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London, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

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EN GLISII OPERA,
COVENT-GA RD EN.
Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Xir.W. Harrison.
rills EVENING, VICTORINE. Atessrs. Santley,
If. Ccr-1, G. Honey, Walworth, eLe. Misses I'arepa
Thirlwall.

Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS
IN BOOTS ; or Harlqin and the Fairy ot the Golden
Palms. Messrs., W. e
Payne, 11. Payne, F. Barnes, Tallien,
infants Lauri, and Miss Ciara Moron.
Doors open at. halt-past 0 -Commence at 10 minutes to 7.

T HEAT RH-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. J. B. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING, 1011 be performed THE STRANGER.
Mrs. Haller, by Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, the new Ilaymarket Comic Christmas Panto-
mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled
Leclercqs.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
Last Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cubas.
THIS EVENING, a new Drama, called A TALE OF
TWO CITIES, by Tom Taylor, Esq., from the story of that
name by Charles Dickens, Esq. Principal characters by Mr.
James Vining, Walter Lacy, Villiers, !louse. Forrester, J.
Johnstone, T. Lyon, Morton, Palmer, White, 11. Butler,
Clifford, and Fredericks • Misses Kate Saville, Stuart, Turner,
Mrs. Campbell, and Madame Celeste.
After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex-
ravag,anza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBEARD, the
LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr.
Marshall—Columbine, Miss liosino.
Comment* at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mona. 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 CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.
After which, a new r,hrist-nas burlesq.ue pantomime, by H.
J. Byron, called JACK TR. GIANT KILLER; or, Harle-
quin King Ar*l.ur ana the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Mi,s Louise Keeley—Harlequin. Mr. Cormack Panta-
oon, Mr. Paulo —Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Nianavr, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Reproduction of TILE DEAD HEART, with all its power-
fill effects.
THIS EVENING, THE. DEAD HEART. Messrs. R.
Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher. P. Pei rd, G. J. Smith,
Bliliklgtou, homer, Miss -Woolgar, K. Kelly.,
After which THE NYMPHS OP THE LURLEYBERG;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Dfnce (men Irma 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. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chel4ea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
Last Week of the Pantomime.

THIS ETEN th, t,c•rtorr•.snoes will comments• with
A BORDER MARRIAGE. Messrs. H. T. Craven` Charles
Young, G. Sponce.-, and Miss tVy ndham.
After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS
NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Casse, drc.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, lid ; Pit, le. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance commences at 7.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.4"l" .

Last Three WeeksofAt..Wl Cooke's Season.
THIS EVENING, for the Farewell Benefit of Mr. Cooke.
Grand Dramatic and Equestrian Illustration of Shakspeare's
RICHARD THE THIRD, or The Death of White Surrey.
Richard, Mr. Ennis ; Richmond, Mr. R. Phillips, New Olym-
pian Scenes in the Circle by the first riders of the day-Mr
W. Cooke's great Menage Act-terminating with the t ques-
trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN
TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler thelluntsman and the God-
dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and
dazzling Transformation Scene.—Harlequin, M. Richarde ;
Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, M. Hilderbrandt ; Pan-
taloon, Mr. P. Abbot -A family of Sprites -Epsom Races by
Living Jockies and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com-
bined.

Commence at 7.

Grand Morning Performances of the Pantomime on Satur-
Feb. 4 and Saturday, Feb. 11, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERT EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAT

QUEEN.
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORA.II.

Comic Vocalists - Messrs. George Hodson (the Irieh Come-
dian and Mimic), W. f. Critchfleld, and E. W. Hackney.
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.

ROSA BON HEllit'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is ope.► from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, J.A.N. 29, 1860.
TUREMOMETEIL, IN TILE SHADE.
45—higheet since noon yesterday.
40---lowost this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

fIAtOMETER-29.65.
WIND, South-Weterly ; light, but very changeable
weather—frost yesterd;iy morning, rain in the evening and
night.

JAN. 30.
THERnOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
4S—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.01—a fall of more than half an inch
since yesterday.
NI). South-Westerly ; light, with dull rainy weather.

HIGH \VATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

'THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 2m.—Afternoon, 6h. 19m.
To-monitow.-Morning, eh. 39m.—Afternoon, 7h. Om.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 30, 1860.

A judicious compromise gives promise of affording
the happiest solution to the San Juan difficulty.
To explain the nature of this compromise, and
especially to enforce the reasonableness of it by so
doing, it becomes necessary to revert to the origi-
nal settlement (as it was supposed) of the boundary
line between British territory in that part of the
world and the United States' possessions. That
settlement (so called) was presumed long ago to
have been defined beyond the possibility of further
dispute or of future misapprehension by the con-
currence of the plenipotentiaries from London and
Washington in selecting theforty-ninthparallelas the
line of demarcation. Following that line, however
carefully, by land and by water, it was found, imme-
diately after its selection as above intimated, that
it involved, if rigidly adhered to, the arbitrary
severance from British rule of a portion of the
Island of Quadra or Vancouver ! A proceeding,
of course, not for ono instant admissible, and
one, in fact, which had never for a moment
upon either side been in contemplation. The
commissioners appointed to carry out formally
the apparently simple arrangements of the Oregon
boundary (thus defined, to all appearance, quite
clearly by the 49th parallel) discovered, as soon
a th 'y reached a certain point of the coastline of
tl e North American continent, that immediately
pp :be minlanil lay that huge Wand of
Ira or Vancouver---involving, as we have
tti I, by the accident of its geographical situa-
tion relatively to the 49th parrallel, this
unlocked for and wholely unintended disintegration
of British territory. It became obvious instantly,
therefore, to both English and American Commis-
sioners, that the 49th parallel could not in reason
be adhered to undeviatingly. It was resolved,
consequently—and here again the carrying out of
the decision appeared to give promise of proving
the easiest thing in the
world—it was decided that
the boundary line should so far forsake the rigid
right-onward sweep of the forty-ninth
parallel,
that it should be carried through lnid-channelllbel,
be-
tween the south-eastern coasts of Vancouvers'
Island
and the north western corner of the United totes'
territory upon the North American mainland !
Than this apparently—nothing easier. But—only
this of course upon the supposition that the channel
was clear of obstructions. The plenipotentiaries
Wire deciding in the dark. When the Commissioners
came to that part of the revised arrangements at
which the boundary line, would swerve for a while
from the -49th parallel, and pass by what SA!I
BLicx would calla circumbendibus in mid chat,

ncl, between the island of Vancouver and the main-
land of Washington-10, and behold! t ere were
" obstructions ;" there came upon them a new and
mote...complicated form of bewilderme t. The re-
vised arrangement spoke of one chain( I—but there
was, on the contrary, when they came to look into
it, a choice of channels. The deflecting line would
have, immediately upon forsaking the guidance of
the 49th parallel, to thread the mazes of a
little archiprelago. It was not as if the
broad straits of Juan de Fuca stretched
unbroken from Fort Langley to the waters of the
Pacific! Before Fort Langley could be reached
from the Pacific the straits of Juan de Fuca branch
into several distinct channels. There was Haro
Sound, to the west of the little group of islands,
consequently nearer to Vancouver. And there
was Rosario Sound, to the east of the group of
islands, and consequently close to the mainland of
Washington. It became a question, therefore,
along which of these two channels, for instance,
the deflected boundary line should be carried.
The Americans, naturally enough, said—By all
means let it be Haro Sound. And no less naturally
the English argued on the contrary—No, let the
channel chosen be that of Rosario ! Both wanted
to have possession of the group of islands. It was
a fair subject for argument ; and though years
have elapsed since then, the conclusion of that
argument has not yet been arrived at.

The islands in mid-channel were avowedly,
confessedly, notoriously upon both sides dis-
puted territory. And so matters remained
until suddenly, lawlessly, upon his own
responsibility, General HARNEY takes forcible
possession of the westernmost island of the
group (the one nearest to Vancouver's Island) takes
insolent possession of it in the name of the United
States Government, but, as it turns out afterwards,
altogether without its authority. The provocation
to the English subjects, but especially to the
English authorities out there, was extreme. It will
for ever redound to their honour that, in spite of this
flagrant outrage, the naval and military commanders
in British Columbia, but especially his Excellency
Governor DOUGLAS, did not under the circumstances
yield to the natural impulse of indignation, and
summarily and by force of arms expel the daring
invaders from San Juan. A single act of retaliative
irritation upon their side might have plunged the
older and the younger portions of the great Anglo-
Saxon race into a war that would really have been
little less, in point of fact, than internecine, from
the simple truth of their intimate consanguinity.
Happily, by reason 9f this noble self-concession on
the part of the British authorities, there is an
end of the fear of any actual conflict
resulting from this San Juan Difficulty. The
difficulty itself appears to be in a fair way
towards its final dissipation. There is the compro-
mise to which we have already made allusion, and
which is simply this—that instead of carrying the
deflected boundary line in mid channel along either
Haro Sound or Rosario Sound, the disputants
should select another and an intermediate course,
following the track of a third channel, the channel
separating San Juan from the rest of the little
archipwlego ! By this arrangement San Juan would
remain to the British, and the British would yield the
rest of the little group of islands to the United States.
According to this plan the larger share of advan-
tages—three fourths of the Archipielago—would
fall to the American Republic—but in compensa-
tion for this it is proposed that this reasonable com-
promise should be completed by the British not only
retaining San Juan but with San Juan recovering a
portion of the headland at present severed by the
49th parallel. The reasonableness of this projected
" splitting of the difference" may be recognised
upon the instant by one glance at Mr. WYLD'S
most excellent map of this particular disputed
point and of the surrounding British and United
States' possessions.

Sir FITZROY KELLY is working earnestly on his
own plan to put down bribery. A very high news"-
paper authority has smiled at his simplicity. We
do not join in the smile ; the bill proposed bears on
the face of it the stamp of honesty ; we know of no
reason for suspecting the sincerity of the learned
gentleman, and we- cordially thank any one who
thinks it of more consequence to suppress bribery
than to spare the feelings of the candidate and agent
class. Sir FITZROY KELLY'S bill has at least this
great merit, that its severest penalties are directed

against theßribers—the innocent and virtuous ;en-

tlenien who pay or subscribe their thousands and
five hundreds towards the expenses of an election,
and the equally innocent agents who disburse large

sums to inferior agents, or election tools, without
asking, or wishing, for any account of the way in
which these subordinates have spent their money.
In illustrating his proposed bill Sir FITZROY KELLY
refers to the cases investigated before the commis-
sions; and, admitting it to be possible, though
hardly likely, that even the tools, who bought the
erectors, would incur the penalties of his bill, he is
confident that the two or three gentlemen concerned,
including the candidate, would never have
hazarded the infamy and the penalty of perjury,
with the additional penalties of disability to hold any
office under the Crown, any municipal office, or to
be a member of Parliament, or even an elector.
We confess we admire the courage which proposes
well-deserved, severe, and ignominious penalties
for gentlemen rogues—and if that be not the befit-
ting epithet for gentlemen who debauch poor and
needy electors, we know not whom it does fit.
Sir FITZROY KELLY'S plan is similar to on•
which he proposed before—one which the House of
Commons emasculated—for which offence we, at
the time, did not fail to give the House its due;
also to predict, what events have proved to be truf,,
that the " Corruption Prevention Act" of tho House
would prove, as it was intended to prove, a failure.
Sir W. HAYTER, one of the gentlemen whom Sir
FITZROY'S bill would have deterred or transported,
avowed that he knew the Act to be of so little con-
sequence that he had forgotten it from the day it
passed ! The revived Bill of the hon. member for
East Suffolk proposes—

Firstly. To create areefflcient election auditor—
one through whom all payments for expenses atten-
dant on elections must be made, and who shall
have power to disallow improper charges.
Secondly. That every person on becoming a can-
didate shall make a stringent declaration, under
the penalty of perjury, that he has not
paid, nor will pay, authorise or sanction, directly
or indirectly, any sum of money for election pur-
poses, except through the election auditor.
Thirdly. All other persons directly or indirectly
contributing money to an election are to be liable
to all the penalties of the Act, unless the money be
paid through the auditor.
Fourthly: The agents who receive money from the
auditor must be named by the candidate, and must
render to the auditor detailed accounts—on oath.

There is, no doubt, a redundance of swearing
here. It is the part of the precent day to abolish
oaths, not to increase them. Solemn declarations
are all that is needed ; the ignominious penalties on
violating them are quite sufficient. Indeed, even
the declaration is somewhat superfluous. It-weiv,
perhaps, quite enough to appoint a legal agent and
auditor, to enact that payments, except to and