The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-25 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT
GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison
On MONDAY EVENING will be presented an entirely
ew and original romantic Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled
SATANELLA ; or, THE POWER OF LOVE.
• Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.

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To conclude with the new Pantomime of LITTLE RED
RIDING HOOD ; or, Harlequin and the Wolf in Granny's
Clothing.

Commence at Seven,

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A-. 1) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
On MONDAY EVENING next will be presented
THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
On MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 27, the performances will
be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Messrs.
Bnekstone, Chippendale; Mesdames Reynolds and Poynter.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
A MORNING PERFORMANCE on MONDAY (Boxing
day), Dec. 27, when will be produced anew Burlesque, written
expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brough,
and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The new and gor-
geous scenery by Mr. William Callcott. The principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, Airs. Weston,
Miss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E. Romer,
; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. .1.
Rogers, Mr. Barrett, &c. ; Miss Rosina Wright, Miss M.
Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, and a numerous Corps de Bal-
let will also appear.
After the Burlesque a new Comic Pantomime, replete with
new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUIN
TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles
Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry
Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri.
To commence at two o'clock precisely ; door.; open at half-
past one.

The Performances will commence on Friday, Monday, and
Tuesday with the Comedietta of TOO MUCH FOR GOOD
NATURE.

Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit,
2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls.

Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half -past
6, to commence at 7 every evening.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.

On . WOND AY, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE
REVOLT IN INDIA; er, The Fugitives and their Faith-
ful Steed.

After which SCENES IN TILE ARENA, introducing 3lr.
W. Cooke, and his beautiful horses, Mr. Runnels, Madame
Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, and the finest
troupe of equestrians In the kingdom.
To conclude with a famous, magnificent, and matchless
Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON
MUNCHAUSEN ; or, The King of the Pumpkins, unprece-
dented for comicality and splendour.
Two Performances of the Pantomime on Boxing-day, viz.,
at Two and Seven o'clock.

Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d.

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor --C. MORTON.
The üblic is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTSGALLERY, in connection witk the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY 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 Hall, 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.

IR addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
perform every Evening at Nine ani Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-SUN-OFFICE, DEC. 25.

THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.

49—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.68.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine morning, and
wet afternoon.

THE SUN.

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1858.

Christmas-day happily comes to us this year
without a Ministerial crisis, and with very many
of our past troubles, Toth foreign and domestic,
brought long since to a satisfactory termination'
Wars have ceased—insurrections have been sup-
pressed—alliances have been confirmed. There is
general tranquillity among the nations of Christen
dom. Industry is no longer paralysed by a com-
mercial crisis. The finances of the country no
longer threaten an inevitable deficiency. There is
really at last a tolerable certainty before us, in the
next session of the Legislature, that comprehensive
reforms will at last be applied in earnest to the
reorganisation of the Imperial Parliament.
The retrospect, altogether, for the past twelve-
month furnishes us with many a remarkable sub-
ject for grateful exultation. Recollect how many
extraordinary events have to be crowded together
in the record of 1858—events of the utmost im-
portance not only to the British Empire, but that
sublime cause with which the interests of this
empire are directly identified, the cause of modern
civilisation. The insulation from the rest of the
world of a power comprising within it, as the aggre-
gate number of its inhabitants, a third of the entire
population of this globe, has, at length, in
1858, been ended after the lapse of thirty cen-
turies China is henceforth open to the outer
barbarians. Within the Chinese dominions Chris-
tianity is now, for the first time since the epoch of
the Redemption, to be respected. Missionaries are
no longer to expect martyrdom as the one inexo-
rable result of their labours in China. The arma-
ments of France and Spain are at this moment
preparing the way in Cochin China for the recog-
nition there also of the same high principle of
religious toleration.

Another secluded race has recently, moreover,
in those eastern seas, thrown down, after the lapse
of hundreds and hundreds of years, the bar-
riers separating them entirely from the rest
of the humpn family. Relations have in
1858 been established between the empire
of Japan and the chief Powers of Christendom. In
Hindostan, again, the Sepoy insurrection has not
only been effectually suppressed during this same
year of grace 1858, but British rule there within
the same memorable interval has been permanently
and triumphantly conoslidated. An Oriental pearl
of priceless value has been added to the symbolical
jewels in the diadem of the British Sovereign—
VICTORIA, by the grace of GOD, Queen of
Great
Britain and Ireland, and of the colo-
nies and dependencies thereof in Europe,
Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia, has
assumed in India the place hitherto occupied
by that great conquering company of mer-
chants—that H.E.LC., whose initials will now
remain emblazoned upon our annals only as a
, and with the
glorious memento of their rule
splendour of which must henceforth continue for
the most part merely traditional. The Royal
Proclamation announcing the new order of things
to a Hindoo population of from 100,000,000 to
200,000,000, moreover, has been welcomed but very
recently by that vast multitude with an unaffected
enthusiasm, proving the happiest auguries as
to the future awaiting the reorganised
Anglo-Indian Government. Insomuch that
the tranquillity of India, from the Himalayas
to Cape Commorin, from the mouths of the Indus to
the mouths of the Burhampooter is recognised as
resting now more upon the loyal devotion of the
people than upon the bayonets of an army Iff very
nearly 100,000 Europeans, disciplined to battle

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