The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7,

Notice.—The Grand Day performances, at Two o'clock, will
take place on Saturday, Jan. 21 and 2S, and Saturday, Feb. 4
and 11.
Mr. Cooke respectfully intimates his Farewell Benefit will
take place on Monday. Jan. 30.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.
And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimie), W. T. Critchfield, 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 lIEU R'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 open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 17, 1860.
THERMOMETER., IN THE SHADE.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.

BATIOMETEII 30.10.
WIND, Westerly ; light, with foggy damp cold weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tara DAY.—Morning, Sh. 29m.—Afternoon, Oh. sm.
To-moßnow.-Morning, Oh. 44m.—Afternoon, 10h. 24m.

•
,r 4

,-44 A

12_ • 1.1

•

THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 17, 1860.

If we may judge from the acconnts coming to
us from between Ceuta and Tetuan via Madrid,
the Spaniards have been everywhere victorious in
their contest with the barbarian soldiers of Mo-
rocco. Yet the lists of the killed and wounded
tell terribly against them—and besides this, they
have scarcely gained any ground beyond the im-
mediate vicinity of Ceuta—while they have de-
cidedly not yet brought that long-coveted Tetuan
into their possession.
And while these facts are altogether undeniable,
the Spaniards are every day becoming more and
more demonstrative in their expressions of exulta-
tion. As though the objects of the war were
already virtually if not actually accomplished. As
though the Moors were virtually at their mercy—
as though the army of Morocco were routed, or
disbandeded, or, at the least, disorganised—.as
though the Government of Morocco were prostrate
and helpless at the feet of O'DONNELL and his
compatriots. Everything Moorish is, just now,
moreover, an object of ridicule, scorn, and derision,
among both the armed and unarmed subjects of
Queen ISABELLA. The old-fashioned discipline of the
Moorish soldiery is only just a trifle less ludicrous
than the dirty-white, gauzy-light Moorish costume
or than the apparentircumbrous swords and fire-arms
of the Moorish warri-ors ! Although mere vulgar
cunning would haw suggested the advisability of
rather exaggerating; than depreciating the charac-
ter of the enemy $o be vanquished! Although, in
point of fact, the thin and loosely flowing robes of
the Moor enable hi:m the better to endure the intense
heat of his Nort7l African climate ! Although so
very formidable a catalogue of the Spaniards,
already slain- 'in this " little'war, " attea with fright-
ful distinetT ass the deadly aim and wondrous
efficiency of those despised Moorish marksmen !
Although in reference to the mere warlike
cutlery of the Moors, we read from the records
of unprejr .diced eye-witnesses appalling descrip-
tions writ _en by them from the actual seat of
war, acre rc ling to which the Spanish officers and sol-
diers wh, ) I tare escaped with their lives from those
deadly sk. 7.rtr ishes with the Moorish swordsmen, re-
turned onl. y covered with ghastly wounds inflicted
by the hag, d of the Moors, armed with their keen-
edged scym et. trs. And, meanwhile, let us again re-
member that j -here still, up to the moment of the last
despatches fly m Morocco, there still, at that actual
seat of war, t e Spaniards are yet fighting but a
little beyond a e immediate vicinity of Ceuta—that
tggling towardsTetuan—that they
they are yet strt
fined Tetuan, that they ;have not
have not yet
gt
yet vanquished the foe they affect so to de-
sPise• And 'tese facts are removed far