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

HOTAT, PTUNTESS'S TITEATRF,.—
Leagee and Mankffer. Mr. A. Trarris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed bv, at 8 o'clk, THE CORSICAN
BROTHERS. supported by Messrs. Pechter, A. Harris,
Meadows, Graham, Shore, and Miss Murray.
To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sore T,esser. and Directress, Madame CF.LESTE.
Last night of Mr. John Drew's Engagement. and of the
Company performimr before Christmas.
THTfi EVEvING. THE. PE I'S OF 'PITT'' PARTERRE.
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
The -:tTlisic hr Mr. Geori-e Loder.' Principal characters by Mr
IT. Neville, Mr. .Tohn-Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Tertian,
Miss Neville, Missllndspeth, Miss Stnsrt, Miss Turner, Miss
Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss tydia Thompson.
After which. the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY.
Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers,
Butler, and
and John
M N
D issrew:
evil Mrle. s. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
M. Teman,
Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or
TTTE sECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr.
henry Neville, Mr. .Tohn Rouse, 3Tr. H. Rutter' Mr. Villiers
3Tr. Vining*, Mr. Forrester, 31. r. Campbell, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste.
To commence at a quarter to 7, on account of the length of

the entertainments.

A PRLPH-T, NFW TREATRE-ROYAL.
Qr,!, P-oprinfor gna Nruiwypr. Beni Wibater.
Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes
RobertQon and Arr. Dion lioucicault, who will appear
every evenincr in the hintly successful Drama of "The
Colleen Pawn."

THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby; and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which. THE COLLEEN BA.WN. D. Poucicault, D.
Fisher, Billineon, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Ae-nes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs Chatterley.
After which. THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington,
Mr. J. L Toole. and Miss K. Kelly.
Doorr open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charre for bookfir.
Private bn Keg, £2.25. ; Family RAXPS,
Orchestra Stalls. ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

STT,F,Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manarrer. Mr. WM, BATTY.
Crowded Houses nightly to witness the Lions and the Brea
Brut:, Tamer.
Miss Rebecca Isaacs every Evening..

Notice.—There will be no half-price during' the engafze-
ment of the Lions, except for children under ten years of
age, and then to Pit and Boxes only,
This Evening:, a new Spectacle, entitled TUE LION
CONQUEROR ; or, The .Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
of rerfOrminEr Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett.
To be slic.^reded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and Bri ish Artistes.
Concluding with the First Act of THE DAUGHTER
OF THE REGIMENT. Marie, Riss Rebecca Isaacs.
Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from ii till 4
Stage Msnaeer—Mr. W. WEFvr.
Director of the Arena--Mr. Pearson.

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

THE CANTERBURY HALL

C. NORTON bezg to inform visitors to London that the
above HALT., with its Mafznificent Gallervof Modern Paint-
ino-s, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.

GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINT'S NORMA, SONNAMRULA, AND FLOTOITS

ALA RTITA. •
PRINCIPAL ATITISTPS,
MTSS RUSSELL MADAME MARTA
MISS TYR REI. MISS WILKINSON
Mr. HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONGHMANEL
The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. Hollinzs-
worth, Master Barry, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation sOLIT, "THE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters.

On Saturday next, will be produced (first time) a Grand
Selection from "La Figlla del llezimento" (Donizetti).

1:}1-F, WEATHER. -Btrw OFFICT., DEC. 18, IMO.
TNT:RMONTITFR, IN THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this dry at neon.

BAROMETER-29.60 ; falling.
Nirns-D—Northerly—variable; with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY —Morning, sh. 32m.—Afternoon, 7 6h. 52m,
To-mour.ow.-Nforning, 6h. 11m.—Afternoon, 6h. 311 n,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 1880.

It is, an old tale enough, the barbarities inflicted
by the Chinese upon their prisoners. It is a tale
so old that one might almost have been disposed to
regard it as obsolete or even apocryphal. It used
to read like a page from the grimliest chapter of
the Book of horrors—that Newgate Calendar of
devilish cruelty, of fiendish inhumanity. -It seemed
to be less like the records of reality than like the
retrospect of some hideous dream dreamt, let, us say,
by one of the survivors of that long night of horror
Passed by a crowd of Englishmen closely packed
together into the foul and narrow compass of the
Black Hole-at Calcutta. SAWNEY BEAN, the inan-
eater, /night have been the hero of some of those
frightful narratives as they were told to us years
and years ago by one adventurous .traveller after
another. Who that has any recollection whatever
of these histories of exquisite suffering, who among
all the readers of those appalling descriptions, but
remembers vividly to this day that Cage of infer-
nal cruelty into which some of (hose un-
happy ofthe Chinese
victims
were inexorably
fastened. A barred framework with
a hole in the
head pro-
ton of it, through which.the sufferer's
truded—a Cage often, we are told, exhibited during
its use in the public market place, vviththe prisoner
cramped inside—neither sitting, nor standing, for
kneeling, nor stooping, nor in any attitude in
which the human body could find one moment's
sense of comfort,' even to begin with ! A cage, in
fact, within which the victim was doomed, in no
definable attitude at all, to die of agonising fatigue,
combined with maddening thirst and starvation. All
these accounts, bowel er, accounts that one used to
hang over with a shuddering sense of fascination,
years and years ago, wondering if they could by
possibility be true, even in a few of the fearful par- I
titulars relatrd in them—bad come long since to 1
be nearly forgotten, as a tale that is told,
and when told only half believed. And yet now,
actually in these our own times, at the close of this
very year of our LORD, 1860, they suddenly revive to
our remembrance--they are suddenly forced at last
upon our acceptance, as in every way credible—
they are enhanced and intensified in some of the
details to e. pitch of horror (not formerly . realised