The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-11 00:00:00

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT,

The Rat, Master Longwhisker ; The Cat, Miss Mouser ;
The Dog, By Himself; The Cow, Madame Brindle; The
Priest (" All shaven and shorn"), Mr. Jollyman ; The
Cook (" That crowed in the Morn") Master Cocky-doodle-
doo.

Realisation of the famous Picture in the National Gal-
lery of Little Britain, taken (by permission) for Boys, from
a rare work in the collection of Master Smith, London.

FROGPOOL IN THE MARSHES (Twilight).

Song, " Will o' the Wisp," composed by J. H. Tully, Esq.
How the Squire goes Hunting and loses his way and his
temper, and what follows in consequence—Another curious
instance of Canine sagacity—Bull-frogs, Masters Hop,
Skip, Jump, Creak, &c.
SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF
BULRUSHES.

How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent-
ance, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir—The
reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a
Grand Chromatic Scale towards

WILL 0' WISP'S HOME BENEATH THE
WATERFALL.
The Transformation.

Harlequins Messrs. CORMACK and ST. MAINE.
Columbines The Misses GUNNISS.
Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY.
Clowns

Grotesque
1861-1862

SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUWELL
FAMILY,

1.-EXTERIOR OF TWO SHOPS IN " UP-OR-
DOWN" STREET.

Messrs. Huline, St. Maine, Tanner, and Miss S. Gunniss.
Christmas Presents—every Man (and Boy) to his Post,
even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which
proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country,
and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poor
Needlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re-
duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing
Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers—the
Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row
and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all
Bustle—N.B. Not Crinoline.
2.—THE GREAT SENSATION KITCHEN.

Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss.
Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader—
The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head
dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and
Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence those dreadful Bells—
Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on
the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather bard pressed—
arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his
own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad
Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a well-
known character—Clown meets with a few Friemis (not
Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it.

S.-THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION.

- -
Eight hours at the SeA-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper—
" The Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book
that takes kale of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a
Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on
the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree—
late arrivals—Messrs. Neverintime, Toolate, Dearme, and
Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person
that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale
of goods.

4.—The SEA-SIDE.
The Sands I The Sands I I The Sands II I
Come unto these yellow sands.
A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier
Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn
sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight
Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon
gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner—Clown asto-
nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but
don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a
National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader—The
Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's
Concert—fine ears for Music—they fish in troubled waters
—a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all)
—The latest Novelty in Parrehutes.
Scene—A DISMAL SlVAMp—After a storm a calm
appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE
OF SPLENDOUR.
Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven
o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be
had at the Box Office before the opening.
ROYAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
CO VENT GARDEN.

MORNING PERFORMANCE OF THE
PANTOMIME, at the PRINCESS'S THEATRE
every MONDAY, at Two o'clock Children Half-price.
WIIITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. The Cat, Master John
Haslem, in which he will display his graceful Flights on the
Trapeze a la Leotard.

ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John
Brougham.
After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHITTING-
TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol
and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening
invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the
Princess's Pantomime of " Jack the Giant Killer." The
Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous
assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; PrinCess
Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le-
clercq; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast-
ings, Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris;
Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil
of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ;
Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Colum-
bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will
take place at Two o'clock every Monday till further notice.

EW THEATRE-R0 irAL, ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama,
entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA :
Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith,
Stephenson, Romer, Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
After which, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama
of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.D. Boucicault, Migsßanoe,
Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c.
Box Office open from 10 till 5.

NE W ROYALTY THEATRE
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS After
which, CARIELIA ; Camelia, ardlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol-
lowed by a New and Operatic Burlseque, by J. H. Tully,
Esq., entitled THE VERY EARLIEST EDITION OF IL
TROVATORE or, Who Killed the —. To con:lude with
A NICE QUIET DAY.—Commence at half-past 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Engagement Extraordinary of Young GITNERINS
CEscuyer Norwegian), who created the great sensation at the
irque, in Paris, in his original performance of his Passage
du Pont, and Madame HALVERSON, the most daring
Equestrienne in the World, with their highly-trained Steeds,
who will make their first appearance on Monday, Jan. 20.
THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN HAWN.
New and daring Scenes in the Circle.

Concluding with the Grand Comic Pantomime 01
JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE TO EDMONTON.
A MORNING PERFORMANCE on SATURDAY next.
at Two o'clock.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Triumphant Success of Mr. Marshall's Grand Christmas
Entertainment, "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND
EDlTlON)—Wonderful Transformations—Every Evening
at a quarter-past ten—in addition to the following Comic
talent : Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Bur-
lesque Vocalist, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss
Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene.
Grand Selections from
LA TR AVIATA and TROVATORE,
at ten o'clock,
By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.

Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls aid Balcony, is.

CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN
" THE FLYING MAN " Every Evening at half-pas
Nine o'clock.

T H

X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET,
OPEN EVERY EVENING.

Selections from Verdi's Grand Operas, " Ernani," "Simon
Boccanegra," and "Macbeth," by Miss Russell and Madame
Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and
C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F.
Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. Viotti Collins (the great English
violinist). And other Vocal and Instrumental Entertain-
ments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mar-
shall, M. P. Foster, W. Randall. and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

IIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 10h. Bm.—Afternoon, 10h. 44m,
TO-moRROW. -Morning, 11h. 22m.—Afternoon, h. m,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 11, 1862,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—kighesCsinee noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.34.
WIND—S.-Westerly; squally, with dirty, mild weather.
It blows a storm in the Channel and North Sea. Admiral
Fitzroy was quite right in warning the North-East coast
for this day.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY It, 1862.

know that he is about the least prejudiced, and
we believe it may be added, without much fear of
exaggeration, about the most enlightened of the
great men:of China.

It is satisfactory in itself to know that
the head of the present Chinese Adminis-
tration is one who has himself personally
been brought into communication with the
diplomatists of the two great European nations
of the West—with the emissaries and representatives
of Queen VICTORIA and the Emperor NAPOLEON.
Prinee KUNG is a man,at any rate,who cannot act in
the dark in the future relations of his Government
with the Governments of France and England. He
himself witnessed with his own eyes how much was
accomplished by a numerically insignificant force
of Englishmen and Frenchmen, and accomplished
by them with the utmost ease, rapidity, and preci-
sion. The smouldering ruins of the stupendous
Summer Palace told him more plainly than any-
thing else could possibly have told him, under the
circumstances, that neither England nor France, no
matter how remote their position geogra-
phically, was to be trifled with, even by
a vast empire like that of China, an :empire
embracing within its circumference in round num-
bers almost one-third of the human race. There
cannot be much doubt of it, that in the ruthless
destruction of the treasures of ages accumulated
under the roof-beams of that gigantic Summer
Palace near Pekin, we justified as far possible the
application to ourselves by the Chinese of the old
accustomed epithet of Barbarians. Still—admitting
that—it ought in justice to Lord ELGIN'S decision
at that moment of supreme emergency, it ought in
justice to him, to the Allies,
and especially to the
English, who were chiefly conspicuous among the
destroyers, that there was absolutely, so far as human
reason and foresight could decide, no alterative
whatsoever. It was a matter of life and death. A
lasting example had to be made—then—and with-
out delay. A lesson had to be burnt into the
Chinese remembrance—such a lesson as they should
not be very likely to lose the recollection of. It
was essential, It was unavoidable. , The people
there had been so cruel, so faithless, so entirely un-
reliable in every way, that it became an imperative
necessity that, for once and ft r all, they should learn,
in a manner that they should never be likely to
forget, that thenceforth, under the direst penalties,
Good Faith would have to be kept with the Euro-
pean Govern ments. That wholesome knowledge they
have now obtained thoroughly. Not by the whole.
sale destruction of human life, but through the more
humane medium of the wholesale destruction of
property. And one of the first to come within the
influence of this same wholesome knowledge—it is
satisfactory to remember this now—was the Prince
KIING, the President of the new Ministry of the
reorganised Government of the Chinese.

11..R..H. THE PRINCE CONSORT.

A PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYALL.

Memorials are now being everywhere talked off
in token of the national gratitude and affection
cherished towards his late Royal Highness. Mr.
Mayall has here placed within reach of us all, one
of the most charming memorials we could possibly
obtain—one that, we doubt not, will hang upon
many a home-wall, in the midst of the households
where the death of the gentle and gifted Prince
has been so recently, still is, and long will be
lamented, almost like a domestic affliction. Mr.
Mayall has often before achieved wonders in this
way in his magical art—an art of which he is one
of the most accomplished masters. But he
has scarcely ever been more delightfully
successful than in the present instance.
His late Royal Highness is here before us as if
in life—seated, and in profile. His singularly hand-
some face appearing as statuesque in expression as
ever—but more than ever thoughtful, serious, al-
most sad it seems to us. But then we look at it
now through the haze of our own sorrow and through
the pathos of his premature disappearance. Among
the numerous portraits of the Prince published-either
during his life time or sinee his death, at various
ages and in the most diversified garbs—as a Robed
Knight of the Garter, as a Field Marshal, as a High-
land Chieftain, &c., Mr. Mayall's present photo-
graph of his Royal Highness in his ordinary morn-
ing costume as a private gentleman, precisely us he
appeared very shortly before his lamented demise,
is about the very best and happiest and most life-
like anywhere procurable.

Her Majesty, it is understood, will make a much
longer stay at Osborne than was at first expected. The
grounds and roads were laid out under the late Prince
Consort's superintendence, and many of the shrubs and
trees planted by his directions, and some, indeed, by him.
The Queen spends much of the day in the grounds, and
nothing that the lamented prince took an interest in is left
uncared for,

The Queen and Royal Family remain at Osborne
in complete retirement.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
quite recovered from his attack of gout, and has been in
daily attendance at the Horse Guards since Wednesday.

The Special Portuguese Embassy, consisting of
his Excellency Dom Manuel Camara, Chamberlain to the
King of Portugal; Dom Sampayo e Pina, aide-de-camp;
and Viscount de Tore, aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent,
have left Claridge's Hotel for Southampton, to embark on
board the mail steamer Oneida, for Lisbon.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in
town from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, at
Longleat.
The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith have left
Dalkeith Palace for Broughton House, Northamptonshire,
where his lordship is entertaining a shooting party.
Mr. J. Sheridan Knowles has arrived at Queens-
town, where he purposes spending the winter.
CABINET COUNCIL.—The Cabinet Council sum-
moned for Tuesday next, by Lotd Palmerston, has been
countermanded.

Sir Harvey Bruce, Bart., the Conservative can-
didate for Coleraine, will be elected without opposition.
A farm-house and buildings at Teille, near Nantes,
were set on fire, three days since, in a singular manner.
The farmer's son, a boy, six years of age, was eating a
piece of cake in the chimney corner, when a cat attempted
several times to take it from him, and at last, in a fit of im-
patience, he threw her on the fire. The animal immediately
rushed out with some of the embers adhering to her fur,
and took rerugo in a barn full of straw. The whole place
was soon after in a blaze, and the house and dependencies
wet e entirely destroyed.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. MARTIN'S HALL.
—Yesterday afternoon, Mr. St. Clair Bedford, the coroner
for the city of Westminster, resumed the inquiry at King's
College Hospital, into the cause of death of the three men,
Patrick Coglan, Walter Sabey, and Richard Wood, who
were killed by the falling of a scaffold in St. Martin's-hall,
on Friday afternoon last. At the conclusion of a lengthened
examination, the jury, after half an hour's consideration,
returned a verdict—" That the deaths of the deceased had
been occasioned by a fall from a scaffold in St, Martin's-
hall by the breaking of a ledger."
OXFORD COUNTY ELECTlON.—A7numerously at-
tended meeting of the Oxford electors was held at the Mitre
Hotel, Oxford, yesterday evening. The chair was taken
by Mr. Walker Mrickland, of Cokethorpe-park, who was
supported by the ex-Mayor of Oxford (Mr. C. J. Sadler).
Sir Henry Dashwood, who has agreed to come forward as
candidate, was present. He said he would like to see a
moderate extension of the suffrage,but the recent outrages
at Sheffield, and the combinations of workmen in London
served to show him how dangerous too great a reduction
of the franchise would be. Considering all that he had
seen of Lord Palmerston, he could eafely promise to support
him.:He could not pledge himself to support the ballot,as at
present he had not seen any good results from its operation
in ether countries. He thought, however, that if church-
rates were dependent upon private contributions we should
shut the doors of the church to the poor man. Sir Henry,
before concluding his remarks, stated frankly that if they
could get a candidate who might be more in accordance
with their views, he would retire at once. The ex-mayor,
Mr. Alderman Sadler, said Sir Henry Dashwood did not
come up to the mark, but that as he was a good man, and
had informed them that he was for progress, he would sup-
port him in the absence of a better Liberal. The question
of expense having been mooted, Alderman Towle sug-
gested that the city of Oxford should not put Sir Henry to
a farthing of costs, and a resolution to that effect was
unanimously agreed to. Another resolution calling on the
public for subscriptions was adopted, and numerous sums
were put down by gentlemen present.