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

J. COS3IO MELVILL,

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS,
for Orphan and Necessitous Children, Pinner, Middlesex.
PATRON—His Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT.
A GENERAL HALF-YEARLY COURT was held at the
London Tavern, THIS DAY, June 28, 1859,
GEORGE MOORE, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair,
When an election of Twelve Children, Seven Boys and
Five Girls, took place.
The following is the result of the poll :
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES.
BOYS.
Thompson, John H 6,689 I Share, A.E.. ........... 5,617
Black, James
Wright, S. F.
Freeman, F.A.
GIRLS.
Durston, S. W 11,770 I Bradbury, L. A.
Carpenter, L. A.
Norris, E.
UNSUCCESSFUL BOYS.
3,251 Goodchild, W. J.
Lewis, G. A. 1,301
Moore, S. J.
Locke, J. J.
Masters, H. M......... 1,326

UNSUCCESSFUL Gilt LF4.
Pinto, F..... , . . ...... 6,937 I Callow, M. M.
Edwards, S. R.. L. 3,205 3lassingham, E. S 503

ALFRED LENCH SAUL, Secretary.
offices, 81, Cheapside, June 28, MI

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FI rs.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
a new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in
which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear,
After which, NOTHING TO WEAR.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs,
3. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billing-ton ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billing,ton.

Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.

And (by desire) THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan
Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley.

After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Bely and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
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Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office 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, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
Miss A. Burditt.
After which, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.
To conclude with KENILWORTH.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
LOUIS XL Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C.
Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert.

After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT
LETORIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin.
ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

CIAIsTTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
N.../ GALLERY, Westminster-road.---Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE 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 eve!
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and adml •
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public 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 30.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
76—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER- -30.18.
WIND, Northerly ; rather fresh, with fine weather.

The schoolboy cry in the playground of " slips
over again" really appears to express plainly enough
the actuating principle of our politicians this year
in the Lower Chamber of Parliament. This after-
noon the session of 1859 actually makes its Fourth
Commencement. The original beginning of this
miserably wasted and all but used up session tran-
spired of course in February, when the old Parlia-
ment re-assembled for the last time to hear a Speech
from the Throne, to vote a loyal Address in reply,
and to listen, it was hoped, with magnanimous and
dispassionate candour to the Reform Bill honour-
ably submitted to the consideration of the legisla-
tion by the councils of the DERBY Government.
How those rational hopes were dissipated
the nation bears vividly enough in its
remembrance. Immediate and comprehensive
reforms were at the commencement of the
springtime of 'fifty-nine within the grasp of the
popular representatives under circumstances which
secured to them the possibility of at once moulding
those reforms in committee exactly in accordance
with the wishes and aspirations of the population.
Simultaneously with the advent of this long-looked-
for and golden opportunity, it was matter of
European notoriety that the tranquillity of Chris-
tendom was precisely at that very juncture trem-
bling imminently in the balance, and that the dread
ultimatum of PeaCe or War depended at the
moment, if not entirely, at any rate in a very great
measure indeed upon the circumstance of the
English Government remaining unembarrassed
and unweakened in the midst of its most
delicate' and complicated diplomatic negotiations.
The Opposition knew all this perfectly. The

leaders of that Opposition knew to absolute cer•
tainty that by embarrassing Her MAJESTY'S Go-
• vernment at that most perilous and difficult
juncture they could only hope to secure advantage
to themselves by the wanton sacrifice of the interests
at once of the nation and of Christendom. The
entire session was before them, and in its regard it
might be said of them truthfully that—
" They gave up to party what was meant for mankind."
Lord JOHN—henceforth, as the Earl of WARWICK
13 known in the annals of our civil wars by the
name of the " King-maker" to be known in his
turn in our Parliamentary history, not less in re-
gard to Mends than in regard to foes, as
" The Cabinet-breaker."—Lord JOHN, of whom
it might be said as accurately as ever the
Roman poet sang of the first CCESAR
Gaudetque maul fecisse ruins"—recognised
at a glance how he might best, according to his
usual custom, avail himself of this most tempting
opportunity. Granted that, by so doing, that very
Reform'for which he had once shed tears in the
House of Commons, that Reform which was then
clearly within his grasp, within the grasp of the
Legislature, within the grasp of the Population,
would, in all human likelihood, be thrown back for,
at least, another twelvemonth ! Granted that War,
then-trembling like the sword of DEmoctEs upon
the suspension of a hair, the 'gossamer thread of
diplomacy, might by any untoward and precipitate
proceeding in the British House of Commons,

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
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 RhEetian Alps. Tent pis for England and for
Europe ! Tant mieux 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. Parliament 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 1539!
So that the real business of the year will actually
begin—thanks to the Whigs, and Peelites, and
Place Hunters, et hoc genus omne —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 )ate Government.
111. The re-imposition of the indquitous Income-
tax in all its (want of) intogr ity.
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 nsk ? To the
end that Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be enabled still
further to complicate the diplomatite entanglements
of Christendom by presiding at the head of the
Foreign Department ! To the end t hat Sir CORNE-
WALL LEWIS may try his 'prentice hand as Home
Secretary ! To the end that Sir CHARLES WOOD
may yet further and yet more signe4:llly illustrate his
administrative fatuity as the ruler o tour vast Indian
Empire ! To the end that Mr. CAI %DWELL may be
rewarded for his abortive motion ()I' last year by
his nomination to the Chief Secretaryship in Ire-
land! To the end that Sir GEOL:.GE GREY may
be comfortably shelved as Chancelli re of the Duchy
of Lancaster ! In order moreover among other
extraordinary advantages to the ',Country—that
Mr. LOWE may be made Vice-PIT sident of the
Privy Council of Education, and :Mr. WILSON,
Vice-President of the Board of Trek le. " 0 mon-
strous ! But one halfpenny worth ul bread to this
intollerable deal of sack !"

All concurrent accounts seem to i.ctdicate that the
terrible conflict of the 24th instant, 1' r is as desperate
as it was decisive in the _utter defi !a ,t of the Aus-
trians. It was not a battle of an ho trr or two—but
a long drawn out sanguinary series c,f attacks and
counter attacks, each gallantly six lying for the
mastery, spread over a long space, :intersected by
hills, valleys, broken ground, dusky roads, and,
: finally deluged and swept by a hurricane of
thunderstorms! It was indeed a set ne almost too
much to contemplate. Then, what must it have
been to the combatants—exhausted, wounded, and
famished by the bloody work of the frday—and such
a day—prolonged from night till me 7 n—from morn
till bloody eve ! The heart almost, sickens at the
direful and sanguinary calamity whi;ich must spread
dismay and sorrow, not only throng ihout 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 (lc ided in favour
of the Bravest. Well, be it so. I.Ve only trust
that it may teach a lesson to the young but fool-
hardy monarch of Austria, wl to is returning
hurriedly home—not covered with laurels--but
down-hearted and shrinking *lthin himself
at the sackloth and ashes which he Ia 9 diffused over
his Fatherland; he must now repe ut his temerity,
and, abating his pride of birth, z nay listen to
reason, leave Italy to herself, and,,, taking better
care of what remains, become a wi 3e: c and a better

man.

If the Emperor FRANCIS-JOSEI will but look
back—just a month or so—and thi nl of the inso-
lent bluster with which his councils : -threatened the
weak but patriotic State of Sardin it:C.3 and compare
the past with the present condi Lion of his own
affairs, he will shudder at the mad] less of his pro-
ceedings ! Instead of conquering ( me kingdom, he

has actually lost two, with disgrace and humilia-
tion, almost unparalleled in so short a time. And
all for what ? That being great, he would fain
become greater—boasted of his immense armies—
would not hear of reasonable advice, nor take any
course but his own; and behold the fitting retri-
bution !

There is undoubted generalship in victory, but
there may be still greater generalship after defeat ;
and if his Commander-in-Chief can retire with the
main bulk of his army out of the kingdom of
Venice he will achieve wonders, seeing how
weedy he is now beset by the pursuing con-
querors, and soon to be met by the combination
of conspiring forces preparing to harrass if they
cannot cut off his retreat. Indeed, the official
accounts from Vienna already betoken the shadow
of coming events, for the authorities of Lombardy,
both civil and military, are now to take up their
head-quarters at Laybach ! Did we not indicate
that they would do so some weeks ago ? But will
they even find repose there unless an armistice be
agreed upon ? There is no rest for the wicked, and
the Austrians have too long established their claim
t• such by the utter wickedness of their ways, anQl
may now well dread the avenging retribution of
their burning foes !
Let us hope that a due sense of his own position
may now suggest better councils to the German
Emperor, and that he will not lean for help on the
Prince of PRUSSIA, because such help would:be:effec-
tive and not avail either. It would unquestionably
plunge all Germany in a war from which not one
of the great or little States would escape with
honour. Hitherto the Emperor I\ar-o-LEoN has
acted with consumate skill and moderation, even in

victory.
Let him but act up in the same spirit, wholly
regardless of territorial aggrandizement, and he
will not only add to his own increasing fame, but
put his opponents and calumniators in the'wrong,
and so win the admirati on of Europe as well as
the conscientious applause of his own heart.

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1850.