The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT
GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
" THIS EVENING, Balfes popular Opera, THE PURI-
TAN'S DAUTER : Madlle. Parep
GH a and Miss Susan
Pyne : Messrs. Santley, W. H. Weiss, Patey, A. St. Albyn,
J. Rouse, C. Lyall, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.
Ater which, the Grand Comic Christmas ,
titlefd HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEASTPantomime. en-
Doors open at half-past B—Commence at 7.

THE ATRE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.—
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF
SIN.
Alter which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY
TWO SHOES.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-R 0 Y A HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
f tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
After which, a new and original Extravaizanza, entitled
RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING. Jan. 24, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdkomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Prologue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by_Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
eembe, W. M`lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond.
is:
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry,
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are en
shortly appear. engaged'
and will
Doors open at half-past Six, performance 1 - commence
eo
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 125. 6d., and X 2 a.; upper
registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d. ; Dress Circle,
Dress Circle, ss. -
Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, 674.; half-price. ox:
Ter Circle, 45.; Pit, 29. ; Gallery
,e are entreated to
hce open daily from 11 till 5.
take notice that no charge is madleeto the occupants
thesaotfebkoexeeps2
box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for
ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parts
of the house are forbidden receive any gratuities whatever
stage-manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, -Z,l- Lindus.
THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver.
Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN-
OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
..RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother
Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and
Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. CoLlinson, and
Mr. Salford.

NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LIVILE TREASURE. Mr
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE Messrs. Wilton.
L.Toole,
I' Bedford. and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with " GEORGE ,DE BARNWELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in theßealmsot Fancy."
Toole, Miss Woolgar,d-
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. P. Be
ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri;
Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
Bertrand.

Commence at 7:

The WEATHER.—Sun Office, Jan. 24, 1863

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday.
Lowest during the night
This day at N00n.....
Barometer-29.73.
Wind--Westerly; fresh, and variable, with fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tats DAY.—Morning, sh. 18m.—Afternoon, sh. 38m,
To-moßstow.-Morning, 59m.—Afternoon, 6h. 17m

g, *lmmo.

LODMON, SATURDAN, JANUARY 24, 1863,

Gloomily as the old year closed for the Federals
—still mere gloomily for them is the new year
opening. An enumeration of the principal events
marking the turn of the twelvemonths will better
than any syllable of comment indicate the fortunes
of the war between the fratricidal belligerents. Our
intelligence, last arrived, brings the narrative of
those events down to the 12th of this present month
of January. And from the momentary flashes of
the Telegram we learn the nature of the very latest
of the salient incidents—further particulars in re-
gard to which will come to us a little later on. As
to the occurrences at 'Murfreesboro, we now know
for certain that on the last day of this last
year the Federals met with a signal dis-
comfiture at the hands of General BRAGG; and
if the victors withdrew afterwards (as they did) dur-
ing the night of the 3d inst., they did so distinctly as
victors ! Carrying away with them all the stores,

and, together with the stores, four thousand pri-
soners, five thousand stand of arms, and a quarter

of a hundred guns as evidences of their success.
Instead of retreating into Alabama, however, as it
was at first conjectured they would, the Confede-
rate force under BRAGG appear to have established
themselves on the Duck River (a tributary of the
Tennessee), at a point some score of miles to the
youth-west of Murfreesboro. Shelbyville, in fact,
is understood to be the exact scene of the Confede-
rate General's whereabouts.
_ _

A journal, more distinguished for smartness of
style than for soundness of judgment, assures no
that the Ballot is but a superstition. An antiquated
superstition, it hardly ventures to say, seeing that

Beyond this partial advantage to the Confede-
rates—the safe withdrawal of all the stores and all
the trophies of the 31st December from Murfrees-
boro—what are not the successesithey have won, not
partially or in any way questionably,elsewhere? The
Federala have been beaten back unmistakeably from
Vicksburg. The Confederates have simultaneously
achieved a victory by sea and by land at Texas. The
Southern triumph in Mississippi is unmistakeable.
And, as we have just seen, the opponent of General
BRAGG has been completely outwitted and out-
manoeuvred in Tennessee. As to the double ad-
vantage gained in the Gulf of Texas, an advantage
both ashore and afloat, that is, of all the events
recently brought to light, incomparably the
most important in its significance. That
the Federala could have been so entirely
put down" at sea by the Confederates
was hardly a tbing to be looked for. Yet the facts
related are beyond all dispute. They demonstrate
an advantage on the Southern side of the most
signal character. Five Confederate steamers,
unexpectedly dropping down the river, seize upon
what is familiarly known as the Gate of the Galf-
State of Texas--while effecting this result, by a
coup de main, conveying destruction to the Federal
gunboat squadron, or scattering the remnants of it
iu flight. In demonstration of the unmistakeable
completeness of the victory achieved, there remains
inthepossession of the Confederates, when all is over,
a war-ship as famous, in her way, and hitherto,appa-
rently, far more seaworthy than the renowned but
unfortunate Monitor—which sank, it may be remem-
bered very recently, at a sudden puff, or what sailors
call half a gale of wi •
nd, off Cape Hatteras_ "Harriet
Lane" is the vessel just captured from the Federals
by the Confederates. And the Harriet Lane will
probably, in giving an account of herself, in the
hereafter under her changed colours, say ditto, so
to speak, to the Alabama! There she remains,
however, in the possession of the Confederates.
There, in their possession too, south of Baton
Rouge, is the reclaimed city of Galveston. The
Federal flagship lies wrecked off shore in deep water
—her larger fragments sunk to the bottom after an
es destructive, in its way (though upon
explosion
a smaller scale), as that of the l'Orient. The
remnants of the Northern fleet found safety enly,
it would seem, in fight to New Orleans. All this
twixitime success on the side of the Confederates
being attributable to the dashing onslaught of their
five audacious war steamers armed with guns
w•erked among ramparts of cotton bales. The
triumphs won by the South in effect have preyed
in these last inatancts to be as various as they ere,
we repeat, beyond all dispute.