The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-09 00:00:00

THE 'ARMY.

IHis Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold-at levee at the Horse Guards on
Thursday next, the 14th inst., atone o'clock..
Cien. Sir John Burgoyne, K.C.8., Royal Engi-
neers, Inspector-General of Fortifications, having
relinquished his . military duties, and retired from
the service, an order has been received at the head-
quarters 'of the Royal Engineer establishment,-
Brompton Barracks, directing that all the returns
relating to the corps are in future to be forwarded
to the Adjutant-General of the Forces.
In order to provide increased accommodation for
the officers and troops at Chatham garrison who
are undergoing a course of instruction in the Enfield
rifle previously to embarking for India, the Govern-
ment has decided on the formation of a long-range
practising ground at the rear of the barracks, Debi
St. Mary's marshes, in addition to the present rifle)
ranges, so as to enable several hundred more troopy.:,`,
to be instructed in their rifle exercise at Chatham
without the inconvenience of forwarding them to
'Eastbourne. Major-General C. C. Hay, the Inspec-
tor-General of Musketry, has surveyed the ground
in the vicinity of Chatham, and has reported so
favourably on the advantages possessed by the
locality that the Government has decided on ex-
pending a sum of £17,000 in the formation of the
rifle grounds, and this amount has been includedin
the supplementary estimates just laid before Tar.

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

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS ETENING the performances will commence with
a mew 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.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
.Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington.
After which, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. John
Itildmay, Mr. A. Wigan Mr. Potter, Mr. Charles Selby ;
Hawksley, Mr. Billington; Mrs. Mildmay, Mrs. Billington ;
Mrs. Sternhold Mrs. A. Wigan.
Mr
Followed by NEVER JUDGE BYAPPEARANCES.
and Mrs. Henri Drayton.
After wittrii. THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith-
s open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
*ince open from 10 to s—n of charge f booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh
THIS EVENING, the pertormanoes 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.

ROY AL SURREY THEATRE.. Phis Evening
OTHELLO. Mr. and Mrs. H. Vezin.
Followed by THE MASKED MOTHER. Mr. and Mrs.
C. Calvert.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EV'ERY EVENING during the week will appear
• TIE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGH'P years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eves
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
ELEis o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

T
THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, JILT 9.
THERMOMETER, Ix THE SHADE.
79=-highest since noon yesterday.
68-4oweat this morning and during the night.
76—this day at noon.
BAuomETER-30.28.
Ifftwn, N.N.W. ; light, with fine weather.

Prudence and patriotism alike dictated the with
drawal of the notice of motion, announced upon the
papers of the House of Lords for last evening, by
Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE. The astound-
ing incident of the Armistice concluded so very
suddenly and unexpectedly on Thursday between
the Emperors of France and Austria furnished the
noble lord with an all-sufficient reason for the post-
ponement, sine die, of the intended discussion upon
the delicate subject of the late diplomatic negotia-
tions. The ventilation of this elaborate and
voluminous correspondence in Parliament might
unquestionably—would most probably—be in the
very last degree inopportune. Every one recog-
nised. this upon the instant directly the news was
received yesterday of this startling, and, so far as
the conqueror is concerned, most magnanimous
Armistice. Lord STRATFORD, we may rest assured,
WAS the very first to appreciate the advisability of
passing his promised motion by sub silentio. In the
interests of peace, in the hope of its eventual
if not speedy realisation—this Parliamentary
reticence was in every respect the course
among all courses the most judicious and
advisable under existing 'circumstances. There
cannot be an instant's doubt that perhaps
the most experienced and gifted diplomatist
of our generation needed no prompting what-
ever to lead him to the recognition and adop-
tion of the wisest policy of all, that of total silence
for the time being, upon the very theme upon which
he himself (and with him many an ardent sym-
pathiser in his views) was burning to expatiate.
Let not those factious politicians, however, who
have wriggled themselves into power, and place,
and patronage, so dishonestly by a party trick, as
mean, and paltry, and utterly despicable as ever yet
has been witnessed in the struggles of placemen
and partisans to get from the cold shade of oppo-
sition to the sunshine of administrative authority
—let not the present occupants of the Treasury
bench console themselves for one moment with a
serious belief that the threatened exposure of
their malevolence and untruthfulness in regard to
Lord MALMESBURY, and his policy throughout the
whole of these difficult and delicate diplomatic
negotiations, has been now at once got rid of alto-
gether. That eclaircissement has only been delayed.
The time must come, sooner or later, when, both in
the Lords and the Commons, the Blue-book now
hushed up and hustled out of the way, out of
motives the most pure and the most honourable,
because simply, as we have said, both prudent and
patriotic—the time must arrive, we say, when
the whole of these transactions will, in the inevitable
course of events, be dragged forth into the broad
light of debate in both branches of the imperial
Legislature. And Parliament will be then con-
strained in honest truthfulness to reverse its
precipitate and most mistaken judgment,
in reference to the foreign policy of the late
DERBYITE Administration. Upon that policy the
recent Administration was notoriously defeated—
or, ratter it should be said, not upon the policy it-
self, but upon its perverse and wilful misrepresen-
tation. That misrepresentation, however, it must
be remembered, was only possible when the new
Parliament was assembled—for the one simple rea-
son that the negotiations were allowed to remain for
the most part simply conjectural from the diplomatic
Correspondence not being then [as it clearly ought
to have been] collected together betimes, and
promptly and most opportunely published. The
non-publication of this vitally important correspon-
dence simultaneously with, if not anterior to, the
assembling together of the newly-elected Parlia-
ment, was—these are the only words for it—a deli-
berate act of Ministerial suicide on the part of the
late Administration. It was not until after
the adverse decision of the House of Commons
had been arrived at—a decision grounded princi-
pally if not entirely upon a misapprehension or
misrepresentation of the nature of the policy pur-
sued by Lord MALMESBURY, in the course of the
negotiations—it was not until then (when it was
altogether too late) that the Italian Blue-
balk was passed through the hands of the
Parliamentary printers and laid by order of
her MAJESTY before both Houses of the Legi3-
latnre. The erroneous verdict had then not
merely been pronounced, but the unjust sentence
had been carried summarily and precipitately into
execution. It is only then, when the victim of this
shamaless manceuvre on the one part, and of this
perven se and incomprehensible blunder on the other
—has been long since dead and buried, that the
false NI -itness, the venal advocates, the unscrupulous
and p artisan judges, and the remorseless execu-
tioners are proved as clearly as anything can be
proved to have acted wholly in error, and to have
done s( with suspiciously eager precipitation !
The question still remains, of course, to puzzle

us to the last—Why, in the name of common sense,
this tardily-published Blue-book, giving the whole
of the correspondence in regard to the Italian
Question, and constituting the succinct and incon-
trovertible vindication of the policy of Lord MALMES -
BURY, was not published, and laid upon the tables
of both houses, at the very time of the assembling
of the new Parliament down at Westminster ?
That Blue-book not being so printed, not
being so laid upon those tables, was an act of
cruel injustice to the Earl of MALMESBURY ; it was,
we repeat, an act of political suicide on the part of
the whole DERBY Government. It was worse than
a crime in Ministerial tactics—it was a mistake :
and a mistake so easily avoided, a betise so readily
prevented, that, for not avoiding it, for not pre-
venting it—the Cabinet really deserved to be de-
-1 feated (as they were) upon the first division. If
the printing of that Blue-book had required
that a hundred printers should have been at
work night and day for a fortnight, any exertion,
every exertion ought in reason and justice to have
been made with a view to its timely publication.
Had this exertion been so made, had the Blue-
book appeared simultaneously with the commence-
ment of the first session of the new Parliament, the
late Ministers of the Crown would not yet by pos-
sibility have been defeated at all, they would still
have remained in power, strong in the integrity,
and the consistency, and the truthfulness
of their Foreign policy, as the inaugurators
of the principle of neutrality on the part of Eng-
land in the midst of this sanguinary outbreak
of war in one of the most central points of

Christendom.
Reference at this present moment, however, to
the contents of that unfortunately and blunder-
ingly retarded Blue-book is regarded on all sides
as unadvisable (as yet), because clearly inoppor-
tune. So inopportune is the moment, in truth, for
anything like explicit discussion in regard to
diplomatic correspondence, that even the greatest
master of irony in the House of Commons, the right
hon. gentleman the leader of her MAJEsTY's Oppo-
sition, can only for the moment—
,4 hint a fault and hesitate dislike,"

when he has occasion, as he had last evening, to
allude incidentally to the half rash, half timorous,
wholly blundering foreign policy of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. As between the belligerents, now ground-
ing their arms for five weeks to come in the quadu-
lateral, the present lull, observable both in the Lords
and Commons, signifies by no means a permanent
compromise or pacification—it is nothing more in
each:instance than a Truce or Armistice.

So—Mr. HENRY BERKELEY has again
down meekly to what he regards as the force o
circumstances. The worst of it is that, with him
self, he humbles the cause he affects to advocate
We may contrive possibly to endure the spectacle
of the hon. gentleman himself walking meekly
under the caudine forks, amid the cheers of the
delighted anti-Ballot place-hunters now seated upon
the front Treasury bench as, for the time being, its
Ministerial occupants. But then—trailing in the
dust, after the heels of the member for
Bristol, is the draggled standard of THE BALLOT—
the Reform of all Reforms, and the one which the
hon. gentleman has been deputed to Champion
upon every reasonable opportunity ! We cannot
look at repetition after repetition of this spectacle
without feelings of profound indignation. Last
evening the really honest supporters of the Ballot
in the House of Commons had the satisfaction of
witnessing once more the uncommon relish with
which this Pistol of the Ballot can " chew the leek"
to the unconcealed delight of the Whig Fictional
now installed as Foreign Secretary. The Ballot is
inconvenient to Whiggery-therefore," breathe not
its name, let it sleep in the shade," now that those
dear charming Whigs are again enshrined (like the
flies in amber) in Downing-street, leaving many
and many an honest beholder to " wonder how the
devil they got there ! " Mr. BERKELEY is quite a
fire-and-fury champion of the Ballot, so long as there
is no reasonable chance whatever of either getting the
11 Ballot, or making a Whig lord uncomfortable.
But—sound a blast upon the brazen trumpet of
Whiggery, roll a peal upon the dull old drum of
routine—and the hon. gentleman can be hood-
winked as easily as PAROLLES;and led away—just
anywhere. The exhibition of yesterday was only
a fitting sequel, it is true, to that witnessed
upon the last division in the last departed
Parliament. Never had the cause of the
Ballot obtained a more tempting or a more
auspicious opportunity than then—when (counting
Speaker and Tellers) there were actually brought
together within the walls of the House of
Commons no less than 638 members altogether.
But no—Mr. BERKELEY then, as now, would
have none of it—the Ballot then, as now, had
better be set aside out of complaisance to its Whig
opponents. It would be so inconvenient ! Mr.
GROTE never would have acted thus, had he con-
tinued to be the Parliamentary champion of the
Ballot. Mr. HENRY BERKELEY, by so acting, has
forfeited any right to be Mr. GROTE'S successor.

We heartily rejoice that, notwithstanding the
Home Secretary's opposition, the House of Com-
mons, by a majority of more than two to one (227
to 103) affirmed the principle of Mr. SCHOLEFIELD'S
bill. Every reason for Acts to regulate what
people cannot possibly see for themselves, such as
weights and measures, the character of cabs and
cab-drivers, and the like, applies, and even more
strongly in some cases, to adulteration of food.
The Bill, as drafted, may need some amendment in
committee,but that municipal and other authorities
should have power to appoint analysists to test the
purity of the articles we eat and drink, as well as
inspectors to insure us fair measure, seems undeni-
able. We detest, none can do so more, the needless
intermeddling of authority with our personal and
commercial matters ; but such intermeddling as
protects the honest man, and lights only on the
underselling rogue who compels him to follow him,
or go into the Gazette, is no more intermeddling
than placing police in the streets. There are thou-
sands of thoroughly honest tradesmen who detest
the present system of adulteration—who would
rather sell the pure article, or mixed in recognised
proportions only ; to such men Mr. SCHOLEFIELD'S
Bill will be heartily
welcome.
We cannot see what objection an honest trades-
man can possibly have to this bill. If a
retail tradesman, and if the wholesale merchant,
without or contrary to his order, have furnished
him with an adulterated article, the bill should
provide some inexpensive means by which the
penalties should be recoverable from the wholesale,
not from the retail vendor. Another provision
should be, that if the paper in which the article
was contained had printed on it conspicuously,

Its. in the case of coffee and chicory, what was
the mixture of which the article really consisted,
the vendor should be held blameless. But it ought
to stalk' also the proportions by weight or measure.
We cannot conceive of any valid reason why, with
a. few such safeguards against wanton annoyance
cd a tradesman, and provisions for such as would
prefer a cheap mixture to the genuine article, there
reed be any hesitation at all in passing such a
measure. If it worked oppressively we should soon
hear enough about it. Six months' trial will hurt

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1859.