The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

C ANTERBU RY HALL
ARTS GALLERY.

AND FINE

VICTOR ,TULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN,"
(Last Week but One) at half-past Nine, in new and extraor-
dinary feats.
Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," " Dinorah,"
%and " La Circassienne," by Mdlle. Negri, with full Band
and Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
The COMIC by Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr.
J. G. Forde, Messrs. Hilelebrandt and Ormond, and Miss
Caroline Parkes.
Admission—Hall, 13d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
EVERY EVENING.
HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the
Flying Trapeze.
Two Operatic Selections alternately from
«" Ernani,"
4, Macbeth," " Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas-
sienne," by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morle, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Bnd and
Chorusy--(Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmsns.) Violin Solos—
Mr.Vfotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac-
tions. The Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey
and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall.
Hall, ed.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.
A Grand Morning Entertainment EVERY THURS-
Y, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the
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Company, appear.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
DAY.—Morning, 3h. 53m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m.
TO-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 32m.—Afternoon, 4h. 51m.

WEATHER.-BIIN OFFICE, MARCH 19, 1862.!
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
46 --.highest since noon yesterday.
25...4cwe5t this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.64.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1862.

Yesterday we referred in our leading columns to
the possible diminution of our tea supplies in con-
sequence of the spread of the TAEPING Revolution.
Almost immediately after our remarks had gone to
press, the reasonableness of our conjecture was
unhappily but too forcibly illustrated in the House
of Commons by the course of the discussion which
there took place a propoB to Mr. GREGSON'S motion,
seconded by Mr. TURNER, in reference to the
perillous position occupied by British merchants at
all our various mercantile settlements along the
Chinese seaboard. Their perillous position at all
those settlements, but especially at this moment at
the chief settlement among them all, the Liverpool
of the Celestial Empire, the great outport of
Shanghai. Within view from the walls of Shang-
hai are the smoking ruins of the scattered towns
and villages inland desolated by the marauding
bands of the terrible TAEPING Insurgents. One
hundred thousand of these fearless rebels are there 1
assembled together at a short distance from Shang-
hai, preparing to descend upon that great emporium
of commerce. To do by it as they have already by
Ningpo, and by so many other towns, and cities
and villages, and hamlets of the Chinese Empire—
namely, to pass through it with fire and sword, to
pillage its property mad massacre its inhabitants, in
old Scriptural phrase, throughout the whole of its
limits, to sweep it with the besom of destruction. The
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs compared the
evil done by the Taepings throughout whatever
part of the Chinese Empire their pitiless hordes
nave hitherto traversed, to the effect produced by
that awful
Plague still familiar at intervals to the
inhabitants of
of a fligkt
of
loc Oriental lands the coming and going
vivid and Pieta: ta
According to Mr. LAYARD'S
wind
advent a description—when the locusts
approach, their
is heralded by the sound as
of a mighty
lig
and ; then the whole surface of
the ground seems trembling
in motion ; there
is a sense abroad for a while
vithsoof innumerable
teeth champing and grinding
ta Intormissiont
and then everything green over the whole country
side, every blade of grass, every leaf of shrub or tree,
has mysteriously vanished. The comparison drawn
thus by Mr. LAYARD, however, between the Locusts
and the Taepings appears to be rather flattering to
the latter than otherwise—judging of them at any.
rate! from the Minister's own description. The
horro.rs every where perpetrated by the Taepings
upon the unhappy and unarmed inhabitants of
China, if we are to credit the emphatic assurance
or Mr. LAYARD hirxself, in other portions
of his speech uttered in regard to them
yesterday, from the floor of the House of Commons,
are only comparable, in truth, he tells us, to those
over the records of which the students of history
still shudder with loathing and incredulity while
reading of them after the )apse of many centuries