The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-28 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

BOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Manaffer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, Dec. 28, ERNESTINE. Messrs. J
G. Shore, R. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car-
lotta Lech rci, Weston, and Murray.
After which, a tv‘w fT,hristroas comical pantomime. entitled
ROBINSON CRTJSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the Ri'
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

ADHLPHT, NFW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster,.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CITSTOMER. Messrs. J
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Mies E.
Thorne.
After which, TILE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billin,ton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Romer.
Miss Ag,nes ltobertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza. entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. .T. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and P. Thorne.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, .£2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. Front Circle Stalls, 3e.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

THIS EVENING THE IRISH TUTOR. Dr. O'Toole,
Mr. John Drew.

Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
JrlTl.l VISTO \T OF -A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Followed by the combo Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
Butler, and John Drew: Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M. Ternan, and Miss Neville.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World. " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.

Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled ITARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comie scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian ITarlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Harlequin Mr. Sylvester.
Columbine Miss Hariet Dalton.
Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks.
Clown Mr. James Cooke.
Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons.
Doors open at half-past 6,
,performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from I i till 4
St a.,ze "Tanager—Mr. w. Was'.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
CANTERBURY
Open Every Evening at Seven

H ALL.

GRAND S ET:FGT lONA (First 'Time) from LA FTGLIA
DEL REG DIEN TO (Donizetti), NOI(MA, ONNAMBULA,
and 'MA RTHA

Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MAtzta,
Tynnr.nr„ Miss WILLIAMS, MT. HENRY HERBERT, C.
W. BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI.

Musical Director...., Mr. F. JONGHMANS.
The Comic Department compri,es Messrs. J. BLANcH Ann,
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL,
CHARLEY Fox, and E. MARSHALL.
The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of
the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE
GREAT DAY of HIS WRATH." "THE PLAINS of
HEAVEN," and " THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view
until 12 o'clock at Night.

THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, DEC. 28, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
33—highest since noon yesterday.
26--lowest this morning and during the night.
32—this day at neon.'

13A.ROMETE 11,-29.99.
WlND—Easterly, inclining to North—light; with frosty
weather. We have had a heavy fall of snow last evening.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 49m.—Afternoon, 2h. Iltn.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 24. 32tn.—Afternoon. 2h. 52m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1860.

The Chinese despatches have at length arrived,
and we now know all about the old-world mystery
of Pekin, and can peruse at our leisure all the
minute particulars of the subjugation—more by the
mere terror of our approach than by the actual force
of our arms—of the haughty and despotic Tartar
Government.

It was the philosophic remark of the greatest
man of modern times, perhaps of any times in the
history of the world—it was the profound remark
of NAPOLEON the Great, that,whenever a belligerent
is cruel even in victory you may be absolutely certain
that he was, prior to his success, all but defeated.
Thu rulers of the Chinese—mandarins and generals
alike—have been, throughout this recent war,
most creel, cruel to the utmost reach of
atrocity, an by this infernal and pitiless
barbarity' of theirs, they have betrayed in the most
signal manner that was in any
way possible their
own eon soiou9ness of their ignominious defeat from
first to last.

It is true, and not less remarkable than
true, that the renowned tad mighty capital
of that vast empire of the Chinese, was entered at
length, after all that we had heard of it, after all
that had been written about it and
conjectured
about it for centuries, was actually entered at last
by a comparatively small but triumphant Allied
Force of Englishmen and Frenchmen, without the
the loss of one life, without the infliction of a single
wound, without the firing of one solitary piece of
artillery. The Celestial EMPEROR had fled before
the corning of the Europeans in a manner the most
meanly and abjectly terrestrial ! The fire-eating
Generalissimo of ail his vaunted armies had tailed
off with his routed hordes of Tartar cavalry. The
sword of state, there, proved but the paltriest panto-
mimic dagger of lath after all—and a dagger of lath
that at the first blow fall broken into splinters.
Even when the Allied Expedition had passed the
gates of the.mysterious city—that city that was to
have awed and dazzled the "outer barbarian"—
supposing that " outer barbarian" ever to have
survived his entrance into a place so very wonder-
ful—even, we say, when the European soldiers
under Sir Ho GRaziT and General ;klolkaAvßAN