The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-02 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S F.UROPF23 NATIONAL AMPIIITHEITRE.

Le,st2e and Afanager, Mr. W. Cooke.
GRAND JUVENILE NIGHT on TIJURSDA.Y, JAN. 5.
Crowded houses nightly to witness the unequalled Attractions. The
most gorgeous and successful Pantomime ever produced in this
Theatre.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 2,

( And during the week, Thursday excepted)
The New Grand Equestrian Chinese spectacle, entitled " THE
WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST; or, THI SIAGIC GONG—
in which the wonder of wonders, Mr. W. Cooke's performing Ele-
phants will appear. •
Followed by a series of novel and brilliant scenes of Equestrian-
ism in THE ARENA by talented artistes.
After which, a New Grand Equestrian CHRISTMAS COMIC
PANTOMIME, written expressly for this Theatre. by Mr. NELBOI4
LEE, entitled BILLY BUT CON'S .;OURNEY TO BRENTFORD ;
or, Harlequin and the Ladies' Favourite.
New scenery, dre.,ses, decorations. and appointments, magnificent
Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine,
Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowns, Mr.
C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bra liniry.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W •
West.

_DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

MONDAY, JAN. 2, 1854

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
LIMERICK—N., gentle breeze—cloudless—frost.
MIILLINGAR—W., gentle breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—S.W., calm—cloudless.
CAMBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze —cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock :
FOLKESTONE -W., gentle breeze -overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—W., strong breeze—overcast.
STROOD—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
SWINDON—W. fresh breeze—dough.
CAMBRIDGE—W., strong nreeze—cloudy.

FITGII WATER AT LONDON DT'uIDGE.
Tuts DAY —Morning 5G min.after 3 I Evening 20 atin.aft. 4
To-Mossow— Morning 45 min.after 4 Evening 10 min.aft. 5

WEATIIER.—Sus OPFICII, JAN. 1.
• THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
40 —highest since noon yesterday.
28—lowest this morning and during the night.
33—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'46.
WIND, N.W.—Strong breeze, with a heavy fall o
snow.

•
JANUARY 2.
36 highest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'28—a great fall within the last two days.
WIND, went round to S.W., with a heavy fall of snow,
and thaw—now N.W., inclining to frost.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1854

However hopefully we may desire to begin the
New Year which commenced yesterday, it must be
acknowledged, at once, by us, on its very thres-
hold, that our brighter aspirations for England,
under PROVIDENCE, are based upon our abiding
confidence in the wisdom and energies of the peo-
ple rather than upon any reliance whatsoever on
the possible discovery of those essential attributes
in their Government. It were a mockery to affect
otherwise under existing-circumstances. It were
worse than a mockery—to' while we remember
that twelve months have elapsed since we were
eagerly demanding in these columns fair-play at
the outset to the ABERDEEN Coalition--precisely
as we had previously besought the multitude to
grant a hearing, " a clear stage and no favour,"
to the DERBY Cabinet, we cannot but bear in our
recollection also, how deplorably that reservation
of opinion in regard to the new Ministry, until
such time as its members should have revealed the
warp and hue of their policy, has been responded
to by the revelation of the utter absence of capa-
city, energy, and we might go so far even as to
add of integrity, on the part of this notable Joint-
Stock Administration. All these deficiencies, we
mean, have been disclosed during the past year
by the Aberdeenites in regard to the most essen-
tial of all points just now, namely, in reference to
the nature of our foreign relations, a subject affect-
ing more directly than any other in these times the
stability of our political strength and the dignity
of our national reputation. Whatever may be
argued by the official apologists of the Coalition
as to the substantial benefactions conferred upon
the community since the advent of its mem-
bers to power at the close of 1852, it is
impossible to shut our eyes to the heinous and
enormous culpability of the ABERDEEN Cabinet
in degrading the name and deteriorating the in-
fluence of England before Christendom. Nothing,
indeed, can be said to compensate for the evil
effects of the course pursued by our Administra-
tors in that Eastern Question which has been fos-
tered by them from a local difference into a cause
of contention among the chief Powers of the
Nuropean Continent. Nothing—not all the in-
ternal benefits secured to the population
by the vigorous innovations carried out
by the Home Secretary, not all the en-
lightened reforms effected in our • commercial
system under the guidance of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. Nothing of all this—
not the remission of imposts on tea and on soap,
not the closing of the intramural graveyards, not
the revision of the hackney-carriage system, not
the reorganisation of the, stamp duties, not the
passing even of the memorable Act in regard to