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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
th

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e first essential of all for preservation or perpetua-
on—coherence—that we may in each instance
ook 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

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
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THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
Miss A. Burditt.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
After which. CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
THE MARBLE HEART. Mr. Leigh Murray.
After which, DELICATE GROUND. Mr. and Mrs. H.
Vezin.

To conclude with THE BRIGAND. Mr. Charles Pitt.

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EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, vix., 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 oributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELET4 o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

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 4 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 41 per cent., but 61 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 feet, 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. GRAHAM 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 fulling from the lips
of a Chancellor of the Exchequer : " The matters
we are dealing with are of the extremest delicacy,
and the public faith ought not only to be sustained,
but ought not even to be suspected"---the right hon.
gentleman, by way of supporting this high standard
of national integrity, actually supported that
insidious, and specious, and sinister proposition for
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 opportunity presented by the pulling
down of Berkeley House, for the opening of a suit-

THE nil, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1859.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office :

VERONA, JULY 11 (via VIENNA).

The Emperor of Austria, accompanied by Gen-
erals Hess, Grunne, Kellner, Kollenstein, Roming,
Schlitter, and several other officers of the Staff,
went this morning to the interview with the French
Emperor at Villafranca.

TURIN, JULY 11.

The Official Bulletin of to-day publishes the text
of the convention of armistic. Besides the articles
already known, it is said the belligerent armies
will keep the positions which they now occupy.
The railways to Verona, Peschiera, and Mantua
may, during the armistic, be used to carry provi-
sions to those fortresses. Peschiera and Mantua
are being provisioned, and the provisioning of the
former will he completed in two days. The works,
offensive and defensive, of Peschiera are to remain
in their present state. The convention is signed
by Generals Vaillant, Martinfrey della Rocco, Hess,
and Meurdorf.

BERLIN, MONDAY, JULY 11.

The Prussian Gazette publishes an article in
which the earlier proposals of Prussia and the
latest proposal of Austria to the Federal Diet are
ylaced in comparison. The article says, among
other things, as follows :
Austria intends, by its proposal, to request the
Prince Regent to accept the post of Commander-
in-Chief of the Federal army. The possessor of
the chief power in the States of Prussia can never
be personally responsible to the Diet.
The article concludes thus :

It is easy to perceive how that a member of
the Federal Diet, which is at the same time
a belligerent Power, can make a proposal, the
acceptance of which would render dubious all
unity of action, and force Germany to commence a
war, by which it would be ruined. The Federal
Diet has to choose between the proposals of Prussia
and Austria. It can accept the former; or, by the
acceptance of the latter, deprive Germany of all
power of action, even also of the power of energeti-
cally negotiating for peace. It would also lower
the military power of the German States to the
organisation of the old army of the German empire.
The German nation will not doubt for a moment
on which side lie thes recognition and desire for
that which is now above all things needed for the
Fath erlan "

BERNE, JULY 11.

The Federal assembly has elected the President
of the Swiss Confederation for 1860 in the person
of the Federal Councillor M. Frey-Herossee. M.
Knusel has also been chosen Vice-President. M.
Ziegler has been re-elected Chief of the military
general staff.

TRIESTE, JULY 11.
Yesterday fourteen war steamers were still a'

Lussin.

A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels I
gives the following account of the circumstances
which preceded the armistice
The Emperor of Austria having caused a de-
mand to be made in the French camp if it were not
possible to obtain the remains of Prince Windis-
chgratz, who was killed at Solferino, the Emperor
Napoleon caused them to be sought for—and they
were recognised partly by his uniform, and partly
by some letters from his newly-married wife,
which he had about him. The corpse was
placed in an artillery waggon, and conveyed, ac-
companied by an officer of the staff and an escort,
to the Austrian head-quarters. The officer ex-
pressed to the FAnperor the condolence of the Em-
peror of the French ; and his Austrian Majesty
(who was just recovering from a somewhat severe
indisposition) begged, not without emotion, the
officer to convey his thanks to the Emperor Na-
poleon, and to express his sorrow at the death of
so many brave men in the French army. This led
to some remarks on the cruel necessities of war, and
from What was said the Emperor Francis Joseph
was able to perceive that those necessities were re-
gretted as much by his opponent as by himself.
The Emperor Francis Joseph afterwards sent the
son of Gen. Urban with a flag of truce to the French
camp, as is known, and the Emperor Napoleon by
an autograh letter proposed a suspension of arms.
It is added that the latter has carried his courtesy
to the extent of neutralising, for the signing of the
preliminaries of a truce, the town of Villafranca,
although the usages of war would. have justified
him in requiring those formalities to take place at
his own headquarters."

The National Gazette of Berlin also contains the

following :
" The armistice which has just been concluded
in no respect constitutes peace; we may even ask
if the two powers have seriously put an end to
hostilities. It is possible that Austria only seeks
the means of renewing in a more efficacious man-
ner her cry of alarm ; whilst Napoleon 111. tends
to isolate Austria still more, by casting on the
Cabinet of Vienna the responsibility of refusing
reasonable conditions. However, that may be,
Prussia is placed in the most favourable situation,
as her intervention now no longer depends on the
variable chances of war. She can decide in a
manner perfectly independent on what side the
fault lies, in case the negotiations should fail, and
can choose afterwards the position which she
should assume. For her mediation she can desire
nothing better than to see the French stop at the
Adige and accept definitively the meeting of a con-
gress. In the new phase in which negotiations
are about to enter the resolutions to be taken at
Frankfort are of the highest importance. The
principal basis of any action consists in the unity-
of diplomatic and military action in the hands of
Prussia. It is known that our. Government has
made new propositions in that spirit relative to the
adjunction of the corps d'arniee of the Germanic
Confederation to the Prussian army, and relative to
the chief command of the other confederate corps."

The Cologne Gazette, in an article entitled
"Armistice and War," says :—" The news of the
armistice between the Emperor of Austria and the
Emperor of the French is the more happy that the
advantages of the armistice, at least at the first
glance, appear to be altogether for Austria. We
can make that declaration, for according to our
accounts, and they come from a good source, the
situation of the Austrian army is deplorable. Com-
manded in an uncertain and incapable manner,it has
always been inferior to its adversary, in spite of its
ardent efforts. It certainly has never fled, it has never
been pursued, but it has always been beaten, and
to fall back constantly must in the end discourage
the bravest soldior. Lombardy is lost ; the Miricio
itself has no longer the prestige which was attached
to its name ; the Franeo-Sardinians have crossed it
as as they would any ordinary river, and they have
set to work to take from the celebrated quadrangle
the terror which it has hitherto inspired, by be-
sieging all its fortresses. In the Austrian army it
is not nu rely disecuragement which prevails, but
disorder and extreme confusion. The food of the
soldiers bad. The war was commenced with di:-
order in the finances, and the necessity of procuring
money has lcd to the adoption of desperate mea-
sures. Moreover, the Austrians, though on their
own territory, are in a hostile country, for treason
surrounds them. And the French, by means of
their fleets, Wen sending troops to disem-
bark in their rear, and were preparing
to besiege Venice. If besides the Emperor
of Austria casts his looks further—that is
to say, in his own States beyond the Adriatic—
what he sees is not calculated to console him.
Everywhere discontent, excited by his system of
government, breaks out ; the voice of the people