The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-31 00:00:00

ROY AL ENGLISH OPERA,'
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
TO-NIGHT, Dec. 31: MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE :
Miss Louiga Pyne and Mr. A, Corrle. To conclude with the
Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. 11.
Boleno, H. Payne, Hi de and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. MiOno and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the 'l:elinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle
Lamoureux, LEc.
Conductor—M,`• Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

rrHEA TR E-R(iYAL, HAYMARKFT.
B. Bnekstone.
THIS EVENING, SHE BOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony,
Lumpkin, Mr. Bnckstone ; Yom7cr Marlow, Mr. Howe; Miss
wardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling (tier sth appearance here).
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The rantomimistO 1)y the un-
rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wri ht.
Commence at 7. Ef

ROYAL PRINCE SS'S THEATRE.—.
Lessee and Manavr, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, Dec. 29, ERV,TESTINE. Messrs. J.
G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; inesdames Heath, Car-
lotta Leclercq, Weston, and Murray.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Kins.r.
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Marie Dumilatre. of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
..rx Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E. Thorne.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchegl'a Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ' •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sois*Ogee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENTING THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr.
John Drew.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic 'Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; Or, The Rose without a Thorn, showint,r
THE VISION OF 'A. ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAT-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Followed by the comic Drama, entitled HANDY I%NDT.
Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
Butler, and John Drew: Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M. Ternan, and Miss Neville.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
new spectacle, entitled THE LION
This Evening, a
CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction e the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
of Performing Lions. The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be suoceeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls. by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
1101? SE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Harlequin Mr. Sylvester.
Columbine Miss Hariet Dalton.
Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks.
Clown Mr. James Cooke.
Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance comnienoe at 7.
Box-oßloe open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL.
Open Every Evening* at Seven.
GRAND SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FIGLIA.
DEL REGIMENTO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA,
and MARTHA.
Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARIA, Miss
TYRRELL, MISS WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C.
W. BERNARD, and Signor TivoLL
Musical Director .............Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
The Comic Department compriQes Messrs. J. Br. %Nun ATM,
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL,
CHARLEY Fox, and E. MARSHALL.
The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of
the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE
GREAT DAY of HIS WRATH." "THE PLAINS of
HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view
until 12 o'clock at Night.

THE WEATHER.—SITN7OFFICE, DEC. 30, 1360.
THERMOMETER, IN TICE SHADE.
33—highest since noon yesterday.
29—lowest this morning and during the night.
39—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.45.
Wpm—S.-South-Westerly—moderate; with rapid thaw
and rain. It blew very strong and squally last evening,
when a tendency to thaw began.
DEc.f3l.
THIMMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43 —hlghest. since noon. yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and dying the night.
37—this day at noon.

BARomnTETt-29.68.
Warn—Easterly—rather fresh ; with dull weather and
thaw, but inclining to frost again.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 54m.—Afternoon, 4h. 14m,

The importance of 1860 can now, upon this New
Year's Eve, completing the twelvemonth, be fully
appreciated. As we stand upon the threshold be-
tween the two years, as we pause there, not with-
out emotion, to—

P the coming—speed the going guest,",

We cannot, before looking forward To morrow (as
we propose to do), anticiPatively into the Future,we
cannot but cast a wistful glance To-day into the im-
mediate Past, down the lengthened perspective of the
last twelve anxious months—back, from these closing
hours of December to those fast receding days of
January. Happily, the retrospect for England is
anything rather than fraught with discouragement.
We have had our national disappointments, we
have had our social calamities—work has been oc-
casionally scarce, money at intervals even
scarcer—credit even has occasionally, towards
the close of the year, found itself hampered
again, most vexatiously and injuriously, by the
baneful influence of the old bungling
laws of 1819 and 1844 regulating, upon the most
absurdly mistaken principles, our complex code of
the currency—but in spite of all these fruitful
sources of solicitude the country has, in 1860, far
more than merely tided over its difficulties. Inso-
much has the good preponderated over the evil that
we do not hesitate to assert of the twelvemonth
now expiring, that it may be borne in the national
remembrance with feelings of peculiar satisfaction.
The Volunteer movement alone would be suffi-
cient tojlistifY this last assertion. For, thanks to
that patriotic achievement—the organization of
a National Guard for England 170,000
strong—the real security of the nation may be
confidently said to date in veritable earnest
from the ever naemorable year of grace now
rapidly drawing to its termination. From
her Most Gracious mAJE sTY and her Royal
Consort downwards through every yank and class
of the community, this glorious movement has
derived the most readily appreciable and the most
easily recognisable encouragement. The Soya
REIGN'S Levee in St. James's Palace--the banquet
and ball afterwards—all signalised, as far back as
March last, the rapid enrolment of the British
Riflemen. At midsummer there was that magni-
ficent Review in Hyde Park (by the QUEEN herself
in Person) of this her MAJESTY'S newly-organised
force of loyal and patriotic Volunteers. Hardly
two months afterwards there was that other and
equally resplendent review by the MONARCH on her
way. to Balmoral, the review at Edinburgh under
the :shadow of the ancient Palace of Holyrood, of
the " pick" of the Scottish Volunteers ! Have
we r tot still, too, in vivid recollection the Shooting-
mat eh, inaugurated by the rifle-shot fired by the
Roy al hand, upon the arena chosen for the cora-
petii;ors upon the common at Wimbledon ? Was
there not still later that superb gathering
in Lancashire, at Knowsley Park—a festive cele-
bration in honour of the Volunteer movement,
evid ,eacing the cordial interest taken in its furthOr-

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1860.