The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

To commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. l"echter.
THIS EVENING, GRANDFATHER. WHITEHEAD.
Messrs. Emery, C Elorsman, t,ollett, Garden, Moreland,
Cliff rd : Mesdames Hamilton, Henrade, U. Hor man.
Atter which, at halt-past 8, a New Drama, entitled THE
40ADSIDE INN. Ebert Maaaire, Mr. t echter. Messrs
Widdicomb, C. Horsman, Fitzpatrick, Garden Moreland
Itaymosid, Collett; Mesdames Eisvuorthy and B. 'Percy.
To conclude with BEARFACED IMPOSTORS. Mr,
Widdisonah

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To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN TIIE CU.'-
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1865.

It is a curious proof of the immense extent of the
British dominions that peace and war may reign

simultaneously in them.

So widely are our depen-

dencies scattered, that hostilities may be going on
in one of them, arising from a cause of which

another has not even heard, and we were some

months ago involved in a war on the African coast

without the fact being known to many men even

within the walls of Parliament. The struggle in

which we are now engaged is scarcely so restricted
in its interest, although there is every reason to hope

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hat it will be much less fatal in its results among

our men. Most of us have heard something about

the quarrel with Bhootan ; and if the first
that was generally known of the Cape

Coast Castle affair was by hearing of the

sickness and mortality among the troops
engaged in it, we have at least had the satisfac-

tion of hearing the Bhootan story from the be-
ginning, and of being informed what the dispute

was about. The narrative of Mr. EDEN'S unfor

tunate expedition, his rough reception, and tragi-
comic disasters, has been public enough, and it
has been generally felt that, however great our
reluctance to go to war, we could not suffer
such unprovoked insults to be heaped upon a
British envoy. Bhootan, though not of much im-

portance in itself, is in close contiguity to Assam,
whose planters naturally looked with considerable
anxiety on the hostile dispositions of their neigh-
bours. The absurd treaty, too, which Mr. EDEN
was forced to sign, ceded Assam to the Bhootans,
and though they might, perhaps, have hesitated
to act upon it at present, it laid a foundation for
future complications, and afforded an awkward
pretext for any stronger Power that might be
disposed to pick a quarrel with us. Under all
these considerations, therefore, notwithstanding the
Viceroy's dislike of internal wars, it is not sur-

prising that an active course was unanimously
decided upon, or that British troops should be at
present once more engaged in active hostilities on
Indian soil, though the war scarcely deserves the

name after the terrible struggles of which that
country has been the scene. The Bombay Mail,
just arrived, brings us intelligence of the first

fight and the first success of this Bhootan expe•