The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

COLOSSEUM.

This magnificent institution, after having been
entirely repaired and re-decorated, was yesterday
thronged by a considerable body of Christmas
sight seers, who were highly gratified by the in-
spection of its splendid dioramas and panoramas,
and by the numerous exhibitions and entertain-
ments provided for them by the lessee and manager,
Dr. Bachhoffner. The attractions of the place, in-
deed, are so varied in their character, and so power-
ful irt their interests, that the hours during which
it is open will be abundantly occupied with the
claims which they make upon the attention. The
Colosseum was at no antecedent period of its
history in a more splendid or effective condition
than at present, and when the public are reminded
that upwalde of a quarter of a million has been ex-
pended upon it, it will easily be understood why it
should have remained so great a popular favourite
during the last 36 years. Among the more promi-
nent of the entertainments may be mentioned the
Ilo'Liday Excursion to China, Australia, Turkey,
Italy, France, and America, by Mr. A. Barns ; Mr.
llewson's Illustrations of Social Oddities, M. Nadol-
ski's Wonderful Cabinet, and a variety of Christmas
amusements.

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THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
IL Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING THE IRISH TUTOR. Dr. O'Toole,
11r..10h,n Drew.
Followed by
VAfter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
,ItISTAIIELLE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
"A-k„.' ' VISION" OP 'A ROSE. ITS FADING' AT EVE,
'1) THE MAY-TiLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
Ilessm (, the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
• • .arapbell, .Tohnstonc, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
13ntler. Ter a
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,nan, n John Drew: Mrs. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M and Miss Neville:

3, STT,Ers It
':.31.- Proprietor
This Eveninz, a new 8
( ()YAL • AMP HITHE ATRE.--
and , _
Aux. WM. -BATTY.
,01.7.1 e World, " The Groupe
coNQUEIZOII, ; or, The OZltiacle, entitled THE LION
introduction of the Wonderi-af.lim-gle, expressly for the
it;
tn)queror, Mr. J. Crockett.
Arena, supported by
of Pertorming Lions." The Lioncic
To be succeeded by So.nes
talented Parisian and Brhish Artistees.
uoIVONDERFU.i.
coneitidinx with Batty's prize Equev.
mime, for Good Little. Boys and Girts,,b,",VlComic Panto-
liinB.t:lsl : o}l,..A;T,,lJ;eriartj raNnd CA3rNoc.ll)osa,Ttlli? T.
L.
CrP—r"
tv,e Greedy Nino., produced with Gorze“Tisbicebuchesii and
y, and Brandon Ledie-r---e'
Cuthbert, new Cw:turaes and Appointments, and introducing
Mr.
in the comic seer: es 'Bator's Fria! Equestrian IlArterZine,,aing
and the celebrated 0:d Bob Bidle
Harlequin Mr. Sylvester.
Columbine 10st Iferiet Dalton.
Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks.
Clown Mr. James Cooke.
Sprite—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons.
Docra open et half-pot d, performance commence At 7.
1398-office open daily from 11 till f
Stave Mao a;:,,er —.Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr, Pearson. 1

I_9OI(AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
LessAP, and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING-, Dk2C. 22', 'ERNES 1-1-77.1 7.Te5,;r9.
G. Shore, It..Cathcart, Basil Potter; Mesdames Heath, Car-
lotta Leclercq, Weston, and Murray.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres,
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
r7k. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. 3
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. BoncleAult, D.
Fisher, BillinE,,ton, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, homer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and
Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FitOM A NEW. POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and If;. Thorne.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking. •
Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes, 41.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. •
Pit Stalls, 25. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d:
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. smith.

CANTERBURY HALL.'
Open Every Evening at Seven.
GRAND SELECTIONS (First Time) from LA FIGLIA
and MARTHA.
DEL REGIMENT° (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNAMBULA,
Principal Artistes Miss Rurssrm, Madame MARIA, Miss
TYRRELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C.
W. BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI.
Musical Director...., Mr. F. JONGIIMANS.
' The Comic Department
_comprises Messrs. J. BLANCHARD,
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH, Master BARRY, G. W. PELL,
CHARLEY Fox, and E. MAnsuALL.
The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of
the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE
GREAT bAY of HIS WRATH," "THE PLAINS of
HEAVEN," and "THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view
until 12 o'clock at Night.

THE WEATHER.—Srx OFFICE, DEC. 27, 1660.
THERMOMETER, IN THE MADE.
30—highest since noon yesterday. •
27—lowest this morning and during the night.
31—this day at noon,/
• BAROMETER--29.48.
WlND—Easterly—rather fresh ; with dull, cold weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tale T) T.—Morning, lh. sm.—Afternoon, lh. 27m,
To-MORROW.-isiorning, 42 n.—Afternoon, 2h. 11m,

The Chinese War at a certain and positive end
is turning out to be rather a Chinese Peace at a
very insecure and vague commencement. The
fugitive Emperor, HIEN-FU G, it appears, is after
all not likely to return Pekin-wards quite so soon
as was expected. Neither will the Anglo-French
allies, we are now led to conjecture, find them-
selves enabled to return immediately,with anything
like prudence, from the scene of their recent warlike
achievements. The Celestial Empire, there is now
every apparent probability, will be before many
more months can have elapsed in a conflagration
of rebellion against the abhorred Tartar dynasty
from one extremity to the other. It was hardly
within reason to look for any result other than this
as the sequel to the late ignominious discomfiture of
that detested and alien race recently driven in a
panic flight by (as we have already called the Allied
Forces) a comparative handful of Europeans, driven
forth in craven terror and confusion out of the capi-
tal of the empire far away into the distant wilds of
Tartary. Moreover, in addition to the degradation
of the Tartar rulers thus proclaimed by the events
themselves that have in their regard so very recently
and notoriously come to pass—there is that impor-
tant article in the new Treaty negotiated by the
Allies with the appalled and terror-stricken Govern-
ment—that all-important article which provides for
the publication far and wide throughout the vast
extent of the Chinese Empire, the publication far
and wide throughout that country of the total
prostration and abject submission of the old and
hated Tartar Government.
The announcements that will then have to be
made to a people numbering in all from 300,000,000
to 400,000,000—a people already either ripe for re-
volt, or in a state of open, armed, and triumphant
,xebellion—will include amongst their number
acknowledgments of a weakness so contemptible
that the publication of those same announce-
ments can hardly fail, by any chance whatever,
to be the signal for an overwhelming revolutionary
outburst. What admissions indeed will there
not have been made in this way to the Chinese
people by their Tartar Government ? The latter
will thus, among other things, have been con-
strained formally and deliberately to acknowledge
that they have given in their assurances of regret to
France and England, to the " outer barbarians" of
Western Europe for that miserable ambuscade of a
year and a half ago at the Taku fortifications.
They will httve to confess that they have promised
to pay down in hard coin to their conquerors
indemnities of no trivial magnitude—to France an
indemnity of two millions and a half, to England
an indemnity, we must still believe, approximating
to just double that amount—for it will be actually
deplorable if Lord ELGIN shou!d prove to have
extorted from the murderers of our heroic tars on
the Peiho, and of our other lamented countrymen
who were lately prisoners at Pekin, one doit, one
tael less than the round sum of £5,000,000 sterling.
The Chinese EMPEROR and his advisers will fur-
thermore have to trumpet throughout the length and
breadth of the whole Empire—through the reso-
nant scroll of this last notable Treaty with Fran ce
and England—they will have to trumpet thus
throughout the length and breadth of China— the
cession of Kowloon to England, the opening of
Tien-tsin to the commerce of Europe, the

admission of the Anglo-French Ambassadors

en permanence within the sacred and awful
precincts of the violated capital of the Empire, the
restoration of churches, schools, and cemeteries,
to the survivors of the Catholic missionaries,

from whom they were now two hundred years ago
torn by violence. These and other acknowledg-
ments of a nature hardly less strikingly significant
of the completeness of the late discomfiture of the
rulers of the Chinese—those hated rulers theip-
selves kill now, by one of the binding articles of
the Treaty, have to promulgate, we cannot but
think, to their owe inevitable destruction. The
publication of the Treaty under the actual circum-
stances of the empire must unavoidably act (we are
perfectly satisfied of this) like the application of
a vast number of lighted torches to a mass
of dried and detonating combustibles. All
we have to do, now that the Tartar dynasty and
its Ministerial and Military supporters have
pledged themselves to this most rash and insensate
proceeding on their part, is to wait and listen.
patiently until therd comes to us, sooner or later,
the reverberation of the stupendous explosion.
While we are thus waiting and listening for tid-
ings of the new and wide-spread revolt of the
Chinese people against their Tartar Government—it
is pleasant to think of the surprises in store for us
all, both in France and England, upon the arrival
from China of the costly works of Oriental art com- ,

ing to us in the 311:!:2 of 77i1 from the summer

palace of Yuen-min-.cuen. Treasures such as these

have never before this left the shores of the Chinese

Empire to gratify the curiosity of Europeans. lina-
.gine among this wonderful spoil from the Hamp-
ton Court Palace of Pekin—the effigy of an elephant
of natural size in gilt and bronze enammelled ! An
edition of the writing of CoNrucars embellished

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 1880.