The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-13 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas.
Selby, Billine-,ton ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Billington.___

After which., THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, I'. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and
Kate Kelly.

MASKS AND FACES; Triplet, Mr. B. Webster; Quin
Mr. P. Bedford ; Sir Charles, Mr. C Selby; Ernest, Kr. Bil-
lington ; Peg, Woffiing,ton, Miss Woolgar ; Mabel, Miss H.
Simms.

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 will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark.
Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
Continued Success of INANHOE.—Overflowing Houses
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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 to 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 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 RAISING THE WIND.
:Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 29, ; Gallery, ls.; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is.
Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
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 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.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.
BAROMETER--29.17.
WIND, South-easterly; rather fresh, with very fine
weather.

Within three weeks from the present time
Parliament will have reassembled. Already the
" returns " for the new House of Commons have
been completed, with the exception of less than a
quarter of a hundred. The division -which led to
the dissolution of its: predecessor was one, it will
be remembered, in a House of 626 members—
counting the four Tellers and the Speaker. So that,
comparing the 626 new members already returned
with the 626 then assembled together, we
may understand perfectly well already how
far the appeal to the country by her
MAJESTY'S Ministers has really been responded
to by the constituencies. Taking the estimate of
the gains and losses upon either side, given by the
chief organ of the Opposition—the Times—we
find it distinctly stated this morning that the clear
balance struck between the opposing " parties" out
of the 626 returns already delivered in, yields
(according to the Times) an advantage of exactly
twenty seats altogether, won in towns and counties
to the side of the Conservatives! The sum total
of the Liberal gains being stated at 20, and the
sum total of the Liberal losses being given at 40
—there is, consequently, as we have said a clear
advantage of 20 won to the side of the Govern-
ment. Those 20 count upon a division,
of course, at double—namely, FORTY. And the
clear majority against Ministers in the last House
of 626 was one of thirty-nine—and those thirty-
nine, it must also be borne in mind, were secured
as a clear majority only by the most exceptional
and notoriously temporary combination (as the
playbills express it) "for one night only," and that
too " by particular desire "—of all the conflicting
sections of parties making up the aggregate of that
most heterogeneous opposition ! All this, we repeat,
is simply notorious. Everyone knows the facts
here particularised perfectly well—they are facts
patent to the whole mass of the popula-
tion. We merely now recapitulate them,
because the 626 members brought together
in the old House showed an advantage on
the side of the Opposition of just exactly one less
in the way of a clear- majority, than the clear ma-
jority now gained in the returns actually made of
members re-elected to the new House to the num-
ber also, as it happens, of 626 altogether. Yes-
terday, so to speak, the Opposition contrived, just
for once in a way, by a merely passing combination
brought about by Lord JOHN'S specious Resolutions
—yesterday the Opposition, we repeat, contrived.
thus, by a desperate effort, to obtain a clear
majority of 39 (in a house of 626 members)
against the Government. To-day, so to speak, as
the result of the consequent appeal to the country,
the Government has contrived to turn the tables
effectually—and that not upon one division, but
upon all divisions—not temporarily, but perma-
nently—against their opponents. To-day, in other
words, to borrow from the Times, the numerals put
forward this very morning by our contemporary as
the organ of the Opposition—to-day there is mani-
fest, a clear majority of 40 (in a house of 626
members) against the Opposition ! So considered
—not through the showing of the Morning Herald
but of the Times itself, of all papers in the
world—the result is rather of an anticlimax,
after all the bouncing of the more bumptious
partisans of the Opposition. It is a ,result,
of course, ingenuously attributed, according to the
manner of partisans, to nothing less flagrant than
the grossest bribery and corruption ! It is so ob-
vious, to be sure, upon the face of it—that all West
Kent, for example, could be thus bribed, that all
South Lancashire Could be thus corrupted by the
agency of some übiquitous FRAIL, through the
magic influence of some nameless electioneering
Gentleman in Black, with an unfathomable bag of
gold and a diabolical pair of green spectacles. The
trick is so easily managed. It is only a shuffle of
the cards that is required—a rattle of
preciousthe
loaded dice, dice loaded with the
metal—with a hocus-pocus ! hey! presto ! and
the thing is done, or if you like it better, the
country is done, to a nicety, in a twinkling: Such

at least is all the explanation we can obtain from
the organs of the Opposition as to this surprising
result of the elections—namely, this cle r gain of
twenty scats (counting forty—not tur -nine, but
FORTY upon a division) to the side o' the Govern-
ment.

Collect together 626 members of the new House
of Commons, and divide them on the Ist of June
upon the same plea that the 626 members of the
old House were divided upon the morning of All-
fools's day—and, providing only you have there
the representatives of those twenty seats already
gained to Ministers in this General Election, the
balance struck must clearly be to the advantage of
her MAJESTY'S Government.

France and Austria are still busily engaged in
watching each other. Both are prepared for action
but neither willing to strike. The armies on both
sides aro eager for the fray, but nothing can be
done without instructions from head-quarters.
General GYULAI waits for commands from Vienna,
while Louis NAPOLEON desires to monopolise all
the glory and honour that can be obtained in his
new capacity as a military commander. Nor is he
singular in this taste; for it is said that FRANCIS
JOSEPH is about joining the Austrian army in Italy.
He will probably keep out of the way
of " cold steel " or " hot lead," but play-
ing at soldiers is an Imperial pastime
to which crowned heads are especially
addicted. Perhaps they might find it more ad-
vantageous to leave the matter in the hands of
experienced men, who understand not merely the
theory but the practice of the direful art.
The French Emperor arrived at Genoa yester-
day, and, it is needless to state, that he was
received with intense enthusiasm by those whose
ruling passion is an inflexible hatred of Austria.
Of course he exhibited himself and reviewed
troops. There could be no doubt on that point.
He could not relinquish the opportunity for display,
so dear to every Frenchman.
His arrival may possibly bring matters to a
crisis. The Austrians are manifestly acting on
the defensive ; but they have taken up a strong
position, and with the aid of powerful appliances
at their command will not easily be driven from
the line which they have entrenched and for-
tified. They have a river, the Sesia, in front,
which must be crossed by any assailant, and the
new discoveries in military science will render
such operations far more difficult than in the
olden time. NAPOLEON I. was fifty years in
advance of his opponents ; he thoroughly under-
stood the value of artillery. But it is now generally
known that instruments of death have been greatly
improved, or rather their destructive operation
has been enhanced. The conflicts will no longer
be of man against man. There will be few, if any,
hand to band encounters. Battles will be decided
before the opponents have arrived within half the
distance in which the tried and long valued
" Brown Bess" could be depended on.
Louis NAPOLEON has already issued a proclama-
tion to " The Army of Italy." It is a paraphrase
of several issued by the founder of the dynasty.
He must, however, distinguish himself with the
" sword " before the " pen " will carry any
weight. He speaks of Mondovi, Marengo,
Lodi, Castiglione, Arcole, and Rivoli ; but
he must remember that these were deeds
of other times, when there was indeed
" a giant in the land." He also speaks of the
bayonet being " the terrible weapon of the French
infantry, as it always has been." The changes in
ordnance may, however, effect, as we have already
stated, a great alteration in this respect. But, were
it otherwise—were the contest to be decided simply
by "the bayonet," we should not be disposed to
place implicit faith in our neighbours, We know
that it was by the use of that instrument that our
own gallant soldiers achieved their greatest
triumphs ; and Captain MARYATT, in one of
his very amusing novels, explained that it

was owing solely to their " ticklishness" which
prevented them from meeting such a weapon.
The French are brave and gallant soldiers,
as we have experienced, both as enemies
and allies, but the bayonet is not the instrument
in which they excel, and the paragraph respecting
it in the EMPEROR'S proclamation must be regarded
as mere facon de parler, or, according to the
vulgate, pure and unquestionable " bosh."
As we have already stated, we cannot understand
the Austrian game. They forced on a war, and
thus put themselves in a wrong position with every
nation of Europe. They might have obtained
very considerable advantages by so doing—might
have seized on, and plundered the enemy's capital
before French assistance was available, and
have inflicted a heavy blow and great
discouragement on VICTOR EMMANUEL and his
people. But in place of so doing, they con-
tented themselves with demonstrations—were satis-
fied to levy contributions on innocent and inoffen-
sive peasants, a considerable portion whereof they
abandoned in their rather hasty retreat. This is not
what might have been anticipated from an army so
highly lauded. We believe, however, that they
have acted in accordance with instructions from
Vienna, and that neither Count GYULAI nor his
soldiers are responsible for the dilatory and pro-
crastinating conduct displayed. When, however,
there are " two RICHARDS in the field," when
" Greek meets Greek," and Emperors are
heading the opposing armies, then something
more decisive will be attempted. The " Eagles"
will probably come to the scratch, and engage
beaks and talons in the deadly strife. It may be
play to them, but it will be death to myriads of
their subjects.

What are the prospects of parties ? Probably
this question depends for its answer chiefly on
another—What is the temper of parties ? If we
look at the result of the elections now so nearly
concluded, its aspect is somewhat perplexing.
One view of it gives lord DERBY a majority, an-
other a minority. If we regard merely the
"Liberal gains and losses," the Government would
appearto have just turned the scale, by a dissolution,
in its own favour. The majority on the 31st of March
was only thirty-nine in one of the fullest Houses
within our recollection, while the calculation most
favourable to the Liberals shows a net loss to the
party of twenty—it may be one or two more or
less ; this, of course, should place the Conserva-
tives, in another hostile or party division, quite on
a level with their antagonists ; all would depend
on the character of the resolution or motion by
which it was sought to eject them, and the dis-
favour, or the contrary, which the conduct im-
peached found with the House.

But then we have the other fact that, according
to such calculations as can yet be made, the Libe-
rals still retain a majority of about fifty members.
There seems no just reason to doubt that at least
forty or fifty more than half the House rank
themselves as Liberals ; and this would about
square the account which gave Lord PALMERSTON
a Liberal majority of nearly a hundred at the last
election, with the net Liberal losses on the present
one. Probably, therefore, Liberals of all sot*,
from the practical Toryism of Lord PALMERSTON
to the Radicalism of Messrs. ROEBUCK and BRIGHT,
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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1859.