The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-09 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

open a civarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Ofhoe from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No f ees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, CAPTAIN CHARLOTTE. Miss M.
Wilton.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
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
be in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
sonsisting 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, AUGUST 9.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.
BAnomETEn-30.02—rising.
WIND, North-Easterly; fresh, with stormy weather and
rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. 31m.—Afternoon, llh. 12m.
To-Moßßow-Morning, llh. 49m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1859.

Under pressure from Lord ELCHO, the Govern-
ment, last night, spoke at very considerable length
in the House of Commons upon the great question
—Whether, in the interests of Italian Liberty,
England should, or should not, take part in an
European Conference. "By particular desire" (of
the noble lord the member for Horsham) the
Oracles, not of DELPHOS, but of Downing-street,
were, for one evening, not dumb. One after
another they ascended the parliamentary tripod, and
there spoke—as became them all, most oracularly,
and as especially became them each in turn, most
characteristically. Our extended report else-
where will sufficiently indicate at a glance the
length to which the discursive discussion of yester-
day was carried by the leading members of the
Administration. A more careful examination of
these ministerial harangues will t how, according to
a more strictly idiomatic meaning of the phrase,
literally, " to what lengths" the leading organs of
the Cabinet went last evening in the affected
ardour and frankness of their explanations! Ex-
planations, by the way, so glaringly dis-
tinguished throughout, for the most part, by
their ambiguity, that they only remind one
of those once put forward by SOU THEY in certain
problematical prelections, in regard to the mystical
obscurity of which Lord BYRON wickedly ejacu-
lated—

Explaining metaphysics to the nation ?
I wish he would explain his explanation!"
It is absolutely impossible, we maintain, after all
that was said last night by so many of our leading
Administrators, as to the alternative of a Congress
or no Congress, with England represented at its
council board by her own plenipotentiaries—it is
absolutely impossible, we insist, to understand,
after all that weary debate of yesterday in the
House of Commons, whether the Cabinet is really
for or really against any direct participation by
England in the labours of the European Conference
—a Conference brought together for the re-
organisation of Italy and the establishment
of Constitutional Government in the Roman
peninsula. They would—evidently—and—they
would not. They are obviously—and this
is the whole secret—afraid to commit them-
selves I They vascillate between intervention and
not intervention—of course, of a strictly diplomatic
character. They are eager to have a finger in the
pie—and yet—it is so very recently out of the
oven of war that they are—afraid of burning their
fingers ! Hence the exaggeration by each of the
great Ministerial speakers last evening of his own
Peculiar role in the Parliamentary drama. Hence
the noble viscount at the head of the Administra-
tion was more hilarious than ever towards the close
of the debate in doing the light comedy part, and
was (upon topics the most serious) more provoca-
tive than ever of laughter, renewed laughter, hear,
hear, and a laugh, and finally of cheers and laugh-
ter. Hence the noble lord the Foreign Secretary
was more than ever, if that were possible' blandly
evasive and constitutionally commonplace. Hence
the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for War
such a preposterous ostentation of
indulged ill
really making.', clean breast of it, on the part of him-
self and his collk 'agues, that his elaborated rigmarole
is actually—not Irronically, but simply and honestly
—thus epitomised.
in the summary of the Times
this morning. 2 dr. S. HERBERT," writes the re-
porter, " denied that Lord PALMERSTON had said
anything about goil ig into Conference to settle the
details of the Treaty- of Villafranca." [Min dthat,
just to begin with, b.y way of a safe preliminary
reservation to fall bacA upon in case of necessity.]
'a' The Government had never been asked to join in
ig those details the Treaty of Villifranca."
fl\row for the 'more elaborated specimen of Mr.
SID: VEY HERBERT'S circums tinting, circumambient,
circumlocution—so sinuously Lutervolved and intri-
cate!) winding even when epitc,nlised !] " Although
we ha, i not been belligerents thct was no argument
against : entering the Conference;; and would it be

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