The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock.

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A.sTLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager.......... Mr. William Cooke.
Last Five Nights of the Season.
Tremendous Success of the National Military Romance, the
Battle of Waterloo.

THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF
S'T'ATE [MOO, reproduced with all its original effects. Sup-
ported by Mr. W. Cooke. Mr, W. Cooke, jun., Mr. Holloway,
Mr. R. Philips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert,
Mr. Stanton, Mr. Worboys, ac. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton,
Miss Rivers, &c.
After which, the mati.thless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's
iamliv, bt in the only instance on record of such a domestic
concentration of unequalled male and female talent ; Madlle.
Frlneisco ; Miss ITolloway.
T. s‘f,th a Novel Entertainment called THE
VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brigade.

Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips
Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
Gallery, 641.
Private Boxes, .£4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls.
To commence at 7 ; Carriacres at 11.

Dre,s Circle. Is. ;

On Sat,irclay next, 23th June, the last night of the season,
Grand Chanl4e and
.Brilliant Routine of Novelties, for the
Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, proprietor.

t AN TER-BURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
14—I 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
ctGIET years.

The ptrtect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most diflic!iiit and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written tier 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.

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THE SUN.

TUES ).IY, JUNE 21, 1859.

As time moves on the plot thickens—in one part
we have the Allied Armies in dubious suspense as to
the fate of the next battle on the Mincio. The Aus-
trians arc evidently making the most enegetic prepa-
defend the last stronghold on which they
can hope to resist the Allies ; while on the

ration

other the French are full of enthusiasm, and,
flushed with the prestige of victory, are burn-
ing to measure swords with the hated oppres-
sors of Italy. The Germans entrench them-
selves with a heavy heart and sad misgiving, while
their invaders push on with the light elastic step
of youth—strong in the consciousness of their
vigorous onset and martial strength. A very few
days, perhaps hours, may not elapse before the trial
takes p;ac2, and woe to the vanquished will be the
order of the day. As we stated a short time ago,
the French are very actively at work—not on one
point, but on all points available for a grand
onslaught. Their gunboats must be now on the Po
to meet the army of Prince NAPOLEON marching in
that direction, to be carried across that river and
the Adige also ; while the division about to
land, if it have not already debarked to the north-
east of Venice, will march at once on Treviso,

seize the railway there, and so cut off all communi•

cation with Germany in that direction, at the same
• time that it menaces the rear of the Austrian army
on the Mincio, if indeed it will rest there. We
hear a great deal about the quadrangle, and the
immensity of the Austrian army prepared to defend
it to extremity, but, if we mistake not, their very
number will become a sore perplexity when once
the panic ensues. Then will come the confusion,
ammunition, stores, baggage, and parks of artil-
lery too numerous and to cumbrous to be carried
away. In fact they will consider themselves but
too happy if they can but save themselves in the
helter skelter and pell mell terrors of a beaten and

retreating army.
On the other hand, we see the wily course of
diplomacy at Vienna, Berlin, and Brussels, endea-
vouring to seduce this country into their
hopeless cause. It is very well for Prussia
to build on the late marriage alliance with
England, and for Austria to rest assured that the
former influence of • King LEOPOLD will now
be stronger than ever in her favour now that his
family are so closely allied to her destinies by mar-
riage. But these despotic rulers reckon without
their host. We have a House of Commons which
must take an English view of the question and
not subject the people of this country to
heavy additional taxation to support foreign Go-
vernments in 'their suppression of alien people.
-Why shouldwe be cursed with an Income-tax to op-
press the Italians, Hungarians and other n ationalities
now groaning under the yoke of Austria ? If Lord
PALmmts'roN's Government try it on we shall not
have to wait long for his second and last exclusion
from office, however much he may fancy that
he is safe in the intrigues of LEOPOLD, or the
German obstinacy of others who may yet rue the
day of their folly.

The Secle has coolly undertaken the task of
lecturing her most gracious
Majesty Queen VIC-
TORIA, upon a proceeding which that ingenious
organ regards as in the highest degree unconstitu-
tional. It is an exception about as reasonable in
its way as though some Parisian critic, staunchly
believing, let us say, in the poetic genius of
BOILEAU, were to sit in judgment upon any poem
you please of PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY'S—A lastor,
fcr example —and sagely to pronounce the writer of
that article to be glaringly deficient in all the nobler

and diviner attributes of the true poetic idiosyn-

It is altogether a most amusing spectacle that of
a Paris newspaper declaring the most constitutional
sovereign this country has ever rejoiced in the pos-
session of, to have acted in a manner (according
to this most competent witness) decidedly uncon-
stitutional. The proceeding objected to thus for-
mally by the Siecle is nothing less than the be-
stowal, by the QUEEN, upon the ex-Premier, of
that most noble Order of the Garter, which is
usually only so accorded when, as at the
present moment, there is no vacancy in its roll of
Knights—upon the princes of the blood royal or
upon a foreign sovereign. Remembering that it
has been so bestowed by the fair hand of VICTORIA
upon the Imperial ruler of FRANCE, it certainly
does appear to us somewhat invidious that a French
journalist should take exception to its bestowal
upon any other whom the QUEEN so pleases to
honour in like manner. "In granting to Lord
DERBY the Order of the Garter, especially when
there is no vacancy, which is contrary to all ordi-
nary usages," quoth the Siecle," Queen VICTORIA has
acted in the plenitude of her power." So far, that
is an admission. It is, then, in her MAJESTY'S power,
and in that power in its plenitude. " But," asks
the Parisian journalist, "has she acted in conformity
with the spirit and traditions of the English con-
stitution ?" The Sleds is dismayed by the extra-
ordinary character of the proceeding, and eagerly
looks about it for the consolation of a precedent.
Looking about vainly for this consolation, it is con-
strained to add with reluctance, in answer to its
own inquiry, " with all the respect we feel for our
gracious ally, we must say that we do not think
she has so acted in the present instance." This is
surely very deplorable. It is a conclusion delibe-
rately arrived at by the Siecle, such as, doubtless,
must carry dismay to the heart of Sir CHARLES
YOUNG, Garter King-at-Arms, if it do not even
bring disquietude to the bosom of his august and
beloved SOVEREIGN.
Glancing seriously, however, for a moment at
the objection thus raised by a Paris journal like
the Siecle at an act of grace indulged in by her
Britannic MAJESTY, in regard to one of the fore-
most of her MAJESTY'S own subjects—yesterday,
by right of his supreme position as First Minister
of the Crown, the foremost —it does appear to us
in the highest degree indecorous for any foreign
journalist to pronounce any opinion at all upon the
matter—but still more for that journalist to ven-
ture upon the astounding effrontery of designating
that royal act of grace one in any way unconstitu-
tional in its character. Since 'the first institution
of this highest order of knighthood in the land,
or, for that matter, it may be said with perfect
accuracy, in all Christendom—since the date of its
original institution in the middle of the fourteenth
century, by King EDWARD 111., the bestowal of its
insignia by the ruler of these realms has been
jealously preserved as one of the most treasured of
the royal prerogatives. The three mystic mottoes
variously emblazoned upon the device of the Garter
during the reign of its regal and knightly founder,
indeed, imply, more or less explicitly, the haughtiest
maintenance of this royal prerogative. That even

is one sufficiently obvious explication of the motto
which has come down to this time as the peculi-
arly characteristic inscription of the Order—a
motto mysteriously implying that each nomination
to the Order by the Sovereign is to pass unques-
tioned.

" Shame to Kira that thinks evil therein,"
" lloni soit qui mal y pense."

But there were two other mottoes, as we have said,
emblazoned upon the device of the Garter upon
different occasions during the reign of the great
Founder of the Order, King EDWARD 111. And
each of these two other perfectly authentic,
though now almost forgotten inscriptions, pro-
claims the same truth yet more signally and sig-
nificantly. In one the royal donor seems to speak
—in the other the knightly recipient. In both
the words emblazoned upon the garter haughtily
sweep away the temerity of any comment whatever
upon the fact of the bestowal. One—the words it
would seem coming from the lips of the kingly
donor—running thus inexorably—

" It . is . as . it . is ."

The other more enigmatical, but at the same time,
if possible, more solemnly definitive—coming thus
exultantly from the lips of the chivalrous receiver
of the insignia of the Order—

" Hay, hay, the wythe swan,
BY GODES SOULE I AM THY MAN I"
From the first moment of its institiution up to this
present hour—there is no appeal against any no-
mination to the Order of the Garter by the British
SOVEREIGN. Whenever bestowed, however be-
stowed, to whomsoever bestowed—it is within the
scope of the prerogative of the SOVEREIGN.
And looking down the grand array of names
inscribed upon the panels of St. George's
Hall, at Windsor, it is impossible not to recognise
as indisputable the truth that that lofty and
jealously-guarded prerogative has been but rarely,
indeed, abused in its bestowal from the days of
King EDWARD the THIRD down to those of our
present most gracious and most constitutional
SOVEREIGN.

Happily, however, while we would here protest
briefly, but indignantly, against these impertinent
comments of the Siecle, upon the nomination by
her MAJESTY of EDWARD GEOFFREY, Earl of
DERBY, to the high and resplendent honour of
being one of the EXTRA Knights of the most noble
Order of the Garter—we are conscious at the
moment of so doing that there is no echo to this
Impertinence of the Siecle (however faint) any-
where discernible throughout the whole wide range
of English journalism, Nobly has Lord DERBY
won :the blazonry of that supreme order of knight-
hood, and long may he -wear it !

To a small extent we belong, and we confess it,
h With the co
to a beaten party. naervatism of the
vast body of Lord DERBY'S
supporters we could
have, of course, no sympathy; but, on the other
hand, we did not conceal our good feeling towards
the leading members of the late Ministry. we
felt, indeed, that it was a false position for an
avowedly Conservative Ministry to be the Go-
vernment of a nation of which the vast majority
is Liberal in politics—a vastly larger majority,
indeed, than the House of Commons indicates,
elected, as Mr. BRIGHT observed, by bribery or
iifluence in small boroughs, by coercion in the
counties, and by freedom of voting in the larger
boroughs only. If the party which governs is to
be of the same sentiments as the party which
commands a small nominal majority in the House,
and a very large one amongst the independent elec-
tors and the non-electors, then, no doubt, we ought
to have a Liberal Ministry. But though for this
reason in a false position, it was a fair one,
and one demanding the fairest treatment. The late
Ministry was not to be jerked into office just to
allow Lord PALMERSTON to turn round once or
twice, after his conviction of subserviency to French
dictators, and kick them out again with an India
Bill or a CARDWELL resolution. Neither the house
nor the country would tolerate this. They took
office because no one else could or would ; and
Radicals, at least, were united almost to a man in
refusing to permit any factious dealing with them.