The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-23 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

RO YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee. Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engaement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ;' and the Delapierre Family.
These highly-talented Children will appear every night.
The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of MONET. Messrs. Geo.
Melville, Ryder, Frank Mathews, Widdicomb, H. Bland, 11.
Saker, Garden, Graham ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Clifford,
and Mrs Charles Young
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H.
J. Byron, called JACK T 1114: GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Art'Aur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

W THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI
Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Second Week of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan.

THIS EVENING, to commence with THE BENGAL
TIGER. Messrs. Alfred Wigan, J. L. Toole, Eburne,
Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs, Billington.
After which (by desire, at eight o'c.ock), and for this
night only, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Benjamin
Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith,
Billington, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
Ring-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
T ETIS RVRNING the performances will commence with
MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, FIRST AFT EuTIONS. Messrs. H. T.
Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham.

Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles
Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza
Arden, C. Ranoe, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet.

To conclude with I WILL, IF YOU WILL.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
. T HIS EVENING,
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

Donna Lucrezia
Manic Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghm ans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critellileld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 111111 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 23, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM
44—highest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.23 ; rising.
WIND, South-Westerly ; moderato, with fine weather.
Sharp frost in the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 6m.—Afternoon, 3h. 21m.
To-uORROW.-Morning, 3h. 34m.—Afternoon, 3h. 47m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1860.

Hard upon the heels of the Commercial Treaty
between France and England, comes A New Con•
vention between the Allied Governments ! A Con-
vention relative to the prizes that may result from
the approaching expedition against the Chinese !
This certainly looks as if the Allies were in earnest
about bringing the Celestials to speedy and serious
account for their treacherous and even infamous
ambuscade behind the Peiho fortifications. The
Convention, it is true, is not yet actually signed ;
but it is understood to be on the eve of receiving in
due sequence signatures and ratifications. This
being the case, there is (to say the very least of it)
a minor degree of probabilty that the expedition
will be paralysed in its operations when once it
approaches those remote shores from which the
blood of our entrapped and butchered countrymen
cries loudly for retribution. It was not unreason-
ably dreaded, under the circumstances, that the
expedition to China might partake more of the
character of a mere idle demonstration. The Earl of
ELGIN'S nomination once more to the post of Pleni-
potentiary augured well, of course, in itself for the
skill and vigour of our diplomatic proceedings. But
—it could hardly fail to be borne in recollection
that those charming cotton-spinning Utopians of
the Manchester school, the Peace.at-any-pricc-
mongers were latterly becoming strangely and
ominously in the ascendant. Insomuch so, that the
Treaty now awaiting the decision of the House of
Commons is evidence of the amazing fact that
that quondam Diplomatic Fire-eater, Lord PALMER-
STON, has actually gone the length of accrediting
the arch-advocate of the craven doctrines of Peace-
at-any-Price to the Imperial Court of the Tuile-
ries as our smooth-spoken Agent-on-the-Sly, or
Secret Plenipotentiary. However, while these are
literally some of the rather dubious peculiarities of
this singularly questionable " situation"—it would
appear, upon more careful scrutiny, that many of
the old prejudices of those who are involved in
these wonderfully suspicious negotiations are
dropped one after another in the very nick of time
—most conveniently ! Are they not ? Let us see.
There is Mr. COBDEN, for example, currying favour
with the French Protectionists, and actually going
the length of making concessions to them—in the
name of Free Trade ! There is Mr. BRIGHT swal-
lowing a War Budget with a positive relish and a
smacking of the lips—although it necessitates a
tenpenny income-tax, otherwise mulcting the
nation in a time of peace, through the
most odious of all war taxes, to the
tune annually and indefinitely of £10,000,000—
and although it squanders within a single financial
year £30,000,000 upon the naval and military
armaments ! These concessions, of course, on the
party of the Peace-at any-Price men of Manchester
making the due equipoise to the word-eating, the
promise-breaking, the modification of opinions
(" not to put too fine a point upon it") of such men
as the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ! 3lodifications such as the remission,
at last, of the paper duties—the surrender of which
was until yesterday so loudly reprobated—a rc-
mission, however, that must remain merely nomi-
nil, wholly idle and incomplete, until the present
prohibition of French rags into England, be
altogether rescinded! Or still more flagrantly,
let us say, the re-imposition of the Income-
tax at the monstrous rate of 10d. in the £l—by
the very man who predicted its final abroga-