The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

To be succeeded by Scenes In the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe- of unequalled perf >rmers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors open at half-cast 6, performance commence at 7.
Bar-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WrFr.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ..................

3liss RUSSELL.

.................... Madame
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After whieh the ETHIOPIANS, consisting, of Seventeen Per-
formers, osgsmised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, dm Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fix.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGTIMANS.

Balcony, 1e,.........—.Ha11, 6d.

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, Nov. 14, 1660.

THERMOMETER, IN TRH SHADB.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAnommuzu-29.65.
Wrap—South Westerly; rather fresh. Dull weather,
with light rain during the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, 2h. Bnl.—Afternoon, 2h. 32m.
T 0-m FRow. -Morning, 212. 54m.—Afternoon, 3h. 17m.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1860.

Although even now there has not been altogether
dissipated that confusion into which the recent
telegrams from China had in some mysterious way

or other got worse confounded—we are, neverthe-
) se, enabled by this time to see that we have really
Ito cause whatever for serious anxiety as to the
chance of the present war having terminated prema-
turely with a discreditable compromise. From the
jumbled despatches, published in the columns of
one of Our
morning contemporaries, it appeared to
many very probable, only the day before yesterday,
either that the war was actually and abruptly
over, or that ibere was nmple reason for the most
sinister anticipations. The more sanguine were
immediately exultant,
jumping at once to the con-
clusion that our contest with an empire peopled by
400,000,000 of the most wily and treacherous of
the Asiatics, had been brought to a happy close, in a
twinkling, by the capture of the Taku Forts, a rapid
advance upon Tien-tsin, and a threatened march
inland upon the Chinese capital itself—the
mystic and almost mythical Pekin. We
ourselves shrank from the acceptance of deductions
like these, deductions in every way improbable in
themselves, and wholely irreconcilable with one or
two "others" of those telegrams from the seat of war
which had simultaneously made their appearance.
One of these " other " telegrams, for example, tell-
ing us pointblank that the negotiations at Tientsin
had been altogether and abruptly broken off; and
that the interrupted march of the Allies thence upon
Pekin had been vigorously resumed. Another inti-
mating that this sudden change in the proceedings
was attributable to the fact that the Chinese
Plenipotentiaries with whom Lord ELGIN found
himself entering into serious diplomatic arrange-
ments proved to be wholely unempowered by the
Emperor HIEN FUNG to engage in any negotiations
at all, good, bad, or indifferent! Yet more, one of 1
these seemingly contradictory, but in reality entirely
-unimpeachable, telegrams designating the very spot
to Which the advanced march of the Europeans had
carried the allied head-quarters by the later days of
September.lnamei3,, to a township within a dis-
tam;o of ten miles from Pekin, a place indicated

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