The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH
COVENT-GAOPERA:
RDEN.
Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H.
Haigh, H. Cccri, G. Honey, Bartleman, &C Misses Farepa,
Thixlwall,

Condactor, Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS
IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden
Palms.

Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Loggee. Mr. J. R. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS.
Miss Reynolds.
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After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto-
mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled
Leclercqs.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, ?ttadame Celeste.

Last night but three of the Spanish Dancers.
THIS hIVENING, the popular Drama of THE SISTER'S
SACRIFICE. Genevieve (her original character) Madame
Celeste.

After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex-
travaganza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBE &RD, the
LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H.
Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino.

Commence at T.

ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancsr, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mille. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
THIS EVENING, A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr.
A. Harris Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK TH E GIANT KILLER; or, Harle-
quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Ur. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq„ the Nymph
of the Lurlyberg ; or the Knight and the Naiades.
THIS EVENING, THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J.
Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
Atter which THE NYMPHS OF THE LIIRLEYBERG ;
or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly Laidlaw.

Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the performances will enmmenee with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, Arc.

Followed by a new sketch, A EIOUSETIOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven.

To oonclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing. Dogs.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-ofEce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance commences at 7.

On Wednesday next, Jan. 4, 18.10, a Morninz Performance
of the Pantomime, at two o'clock, when the Children of the
Duke of York School, with theirßand, will attend.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
THIS EVENING, the c-rand entertainments will com-
mence at 7 o'clock with new and extraordinary features in
Horsemanship by the best Riders in Europe. After which,
the successful sporting Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling mschanical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic lncomprehensibles.
Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the
Circle every Saturday during the Holidays at Two o'clock.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
QUEEN. „EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAR.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. 'V. Critchdeld, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have he,,a re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA lIONIIEITR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is opea from:, till 11 on Sunday Evening.

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THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 3, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—this day at noon.
BARourrEn-29.12; a sudden fall of three-quarters of
an inch.
WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull, rainy weather.
It rained very heavily in the night.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TEts DAY.—Morning, Bh. 22m.—Afternoon, Bh. 54m.
To-xoßnow.-Morning, Oh. 2Sm.—Afternoon, 10h. 4m.

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN, 3, 1860.

MR. GLADSTONE'S extraordinary financial
crotchet (for we can call it nothing else), according
to which it is incumbent upon us, coute qui coute,
to make each successive year bear its own burdens,
has involved during this current half-year the im-
position of that monstrous anomaly—a double in-
come tax, so levied that the income tax upon a
whole twelvemonth is being collected now within
half-a-year! It only required just such an
illustration of its working as this to de-
monstrate, beyond the possibility of misappre-
hension, the absurdity as well as the harshness
and cruelty of this bran new fiscal theory
of our model Chancellor of the Exchequer. Such,
in effect, is what actually comes of the refined and
subtilised—not straw-splitting merely, but—hair-
splitting, of the right hon. gentleman when fairly
installed in office as guardian of the national purse,
and as such allowed his " fling "in the reorganisa-
tion of the machinery of the Treasury.
A perfect master of parliamentary rhetoric, an
admirably ingenious critic upon HOMER, a clever
sophist in debate, a daring idealist in diplomacy, Mr.
GLADSTONE is about the most speciously fallacious
and dexterous wrong-headed Financier that could
very well have been nominated to the responsible
office of Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Ex-
chequer. The best that can conscientiously be
said of him in that position is, that he is just
one trifle or shade better perhaps than Sir CHARLES
WOOD—that astoundingly incompetent financier,
of whom it is related in modern annals that within
a single session he has been known to bring in three
successive Budgets, the two earliest of these being
summarily rejected by the House of Commons as
glaringly abortive, and the last of the three even-
tually passed in sheer pity of a Ministerial display
of fatuity rising at last to the acme of the ridiculous.
Mr. GLADSTONE'S
Budgets, it is true, require no re-
modelling like this—they admit of no such ignomi-
nious rejection. They are simply—too clever by
half. They are constructed and planned upon the
most majestic principles. They dazzle the House
into an almost instantaneous acceptance of
tlAm, by reason of their superb parade of magnani-
mity. Each year is to bear its own burden_that
is the guiding axiom with which Mr. GLAD3TONE
sets forth latterly in his fiscal and financial con-
jurations. It is almost like a text from Galatians
—" Let every man bear his own burdens." But
applied to the employment of the revenue of n
great empire, the principle not only ceases to .be
analogous in,its application—it becomes ludicrously
inappropriate, it becomes, when pushed to an ex-
treme (as circumstances may at all times render
necessary—as they actually do render necessary at
the present moment) flagrantly absurd and simply
intolerable. Hence, in fact because of this
Crotchet of Mr. • GLADSTONE'S (a crotchet
in itself—when thus pushed to an extreme—logi-
cally ind°renele)—we are now saddled in this
country with an income-tax, as already remarked,