The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

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, will. be presented MATRIMONIAL PRO-
ISPECTITSES.
To be followed by -VANDYKE BROWN': Mr. J. Clark,
and Miss M. Ternan.
After which, the hew Extravar,ranza, KENILWORTH ; or
Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
(first time), a new grand Drama, entitled THE THREE
MUSKETEERS.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss
Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle.
Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount
of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any
theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne.
To conclude with a Screaming Farce, in which Miss M.
Jackson -will make her 6th appearance at this theatre.
The splendid romance of IVANHOE ; or, The Knights
Tempiars, is in active preparation, and will be revived with
extraordinary magnificence.
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, aid £1 ls.
Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
:Ion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters Land is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam .Eight in number, whose varied
Instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, wil.!
:,eriorm every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OPFICZ, APRIL 9-.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since soon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.60—falling.
WIND, W.N.W. ; very strong, with frequent squall%
It rained in the night, and this morning. Now fine sun-
shiny weather.

There is a dark and lowering cloud in the politi-
cal atmosphere which augurs badly for the peace
and tranquillity of Europe. By a telegram from
Vienna, dated yesterday evening, it is said that
" the long-expected crisis is at hand ; that a corps
of 50,000 men would leave the city for Italy on this
and following days ; that another corps of 60,000.
is to be assembled at Vienna, and a reserve corps of
70,000 men is to be placed in Bohemia and Moravia,
and that the reserves of the army in Italy and of
the army corps about to leave the city have been
called in."

This is truly alarming intelligence. It proves
that Austria places no faith in the powers of the
approaching Congress. She is openly and ener-
getically making preparations which, considering
the condition of her exchequer, could only be
justified in the. certainty of speedy war, and that
with a really formidable enemy. France, although
more silently, is not the less surely proceeding in
a similar manner. The armaments of both countries
are being placed in the most efficient condition,
ready for any emergency at a moment's notice ;
while Sardinia, eager for the fray, is doing all in
her power to aggravate the difficulties of the posi-
tion, and to prevent the possibility of a pacific
solution of the all-important problem.
The answers of Lord MALMESBITRY in the Lords,
and of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
Commons, are peculiarly significant. The Secretary
declared that, unless some unforeseen objection oc-
curred, he would, before the prorogation, make a
statement which would satisfy their lordships that
the Government had done all they possibly could
to preserve the peace of Europe. The doubtful
terms in which this was declared appear to indicate
that their laudable exertions had not been attended
with the desired effect, and that some insuperable
impediments had arisen to the course which they
were desirous of fulcsuing. . _

Mr. DISRAELI also earnestly deprecated any im-
mediate discussion which would be inconvenient,
and mere than inconvenient, to the public interests.
He proposed, however, to fix a day on Monday for
making a complete statement respecting the position
in which this country is placed with respect to foreign
affairs and the negotiations now in progress. This
day would either be Tuesday or, at all events, some
other day in the course of next week. The danger
must therefore be very imminent when full revela-
tions can be made at so early a period. It seems
to be the critical moment, and we fear that the
sword will prevail and much blood be shed and
treasure expended before a final settlement can be
obtained.

It seems to be now by no means certain that the
anticipated Conference will take place. Austria
is holding back, and it is positively asserted, and
with much apparent foundation, that she refuses
to .enter the Congress unless Piedmont first dis-
arms. Piedmont might fairly offer to consent to a.
mutual disarmament, but to that Austria objects
that she cannot do so in consequence of the attitude
assumed by France, which she must be prepared to
meet at any moment, and under any circumstances.
There is reason in this objection ; but on what
possible grounds can she expect that Piedmont
would abandon all its preparations and leave itself
wholly at her mercy? This is ridiculous, and the
very nature of the objection shows that she is
determined on hostilities, and she has parties to
deal with, who are only anxious that she should
take the initiative, and furnish a plausible excuse
for the proceedings which they are most anxious to
adopt) and the insane refusal to enter into the

Congress 'must, if true, render war almost
inevitable.

The manifesto just:published by Count CAVOUR
does not by any means improve the position. It
is certainly an answer to a requisition from her
MAJESTY'S Ministers, but it shows that Sardinia
expects far more than Austria will be inclined to
grant, and that she is prepared to stake her very
existence in obtaining something like liberty for
the Italian States, not merely those which by
treaty engagements are placed under the rule of
Austria, but many others in which the latter
Power officiously interferes without a shadow of
right or justice. Count CAYOUR acknowledges the
treaty obligations, and that Austria has the letter
of the law on her side so far as the Lombardo-Vene-
tian kingdom is concerned, but the impolicy and
injustice of her conduct are clearly explained, and
a course pointed out by which the Italian subjects
of FRANCIS-JOSEPH might be satisfied.
But the course pursued with respect to other
Powers is clearly unjustifiable. The non-inter-
vention principle has now been fully recognised.
Every question between a government and people
should be decided by themselves, and it is mon-
strous to find a force of foreign bayonets ready to
support any illegal or despotic act that might ex-
cite the indignation of the whole people. There
can be no possible justification for the occupation
of different States in Central Italy, and if
the Cabinet of Vienna wishes to obtain
the moral support of Europe they will
remove these well - founded causes of com-
plaint. It is unfortunate that the factious
majority should have prevailed during so great an
emergency. It is, perhaps, to the majority that
we are indebted for these grave complications,
which might not have occurred had Lord MALMES-
BURY been enabled to carry on his negotiations
without so great a drawback.

Preparations are being made actively in a'

directions for the coming struggle among the dif-
ferent constituencies. Addresses are multiplying,

Old members are seeking re-election in the vas

majority of instances—the retirement of any o'

them voluntarily being distinctly exceptiond

New men are " cropping up" in abundance as can-
didates here and there—and this frequently in
quarters the most unexpected. But few represen-
tatives have the self-command of Mr. WILLIAms, of
Lambeth—withdrawing from a "coign of 'van-
tage" :already attained by means of their past-
energy, but spontaneously and magnanimously
resigned because of their own consciousness of its
diminution by reason of deteriorated health or
relaxed vigour. Occasionally there are already
indications of change in some instances from an
old constituency to a new constituency. There is
the somewhat remarkable case, for example, of the
transference of the ex-Attorney-General from the
little borough of Aylesbury and his return hence-
forth for the more important borough of Wolver-
hampton.
The treatment of Sir RICHARD BETHELL by
the ' Liberal party of Aylesbury is certainly one
of the most flagrant indications yet brought to
light of the passion and pique now tending seriously
to disorganise the plans and to dissipate the hopes
of the already sufficiently dispirited Opposition.
The borough of Aylesbury is fast becoming a pro-
verb of fickleness and petulance among the liberal
constituencies. Mr. LATARD'S rise and fall now
find somewhat of a corollary in the rise and fall
oC.ciha3lsr-ouini,Palmirtha '''"RD'
himself indignantly, andwith very natural hauteur
under the circumstances, refuses to allow his name
to be put in nomination. It appears that the hon.
and learned gentleman had but very recently
acceded to the proposition proceeding from the
local Conservative agent down at Aylesbury, that
the present sitting members should be again
returned together Sir RICHARD BETHELL,
the Liberal, Mr. BERNARD, the Conserva-
tive. It was a reasonable proposition enough,
and one that, in every sense, was at once
rational and honourable under the circumstances.
Scarcely, however, had Sir RICHARD accorded his
agreement to the proposition, when, without a
with your leave, or by your leave, without the
courtesy of any sort of communication with

the distinguished sitting Liberal represen-
tative of the constituency—up starts suddenly
another Liberal candidate for the representation,
one of those charming curiosities (quite a htsus
nature of its kind), a new-born Whig, a Mr. WENT-
WORTH, a son-in-law of the renowned ULicK,
Marquis of CLANAICARDE. This Mr. WENTWORTH
first intimates his advent by the summary
publication of an address to the electors of
the borough, an address enunciating liberal
views, and plainly announcing the writer's deter-
mination to go to the poll. Thereupon, startled
from their " propriety" by the unanticipated appa-
rition of this address, the Conservative party natu-
rally enough conclude that the recent agreement
arrived at with Sir RICHARD BETHELL has been
repudiated—and, driven to bay thus abruptly, they
of course start another candidate for themselves !
Out of all this, however, comes another complica-
tion, in the shape of what we cannot but think a
really inevitable consequence under the circum-
stances. Sir RICHARD BETHELL conceives
himself to have been most unfairly dealt

with by the Liberal party of Aylesbury

—a constituency he has now for the last
eight years represented with admirable ability
(even his opponents will allow this) in the coun-

cils of the Imperial Parliament. He is indignant
at the unwarrantable course that has been followed.
He does not consider it to be befitting his own
dignity to act in concert with an individual who
has thus unwarrantably striven to supplant him
with his own constituency. He refuses, as we have
said, to allow his name to be put in nomi-

nation—he withdraws from the constituency. Hap•

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pily to find a more suitable colleague before
him in the presence of the Right Honourable
CHARLES VILLIERS, and a much more important

constituency ready to welcome him as he deserves,
namely, the constituency of Wolverhampton. But
how does this incident, let us ask, now affect the

prospect of the Liberal party down at Aylesbury ?
Why it affects those prospects so seriously that
there is really and truly a very great probability
at this moment that Aylesbury—in consequence

of Mr. WENTWORTII, the son-in•law of Lord

CLANRICARDE—wiII return two Conservatives to
the new Parliament! It is the dog and the shadow

all over again—grasping at the phantom and losing
the substance—snapping at all and losing every-
thing. We have been thus explicit, even to par-
.

ticularity, in referring to the conduct, the most
unwarrantable and, to say the least of it, the most

mistaken conduct of the Liberal party down at Ayles,
bury, because we regard the course there pursued

as one of serious significance. It is illustrative, in a
Painful manner, of the passion, the precipitation, and
the overreaching arrogance of a very large section of
the so-called Liberals and psuedo-reformers
throughout the country, a passion, a precipitation
and an arrogance tending to make that confusion

worse confounded for which we are already so

largely indebted to the factious leaders of a disor-
ganised Opposition.

If, looking at Aylesbury, we cannot say ex uno
disco omnes, we are constrained in frankness to
regard the: conduct of the nominal Reformers
and Liberals in that borough as a tolerable average
sample of the very:appropriate consequences result-
ing from the late party manceuvres in the House of
Commons. A considerable number of the so-called
Liberal constituencies really appear to be most
perversely bent upon realising, as far as possible, the
somewhat unpatriotic prediction of Lord PALMER-
STON, when he said the other day that the Con-
stitution would be scrambled for on the hustings :
in the event of Ministers venturing to do, what he
declared in the first instance in the most uncon-
stitutional language that he would not allow them
to do—and yet what he has since then consented
to their doing—viz., to dissolve Parliament.
For ourselves we need hardly say that we don't,
for one single instant, conceive that it is now any
question at all about scrambling for the Constitu-
tion upon the hustings in any one, either of the
great or the small constituencies. We believe in
the reasonableness of this extraordinary assertion
of Lord PALMERSTON no more than we
believed, two or three years back, in the
reasonableness of another assertion equally
extraordinary in its way—the assertion of an
august personage, once upon a time, that the
representative system of this country was somehow
or other, in some mysterious manner—upon its trial.
We don't believe in the one story or the other—
any more than little PAUL DOMBEY credited the
legend of the small boy who asked the mad bull
questions. We believed H. R. H. to be talking
frivolously and at random upon a former occasion.
We believe the noble lord to have been talking arrant
nonsense still more recently. The Parliamentary
system in these islands is not so readily jeopardised
as German Princes may imagine—neither is the
constitution so much of a house built of cards, as to
be capable of being thus blown down by the breeze
of a General Election. Yet, thanks, in a great mea-
sure, to the unpatriotic course pursued bythe Noble
Lord who uttered that preposterous threat about
the constitution being scrambled for upon the
hustings, thanks to Lord PALMERSTON and to his
noble friend on the front bench below the gang-
way on the side of the Opposition—many of the
Liberal constituencies are being goaded towards a
scramble of that kind under the evil influence of
-what we cannot but call that most factious exacer-
bation.

The result may be the postponement of a really
bold and comprehensive Reform Bill over more
than one session. For the which result we shall
have to thank the petty party personal projects of
the leaders of a disunited and perverse Opposition.
The disunion and the disorganisation (self-caused)
of the Liberal party will afford a golden oppor-
tunity to the Conservatives. Of this opportunity
let us rest perfectly well-assured the Conservatives
will gladly avail themselves. What has been
done at Aylesbury is being done elsewhere. Petu-
lance, passion, pique, are doing their work with
other constituencies. There—at Aylesbury—as
we have seen, an eminent and tried representative,
a man of mark, like Sir RICHARD BETHELL, is
driven indignantly to withhold his name from
being put in nomination, and retires in
dudgeon to a wiser and a better constituency.
Sir RICHARD withdraws to Wolverhampton,
leaving his old constituents at Aylesbury to make
the most they may of two Conservatives. Glancing
for a moment in another direction, we note the
same evidence of a warped judgment among the
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lance, have there too found their way, and
appear to be in process of very rapid develop-
ment. There it is that one of the sitting
members has been hissed and yelled at vociferously
by the Liberals—though himself a Liberal, though
himself an ultra-Reformer. And why P Because
Sir ARTHUR ELTON, M.P. for the city of Bath—a
true and honest Liberal, an earnest, a gifted, and
an eminent advocate of the Ballot—had the manli-
ness to vote like a true-hearted Reformer
against Lord Tow's specious and factious re-
solutions. For this honourable conduct Sir
ARTHUR ELTON has been hissed and groaned
at by the free and enlightened (!) electors
of the city of Bath. Bath has already disgraced
itself upon occasions before now. It did so when
it rejected Mr. ROEBUCK, after years of noble ser-
vices from him as its representative. Is the
Liberal constituency of Bath again going to
cover its name with ignominy by a rejection
that would be equally flagrant and equally dis-
graceful ? If it be desirous of once more covering
itself with shame in the presence of the Reformers.
of the United Kingdom, the constituency of Bath
will now reject Sir ARTHUR ELTON as it formerly
rejected Mr. ROEBCUK—for being a thorough-going
Liberal, and a man of the most honourable inde
pendence.

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1859.