The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

Commence at Eight.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. J.
Clarke, Billington, Eburne, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
After which, THE ntr.sii AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick
0' I'lenipo t with songtP, Mr. John Collins, supported by
Met ere. Billington, Stephenson; Miss Henrietta simms and
Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy (with
songs), Mr. John Collins.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
Manager. Mr. Benjamin Webster.

EMINhN C TALEN F AND COMEDY.

This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those
celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged.
THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful
and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY GET OUT
OF IT? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. H, J. Montague; Miss
Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling,
After which, a New Comedy Farce. 5y Maddison Morton,
Esq., entitled WOOD' OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. C.
3lathews, Mrs. F. Matthews.
To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Nlanazeress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, .INLIMITE D CONFIDENCE.
Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven,
Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor. . ugh and Mande s.
After which, the great Burl sque, THE MILLER AND
lIIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne ; Mesdames
Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OUT. '7, 1864.

• The news brought by the City of Manchester
shows 113 how greatly the first report of SHERl-
DAN's.triumph and EARLY'S repulse were exagge-
rated after the fashion of New York intelligence.
It is now said that EARLY'S entire loss did not
not exceed 6,000, while that of the Federals in
killed and wounded was over 4,500, At one mo-
ment indeed the fate of the battle hung in the
balance. and the chances were in favour of the
Confederates, whose musketry and artillery fire
threw their opponents into confusion, The Fede-
rals were on the point of giving way, when, unit•
ing all his cavalry, SHERIDAN made a desperate
charge, which turned EARLY'S right flank and
compelled him to retire. EARLY retreated to
Fisher's Hill, where on the 21st, two days after
the battle, he made a stand. From this position
he was afterwards dislodged, but the relative posi•
tion of the two forces is by no means what the first
intelligence would have led the unwary to suppose.
Meanwhile matters at Petersburg appear to be
standing still, but the battle when it comes will be
momentous. If GRANT be defeated it may precis
pitate a peace, and destroy LINCOLN'S chance of
re-election. The Federal anxiety for peace is
indicated by the news that General SHERMAN has
invited Governor BROWN, of Georgia, to Atlanta
to confer on the subject of peace. SHERMAN has
probably found himself in a difficulty, and is unable
to push his success; he therefore wishes to appear
magnanimous in offering to begin a conference in
whose object he is closely concerned. The news
is altogether so conflicting that what we receive
from New York by one vessel is generally contra-
dicted by the arrival of the next. The North is
always in the ascendant at first, but almost in-
variably the picture changes when fuller accounts
came. We may now watch daily for the arrival
of fresh news, which, there is every reason to
believe, will be decisive in its character.

An election contest has come in good time to
break the monotony of the autumn. In spite of
agricultural exhibitions and annual gatherings, in
spite of the critical position of affairs in America,
and the anxiety with which the Danish and Ger-
man negociations are even now matched, in spite of
the Franco-Italian Convention, and notwithstand.
ing the murders and catastrophes which always
spring into prominence at this time of the year,
and of which there has been of late a truly startling
supply, the months that intervene between the close
of the Parliamentary campaign and the opening of
the winter season are universally pronounced dull,
and the present year makes no exception to the
general rule. Accordingly, a contested election is
an actual Isom to the news seekers, and the progress
of events at the quiet town of Hastings has been
watched with considerable interest. The contest
lay between two candidates, one of whom repre•
seated the Conservative interest and the other sup-
ported Lord PALMERSTON'S Government. As our
readers are aware, the struggle ended in the victory
of the professed Liberal, but when we look at their
respective addresses we shall find there is still
something left to consider. Mr. ROBERTSON, in a
brief but straightforward and sensible address,
asked a very pertinent but awkward question.
He had been told
, he said, that the great
ii;ff•-:,rence • between
him and his opponent
was that the one
would give a constant
ripport to the existing Government, while
1,1;3 nupport of the other would b© uncertain.
Upon this ho asked, " what the support of Lord
PALMERSTON implied ?" A question wt:
lc., We
apprehend, Lord PALMERSTON himself would be
puzzled to answer. Oar gay, popular PREMIER,
who has such a knack of adapting himself and his
policy to the requiremecti of the hour, would cer-
tainly not like to confess that he was steering with-

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE,
Manarzers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby,
M U. Belmore ; Miss Hudspeth.
After which, the Second Part of Shakespere's Play of
HENRY THE FOURTH.. 31r I'helps ; Messrs R. Roxby,
Edmund Phelps, G. F, Neville, Barrett, A. Raynor, Ray-
mond, F. Morton, ; Mrs. H. Vandenhcfl; Mrs. Wallace,
Mias E. Falconer, and Miss Collier.
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,—
Lessee. Mr. Backstone.
THIS EVENING, '3ACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
After which, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE.
Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, ,tc ; Mesdames
Beatrice, Ange', &c.
And THE CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA. Messrs. Weiss,
Butustone, Chippendale, Compton, Rogers, Farren, Matthi-
son, &c, ; M.suames Weiss, Keeley, Griffith, St:.
To commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy
O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray.
After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H.
Forre,ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne.