The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

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,
and Miss M. Ternan.

Commenee at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
SPLENDID EASTER NOVELTIES.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled WANFIOE ; 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. Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst.
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, ktadlle.
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, le. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, mad £1 Is.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

('IANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
N../ GALLERY, Westminster•road.—Open at Seven.
On and after MONDAY, the 25th inst., 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.
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They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 26.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
6l—this day at noon.
Banomyrmt-30.11—a sudden rise.
WIND, S.W. in the morning, now N.E. ; light, with
dull weather.

LOUIS NAPOLEON has postponed his promised
communication to the Legislative Assembly until
this day. Lord DERBY, however, took advantage
of the grand banquet at the Mansion House to ex-
plain the part which Great Britain has taken in
the intricate complications which have occurred.
It was a manly and straightforward statement,
showing that her MAJESTY'S Ministers have done
all within their power to avert the terrible mis-
chief of an European war, and that even within
twelve hours before the time when he was address•
ing the Lord Mayor and Citizens of London,
another, probably the last, step had been taken to
prevent so fearful a catastrophe.
From the earliest moment that the war cloud
appeared lowering in the political atmosphere, Lord
DERBY and his colleagues have used every exertion
to preserve peace and tranquillity. The mission of
Lord COWLEY .had been attended with complete
success. When Russia unfortunately interfered,
whether by accident or design it may be difficult
to decide, the mediation of England would have
smoothed away every impediment, No difficulty
could have arisen as to the parties to be repre-
sented in Congress, or respecting the preliminary
arrangements. The question in dispute would
have been speedily decided, and the exhaustion and
expellee of maintaining powerful armaments and
large bodies of troops soon got rid of.

Lord DERBY declares that he has endeavoured
to maintain "the strictest and most absolute im-
partiality between the two parties." Everything
that has come to light proves the accuracy of his
statement. He has found faults on both sides ;
neither have come into court with clean hands, or
merited the support of an independent and disin-
terested nature. Whatever might have been the
state of the balance until last week, Austria is now
unquestionably in the wrong. She has taken upon
herself what Lord DERBY truly declared to be the
" fearful responsibility, which attaches to that
country which first deserts the peaceful paths of
diplomacy, and subjects the question in dispute to
the terrible arbitrament of the sword."

There has been, as already announced, an emphatic
protest against the conduct 'of Austria. " There
was nothing at the moment to discourage, indeed
there was everything to leadto the hope of a success-
ful issue to the negotiations." There was, therefore,
nothing to justify the hasty, precipitate and, because
involving the horrors of war--the criminal step
taken by Austria." Whatever the consequences
may be she has brought them on herself, and can
find none to sympathise—"none so poor to do her
reverence."

The Bubble Congress has failed, as we predicted
would be the case ab initio. It could have been pro-
ductive of no good result,'and would only have pro-
- &iced new difficulties and additional complications.
It was a most inopportune suggestion, and if there
should be bloodshed it will be altogether ascribable
thereto. But England has now taken up the sub-
ject at the very point of departure. It has again

proposed its mediation in order to arrange all
existing differences subject to the alternative of
either "an immediate, absolute, and simultaneous
disarmament of all the three Powers, France,
Austria, and Sardinia, or a consent on the part of
all three, pending the result of the mediation, to
retain their armies in precisely their present condi-
tion, and to maintain a position, if not of peace, at
all events of inaction." This is judicious advice, and
Austria will be mad, indeed, if she does not give in
her adhesion to the course indicated.
The noble Premier availed himself of the oppor-
tunity to explain his meaning with respect to
the " armed
neutrality," which had been mis-
apprehended, of course, not misrepresented by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. The armed neutrality does not
imply that Great Britain is ready to em-
bark in the contest whenever it sees a
favourable opportunity. She has no anxiety to
defend Austria from the consequences of her own
misconduct; on the contrary, she fully appreciates
the criminal folly of the German despot. But when
a million of disciplined men are under arms, per-
haps opposed to each other on the field of battle, it
would be little better than an abdication of her
political functions if England did not keep up
adequate preparations, so as to be prepared for
any course which her honour and dignity
might demand. The arms are necessary
to preserve the prestige which England ought
always to command. If her influence can be
rendered beneficial, it will only be by retaining
the power which she possesses of turning the scale
between the belligerents.
The admirable speech of Lord DERBY—the full
and entire confidence which he has exhibited

.owards the country—merits an adequate return,

which can only be shown by the electors in every
constituency throughout the length and breadth
of the land. We may have war forced upon us ;
but unquestionably her MAJESTY'S Government have
adopted every means to avert it, without in any
degree compromising the honour or dignity of
Great Britain, or recommending to others anything
of which they could justly complain. France,
Austria, and Sardinia have all been in fault, and
it would be greatly to the credit of the Power
that exhibited a disposition to retrace its footsteps,
and to make the first concession in favour of
universal peace and tranquillity.

What will the East India House philosopher, MILL,
and the statesman, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, say to a
Lady's letter, which we republish from a Scotch
contemporary in another column ? The philosopher
and the veteran statesman have repeatedly told
their followers, who have long been gaping for
something like an answer to Liberal constituents,
that " undue influence," corruption, and all that, is
almost become a thing of the past; and that, left
to itself, it will soon die a natural death. We may
excuse the philosopher for ignorance of everyday
facts, but Rot so easily the statesman. He knows
better. He knows that there are not half-a-dozen
counties in England where the tenants-at-will dare
return him, however disposed to do so. If he thinks
otherwise, let him try again South Devonshire,
where, only three years after the Reform Bill, he
was unceremoniously kicked out by a majority of
600 ; and where, two years further on, the Liberal
candidate was sent to the rightabout by a majority
of about 1,000; and where, ever since, if we remem-
ber aright, two Tories have walked the course. We
presume he has no doubt •f the Liberal tendencies
of the yeomen of Devonshire ; let him try once more
whether they are as free as they are free-minded.
Being now, however, pretty safe for London,
although he will vote against his three associates, he
will, of course, be wiser than to contest a county.
Ercil his hostility to tenant emancipation would not
procure him the good will of the tenant-drivers in a
single county of England. He is professedly a
Reformer ; he is certainly a Whig ; and he could
only hope to succeed in a county where Whig
landlords had the greater number of farms. But
if he will not reflect on facts, let him look on them.
We all remember a beautiful Duchess canvassing
Westminster, and bribing with a kiss. Vain all
bribery bills and vain the Ballot itself, we fear,
against such bribery. The gallant of a tradesman
who had been allowed to kiss a pretty Duchess
would vote for her candidate, Ballot or no Ballot.
But Mrs. JEAN MILNE HOME offers no such irre-
sistible seductions. Her only charm is that she is
" your landlady." She has " patrimonial estates,"
as well as a husband; and being a "charming
woman" in the sense of the once popular song ; or a
" strong minded woman ;" or a " Bloomer and a
women's rights" lady ; she thinks fit to lecture her
tenants on their political duties at this election.
She is careful to inform them that the " idea of the
communication originated with herself ;" although
she says elsewhere my husband and I" (I and my
husband ?) " wish and believe," &c.
" Wish and believe" what? that no one will vote
against his convictions, but if there should, unfor-
tunately, be any who cannot conscientiously agree to
join us and the rest of the tenantry, I fondly trust,
and I ask it as a favour, that they will abstain from
taking any very active part in the opposition."
But what calls forth the blandly-worded request;
why the fact, that, though the majority of the
tenants have promised their support to their
Bloomer landlady's nominee, Sir JOHN MARJORI-
BANKS, " some have not yet declared themselves,
and some have declared that they do not mean to
vote." These coy gentlemen to whom our Bloomer
goes a wooing with the most potent of
all inducements, not openly mentioned, are
told that if their silence is due to the amiable
wish " not to put themselves in opposition to the
majority of their own body as well as to their land-
lady and landlord, she has only to thank them for
their good and kindly feeling ;" but, if indifference
or intimidation are their reasons for apparent
indifference, she has only to exhort them to "come
manfully forward," remember their landlord and
landlady, and, for the credit of the estate, vote all
of them one way.

Surely the Ballot Society will have this letter
framed and glazed and hung up in their rooms,
and in their chairman's study also. We should
exceedingly like, too, to have a stereoscopic photo-
graph of Mrs. JEAN MILNE HOME, sitting in her
boudoir and inditing this letter; it would be quite
an election study. But, seriously, what must be
going on behind the scenes if letters like this can
see the light of day ? Very rarely are they

wanted. Who ever hears of such a thing as a

tenant voting in opposition to his landlord and
landlady ? There is no need for any such employ-
ment of "influence" as will bring it under the
cognizance of the press. "I am Squire So-and-
so's tenant," " I am Lord So-and-so's tenant," is
always quite reply enough to the most zealous
canvasser. The tenant tells him not his own
politics, but those of his political proprietor ; and
the canvasser, from the ordinary feelings of
humanity, would not think of torturing the poor
voter by telling him that his vote was his own ;
he knows the answer would be, " My opinions are
my own, but my vote is my landlord's. I mort-
gaged my politics to him when I took his farm."
We are not " far North" enough to have any
guess as to the causes of the humble attempt at
liberty indieatedbytenants on the Bloomer landlady's

patrimonial estates, venturing " not to promise," or
" not to vote." This we do know, that for such an
offence first-rate old tenants, of thirty years
standing, have had to quit their farms. And, if
that will not be the case on these patrimonial
estates, we may be sure enough the reason is not
to be found in the temper of the Scottish Bloomer.
Into what head, not utterly corrupted by position
and long habit, could it enter, to ask a respectable
honest man not to vote for the candidate he pre-
ferred ?—to beg a man to put his citizen's rights in
abeyance because he had hired the sand, and clay,
and loam of a proprietor of those articles ? The
truth is, that so engrained into the heart of land-
lordism is this oppressive, this Russian notion of a
right to the votes of those who already pay in hard
cash the full worth of their land, that nothing but a
law which gives the tenant his own vote will break
the neck of the evil. However this issue must shortly
be tried. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and all the little
upholders of landlord domination will yet have to
give way. It cannot be much longer endured that
the farmers of England, as fine a race of men as
any in Europe, should be degraded election after
election into landlords' slaves. Once the bondage
was hardly felt—but, now, the spread of education
compels every farmer to despise himself while his
vote gives his convictions the lie.
We would request both Mrs. JEAN MILNE HOME,
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, by whose grace she can
still write such letters to tenants to read the fol-
lowing extract from a speech which as well as her
letter appears in our columns to-day :—" When
you are discussing a matter of politics in a free
country, that you should ask the landed proprietor
to give you permission to canvass his tenants, in-
dicates a state of submission which I say is fright-
ful and degrading to the country. The fact is, that
so far as regards popular representation, the great
bulk of your county representation is a sort of a
dead carcass tied on to the living body of your
borough representation. You cannot stir a step
without having to drag this on with you. When
you get the £lO franchise for the counties, and the
Ballott to protect the vote—then, in all probability,
you will find that there are liberal opinions amongst
the county constituencies ; and the counties will
come up to the boroughs, and they will march side
by side, and shoulder to shoulder, on behalf of any
of those futnre conquests by the popular party
which are ahead and in store for us."

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1859.