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

LI O'V A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE...-
1% Le.ppe and Manawer, Mr. A. Ffarris.

TITTS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor lluzo's cele-
brated Play of RUY IILAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ;
when Hr. Fechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown,
will make his 2 Ithaprearance on the H:no-lish stage, supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Ittorland, 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.
Sore Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, THE PE PS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. Georze Loder. Principal characters by Nit'
IT. Neville, Mr. John House, Mr. .1. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, Missfludspeth, 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 sEuttr OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Benvy Neville, Mr. .Tohn Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vinimr, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford,
Mr. T. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a gnarter to 7, on account of the length of
the entertainments.

A 1) gT,P}TI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nig.hts of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dioyi Boucicault, who will aear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Bewm."
THIS EVENING. TTIE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W.
Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and rs.
After which, THE. COLLEEN BAWN. D. Roncicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mr 3. Chatterley.
To conclude with ICI ON rARLE FRANCAIS.
MeSST.I. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington,' Mrs. Chatterley,
3liss Kelly, itc.
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,'Xl.
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 Mallft,Zer, Mr. Was. BATTY.
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Notice.—ln consequence of the vast prepar.ation 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.
Tins Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by 1+:. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN noon; or, the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag- Hounds, &c,
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To he succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madgme Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled performers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Cor cludino• with a laughable Farce.
Doors open at half-past Et, performance commence at Y.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

T H E CATTLE SHOW
AND
CANTERBURY HALL.
C. MORTON beffs to inform visitors to London that the
above HALL, with its Magnificent Galleryof Modern Paint-
ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS

PROM
BELLINI'S NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES.
MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARIA
MISS TYR REL MISS WILKINSON
Mr. -HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor MT. JONGIIMANS.
The COMIC Depai tment comprises Messrs. A. B. nollinfra-
worth, W. T. Crltchfleld, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation sow, "THE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters.

WEATHER,—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 29, 1560

THEAMOMETEII, IN THE SHADE.

44--highest since noon yesterday.
39--lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.82.
WlND—Easterly; rather fresh, with dull sirrocco weather,
THREE 0' CLOCX.—WIND—South-East, with rain.

THOU WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THU DA 2h. Sm.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m,
To-moßitow.-111orning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon4 3h. 2m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1880.

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 official percolator, the
Gazette—now it is a long "yarn" (capitally well
written) from the hand of THOMAS WADE, the
Chinese Secretary—now a little roughly pencilled
note from General Sir HOPE GRANT, 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 FIJNG'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 precis-writer,
and at last the second nature, or rather the utter-
ance 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
mo st interesting despatches before our readers in
the, latest edition of The Sun of last evening. A
sprinkling of additional despatches, of minor
im• portance, will be found in our impression of
to- day, bringing down the history of the war in
China to the last moment in reg,ard to which any
reliable information has reached us by the mails
but f•ast arrived.
!sterday, we gave so carefully detailed an
epit( )me 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 seizure (as hostages)
of Mr. PARKES and his companions, and to the
second routing of the Chinese army in pitched
battle by the alli it Commanders-in-Chief—that
to-day we shall content ourselves with reverting
cursorily to the mo re recent accounts supplied by
the graphic pens of those two official civilians
who have been brought into direct personal com-
munication' at Trxg-chow, with the newly nomi-
nated and duly authorised Plenipotentiaries of