The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS
EVENING will be presented the opera of LURLINE ;
characters by Messrs. H. Wharton, H. Core, G. Kelley, and
W. Harrison ; Miss Lelibr, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa
Pyne.—Cenductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Eight.
Doors open at lief-past Seven.
In consequence of the numerous applications from the
Patrons of the Royal English Opera, on Monday, October 15,
the performances will commence at half-past seven, doors
opening at seven. This arrangement will continue up to
Christmas.

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TURA TRE-RO Y AL, HAYMARKET.
LeScief, Mr. J. B. Bukstcne.
THIS EVENING the nertortnn.nces will commence with
the 1161 W comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe
chippenciale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy sedg.
wick, Miss Florence Hayden, and Mrs. Wilkins.
Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND
BE NUTTY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren,
•end John Brougnam ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins,
And Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
Commence at 7.1

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, MAGIC TOYS : Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompson.

After which, a coinedy by Dion Bourcicalt, Esq., entitled
THE IRISH HEIRESS. Messrs. George Vining 11. Neville
(his first appearance in Loudon), John Rouse, -Villiers, T.
Lyon, 11. Butler, Miss Kate Saville, Miss M. Hatton, and
Miss Goughenheim, the talented Comedienne, of the princi-
pal Theatres in America (her first appearance in England.
To conclude with the romantic drama of THE ABBE
VAUDREUIL, in which the celebrated Dancers, the Misses
Collinson, will make the r first appearance in London. The
Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste.

ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq.,
"The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agmes Robertson every even-
THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss IV oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss W-oolgar, C.
Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC BATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 ti
No charge for booking.ll 5.
Private boxes, £2 28. 1 • Family Boxes,".o.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. •
pit Stalls, 20.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
This Evening*(first time) a new Spectacle, entitled ROBIN
HOOD ; or, the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Allan-a-Dale,
Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard.

To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
Of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
BOX-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WElrr.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGUMANS.

Balcony, is ..... .. —.Hall. 6d.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ocrr. 7, 1860,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

63—this day at noon.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
BAnomETER-30.28 ; falling.
WlND—Westerly ; rather fresh, with dull weather in the
morning-, but fine in the afternoon.
OCT. 8.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
62—this day at noon.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER-30.12.
WlND—North-Westerly ; fresh and cool, with fine dry
weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRm DlY.—Morning, 6h. 38m.—Afternoon, 7h. 11m.
To-moßtiow.-Morning, 7h. 52m.—Afternoon, Bh. 36m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 8, 1860.

If we Londoners are not emulating our neigh-
bours the Parisians to the full by the magnitude
and the magnificence of our metropolitan improve-
ments, we are at any rate gradually advancing to a
better state of things both as regards the external
appearance of the capital and the general convenience
of its inhabitants,

Paris has been so far more readily improvable than
London, inasmuch as the former capital covers an
area of comparative insignificance. It being, in fact,
just one-third smaller than its gigantic neighbour—
Paris containing scarcely one million and London
close upon three millions of inhabitants. Where-
fore, if Paris rejoices in the possession of from
twenty to thirty bridges—London, with less
than ten, can with these few altogether
defy any attempt at comparison. Supposing our
noble river to be drained dry like the Niger, or
turned from its course like the Euphrates, three
or four Seines might be turned into its channel
without the waterside streets fearing the risk of
inundation. The fortifications of the capital of
France, again, may form a symmetrical frame-
work to that picture of a fair city. Yet London,
straggling off confusedly into ignoble suburbs, to
Hoxton and Walworth, to Bow and Horsleydown,
can afford to look " upon that picture and on
this," without any momentary feeling of envy
at the contrast. The Parisian boulevards are
certainly a series of frameworks that might more
reasonably be coveted by the metropolis of the
British Empire—but if London is without those
unquestionably great adornments, Paris is as glar-
ingly devoid of the beauty and salubrity arising
from our green and sylvan parks—those " lungs of
London," as they. are more happily than gracefully
designated—Hyde-park, Green-park, Regent's-
park, Victoria-park, Kensington-gardens, and
the park at Battersea! Granted that Paris puts
to shame our metropolitan palaces (St. Tames's,
Buckingham) and with them our wretchedly, un-
sightly, and inconvenient National Gallery, with
the superb and truly palatial pile of the gorgeous
louvre and the old imperial Tuileries ! True that
the ridiculously
so-called "finest site in Europe,"
Trafalgar-square, with its squirts for fountains, its
vacant spaces
and unused pedestals, is rendered
little less than
contemptible by comparison with
that 'wondrous central point of Paris, the
Place de la Concorde,
obelisk flankedwith its Egyptian
by elaborated jets of
water worthy of the name of Fountains—that
that noblest Place in the fairest of all the ornate
capitals of the European Continent, from which
(standing with your back to the lovely' gardens of
the Tuileries, seen through the gilded grille and
the outer line of shrubs and statuary) you behold
to the left the stately structure of the Chamber of
Deputies, to the right the exquisite proportions of
the classic Grecian temple of the Madeleine,
and extending straight onward before you
down the long and eminently beautiful and
umbrageous vista of the Champ Elysees, a perspec-
tive completed majestically at its extremity by the
famous Arc de la Triomphe, recounting, in basreliefs,
the wondrous feats of arms of NAPOLEON le Grand.
Acknowledging all this, and a great deal more into
the bargain—such, for example, as that Chelsea
Hospital is not to be compared in aspect to the
Invalides, or, as that neither the Duke of York's
Column, or the Nelson Testimonial, or the Old
London
Monument on Fish-street Hill, can
be contrasted
without inevitable depreciation with
Napoleouian
improvement upon the Trojan pillar in
the Place Vendome, Admitting, in these and vari-