The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1859.

Yesterday was a proud day for the Emperor
NAPOLEON, the Grand Army of Italy, and the peo-
ple of Paris, who pressed in one dense multitude to
gaze on and greet the return of their brave coun-
trymen bearing their well but hard-won trophies,
of shattered standards, captured cannon, and all
the paraphernalia of glorious war—its pomp and
circumstance. It was a sight that must have
reminded some of the lookers-on of other days
what was indeed a work of glory worthy of all
time, past, present, or to come. But that pageant
bath passed away, and yesterday witnessed its
successor. May the lesson of the past be well
conned by the scholar of the present. It is no
easy task, as :time will prove ! It is one thing to
moant a throne, but another to keep it. The people
of Paris love show, and yesterday indulged them
with one in all its bravery. What will;
,be the
result of all this commemorative display ? Will
it really consolidate the brittle peace so hastily
precipitated at Villafranca, or will it end as it
began, in smoke with a smouldering fire to burst
forth again with far mroe deadly hate and violence
than before ? If so, we warn all those who have
burnished their arms, to look sharper as to the
use of them. Europe is at present on
the very verge of a tumultuous change, no
matter how peaceably the believers in the Con-
gress at Zurich may make up " their books." Italy
has been roused, not to a sense of her wrong, for
that she has saddened under too long, but to a
national feeling of hope for liberty, and just as
the cup was at her lips, the spoiler came
and dashed the charm to the ground. It was past
belief—it was a dream ; and now she awakes to all
the agony of her wrongs, embittered still more by
the blandishment of the Deceiver ! Can such
things last ? No. Let NAPOLEON look to it, for
it concerns him much.

A variety of curious little choppings and chang-
ings of the political winds that blow intermittently
in season and out of season, occurred simultane-
ously with the close of the late session of Parlia-
ment. A few of them are perhaps not un-
worthy in their wray of some passing enumera-
tion. There was Cdr. JAMES WILSON, for ex-
ample, after a long pause of uncertainty as to
what really would:be advisable for his interests—
stretching out his hand at last to accept that
tempting and lucrative offer of a place in India—a
finandial post out at Calcutta, analogous in its way
to the, one occupied here among ourselves by the
Chang .11or of the Exchequer. To grasp the golden
opportt inity in Hindostan, however, Mr. WILSON
had, of course, to let fall the Vice-Presidency of the
Board a,' Trade. That vacated office is thereupon
matde ova r to the Premier's step-son, the Right Hon.
COwP ER, who takes courage to himself at last
to inin the hazard of a contested election down at
HETtf uru.Hence an opportunity arises suddenly
upon- the opposing side—an opportunity long
look d for and at length visible down in that old
county town, where the two Great Parties are
tole ably matched, and where it is understood that
Mr. ROBERT DIMSDADE, with a reasonable chance
of Si iccess, will oppose
Mr . UOWPER s re-election
by ci ming forwarded as a candidate for the votes of
the 4.7onservative part of the constituency. It was
only ..tho other day, as we remember, that the
va(ancy caused in the representation of Taunton,
by the tr ansference of the old and respected Whig
Inenther fcr that borough during thirty years (now
lord TAU: 00N, then Mr. LABOLTIIERE)—whiIe it
gave a new rter to the Government in the ,
- no°
supporter in the Common's- to
Lori gave a new
the Opposition ! The Derbyite Mr. BENTINCK
I. '6ll g now M.P. for Taunton in lieu of the Whig
3lr ',ABM:MERE. The independent Liberals
otA recently have cause, we rejoice to know, of
a !cult ing in the return to them of one of their
o t id honoured associates, in the person of that
st aline h upholder of the Ballot, and of many an-
ot ;her 1 • ational and national improvement to our
p olitica, ' institutions, Mr. JAMES WYLD, once more
3 cp. fa r the Liberal borough of Bodmin. The
cetious and sparkling, dashing, and often lashing
-and wl tat many would call slashing—speaker,
RAL P 1 I BERNAL OSBORNE, we are notat all sorry