The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-06 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., yr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Sean.
After which, IF THE CAP FI PS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
we, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
THIS EVENING the pert °runtimes will commence with
a neVreoinedy, 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.

W THFATRt - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laidlaw, and Mrs. l3illington.
Wigwed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
an, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.
Followed by THEiss FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan,
M
Mr. Billington, M. 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—Commence at seven. Box
(Moe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
.gervants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

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
THE MMr
HAN O VENICE. Shylock, Mr. H.
Veein ; Portia, Mrs- VTeEin•F
To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER.

RBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
OILLERY. 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 Artiatea of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
Mastic 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.--STM OYFICZ, J111:1 6.
THERmoxrrEn, IN TUB SIEADI4.
77--highest since noon yesterday.
66—lowest this morning and during the night.
79—this day at noon.
BA.RONETER---30'38.
WIND, South Westerly ; light, with very fine, but hol

Happily there is no real difference of opinion
in this country as to the necessity of increasing
the national defences, and as far as possible per-
fecting their organization. The masterly and im-
pressive statement made last night in the House of
Peers by Lord LYNDHURST is but the utterance
in burning words of the sentiment cherished in the
hearts' core of every trueborn Englishman. We
are all agreed. There is nowhere a dissentient
voice audible. Even Mr. COBDEN immediately
upon his arrival at Liverpool—believer though he
is in the efficacy of pacific arbitration—acknow-
ledged with a manly and patriotic frankness that
at all cost the independence of the nation must
be cared for, and that nothing possibly could
be too much to pay for the priceless boon
of immunity from subjugation. Differing though the
nine interlocutors did last evening as to the pro-
priety of these open discussions, in regard to the
probabilities of a rupture with France, followed by
a French invasion—the three dukes, the three earls,
the solitary viscount, and the two ex-chancellors
were but of one opinion as to the advisability (to
say the very least of it) of maintaining the mili-
tary, and still more, if possible, the maritime forces
of the country at their highest point of efficiency—
ready at all times for any and every emergency
Semper paratus—that should be our latest em-
blazonment upon the national escutcheon. " Ready,
aye, Ready" being at the same moment
the motto not alone of the heroic race of the
NAPIEns, but of all the sympathetic millions
of their countrymen, without distinction of place or
party, of class or profession. Hence, indeed, the
instantaneous response to the late poetic reveillez
of the Laureate—as signalised by the rising far
and wide in all directions of the free corps of
the volunteers and the riflemen. There may be al-
ways something ludicrous to the professional soldier
in the notion of mere civilians enrolling themselves
in a sort of impromptu National Guard—but the
calamity of an invasion, be sure of that, would at
once elevate even the " awkward squad" of a
militia into something more than simple respecta-
bility. Danger would lend dignity to the un-
drilled. And the exchange of the yard measure
for the Minie rifle, or the hoe for the revolver,
would not necessarily be subject for ridicule—were
the consequence-of that exchange for once by ne-
cessity the actual fighting for Fatherland.
There is that good old axiom, si vis pacem
para bellum, which cannot possibly be too
often repeated. Even at the hazard of being
stigmatized as an alarmist, the venerable ex-Chan-
cellor, Lord LYNDHURST, insisted yesterday upon
the necessity of securing peace most effectually by
the energy of our warlike preparations. Excepting
only the new Lord President of the Couneil (the
Earl GRANVILLE) and the new Lord Privy Seal
(his Grace the Duke of ARGYLL), and the new
Vint Lord of the Admiralty (his Grace the Duke
alemEnsET) ; each of the five other Noble Lords
wh"Peke last evening heartily endorsed the opi-
nions, expressed with so much patriotic fervour by
Lord LYNDHURST, when inaugurating this most
timely discussion. What, for example, were the
solemn closing words, what was the thrilling perora-
tion of the speech delivered immediately after Lord
LYNDHURST had resumed his seat by Lord STRAT-
FORD DE REDCLIFFE?
"
viscount, with extraordinary emphasis, "if the
warning was in time accepted, if we looked the
danger fairly in the face, and
employed all the
means- at our disposal, so far from. there I)eina any
reason to apprehend danger, I do, so help me God
believe that if that hour of danger ever does arrive,
it would be the brightest and most glorious day
that ever shone on the destinies of this coun-
try !" It is the universal belief of all English-
men—lF ! Upon that one condition with
that single proviso—lF ! Let but that be
seen to, betimes, and there will not remain within
the compass of these shores one solitary alarmist.
It is the necessity of our seeing well to that, before
it is too late, that has given rise to all these fre-
quent movements in favour of a national armament
—not in the way of aggression, but of defence !
Lord HARDWICKE, in a kindred spirit, pronounced
the address delivered by the noble and learned
"as patriotic and useful
ex-Chancellor to be
as it was important." Lord BROUGHAM, while
he insisted that we have no cause whatever
to be mil,trustful as to the course likely to be
pursued b 2 • the French people, white he avowed,
moreover, .his own confidence in the Emperor of
the FRENc a, adds as powerfully as sententiously
—" BuT, whether we trust him (NAPOLEON III.)
or mists us'L him, we certainly ought to trust to our-
selves, c, nd without expecting war or dreading war,
we oug h t to be prepared for it," Those wise and
admirable words of Lord BRoucIHAM'S express
everyth irlg. In them the whole -argument is ex.

hausted. By acting upon them the safety and
dignity of the country may be alike cared
for most effectually. They ought to be inde-
libly imprinted on the national remembrance.
Whether we trust this potentate or that, whether
we look to this or that contingency, whether we
await these or those eventualities—" we certainly
ought to trust to ourselves"—and, condensing yet
more the solemn truth already so fully and elo-
quently expressed by Lord LYNDHURST—" without
expecting war or dreading war, we ought to be
prepared for it !" Besides, as Lord BROUGHAM
put it irresistibly through the House to the
country, and through the country to our
Gallic neighbours—that French people upon
whose integrity and friendship Lord BROUGHAM
relies, himself, so implicitly—" they had no right,"
said the noble and learned lord, "to complain of
our being prepared when they had proved them-
selves to be so prepared." How well prepared they
were Lord LYNDHURST had humorously enough
indicated when commenting, in the course of his
most lucid and convincing harangue, upon the

celerity with which one hundred and seventy thou
sand men had been transported suddenly from
France into Piedmont, and conveyed thence still
further beyond the waters of the river Mincio
with all their baggage and ammunition, with 200
guns and a siege train, winning the two great
battles of Magenta and Solferino—the latter one of
the bloodiest victories upon record and all
this, and much more—upon a peace establish-
ment ! All Lord LYNDHURST asks for ourselves
is some proportionate, some equivalent peace
establishment. Something considerably less
than the warlike total of France, he thinks,
and certainly with reason, will answer our purpose
under the circumstances. But while France has
her magnificent army of nearly 600,000 men
always more or less in perfect readiness—Lord
LYNDHURST deems a practicable total of 100,000
(inclusive of the militia) enough for our land de-
fence. The enhancement of the naval force, how-
ever, he conceives to be the essential security of our
independence. The noble and learned lord's dis-
claimer of any desire whatever to embroil
us with our Allies by expressing unnecessary
jealousy of their ruler, was, perhaps, the happiest
portion of all this brilliant and memorable oration.
"If I am asked," said Lord LYNDHURST, " Do you
not rely upon the assurance and the courtesy of
the Emperor NAPOLEON ?' I answer, ' I have
great respect for that great personage ; but '—l
am not going to enter into any explanation upon
that subject. I shall leave every noble lord to draw
his own conclusion, and form his own opinion.
This, however, I will say, and say it with-
out impropriety, that if I am asked whether I
can place reliance upon the Emperor NAPoLEON, I
say with confidence that I cannot place reliance
upon him, because he is in a situation in which he
cannot place reliance upon himself. He is in a
situation in which he must be governed by circum-
stances ; and I will not consent that the safety of
this country should depend upon such contingen-
cies." Nobly, admirably, proudly, patriotically
expressed. Who can quarrel with words in
every way so reasonable in themselves ? Not
even the French. Not even the Emperor
NAPOLEON. By acting as Lord LYNDHURST
wishes us to act ; by extending and reorga-
nising our military forces ; by increasing our navy
at once in strength and efficiency—we shall only-
be taking a leaf out of the French book. They
cannot quarrel with us for emulating their own
wise preparedness. If we need but one
additional and irresistible incentive to the
proposed increase of trouble and expenditure—that
one supplementary and conclusive incentive may be
found in those two thrilling words of warning with
which Lord LYNDHURST closed his superb ha-
rangue— Vice victi s ! words (as the noble and
learned lord observed) of an import so solemn and
so significant !

This afternoon Sir CHARLES WOOD, of all men
in the world, with what we are fain to call at once
the most consummate effrontery—has upon the
papers of the House of Commons three notices of
motion, demanding under this very date Mercurii,
6e die .Tulii, 1859, three " Returns"—returns hav-
ing reference not to his present (the Indian), but
to his former (the Naval) Department of her MA-
JESTY'S Administration. The first of these suicidal
notices of motion has reference to the screw
steamers, demanding, in fact, under this head—a
" return of the number of screw ships and vessels of
her MAJESTY'S Navy afloat on the Ist day of Feb-
ruary in the years 1855 and 1858." The second is
for a " return of the ships and vessels added to the
navy between the 31st day of March, 1858, and the
Ist day of June, 1859, distinguishing those which
were added in accordance with the general scheme
of works for the year, and those which were added
in consequence of subsequent orders ; and also of
the frigates and sloops which would have been
launched according to the general scheme of works
for 1858-9, but which were deferred on account of
the men being removed to convert ships of the
line." Tho third, having reference to the dock-
yards, is for a " return of the sums voted, and of
the sums expended for wages in the dockyards in
the years 1857-8 and 1858-9 ; showing in the lat-
ter year the sum inserted in the original, in the
, revised, and supplemental estimates." The remark-
able curiosity evinced by Sir CHARLES WOOD for
precise and reliable information upon these heads
—is really only comparable, to our thinking, to
the renowned inquisitiveness with which a monkey

once upon a time (a monkey worthy of commemo-
ration by the pen of PILPAY) stretching
its head eagerly round the muzzle of a piece of
ordnance, peering anxiously down the iron per-
spective [to see precisely what might come out of
it], applied a lighted match to the touch-hole!

The prolonged expectation of another and it may
be a final pitched battle may soon " come off," as
the phrase goes ; for the Austrians are evidently
preparing for a desperate hazard r.t or about
Verona, where they have the advantage of a large
fortified camp on the right of the Adige. If they
be able to hold their ground, it may serve to
paralyse the advance of the Allies for a time,
ibut only for a time, for there is little chance
lagainst the daring of the French, now
flushed with the ardour of victory, and conquer-
ing on tinder the very eye of NAPOLEON, who
rewards deeds of valour on the very spot of their
achievement. This to a soldier is dear as life,
while its immediate effect on the army is equi-
valent to
a muster-roll of 50,000 fresh troops
One customer who
pays his way is valued more
than a dozen who trade
on tick." So it proves
in war. A man who feels
that his exertions are
sure of immediate reward and proud acknow-
ledgment, will dare the very devil
for glory, and his
example best serves to stimulate others, so
that an army fighting under such heart-stirring
enthusiasm moves on to battle, regardless
of all

consequences but victory.
" They march to death with military glee !,,

It is in this consists the grand secret of French suc-
cess, and the EMPEROR knows his men too well to
let their ardour cool : no—he fans the flame till
they are wound up to a frenzied chivalry, and victory

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1859.