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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, . COVENT-
GARDEN.—tinder the slanaaement of Miss Louisa
Pyile and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees.
The Public are respectfully informed that the Last
Repre-
sentations of Wallace's popular Opera of LURLINE are
now terminating; in consequence of the preparations tor the
ape,cdy production of the novelties announced.

OPAL E.,TGLISTI OPERA, COVENT-
t; GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
FY NE and Mr• W. lIA HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE .ROSE OF CAS LILLE. Miss
Louisa Pine, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs.W. Harrison. H, Corri,
Dnrand, St. Albyn, and Wallworth.
To conclude with the First Act of T ROVATORE.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past.

HE A TRY. -R OYA L, HAYMARKET.
Lemec, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
rrßys EVENING the uPrtormances will comme.noP with
THE STRANGER. Mr. Howe and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM-
BASSADOR. Mr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon,
E. Fitzwilliam.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.---
Lessee and Manaer, Mr. A. Harris.
, an adatation of Victor Hugo's cele-
bratedTHlS PIayEVENING of RUY BLAS,p by F.dmund Falconer, Esq. 1
when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 7th appearance on the English stage:supported
by Messrs. Meadows, Garden, Graham, ,supported
M Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Lecicrcq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To be preceded by-SUSAN SMITH.
After which, THE FIRST NIGHT.
Mi s Maria Harris.

Mr. A. Harris and

THEATRE-
ROYAL LYCEUM.
Bola Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last appearance of Miss Gougenheim.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of Til IC LOVE CHAgE. The
cenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon. Mr. Henry Neville, Mr.
George ng-. Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, lir. Campbell,
Mrs. Keeley, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Goimenheim.
To conclude with the comedy of THE. JEALOITS WIFE :
principal characters by Mr. a, ore Vining, Mr. H. Neville,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. T. Lyon, Mrs.IL Butler,
Mr. J. Johnstone,Morris, Mr. Clifford, M J. Rouse,
ISliss M. Ternan, and Miss Goughenheim.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NF,W THEATRE-ROYAL.
r-z- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drains., by Dion Bourcicanit, Esq.,
" The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing.
ENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
THIS EV
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
After which, THE COLLEEN
he BAWN. D. Rourcicault
Rome. D.
Fisher, Billing-ton, Falconer, Stepnson. C. J. Smith,
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To oonclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes,-£l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. Front Circle Stalls, Is. •
Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, ls. ed. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery,
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

kSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD.
First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome,
and their Troupe of unequalled perf Tmers, dm., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. loitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN MOOD • or, the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud ofhighl-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allayn-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of
Europe.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box -oftloe open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. Wrs,r.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL
ING, CONCERTS.-
EVERT EVEN
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ............ ........ Miss RUSSELL.
Adaldsa
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistinz of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Nev,ro Delineations, Anecdotes, Szc. Prin -
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley F.x.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
Balcony, is, ...Hall. (Id.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1860.

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We cannot find words to express the pleasure
with which we read Lord JOHN'S RUSSELL'S
despatch of the 27th of October, to our Minister at
Turin. For our country's sake, now placed before
all the liberalism and all the absolutism of Europe
in a position of which we are proud—for Ita'
sake, happily needing little now beyond the hearty
moral support of a great Power, and to whom this
despatch is worth more than a fleet or an army—for
the sake of the intermeddling Emperor of FRANCE,
who now sees that England is committed to a noble
policy before all the world, by something more
direct than a BONIFACE article in a favoured journal
—for the sake of all now concerned, and all who
may be hereafter concerned, we rejoice, we may
say exult, in the despatch we publish to-day. It
is a great victory—Land we hope the noble lord
will win many such—for the courage to trample
on all the technicalities of diplomacy, to grasp with
a strong hand the substantial right of a popular
cause, and to do it in defiance of three Autocrats,
all of whom had pronounced themselves more or
less strongly in- the cause of absolutism, requires
courage of the highest order.
-We expressed our thankfulness a little tinge back
that Lord JorrN RUSSELL was breathing again the
air of his free native country, and he does not seem
long to have breathed it in vain. We have never
doubted the personal sympathies of the noble lord
with the cause of liberty abroad ; we have only
feared, if we must speak
plainly, the indirect influ-
ence of the German connections of our Court ; but
our Court should know that nothing will induce
our people to bear with good-will the sovereignty
of a race of purely foreign blood, jealously guarded
from all contamination with that of the governed
people, so much as the perception that •
the Ministers
of the Crown express, in all their foreign
policy,
the sentiments of the people of England. When
it is well known that Prussia and the c oburgs all
sympathise with absolutism rather than with free-
dom, it makes the continental inter-marriages appear
comparatively harmless, if they do not interfere
with England's Foreign Secretary uttering the
sentiments of all his countrymen.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S dispatch gratifies us in
two main points. First, it takes for its text the
censure of the King of SARDINIA by Russia, France,
and the milder censure of Prussia. Without cir•
cumlecution, it, argawentatively, censures them.
Perhaps we ought almost to forgive the
lecturing tone of the despatch to Count
CAvOUR, when we see that it is the noble lord's
present style, and that three great Powers get it
almost as severely as the Government of Turin.
Its second great merit is, that it argues the whole
Italian question on the broad principles of common
sense.
Even when VATTEL is appealed to, it is to

quote from him the reasonable principle that, on
the invitation of a brave people, struggling against
their oppressors from reasonable causes, foreign
powers have a right to furnish the assistance they
ask. Our invitation of WILLIAM of ORANGE, and
dirassistance furnished by the States, being the
pertinent illustration. We may add a third ; it
assumes throughout that Italians are really Italians,
and not merely Tuscans, or Modenese, or Neapolitans,
and all the rest of it—it accepts the common na-
tionality of all the sections into which the selfish-
ness of a set of Austrian Lieutenants had par-
celled a noble country, merely to facilitate her

odious rule over them.
The reasons by which Lord JOHN RUSSELL
justifies both the Italians and the King of SAE.
DINIA, cannot of course be novel; we could not
wish them to be. What we wanted and
what we have, is the recognition as valid, of
those arguments which all Liberals feel to
be sufficient, and that, by a judgment
so important in the diplomacy of Europe
as the formal expression of the opinion of England.
The Italians have, says his lordship, two plain and
reasonable causes for wishing to get rid of their
numerous petty sovereigns. One that those sove-
reigns could not, or would not, administer justice,
in their own territories ; in fact, that they substi-
tuted for it intolerable oppression; the other, that
in no other way could Italians be independent of
foreign control, but by forming themselves into one
strong and organised people. They had tried
forty years ago, to obtain free institutions,
but were hindered by foreign intervention.
They tried again in 1848, and again the
result was the same, their best patriots being re-
warded with cruel imprisonments but just ended.
They now make a last attempt, and do it in the
reasonable and moderate way of putting themselves
under the leadership of a King of their own blood
and language, who, moreover, has been signally
true to the cause of constitutional liberty—the very
kind of liberty which the vast majority of Italians

desire.
We may hope that this despatch, with the
events of the last few days, will make our
foolishly vacillating, or blindly selfish ally be-
think himself of what he is doing before Gaeta.
There is, we fear, no doubt whatever that he in-
structed his Admiral to delay the fall of Gaeta by
placing himself in the way of the gallant Admiral,
who was the chief hero of Ancona. We then urged
our Government to interference either with the
EMPEROR himself, or through our Mediterranean
Admiral. We must confess that this telling de-
spatch looks all the right way ; and that we
may well hope that the Government which would
send it, will not hesitate to enforce in the
most desirable way, the neutrality of the French at
Gaeta. The elect of Universal Suffrage will also
learn simultaneously of the election of VICTOR
EMMANUEL by that process, and by a majority
even more overwhelming than his own. We also
hear of the fall of Capua, and of the union, there-
fore, of all the forces of GARIBALDI and the King of
SARDINIA before the walls of Gaeta. In such cir-
cumstances, not only would it be lawless inter-
meddling to hinder the Sardinian Admiral
from doing his part in the siege ; it
would be simple barbarity. The place must
fall, Lours NAPOLEON can hardly wish other-
wise, but it will fall with less bloodshed in pro-
portion to the completeness of the investment and
the strength of the besiegers. If resistance be
seen to be hopeless, as it must be if the town were
invested both by land and by sea, the deposed
monarch would probably flee at once, and the place
sur render without a struggle.
We must not conclude, however, without advis-
ing Lord 701 IN RUSSELL to be consistent. Venetia
will now become the test. This despatch, of course,
siys nothing of that unhappy country. Any one,
however, of Lord JOHN'S reasonings respecting the
other parts of Italy apply with, if possible, grea
force to Venetia. There the people, in every way in
which they can make themselves heard, and for
the most " reasonable causes," ask for foreign aid
to liberate them from insupportable oppression..
This country, too, is an essential part of Italy—a
part of its strength especially—and if not united
to the rest, an opening for that foreign control, from
which Lord JOHN owns they may wish to be exempt.
The time is rapidly coming when a bold asser-
tion of the just rights of Venetia to share
the Italian Nationality will do as much service
to Italy as the present despatch. It will do a
real kindness to Austria also, since, as she must
part with it, every inducement she can have to
do so without bloodshed is a real advantage to
her. Let Lord JOHN tell her before all Europ•
that she ought not to keep,—what he has already
termed, " a menace to Italy," and that she cannot
long keep it, if she would, and, he will be her
I most sincere friend.
Y's

-We have now full and very interesting details of
the capture of the Taku forts. They were taken
after a resistance creditable alike to the defenders
and the captors, and if we must regret so many
casualties to our brave men, we must also remem-
ber that but for the almost unexpected bravery of
the Tartars our troops would not have had the
opportunity of showing what metal they were made
of. We may also be thankful that though the
casualties are so numerous, yet thanks in part to
the badness of Chinese gunpowder, the killed were
unusually small in proportion to the wounded.
Out of 178, only 22 are returned as killed or mor-
tally wounded.
Contrary to their usual practice the Chinese had
made preparations for resistance in several places
along the twelve miles between the Peh-tang and
the Taku Forts. The first resistance was at Sinho,
where the Tartars, finding the Armstrong guns
and other artillery made the place too hot for them,
their cavalry had the boldness to attempt to turn
both flanks of our troops ; not only that, but 80 or
90 of them attacked a battery of guns which had
ceased firing a short time, but were met by 25
Sikhs, of Fane's horse, and completely beaten—it
was a soul-stirring little episode, and the Sikhs, of
course, were delighted with the proof of their

prowess.
The next resistance was by a strongly fortified
camp at Tang-kow ; and here again it was almost
all the work of the artillery, which performed
admirably, both French and English, the ARM-
STRONG gun, however, maintaining its obvious
superiority ; the place was at length carried by the
infantry, Lieut. SHAW being the first to enter the
fort. The first Frenchman who entered was
forthwith promoted on the field of battle. On this
occasion, as throughout, the Tartars stood gallantly
to their guns behind embras.ures, which afforded
them
a very poor protection against a most mur-
derous fire from the allies.

The next object of attack was the Taku forts
themselves. These arc situated on both sides the
river—but the northern forts, the upper northern
one especially, were pronounced by our General to
be the key of the position, contrary to the opinion
of the French General. Sir HOPE GRANT, too,
took the responsibility of acting on his own view,
which proved to be the right one. On
the 20th the Upper Northern Fort was sum-
moned to surrender, all things being ready
for the attack. The demand was repelled with

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insolence, and arrangements were accordingly
made for the morrow. The gun boats were ordered
to shell the lower northern fort and engage its at-
tention, while the main attack was made on the
upper one. In both, tremendous:explosions soon
took place, " Beams of wood, earth, shells, splinters,
bodies, were hurled into the air while the concussion
shook the earth for miles round"-+—still the brave
Tartars stood to their guns. About eight in the
morning, after three hours' firing, the Chinese
guns were pretty well silenced, and the pon-
toon and ladder work began. It was warm
work, too. The defenders were hardly
less brave and determined than the assailants ;
it cost half an hour's severe fighting under
the wall before the Allies had fairly entered—and
even then the Chinese fought desperately under
their casemates ; and here it was that Ensign CHAP-
LIN, and a French soldier raced up the ramp, the
Ensign being knocked over by a bullet—getting up
again, and " winning by a head." A French
drummer was first into the place, though imme-
diately after Lieutenant ROGERS leaped in, in
another place. It was in this severe struggle, of
course, that our principal casualties occurred. The
gunboats suffered nothing.
And now the judgment of Sir HOPE GRANT was
completely vindicated. The southern forts lay at
our mercy, being enfiladed by the one we had taken,
while the back of the lower northern fort was open
to us. The consequence was that the Chinese
themselves were aw are of it, and quickly surren-
dered, without further trouble, both the north and
south forts, with all that they contained. " Thus,
in a ten days' campaign, were the Peiho forts
taken, the disaster of last year avenged, and the
Chinese war of 1860 brought almost to a close."
We fear the conclusion may not be quite worthy
of the commencement—but that we must not discuss
till we have more certain information. It is all
well that the whole Province up to Tien-tsin
should capitulate, but we cannot like the
Ambassadors ;going to Pekin as the EN.
PEROR'S guests. They ought to have gone with
the aspect of conquerors, if they would save the
hazard of mandarin pride attempting fresh
insults when they are gone. Sir WILLIAM
ARMSTRONG'S guns have been found now
to be the first artillery in the world,
the Emperor of CHINA should have had a
sight of them. The army has occupied the pro-
vince—well. But much better had it occupied
Pekin, and. thus read a final lesson to the whole
Empire.