The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERRY
WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Phelps.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows,
Miss C. Leclercq, &a.
Commence at 7.

A„NI,PHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster.
Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, "The Flowers
of the Forest."
Ninth week of the popular American Actress, Miss Julia Daly
Tti s VlOl LNG, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billinglon, Stuart, Eburne,
C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs.
Billingtoil, Miss Laidlaw.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billing,ton, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley.
Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss.
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Positively the last appearance but One of M. LECLERE.
THIS EVENING,
L'rNVITATION A LA. TALSE : Maurice, by M. Paul
Devaux.
LES NOCES DE CLEOPATRE. Madlle. Marie Basta
and M. Leclere.
Orchestra Stalls, 7a; M. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ;
Gallery, Is.
Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Commence at 8.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
New Engagement, for nine nights previous to his departure
for the Continent, of the Greatest Rope Dancer in the World,
HERR CHRISTOFF, and the popular French Clown, MoNs.
L'EPINE. MADLLE. LEONTINE received with enthusiastic
applause. Me superb Hippo-drama is a decided success.
On Monday, June 25, 1860, and during the week, the En-
tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical
Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or
the AmazoN CRUSADERS." To be followed by an incom-
parable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of
the Arena, supported by the most talented Artistes in Europe,
including Madlle. LEONTINE. To conclude with a Popular
Farce.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W.

CONCERTS.-

IANTI4',RBURY HALL
• J THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.

'first Time in this country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite ..... Miss Russell.
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, M
rtacbeth, and numerous other
Enteainments.
Balcony, ls, Hall, 6d.
Comic, Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimie), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA T itOUPE, their first appearance
since 18.52, consisting of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, JUNE 30, 160.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.27 ; a sudden rise of nearly half an inch.
WlND—North-Easterly ; light, with unsettled weather;
rain in the night and this morning; now fine, but cloudy.

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE,
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 24m.—Afternoon, —h. —m,
To-moßnow.-Morning. 12h. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. 28m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1880

The Conservative Banquet appears to have passed
off with great good humour yesterday. It took place
in Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the scene last year
of a very different political demonstration. Then,
the assemblage had not an atom of conviviality
about it. On the contrary, it was described by those
inimical to it as almost amounting to a conspiracy.
Insomuch that one might nearly have been led to
suppose that, kad there been anything at all of a
festive character within those closed doors, it must
have resembled somewhat the ghastly hobnobbing
over a bowl of blood recorded by SALLUST in regard
to CATALINE and his Accomplices, or like the
merry-making in the blind man's cellar, during
the Gordon riots, related by Boz in reference to the
' prentice followers of the thin-legged SIM TAP-
PERTIT. There was, at any rate, this justification
of the charge of a political conspiracy directed
twelvemonths back against the Liberal gathering in
Willis's Rooms, that almost immediately afterwards
the then Opposition ousted their opponents from
office and became, in the form of another Coalition,
the Government. From an examination of the pro-
ceedings of yesterday in the same locality, it would
be hard indeed to predict any similar conse-
quences. The ConservativeF, so far from evincing,
like their foes, any sober, serious earnestness—
would seem to have met in the purest vein of plea-
santry. And although among the after-dinner
speakers there were numbered three of the ex-
Cabinet Ministers, and another oratorical great gun
no less formidable than the late Attorney-General
for Ireland—the speeches were made up for the
most part of gay jests directed against the winning
side, or at any rate against the side that is " in,'
and complimentary allusions to the absent leaders
of Conservatism. Lord JOHN MANNERS, although
entrusted with the toast of " The Church and
State," thought it not unbefitting even that
solemn theme to close his remarks upon it
with a scrap of Tory doggrel. General PEEL—
commenting upon the extravagant estimate re-
cently given by our chief morning contemporary
as to the annual cost of each of England's soldiers--
argued the matter thus drolly. He said, "He had
recently seen it stated that we had only 30,000 men
in this country, and that they cost us £5OO a-piece.
That was one of those ingenious fictions which the
well-known writer of the military articles in the
Times was so apt to indulge in. There was just as
much truth in it as there would be in his offering
to give the fortunate winner of the Derby £5OO for
his saddle and bridle, provided he would throw the
horse into the bargain, and then going and saying
that saddles and bridles cost £5OO a-piece." Sir
J•PNlKlNGTON—referring to the Commercial Treaty
with Prance and England's unadorned Plen:poten-
t arY—could not resist the tempation of reiterating
the jibe cruelly directed against the latter by
another writer in that same contemporary of ours,
to wit, that our " amateur negotiator had been
supremely diddled." A
.-xsto Mr. MEItEWETIIEE., Q.C.
—he forsooth .must come out as an original jester—
indulging his hearers with three distinct puns in
the course of his speech, on proposing the toast of
the House of Commons. Exulting in the first place
prime agitator of the day
that they had made the
feel the truth of the words—" All that's bright
must fade," and secondly, that they had enabled
people to say of that gentleman, coupling his fate
with that of his newspaper—

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" None has fallen so far
Since him miscalled the Morning Star"
And maintaining finally that while " these were
great triumphs for the Conservative party; they
would no doubt be able to increase them if they
would give not a blind, but a faithful, adherence to