The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-08 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Dir. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FITS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYNIARRET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
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, MY MOTHER'S MAID.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.
Commence at 7.

IV THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
nole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING will be produced NEVER JUDGE BY
APPEARANCES. Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton.
Followed by THE HOUSE Mrs. THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.
Followed by THE FIRST NIGHT.
Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Seim and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
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.

Mr. Alfred Wigan

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
To conclude with KENILWORTH.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
LOVE'S SACRIFICE. Mr. and Mrs. H. Vezin.
After which, HUSBANDS, BEWARE.
Followed by THE MASSED MOTHER.
ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

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 evct
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, ix addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, JULY 8.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
81—highest since noon yesterday.
68—lowest this morning and during the night.
77—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30'28.
WIND, West North Westerly ; light, with very fine
gather.

THE SUN.
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1859.

AN ARMISTICE!

Well,—Wonders never cease, more especially in
war time. For what was bright but yesterday
looms as black as death for to-morrow. Yet there's a

silver-lining to every cloud, and so the Emperor
FRANCIS JOSEPH may bless his lucky stars that
there's clemency in the heart of his Imperial
antagonist and conqueror, even at the twelfth hour
of Austria's troubled fate. Yes, the EMPEROR has
stolen a march both on himself, the Austrians, and
the braggart cowards of the " Fatherland" all in
one coup de grace, which promises to bring about
that peace which none but himself, at the head of
his conquering legions, could so mercifully and so

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gracefully accord ! Honour be to him and the
cause he has so well supported ! In the golden

hour of his victory he has withheld the burning
ardour of his troops from the final dash of victory,

and now finds his triumph enhanced by the unez•

petted moderation of his power ! When will con-
querors learn this enviable quality of tempering
victory with humanity, and so redoubling their
power in the apparent moment of its weakness ?
NAPOLEON has done it —and so far has displayed
to Europe and the world that a man may become
greater by conciliation, at the proper time, than by
the ostentatious display of hundreds of thousands
of warriors in all the glaring pride of their might.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA must be too glad to
snatch at this forlorn hope. Indeed, destruction
seemed so imminent that little or no chance was
left but sudden and consequently a most disastrous
retreat—if retreat he could ? For looking around,
what did he perceive ? In his very front and
almost staring him in the face there were the
pressing legions of victory burning to settle his
doom ! On his right was the heroic and enter-
prising GARIBALDI, cutting busily off his commu-
nications with the passes of the Tyrol. On his
left were the advancing columns of Prince NAPO-
LEON, eager for revenge ! while in his rear closed
in the army just landed to the east of Venice.
And at and in Venice were thousands of
Italians, only restrained by the sense that their
time was all but come for avenging the Past !
They but awaited the signal—and woe to the op-
pressor !

Now, in this state of accumulated and stil
accumulating dangers, how must the heart of the
KAISER have changed from utter dismay to grateful
hope! He must feel that it is far better to make a
virtue of necessity than to dare his fate. Let him
frankly yield what he cannot any longer hold,
and thereby save the remnant of his army, for to
do them justice that army behaved like men who
deserved a better cause and more competent leaders.
To save life while yet in one's power is a glorious
homage to humanity, kit to waste the lives of
thousands of brave men in a reckless and foolhardy
strife, were worthy only of demons, and we do no
think the young Emperor, FRANCIS JOSEPH, i
to the natural dictates of his own heart, would
hesitate a moment in yielding to mercy.
The Emperor NAPOLEON has by this sudden
stroke of policy taken the wind completely out of
the sails of the Prussian Prince and the vaunting
petty Princelings of the beggarly Fatherland, who
so blustered to keep their courage up that they
seemed in their insensate alarm to be
t‘ Scared at the noise themselves had made !"

Our immaculate friends the Whigs—notorious
themselves as the greatest and most flagrant
jobbers in the three kingdoms—are suddenly scan-
dalised, it appears; at the manner in which contracts
with various steam-packet companies, for the con-
veyance of the mails beyond the limits of these
islands (contracts, of course, extending over periods
of years), have from time to time been formed or
modified by her MAJEsTv's Government. So
scandalised have they become all at once upon this
matter, that last evening—putting their best man
foremost—motion was made and question proposed,
at the instance of the right hon. gentleman Mr.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, " That a select com-
mittee be appointed to inquire into the manner in
which contracts extending over periods of years
have from time to time been formed or modified by
her MAJESTY'S Government, with various steam-
packet companies, for the conveyance of the mails
by sea; and likewise into any a men
greetN or other
arrangements which have been adopted at the public
charge, actual or prospective,
for the proposes of
telegraphic communications beyond sea, end to re-
port threir opinion thereon to the house; together
with any recommendations as to rules to 13. e observed
hereafter by the Government in making contracts
for se.rvic ;es which have not yet been sanctioned by
Parliament, or which extend over a series of years."
The pro prition, as will be seen on reference to our

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