The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.

Tins EVENING, at 7. GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to
8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher,
Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames
Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
Turn EVENING, at 7.0, TILE WIDoW HUNT. Messrs. Bel-
ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD ON' THE CLOTH
OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, Tames, Fenton; Mesdames Maria
Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To
conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS

QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston.
THIS Evinnse, at 7, THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs.
Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery
Mesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE
GNOME KING. Mr. Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER.

THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC.
THIS EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER &CRASHER :Messrs Atkins,
Vaughan. G. Vincent, &e.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield.
After Which. at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. II
No ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and IT.
Wigan; Mesdames Furtado. Lennox Grey, and Caulfield

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss If_ Oliver.
TH*3 EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING cup. Mr. Dewar, Miss
M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF
‘iIC II ARD or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar
Mr. Danvers: Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con-
,dude with THE ULOCIOIAKER'S HAT.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton•'.
THIS EVENING, TAME CATS: 3lessrg. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White,
Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO
SPEAKS FIRST ! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; bliss C.
Addison.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, 3L. Clifton, and THE
MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL AL !lAMB ICA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4,
Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at S. ls. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS Re,,ert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex
cept Sundays). Admission, 'ls.; °on hlendays, 6d.; Children
under twelve, 6d.

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LO2,'DON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869.

Peace prospects are in the ascendant with the
commencement of the New Year. On the jou
r
de l'An the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., when receiv-
ing at the Palace of the Tuileries the Diplomatic
Body, headed by the Papal Nuncio in his capacity
as the spokesman (by right of precedence) of the
ed to have
assembled ambassadors, is report
uttered
words calculated for once, we should presume, to
tranquilise the solicitude for a considerable time past
more or less chronic throughout Europe in re-
gard to the alternative of War or Peace in
the immediate future. "I receive," said his Ma-
jesty, " with pleasure your congratulations, and I
am glad to testify to the conciliatory spirit which
animates the different foreign Powers, and which
allows difficulties when they arise to be removed."
Evidently an allusion, those last words, to the pro-
spective assembling of the Conference at Paris
on the Turko-Greek difficulty--a Conference which
it is now anticipated may possibly commence its sit-
tings at as early a date as either the 7th or
Bth inst., if the necessary preliminaries can, with
sufficient rapidity, be arranged within so brief an
interval as less than a week. " I hope," added the
EMPEROR, " that the year 1869, like 1868, will re-
move alarms and consolidate peace, which is so ne-
cessary to the civilised world." Hitherto, whatever
NAPOLEON 111. has uttered in the way of reassurance
to Europe has been tortuously twisted into a mean-
ing the very opposite of what his words, superficially
regarded, would seem by necessity to have implied.
Here, however, there would really appear to be no
room for misapprehension. There is here, in these
wo sentences, not one syllable of an ambiguous cha-
There is nothing sinister in these plain
and simple assurances. The words admit of
no double meaning. They are as plain—
we will not say— as a pikestaff, for th:,
mere phrase might sound like one having an
inappropi lately warlike significance. They are as
plain as an open, ungloved hand held out in cord'al
friendship. And the EMPEROR can afford—whatever
may be thought or said to the contrary by his depre-
ciatory, whatever evil construction may be put upon
evidences of smouldering disaffection here and there,
as in the instance of M. ROCHEFORT and his Lanterne
—the EMPEROR can afford to be the one among
all the Sovereigns of Europe, to make these con-

racter.