The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

A DST,PTIT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben,i. 'Webster.
Engs,c,ement for a llrnited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Bourcicault, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
• Colleen Bawn." .
THIS EVENING, THE RTFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby Miss Vi,oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
,
and Mrs. Billington., •
After which, PITA COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boureicault, D.
Fisher, Billingtou, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss "Volflar, Mrs. ,Billington, and
Mrs. ChatterleY.
To
conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.

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No charge for booking*.
Private boxes, £2 2s. Family Boxes,"Xl.
orchestra Stalls, Is. ; taloony, 4s ; Front Circle Stalls, is.
Pit Stalls, 20.1 Pit, lc 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

•
A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manager, Mr; Was. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the C4a,nd
• , Spectacle of Ronny HOOD.
,This Evening, the highly` successful newectacle, in Three
Acts, by E: Fltzball, Esq., -entitled, ROtiINSp HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood introducing the Stud of
highly-
trained, Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag-Hounds, &c, Ailan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs;; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madan* Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe; of unequalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors Open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Bog-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

fIAiNTERBURY - HALL . CO,NCERTS.-:-
vv 'EVERY EVENING, .
A' Grand Selection-from the opera of
• • NORMA.

Norma .. • • Miss RUSSELL.
AdElaisa •, • Madame MARIA,
(tier first appearance in thrs 'oonntry.)
ftelt'wtrich the-ATlllOPlANNeon.sistinzot Seventeen Per-
formers. or
expressly for this establishment, for the
Performanee of Vocal and -Instrumental Brusic, Comic and
Sentlinental,•with NevoDelineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal .Necfro Artistes, Messrs. Joe'Brown, G. W: Pell, H.
.. Drummond, and Charley rex. •
Musical Director, Mr. P. JON-GILMAN&
. , Balcony, le Hall. Bd.

Trl,lC W,EATII&C.—Strig Orrica, Nov. 17, 1860,
THERMOMETER, IN THE slums.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.
BAnamwrigia-29.31; falling rapidly.
WlND—Southerly; moderate, with continuous rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h. 46m.
To-xtowtow.-Morning, sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 33m,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1860.

The Commercial Treaty between France and
England was at length completed and received its
final signatures yesterday. It was completed, that
is to say, on the 16th day of November 1860—fully
ten months after its original announcement in the
Speech from the Throne on the occasion of the last
inauguration of Parliament. During those ten in-
tervening months what an enormous amount of
labour must there not have expended upon the task
—the truly herculean task—of bringing this. Treaty
to completion ! And upon, whoni, if.not upon Mr.
COBDEN, have ,those herculean labours devolved?
Ills shoulder has been the one applied all this
while to the ponderous wheel of Veench Commerce
—that Wheel of Fortune—deep hitherto—getting
deeper and deeper as time advanced—in the rut of
Monopoly. At length, however, the hon. member
for Rochdale may be congratulated upon. the, close of
these .pretracted and unremitting toils—toils in
every way more suitable, for a commission than
for one single individual. We are deeply grieved,
yet not in the smallest degree surprised, to find
that, now that his labours are actually over and
done with, our self-sacrificing Negotiator learns
only too painfully how severely they have been
telling- all this while. upon his constitution.
According 'to a private letter received from Paris,
simultaneously with the arrival of the telegram
intimating the completion of the Commercial
Treaty, it would' 'appear that " Mr. COBDEN is
completely prostrate," in consequence of his'sedu-
lona. application to the task he had taken in hand,
na•thai,uow that that task is actually finished, he
has relap
aedinto that very same illness from which
towards the close of .1859 he was, to the regret
of us all, se sgieat a sufferer. Whatever opinions
may be entertained in regard to the character of
the Commercial Treaty which Mr. COBDEN has
been negotiating—however much any among us
may doubt • its emeae_ •
y as a means of pro-
mulgating threctly the
beneficent principles
of Free Trade through the (certainly to say the
least of it) very questionable agency of Reciprocity
—no matter what may be the incredulity still felt
here in various instances as to the prospective
realigatiOn 'by the operations of this Commercial
Treaty of the halcyon vision of, the advantages
promised by its originator to accrue thereby alike
an to the 'mercantile world in France and in England
--there cannot possibly be two opinions here at
home amongst ourselves, or yonder abroad amongst
our Gallic neighbours, as to the magnanimity, as to
the the civism, as to the complete and absolute and
most magnanimous self-abnegation of the hon.
member for Rochdale. He who has all this
while been Ldicating the whole of his tifne,
'together with every energy of his vigorous intellect,
'as well as of his unhappily anvthing but vigorous
frame, to the comprehensive supervision and the
detailed elaboration of each minute particular in
~these vast and complicated transactions. Let it
.not be forgotten, that immediately before under-
laking' 'the 'conduct, of these transactions, Mr.
*R.OBDEN had det Allied: to accept office as a Cabinet
.Minister of the, Crown—his reasons for so doing,
411 of.!lrak ve74 tale and generous reasons—bejng

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