The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-22 00:00:00

With Frontispiece and Vignette Title.
WM** BlackwoOtt & Sons, Edinburgh and London.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Open for the Season.
Proprie,er, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste,
Last Night but One before Christmas.
THIS EVENING,

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean,
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the new and original Play, in five acts, by West-
land Marston; Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Principal characters
by Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, and Addison ; Mrs. Whudanley, Mrs.
Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean.
To be followed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal
chafacter by Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Princial
characters by Mean. Lacy, Meadows, Addison, and Everetpt ;
Misses J. Marston, Vivash, and Leclercq.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
For the BENEFIT of Mr. STAMMERS.
THIS EVENING, THE SONNAMBULA.
After which, a Scene from DON CARLOS.
To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Supported by Messrs. Farren, Compton, Travers, Tedder, and
Stammers ; Mesdames Isaacs, Gordon, Phillips, and Lucy Rafter.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. Edward Chatterton.

ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The greatePt novelty of the season is Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In consequence of the crowds unable to obtain admission nightly ,
the Grand Spectacle of Uncle Tom's Cabin will be repeated till
further notice.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22, and following Two Nights, the Enter-
tainments will commence with the highly popular Dramatic Spec-
tacle of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
To be followed by new scenes in the Circle by Native and Foreign
Artistes of the first celebrity.
To conclude with, for the Last Four Nights, THE DEVIL TO
PAY.

Doors open at Half-past Six o'clock. Commence at Seven.
Stalls, 58 ; Dress Boxes, 48. : Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Lower
Gallery, ls; Upper Gallery, 6d. Half Price at Half-past Eight.
Box-office
West. open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W.
NOTICE.--A New Grand Equestrian CHRTSTMAS COMIC
PANTOMIME, by Nelson Lee, will be produced with great splen-
dour on MONDAY, December 27, Boxing Night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY —Morning 8 min.'after 11 Evening 37 min.aft. n To-Moanow—Marning 0 min. after 0 I Evening 2 min.aft. 12

THE WEA THER.—SuiT OFFICE, Dec. 22.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48— highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.85.
WIND, S., alight rain.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

WHDNESDAY, DEC. 22, 1852.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
HASTINGS—N.W. gentle breeze—cloudless.
FOLKESTONE--5.14%, light breeze—cloudless.
TIINBRrDGE—S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GBERN-wlcrt—S.W. gentle breeze—cloudless.
STROOD—W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SWINDON—S.W. light breeze—partially cloudy.
COLCTIESTER—W.' gentle breeze clondlese.
YARMOIITH—N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock :
MIILLINGAR— S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SOUTHAMPTON—W., strong breeze—rain.
COLCHESTER—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1852,

Everything is sub rosa, or rather "under a
cloud," in regard to the new Ministerial arrange-
ments. The obscurity of the rumours upon the
subject now in circulation would appear to augur
unfavourably for the combination under the Earl
of ABERDEEN as the Leader of a Whig-and-Peelite
Government. This can scarcely be matter of sur-
prise under the circumstances. It cannot be
enigmatical to any single dispassionate observer,
that the chiefs of the late Opposition should find
a very formidable -variety of difficulties in the
way of a grand official amalgamation. Take a
few very apparent illustrations. Upon the reli-
gious questions, for example, how can the Right
Hon. Baronet the member for Carlisle, who chi-
valrously came forward in 1850, almost single-
handed, in defence of the principles of toleration
as applied to the Roman Catholics of the United
Kingdom—l—how can he, of all men, coalesce with
the Noble Lord the Representative of the City of
London, the author of the morally-detonating
epistle to the Bishop of DURHAM—the do-
cument that flashed up into the Ecclesias-
tical Titles Bill, and lit a flame of fanatical
enthusiasm that spread rapidly throughout the
community, and the warmth of which can-
not yet be said to have wholly died out among
the more zealous classes of the population. How
upon subjects of religious import, how therefore
upon matters affecting Ireland, or Education, or
even some of our Colonies, can Sir JAMES GRAHAM
join hand and glove with Lord JOHN RussELL.
One or the other must yield. There must be a
concession upon these topics, and a rather
considerable concession too, from either Lord
JOHN, or Sir JAmEs—from either the assailant or
the defender of those who talk of the suffragans
of the Cardinal Archbishop of WESTMINSTER.
Which of the two is about to " knuckle down"
to his opponent ? Can the ex-PREirmat, after
blowing hot, blow cold, like the man in the Grecian
APologite ? Can the ex-HOME SECRETARY, after
blowing cold, blow hot with a like facility ? How
if; it to he ? Or, is the country to have upon this
'vital question.--a compromise ? Why, a compro-
331ise i li ponsuch
a question would be little else than rredeemably disgraceful. Then let us consider
how it is Possible to have blended together--
Lord Jorm
nussmes expansive sympathy for the
rights of rietioeracy and Mr. GLADSTONE'S stub-
born devotion for
on or what he conceives to be the
inexorable
rules and duties of Conservatism ?
Again, 1% must not
be overlooked that for five
years Lord Jon di,tin •
etly associated his Cabinet
with the foreign
polite of Lord PALMERSTON--a foreign policy cliametlieallY the
reverse of that
previously maintained by the
Earl of ABEILDEEN.
Under Lord ABERDEEN we wereocoovnecrencilinxeigatevery-
thing to the demands of other
were laying traps for ourselves in regard to Oregonmoments—we
Boundaries, and opening pitfalls to be oomfort
tumb!ed into at leisure afterwards in reference tYo
Spanish Marriages. Under Lord PALAtzawro,
on the contrary, we were maintaining our dignity
abroad, at the same time that tranquillity was
preserved by us in our relations with other States
and this, too, in the midst of the storms, and
panics, and disasters, and convulsions of a series
of tremendous revolutions. Recollect, we
repeat, that the RUSSELL Ministry was
for five years pledged to the wise, the bold, and
the patriotic policy of Lord .PALmEnsTorri And
yet here is Lord (MEN-, the Leader of that Ca-
binet, the former colleague of Lord PALMERSTON,
talking of taking office under my Lord ABERDEEN
—under the very Administrator whose ideas of
diplomacy are the direct antithesis to those enter-
tained by the noble Viscount the Member for
Tiverten,under, in fact, the very Minister against
whose foreign policy the Noble Lord the Member for

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Farewell lesson of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
Will 1* performed the popular and highly attractive Comedy of
MA=YS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain—by
Messrs. Benjatafth Webster, Leigh Murray, Stuart, and Parnell.;
Mrs.
Fanny Maske Stirling,
11. Kiss Rosa Bennett, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss
After which (by desire, at second price), the Comedy of MONEY,
With a most powerftil cast.

The sueeessful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's
Cabin—by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Emery, 0. Smith, and Cnllenford ;
Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Collins, Miss Harding, Miss
Laura Honey, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, the admired Farce of A MODEL OF ♦ WIFE,
To conclude with the Comic Opera of GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR
PANTALEN.