The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

ONCE A WEE K.
No. price 3d.
London : Bradbury and Evans,ll, Bonverie-street.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS LIVENING will be presented Shakepeare's historical
play of SING HENRY V.
ging 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.

IVEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPIII.
.L 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billing-,ton ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington.
Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Hr. 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 N. Keeley.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Selby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Comnence 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, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
Miss A. Burditt.
After which, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. hir. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.
To conclude with KENILWORTH.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROY AL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
Shalcap!are's Tragedy of RICHARD 111. Duke of
Gloster, Mr. Hermann Vezin ; supported by Messrs. Charles
Calvert, B. Potter, C. Cooper, Vollaire, J. Neville, 3liss Agnes
Kemble, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Charles Calvert, Miss Ferguson,
Miss Yokes.
After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT
LETORIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin.
ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY, Westminster-road.—open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING daring the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
°insisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SLX, and
RIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ev( r
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, JULY 1.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
72—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30'18.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with dull weather, but
fine.

The Ministerial leaders n both Houses have.
according to promise, given us their Explanations.

Viscount PALMERSTON, as First Minister of the
Crown, has spoken in the Commons—Earl GRAN-

VILLE, as Lord President of the Council, has spoken
in the Lords ; and the nation can now fully appre-
ciate the exact position and the precise intentions
of her MAJESTY'S Government.

And what, let us ask now, in the name of com-
mon sense, what is the real amount of the gain
secured either to national or to European interests
by way of compensation for this late extraordinary
political bouleversement? What maybe the nature,
what the tendency, what the dimensions of those
immense advantages which must, of course, be
accruing to the British empire from this abrupt
transformation of a Government into an Opposition,
and of an Opposition into a Government ? The
transformation, remember, took place at a period
when, after nearly a dozen years of more oe less
earnest agitation of the great problem of Parlia-
mentary reform, there was at length actually sub- '
mitted to the consideration of the Legislature a
substantial Reform Bill, such as might have been
moulded in committee to any shape. the popular
representatives might have been pleased to
impart to it. Recollect, moreover, that this
sudden change of Ministries took place in the
very midst of the raging of a great war
between the two most powerful military despo-
tisms of Christendom. A compulsory removal of
one Administration and substitution of another
—occurring at a crisis in every respect so re-
markable both as regards our foreign and our
domestic situation—must surely imply some im-
mense concomitant advantages ! But—where are
those advantages ? What are they ? In which
department of the Administration are they dis-
coverable ? Let us see.

While war is actually raging in Lombardy be-
tween the gigantic armies of France and Austria,
perhaps our first inquiries ought in reason to
have reference to the present and prospective
character of our foreign relations. What, then,
let us ask at once, has been the amount of gain
in regard to our foreign policy resulting from
the recent change of Administrations ? Why,
the Prime Minister frankly avows—now that he
2'3 to-" The course which we intend to pursue,"
says his lordship, "is that which has been chalked
out by those who have preceded us." So that
this department—the Foreign Administration of
the Public service—there is, according to Lord PAL-
MERSTON'a acknowledgment, no affectation even of
any gain, „„v
advance, or advantage whatso-
ever ! The Coalition Government simply under.

takes to persevere in carrying out the same
neutral policy which
had been inaugurated by the
Derbyite Government.
No new effort at mediation
between the belligerents is to be attempted yet
awhile—we are simply to wait for eventualities.

Exactly to the very T what was being done by the
late reviled and ousted Administration I Where,
then, was the necessity—in regard to °llr foreign
policy—of any change at all in Her MAJESTY'S
Government ?
But the advantages which ought certainly to be
found somewhere as the happy fruits of the late
transportation of Derbyites and Palmerstoniaos—
possibly these advantages affect in some obvious
and instant manner the hopes of the nation in re-

Bard to the reform of Parliament, in regard to the
remodelling of the whole system of the popular
representation. No—not a bit of it. Even here
we are baffled in our inquiries. We are to have no
Reform Bill yet awhile—but, quoth that very won-

derful Reformer, Lord PALMERSTON, " that it will
be our endeavour and determination to avail our

selves of the earliest moment of the next session of
Parliament to prepare and produce a bill, I can give
the assurance of myself and my colleagues."
WhY, we have had all these kind of assur-
times over and over again before now, not simply
from the lips of Lord PALMERSTON, but from
those of a more august personage—we have had
promises of this kind held out to the country in the
Royal Speeches delivered from the throne by the
silvery accents of the SOVEREIGN. Surely it can-
not be pretended for one single instant that
the gain resulting from the change of Ministers—if
discoverable anywhere—is discoverable in regard
to the prospects of Parliamentary Reform! Iden-
tically the same prospects—to say the very least of
it—were before us in the perspective of the next
session had Lord DERBY still held within his grasp
the reins of Government.
Perhaps the invisible advantages accruing to the

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1859.