The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

Nightly.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new g-rand 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 Achievements in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. .Tas. 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
g-reatest equestrian in the world : together with Miss
Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle.
Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount
of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any
theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne.
To conclude with the Farce of BATHING.

:Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 641.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, sad £1 is.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

OANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
.J GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
ruE 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 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 EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, MAY 6.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
.57—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.

BABA:MEIER-30.10.
WIND, E.S.E. ; light and very fine.

Austria is taking matters very easily. She has
invaded Sardinia, but beyond levying contributions
on the peaceful population of the country, she has
made but little progress. Much valuable time has
been uselessly squandered. Morsothan a fortnight
since the ultimatum was announced, but a week
was then thrown away, and it was not until three
days later that she attempted a formal act of war
by crossing the Ticino, and insisting on making the
adversary pay the expenses of the war.
It may be supposed that FRANCIS JOSEPH
meditated a very decided coup, that Turin
would have been occupied and plundered. There
has, however, been nothing- of the kind. The old-
fashioned style of warfare is still respected in
Vienna, and Generals must salute their adversaries
with proper respect before they come to cross

purposes.
It may be that the Cabinet of Vienna may have
hoped that their present moderation would obtain
greater indulgence for them when obliged to strike
their colours, and ask for favourable consideration.
This is however a great mistake. The more energeti-
cally, we might almost say virulently, nations enter
on hostilities the more they will be respected and
the better tetras they will obtain. FRANCIS
JOSEPII is following the examples set by his fore-
fathers, and should he only go to command the
army in person, as currently reported, the ques-
tion will be decided, and the Hapsburg dynasty
will be numbered with the past. Three months
will dispose of the question, and by that time
FRANCIS JOSEPH will be convinced of the rash-
ness of his conduct.

It is difficult to understand what has occasioned
the German disinclination to fight. There is no
doubt that they are brave and pliant men, who
would unhesitatingly enter into the field against
equal opponents. But they, although " straining
on the slips," and actuated by a strong feeling of
animosity against the Sardinians, still hold
back. The weather has undoubtedly pressed
heavily against them. " The artillery of heaven "
has been adverse, and there are some reasons to
believe that, if they have not retraced their foot-
steps, they have not followed up the daring course
on which they ventured, or attempted to pass the
Dora, and thus find an uncontested way to the
.vPiedmontese capital.
There is something in the composition of the
army that may account for this extended inaction.
It contains men of different races and different
blood, many of whom may sympathise with the
insurgents, who, would rejoice if there was a
similar chance of freedom at home for the
Hungarians and Gallicians. Poles would be ex-
ceedingly gratified at the intelligence of Italian
liberty, and believe that it was but the precursor
of their own ; and although they may not be able
to desert the standard under which they are compul-
sorily arrayed, there can be no doubt that they will
not join heart and hand in opposition to the Italian
cause.

As we have already stated, Austria is the
primary offender. Her conduct in Italy has brought
on the crisis. She has ill treated those over
whom she had authority and usurped power.
where she had the slightest pretext for so doing.
There is always an avenging NEMESIS to bring
heavy retribution on the heads of those guilty of
such outrages against society. and Austria will
find, to her cost, that she will not be exempted
from the general rule.
But FRANCIS JOSENI is not the only offender—
Lours NAPOLEON and • VICTOR EM3IANUEL are
equally in fault. It is true that the latter is a
mere tool, who takes his orders from the Tuileries,
and is Prepared to follow any instructions from
head-quarters. He is grossly deceived and mis-
guided, for, as Sir 11. IPA. CAIRNS declared, in his
admirable speech on the Belfast hustings, his will
be the fate of the horse condemned, after the tern-
porary service had been obtained, to serve the man
for life when he had discovered the utility of his
services. •

Sardinia must inevitably suffer; and if Austria
only does so to the extent of compelling her to render
justice to Italy, more especially to Lombardy and
Venice, there will be great rejoicing in the United
Ringdotn. We believe that there i,s n of a single indivi

' dual of any shade or variety ofpolitical opinion in the
United Kingdom who can sympathise with any of
the belligerents, and therefore our policy will be
that of complete although armed:neutrality, which
has already been announced by many influential
members of the Government.

Taunton has done better than win, it has deserved
to win. Our readers will remember its contest
respecting the Ballot with Mr. LABOLTHERE, a
respectable but thoroughgoing old Whig, who, con-
scious of his immense influence, and relying on
having represented the borough for a quarter of a
century and the associations thence arising, offered
to resign rather than vote for the Ballot. No one
wished him to resign. Those who wanted his vote
in fas;Our of electoral independence, as well as the
Whiggish-minded among the electors, shared the
common and commendable feeling of not liking
to turn off an old servant. However, by
their memorial, and his reply, they had placed
themselves in the van of the..battle with Tory-
Whiggism, and honourably considered that their
position was:now a public one, and that they were
no longer at liberty to consult' ersonal and local
predilections merely. The BallOt Society, there-
fore, determined.to bring out its own man, and did
so, in the person of the President of their Society.
With what success our advertisement
.of to-day
shows. Tliey evidently, if they could not command
success, nobly deserved it.

It seems that not more than seven hundred
Toted. ; and these, according to the returns received
here, gave 407 votes to the Tory candidate Mr.
MlLis, 324 to the second Tory candidate, and
388 to:the old Whig servant. Mr. LABOUCHERE'S
seat was obviously endangered, and it must have
been by a large number of plunipers given for the
Liberal and Ballot candidate,•Mr. BEADON—who
p011ed.256 votes. Had the Liberals united their
votes
.they must have been
..in a considerable
majority ; but by the small number given for the
second Tory candidate, we infer that many Con-
seivatives, when they saw Mr. MILLS safe, voted for
LABOUCIIERE and MILLS to exclude Mr. BEADON.
The consistency of the Ballot men has however placed
Mr. LABOUCHERE, the distinguished Whig of the dis-
trict, in the second place, as regards a Tory of no
public. position, and utterly unknown by name or
deeds to the country at large. Mr. BEADON, more.
over, is only a private gentleman, we believe one
who has retired from business.; he is, however, an
active man, and during the Corn-law struggle was
almost the COBDEN of the West.

The result, too, was achieved in the most satis-
factory manner. Mr. BEADON may well point
to the mode in which his battle
.was fought,
as well as to the difficulties he had to face ;
he says, " With three formidable and influential
opponents in the field (one of them having the
strong ties of something like thirty years' represen-
tation, another a twelve' years'
.connection)—with
no canvass, no books, no solicitors, no committee—
no favours—with no machinery. whatever but Prin-
ciple and the Poll—well, indeed, may we exult at
having numbered Two Hundred and Fifty-six
votes out of a voting constitneney of about seven
hundred. We stand proudly alone in the country
for the noble example we have given."
We do congratulate him heartily. Such defeats
are the. path to victory; they are what the retreat
of the Ten Thousand was to the later victories of
ALEXANDER the GREAT. Let it be remembered
that these 256 independent men in a Thetford could
have returned TWO MEMBERS ; and they are a
two hundred and'fifty such as all the Thetfords in
the kingdom cannot furnish. Two .hundred and
fifty whose votes are their own, and who can use
them for their country.

We. noticed some rather singular 'results from

the gains and losses of the Liberals in the returns
for the boroughs, which included one Irish borough,
on each side, up to Wednesday. The Liberal loss
was* thirteen members. The number of boroughs
on which they have sustained that loss is twenty-
two, the number of boroughs in which they have
gained is thirteen. The loss of members being
twenty-seven, the gain fourteen.

On comparing the number of electors in the
boroughs in which any change has taken place, we
find that the total registered electors in those where
the Liberals have lost is 24,113 ; giving an average
of 1,096 to each member lost. These boroughs include
but five of those condemned by the " revolutionary"
bill of the hon. member for Birmingham, and
range from little Bodmin, with its constituency of
367, to Colchester, with one of 2,524, and Hull, with
5,221 electors. Hull is by far the largest borough
constituency in which a change has taken place ;
but Mr. LEWES lost by 303 only as compared with
Mr. HOARE, the Conservative, while the other
Liberal, Mr. CLAY, headed the poll by 180.
The thirteen boroughs in which the Liberals
have gained contain 14,938 registered electors ; and
the average number, therefore, to each member
gained is 1,096. Two of the number would perish
should the BRIGHT revolution ever occur; but cer-
tainly Chippenham and Cirencester could well be
dispensed with, especially since their voters would
be merged in the county representation.

It would thus seem that of the sixty-seven Eng-
lish and. Irish, boroughs which Mr. BRIGHT would
altogether disfranchise, only seven have shown
practically any interest in the present contest. The
reason, when we• reflect, is obvious. The very
small boroughs are in the hands of patrons, who
will return the Whig or Tory candidate according
to the party they belong to ; the larger boroughs
are in the hands of the £lO householders, who will
return popular members, even if they change them
occasionally, as in Finsbury at this election. Hence
it turns out that boroughs • with• from seven or
eight hundred to one or two thou Sand voters are
the most given to change—the hopeful battle-ground
of party. hey are rarely at the command of but
one: • party, or compelled to yield to one in-
' flueace. Sometimes, as at Dover, indeed, each
of *the great parties
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accordingly asthey
Others, like Great Yarmouth, are more than usually
susceptible to bribery... Others, again, are amenable
to local influences, or swayed by local preferences,
regarding more the man than the politics.
It is also a little instructive to notice the small
number.of electors on whom the differencebetween
this Parliament. and that.which will soon be elected
depends. The difference between the total ma-
jorities Which have 'returned the twenty-seven
Tories and the fourteen Liberals respectively, we
are hardly in a position to give, the correct state of
the polls, as given at the declarations of the poll,
not having all reached us. But we know enough
to know that it is very small ; the majority gained
by the Marylebone Liberals over Lord STASI."
would more than swallow up the whole. That,
however, is hardly a fair comparison ; but that of
Mr. BAZLEY over Captain DENMAN at Manchester,
or of Messrs. BRIGMT and SCIIOLE}'IELD over Mr.
ACLAND at Birmingham, would equally illustrate
the insignificance of the electoral vote to which
the 40 changes are due. Indeed, if we take
the whole constituencies which made these changes,
those which have given. the Tories twenty-seven
seats, although including Hull, hardly exceeds in
number -the electors of the Tower Hamlets; and
those which have given the Whigs fourteen seats

number amongst them four thousand fewer electors
than Manchester ; while both together, the electors
who have exchanged Liberals for Tories, and those
who have done the opposite, are but little in excess
of the thirty-seven thousand and more who are
now engaged in such fierce battle in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. We leave the obvious moral
to our readers.

London has now a tolerably fair prospect before
it of realising two great and long-desired advan-
tages. The preliminary excavations with a view
to the main drainage of the metropolis have already
commenced. The corporation has recently resolved
to participate directly in the carrying.out of the pro •
ject of the City Railway; namely, by taking 20,000
shares, thereby, in other words, embarking a round
sum of £200,000 in the enterprise. By the main
drainage scheme the Thames will be purified and
the Capital itself rendered in every way more salu-
brious. By the City Railway, traffic in the main
thoroughfares of the metropolis will be perma-
nently and effectually relieved, and the con-
venience of the citizens in this obvious manner con-
sulted. It is not of course without a considerable
and stormy show of opposition from the obstructives
in the Court of Common Council, that the proposal
for the taking up of these 20,000 shares in the
Metropolitan Railway Company was acceded to
by the majority of the members of • the corpora-
tion. One of these pertinacious obstructives (Mr.
HARRIS) considered that the £200,000 asked for
would be lost,altogether if granted. Another (Mr.
RowE) regarded the entire project *as a hopeless
speculation. A third (Mr. KEARNS) seemed to
imagine that he put the finishing touch to the con-
demnation of the enterprise by declaring that—the
whole affair appeared to him unsatisfactory ! A
fourth (Mr. BESLEY) considered it to be so unsatis-
factory, that rather than consent to the carrying
out of the suggestion before the Court, he avowed
•his preference for the notion that the members of
the Court should originate another railway them-
selves: Another of these obdurate obstructives
(Mr. TRUSCOTT) demanded that the Court should
be furnished with additional information. A
sixfhl(Mr. BENGOUGH) stigmatised the whole pro-
position as one contrived simply with a view to
render the Corporation a sort of decoy-duck to lead
into the snare the more egregious geese among the
general class Of speculators.. A seventh (Mr.
BARKLEY) was so dubious as to the integrity of the
project, that he only regretted that a motion of his
own, made some five or six months back, had not
then been carried—namely, one for the summary
abolition of the Improvement Committee. An eighth,
the most formidable of all these obstructives (Mr*
TAYLOR), after enumerating all kinds of reasons
why the proposal should not on any account be
entertained, was yet constrained to acknowledge
that, if carried out, it -would undoubtedly be of
immense benefit to the Corporation in the improve-
ment of their property. Eventually, after one of
the stormiest and one of the most protracted dis-
cussions upon record in the history of the Metro-
politan Corporation, a division was taken—when
the motion was carried by a clear majority of 63
in a Court of 147—there being no less than 105 for
the motion, and no more than 42. for the amend-
ment; : The Corporation has, therefore, definitively
resolved upon itself embarking in the enterprise of
the City Railway, by taking 20,000 shares, as pro-
posed=encouraged in this determination by the
guarantee, "the material guarantee," apparent in
the fact that all the other shares in the
company are absolutely to. be subscribed
for and paid up before the Corporation
can be called upon to pay one single shilling
of their money, to the amount in all of £200,000.
It was contended, with no inconsiderable show of
reason, by the promoters of the project, that there
was a glaring inducement to it in the mere circum-
stance that. its realisation would necessarily tend
to enhance the value of property now lying idle
and waste in the City, property in its present
position utterly valueless and profitless to the Cor-
poration. The property actually thus lying idle
in the City under existing circumstances has been
variously estimated at £1,000,000 and at ie1,250,000.
This, as was remarked, would at 4 per cent. yield
just £50,000 per annum. Supposing the property
in its present deteriorated' condition to' be sold,
there would be manifestly incurred a dead loss to
a very considerable amount. Here, in this project
of the Metropolitan Railway, was presented the
very opportunity to be desired by the Corporation
—an opportunity by which the 'waste property
referred to might be at once raised enormously in
value and turned to profitable account ! Railway
communication being carried from Paddington into
the very heart of the City—leading the way to its
further extension down to the docksrelieving, as
already remarked, the traffic in the streets—facili-
tating the means of transit to the inhabitants—corn-
pletingFarringdonstreet—and at length putting an
end to the desolation of that important neighbour-
hood. • As the Court of Common Council was well
reminded by Deputy PEWTRESS at the commence-
ment of the discussion—the Corporation had not
hesitated diring the last few years to expend
£lOO,OOO in building Holloway Prison (money
that is sunk and can yield no return), neither had
the Corporation shrunk more recently from apply-
ing £500,000 to the purchase of land and the
erection of the Cattle Market at Copenhagen-fields.
Compared with these enterprises, the one proposed
for the embarking of £200,000 upon the profitable
scheme of the City Railway could not_ in reason be
deemed' in any way extravagant. Happily for its
own interests, the Corporation has so decided—
and London enjoys now a fair prospect of witness-
ing the rapid realisation of this most admirable
improvement.

We have much pleasure in directing attention
to an article headed St. Giles, Camberwell, in our
front page, bearing the title of the Curates' Testi-
monial Fund. The subscribers to this fund have
rendered an'especial service to the friends of mo-
rality in Church and State, by evincing their grati-
tude to their worthy Pastors, the Rev. William
Whitehead and the Rev. Michael Seymour Edgell,
Curates of the Parish of St. Giles, Camberwell,
by presenting these reverend gentlemen. respectively
a donation of two hundred and fifty and one hun-
dred and fifty guineas each, in testimony of their de-
vout esteem and fervent 'gratitude. How many very
good, but necessitous ministers of the Gospel must
envy these reverend brethren in having so grateful
and discriminating a flock, who, by their bountiful
munificence, set so worthy an example to other
congregations ! But it does not Often happen that
pastors, however pious, can enter into the kindly
feelings of their people so truly as to command
their respect in the same manner .as Messrs.
Whitehead and Edgell, who have won such golden
sympathy from their discerning and. generous
parishioners. The example thus set will, we trust,
be worthily followed by other congregations who
may enjoy such teachers, fo- their devotion only
requires to be stimulated by example, and wherever
the Pastor is found worthy, and appreciated in the
exercise of his divine mission, we say to his flock—
Go ye and do likewise." •

A letter from Rome of the 30th ult. says—" The
Prince of Wales has been recalled to England by a tele-
graphic
.despatch which arrived yesterday evening. His
Royal Highness leaves this day, and in accordance with
m struetio.us received, will return home via Gibraltar."

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1859.