The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

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Lep,lee, Mr. J. B. Bv.e.kstone.
TE! g EVENING the performanees will commen3e with
JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews,
Bucketone. Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new comedietta, TITS EXCELLENCY,
in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
To conclndo with THE CmenceHRISTE atNING.
Com 7.

POYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, will he performed A WONDERFUL
WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris, Miss Heath, Are.
Followed by UN TIGRE DU BENGALI:.
And LES DEUX AVEUGLES. By the Zouaves.
With the farce of A.S.S.
After which, LA CORDE SENSIBLE. Characters by
the Zouaves.
Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL-
Sole rronrietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss
Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith.
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Box-office open from 10 till 5.
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Immense Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 18, commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening. Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA.
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, ls , Hall, Ad.
Comte Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, Sac., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THE WEATHER.,—SUS Ornaz, AUGUST 16, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
Ea—lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.42; a sudden fall.
WlND—South-Westerly ; fresh, with dull sultry weather,
HALF-PAST Two.—Rain has comumiced.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIA DAY.—Morning, lh. 4m.—Afternoon, lh. 30m
To-moßßow.-Morning, lh. 53m.—Afternoon, 2h. 15m

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1860.

Pleasant news for Mr. GLADSTONE—those last
tidings from the seat of war in China! According
to the "latest intelligence" whence—it appears that
the cost of our expedition thither may already be
counted by millions—by millions sterling observe !
—not by mere hundreds of thousands. And recollect,
moreover, that when these calculations were made
there, at the actual seat of war, by a dispassionate
and watchful witness—we were only yet in the
midst of our warlike preparations ! The campaign
had not yet been commenced. The first shots had
not yet been exchanged between the belligerents.
The allies were still getting everything in readiness
to " open the ball" con spirito ! These preliminary
arrangements, however, being so far advanced that
when the despatches left there were, it was
estimated, seventy-six British !pennants flying
in those waters, and forty-five French pen-
nants altogether 121 pennants of the
aggregate Anglo-French Expedition ! The calcu-
lation made merely i.n regard to our own commis-
sariat was of itself sufficiently significant—as many
as 119 vessels (many o f them steamers) of various
tonnage (the average being about 1,000 tons) having
been chartered at freights ranging from a mini-
mum rate of 17s. 6d. tc., a maximum of 225. 6d.
Per ton per month ! Oalerwise, an expenditure
each month in transports alone of £120,000, or
an yearly outlay under this one head of
£1,440,000 ! So that, upon the very face
of it, there is evidence enough to show that
our model financier (as so many had suspected
from the very outset, and that, too, without posses-
sing mie scintilla of his sublime intelligence) was
altoget her in error at the very basis of his elaborate
calculat ions. All which goes far to yield a sort of
a superfluous supplementary ex post facto justifica-
tion to the Lords for having secured to the revenue
at the eleventh hour an odd million and a half
which had boen rashly abandoned by a compliant
House of Commons at the irrationally ill-timed
suggestion of an experimenting Administration.
Further justification, however, of that most pro-
viden t act on the part of our hereditary legislators
is sur:!;ly not by this time required by any one
not infected by the GLADSTONE craze, or the
BRIMIT phobia, or the COBDEN hallucination. We
are " in" the Chinese war now without any
mistake whatever; and as rational men, nay, even
as wise economists, must go through with it in
earmest. Sir Hor E GRANT is there with
his red coats, Admiral HOPE with his blue
jackets and we may rest assured that in
neither instance HOPE will have " told a flattering
tale" when the history of this third expedition
agaiwt th,?, Chinese shall have been related.

How much in earnest the conductors of this
Chilnise ea,:pedition are, we now know clearly
enough from the facts brought to light by these
recently re ceived fragments of intelligence. Al-
rettdy the a rmies of the western allies had mus-
tered in tlut north—both of them in the Gulf of
Pechele—the. French at Chefou, the English at
l4licn-whan. 'hey were consequently within a
a
of (at th,l time the despatches left),
r
one hundrea ' miles from the mouth of
the p
e`uo the line of the Peiho being
the very boundary upon which, according to the
general.
belief of the natives, there would be made
on the ;part or the Imperial or Celestial Govern-
ment, Ole mutt
deter mined and even desperate re-
sistance! Meanw,„‘
, at Canton, our position had
been rent lered sufliciet, tly secure, and even formi-
dable. The British r,
there amounted to up-
wards of 3,500 men,
telliding in
this aggregate
sepoy regiments, several
one European and two I
detachments, and a battc, ty ofßoyalA.rtillery. As an
indication of the systemat is forethought with which
the third. Chinese war is b eing thus at once daringly
and cautiously commenced , it is interesting to note
That the skilled and into illigent superintending
surgeon upon Sir EDWA: 119 LUGARD'S column,