The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

LPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
A DE
f-1 Sole Proprietor and Mssiager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicanit, Esq.,
"The Colleen Dawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing. T
THIS ETENING; HE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Smith. D. Fisher. C. Selby, Miss oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.
After which. THE CO LLEEN BAWN. Bourcicalt, D.
Falconer, Stephenson, C. . J. Smith, Ruomer.
Fisher, Billington.
Miss Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billington, and
Miss Agnes Robertson,
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
x-effice open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes,-£l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery,
Acting Manager—Ml. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
-` -1- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
Spectacle of Rolm( Hoar.
First appearance
etco Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome,
and their Troup unequalled pert' rmers, &c., including
the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
This Evening, the highly successful new S
HOOD • pectacle, in
or. Ththe
ree
Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, 43m
Jo,
hn Allan-
Prit-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr.
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of
Europe.
Doors open at half-past 6„ performance commence at 7.
40x-office open daily trom 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

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

Norma .. ••••• • • • • Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa ••••• • • • • • Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers. orEr,anised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGEIMANS.
Balcony, ls , Hall. 6d.

TUB WEATHER.—Srx Orricz, Nov. 1, 1860.
THERNLOMETEB, IN THE SHLDB.

61—this day at noon.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER-30.09.
WIND—North-Easterly; rather fresh, with fine weather,
but cool.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DlY.—Morning, 3h. 2m.—Afternoon, 3h. 18m,
To-monitow.-Morning, 3h. 34m.—Afternoon, 3h. 52m

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 1860,

Late last night the Government received intel•
ligence that the Peiho forts were taken on the 21s1
of August, and that the British and French ambas.
sadors were at Tien-tsin on the 26th. The tele

grams from Shanghae, add a few particulars which
seem to give us some glimpses into the nature of
the operations. They would seem to have been
carried on by land, since not a ship or gunboat is
mentioned, two regiments and the Marines, with
1,500 French were the troops, principally, engaged.
We hear nothing of any barriers being forced, and
do not know that a vessel of war had crossed the bar.
The Plenipotentiaries had arrived, however, at
Tien-tsin, on the 26th, and would hardly have gone
thither, we may suppose, without a naval force
accompanying them. They were to start shortly
for Pekin, " escorted by cavalry," but that was
possibly because ships of any size do not easily
advance beyond Tien-tsin.
The fight must have been a hard one for such
enemies. It lasted for five hours, and the allied
i°BB was 400 killed and wounded. Prince SAN-
KO-LIN.sIN is plainly a general whose courage is
not to be despised, and who must have the general's
quality of inspiring his troops with something of
his own feeling. The mode of attack we cannot
conjecture even, yet. Part of the forts lay on the
same side of the river Peiho as that on which the
allies landed.
Originally the French were to have
the other
landed on side, but the country was so wet,
muddy, and impassable, that that arrangement was
given up, and the French and English both landed
at the mouth of the Pehtang to-which Admiral HOPE
was told to go last year, with the lying statement
that it was another mouth of the Peiho. They
had, therefore, to cross the ten miles between the
two rivers, and would then find some of the forts
on their own side. How they attacked those on
the opposite side we have yet to learn,
As to the results—" the enemy were allowed to
march out, leaving munitions, Sec."—probably
nothing better could be done. They would be
very harmless opponents, except behind their de.
fences, and it could be of
tlittlecare serviceof Chinese pri to our troops
to be encumbered with he _
soners. The other result—that of the Plenipoten-
tiaries, instead of the army, marching to Pekin
seems more doubtful in its consequences. The
Chinese Government has "promised them an
hone urable reception"—but ought they not
to have taken one for themselves ? After
all That has passed, and all the lessons we have
had of Chinese duplicity, ought we to allow the
Chinese Tories the last opportunity of again re
presenting the Barbarians as coming to pay homage
to lIIEN-FLING ? Of course in the absence of
detailed info' ination, we may hope that
when we know the whole, we shall be able to
justify their .course. It is a curious fact,
indeed, that only a few days before we
were storming the Taku forts, at the mouth of the
Peiho, we were) saving the town of Shanghae from
being stormed by the rebels against the Chinese
EMPEROR. 'V
irhen the accounts previous to those