The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

AVS. LINDSAY, M.P.—The Rising Genera-
l/ . tion—Our Prize Essays —Mrs. GrUlAy'S Gossiping,
Sc., in FUN this week.
One Penny. Of all Newsmen.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING Wallace's new Opera of LOVE'S
TRIUPH : iss Luisa eyne, and Mdme. Laura Baxter •
Messrs.M GeorvM Perreon, W. H. Weiss, H. Corn, A. Cooke:
and W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.

After which, the Grand Comic Cnriatmas Pantomime, en-
titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AN U THE BEAST.
Doors open at hall-past ri—( 'ommence at P.

HEATRE-R OYA I DRURY-LANE.---
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.

THIS EVENING, DON CESAR DE BAZIN. Mes7rs.
Henry Lorraine, Sinclair, Chas. Selby; Mrs. Bowers, Mrs.
Edmund Falconer, Miss H. Howard, (tc.

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After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY
TWO SHOES.

Commence at -.

THEATRE-ROYAL. HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
CUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
After which, a new and original Extravauanza, entitled
JIASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise 'Cooley.
Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 9. to commence with an Original
sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
Atter which, at a Quarter to El,ht, a New Romantic
Pram, in Three Acts, and Prifozue, 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-
combe, W. M'lntyre, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond, 11.
Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
shortly appear.
Uoors open at half-past Six, performance to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. dd., and £2 2s. Places
regt,tered. Stalls, 6s. 6d.: Dress Circle, is. 6d.; Upper
Circle, 4s. td. Prices at doors—Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, is. ;
Upper Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box-
office open daily from 11 till S. The public are entreated to
take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes,
box places, or stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keep-
ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parte
of the house are forbidden to receive anygratuities whatever
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindus.
T HIS 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. Relmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and
Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Mr. Haltord.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LI I TLE THE A SURE. Mr.
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole,
I' Bedford, and Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL:
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Red-
ford, S'..ephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ;
tolumbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Ciown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
L'n ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
lArtrand.

Commence at 7.

The Weather.—Sun Office, Feb. 8, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday. 5O
Lowest during the night
This day at Noon.— .
Barometer-29.97.
Wind—Northerly ; light, with flue weather. Rain in the
night and morning.

FEB. 9.
THERMOMETER.

Highest since Noon yesterday 4L3
Lowest during the night.
This day at Noon

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Barometer-30.19.
Wind—N.-Westerly; light, fine and frosty.

lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 40m.
To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 59m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m.

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1863.

As yet might has not prevailed against right.
Notwithstanding the determined tone of the news
from St. Petersburg, the hosts of Russia have not
summarily quelled the rebellion of the insurgents,
as they style it, others might call it the rising of
the patriots. The force which the Russians have
opposed to the Poles has been considerable ;
and yet, after the lapse of fifteen days, no
success has been attained by their army. The
long smouldering feeling has flamed forth, and it
s like " fettering flame with flaxen band" to attempt
to crush summarily the outpourings of a nation's
wrath. It is a satire on the management of the
Russians that so desperate a cause should so prevail
and rally round its standard so considerable a body
of men. They have not succeeded, as they boasted
at first they would, in quelling on the spot all
revolutionary attempts, and as yet their victories
have been gainsaid by defeats, for as soon as we
bear of some advantage gained by the Imperial
arms, so soon do we also hear they have been check-
have despised, till at last they
mated by those they
have been obliged to dread them. They find that
they have to encounter ~ not as they supposed a few
excited hundreds, but thousands of men in earnest,
armed with the courage of despair, and fighting in
the cause that has always been the foremost to send
dauntless hearts to the conflict, and maintain the
ground against all opponents. Pro arts et focis
has always been a watchword that led the forlorn
hope, and fanned the expiring flame in the cause of
nations. It is, perhaps, only too certain how all
this may end. Russia has not deteriorated in
power or in energy since the time of the fatal over-
throw of Polish rights—
" When leagued oppression poured to Northern wars
Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars."

Still, she has thousands to obey the beck and call of
the absolute EMPEROR, and now, as then, it is to be
feared that the:blood of the patriots will deluge the
earth, crying from thence for vengeance from the
skies, but left unheeded and unminded by men who
prefer their own security and interest to troubling
themselves about the rights or wrongs of.
ethers. However, the defeat of the Poles
will not be a victory for Russia. The
loss of the trampled-down outcasts will nrit be
gain to the ruthless invader, the heartless oppres-
sor who has trod down a nation beneath the iron
heel of conquest, utterly regardless of. the sorrow
and Suffering, totally unmindful of the grievous
wrongs Which were inflicted upon, the helpless
people 'who bore the curse of foreign invasion. The
cold and cruel world is roused freon its apathy to
hear of Polish youths being d'iagged from their
beds at night to servein the ranks of the Tyrants ;
also to learn that those who
are taken in revolt are
sent far away to pine in,"thge
Rates of Siberia over
country. Per-
haps shame may induce la blasted
the Russians to concede
their ravished homes ar
'
what conscience cannot; at all events they seem
trying to adopt EMII"4 conciliatory measures, even now
la the thick of tb fight, and while the air resounds
with the clamour of the carnage-field. Among other
things the EMITROR has ordered that "all the
reports of the Polish Council of the Empire to the
Crown shall be in future in the Polish language."
Various other rumours are afloat, for whose au-
thenticity we cannot vouch, at present, as, for in-
stance, that there were already steps taken with a
view to introducing reforms into Poland. If this
be tree, it is a pity that there was no candid friend
to tell the EMPEROR, when he authorised his Coun-
cil, that reform might, with advantage, begin at
home. At all events, for the present, the
Russians have ceased to levy the conscrip-
tion, and this, of itself, speaks volumes
measure was know w nof the effects that this obnoxious