The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
tinder the otanagement of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy
of HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen
Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FIN.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
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,
Alter which, MARRIED FOR MONEY.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.

Commence at 7.

NEWW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington • Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Hrs. Billington.
Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C, Selby, Bi
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.
llington; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
..roTro-wed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan,
Billington, Miss M. Keeley.
After which, THE RIF I.E VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
&by 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.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
Miss A. Burditt.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Bwanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
After which, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
sad Miss F. Hughes.

Commenoe at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
THE MARBLE HEART. Mr. Leigh Murray.
After which, DELICATE GROUND. Mr. and Mrs. H.
Yezin.
To conclude with THE BRIGAND. Mr. Charles Pitt.

OANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
NJ GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

sollsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
RIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ev( z
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi.
Patton in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
elastic 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 12.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
82—highest since noon yesterday.
71—lowest this morning and during the night,
82—this day at noon.

BAROMETER----30'22.
WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with burning hot weather.

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THE SUN.

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1859.

It were almost idle to speculate on the labours of
the forthcoming Congress, if Congress there be.
The matter in dispute has been so far settled by
the force of arms, that diplomacy, t,.) be effectual,
most conform to what has been done, and not pre-
sume to undo with the pen what has been achieved
by the sword.
If a Congress do enter into a settlement of the
Italian question, it had better begin by at once
acquiescing in the total recognition of the inde-
pendence of Italy.
What the future views of the Emperor NAPOLEON
may be, time alone-can make clear. That he has
kept his own counsels pretty close hitherto, we all
know ; and he may endeavour to make the best use
of present victory for future adventure. But enter-
prise often stumbles on the very threshold of its
own success : and NAPOLEON, like other wonder-
fully-gifted children of fortune, may live to curse
his own luck, and the unexpected turn of that
wheel which spins all the faster in weaving the
last thread of destiny !
We hope it may not be so. We trust the Em-
PEROR may not be beguiled into a vague belief
that there is no limit to an ambition so wisely and
so successfully managed hitherto, and that he may
not be betrayed into over-confidence of his good
fortune by the splendid illusion of its vastness. A
man never repents truly but once, and that once is
when it is too late ! Now, an Emperor is but a
man after all, and even he must bow the lofty head
when the hardness of the heart is stricken by the
fatal dart.

To counsel experience to such men is only to ex-
pose one's own folly by endeavouring to correct the
folly of others. Even our GEORGE the Fourth—
"the politest and best behaved gentleman in Eu-
rope," had matters all his own way, from the depth
of the blackest ingratitude to the buffoonery of the
-vilest adulation ! he could not imagine that
the race of perfidy was really run until
Nature whispered into his ear for heart
he had none—the time is come !—on which
he faultered to those around his uneasy chair—
" Can this be death !" and so he expired—leaving
no friend to lament his exit. Yet he was a great
Prince for the time being. And there an end.

Concede Sir JAMES GRAHAM an inch, and soon
enough, and with the most perfect sang froid, he
appropriates an ell to his own purposes. Last
evening, in the House of Commons, the inch asked
for by the right hon. baronet, with the most cool
eemplaceney, was really and truly nothing more
than the, postponement for a fortnight of any
further consideration of the Lords' amendments in
the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company (No. 2)
Bill, then and there returned to the House of Com-
mons for its agreement. But that mere inch of a
postponement might, it,
to the full ell of a granted, have led positively
most flagrant repudiation.
Speciously as the insidious argument of the mem-
ber-for Carlisle was put last
evening, and yet more
speciously though that argument
was enforced by
the right. hon. member for Oxford, • in
University,
his authoritative Ministerial position as Chancellor
of the Exehequer —the gist of the whole
matter
lay after all, as the phrase is, in a nutshell,
Hap-
pily, so thought the majority of those present yes_
terday in the popular branch of the Legislature. A
clear majority of forty-seven in a house of 312
(including Speaker and Tellers), decided against
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S amendment and for the
Lords' amendments. The minority, altogether
numbering 130, included several of the Cabinet
Ministers, comprising among these the First Lord
of the Treasury himself, and the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. There, too, were
the Right Hon. the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
the redoubtable Whig ex-Secretary for the Colo-
nies, and that other Whig ex-Secretary of State
(erst for the Home Department), now partially
shelved as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Together with Sir GEORGE GREY, Mr. LABOU-
CHERE, and Mr. CARDWELL—the catalogue of the
defeated reveals, here Friend BRIGHT, there Friend
GILPIN, yonder the Right Hon. W. MONSELL,
and yonder the Right Hon. R. LowE. They are
rapidly getting inured to defeat these powerful
and well-disciplined Ministers. Scarcely have
they settled down upon the Treasury benches and
attempted for a few nights to conduct the business
of Parliament, when lo 1 and behold they have ,

already, within these few first evenings, had to
submit to two or three defeats in rapid succession.
Like the Austrian host in Lombardy, they have
shown themselves perfect masters in the difficult
tactics required in retreat—they have, like their
German prototypes in northern Italy, preserved
their discipline to the last with stoical in-
difference while being conquered. An im-
pression gaining ground, however, among ob-
servers, in spite of all this apparent unity of
action among them even while defeated, that the
powerful Coalition presided over by Viscount PAL-
MERSTON, no less surely than the powerful empire
ruled by the House of Hapsburg, is composed of
materials so heterogeneous, so entirely wanting in
the first essential of all for preservation orperpetua-
tion—coherence----that we may in each instance
look forward with entire confidence to the inevit-
able catastrophe of an internal disruption. Hence
the source of dissension may be discerned at a glance
here in the mutual hatred notoriously subsisting
between Croat and Hungarian, between Bohemian
and Tyrolese, between German and Transylvanian.
Here no less surely may we note the premonitions
of ulterior decay in the common hostility no less
notoriously influencing in their affectedly amicable
relations with each other, Whig and Peelite,
Canningite and Radical, Conservative-Liberal and
Liberal-Conservative. Perhaps of all the victories
recently won over the unhappy Austrians by
their formidable antagonist, the most notable and
the most signal has been the arrangement of this
startling Armistice. As probably, among all the
recent defeats of the Coalition Ministry, that suf-
fered by them last night was, all things considered,
the most lamentably ignominious.
The significance of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S amend-
ment was this—that it was intended as a slight to
the late Government ! That_-Government had had
the high moral courage, last year, to enter into an
agreement, at all hazard of responsibility, for the lay-
ing down, as speedily as might be possibly managed,
a continuous submarine and overland telegraphic
cable the completion of which would bring the
mother country at length into instantaneous com-
munication with her vast Asiatic empire in Hin-
dostan. Recollect that at the date at which this ag-
greement was made—that enormous empire was
still imminently jeopardized by the perils resulting
from the then yet unconquered Sepoy insurrection.
Everything at that period combined to force
upon the attention of the nation and of the
Government the necessity of bringing the East
and the West thus together by the magical agency
of the electric telegraph. After mature delibera-
tion the only feasible plan then apparent was de-
cided upon by the Government—happily not a
Whig Goverenment, for in that case the whole
project would still have remained to this very day
altogether in nubibus, floating about in vague re-
ports and idle references, in the empyrean of Circum-
locution! As we have said the Departments being
last year in the hands of Administrators who were not
Whigs—something was actually decided upon in the
matter of the Red Sea and Indian Telegraph. An
understanding was actually arrived at between the
Company and the Government. The latter, among
other things, guaranteed to the former for fifty
years to come 41. per cent. upon all capital—a
guarantee involving annual payments by the Exche-
quer of £36,000 upon a paid-up capital of £BOO,OOO
—annual payments which would, of course, be
enhanced to £45,000 per annum in the event of that
capital of £BOO,OOO being raised to the proposed total
of £1,000,000. But, in return for this, there would
not only be the electric telegraph laid down between
England and Hindostan via the Red Sea, but the
priority of the use of that vitally important means
of instantaneous communication was to be gua-
ranteed upon all occasions that might be required
by the Company to the Government. There was
a distinct quid pro quo. Granted that those annual
payments of the Exchequer might in the course of
the stipulated half-century have reached a total of
£2,250,000 sterling. Yet, whatever the expenditure,
supposing it even to have attained that maximum
—two millions and a quarter—those two millions
and a quarter would have been spread over fifty
years, and might by that time have secured us
upon many and many an occasion in the interim
from the peril of altogether losing our Orien-
tal possessions. Let it be borne, however,
particularly in remembrance now that the
partisans of Lord PALMERSTON'S present
Government are declaiming against what
they deem the monstrous extravagance of the
DERBY Ministry, in guaranteeing 41,- per cent.
during fifty years to the Red Sea and India Tele-
graph Company, that the preceding Government,
the Government actually presided over by our pre-
sent First Lord of the Treasury, guaranteed for
five-and-twenty years, not 44 per cent., but fil, per
cent. to the Mediterranean Company for laying
down a telegraphic cable between Malta and Cag-
liari. We object not in the least to the Committee
of inquiry into contracts —on the contrary, we
deem the appointment of this Committee to be
one in every way most judicious and most
desirable. But—as regards the Bill actually
before the House last evening the time
was gone by long ago for any such root and branch
reconsiderations. It was simply preposterous for
Sir JAMES GRAHAM to propose the re-examination
of this contract by the Committee of Inquiry now
when £400,000 of the capital of the Company
has already been actually paid up—now when 1,159
miles of the telegraphic wire have been already paid
out along the route successfully—now, in fact, when
the great enterprise is already partially accomplished
upon the solemn guarantee of her Britannic MA-
JESTY'S Government! A postponement like the one
proposed last evening by Sir J. GRarrAat would
either mean (what would be folly) just Nothing, or
it would mean (what would be not less monstrous
than disgraceful) the threat of Repudiation. Re-
pudiation may be all very well for Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM and Pennsylvania, but it will never do at all,
we may rest assured of that, for JOHN BULL and
Britannia. So said the House of Commons last
evening—a house of 312
,confirming by a
clear majority of 47 upon division that
the Lords' amendments should be at once ac-
cepted in confirmation of the contract entered into
last year by the late Government. It is worthy of
particular observation, by the way, as illustrative
Once more of the extraordinary consistency mark-
ing the Parliamentary proceedings of the right
hon. gentleman the member for Oxford University,
that while Mr. GLADSTONE, in the course of his
impressive remarks in the discussion of last even-
ing upon the contract for this Red Sea and Indian
Telegraph, observed in solemn and memorable
words, words worthy of falling from the lips
of a Chancellor of the Exchequer : " The matters
we are dealing with are of the extremest delicacy,
and the public faith aught not only to be sustained,
but ought not even to be suspected"--the right hon.
actually gentleman, by way of supporting this high standard
of national integrity, ctu
supported
proposition that
for
insidious, and specious, and sinister
a Postponement, which we have said either meant
Nothing, or meant, at least, the Threat of Repudia-
tion.

Attention was called last evening by Mr. KIN-
NAIRD to the opporturlity.presented by the pulling
down of Berkeley House, for the opening of a suit-

able carriage-way from Trafalgar-square into St.
James's-park through Spring-gardens. Although
the opportunity appears to be in a fair way of
being lost—chiefly by reason of the cordial con-
currence in the depreciation of it evidenced yes-
terday in the remarks of both the late and the pre-
senr Minister of Public Works, Lord JOHN
MANNERS and Mr. FITZROY—we are still san-
guine that something better will come of it in
the end than that wretchedly little stone lane
trailing from between DENT'S and FARRANCE'S
—from the " Finest site in Europe" to the most
royal of our beautiful London Parks ! According
to the" arrangements already chalked out in this
direction, we are at any rate certain of this—that
that miserable little line of communication will be
considerably widened. A passage, it is at present
proposed, 'shall run through that angle of Spring-
gardens, a passage (paved, as is the prysent one)
extending in width twenty feet and in length
one hundred and fifty feet. There, moreover,
upon one side of it will rise in lieu of that
dingy dirty old red brick tenement known as
Berkeley House, the new mansion of the Metropoli-
tan Board Works—a building the cost
.of which is
estimated at some £15,000, and one which will
have, we are tol I by a competent witness, like the
member for Bath, some pretention to architectural
beauty, not merely in its internal arrangements,
but in its external appearance. As to the funds to
be drawn upon in liquidation of whatever
expense might be incurred :in the opening of the
proposed new road into St. James's Park,
we confess to have some sort of liking for the
double-barrelled suggestion fired off by Lord DUN-
CAN last evening—first, that the Crown revenues
should not to this end be in any way tampered
with, revenues which have belonged to the Crown
from a period antecedent to the Norman Con-
quest, revenues, moreover, having a suffi-
cient drain upon them already in divers
other directions—and, secondly, that the
resources of the metropolis itself should be
looked to in the matter, this metropolis being, as Lord
DUNCAN rather superfluously reminded the house,
the wealthiest in the world, sixteen of its parishes
alone boasting the enormous assessable rental
of £6,000,000 sterling ! And surely it would
only be appropriate, it would be fitting, it;would
be, above all, auspicious, to have a noble and
conspicuous improvement like this carriage
roadway into St. James's-park through Spring-
gardens, secured to itself by the metropolis
upon the very threshold of these new buildings
for the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Board
of Works. The children of the poorer classes
might recreate themselves much more healthfully
and comfortably, for that matter, in that
" triangular piece of grass railed in at the north-
east end of the park," and upon the absurd railing
of which Mr. H. HERBERT last night very pro
perly animadverted.

THIRD ED IT I ON.

TREATY OF PEACE

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