The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

EVENING,

TtJESDAY

The THEATRES (THIS EVENING).
Christmas ! the most busy time in the whole year
for the manager of a theatre, has again arrived, and
again have the many places of public amusement put
forth bills of unusual attraction.
At Drury-lane, Franccni's troll]) commence a
second season.
The Haymarket puts forth a burlesque entitled
Camaralzaman and Badoura ; or the Peri who loved
the Prince, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley appear.
The Lyceum enters the lists with one of those
splendid fairy extravaganzas for which this theatre is
so famed, entitled The King of the Peacocks, the
principal characters by Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Miss
Howard, Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, Madame
Vestris, Messrs. Harley, Hall, J. Reeve, and Selby.
At the St. James's Theatre, the Dumbolton Serena-
ders and Robert Houdin will perform on the alternate
nights durinc, the holidays.
The Adelphi rests its claim to support upon Mr. C.
Dickens's Christmas work, The Haunted Man; or the
Ghost's Bargain.
At the Princess's, a pantomime entitled Bluff King
Hal ; or Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow, Flex-
more appearing as Clown.
The Olympic production is entitled William the
Conqueror; or Harlequin King Harold and the Sack of
the Saxons, in which the American pantomiznists
make their first bow to brother John Bull. Clown,
Mr. Barnes; Pantaloon, Herr Cole; Harlequin, Mr.
Chapin° ; Columbine, Madlle. Valdee.
The pantomime at Sadler's Wells is entitled Har-
lequin and the World turned Upside Down. Harle-
quin, Mr. C. Fenton ; Clown, Mr. C. Stilt ; Panta-
loon, Mr. J. Johnson; and Sprite, Mr. R. Stilt;
Columbine, Miss E. Horne.
At the Marylebone, a pantomime, entitled One
o' Clock ; or Harlequin Hardykanute, the Knight and
the Wooden Demon. Clown, Mr. Jefferini ; Panta-
loon, Mr. Morris ; Harlequin, Mr. Moreland ; Sprite,
Mr. Bowen ; Columbine, Miss Sarah Healy.
At Astley's Amphitheatre a new equestrian Christ-
mas pantomime, entitled Bold Robin Hood; or the
Pretty White orse and Enchanted Princess of Sher-
wood Forest, in which the celebrated Arabs will ap-
pear. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Mrs.
Harvey; Clown, Mr. Roches; Pantaloon, Mr.
Priorson.
At the Surrey we are to have a pantomime, enti-
tled Harlequin Lord Level; or the Lady Ikrancy Bell,
in which Mr. T. Matthews will appear as clown.
At the Victoria the pantomime is entitled The Land
of Light; or Harlequin Gas. Clown, Mr. Bucke.
At the Strand, " Soirees Mysterieuses," Magic, Dc-
monoly, and Witchcraft, by Professor J. H. Ander-
son (the Great Wizard of the North).
At the Standard, The _Model Pantomime of 1848 ;
or Harlequin King Coppernose. Clown, Mr. T. Barry,
Harlequin, Mr. Cormack.
At the City of London, the pantomime is entitled
Love, War and Peace ;or Harlequin Chat. Clown,
Mr. Huline.
Besides the above there are concerts, lectures,
and other amusements for the holiday makers whose
name is legion.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.
This evening will commence the second season of
this highly celebrated troop, whose fame was so
completely established last season. The company
will open with great éclat and afford endless amuse-
ment for the holiday people of our vast metropolis.
We must not forget to state that M. Dejean, the able
and respected proprietor of this establishment, fought
with his regiment against the insurgents at Paris on
the memorable days of June last, and received three
wounds, and it was not until he was totally disabled,
after receiving his third wound, that this brave soldier
left his post during that severe contest for the desti-
nies of his country. He received two musket balls
in his thigh and one in the groin ; but, we are happy
to say, that he is now re-established in his health.
M. Dejean ranks high in the estimation of his coun-
trymen, and we feel assured that he will be equally
respected in England, if for nothing else than his
endeavours to afford us amusement, and for his enter-
prise in crossing our Channel with so numerous and
highly respectable an establishment as the Cirque de
Paris. In addition to all the distinguished favourites
of last season, the proprietor has fresh claims upon
public patronage, for he has engaged numerous novel
artistes. The equestrian department is under the
superintendence of U. Adolphe Franconi, whose
family have been for so many years distinguished for
their skill. The band is under the able conductor-
ship of M. Hamet, whose skill and taste merits our
best acknowledgments. Morning performances will
also take place during the holidays.

BANVARD'S PANORAMA OF THR
MISSISSIPPI.

The monster panorama—the three mile and a half
painting—now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall,
seems to be a great attraction tex-the holiday folks.
There are two exhibitions daily, which are crowded.
The painting exhibits some of the grandest scenery
in the world. The spectator in front performs the
voyage of the Mississippi from its mouth to its
source. The young people seem highly delighted
with the exhibition.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.

The Christmas bill of fare of the Royal Polytech-
nic is excellent. Dr. Bachhoffner on the electric light,
Dr. Ryan, on chemistry, and a new series of dis-
solving views in Mexico, cannot fail to attract crowds
every day.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.
The indefatigable Madame Tussaud has lost no
time in adding Prince Louis Napoleon to her collec-
;ion of notabilities. The likeness is life-like, and
,he Prince seems to be the observed of all observers.

BURFORD' S PANORAMA.
The panoramas of Vienna and Paris are crowded
every day, and the new panorama of Pompeii bids
fair to rival them in popularity. As works of art
these panoramas are beautiful exceedingly.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness took their
accustomed early walk this morning; and the Prince
of Wales and the Royal Children walked in the Home
Park.

The Queen and Prince, and the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen of the Royal Household, attended Divine ser-
vice, at eleven o'clock, in the private chapel in the
Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay per-
formed the service, and administered the Holy
Sacrament.

The Royal dinner party this day is expected to in-
clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
and her Ladies in Waiting, Viscount Canning, the
Baron Stockmar, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. and Rev.
C. L. Courtenay, Mr. Glover, and Dr. Meyer.

____________
REMARKABLE INCIDENTS CON-
NECTED WITH THE LIFE OF THE LATE
CHARLES THE TENTH, KING OF THE
FRENCH.

We understand that there is now in London an
English officer of high rank in the British army, who
is stated to have been an eye-witness to some most re-
markable passages in the life of the above monarch,
and which falling to the lot of one individual to see,
may be considered as most remarkable.
The officer in question, whom we then have under-
stood to have been an officer in the Royal Regiment
of Artillery, was stationed at Edinburgh Castle about
the year 1797 or 1798, at the time when Charles the
Tenth was then under the title of the Count d'Ar-
tois, in the Royal Sanctuary of Holyrood House, and
was frequently with the Count, and on terms of the
greatest intimacy with the latter. After a series of
years the Count was called upon to fill the throne of
his ancestors in France, at the time the above officer
happened to be in that country, and who saw the
monarch crowned at Rheims, and afterwards saw
him enter Paris in triumph and installed in the Palace
of the Tuilleries.

At the period of the Revolution of July, 1820, the
above officer happened to be in Paris, and was a wit-
ness to the events of that eventful time, while Charles
the Tenth was at the Palace of St. Cloud, and from
which he was driven by a body of men, we believe
under the orders of General 'Pagol, who forced
the monarch to fly to the port of Cher-
bourg, where he embarked for England, and soon
.
afterwards found an asylum his former residence of
Holyrood House. By a singular coincidence of
events, the officer alluded to happened to be in
Edinburgh at the same time, and visited the ex-King
of the French, and in the same identical rooms of the
palace where he had seen the monarch a period of
nearly half a century before as the Count d'Artois.
It is a fact not generally known, that the people of
Paris on getting the better of the royal troops, never
reflected for one moment what flag or colours they
were to adopt, but one of the insurgents, or whatever
they may be called, mounting to the top of
the turret of the Tuilleries, where the white flag
of the Bourbons was flying in order to tear it down,
found in the corner of the forest a bundle of rags, as
he conceived, tied up in a string, and which on open-
ing, he found to be a tricoloured flag, which was no
doubt left there in the time of the Emperor Napoleon,
and which the insurgent thought he might as well
hoist up in the place of the white flag he had torn
down. He did so, and the city of Paris saw with
amazement the flag of the Republic floating on the
summit of the palace of the Bourbons as if by en-
chantment, and Louis Philippe saw himself installed
as Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom and then as
Citizen-King of the French, under the Republican,
or, more properly speaking, the Imporial flag, which
,A!1; thus so singularly Act tel rtn•l w rmleins to
this hour the flag of revolutionary France.
The last shot fired by the troops of Charles the
1 Tenth, on quitting the city of Paris to follow the