The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-29 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
-1-u GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees.

SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Production of a new legendary ro-
mantic opera, by Italie, BIANCA, THE InzAvo's BRIDE.
The music composed by the popular English composer, Balfe.
Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. IL
Corri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. G.
Kelly, and T. Distin. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Doors
open at 7 ; commence at half-past 7.

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
-I t) GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
DYNE and Mr.'W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE AMBUSCADE. •
The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OP GEORGETTE,
Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corti.
To conclude with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs
A. Haigh, H. Corti, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame
Palmieri, Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leffler, Miss Thirlwall, and
Miss Huddart.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
-past. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buakstone.
THIS EVENING the performances grill commence with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
Followed by THE LION SLAYER.
To conclude with ANY POET IN A STORM.
C"Trn:.!l:•,3 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an a.dapifttion of Victor Hugo's cele-
brated Play of REY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ;
when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 29thsppearance on the Eng.lish stage, supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.

To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM,
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

THIS EVENING, THE PEPS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction, of Mr. Wan. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, Missiludspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
Butler. and John Drew (his 4th appearance) ; Mrs. J. Rouse,
Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. 11. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of
the entertainments.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Wihnter.
Engagement for a limited number of night§ of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Rawn." _ .

THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. VV.
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.

After which, THE COLLEEN DAWN. D. Rencleault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Ames Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Millington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS..
Messrs. ,T, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington,: Mrs. Chatterley,
Miss K. Kelly, &c.
Doors open at half-past s—Commence at 7.
Box-Office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking'.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes:XL
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ;
pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d.

Acting Manager—Mr. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Wm. RATTY.

Notice.—Tn consequence of the vast preparation necessary
for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The
Groupe of Performing Lions" in the new Spectacle, their ap-
pearance is unavoidably postponed until MONDAY next,
December 3.

This Eveninrr, the hizhly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducinr_rthe Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag. Hounds, &e, Allan-
a- Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard. _ _ _ _ . _

To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, Including
the incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

THE CATTLE SHOW
AND
CANTERBURY HALT,.
C. MORTON begs to inform visitors to London that the
above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint-
ings, by all the best masters, is .OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS
rRoM
BELLINI'S NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES,
MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA
MISS TYRREL MISS WILKINSON
Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONGIIMANS.
The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollings-
worth, W. T. Critchfield, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song "TIT
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different Characters.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICM, Nov. 29, 1800.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
44—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.

BA ROMETER-29.82.
I,9rND—Easterly ; rather fresh, with dull sirrocco weather,
THREE 0' CLOCZ.—IVIND—South-East, with rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 3m.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m,
To-moußow.-Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. 2m,

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THE SUN
LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1860.

Little by little we are extending our knowledge
of our amiable friends the Chinese. The news
comes dropping in more and more abundantly. It
is like weaving in the pattern of a tapestry ara-

besque. We are perpetually going backwards and

forwards between the date of our forces leaving
Tientsin and the date of their arrival within gun-
shot—at any rate within Armstrong gunshot—of
the Chinese capital. Despatches, dating variously
from the 9th to the 23d of September, come
showering in through that of vial percolator, the
Gazette—now it is a long "yarn" (capitally well
written) from the hand of Tnorns WADE, the
Chinese Secretary—now a little roughly pencilled
note from General Sir HOPE GiANT, scrawled at
midnight on the 18-19th, to Lord ELGIN, informing
his Excellency with true soldierly brevity of the
total route of the Imperial army of 20,000 Tartar
horsemen upon the " foughten field" of Chang-tsia-
wan ! Again it is an enthralling narrative penned
by:Mr. Consul PARKES, in which that ever vigilant
officer of the Crown describes to -her MAJESTY'S
Ambassador the particulars of his latest interview
'With those high and mighty white-buttoned man-
darins who now assume in earnest to be the Emperor
HEIN
FUN G's Commissioners. Finally, it is a formal
and well-considered communication, epitomising
the course of recent occurrences—a condensed but
comprehensive narrative of events addressed to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL by the Earl of ELGIN and
KINCARDINE, and -written throughout with what
we may term that admirably laconic particularity
which is at first the despair of the preeis-writer,
and at last the second
nßtnro, or rather the utter-
au ce of the second nature of the skilled diplomatist',
In anticipation of the'papers of this morning we laid
the majority of these same really remarkable and
most interesting despatches before our readers in
the latest edition of The Sun of last eveninr,. A
sprinkling of additional despatches, of
1111110 r
importance, will be found in our impression of
to-day, bringing down'the history of the war in
China to the last 'moment in regard to which any
reliable information has reached us by the mails
but just arrived.

Yesterday, we gave so carefully detailed an
epitome of the progress of events, from day to day,
from the starting of our advanced guard on the
9th of September, upon the recommencement of
hostilities, down to the lawless seiz are (as hostages)
of Mr. PARKES and his companions, and to the
second routing of the Chinese army in pitched
battle by the allied Commanders•in-Chief—that
to-clay we shall content ourselves with reverting
cursorily to the more recent accounts supplied by
the graphic pens of those two official civilians
who have been brought into direct personal com-
munication at Tung-chow, with the newly nomi-
nated and duly authorised Plenipotentiaries of