The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Mr.
and Mrs. Henri Drayton.
And (first time) a new comic drama, in two acts, entitled
AN OLD OFFENDER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr.
Billington, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Eburne, and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by (4th time) THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss
Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly.
To conclude with the Ballet of LA PERLE D'ANDA-
LOUSIE, 8y the Celebrated Spanish Dancers.
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 Swanborongh
THIS EVENING, QUIXOTE, JUNIOR. Mr. J. Clarke.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now. produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
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 Lilli utian Artistes of some p
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
Theyum.
m perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JULY 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
77—highest since noon yesterday.
62—lowest this morning and during the night.
73—this day at noon.
BAnomrmt--29.97—falling.
WIND, Easterly ; rather fresh, with dull cloudy weather,
and occasional sunshine. Early this morning we were
visited with another storm of lightning, thunder, and rain,
which continued for some time—the rain especially.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 32m.—Afternoon, sh. 49m,
To-lifoßnow-Morning, 6h. 7m.—Afternoon, 6h. 26m,

When a conqueror deems it expedient to explain
his conduct after repeated success?s it implies that
he has left something undone. This is the ease of
the Emperor of the FRENCH. He now feels that
he has committed a great mistake ; and what is
worse still, he grieves under the conviction that his
very friends lament it. Indeed the peace which he
made with the hope of taking the world by sur-
prise has only served to awaken it more keenly
to its absurdly pantomimic failure. He had
either promised too much and failed in its perfor-
mance, or he should have endeavoured to carry out
the programme of Italian freedom, for the due ful-
filment of which the expectant friends of liberty
placed such dear reliance, that they cheered him
to the echo on his departure from Paris. And
what do they do on his sudden and unexpected
return ? Why—but for that, the less said the
better. NAPOLEON had so truly anticipated
their feelings that he would not risk their
explosion. We cannot but pity him. To some-
the child of destiny seems to have lost his balance.
He who had dared even fate in his apparently
reckless career, seems to have shrunk from facing
the idol of his hopes when most he needed their
all-assuring sympathies! If wilful ambition re-
quired a more edifying example of the uncertainty
attendant on its pursuit, the late sudden
irruption into Italy has afforded one. People
look around in utter bewilderment, and ask
is this the sorry end of such glowing promises?
Alas ! that even monarchs are not exempt from the
mortification which they think, and priests teach,
is only the lot of poor mortals.
True to our purpose of giving all sides fair-play
in a matter where the universal public are so
vitally concerned, we have given, from day to day
the opinions of our contemporaries on this pain-
ful and most inauspicious subject.
It would appear that when people are in a hurry
to steal a march on others they but deceive them-
selves, for the adage of " most hurry least speed" is
exemplified in a most Imperial degree by the Empe-
rors of AUSTRIA and FRANCE, for both give variorum
editions of the same story, in which each would be
right, but both appear to be wrong. FRANCIS
JOSEPH has made a virtue of necessity, and seemingly
told the truth, while] NAPOLEON, in his endeavour
to mystify the truth, only flounders the more he
stirs !

A conference is proposed to be held at Zurich to
patch up matters ; but the Plenipotentiaries, or
whatever name they delight in, will find themselves,
after many weary discussions, much in the predica-
ment of the Irishman who cut a piece off the tail
of his blanket and put it to the head in order to
make it longer ! he was cold but could not help it;
nor more can they.

Whenever or wherever it is least wanted, it is
the easiest thing in the world to get up a testimonial.
Let any one obtain an enormous fortune for ex-
ample, in the exercise merely of his professional
abilities, and his admirers (he is sure to have plenty
of them) may at once, if they please, make a pot of
money for him forthwith. A portrait with the
inevitable curtain and pillar—a bust with a table-
cloth drapery looped and folded across the shoulders
—an equestrian statue of the old uncomfortable
classic species before saddles or stirrups were in -
.vented—a colossal epergne that would break the
back of the strongest mahogany telescope-dining-
table ever turned out of the pantechnicon—the
freedom of a City (that no one so endowed can ever
find the slightest use for afterwards) carefully
locked up in a gold box too large to hold snuff and
too small to hold
anything else of the least
possible utility : these and similar presentations
are numbered up abundantly
year after year usque
ad nauseam. There is, as the Yankees say, "no
end" of them. They are "fixings" that decorate
all kinds of public banquets, and tend to the glori-
ficatien of all kinds of individuals.
But supposing you are still here in the land of
the living and wealthy and prosperous—there really
is but small advantage in these most inappropriate
pecuniary testimonials. Supposing, on the other
hand, you have gone the way of all flesh, what
upon earth is the benefit to your shade, to
your ananes, to your memory, of those pedestrian
or equestrian monstrosities in bronze or granite
erecter tin our most public places to " fright the
isle ft om its 'propriety ?" Cui bono f Where is
the 11. ain ? Who is the gainer ? Say in the
instal 'ce of the greatest of our own military heroes
—AR THUR. Duke of WELLINGTON. ACHILLES in
bron: e throws himself into an attitude like
a s treet acrobat during his Grace's lifetime,
at t he behest of the ladies of England, within

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1859.