The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-16 00:00:00

CIANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
V./ GALLERY, 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 Artistes 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-
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.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, May 15.
..THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--30.
WIND, North-easterly; fresh, with showery weather.
MAY 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
55-loWeSt this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.93.
WIND, North-east; light, with dull cloudy weather.

Immediately Parliament has re-assembled the
country will have a very signal and remarkable
opportunity of seeing what the leaders of party are
really made of This opportunity is in its way
all the more signal, all the more remarkable,
because of the suspicious and far more than simply
ambiguous course pursued by one or two of the
more conspicuous of those leaders immediately
prior to the late dissolution. It cannot easily be
forgotten how disingenuous was the character of
Lord Joinsr RUSSELL'S Opposition. Neither can it
very readily be lost to recollection how flagrantly
the noble lord the member for Tiverton capped
the climax of what, for want of any more
accurate words of definition, must be distinctly
called his impolitic political insolence, by address-
ing to her MAJESTY'S Ministers, at the very time
when those Ministers, by no act of their own, but
simply through the force of circumstances, were
placed in 1. pcisition of extraordinary difficulty—lan-
guage so supremely arrogant as to amount literally
to nothing less than a piece of gratuitous personal
impertinence. Nay, the language employed by
Lord ~PALMERSTON was in effect far worse than that,
it even savoured of an indignity directed against the
inalienable prerogative of the Crown ! As such
it was at once manfully and indignantly
reprobated by the right hon. baronet the First
Lord of the Admiralty. Whatever, indeed, may be
said by mere partisans in extenuation of the dis-
creditable conduct of the two noble lords above
and below the gangway upon the side of the Op-
position—it cannot possibly be gainsaid by any
dispassionate observer of late events in the House
of Commons that that conduct has materially
derogated from •the dignity of the position
occupied before the country for many years past
both by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and by Viscount
PALMERSTON. The Resolutions which were de-
signed by the former noble lord—avowedly almost,
as a meals: of overturning the Reform Bill by
anticipation—were in themselves so paltry an
evasion of anything like a bold and chivalrous face
to face and hand to hand-encounter in Committee,
that the administration thus of an oblique stab at
the Government amounted really to nothing less than
a foul blow directed against an antagonist when in
a position placing that antagonist at an extraor-
dinary disadvantage. The stab, moreover, was
no% only given obliquely, but with a petty
weapon
poisoned to the hilt. It was thrust, too, with
deadly intent at the chink in the armour of the foe
deemed to be the most vulneiable point of all.
There was no circumstance at all in the act to
redeem it from the imputation of extraordinary
unfairness. In the lists it would hardly have re-
sulted in
_anything else than the shearing off of
the golden spur of knighthood, and the snapping
asunder, of" the sword over the helmet. The pro-
ceeding, indeed, frOm first to last, was so paltry of
its kind, that- the hon. and learned gentle-
man the member for Belfast, the second law
officer of . ,the Crown under the present
Government, was constrained to speak of the Reso-
lutions speciously framed by the noble lord, the
member for the City of London for the pettiest
Party purposes, as they could alone be spoken of
with any degree of accuracy as—a dodge ! The dodge
l
f ed- Vaulting ambition here again "overleaped
itself"--in other
words (instead of alighting upon
the curule chair of power) it turned an ignominious
summersault. Lord Jo cis RUSSELL had to
pocket his triumphant Resolutions upon All Fool's
Day—and a„very short time afterwards had to go
before his constituency with the rest of them, and
there eat extremely humble pie about the Ballot
and so forth, to the great admiration and delight of
all beholders. The noble lord's " noble friend," the
member for Tiverton, meanwhile, having to follow
up his bragadociose taunt—" You shall not dissolve
Parliament, you shall nol Appeal to the Country—.

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, MAY 16, 1859.