The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT,

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

Realisation of the famous Ficture 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 gees 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
BULRU SHES.

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
Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY.
Clowns
Grotesque Signor LORENZO.
1861-1862
SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUWELL
FAMILY.

..--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,
oven 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 app-Peal to the Audience on
the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard 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 v ell-
known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not
Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it.

3.—THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION.
Eight hours at the Seri-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper—
"'l he Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book
that takes leafe 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! The Sands ! The Sands II !

Come unto these yellow sands.

A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier
I%,:aster'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—'l ho
Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clovin and Pantaloon's
Concert—fine ears far Music—they fish in troubled waters
—a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all)
—The latest Novelty in Parrchutes.
Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm
appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS TIMONE
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.

p ROYAL ENGLISII OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Linder the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan I'yne; Mr. Santley, Mr. 11. Corti,
Mr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Aibyn, Mr. T.
Distin, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall,
and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
After which will be produced (written expres.ly by J. M.
Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER, ; or, A Trio to Brobdignaz a
Peep at Lillipnt, and a Plying Visit to Laputn.
Gulliver, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Guldvcr, Mr. P. Payne.
Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the
Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The HarlequinAie sustained
I?.y the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Payne, P. Payne,
H. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.

THE SUN, :LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1862.

in a practical form; they had no proof of arro-
gant demands on the part of England ; the Cabi
net might have thought of arbitration, and he
believed the matter would be honourably and
amicably adjusted. Still, Mr. HALE'S objection-
able demand for the correspondence with Eng-
land was not_rejected; it was "tabled"—reserved
for future consideration.

One incident mentioned is certainly amusing,
as showing the strange conceit Americans have
of their importance to England. We do not here
pretend to deny the value of any good customer,
but one would think the importance of England
to America must be at least equal to that of Ame-
rica to us. The gold which hitherto has been so com-
paratively plentiful there, but which Mr. CHASE
threatens speedily to exhaust, was almost all sent
by us in payment for corn, to the North-Western
States—and it must occur even to Mr. SEWARD
that to lose large purchasers of corn and cotton
would be not a little disastrous to his own country.
Yet we find this man refusing an invitation to a
dinner which he could not attend, by a letter in-
forming the New England people, that American
prosperity caused prosperity in England, and
American disasters were responded to by disasters
in England. To a certain extent this must, of
course, be true of every country .with which our
merchants and manufacturers have communication.
Disasters at Shanghae or at Pekin would trouble
some in our own country, But, was this the side
of the case which the New Englanders most needed
to look at ? Or, was it the one which it was dig-
nified for a Foreign Secretary to dilate on in a
public letter ? Unhappily for themselves, the
Americans have gone to the utmost length they
could in rejecting our exports, and have cut down
our trade to half its proportions by their selfish, ill-
natured tariff. As to their cotton and corn, we
believe we should be rather the better than the
worse for seeing no more of the former ; and of the
latter we can obtain abundance already from other
sources. One of the most singular facts for Mr.
SEWARD to ponder is, that it is not now Manchester
which is in the hands of New York, but Lowell
which is in the hands of Liverpool. We could shut
up every American cotton manufactory at once, At
this very moment Americans are even carrying
away cotton from Liverpool steam-haste, sailing
vessels not being quick enough to save Massa-
chusetts manufacturers from ruin. May this go on
till India and free labour beat America and slave
labour. It would be better for us and better for
India that so magnificent a trade should not rest
on negro slavery.

On the sixth proximo, then, Parliament is to
meet once more—for the despatch of public business.
Thursday the 6th of February. That is the date
when again in the House of Commons the (as
nearly as possible) equal forces of the Govern-
ment and the Opposition will be arrayed against
each other. The last Cabinet was defeated, it will
be remembered, in a House of almost unexampled
magnitude, upon a Division, by a clear majority of—
that unlucky number—Thirteen ! The last DERBY
Cabinet consisted of Thirteen, and it was defeated
in this way, as we have said by its own number.
Had but seven of those who voted in favour of the
adroit, but also (as they have proved) tricky Reso-
lutions of the noble lord, then member for the City
of London, voted against it, the late Cabinet would
not have been expelled from office, the DERBY-DIS.
RAELI Reform Bill would have duly gone into Com-
mittee, and could there have been worked into shape
very easily. And the still Vexed Question of Parlia-
mentary Reform—the question thus coolly cushioned
and set aside altogether, as obsolete and beneath
further notice, by the so-called Arch-Champions of
Reform themselves—would, two or three years ago,
have been satisfactorily settled for at least one or
two more generations. As it was—we know now
what we got by that motion, by what Sir HUGH
CAIRNS very idiomatically termed the extremely
clever dodge of Lord JOHN'S Resolutions. We got
rid, in the first place, of the Tory Government.
And, in the next place, we comfortably in-
stalled in office a genuine Reform Administration—
an Administration so thoroughly in earnest about
Reform that it was supported heart and soul by the
great Tribune of the Reform Movement, the hon.
gentleman the member for Birmingham.
The Government have now a capital reason for
shelving again for another year, with an air of de-
lightful indifference, the very cause they were
pledged to advocate upon their acceptance of office.
We shall have, in all human likelihood, something
else to think of—and that somewhat seriously—by
the time the initial day of the new session, Thurs-
day, the 6th of February, shall have arrived. By
that date, nay, long before that date, we shall know
all about it—that is, in regard to the momentous
alternative of Peace or of War. This, not alone in
one hemisphere. War is just now trembling in the
Balance both in Europe and in America. There
is the imminent possibility of it, between
England and the Federal Government at
Washington. And there is also the imminent possi-
bility of it once more in Italy—between the oppos-
ing forces of the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH and
King VICTOR EMMANUEL. Have there not been
distinct indications recently of the latter conflict as
in all human probability now close at hand—in the
words that have fallen of late from time to time
from the lips and from the pen of General GARI-
BALDI ? Being himself—to the knowledge of the
whole world—one of the most daring and heroic
of living mon, GARIBALDI, is, among all brave
men, the least of a Braggart. Whenever he
threatens—ho means what he threatens, tho-
roughly and in earnest. GARIBALDI has of
late intimated, as plainly as any words could
possibly intimate anything, that the struggle
for the completion of the great work of Italian
emancipation is again about to be recommenced,
and this once—for the last time ! GARIBALDI has
said it very recently : and he has said it more than
once. We may rest perfectly assured, therefore, that
the struggle teill,without any question at all about it,
begin again very quickly in the Roman Peninsula.
Our ships will—come what may within the course
of the next month—have cause for being held per-
petually upon the alert, not only along our own
shores, but upon the North American station, and
in the Mediterranean.

While all this, in one sense, augurs a
considerable increase in the anxieties and
responsibilities of the Government, it reminds us
at the same time that the Cabinet has a very fair
prospect, indeed, before it—of finding an accession
of popularity and an increase of strength in the
very imminence of the emergency. The source
of strength to the Government, on the
contrary, lies clearly and distinctly in its
Foreign Policy. With a vigorous and pa-
triotic course of Foreign Policy the name, the
historic fame, of the Premier is peculiarly and
inextricably associate;, In the development of
that same Foreign Policy Earl RUSSELL has him-
self found the opportunity of rehabilitating his
somewhat ricketty and damaged reputation as
the Leader of a Great party. And of matters
more or less affecting her foreign policy England
can always count confidently at these times of
trial upon the magnanimity of the Tory Opposition.
It is due to the Conservative party to say that much ,