The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-03 00:00:00

FRENCH P LAYS.- BIJOU THEATRE.-
At HER MAJESTY'S THE.,-TRE, Haymarket,
(Grand Entrance.)
Directeur—)l. Talexy.
THIS EVENING,
LE ROMAN D'UN .TEUNE 1103IME PAUVRE. Mar-
guerite, Madame DOCHE.
Commence at 8 o'clock.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees.
The Production of Balfe's new grand legendary opera will
take place on THURSDAY, December G, BIANCA, THE
BRAVO'S BRIDE. Supported by Miss Louisa Pyne, Nils%
Thirlwall ; Mr. A. Lawrence, Mr. A. St. Alhyn, Mr. H.
Corti, Mr. J. Wharton, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Lyall, and Mr.
Wm. Harrison, Conductor, Mr. A. Mfllon.—Orchestra of
Eighty Performers ; Chorus of Fifty Voices. Doors open at
7 ; commence at half-past 7.

OY AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
!' t• GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
pYNE and Mr. W. HA RRISON, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENLNG, THE AMBUSCADE.
The new Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE,
Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corri.
To conclude with THE NIGHT DANCERS. Messrs
H. Haigh, H. Corri, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall • Madame
Palmieri. Miss Albertazzi, Miss Leffl3r, Miss Thirlwall, and
Mies Iluddart.

Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at lief-past.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
,rFf T R EVENING the nertorTsances will commetiee with
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
After which, BOX AND COX.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manatrer, Mr. A. Farris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by RITY T;LAS. Supported by Mr. Pechter,
Messrs. W.'7 Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Leclereq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
So:e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING-, THE PEPS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. G-eorEfe LOder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse,
Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, Misslludspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, MISS
Dounlas,l%liss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
Alter which. a new Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. ForreMster,
J. Rulers,
Butler. Butler. and John Drew (his 7th appearance) ; rs.
Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE; or
TIIE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters bY Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. 11. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vinincr, 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.

N.E.'I2V THEATRE-ROYAII.
DEL p-a-t,
soir Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Boticicault, who will appear
every evening*
,in the highly successful Drama of " The
Colleen Bawn.
THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mfrs. Billington.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ttoneleault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with ICI ON • PARLE FRANCAIS.
Messrs. J, L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington,: Mrs. Chatteriey,
Miss K. Kelly, &c.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Xi.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Zs. •
Pit Stalls, 26.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d:
Aeura Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WV. BATTY.
This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TAE LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., Including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Concluding with a popular Farce.
Doors open at half-past 6, pertormanee commence at 7.
Box-office open daily trom 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

THE CATTLE SHOW
AND
CANTERBURY HALL.
C. MORTON brsgs to inform visitors to London that the
above HALT, with its Magnificent Gallery of Modern Paint-
ino-s, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINI'S NORMA AND 1' LOTOW'S MARTIIA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES,
MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARTA
MISS TYR, RE L MISS WILKINSON
Mr. HENRY 'HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONGIIMANS.
The Comic Department comnri SOS Messrs. A. B. Bollines-
worth, W. T. Critchflelfl, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox. and E. Marshall, in his transformation song-, "THE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 2, 1560.

THEAMOMETED, IN THE SHADB.

52—highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
46 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.68.
NVIND—Sonth -E st erly ; rather fresh, with dull rainy
weather in the morning. Afternoon, fine.

DEC. 3.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADB.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.45; falling rather fast.
WlND—South-Easterly ; light, with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 43m.—Afternoon, sh. 4m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.

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LONI,ON, MONDAY, DEC. 3,18 M.
Is it a dream ? That France is really and truly
to apply Free-trade principles to her commerce ?
That the French Chambers are to enjoy liberty of
speech, and that freedom of the press (so far, at least,
as relates to the reporting of the debates occurring in
those Chambers is concerned) is to be engrafted
upon French journalism? I.Vo,rl2nally, all these
good things are assured already to France and to
Frenchmen ! In name they are—but—are they in
reality ? " Aye, there's the rub !" We can only
bide our time and see. We can only hope, so far
as hope is in any way possible. Consoling our-
selves as sympathising advocates and cnjoyers of
Free-trade, a Free Press, and Free Speaking ; con-
soling ourselves, even at the worst, with the reflec-
tion that it is at least something to have before us
the spectacle of a Despotic Government so far con-
ceding to the liberality of the age in which we are
all living, as at any rate to e..ift.-ct the concession of
these three Priceless boons, each in turn to be
reg,arded
a palladium of Constitutional Go-

vernnaent.
The affectation at least of these concessions we
have been witnessing of late across the Channel as
conspicuous among the later acts of NAPOLEON 111.
Theme in France, during 18GO, the Imperial Ruler
has been according to the People, one after another,
the " shew" or eidolon
of each of those wondrous
guarantees (already enumerated) of social, and
political, and commercial freedom. Upon the latest
of these apparent concessions we have _
in these
columns but very recently commented. It
yet
remains to be seen whether they will or will not
con stitute the insertion of the small end of a wedge
to lye afterwards driven home little by :tittle, until
France shall at last find herself again possessed
simizkaneously of the advantages of a Free Press
and v f Parliamentary Government. The Ministers
of the Crown in France will still, it is true, be no-
minat ?.d solely and exclusively by the will of the
Sovimt!ign. They will yet continue to give
place, collectively or individually, to other
Ministers of the Crown—their successors--
at the whim or pleasure of their Imperial Master.
But —hencefor,:h the so-called representatives of

the nation assemi:\ led together in the two Chambers
of t::e Legislature, vjili have the power to discuss

the policy of those s Ntionary or changing achninis-
trat rs ; and henceft )rti), too, France has the pro-
mise likewise that tl 5 3 debates thus taking place in
the Imperial Legisl. t tore upon the Imperial Policy
will be printed in tl L e form of a sort of an official
c ut-and-dried epitor Clit e day by day in the public