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

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Leases. Mr. A. flares.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dane.: r, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Millie. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
seuse 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,.
'l'll IS 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 THE GIANT KILLER; or, harle-
quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin. Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams -Clown
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravaganza, by 11. 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 Woolg,ar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
After which TII 14: NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG ;
or, The Kniolit and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Keay, Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
(Moe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc 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, awl West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the, pertorrnaners will eommenee with
GARIBA.LDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc,
Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of ruNcu AND
JUDY. Introducing Niles Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and l'antaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Fit, ls. The Box-oißce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
'nee commences at 7.
On Wednesday next, Jan. 4, 18.10, a Morning Performance
of the Pantomime, at two o'clock, when the Children of the
Duke of York School, with their Band, will attend.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
THIS EVENING, the grand 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 SVOrtill,,?; Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called -HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous an I Dazzling nr.chanical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin, M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni; Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles.
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.-
NVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.-
And a Grand Se cotton from Meyerbeer's new opera of
INNORA 11.
comic Vocalists -Messrs. George 'Tolson (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic). W. I'. Critchileld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautilied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BON H EU It' S celebrated PICTURE (tithe HORSE
FAIR. is now added to the already maaniticent Collection of
Faintin,4 in the Canterbury Hall Vine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open trout I till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 3, 1860.
THEEMOXETER, IN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—this d:ty at noon.
TIAROMETEIt-29.12; a akdden fall of three-quarters of
an inch.
Wpm, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull, rainy weather.
It rained very heavily in the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts Dsy.—Morning, Bh. 22m.—Afternoon, Bh. 54m.
To-moultow.-Morning, 9h. 2811-I.—Afternoon, 10h. 4m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 1860.

Mn. GLA DSTON E'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, bat—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
them, 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 GLairsToNF
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 revenec of a
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 indefensible)—we are now saddled in this

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