The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 4s. ; Pitt, 21.; Gallery, Is. ; Private Bose,
11. Is., to be bad of Mr. Allcroft, 13, Nem Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPIIITLIEATEE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Grand combination of attraction for the Holidays. • The only Equei-
trim Pantomime in the Metropolis, and the wonderfat Performing
Elephants.

THIS EVENING, DES. 30,

(And e.ar'ing the week.)

The New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " TOE
WISE ELEPHANTS OF TIIE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG—
In which Mr. W. Cooke's wondro 's Elephants will appear.
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Followed by a series of Mr. Wm. Cooke'a matchless scenes of
Equestrianism In THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes of this
establishment.

After which, a New Grand Equestrian CHRISTMAS COMIC
PANTOMIME, written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. NELSON
LEE, entitled BILLY BUT TON'S :JOURNEY TO BRE.NTFORD ;
or, Harlequin and the Ladies' Favourite.

New scenery, drmses, decorations, and appointments, matrnificent
Car of Industry, .&c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine,
Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowns, Mr.
C. Adams and Mr. Croneste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury.
A MORNING PERFORMANCE on JAN. 2, commencing at two.
Juvenile Night on THURSDAY, JAN. 5, when the Comic Panto-
mime will commence the Performances.

Boxotlice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tun DAY —Morning 20 min.after 1 Evening 46 min.aft. 1
To-Mosaow—Morning 13 min.after 2, Evening 40 min.aft. 2

THE WEATHER.--Sum Os wins, Dna. 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
39—highest since noon yesterday.
28—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.
The thermometer had gone down in the parks and
suburbs of London to 10 and 12 points lower than in town,
having been as low as 15 below freezing.
BAROMETER, 29•61—a fall of three-quarters of an inch
since yesterday.
WIND, W.N.W.—Smart breeze, and a rapid thaw.
Two O'CLOCK.—The wind has suddenly veered to N.,
with strong gusts and a heavy fall of snow. It rained in
the forenoon.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER' 30, 1853.

As anticipated for some time past—Parliament
will meet "for the despatch of business 7 at the
beginning of February. It was so resolved at
the Privy Council held yesterday—the Legisla-
ture being.again prorogued, but this time until
Tuesday, the 31st of January. So that before
cockcrow on the morning of Wednesday, the Ist
of February, the session will in real earnest have
commenced. This is exactly as could have been
desired, as well as precisely what had been
anticipated. Once assembled, the representatives
of the people will summon the occupants of the
Treasury Bench to the bar of public opinion. The
people of England themselves will, at length, have
an opportunity of deciding upon the culpability, or
freedom from culpability, of the Coalition-50
soon as the prominent members of that Coalition
shall have favoured the House with their expla-
nations. For these explanations must no longer,
cannot very well any longer, be merely par-
tial—or distinguished, as heretofore, by enor-
mous and- wholesale reservations. The time
has :_gone by for the continuance of the
reserve hitherto fouiri so. ‘ed...3"aeious for
evading the inquisitiveness of tho Opposition,
and so convenient for screening the difficulties and
demerits of the Government. The country has
had enough, and more than enough, of the diplo-
matic etiquette which last session sealed the lips
of the leaders of the Administration. The Earl
of ABERDEEN in the House of Peers, and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in the House of Commons, will
have to make a clean breast of it in regard to the
foreign policy of the Cabinet, as well as in refer-
ence to the convulsive shifts and twistings of
ite internal organisation. For—not one—
• but two bones of contention will be at once
. .
wrangled over by the Ministry and the Opposi-
tion. The Eastern Question and Lord PALMER-
STON'S regi
nation. The Eastern Question—not
settled eight months ago as it might have been by
the adoption of
an energetic policy by our Ad-
ministrators, but aoila
planated more and more until
it has emerged into a difficulty involving the
perils of a general war, the fruit of ministerial
fatuity, nourished by diplomatic incapacity,
and ripened by a protracted course of
abortive negotiations. For this
odious fatu-
ity and criminal incapacity, the Cabinet will
now in a few weeks have to account in the
presence of the observant country, and in the
hearing of the assembled Legislature—far this
fatuity and incapacity, as well as for the folly of
the late retracted resignation. Happily for the
peace of mind of the community, it c.• n now
culate the time that „must elapse befoi
of the long-wished-for day of reckoning.

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It has long been regretted by the humane that
, provision has never been made, cither on our
steam-boats or on our railroads, for the better
accommodation of even the second, but especially of
the third-class passengers. Again, and again, and
again—STERNR was right, in his preference of our
neighbours. Again, and again, and again be it