The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HA YMARKET._
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, OUR A3ll RICA COUSIN : Messrs.
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers
Clark,
~
lark,
ley cuH llent ord, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry,
ill, .tc
Atter which, KING ARTHUR; or The Days and Knif.r,hts
of the Round Table. Messrs. Chipoundms, Compton, Braid,
_Rogers, Tilbury, &C.
Clark, ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough,
Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c,
Commence at 7.

ROYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
Open for the Season.
THIS EVENING, THE HONEYMOON.
After which HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER;
nr The pine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the old Woman
who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't
know what to do.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
„TO'IS EVENING, the new Comic Drama of the HEN
'muM CHICKENS : Mrs. Stirling in her original character.
After which, a Comical Conglomemtive Christmas Absur-
dity, by Henry J Byron, Esq., and entitled 1863; or, THE
SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON, with a Shameful
Revelation of Lady Somebody's Secret. New Scenery by
Danson and Sons. Appointments by Mr. Ireland. Music by
Wallerstein. Principal characters by Mr. J. L. Toole,
Mr. Paul Bedford, Miss Cottrell, Miss Fauny Josephs, ,tc.
And the BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS : Mr. J. L. Toole
in his original character.

EW THEATRE-R0 YAL,
ADELPHL-
soIe Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE SPITALFIELD'S WEAVER:
Mr. ,J. L. Toole.
to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : 3liss Bate-
inan, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, 11. Phillips, Bil-
lington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and
Mrs. Billing-ton.

To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio
and his Seven Magio Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips,
Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti
Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman.

Commence at 7.

LEAH.-EVERY NIGHT,

MISS BATEMAN._LEAH._THIS EVENING,
the 76th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss
11A rE3IAN, in the character of LEA 11. In consequence of
the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the prit.cipai charac'er in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
notice.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, llr. W. 11. Swanborough.
Tars EVENING, OBSERVATION AND FLIRTA-
TION.
After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS
AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c.
To conclude with TURN HIM OLT r.
Commence at 7.

THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,''
Containinz the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
Zan be had Every Evening of

G. IL GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, 4h. 55r0
To-vtounow.-Morning, sh. 10(n.—Afternoon, sh. 26m

The Weather—Sun Office, Dec. 29, 1863,

THERMOMETER.
Tl4la clay at Two o'clock
Barometer-29.85.
; moderate, and cloudy.

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LONDON,
%AY, DEC. 29, 1863.
The defeated by the
confeZals) again turns out to
be the conquering
, me. General LONG-
STREET, knowing full wed
most adroitly and
energetically reculer pow „Bartz
now being found (as reported by t
ea
l titer, instead ofo
have been in every way
ast mail) t
',ea
retreated, only in order the more effcct,
to ad-
vance. Gathering up his strength in
tellyto have
° very act
of his partial withdrawal, and streagthei,,a
still
snore by the aid of certain timely reinforcer4tts,
he is now seen to have turned at the tight
moment upon the pursuing force of the Federal%
near Pear Station on the Cumberland Gap
and Moreston Railway, and to have driven those
same Federals back fully the distance of half a
mile Evidently—by the very incident of his
turning thus upon them, as though brought to
bay—evidently "taking them aback" as well as
driving them back that full half-mile in conse.
quence ! Brief and fragmentary though the intel.
hence brought to us this while by the Columbia,
it is impossible not to recognise from it, how exagge•
rated were the exultant accounts transmitted east-
wards across the Atlantic by the last Yankee Tele-
grams. According to those accounts the second
great captain of the Southern Army—for LoNG-
hELT stands next in repute to the Confederate
C3na,
andcr-iia-Chief himself—had been not only
defeated.
had beenhythe opposing forces of the North, but
brought, by them, after his actual defeat,
into very s,ri
if not into most perilous difficul-
ties. The sitZt!
o.ut• n,evertheless, by the very next
mail turns
as we have seen, essen-
tially and entirely aifferea
General LONGSTREET,
or
in his withdrawal bo,
thee superior forces op-
posed to him, retiring all
thth
pon
was perfectly well aware, I,
while,by
his reinforcements
despatched to his assistance
..Commander
And no sooner do which reinforcemen
join him The
than his movements are at once reverss
slow retreat is turned into a rapid advance.d
,The
pursuit of LONGSTREET by the Federals, is abruptly
v.
changed, at Pear Station, on the Cumberland Gap
and Moreston Railway into a pursuit of the Fede-
rals by LONGSTREET. For nearly a mile it is con,
tinned, the Confederate Chief endeavouring, at the
same time, though, as it proves, ineffectually,

OYAI, LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DE %TONTO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening during the Week.
THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a
New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD :
Mess*s. 11. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett,
Moreland; Misses Percy, Pauline LeJlerci., Wood, Mrs. Lee,
and Miss E. Lavenu.
After which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DE3IONIO• a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian
Chronicle.," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
BroughHm, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Claw!,
Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and
Miss Elsworthy.
The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is
made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
for play bqls or for the safe keeping of hat., and cloaks, and
teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
receive any gratuities whatever.
Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.