate of 47,527 ! Evidence surely that the
Council of Education (such as it is) is fully in ope-
ration, has something to deliberate upon, and has
full encouragement for its deliberations. So that,
as the Times profoundly remarked the other morn-
ing, that the army had not been disbanded under
General PEEL'S management, that great puffing
organ for the new Coalition, and depreciator of the
departed Government, might condescend with
perfect truth to add that the cause of education has
not been interrupted in its development under the
Marquis of SALMI:III'S Presidency. The Times,

however, said nothing at all, in its sneering analysis
of the policy of the late Cabinet—the Times said
absolutely nothing whatever in that analysis—of
the President of the Council—any more than it
breathed a whisper of the Indian Secretary, or
uttered a syllable on the Colonial Secretary. Better
adhere to a system of strict and direct reticence
upon those Ministers and their respective depart-
ments than run the hazard, while directing any
attention to them whatsoever, of inconveniently
reviving to public remembrance achievements like
the re-organisation of the whole complex machinery
of the Indian Government, or like the creation, ab
initio, of the gigantic colony of British Columbia.
Comparisons might be unpleasant under the cir-
cumstances. Mr. VERNON SMITH'S—we beg his
pardon, Lord SMITH, or whatever his high mighti-
ness is now to be called upon his elevation to the
peerage—the late member for Northamptonshire's
conduct in office, while presiding over the old
Board of Control, might look rather poorly if
brought into distinct and vivid contrast to the
career of the head of the same department under
another name, of the noble lord the member for
King's Lynn. And so also—in regard to the
Colonial-office, under its recent chief, the right hon.
baronet the member for Hertfordshire. The least
said about that also would probably be the most
agreeable—both to the Duke of NEWCASTLE and
Mr. LABOUCHERE. Therefore we are to go on tip-
toe past both the Colonial-office in Downing-street
and the great Asiatic central point of government
in Leadenhall-street. If possible, those two de-
partments are to be drowsed back into the old
syncope of circumlocution. If they cannot be
brought to a full stop—they may, at any rate, by
a little judicious Whig tact or Peelite contrivance,
be allowed to lapse back into their old state of
coma. Hist ! Let us speak under our breath !
A little more caution and the country itself may
again fall a prey to the old drowsy influences ; and
then—and then—well among other things, in that
case A New Charter may yet, even at this eleventh
hour, be shuffled over to the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany by their accomplices the Whigs, and be thus
smuggled unperceived through Parliament.

ARRIVAL OF IHE PRINCE OF WALES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Osborne Royal yacht, with his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales on board, arrived in
Portsmouth Harbour from Lisbon at 9.30 this
morning. The military and naval authorities have
proceeded on board to receive his Royal Highness's
orders.

The Prince of Wales and suite landed at Royal
Clarence Yard, and leave by special train for Vaux-
hall at 11.

EARTHQUAKE AT ERZEROUIf.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 16%

Erzeroum was well-nigh destroyed by an earth-
quake on the 2d inst. At half-past 10 o clock a.m.,
apparently without any warning, and while people
were engaged in their ordinary pursuits, a shock
was felt, which, in the space of 15 seconds, destroyed
almost every building of importance in the town;
mosques, churches, barracks, prisons, khans, and
bazaars are either heaps of ruins or in such a state as
to make it dangerous to approach them. After the first
great commotion nothing of a serious nature had
occurred up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the
following day when the courier left; but them had
been a continuation of those vibrations, which every
one who has lived in countries subject to volcanic
action must have experienced in a greater or less
degree. It is sufficiently disagreeable to feel the
tremulous motion of even a distant eruption, when
the house seems to undergo a spasm, the windows
and. doors rattling in their frames. No wonder,
then, that the scene in the neighbourhood of the
destroyed city should, up to the latest hour of which
we have intelligence, have been one of indescrib-
able terror and confusion. Every living creature
had left the town, all the inhabitants who escaped
being encamped on the plain of Cavate. The loss
of human life is variously estimated, the most ex-
travagant statements prevailing ; but I fear there is
good reason to believe that 600 or 700 people have
perished. The English, French, and Austrian
Consulates have been either destroyed or rendered
unfit for further occupation.

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1859.