The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

It. GLADSTONE'S LONDON COMMITTEE.
S. ITS DAILY, at the UNION HOTEL, Cockspur-
street.
CIIA:IRMAN—Sir Frederick ogers, Bart., M.A., late Fel-
low of Oriel
Marquis of Kildare, M.A., Ch. Ch.
The Right Hon. Stephen Lushing,ton, Judge of the High
Court of Admiralty, late Fellow of All Souls
The Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, D.C.L., late Fellow of
Exeter
The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, M.A., late Fellow of
Merton
The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, M.P., M.A., Ch. Ch.
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Cape Town, D.D., Univer-
sity
The Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman, M.A., Queen's
The Ven. G. Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry, M.A.,
Balliol
The Ven. A. Grant, Archdeacon of St. Albans, D.C.L., New
College
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Christ Church
Roundell Palmer, Esq., Q.C., M.A., late Fellow of Magda-
lene
The Very Rev. H. H. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's, D.D.,
late Fellow of Brasenose
The Very Rev. A. P. Saunders, D.D., Dean of Peterbourgh,
late Student of Christ Church
The Rev. J. Keble, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel
Granville E. Harcourt, Esq., M.A., late Student of Ch. Ch.
Herbert Kynaston, D.D., Head Master of St. Paul's School
The Rev. G. Trevor, Canon of York, M.A., Magdalene
Hall.
Robt. Phillimore, Esq., Q.C., D.C.L., Chancellor of the
Dioceses of Salisbury, Oxford, and Chichester, late Student
of Ch. Ch.
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The Rev. W. J. Crichton, M.A., Merton.
R. W. Jell, D.D., Canon of Ch. Ch., and Principal of King's
College, London.
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The Rev. R. W. Browne, Prebendary of St. Paul's and
Wells, Professor of Classical Literature, King's College,
London, M.A., St. John's.
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Thomas Greene, E:q., M.A., Oriel.
Mr. G. K. Rickard, late Professor of Political Economy,
M.A., Queens.
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Fellow of Trinity College
The Rev. H. A. Woodgate, St. John's, Hon. Canon
of Worcester
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Prebendary of St. Paul's
C. Forster, Esq., M.P., MA., Worcester
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Exeter
Sir Stephen A. Glynne, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Flint-
shire, M.A., Ch. Ch.
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of State for the Home Department, M.A., Honorary Student
of Ch. Ch.
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rnftersity (*ollege.
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St. Botolph's, Bishopegate, Christ Church.
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M.A., St. Mary's Hall.
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M.A., Oriel.
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°ester, Oriel
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Exeter
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M.A., Ch. Ch.
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Exeter
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Melville Portal, Esq., M.P., )LA., Ch. Ch.
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Yellow and Tutor of Queen's
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Tailors' School, Preacher of Gray's-inn, late Fellow of St.
John's.
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Lavington, Wilts, Rural Dean, Proctor for the Diocese of
Serum, and late Student of Ch. Ch.
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Linder tne Management of Mr. Charles Kean
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakepeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FI TS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
WITS ETENING the perfosmanoes will commence with
MVIRTBODY'S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Compton, and Buckstone ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins,
and Reynolds.
After which, THE CRITIC.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.

Commence at 7.

JEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI,
a-1 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
IL Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly.
Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C. Selby, Billington ; Airs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Mims. Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Baloy and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
To eonclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
ft L. Toole, Chas Selby. Killington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Hrs. Billington.

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Oflice 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 IrirENLNG, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J.
Rogers and Miss F. Hughes.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISHWIFE.
After which, KENILWORTH.

Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
Last Three Nights of the Season.
Tremendous Success of the National Military Romance, the
Battle of Waterloo.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO, reproduced with all nl effects. Su-
ported by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cootske,o jun.,a Mr. Holloway,
Mr. R. Philips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert,
Mr. Stanton, Mr. Wortoys, &c. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton,
Miss Rivers, dm
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 s Madlle.
Francisco; Miss Holloway.
To conclude with a Novel Entertainment called THE
VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brivide.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 29, ; Gallery, la. ; Upper
Gallery, 6(1.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is.
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.
On Saturday next, 25th June, filo last niv.r.ht of the season,
Grand Change and Brilliant Routine of Novelties, for the
Benefit of 31r. William Cooke, proprietor.

CANTERBURY MALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIF.RRE FAMILY,
aossisting• 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 evt
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi.
?Mien in Continental Musical Circles, and drawnforth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Publio 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 23.

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

BAILONtram--30.08—rising slowly.
WIND, Westerly ; rather fresh, with cloudy weather.

The only news we have to-day reflects no credit
on his Holiness the POPE, who has sent a body of
Swiss mercenaries to attack Perugia. After a
desperate resistance for three hours outside the
town by a small portion of the people they were
overpowered, and the Swiss entered the town, where
he combat continued for two hours in the streets.
The Swiss trampled down and killed even women
and children, and next day they recommenced their
atrocious barbarities. It is said that there is only
one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and
the brutal conduct of these so-culled children of
the free mountains of Switzerland is so nearly
allied to slavery that one is lost in wonder how
really to define what liberty consists in. If it be
true independence to crush the weak and to cringe to
the strong, then, indeed, may the men of Switzer-
land read a new lesson to the patriots of other
lands about the glory
of liberty, freedom, indepen-
dence, or whatever other satanic mockery with
which they choose to disgrace the dearest object of
our earthly ambition. Without freedom we are
comparatively slaves. Now) the Swiss are the
wild embodiment of freedom in their mountain
solitudes, yet are they the veriest slaves

in the mercenary service of other lands. How is
this ? It is utterly incomprehensible. Why not
stay at home and enjoy their liberty ? They are
not sought for by any but depraved and worthless
rulers—despots who are afraid of their own lives
because of their oppressions to their subjects. We
think the only cure for such willingness on the
part of the Swiss to become such hired bravos would
be to give them no quarter if ever they come
within the chances of war with free soldiers.
That would soon teach them the value of self-respect,
and put a stop to such villanous prostitution of the
honourable art of war.

The Allies have moved on to the Mincio, and
Prince NAPOLEON is near the Po, on his advance,
while the flotillas on the Po and the Adige are
moving up, so that in a day or two we may
expect to hear of a grand concentration of various
elements which will render the Austrian defence%
erected at so much labour and heavy cost, rendered
perhaps useless for the purpose intended, and serve
only to make confusion worse confounded.

The postponement for yet another week of the
opening of the third Parliamentary session of 1859
was, of course, unavoidable under existing circum-
stances. The issuing of the writs, the nomination
of the different Ministerial candidates, the return
of each Minister by his
.individual constituency,
required this additional interval of preparation—
again, be it said, under existing circumstances !
But—was " the situation" rendering all this neces-
sary, in itself essential ? Was it requisite for the
advantage of the Crown, or of the country, of
England or of Europe, that the period of a great
war between France and Austria, upon the plains
of Lombardy, should have been selected as precisely
the fitting time for a total change of Administra-
tion—a dislocation threatening at any moment to
snap asunder the delicate web of diplomacy, and
necessitating the procrastination of all the ordinary
labours of legislation ? It is impossible, we main-
tain, up to this moment, to adduce any one suffi-
cient reason for so total, abrupt, and peculiarly in-
opportune a bouleversement. Could it be forced
upon us in any way by a minority in regard to the
reform in the popular representation ? It were
preposterous to assert this seriously for a single
instant—for it is a matter of general notoriety that
all the reforms we can hope to obtain from the
newly-installed Ministers, with any prospect of
being passed through the House of Lords, we
should certainly have obtained from their predeces-
sors. Was the change of Ministry rendered essen-
tial as a means of securing the maintenance of
neutrality as the guiding principle, at this Euro-
pean crisis, of British diplomacy ? It were absurd
to hint at this now for a moment, after the appear-
ance of that historical blue-book containing Lord
MALMESBURY'S late correspondence with the
Courts of Vienna, Turin, and the Tuileries. THE
mistake, we believe, of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet was
really this—the non-publication, until after the
division upon the want-of-confidence amendment, of
that truly chivalrous, patriotic, statesmanlike,
frank, honest, and most honourable correspondence.
Had Lord MALMESBURT'S correspondence been
laid upon the table of the House at the moment of
the assembling of the new House of Commons
the vote of want of confidence would have been
scattered to the winds—supposing even that the
leaders of the Opposition had had the temerity,
under those circumstances, to have thus flagrantly
tempted their own destruction, or, at any rate,
their own discomfiture. The independent Liberals
who were lured into the lobby in favour of the
amendment would have seen then betimes, what
they have now only recognised too late, that the
misrepresented foreign policy of Lord MALMES-
BURT could not possibly have been more truthful,
more honest, more resolute in its staunch and un-
' flinching adherence to the principle of neutrality.
The mistaken postponement of the issue of that
important blue-book has led to the lamentable
postponement of the commencement of what is
literally the third session of 1859. So far, indeed,
the Derbyites have in a manner to thank them-
selves for their own overthrow. The shaft aimed
at them (taken from the quiver of Whig cunning)
would have fallen, blunted and innocuous, from the
impenetrablf shield of that blue-book. Now that
the late Cabinet has been stricken down thus foully
and basely, by this poisoned dart of Faction—the
' shield that might have still preserved it in exist-
ence can only now, when it is too late, extended
over its inanimate remains, preserve those remains,
at least, and its memory from dishonour.

The success of the late manoeuvres on the part of
what was yesterday the Opposition, but is to-day
the Government—you would have thought possibly
might have rendered its organs at least a trifle less
spiteful and splenetic against their political anta-
gonists—against what was yesterday the Govern-
ment but is to-day the Opposition. Not a bit of it,
however. If anything, the flavour of their argu-
ment is a little more soured—it has an infusion of
a drop or two of additional verjuice. The expres-
sion of the Coalition countenance, so far from
bearing upon it even a momentary smile of satis-
faction, is settled more hopelessly than ever into a
confirmed scowl, half sardonic, half sullen, wholly
ultrabilious. Let anyone glance down the columns
of the chief organ of all upon the side of the Coali-
tionists, or Palmerstonians, or whatever else we are
to call them, ever since that early morning of
Saturday, the 11th of June, when the Ins were
beaten.by the Outs, with a narrow majority of
thirteen in the largest house upon record—and it is
impossible to say otherwise. Judging from what
those columns of the Times have contained in re-
gard to the late Ministerial changes, it is quite
impossible to say otherwise than that the victorious
party are about as far as possible from entertaining
any feelings of real contentment or satisfaction.
Instead of looking good-humouredly about them,
and making, as you would fancy they had every
reason to do, the best of the existing situation—
they are casting about them upon their discomfited
antagonists the most bitter and venomous sneers of
depreciation. The New Corners boast of their
strength as unrivalled and unassailable, if not ab-
solutely unprecedented. Yet they altogether lack,
in their whole conduct and bearing, the distin-
guishing mark of any such strength as this—
magnanimity. Nothing ever done by their prede.
cessors in any one department of the public service
but is, according to them, in the highest degree
reprehensible. The Administrators who have just
gone out, if we arc to believe their successors, have
done no single good action from first to last, from
the date of their coming in, during the February
of 1858, to the date of their going out in the June
of 1859. There is a wise old saying written down
somewhere in one of the works of one of the world's
philosophers, which tells us : " If ever, in a quarrel
between two men, you see one of them utterly lose
his temper, be sure he is in the wrong." There are
rare exceptions, of course, to this rule, as to all
others ; but in the main, in the vast average, we
believe it to be perfectly accurate. And certainly,
judging the two political parties now confronting
each other by that rule—it would not be very diffi-
cult to pronounce a decided, opinion as to the alter-
native. Anything more paltry, more meanly
spiteful, or more despicably splenetic than the tone

adopted by the "conquerors immediately after their
triumph upon the division you would perhaps find
it difficult to adduce by way of apt illustration.
So weak these men are, by reason of their internal
divisions—in spite tif their undoubted power, genius, '
and aptitude for office, individually—so weak are
they at heart, as a Cabinet, that they cannot posi-
tively afford to be magnanimous. Hence every
syllable applied by them to their outgoing prede-
cessors is a word either of perverse depreciation or
of wilful misrepresentation. Each administrator
in the late Government is taken in tow, and passed
under the distorting-glass of the Times. Lord
DERBY is, of course, submitted to criticism first, by
reason of his supreme position as First Minister of
the Crown. Ail that the Times can find in its
spiteful frown to say of him is—that he contrived
to pass enactments that had failed to be passed by
his predecessors. Dreadful accusation ! Then as
to Mr. DISRAELI—was there ever such a mumb-
ling, harmless, toothless bite as this ? " Mr.
DISRAELI could issue bonds and spend money as
well as other people." Wonderful ! Why of course
he could—it-was his duty so to do as Her MAJESTY'S
Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the Times omits
to remind the public that Mr. DISRAELI could do all
this without imposing fresh taxes, and without
breaking faith with the country in regard to the
diminution of the Income Tax. His successor, it
would now seem, is to break faith with the country
in this matter—Mr. GLADSTONE having a fresh rod
in pickle, in the shape of a reimposition of the In-
eome Tax ; not in its integrity, it is true, but rather,
it should be said, in its want of integrity. The In-
come TaiNeveryone knows,is notoriously, essentially,
in its very character—a War Tax. But then we
are not at war—the sword has not been flung into
the scale (yet!)—we are still delicately suspended
in the equilibrium of neutrality. No matter. Mr.
GLADSTONE is quite as well aware of all this as
ourselves—but he wants money at once and easily
—and opportunely remembering that both Mr.
COBDEN and Mr. MILNER GIBSON are, for the first
time in their lives, among the number of his col-
leagues, he decides upon giving the country off-
hand, the benefit of the Income Tax—as a new
reading, we presume, of Peace-at-any-Price ! We
know now, at last, the full significance of the
phrase. The price we are to pay for peace is—the
Income Tax ! But returning to the Times' criticisms
upon the ex-Ministers—we find it said, among
other pretty things, " Lord MALMESBURY has been
most respectably unsuccessful." How ?—of course,
by staunchly adhering throughout to the principle
of Neutrality, and by handing over the diplomacy of
England to his successor, my Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
with that principle honourably recognised by the
belligerents in Lombardy ! He has been " respec-
tably unsuccessful," we presume, because the blue-
book, recently giving to the world all that diplo-
matic correspondence of his has incontestably esta-
blished that, under his (Lord MALMESBURY'S)
guidance of affairs at the Foreign-office, from first
to last the honour of England was most nobly
vindicated. But again—Mr. WALPOLE and Mr.
ESTCOURT are swept aside succcessively with this
one remarkable sneer from the Times—" We have
had no disturbances to try the Home-office."
Wonderfully sarcastic! Then, as to two of the
most laborious and meritorious of our late Adminis-
trators—General PEEL and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON,
—what says the Times? Why, it says, first of all,
with surprising irony, " The army has not broken
down under General PEEL'S management "—no
not quite !—adding, " whether it has improved
time will show." Most meaningless evasion ! Most
insane generality ! And in the next place the
Times goes on to observe, " Whether the navy is
prepared for a naval war,l'happily remains also to
be proved." For which, of course, we have to
thank the " respectably unsuccessful " Earl of
MALMESBURY ! Not a whisper about Lord STANLEY'S
career as Indian Secretary ! Not a syllable in re-
gard to Sir BULWER LYTTON'S career as Colonial
Secretary ! Tell it not in Gath that there has ever
been any colony created under the title of British
Columbia. Publish it not in the streets of Aska-
lon that a term has been put, almost simultaneously,
to the monster monopolies of the East India Com-
pany and the Hudson's Bay Company. Enough,
however. The dishonest untruth, the innocu:ius
spite, marking no less glaringly the reticence than
the utterance of all this envenomed hatred for the
out-going Administrators, on the part of the Times,
as the organ of the new Government, show as
plainly as possible the inherent weakness of that
Government.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were, Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord J. Russell,
the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the
Duke of Somerset. the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Earl
of Elgin, Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson.

Sir W. Erie will succeed Sir A. Cockburn as
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and, although it is
not officially stated, we believe it is most probable that Mr.
James Wilde will succeed to the Puisne Judgeship vacant
by Sir W. Erie's promotion. Lord Bury has accepted the
office of Controller of the Household. Mr. Bagwell has
been appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury.

Mr. Samuel Laing, Financial Secretary of the
Treasury, has for several years withdrawn from all con-
nection with commercial undertakings, with the exception
of one or two foreign railways, the directorship of which
he has resigned on taking office.

" A soldier, born at Delettes (Pas de Calais),"
says a letter from the army in Italy, "was decorated at the
battle of Magenta for having saved the life of his captain.
This man, who received a musket shot in the action, fell
with his musket still loaded. Not far from him the cap-
tain of his company was parrying with some difficulty an
attack made- by a powerful Austrian soldier with his
bayonet. The wounded man seeing this, rose with great
difficulty, and firing at the Austrian killed him on the spot,
and then fell to the ground himself in a fainting state, quite
exhausted by the effort. For this act he has received the
cross."

THE TRAFFIC OVER LONDON-BRIDGE.—On Mon-
day morning last a number of workmen commenced
repaving that portion of King William-street which
adjoins London-bridge, and as this necessitated the clos-
ing of one-half of the thoroughfare an immense amount
of confusion was created, and much inconvenience arose
from stoppages owing to the great increase to the ordinary
carriage traffic occasioned by the Handel Festival, which
opened on that day. Complaints having been made that
the work was not postponed for a few days, the subject
was noticed at the meeting of the Commissioners of
Sewers on Tuesday, to whom Mr. Haywood, their engi-
neer, subsequently submitted a statement, in which he said
he had commenced the paving of King William-street be-
cause it was in a condition immediately needing it, and be-
cause it was the most fitting time of the year for doing it.
Moreover, it would be finished just at the time the paving
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-bridge
the half channel left. Good
paviors, moreover, were a very limited class of workmen in
number. The truth was, that the thoroughfares of the me-
tropolis were in respect of their capacity a perfect disgrace
to the country, and there was not in Europe a town or city
in which the main streets were so utterly inadequate for the
traffic that passed through them. Year by year the neces-
sity of re-paving streets increased, and the public inconve-
nience must therefore increase likewise while the present
state of things existed. This explanation was accepted by
the Commissioners as being entirely satisfactory, though
we fear that it may not be viewed in the same light by the
general public.

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1859.