The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-03 00:00:00

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FRENCH PLAYS.- Bl JOU THEATRE.-
A: At HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Haymarket,
(Grand Entrance.)
Directeur—M. Talexy.
THIS EVENING,
LE ROMAN D'UN JEUNE HOMIIE PAUVRE. Mar-
guerite, Madame DOCHE.
• Commence at 8 o'clock.

P OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
-BA) GA DEN.--Under the Management of Miss Louisa
Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees.
The Production of flalle's new grand legendary opera will
take place on THURSDAY, December G, BIANCA, THE
BRAVO'S BRIDE. Supported by 3liss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrence, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. H.
Corri, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Lyall, and Mr.
Wm. Harrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Orchestra of
Eighty Pertormers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Doors open at
7 ; commence at half-past 7.

11) OVAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
' GARDEN—cinder the Management of Miss LOUISA
j'YNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE AMBUSCADE.
The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE,
Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corti.
To conclude with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs
11. Haiah, H. Corti, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame
Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leffkr, Miss Thirlsvall, and
Miss Huddart.

Conductor--31r. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven, Commence at lla7l-past.

9'HEATRE-ROYAL,. HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B: Backstone.
TT-HS EVEN! the nertnrig,MlCee Will 00mmenoe with
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
After which, BOX AND COX.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCES S'S THEATRE.-
Lolsee and Manager, Mr. A. TJ'arris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will Commence with
SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by RUT BLAS. Supported by- Mr. Fechter,
Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham,• fcaymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; ~`•liss Rose
Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To con.llude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM-
Snip Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, THE PE PS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. Georye Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Colorls, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, Miss-Hudspeth, Missart, Miss Turner, Miss
Donolas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
Atfer wh!elt. a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, .Tohnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
Butler, arid lan flrew (his 7th arpearancel : Mrs. -1-- Rouse.
Miss flrdsp P., Miss 11. Tertian, ilnd Miss Neville.
Followed by the ri •w drama, entitled ADRI ENNE; or
THE SECIIEO
1'
F A LIFE. Principal charaters bY Mr.
Henry Neville. Mr. John House, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vinino., Mr. Forrester. Mr. Campbell,. Mr. Clifford,
Mr, J. John tone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a quarter to
tai 7,
nments.on account of the length of
the enter

A D p Ti• 1 Nti-!w THEATRE-RoyAL.
sole P,wrfrtor pn4 Manager, Mr. Ben!. Webster.
F.n,ement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
B
and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear
-oabertßon
every evening" in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Bawm
Tins EVENING, TfIE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher, C Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
After which, TILE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roncicault, D.
Fisher, Billing-ton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS.
Messrs. J, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billing-ton,: Mrs. Chatterley,
Miss K. Kelly, &c.
Doors open at Intlf-past C.—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for bookincr.
Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes,
Orchestra Stalls. ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Zs.
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. sd. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, lid.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ALSTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Prcprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
This Evening., a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION
CONQT3EIZOTt • or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be sneceeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, Arc., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.

Concluding with a popular Farce.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
stage llianazer—Mr. W. WEST.

Tg E CATTLE SHOW
A
CANTERBURY HALL.
C. MORTON begs to inform visitors to London that the
above HALT, with its Mag,nificent Gallery of Modern Paint-
ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINI'S NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES,
Miss RUSSELL MADAME MARIA
MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON
Mr. 11-ENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Condor for Mr. JONGITMANS.
The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollinzs-
worth, W. T. eritchflell, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Pox. and E. 'Marshall, in his transformation song, "TIIn
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters.

H. )2 WEATHER.-SUN °MU:, DEC. 2 1860.

TRIMMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

52 —highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
46 —this clay at noon.

BAROMETER-29.68.
WlND—South-Easterly; rather fresh, with dull rainy
weather in the morning. Afternoon, fine.

DEC. 3,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAMS.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
41--Llowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.48; falling- rather fast.
WlND—South-Easterly ; light, with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIs DAY.—Morning, 4h. 43m.—Afternoon, sh. 4m.
To-mon.Row.-Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon. sh. 52m.

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Yr IT E SUN.
LoNotx, MONDAY, DEC. 3, 1880.

Is it a dream ? That France is really and truly
to apply Fne-trade principles to her commerce ?
That the French Chambers are to enjoy liberty of
speech, and that freedom of the press (so far, at least,
as relates to the reporting of the debates occurring in
those Chambors i 3 concerned) is to be engrafted
upon French journalism ? ..Yoavna//y, all these
good things are assured already to France and to
Fren.ehmen ! In name they are—but—are they in
realify ? " Aye,.±here's the rub !" We can only
bide our time and see. We can only hope, so far
as hope is in any way possible. Consoling our-
selves as sympathising advocates and enjoyers of
Free-trade, a Free Press, and Free Speaking; con.-
soling ourselves, even at the worst, with the reflec-
tion that it is at least something to have before us
the spectacle of a Despotic Government so far con-
ceding to to the liberality of the age in which we are
al 11v1ug; as at any rate to affect the concession of
these three Priceless boons, each in turn to be
regarded
as a palladium of Constitutional Go-

ve,tnnaent.
The arreetatien at least of these concessions we
ha we been witnessing
of late across the Channel as
co!lspicuoits among the later acts of NAPOLEON 111.
Th ere in France, during
1860, the Imperial Ruler
has been accnydin_
g to the people, one after another,
the " shew" or eiclolon of each of those wondrous
gueirantees (already enumerated) of social, and
pol itical, and commercial freedom. Upon the latest
of these apparent concessions we have in these
columns hut very recently commented.
It vet
remf tins to be seen whether they Will or will not
cons! :itute the insertion of the small end of a wedge
to bey. afterwards driven home little by little, until
Fran na shall at last find herself again Possessed
simultaneously of the advantages of a Free Press
and ur.:Parliaraentary Government. The Ministers
of the Crown in France will still, it is true, be no-
minate 1 solely and exclusively by the will of the
Sover,o gn. They will yet continue to give
place, collectively or individually, to other
Minis te rs of the Crown—their successors—
at the ,rhim or pleasure of their Imperial Master.
But—'o enceforth the so-called representatives of
the ne,t ion assembled together in the two Chambers

will
of the ILcgislature, have the power to discuss
the pc ti icy of those stationary or changing adminis-
trate) ; arid henceforth, too, France has the pro-
mise ) Likewise that the debates thus taking place in
tue I m perial Legislature upon the Imperial Policy
will be printed in the form of a sort of an official
t uv anit-dried epitome day by day in the public