The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-17 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.UMnder
-I- the Management of 31Iss Louisa Fyne and r. W
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Auber's grand Opera, THE CROWN
DIAMONDS : The characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Susan Pyne, Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. A. St. Albin, Mr. Henry
Corri, Mr. Bartlemau, Mr. Terrott,iand Mr. IN . Harrison
Conductor-31r. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Ilichelet,Morlacchl, and Pasquale.

110YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS BVENING will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of
MACBETH.
Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
preceded by the Farce of
AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
TILLS EVENING will be performed (seventh time). THE
TALE OF A COAT. Mr. Charles Mathews.
HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
With THE KING'S GARDENER.
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST : ;Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan-
borough.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS : Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented
THE WOODMAN'S HORSE, introducing a treble company
of equestrians and the,finest Stud of Horses in the world.
Characters by Messrs. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis,
Mark Howard, Anderson.
Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
Madlle. Blanche will appear.
After which, Madame Amile Maurice, from Paris, will make
her Terrific Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries.
Mons. Maurice will also have tha honour to introduce his
extraordinary Dogs.
To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. • Galleries, 6d.
Private Boxes from £1 ls. to £2 2s. an upwards.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MonToN.
The public is most respectfully informed that the Firm
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Mill, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences AS usual at
Seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICIS, Nov. 17.

TIIERMOMETER7 TN THE SHADE.

48—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
42 —this day at noon.
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BAROMETER-20.64.
Wm], South-Easterly ; rather fresh—cold, with sun-
shiny weather. It blew a perfect gale for the last four
days, with biting cold.

Not far short of 100,000 disciplined soldiers are
now assembled under the QUEEN'S colours is Ilin-
dostan. Our gallant army is led, moreover, by one
of the most eminent of our heroic generals. The
hot season has terminated in India, and the winter
campaign of 1858-1859 was fairly commenced on
the 15th October. The serpent of the Sepoy Rebel-
lion, scotched by Sir COLIN CAMPBELL before the
commencement of the Asiatic summer, now remains
to be destroyed and exterminated by Lord CLYDE
of Clydesdale. It has dragged its slow and terrible
length along during more than a wholc. twelve-
month ; throughout the lapse of which it has been
trampled upon and crushed here and there at in-

tervals—assailed and beaten, as it were, piecemea

The closing campaign, which has now begun, o:

rather which has already been developed by exactly
one month, is inaugurated with the comprehensive
design of surrounding the monster—gradually
contracting the avenging circle, and eventually
annihilating the hitherto scattered, and some of
them scatheless, legions of the foe. The result is
simply a question of time. Yet the undertaking is
immense--because the enemy is still very nume•
rous ; because they are men, for the most part, at

bay, fighting with halters round their necks, and
ncited against us by the maddening goad of despe-
ration ; because, beyond this, they are scattered far
and wide over vast tracts of country. Altogether,
it is easy to number up 60,000 or 70,000 insurgents
still in arms, under despotic chiefs like NANA SAHIB
and his brother BALARow—bands of rebels varying
from sometimes the merest handful up to compact
bodies of fifteen thousand men-13,000 at Churda,
11,000 at Bithoor and Futtehpore, 6,500 at Boandee,
3,000 at Birwa, 2,500 at Belgraon, 2,000 at Thule-

pore, 2,500 at Khyrabad, 900 at Sandee, and so on

hither and thither in separate masses of varying
strength—one of the most formidable bands of all
being that assembled under the lawless banners of
the Nawab of Bareilly, KHAN BAHADOOR KHAN,
at a distance of a few miles to the east of
Shahjehanpore. Around all these desperate
hordes of rebels the net will have to be spread
adroitly, to be then drawn tighter -and tighter in
contracting meshes until the whole swarm of insur-
gents have been routed, disarmed, and finally con-
quered. With a mere handful of men, and these
mostly Sepoys, Sir CHARLES NAPIER accomplished
in a few weeks aprecisely similar feat, when opposed,
not by a rabble of ruffian insurgents under leaders
eminent for nothing but their guilt and cruelty,
but by formidable armies of warriorslike the Beloo-
chees, under great soldiers like ALI MOURAD and
the Lion of IVleerpOre, SHERE MAIIOMED. And the
Conqueror of Scinde had to encompass his anta-
gonists by means of a combination of military
Operations, some of them separated from each other
by distances of 200 miles. Yet heroism, genius,
sagacity, daring, forethought, vanquished every
obstacle, vanquished distance and numbers—and a
vast
province was won for the empire on the
bloody plains of Mcanee and Hyderabad. Then,
the proportions were enormously against us—the
. enemy was, moreover, formidable in intellect and
valour—their arms were not paralysed by the
remembrance of atrocities like those of Delhi and
Cawnpore. Now, the situation is altogether diffe-
rent. Our troops are numerically powerful. They
are heartened, besides, by the memory of men like
HAVELOCK, and NEILL, and NICUOLSoN. They
enter the last campaign of the war of the rebellion
opposed to a scattered and dispirited foe, a foe
without any one leader of note—they themselves
led by a Crimean hero no less illustrious than the
Highland chief who d.efended Balaklava, COLIN
CAMPBELL, Lord CLYDE of Clydesdale. Remem-
bering this, and remembering our just cause, we
can have little doubt a 3 to the campaigu being
carried to a satisfactoiry close rapidly and tri-
umphantly.

What part will the working man take ? This
question, asked by many - an independent Reformer,
and asked, we are sure, with no little seriousness
by Lord DERBY and. ;Air. DISRAELI, no one can
affect to despise. The la unions are a power if they
choose to act, and, if they act peacefully and yet
firmly, a power very: Zifficult to resist. Do the

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1858.