The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

Commence. at 7.

POYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
/ 11, T.essee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
TITIS EVIINING, the performances will commence with
SUSAN SMITH.
To follod by, at R o'clock, THE CORSICA!'
I3ROTHbe we
ERS. Supported by Messrs. Fechter, A. Harris,
Meadows, Graham, Shore, and Miss Murray.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last night of Mr. John Drew's Engartement, and of the
Company performing before Christmas.
THIS EVENING, THE PE I'S OF THE PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr
H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan,
Miss Neville, 'Miss-Hudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss
pou,las, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, the Comic 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. •
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers,
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. .T. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of
the entertainments.

ADPAPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Kr. Beni. Webster.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicault, who will appear
every evening in the highly successful Drama of •• The
Colleen Bawn."
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
I. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith. Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billing-ton,
Mr. J. L Toole, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 25.; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, is. • Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is.;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit,'ll. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, la ; Gallery, fid
Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLRY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manarer, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Crowded Houses nightly to
to
the Lions and the real
Bruta Tamer.
Miss tehecca Isaacs every Eyeninz.

Notice.—There will be no half-price during the engage-
ment of the Lions, except for children under ten years of
age, and then to Pit and Boxes only.
This Evenin,, 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 qmsnes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and BrUish Artistes.
Coneludity, with the First Act of THE DAUGHTER
OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Rise Rebecca Isaacs.
Doors open at half-rast b, pertormance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily-from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena--Mr. Pearson.
Batty's Prize Pantomime will be produced on a scale of
great magnificence at Christmas.

CANTERBURY
Open Every Evening at Seven
GRAND SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FIGLA
DEL REGIMENTO (Donizetti), also from NORMA, SON-
NAMBULA, and MARTHA.
Principal Artistes Miss 'RussELL, Madame MARIA, Miss
TYRRELL, MISS WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, and Mr.
C. W. BERNARD.

HALL

- • -
Conductor Mr. JONG lIMANS.
The Comic Department compri.es Messrs. J. RI, ANCII ARD,
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 Grind 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.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 18, IS6O.
• THEEMOMETEE, IN THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.60 ; falling.
WlND—Northerly—variable ; with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morping, sh. 32m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 6h. 11m.—Afternoon, 6h, 31m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 1860.

It is an old tale enough, the barbarities inflicted When dragged out of these carts their,
by the Chinese upon their prisoners. It is a tale arms would be violently lifted, producing a
so old that one might almost have been disposed to sensation as if they were being torn out of their
regard it as obsolete or even apocryphal. It used sockets. For three days consecutively they would
to read like a page from the grimliest chapter of be left to lie upon their faces (their wrists still
the Book of Horrors—that Newgate Calendar of fastened inexorably behind them), they would be
devilish cruelty, of fiendish inhumanity. It seemed left to lie thus for three days together in the open
to be less like the records of reality than like the air, under the broiling sun of noon, under the dews
retrospect of some hideous dream dreamt, let us say, and frosts of night, without one morsel of food
by one of the survivors of that leng night of horror to eat, without one drop of water to quench
passed by a crowd of Englishmen closely packed their thirst—until one of them, as we have said (it
together into the foul and narrow compass of the was no other than poor Captain ANDERSON),
Black Hole at dalcuttd. ' SA*NET BEAN, the man- became at length (nor surely can it bewondered at)
eater, mi,.i.
e. t have been the hero of some of those delirious! If the sufferers cried out at last for
frightful narratives as they were told to ns years food, dirt was:erammed into their mouths! They
and years ago by One adventUrous traveller after were manacled with heavy chains—an iron collar
another.-- Who-that has any recollection whatever clasped round the neck was connected with rings 1
of these histories of exquisite suffering, who among round the ancles by heavy links incumbering them
all the readers of those appalling descriptions, but at every movement. Thus manacled they were again
remembers vividly to tili,
day that Cage of infer- hauled before the examiners, compelled to kneel,
nal cruelty into which," hi I,
some of those un- torn by the hair, knocked down and kicked on the
• ' of the Chinese •
happy victims Were inexorably head when prostrate ! Afterwards they were thrust
fastened. A barred framework with a hole in the among murderers, parricides, and others of the
the sufferer's top of it, through which• s head pro- worst kind of malefactors, creatures loathsome with
e are told, exhibited
truded—a Cage often, we during the itch and swarming with vermin. Here it was
place, with the •
its use in the public market prisoner that Mr. LOCH, chained to a plank (which was his
sitting, cramped inside—neither nor standing, nor bed), found himself tended upon by three criminals
kneeling, nor stooping, nor in any attitude in
_two of them murderers, the third having bitten
which the human body could find one moment's his father's Is ether's finger off! It is SOWALLA SING who
sense of comfort, even to begin with ! A cage, in relates that horrible climax to the sufferings of
fact, within which the victim was doomed, in no poor Captain ANDERSON, already referred to
definable attitude at all, to die of agonising fatigue, ineidentall9—telling us that two days' prior
combined with maddening thirst and starvation. All to his death his
nails and fingers burst
these accounts, however, accounts that one used to from the tightness of the cords, and morti-
fication set in, the
hang over with a shuddering sense of fascination, bones of his wrists being ex-
years and years ago, wondering if they could by 1 Posed—the sower „ addin.
that, while poor Capt.
N
possibility be true, even in a few of the fearful par- ANDERSO was yet alive worms were generated in
d crawled over •
his Wounds, an
ticulars related in them—had come long since tohis body—he himself
only consoled to think)
be nearly forgotten, as a tale that is told, (we are being at that time
and when told only half believed. And yet now, delirious. Of the heroism with
which
actually in these our own times, at the close of this all these frightful sufferings were endured
' very year of our LORD, 1860, they suddenly revive to 1 dauntless Englishmen and by by these their no
our remembrance--they are suddenly forced at last less gallant Sikh companions, we have no words
upon our acceptance, as in every way credible— in 'which adequately to •express our admiration.
they are
enhance d and intensified in some of the Mr. 13 - ARKES'S noble fidelity to his comrade, Mr.
details to % Pi under GOD, led at
pitch, of horror (not formerly realised LOCii—a fidelity that alone,

length to the release of the latter from his
perillous captivity—Mr. LOCII himself has most
earnestly and touchingly commemorated, With
a reference to that generous devotion of her MA-
JESTVB Consul to his companion is misfortune, we
gladly close our allusions to a narrative the perusal
of which is like a glimpse into the dungeon of
UGOLINO.

Information from several sources confirms the
probability of an early termination of the affair at
Gaeta. The well-knovin correspondent of the
Daily News, who has generally been one of our most
trustworthy informants on Italian matters, says
" I bad scarcely posted my letter of Saturday when

I was informed that a French man-of-war had
arrived with important despatches for Admiral
BARBIER DE TINAN. I hastened to CIALDINI'S
head-quarters, where I heard that a truee of fifteen
days had been negotiated by the Emperor NAPO-
LEON, and that in all probability the French
steamer referred to was the bearer of the official
intimation of the French Cabinet, It seems that
it is especially due to the influence of the English
Government that Louis NAPOLEON was induced

to change his line of policy towards FRANCIS II."
This was written on the 10th, and therefore the
armistice will expire in less than a week. At the
end of that time if the KING persists in his defence,
the French fleet will withdraw and leave the
dreaded Admiral PERSANO to co-operate with
CIALDINI, as he did so successfully at Ancona.
Sardinia, it seems, was unwilling to accede to the
truce principally because of the difficulty of con-
structing trenches and siege works increasing with
the advance of the winter. That point was, how-
ever, given up on the other side. The siege ope-
rations will continue, and if, on the 26th of Decem-
ber, FRANCIS 11. has not given way, the whole of
the batteries are to open fire at once on the
fortress. Under these circumstances it is thought
that the accounts we hear of a little firing on
both sides are not to be taken as conclusive
against the fact of a truce or an understanding.

That our Government should interest itself in
hastening the certain termination of the drama is
more than probable. Indeed, the ex-King has
told us already that the English Government
" bitterly reproached" the French EMPEROR for
his intervention by sea. The fact doubtless is,
that our Cabinet would remonstrate, or ask expla-
nations, and that the French EMPEROR would
reply, that he merely intended to afford the poor
KING an easy endless degrading mode of retirement
than one effected by stealth through the Sardinian
lines or fleet. But ample time has elapsed for the
KING to have taken twenty voyages ; and though
the EMPEROR'S real wish might be to cause trouble
in Italy, yet that was not the ground he could
maintain with our Government. Hence, when we
began to press him again with the uselessness, nay,
the positive inhumanity of encouraging the KING
to prolong a perfectly hopeless conflict, our ally
could have no other expedient than to give the
KING another week or two to pack up, and if he
had not done so at the end of that time, why he
must settle it with PERSANO and CIALDINI as he
best could. Whether the armistice, therefore, be
accepted substantially or not, we may hope that
the EMPEROR has listened thus far to common-
sense counsels, and that if FRANCIS 11. sees fit to
keep his Christmas at Gaeta, he must expect to
see Admiral BARBIER DE TINAN quit the station
immediately after.
The reactionary movements in the Abruzzi,

chiefly due to the disbanded soldiers of the late
King, are suppressed, and the partial risings of
those who profited by the BOURBON regime seem

'to be more or less quieted down generally. What-
ever the Emperor of the FRENCH may wish, in his
vexation at Italian indifference or aversion to the
overtures of members of the NAPOLEON family
kindly to undertake the work of governing them,
we can have but one wish, to see Italy quietly
taking her place amongst the nations of Europe as
speedily as possible. Nothing will probably more
conduce to quelling these petty brigand rebellions
than the King's finally quitting Gaeta. His
residence there gives a kind of decent colour
to the disturbances, created merely for pur-
poses of plunder. When he is gone, and
his return will, of coarse, be utterly hopeless,
nothing of seeming loyalty can be connected with
any of these petty insurrections. The Royalist
game will be up, and brigands will meet only a
brigand's fate. We may hope now that the friend-
ship of England for Italy will hasten this desirable
cm/elusion by her inducing the EMPEROR to follow
her own example, and to abstain bona fide from any

kind of intervention. Then, He of Gaeta gone—
who or what goes next—will the POPE quit Rome,
or will his temporal rule quit him while remaining
in his Bishopric ? The last account of all tells us
that the French who so recently extended their
occupation to Viterbo are quitting the province.
Who can solve the EMPEROR'S riddles ?

Yet another pamphlet—not perhaps directly
from the Imperial pen, but understood to have
passed favourably an Imperial review. Indeed we
know not why it should not. " The Emperor
FRANCIS JOSEPH and Europe" is its subject, and
the object is to show that all Europe has an inte-
rest in the sale of Venetia by Austria, at
about £20,000,000 of our money. The theme
is an easy one, indeed, to reason about ;
the real difficulty lies in the question —is
Imperial pride, especially the pride of HAPSBURG
Imperialism, amenable to reason ? We must, of
course, include honour .in the policy to be proved
reasonable; since without that, we ourselves could
hardly fail to respect the Monarch who declined
to make his honour a subject of sale and purchase.
But surely it cannot be very difficult to show
Austria that, as things now stand, Europe would
honour her for discerning the signs of the times,
and for regarding the true interests of all Europe
and Germany, as well as her own necessities, as
deciding considerations.

As to Austria herself, the writer of the pam-
phlet referred to shews by figures that Venetia does
not pay its expenses—that it is a heavy charge on
the Austrian Exchequer, and that, too, while the
Government is driven to its wits' end to avoid open
and confessed bankruptcy—that, indeed, it would
be a great gain to Austria to surrender Venetia
without pecuniary compensation, merely through
the saving effected. The Italians, however, would on
their part be able so largely to reduce their army
that Italy would not be unwilling to offer a liberal
compensation, as they in their turn would be
gainers by saving military expences. A fairer case
for compromise, therefore, from the pecuniary
point of view, could hardly exist.
Looking at it politically, Austria as well as
Italy would seem to be equal gainers. Venetia is
now of no political value to Austria; the com-
merce is destroyed, the population discontented,
and an embarrassment to her. The object for
which Venetia was of use—to overawe the people of
Italy, and to uphold despotism from the north to
the south—is now vanished from her hopes as well
undertaken
her grasp. She is simply left with all the
enormous cost of four vast fortresses, while the
°ountry they were constructed to rule has
dta to rule itself, and will do so, we
doubt
not, for evermore. Then, again, Venetic