The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclereqs.
After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
Followed by THE LION SLAYER.
To conclude with ANY PORT IN A STORM.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele-
brated Play of RUT BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. t
when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown.
will make his 25thappearance on the English stage, supported
by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose
Lecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath.
To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with
THE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H Neville, Mr. J. Rouse,
Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vining:, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
After which, THE PEPS OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. Georize Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, MissHudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner,' Miss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
Commence at 7.

A D ELPHT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
rx• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, 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 oolgar, Kiss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billlngton.
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After which, TUE COLLEEN SAWN. D. Bimetal'lt, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATE CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-eillce open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes.'ll.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, 6d. ; Amphitheatre, '.s ; Gallery, 6d:
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Slaith.,

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of BOVEN iIoOD.
Last Six Nights.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
Acts, by K. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or, the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard. • _ _ _ _ _ _

To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, &e., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors open at half-pest 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

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

Norma
........ „ ~.......... Miss RUSSELL.
Adaleisa .................... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
Alter which (for this week only) the ETHIOPIA WS, consist-
ing- of Seventeen Performers of Vocal and instrumental
Music, Comic and Sentimental, with NeffrrJ Delineations,
Anecdotes, &c. Principal Negro Artis+,es, Messrs. Joe
Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and "Charley F•x.
Musical Director, Mr. -F. JONGHMANS.
Balcony, is, GcL

TRH WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, Nov. 24, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
44—highest since soon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.
BA.noltzTnn-29.80.
WlND—North-Easterly; light, with cold hazy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 11h. Om.—Afternoon, 11h. 27m
To-monnow.-Morning, —h. —m.—Afternoon, 12h. Om.

"News of battle ! News of battle !"—and from
China! " Imperfectly transmitted" though the
telegram is acknowledged to be at the Foreign
Office, the telegram received there last night from
Suez via Alexandria and Malta, it is sufficiently
explicit, and also, be it said, sufficiently unpre-
tentious in its character to be accepted as reliable.
It comes to us on the authority of the China Mail,
and under date the Ist of October. The last
accounts, it will be remembered by reason of their
seeming confusion, not to say contradiction at the
first blush, brought matters down—somehow or
other, comprehensibly or not—to the 26th of Sep-
tember. So that the intelligence now received
only affects to relate what has occurred, out there
at the seat of war, within less than a week, in fact
only five days afterwards. By that first of Oc-
tober then hostilities had recommenced in earnest.
That we can very well believe even upon
the assurance of a telegram " imperfectly
transmitted." It is added by the China
Mail, published at Hong Kong, that not only had
hostilities recommenced, but that two skirmishes
had been fought with the Tartar cavalry, and that
so far were our troops from having there, in
the ordinary acceptation of the phrase, " caught a
Tartar," that the Tartars themselves had been
resolutely repulsed. The Allied forces, it is further
remarked by the telegram, are, according to those.
lit advises, in hostile position before Pekin—not
near Pekin observe, but actually at its very walls,
ready for the assault, prepared for all emeagencies,
for its capture or its capitulation. Unaccustomed
thus to have occasion to sleal with a foreign enemy
in arms before the very gates of its capital, the Im-
perial Government of China had seemingly failed as
yet in any
-way to realise the perils and difficul-
ties of its situation
waen thus threatened. Inso-
much that while We
areinformed that negotia-
tions had been again,
opened by the Chinese, it is
expressly added by the telegram that these nego-
tiations, or rather, we presume, those attempts at
negotiations had been commenced
in
a manner in
no way supplicatory ! This is a reminder to
us,aienad-
a very timely reminder, that the period
of half n
sures in dealing with tmheCthinnoew be has
carried to
Chinese gone by
altogether. Conviction us
their minds that the Allied powers of Western
Europe are no longer to be trifled with diploma-
tically with impunity. Especially is it advisable
that this conviction should be carried for once and
for all home to the minds of the Chinese and
their Government with reference to our-
selves. England has so much at stake in
those seas, she has already a commerce so very
considerable and important with China, particu-
larly with the southern coasts of that great Empire,
and that same commerce is giving auguries every
ylbal r of such rapid and remarkable development,
that it is essential to our interests to put an end
definitively to the preposterous notions hitherto
manifestly entertained at Pekin that nothing
serious can ever come of it to the Chinese be the
English ever so much insulted, deceived, and out-
raged. We have had every provocation to this
war, whatever may be thought by the captious in

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 24, 1860.