The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

is the sure result. True, they may suffer severely ;
but then the charm of triumph over-balances every
consideration, if they every stay to consider at
all. Their native enthusiasm burns up like wild
fire, and they rush on, feeling that

" They can but die, and die but once,
Examples to the world !"
While the Austrians are collecting their scattered
forces into another grand army, the French are by
no means idle, for reinforcements are hurrying
along from every quarter, all eager to share the
glory and partake the dangers of the day.
If the Austrians be defeated, then Verona falls as
an immediate consequence ; Vicenza will open its
gates and Venice must surrender in the very terror
of its approaching fate, while the rest of Lombardy
to the distant verge and confines of the Indian
Alps, will bid the retreating Austrians a hearty,
abrupt—but eternal bad bye.

The Session and the Ballot. We have heard
from a source which leaves us no room for
doubt, that yesterday evening a meeting of
members favourable to the, Ballot was called in
the tea-room of the House of Commons, to consider
the question of the mode of introducing the Ballot
this session ; and that, by the smallest possible
majority, in a rather small meeting, it was agreed
to introduce it in no mode whatever, but to defer

till the ensuing session, when the Reform Bill is to
he brought forward, any motion on the subject•
We are told that there was no want of earnestness
among those present; that Mr. BERKELEY espe-
cially was very desirous to introduce the subject to
the house while so many members were yet feeling
pungently the evils which the Ballot alone can
prevent ; that all the Irish members who spoke
were decidedly of opinion that the extension of the
suffrage in Ireland, unaccompanied by the Ballot,
would be a curse, and not a blessing ; but that, by

;he very small majority indicated above, to which
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the two hundred and thirty-eight left the decision,
it was thought best to defer the motion till " a
more convenient season"—a season, which divines

say, never comes.
We are informed, also, that we shall soon hear—
probably on Friday night, on the usual motion for
adjournment—the reasons which make procrastina-
tion desirable. The Thames, the heat, and the
partridges, we suppose, will be prominent among
legislatorial considerations. Though such ardent
friends of the Ballot, we are not of the impracticable
class. Still, till we hear more authoritatively " the
reason why," we can think of no good ones. Mr.
BERKELEY is certainly right in what we are told
was his own view of the case ; and though, we
suppose, he must yield to a majority of any body
with whom he acts, yet we must think that his
followers ought to have listened to the counsels of
their acknowledged leader. Of one thing we are
quite confident—that there is a natural and fair
desire throughout the country to know what the
members of the new Parliament think on the
Reform, on which alone all Reformers outside the
house are in entire unanimity. If it be not too late,
we should strongly counsel reconsideration in a
larger meeting of Liberal members. Were Mr.
JAMES WYLD in the house the subject could not be
evaded ; and it will be hard if, because the want
of the Ballot has—temporarily only, we hope—
deprived him of his seat, the members should dis-
. perse unshrived on the most important of all
Reforms.