The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
Continued Success of INANHOE.—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 Achievemer 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 ; Mr. A. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke,
jun., and Miss Emily Cooke, supported by the unequalled
male and female artistes of the establishment.
To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, W.
Private Boxes, £4 45, £2 2s, and £1
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.

f lANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
kl GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIER►RE 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 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 EVEEIY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICZ, MAN 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.96, rising.
WIND, Easterly; fresh, with dull weather.

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1859.

Both French and Austrians are clearly preparing
them. selves for a fierce encounter. The former will
unquestionably be the assailants ; the latter being
apparently contented with maintaining the position
they have assumed, and levying the heaviest possi-
ble contributions on the surrounding country.
Their posts have been very skilfully selected, and
will not be abandoned until they are driven there-
from after a sanguinary conflict. Louis NAPOLEON
already is beginning to learn that the realities of
and practical operations -of war are different
from the theories that the meditations in a
French fortress, as a state prisoner, may have
produced. He cannot, however, afford to remain
long in a state of inaction. Reviewing his own
troops is very different from meeting a _powerful
opponent on a field of stricken fight, and very
unfavourable comparisons may be framed between
the first and third of the name should he remain
idle while an enemy was occupying the country he
had undertaken to defend.

The Austrians appear to have placed every ob-
stacle and impediment in the way of the advance
of the allies. They have mined bridges to be
prepared to insure their retreat at any time,
but they will still obstinately dispute every
inch of ground, and not retire until the
last moment. They make considerable demon-
strations, but they are only demonstrations, with-
out any purpose beyond that of plunder and ma-
rauding. In these respects they are, unquestion-
ably, adepts, and should they succeed in the field of
battle, as in the obtainment of booty, the allies will
not obtain quite so easy a triumph as they seem to
anticipate, more especially if united Germany
should join in the contest, and bring her myriads
of troops to protect Austria from the consequences
of her own maladministration in Italy, Hungary,
and Gallicia, and preserve -what they will be in-
clined to term the integrity of the " Fatherland."
We have already alluded to the attitude of
" armed mediation " assumed by Prussia, but the
minor States are still more pugnacious. Every
petty potentate, who has a fifer, a drummer, and
fifty or a hundred soldiers in his pay, is burning to
make them "food for gunpowder," and thus get rid
of .the burden at the cheapest rate. They may
speedily have -the opportunity of so doing, for
LOUIS NAPOLEON will not be contented with the
liberation of Italy (!) but will go further, and carry
the war into Germany itself. Notwithstanding
the denials that have been so strenuously offered,
there can be but little doubt that there is a com-
plete understanding with the Czar, and that,
whenever the fitting time arrives, Russia will be
found coming forward as the ally of France, in
order to carry out their mutual designs. Turkey
will be one of the earliest victims. She will
be unable to resist the Muscovite aggressions when
deprived of English, French, or Sardinian
auxiliaries. The former will now, we hope and
believe, observe a strict neutrality, while the others
will have abundant work in dislodging the Aus-
trians from the position which they have assumed,
and transferring the conduct of the war into their
own dominions.

England must under any eircumstauces maintain
her neutrality. This is the great fact which we
have endeavoured to impress on the Government,
the Parliament, and People, and although we have
repeated it, usque ad nauseam," it cannot be too
often stated. Austria has no claim on our assist-
ance. It was the grievous mistake committed in
in 1814, and the misgovvrnment of the
important dominions of the • kingdoms then
delivered over to; her tender mereiGs that has
produced the present war. We certainly cannot
aid her with men money, or what has been pro-
perly termed " the contraband of war." Any
assistance rendered under existing circumstances
would be an outrane against the cause of liberty in
all parts of the world., _ _

Nor has France oK. SardiLia a stronger claim,

The former will certainly not do anything to
improve the condition of the people. " Physician,
heal thyself," is a timehonoured apopthegm, and
when we see freedom of speech and of journalism
in France, we may possibly believe that they
would bestow similar blessings on the oppressed
Italians. But so long as they support the Papal
Government, with all its errors, can we hope that
the peoples would benefit by a change ?

Piedmont is but a tool in the hands of the greater

Power.

To gratify its own feelings of ani-
mosity it, has joined in playing the French game.
She has already had better cause to regret her mis-
takes, and very probably will have still more. The
complete triumph of her " faithful ally"
might be the most unfortunate result, so
far as she was concerned. She has obtained
French aid, to avert the possibility of Austrian
aggression ; but those called in, seeing the conve-
niences and advantages of the territory, may not
be disposed to abandon it when the necessity for
their services has passed away, and Sardinia can
hold its own ground without help from any quarter.

There are several rather curious revelations in the
Farewell Address of the Right Hon. J. STUART I
WORTLEY expressive of his thanks to the Conser-
vative electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Conspicuous if not paramount among the miscalcu-
lations
for which he frankly avows himself to be
responsible was one, he writes, in the very midst of
this address—" founded on his unwillingness to
the last to believe that the peat Whig party in the
Riding, the traditional successors and political de-
scendants of the great men who made the Settlement
of the Constitution in Church and State in 1688,
would consent to be bound by the compact of a
few leaders, and sacrifice their own principles to the
interest of a party coalition." This sounds of
course in its way sufficiently vague to mean
nothing, or—anything. But the next paragraph
is certainly as explicit as well could be. In this the
Right Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY says, namely,
"In this (unwillingness to believe, &c.) I was dis-
appointed for in the ranks of my opponents, I found'
ranged side by side not only the old Whigs and
the modern Radicals and Chartists, but even the
Socialists and Communists, by whom, during the
canvass, I was asked to consent, not only to the
subversion of the Church as an establishment, but
even to to the general division of land and pro-
perty:' Certainly a very startling glimpse of the
discord underlying all this apparent unanimity
among the supporters of Sir J. RAMSDEN and Mr.
F. CROSSLEY! Together with the old Whigs,
Radicals, Chartists, Socialists, Communists ! Mis-
fortune, they may well say, introduces us to strange
bed-fellows—instance those brought together in
that great political Bed of Ware in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. Imagine the cordial sym-
pathy existing between those heterogeneous co•
operators—the old Whigs, the Radicals, the Char-
tists, the Socialists, the Communists of the West
Riding ! The intimate understanding between the
chiefs of the old Whig houses at Woburn and Bowood
—and the leaders of those amiable revolutionists in
Yorkshire who would fain "go in" for a " general divi-
sion of land and property !" COBBETT'S wet sponge
was nothing to this clean sweep of the rake in the
hands of that grand political croupier, your true
Communist ! And Communism, apparently, has its
outspoken champions nowadays in the largest of
our great county constituencies. There are dis-
ciples, it seems, of the philosophy of M. PROUDHON
down yonder in those wide manufacturing districts
dotted over with capitals of industry like Leeds
and Bradford and Sheffield—believers in the wis
dom of the sublime axiom, "La propriete c'est le
vole !" Dreamers of dreams of affected humanity,
but of real rascality that actually amounts just
simply to this—Property has at length got to be so
unequally distributed—you having everything, we
having nothing—that it has at length become
desirable (to us) that all property should be once
more massed together, and then redistributed in
equal proportions ! Let us begin all over again—
say these breakers of a very grand commandment
against very mean and despicable sins—those of
envy and covetousness. Yet these are the kind of
men who have co-operated with the (hitherto) fas-
tidious Old Whigs and the bluff, honest Radicals of
Yorkshire, to the end that the Right Hon. J.
STUART WORTLEY should not be allowed to enter
Parliament as the representative (for the West
Riding) of the cause and of the interests of
the Liberal Conservatives ! A change has cer-
tainly come over " the spirit of the dream"
of the West Riding during the eighteen years
which have now elapsed since that general election
of 1811, when the two Conservative candidates, the
HOD. J. STUART WORTLEY (now Lord WHARN-
CLIFFE) and Mr. EDMUND BECKETT DENISON,
triumphed over the two Liberal candidates,
Viscounts MILTON and NIoRPETu! Yet then, it
must be remembered that the triumphant candi-
date at the top of the poll actually polled less than
his relative, the unsuccessful candidate down at the
bottom of the poll at this last general election of
1859. The Hon. JOHN STUART WORTLEY polling
in 1841-13,165; while the Right lion. JAMES
STUART WORTLEY polled in 1859-13,538. Justi-
fying to the full the Right Hon. Gentleman's de-
claration, now, at the close of the contest, that
throughout it he has been in no way deceived by
his supporters in the West Riding—his defeat being
alone attributable to the circumstance of the extra-
ordinary and unprecedented Lumber of electors who
went to the poll upon the late occasion—deter-
mined, by means of this Unholy Alliance between
-Whigs and Radicals and Communists, to carry into
the House, at all hazards, Sir J. RAMSDEN and Mr.
F. CROSSLEY ! The compact entered into tacitly
of late upon the side of the Opposition is certainly
suggestive of a passing remembrance of that ano.
malous combination which, also in the name of Re-
form, brought together for a brief interval such an
astounding variety of political characters. " The
composition of the Cabinet of 1831"—observes a
political. commentator of considerable ability (Mr.
to which sufficient attention
D.205.7)11,-1.4" is DDY:s,uibnjelcrit3 " Chiefs of Parties," vol I
p.
has never been given. It was in reality a sort of
Coalition Ministry, and it is the nature of such
Governments to break up with violence from their
own internal elements of discord. The GREY Cabi-
net was more nominally than really Whig. It con-
tained old Whigs and new Whigs, High Church
and High Price-of-Corn-Politician, Canningites like
Lords GODERIeIi and PALMERSTON, an anti-
Catholic like the Duke of RIDIIMOND, an extreme
Ridical like Lord DURHAM. In the dissimilarity
and uncongenial disposition of its individual mem-
bers there were repugnant materials, and after the
first crisis of Reform was passed there was constant
discord, and unpleasant feelings at work amongst
the Ministers, although they were carefully con-
cealed from the eyes and ears of the public." In
all this there is something surely suggestive, in
the way of timely warning, to this no less dis•
tracted, conflicting, and heterogenous Opposition.

The source of the Ticino, about which we now
read so much, is in Switzerland, near Mount St. Gothard.
The river is about 112 miles in. length, but it is navigable
for only 70 miles. It was on the borders of the Ticino
hcaotruleirs Scipio.
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