The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

fall like a thunderbolt in the midst of the
anxious deliberations of the European negotiators !
No matter—Perish the sacred interests of Reform
—Perish the long-continued peace among the na-
tions of Christendom—so that the Great Families
were but restored again to Power—so that new
i life might but be breathed afresh into the ashen

corpse of Whiggery, so that the great House of
Vipont might but once more be rehabilitated.
Hence Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S notorious Resolu-

tions. The momentary success of those Resolutions
—a success brought about exclusively for the merest
party purposes—necessitated, what did those Reso-
lutions not necessitate ? They in a manner
compelled her MAJESTY to dissolve Parlia-
ment. They threw over to another year the
mere prospect of a Reform in the popular represen-
tation. They interrupted, at the most critical
juncture of all, the diplomatic negotiations con-
ducted with honourable and patriotic consistency
from first to last by the Earl of MALMESBURY—
and lead as a matter of course to the disastrous out-
break upon the plains of Lombardy, of that san-
guinary conflict now raging between the Po and
the Rhaetian Alps. Tant pis for England and for
Europe ! Tant rale= for the great Whig
leaders and their followers ! So long as the

latter were but restored to place and power
and patronage—what matter that at home
we were denied the chance of any reform
at all in 1859 ? what matter that the two
best disciplined and most formidable armies of
Christendom were brought into bloody and terrible
collision ? Well, the results that were alone inevi-
table came as the necessary consequence of the
factious triumph won by those specious and detest-
able Resolutions. Pprliament was of course dis-
solved. The negotiations of Lord MALMESBURY
between the Courts of Turin, Paris, and Vienna
were of course brought at once to an abrupt and
disastrous termination. War broke out upon the
boundary line between Piedmont and Lombardy.
Reform was rendered hopeless in 1859—was thrown
back at least another twelvmonth. Not until the
beginning of the very month that terminates to-
day could the New Parliament—the sixth of VIC-
TORIA—be assembled together down at Westmin-
ster. That was the Second commencement of this
monstrously wasted Session of 1859. Scarcely,
however, had the new Parliament listened, at the
beginning of June, to another QUEEN'S Speech,
when the customary loyal address was immediately
followed up by a factious amendment. One of the
narrowest majorities ever obtained (13) in the
largest house upon record (638) in the annals of
Parliament, resulted in an abrupt and total change
of Administrations. After a mysterious week,
spent in secret compromises and reconciliations, the
Third Beginning had to be made in this most
unfortunate and fruitless session of Parliament.
The Third proved this time, however, anything
but the charm—and this for a sufficiently obvious
and a wholly unavoidable reason—the new
Ministers had to be re-elected by their respective
constituencies ! Whether they will all be so re-
elected is, of course, yet a matter of uncertainty—
cannot possibly be guessed, indeed, until the result
of the Oxford University contest is known
to-morrow evening. But, without waiting for
this all-essential preliminary to the Minis-
terial explanations, Lord PALMERSTON is this
very afternoon, by indulging the House'of Com-
mons prematurely with those explanations, formally
and deliberately to inaugurate the Fourth Com-
mencement of the Parliamentary Session of 1859!
So that the real business of the year will actually
begin—thanks to the Whigs, and Peelites, and
Place Hunters, et hoc genus mane—simultaneously
with the commencement of July ! And that Business
will really consist—thanks to the Whigs and the
rest of the factious Chiefs of the Coalition—of
(among others of a like kind) the following
achievements :
I. The postponement of the Question of Reform
till 1860.

11. The preservation, if possible (!), of the Neu-
trality inaugurated by the late Government.
111. The re-imposition of the iniquitous Income-
tax in all its (want of) integrity.
IV. The reduction, if in any way practicable, of
the Naval Estimates, nobly increased by Sir

J. PAKINGTON.
V. The renewal, if it can only in any way be
managed, of the Hudson's Bay Company's
Charter.

And these extraordinary advantages have been
gained—to what end let us ask ? To the
end that Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be enabled still
further to complicate the diplomatic entanglements
of Christendom by presiding at the head of the
Foreign Department ! To the end that Sir CORN E-
WALL LEWIS may try his 'prentice hand as Home
Secretary ! To the end that Sir CHARLES WOOD
may yet further and yet more signally illustrate his
administrative fatuity as the ruler of our vast Indian
Empire ! To the end that Mr. CARDWELL may be
rewarded for his abortive motion of last year by
his nomination to the Chief Secretaryship in Ire-
land ! To the end that Sir GEORGE GREY may
be comfortably shelved as Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster ! In order moreover among other
extraordinary advantages to the country—that
Mr. LOWE may be made Vice-President of the
Pzivy Council of Education, and Mr. WILSON,
Vice-President of the Board of Trade. " 0 mon-
strous ! But one halfpenny worth of bread to this
intollerable deal of sack !"

All concurrent accounts seem to indicate that the
terrible conflict of the 24th instant, was as desperate
as it was decisive in the utter defeat of the Aus-
trians. It was not a battle of an hour or two—but
a long drawn out sanguinary series of attacks and
counter attacks, each gallantly striving for the
mastery, spread over a long space, intersected by
hills, valleys, broken ground, dusty roads, and,
finally deluged and swept by a hurricane of
thunderstorms! It was indeed a scene almost too
Then, what must it have
beenlub to to contemplate.th combatants—exhausted, wounded, and
famished by the bloody work of the day—and such
a day—prolonged from night till morn—from morn
till bloody eve ! The heart almost sickens at the
direful and sanguinary calamity which must spread
dismay and sorrow, not only throughout Germany,
but all over France and Piedmont. Still there is
one consolation that each did what he considered
his duty, and the God of Battles decided in favour
of the Bravest. Well, be it so. We only trust
that it may teach a lesson to the young but fool-
hardy monarch of Austria, who is returning
hurriedly home—not covered with laurels--but
down-hearted and shrinking within himself
at the sackloth and ashes which he has diffused over
his Fatherland ; he must now repent his temerity,
and, abating his pride of birth, may listen to
reason, leave Italy to herself, and, taking better
care of what remains, become a wiser and a better