The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-15 00:00:00

VENDER,

The Purifying of Old Father Thames—The Invasion of
London —The Russians set the Thames on fire—Foreign Fruits
and British Stuffs—Odd Importation of Bear's Grease---Sar-
dinians and Zouaves The Illustrated Loudon News —The
Humours of Good Humour.

THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE,
Designed by M. Guerin.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

Mourners at One Altar—Victors on One. Throne. Thd Coro-
nation with the Coronas of Valour by the 9-enins of Victory.

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Grand Fashionable MORNING REPRESENTATION of
the Pantomime on SATURDAY, Jan; 19, at Two o'clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.
In rehearsal; and shortly will be -produced. an entirely new
•Farce, entitled TWENTY MINUTES WITH AN IMPU-
DENT PUPPY. The Impudent Puppy being prohibited'by
the express injunction of his manager for any Theatre Royal
but one, will be represented by Mr. Leigh Murray, his first
appearance this season.
Treasurer, Mr. Hingston, to whom the Superintendence of
the Auditorium has been entrusted.

The Box-office is now open, u 'der the direction of Mr.
O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also be taken at the prin-
cipal Libraries), 3/. 35., 2/. 25., 1/. ls., and 12s. Grand Bal-
cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit,
2s. Gallery, le.

Half-price at Nine o'clock. Balcony, 35.; Upper Boxes,
ls. 6d. Pit, ls.; Gallery, 6d.

FELLOW - COUNTRYMEN ! Be not led
away by the interested appeals , f Newspaper Proprietors,
who douWe their inv me by continuing the war.

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FOR WHAT ARE WE NOW FIGHTING ?
RT7ssia has yielded lon since all we went to war for ! She has now
conceded the neutralisation or the Black Sea—the Xllies to be PRAC-
TICALLY thoudi not OSTENSIBLY, the parties to this treaty. If it is
only that they claybe SO OSTENSIBLY that the 100 l of thousands is
to he shed that ml lions on mil bons are, to be raised and squan-
dered—and that ills ress is to he cruelly inflicted on all—can we hope
for the sympathy of the world or the co-operation of the nations and
people of-Europe?

POSTAGE STAMPS.--NOTICE.
Inlaul Revenue, Somerset !louse,
14th January, 1a56.
Tin: COMMISSIONERS of INLAND
REVENUE irvo notice that they are now prepared to im-
press with Postage Stamps, denoting respectively the duties of 4d.,
6d., and Is., paper sent in by the public for the covers or envelopes
of letters. The paperintend dto be impressed must be delivered
at the Head-office, -omerset Ffouse London, :or this purpose, subject
o he regelation•+ contained in the notice is•ued by the Commission-
ers on the Bth October, 1855, namely :
when the amount oft .0 stamos required by any Pergon shall n^t
exceed 101., A fee o one shilling will be charged in iddition tai the
duty if paper of one size enly be sent in ; and if more than one size
be sent in, then a fee of one shilling for each size.

On the warrants hereafter mentioned no fee will be payable, but
the size. of paver will be restricted as Adlow :
when the amount exceeds 101. and is under 201, paper of one size
only will be received.

If the amount exceeds 201. and is under 30/., two sizes of paper
only will he received.

in/ and undW4of, three sizes of paper.
401. and under 50/., four sizes of parer; and not more than four
sizes of pacer will he allowed to be included in any one warrant of
however high an amount.
No folded envelo ,es can be stamped ; and the-efore paper, whether
intended for envelopes or for letters, must be sent to unfolded, and
every distinct size and form of envelope or paper must be marked so
as to indicate the place on which the stamp is to be impressed, in
order that it may aopea•• in the proper position, according' to the
rules of the Post-ofilcet.when the envelope or letter is folded and
made up.
No coloured paper can be received for stamping. nor any paper of
such thinness as not to bear the impression of the dies.
Envelopes provided by this make with the pro er stamps thereon
will be substituted for any of those sent in which may be spoiled in
the operation of stamping.
It should be borne in mind that licensed vendors only are autho-
rised to sell postage stamps impressed a; above mentioned, or any
other. By order of the Board.

THOMAS KEOGH, Secretary.