The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
o.Mce open from 10 to .5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of an articles found.

p OYAL 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.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.

Commence at 7o'clook.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.

Notwithstanding the Unparalleled and Continued Success 0:
INANHOE, it must be withdrawn for the astounding
Whitsuntide Novelties.
Overflowing Houses Nightly.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled IVANHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro-
ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic
Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts,
Victories, and Aehievemer ts in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm.
Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss
Dowton.

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
concPntration of unequalled male and female talent.
To conclude with the Farce of STAGE STRUCK.

The preparations for Whitsuntide are on an extensive scale
already.

Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips
Dress Circle, 45. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 Is.
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.

CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
ki 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, Dnets, and Trios ever
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 aid
ELEVEN o'clock, In addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 29.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
f,; —highest since noon yesterday.
61—lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, -2916.
WIND, South-Easterly ; light, with fino weather in the
morning. Rain all the afternoon.

MAY 30.
THERMOSIETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
63—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.73.
WIND, W.N.-Westerly ; light, with dull weather.

General GARIBALDI, on Sunday, suffered his first
reverse at the hands of the Austrians. He was
attacked, it is said, by a superior force, and com-
pelled to withdraw into the canton of Tessin.
This is by no means surprising, if without cavalry
and, virtually, without artillery—save the two
guns captured from the enemy—he should be un-
able to oppose anything like an equal number of
men fully equipped in every particular. He had,
however, received reinforcements at Como, the
artillery had been organised, and a national guard
mobilised. It was also stated that volunteers were
hastening to join the militia, that 8,000 Sardinians
Were at Varese, and a French corps d'armee
*as expected there. An insurrection, too, had
taken place in the Valteline, and the people were
flocking to Sondria, described as the centre of the
revolutionary movements.
These are important accounts, if true, but we
cannot always credit everything that comes from
Turin. The only thing that appears certain is that
GARIBALDI has retired ; but it is by no means
clear that he has been defeated. The celebrated
guerilla chief knows exactly when to advance and
when to retreat; and though animated by the most
daring courage, he would not unnecessarily waste
the lives of his gallant soldiers in a worse than useless
encounter. He has accomplished wonders already,
and-has indicated the course by which the allies may
obtain possession of Milan and incite the inhabitants
of the Lombardian capital to revolt and insurrec-
tion. The concentration of troops in Varese seems
to show that they will be prepared to follow in the
well-defined path which he has marked out for
their guidance.

An official bulletin published yesterday at Turin
announces that the Sardinians, under VICTOR
EMMANUEL in person, had crossed the Sesia in the
face of the Austrians, who were fortified at Pales-
trino, and had taken the village after severe fighting.
The details, however, are still wanting. Under
such circumstances we cannot repose much confi-
dence as to the extent or nature of the victory
achieved, The Turin telegrams have already been
distinguished for the most outrageous menda-
city, and certainly the conflicting statements
of the French and Austrians respecting
the battle of Montebello prove that eve' the most
authoritative accounts proceedinglrom the highest
quarters must be closely scrutinised before they
can be regarded as altogether accurate.
On Friday last we observed upon the leading
features of Count GYULAI'S report. This day we
have the full particulars. It appears that Count
STADION had 25,000 men under his command, a
much higher number than had been estimated either
by the French or Sardinians. Every detail within his
knowledge is given with great appearance of
veracity, .so as to satisfy us that he intends to
speak the truth. The numbers of the killed,
wounded, and missing are given to a man
in each instil:trice, while the allies shelter themselves
under genei7tl estimates, and carefully refrain

from entering into such 'minor details. The only
point in which there is apparent exaggeration is in
the number of the French army engaged. In this
respect the Austrian General may really have been
mistaken. Men were continually coming up by
railway and taking part in the contest, and we can
easily conceive how far the adversary might be
misled in that respect, when the new mode of com-
munication, never, we believe, before used for the
purpose of bringing soldiers to the very field of
battle, was brought into such active operation, and
whole bodies of soldiers set down at incredibly
short periods.
The three brigades were under the respective
commands of Lieutenant Field-Marshals STADION,
BAU3IGARTEN, and D'URBAN. The latter appears
to have had the lion's share of the fighting. It was
his business to carry Casteggio and Montebello, so
as to have a basis to threaten Voghera, and thus
force the enemy to display his strength. These
matters he accomplished and also pushed
on to Genestrello, and after a sharp con-
test, in which Count GYULAI asserts the
allies were in superior force, took possession of
the heights and places of Genestrello. There it was
that the conflict was most desperate, the results
most sanguinary, and GYULAI declares that the
allied forces engaged were three times greater than
his own. The Austrians were, therefore, after
very severe loss, but most heroic fighting,
eompelled to fall back on Montebello. From
this position, too, they were also dislodged
after an obstinate fight. There was, how•
ever, no attempt at pursuit. They retired
in perfectly good order on Casteggio, which
they evacuated during the night, reaching the tete-
du-pont of Vaccarizza, and on the 21st halted on
the other side of the Po.

The Count remarks that " the enemy's infantry
fired well, but that the report relative to his cavalry
is less favourable ;" adding, "it was not equal to our
hussars and lancers, and avoided every serious at-
tack." We know not what the allies will answer to
this. That they will not submit to it patiently
seems certain ; it is inflicting a blow on the national
vanity that will call a thousand pens into action,
nd lead to the shedding of immense quan-
tities of ink. What ! France inferior to
Austria in any respect ? That can never
be tolerated for a moment. lie also
describes the effect of the Austrian cannon as being
terrible, while that of the allies was but trifling,
the guns firing over the heads of the German
soldiers. This may be the effect of the rifled
cannon, which, although very formidable at a dis-
tance, may not do so much at close quarters. It

would seem as if another battle cannot long be
deferred, and then we shall see which are really
the better troops.

To-day our members elect begin to enrol them-
selves as sworn members of the Legislature—all the
better may they be for the ceremony, a ceremony
which they will assuredly forget throughout the
session, and which will be remembered only by the
fortunate survivors of the next dissolution. About
the Speakership we are told there is to be no con-
flict ; but who can predict what is to follow ? The
very next step may occasion a party division, though
QUEEN'S Speeches are generally too adroitly
framed, in these clays of political courtesy, to admit'
of amendments on the address. Both sides, now,

shrink from fighting party battles over what they
shall say to her MAJESTY, and the probability is
that nothing will be said this time on which a divi-
sion can be taken. Parliamentary Reform will,
therefore, we presume, be mentioned, but in lan-
guage vague enough to suit all parties, from Mr.
BRIGHT to the Premier himself.
But " what next and next 9" as the hon. mem-
ber for Rochdale would say. IVhat will the 'New
Parliament do with the Ministers who have called
it into being? On another page ourreaders may exa-
mine the details at leisure for themselves. We were
contemplating giving a complete schedule of the
changes, when our excellent liberal contemporary,
the Norfolk News, sent us the lists of the New and
Old Parliaments compared throughout ; and though,

where there is no change, this seems a little extra

printing, yet some may prefer this arrangement.
The table deserves more than a local circulation,
and may be very convenient for permanent use : we
give it therefore complete, merely italicising the
name of every member whose election has caused a
change in the personnelle of the representation any-
where, whether that change affected the state of
parties or not. We have done this, of course,
merely to render the extent of change obvious at a
glance, while the appended figures indicate its na-.
ture. It will be seen that our contemporary esti-

mates the ostensible Liberal majority at a little
more than most of us have done; but the difference
is immaterial. Estimating that majority at 98 in
1857, he reduces it to 57 this year. He has also
taken the trouble to compute the borough popula-
tion represented by Conservatives and by Liberals,
dividing the population equally where members of
opposite parties are returned—the result is, that in
the boroughs of England, 118 Conservative mem-
bers represent 1,393,776 inhabitants ; and 216
Liberal members, 6,085,110. More than another
million is to be added for Scotland, where all the
boroughs return Liberal members.
And what, then, will this Parliament do? Will

l it begin with party battles, or with practical mea-
sures ? If Ministers furnish no occasion for battle,
will the Opposition create one ? What, in short,
are the political prospects of parties, and what their
temper ? That a large majority of the Liberal party
itself would like to proceed summarily by a vote of
"no confidence" which we confess to be the
English and manly way- of fighting a party battle—
we cannot doubt, and we also confess that we should
respect the Liberal leaders all the more for their
taking a straightforward course. The language of
the speech in which Parliament was dissolved
points to such a course as the proper one for those
who think they could govern better than the pre-
sent Ministry. The QUEEN prayed for a
" Ministry possessed of the confidence of her
Parliament and her people." This was the
issue her MAJESTY was advised to submit to the
country. The first thing to be decided, therefore,
seems naturally to be, Does the present Ministry,
or one which could be formed from the Opposition,
possess the confidence of the Parliament which
the people have just elected ? One thing is plain,
even from the sanguine calculations of our liberal ,
Norfolk contemporary, that by forty-one members,
one•sixteenth of the house, this Parliament has
more confidence in Lord DERBY than the last had.
What, then, would be the result of a division
directly on that question ?

We observe that most of our liberal contem-
poraries, and the Palmerstonian organ, and the
Thunderer himself, who now woos, now threatens,
keep their eyes almost exclusively on the two
Whig Lords, whose quarrels have hitherto kept
both in opposition. Now they are entreated by
allurements of posthumous reputation, as both have
passed the grand climacteric, and one of them
passed even the three score years and ten ; now
they are threatened with present insignificance, and
f he censure of posterity too, if they will not shake
hands and eject the Derbyites ; now we are told
hat they have combined, that all is settled; that

Lord PALMERZTON'S acknowledged leadership of
the Opposition must place him in the Premiership,
but that Q-,,en if the Court, for any little reasons of
its own, prefers a RUSSELL, no consequence, the
patriotic PALMERSTON will take nominally the
second place ; since, as in the case of Lord DERBY
and Mr. DISRAELI, in plain Irish, both will be
first. Bat what is to become of the Independent
Opposition in all these arrangements ? They have
their party vanity as wellas the two Whig sections
of the Opposition ; and a great deal more political
honesty than both the sections put together. Mr.
BRIGHT, Mr. COBDE\, Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. MILNER
GIBSON, and some others, are not the men we take
them to be if they are to be dealt with as a mere
Whig tail. Their ability, their influence in the
House and the country, and all their antecedents,
forbid it. To them, as to us, it matters not a straw
which party is in or out. If Whigs scorn the
measures we advocate, it can serve no purpose of
ours to turn the Tories out. If Tories will bend
more to the popular voice than the Whigs, we

shall ever do our best to keep them in. We shall
certainly do nothing to weaken the position of the
present Ministry, unless we can receive irrevocable
assurances from their opponents of some substan-
tial advantage to the Liberal cause.

This, we hope and believe, will test the temper
of the independent members when the struggle
comes. If all who are mustered as Liberals Tote,
on a question of confidence, in opposition to the
Ministry, of course it will be in a minority ; but
when we deduct the independent members and the
Conservative Liberals, who like the present Pre•
mier better than either of his probable successors,
we question whether, on the only fair and manly
issue, the Whigs can command a majority. Lord
JOHN might be disposed to bid high in the matter
of Reform, but then Lord PALMERSTON would de-
sert him, and if he trims to Lord PALMERSTON the
Radicals will desert him ; and these differences
would be equally exemplified if the House divided
on a Reform question, or perhaps on any other of a
party kind, Even, therefore, should the rival
lords agree, we can hardly understand how they
could obtain the support of those whose absence alone
would give a victory to Lord DERBY.

Union is strength—that, certainly ought in reason
obe the motto of the Liberal Opposition. If any
Statesman of great eminence could assume to him-
self the lead, emblazoning that motto upon his
standard, resolutely defining his policy, overmaster-
ing all rivalship, transferring his present compeers
into his future colleagues, and so bringing together
in one grandly organised and disciplined phalanx
the 3,53 members about to confront the present
occupants of the Treasury bench and their sup-
porters—the DERBY Ministry must inevitably go
to the wall within a fortnight from the meeting of
the new Parliament. All this is no mere vague
hypothesis, but a simply self-evident proposition.
Who, however, is this dominant statesman who is
to draw the order of a symmetrical Cabinet out of the
chaos of an inharmonious Opposition ? " That is
the question." Whose hand is to raise the political
gonfalon, the mere glamour of the blazonry of
which is to effect this miraculous work of general
reconciliation ? " There is the rub." If a Ministry
could only be formed with two Premiers—then
there would be a ready escape enough from the
present dilemma. Though even then it would re-
main a difficulty—how that Siamese first lordship
of the Treasury should be designated
whether it should be the PALMERSTON-RUSSELL
or the RUSSELL-PALMERSTON Administration.
The two Kings of Brentford were nothing to those
redoubtable competitors. Each seems to say t•
the other as Mrs. MALAPROP says to DAVID in the
comedy—" You lead the way and we will precede."
There is no ingress for their followers through the
door-way of office by reason of the deadlock pro-
duced—not by the competition of politeness, but by
the vulgar and unruly scramble of each to get in
first—a scramble admirably depicted a few weeks
back by the amusing pencil of Mr. Punch.
The consequences of that scramble, it will be remem-
bered by those who bear that witty cartoon in re-
membrance, were most truthfully depicted thus—
Mr. DISRAELI pushed in further than ever by reason
of the very eagerness of his rivals to get in them•
selves ! Lord PALMERSTON wedged by the " ugly
rush" in a hopeless contention against one of the
doorposts, evidently not gaining an inch by his
most desperate exertions, and all the while
glancing good-humouredly over his shoulder,
with his tongue in his cheek and a wink
in his eye—game to the last ! Lord JOHN,
smaller than ever apparently for the place he
aspires to, weaker than ever, sinking lower and
lower in the struggle, fainter and fainter, without
a kick left in him, going down hopelessly, irreme-
diably ! Mr. BRIGHT, obviously, too much of the
bold burly JOHN BULL in his huge adipose propor-
tions to have any chance at all of ever getting
through such a portal in the thick of such a skrim

mage as that in the doorway of the Treasury! Tha

was " the real ugly rush" as displayed very recently
in our London Charivari. It is coming fast upon us
again—and again as it came to us a year ago simul-
taneously with—the race for the Derby ! Another
fortnight and the struggle will begin afresh. It

may be yet rendered a decisive victory for the 353
upon the side of the Liberal Opposition, if the rival
leaders of that Opposition will only come in time
to some reasonable understanding. Supposing
the Liberal forces to remain as at present
divided and subdivided—under the chieftainship,

below the gangway, of Lord JOHN, and above the

gangway, of Lord PALMERSTON—the DERBY Go-

vernment must by necessity remain in ! And the

ultra Reformers—among whose most consistent and

unflinching organs we ourselves aspire always to
be numbered—must meanwhile take such moderate

reforms as we can get from the Conservative Ad

ministration, and make the best of them while

so doing, and wait as patiently as we can
possibly contrive to do, for the coming of those
future hal\cyon days when we may hope at last to
obtain the Ballot, and a wider extension of the
franchise, and a comprehensive re-distribution of the

electoral districts throughout the whole extent of
the United Kingdom. For the delay of that

period of bolder and wiser reforms we shall
have only to thank the .two noble lords, the
rival leaders of the Liberal Opposition. Not

Mr. BRIGHT—he, at any rate, among all our public

men, has the manliness to advocate the immediate

advisability of inscribing these sweeping measures

upon the statute hook of the realm !
.Nor indeed for

hat matter can the present occupants of the offices

of Administration be seriously held in any way re-
sponsible for the prospective moderation of the
measures of reform proposed to be made
in the system of our popular administration.
[n propounding these cautious schemes of change
in the organisation of our Parliamentary system,
they at least must be allowed to be perfectly con-
sistent.

They have never professed to be whole.
sale innovators. They have never arrogated to
themselves a peculiar right to be regarded as
the only Reformers. They have not, like

Lord JOHN, held office for nearly six years—affecting
to be Reformers—and, doing Nothing ! They have

held office little more than one year—and, without

boasting of their intentions, they have at any rate
tried to do Something in the way of Parliamentary

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1859.