The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

-I[)OlrAT, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
t. Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. Harris.
TTTIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by. at S o'clock, THE CO RSlCrrANis,'
BROTHERS. Supported by Messrs. Pechter, Ha
Meadows, Graham, Shore, and Miss Murry.
SIOrIST
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCIT,

?THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sia,.c Lessee and Directress. 'Madame CELESTE.
Last nio-lit hut one of Mr. John Drew's Enc7agement, and:of
- the Company performinT before Christmas.
THIS EVENING. TTIF, PE VS OF THE PARTERRE.
• Scenic Dpartment under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. Geor,e 'Loden Principal eharactershy
TT Nieville. Mr. John Douse, Mr. .1. Mor-is. Miss M. Tertian,
'Miss Neville, Missfiridsmcth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss
DOu,las, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
After wh the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
messrs, Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers
Butler, and John Drew: NirS, Rouse. Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M. Tertian, and Miss Neville.
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNEE • ' or
'THY, SECT OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
-Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. IT. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
"Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Clifford,
lair .T. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of
the entertainments.

PFLPT-TT. THEATRE-ROYAL.
'k'lc P.opritger gapager, gr. Rent. Webstv..
Engw_i•ement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Robertson awl Mr. Dion TioncleAult, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Pawn-"
THIS EVFNING, AN UGLY rUc:TOMF.R. Messrs. .T.
Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Theme.
Alter which, Tri"E (70T,T,EEN BAWN. D. Roncicanit, D.
Fishr, Billir
'Robertson,
Falconer. Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer.
Mss .ATnesi Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs: Chatterley.
After which. TA AT TIT,ESSED BABY. Mr. Billington,
Mr. J. L Toole. and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past A--Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
o charce for boniciniv.
Private boxes, £2 25.: Family Boxes. £l.
Orchestra .4talls, fs. ; Balcony, 4a. Front Circle Stalls, Sc.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6(1. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
AfAing Vnnacier--Mr. Wm. Smith.

k SITE rS ROY AL A MPHIT HE ATRE.—
proprietor q \Tanager, NTr. Wei. BATTP.
Crowded Houses nightly to witness the Lions and the grew
Brute Tamer.
Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening*.

Notice.—There will be no half-price during the engage-
ment of the Lions. except for children under ten years of
agr, , and then to Pit and Boxes only.
This Evenine-, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The . Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the 'Wonders of the WoHd. " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
Tn he sncereded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and EH ish Artistes.
Concluding with the First Aci- of TITE DAUGHTER
OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Riss Rebecca Isaacs.
Doors open at halt-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open dailv from 11 till 4
Stare Manager—Mr. W. WrFer.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

Batty's Prize Pantomime will be produced on a scale of
great ma2-.nificence at Christmas.

THE C ANT FR B URY HALL.

C. MORT(')N beds to inform visitors to London that the
above HALT, with its Ma7nificent Gallervnf Modern Paint-
by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERT EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINI'S NORMA, SONNAMBULA, AND FLOTONV'S
RTIIA.
PRINCIPAL ARTTSTES.
MISS RUSSELL MADAM MARTA
MISS TYR REL MISS IVILEINsON
Mr. HENRY IIERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. .ToNorrmaNs.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollins-
worth, Master Barry. J. Blanchard, G. IV. Pell, Charley
Fox. and E. Marshall. in his transformation sown "THE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personatin.r- five different characters.
On Saturday next, will he produced (first time) a Grand
Selection from "La Fie-,lla del Reelmento" (Donizetti).

T 1 WEATHEII.--Strx OFric-r, DEC. 16, IS6O.
TTEETtNOI4/12Elt, IN TUT; "NADB.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
38 -lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this dmv at noon.

BAROMETER—:3O.OI;
WIND—Northerly—variable; with dull weather.
DEC. 17.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.,
41—highest sinee noon yesterday.
33•—lowest this morning and during the night.
3G—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.70 ; falling.
WIND-7-North—strong breeze ; with frosty weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 52m.—Afternoon, oh. 13m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, sh. 32m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.

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LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 17, 18e0.

The Chinese War has certainly made good its
claim to 'be regarded as a War of Surprises. It
began, or rather the necessity for it was forced upon
dur recognition, quite abruptly with the explosion
of a startling and terrible ambuscade. It has ter-
minated now with equal suddenness. The arrival
of the news on Saturday in Downing-street while
her
MAJESTY'S Ministers were actually seated there
in a Cabinet Council, convened at the official resi-
dence of the First Lord of the Treasury for the
very purpose of discussing this all-important sub-.
jrct of the War in China—the advent, then and
there, of the wholly unlooked-for and absolutely
astounding intelligence that the War was all over,
that Pence was concluded, that the Ratifications
ged, must certainly have
had even been exchan
come pleasantly enough, and as by a coup de theatre,
upon her MAJESTY'S Government. It is a happy
flan Qom'
augury for the at this coming Christmas
time.. It dissipates so many anxieties at the very
moment, too, when our reasons fur solicitude ire re-
gard to this subject of the War in China appeared
to have become so enormously enhanced and
plied. How any peace at all, out yonder at Pekin,
could in any manner be negotiated seemed to have
become, within a very few days prior to the arrival
of this extraordinary intelligence, altogether pro
blematical. It was bewildering actually to con.
jec-
tore with whom Lord ELGIN and Barori GBOS

could, even if they would, 'open up ally
new negotiations. It appeared to ourselves
indeed advisable, in the interests of the Europeans,
in the interests of the Chinese, in the interests of
humanity; that our plenipotentiaries should turn
their regard, in search of reconciliation, rather in
the direction of the Native Emperor now far a
'whole decade reigning at Nankin, than to the
fugitive Tartar Emperor, fled within the last two
months into the wilds of Tartary. Pekin literally
in our hands, in the possession of the Anglo-French
expedition, we seemed to have the very opportunity