The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

ONCE A WEEK.
No. 1., price 3d.
London : Bradbury and Evans,ll, Bouverie-street.

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

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
TITIA -EVENING the performances will commence with
A new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in
Which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear,
A.fter which, NOTHING TO WEAR.
To conclude with THE
mm TER WITCHES.
Coe at 7.

ISTEW 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 Mrs. Billing,ton.
Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A.
Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.
'And (by desire) THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan,
Mr. Billington, Miss 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
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, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.
To conclude with KENILWORTH'.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHAII. Dukeharles of
Gloster, Mr. Hermann Vezin ; supported bRyD M Issrs. C
Calvert, B. Potter, C. Cooper, Voltaire, J. Neville, Miss Agnes
liemble, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Charles Calvert, Miss Ferguson,
Miss Yokes.
After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT
LETORIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin.
ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY.EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

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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 eve:
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, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

ITlth WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 1.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
72—highest since noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER.-30 18.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with dull mtather, but
fine.

The Ministerial leaders n both Houses have,
according to promise, given us their Explanations.
Viscount PALMERSTON, as First Minister of the
Crown, has spoken in the Commons—Earl GRAN-
VILLE, as Lord President of the Council, has spoken
in the Lords ; and the nation can now fully appre-
ciate the exact position and the precise intentions
of her MAJESTY'S Government.

And what, let us ask now, in the name of com-
mon sense, what is the real amount of the gain
secured either to national or to European interests
by way of compensation for this late extraordinary
political bouleversement ? What may be the nature,
what the tendency, what the dimensions of those
immense advantages which must, of course, be
accruing to the British empire from this abrupt
transformation of a Government into an Opposition,
and of an Opposition into a Government ? The
transformation, remember, took place at a period
when, after nearly a dozen years of more or less
earnest agitation of the great problem of Parlia-
mentary reform, there was at length actually sub
mitted to the consideration of the Legislature a
substantial Reform Bill, such as might have been
moulded in committee to any shape the popular
representatives might have been pleased to
impart to it. Recollect, moreover, that this
sudden change of Ministries took place in the
very midst of the raging of a great war
between the two most powerful military despo-
tisms of Christendom. A compulsory removal of
one Administration and substitution of another

—occurring at a crisis in every respect so re-
markable both as regards our foreign and our
domestic situation—must surely imply some im-
mense concomitant advantages ! But—where are
those advantages ? What are they ? In which
department of the Administration are they dis-
coverable ? Let us see.

While war is actually raging in Lombardy be-
tween the gigantic armies of France and Austria,
Perhaps our first inquiries ought in reason to
have reference to the present and prospective
character of our foreign relations. What, then,
let us ask at once, has been the amount of gain
in regard to our foreign policy resulting from
the recent change of Administrations ? Why,
the Prime Minister frankly avows—now that he
The course which we intend to pursue,"
says his lordship, "is that which has been chalked
out by those who have preceded us." So that in
this department—the Foreign Administration of
the public service—there is, according to Lord PAL-
xERBTON's acknowledgment, no affectation even of
any gain, or advance, 6r advantage whatso-
ever ! The Coalition Government simply under-
takes to persevere in carrying out the same
neutral policy which had been inaugurated by the
Derbyite Government. No new effort at mediation
between the belligerents is to be attempted yet
awhile—we are simply to wait for eventualities.
Exactly to the very T what
was being done by the
late reviled and ousted Administration ! Where,
then, ;was the necessity—in regard
to our foreign
policy—of any change at all in her
Iy.LAJESTY'S
Government ?

But the advantages which ought certainly to be
found somewhere as the happy fruits of the late
transportation of Derbyites and Palmerstonians_
pos4bly these advantages affect in some obvious
and instant manner the hopes of the nation in re-
gard to the reform of Parliament, in regard to the
remodelling of the whole system of the popular
representation. No—not a bit of it. Even here
We are baffled in our inquiries. We are to have no
liteforna Bill yet awhile—but, quoth that very won-
derful Reformer, Lord PALMERSTON, " that it will
lie our endeavour aid determination to avail our-
solves-of the earliest moment of the next session •of
Parliament to prepare and produce a bill, I can give
the assurance of myself and my colleagues."
Why, we, have had all these kind of assur-
ances over and over again before now, not simply
from the ,lips of Lord PALXCERSTON, but from
those of a more august personage—we have had
promises of this kind held out to the country in the
Royal Speeillies delivered from the throne by the
silvery acceints of tbe SOVERET.GN. Surely it can-
not be pre tended for one single instant that
the gain res 4 thing from the change of Ministers—if
discoverable anywhere—is discoverable in regard
to the prospciets of Parliamentary Reform ! Iden-
tically the sal ne prospects—to say the very least of
it—were befoi .e us in the perspective of the next
session had Lo rd DERBY still held within his grasp
the reins of Gc rvernment.

Perhaps the invisible advantages Accrzing to the

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1859.