The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-24 00:00:00

IATINTER. —NO GENTLEMAN during the
Winter should be without one of
MACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS lIIGIILAND CLOAKS,
Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable,
useful, and gentlemanly upper Garment now in use, either
o r Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Riding, Driving, and
Walking. They are made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety
of Plain Colours, and very pretty Mixtures : also in dark
Grey and Black, for Clergymen's wear.
Good useful qualities from.... 265. to 365.
The best do. d 0..... 38s. to 505.
The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure.
Patterns and price per post, free.
Any number of Cloaks fOrwarded in four days from date of
order, free to London.
D. MACDOUGALL,
THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE.
INVERNESS.

pOYAL - ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT
GARDEN, under the sole Manazement of Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison.—The public are respectfully in-
formed that this new and el,:gant Theatre [S NOW OPEN
for the first ENG', I SIT OPERA SEASON THIS EVENING
Dec. 24, when will he presented an entirely new and original
Opera, by Mr. W. Balfe, entitled SATANELLA ; or, THE.
POWER OF LOVE.

Conductor-31r. Alfred Mellon.
After which the National Anthem.
Commence at Seven,

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
LL Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
On MONDAY EVENING next will be presented
THE JEALOUS WIFE. ill-. and Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new nranrl Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE KING Ole THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Prince
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
On MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 27, the performances w ill
be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mess' •s.
Ruckstone, Chippendale; Mesdames Reynolds and Poynter '.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entith
U\ DINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.
Comment at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
Will be Opened for the season on CHRISTMAS EVE, Fri-
day, Dec. 24, when will be produced a new Burlesque, written
expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Br.Dugh,
and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The new and gor-
geous scenery by Mr. William Callcott. The principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, Mrs. Weston,
Miss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss E. Romer,
&c. ; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, Mr- .1.
IRogars, Mr. Barrett, &c. ; Miss Rosina Wright, Miss M.
Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, and a numerous Corps de Bstl-
let will also appear.

After the Burlesque a new Comic Pantomime, replete with
new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HARLEQUEN
TOY HORSE; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles
Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry
Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri.
The Performances will commence on Friday, Monday, :and
Tuesday with the Comedletta of TOO MUCH FOR GOODNATURE.

A Morning Performance of the Burlesqne and Pantomime
on Boxing-day, to commence at two o'clock precisely ; do ors
open at half-past one.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ;
2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, ls.
Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at halt-past
6, to commence at 7 every evening.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE RULE OF THREE.
After which TILE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.

THIS EVENING, the great Eastern Spectacle of THE
REVOLT IN INDIA; or, The Fugitives and their Faith-
ful Steed.

After which SCENES IN THE ARENA, introducing Mr.
W. Cooke, and his beautiful horses, Mr. Runnels. Madame
Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, and the finest
troupe of equestrians in the kingdom.
To conclude with the Farce of SHOOTING THE 31:00N.
A famous, magnificent, and matchless Christmas Panto-
mime on Boxing-night, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON
MUNCHAUSEN ; or, The King of the Pumpkins, unprece-
dented for comicality and splendour.
Two Performances of the Pantomime on Boxing-day, viz.,
at Two and Seven o'clock.

Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 38.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, is. ; tipper
Gallery, 6d.

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor -C. 3IonToN.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FrNE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters :and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The MusteAr. ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

la addition to the usual entertainment, the SAITVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa-
tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
perform every Evening at sine anti Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 24.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

53—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during :he night.
48—this day at noon.
BAROMETER—DOWII to 29.28—n0w up to 29.58.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. It
blew a storm last night.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1858.

We may w9ll wish Reformer 3 a merry. Christmas
and a happy New Year, for BRIGHT indeed is
their hope. Till this Christmas they have looked
only to one of two great parties aspiring to office.
The Whigs were considered to have a vested
interest in Reform, and the Tories a like interest
in resistance, and all hope centred in the necessi-
ties of one party and in the defeat of the other.
This Christmas, on the contrary, there are no
avowed enemies to our Parliamentary Reformers.
The unanimity of all party leaders has become
quite a subject of pleasantry. Why, then, should
not Whigs, Tories, and Radicals all be merry toge-
ther over their Christmas plum-pudding, and over
their wine after it, when they can all drink Par-
liamentary Reform with all the honours ? Of all
the parties, however, it must be confessed the
thorough-going Reformers may well join most
merrily in the toast. They cannot boast, to be sure,
of being in office ; they cannot point to a leader
who was a leader also in the Reform Bill of 1832,
but they can point to four of the largest meetings
yet held on the subject, and they can at least say
that they have the BRIGHT side of the question.
So, say we, three cheers for Reform, and a merry
Christmas !

And, now that we are all in good temper, we
want a word or two with our friends of the middle
classes. We were a little struck with some
remarks of a Mr. FYFE at the Edinburgh meeting,
which we hope our readers did not overlook. Mr.
FIiFE had risen, he said, from the ranks to a good
professional position, and he advocated still the
cause of the ranks. What he insisted on was the
advantage to the middle classes of dealing
GENEROUSLY with the -classes below them in the
matter of the franchise. lie was not preSsing
universal suffrage; he seemed quite content with
Mr. BRIGHT'S rate-book suffrage, but he asked for
what the working classes should recognise as con-
fidence on the part of the better-off classes.
The more we have thought of it, the more his
suggestion has commended itself to us. The pre-
sent time seems to be unusually favourable for
discharging a debt long due from the middle class
to those below it. We can testify, from personal
recollection, that in 1832 the general understand-
ing was, that if the operatives helped the middle
classes to get a vote for themselves, it should be
repaid by the Parliament elected under the new
franchise. At first the subject was overlooked or
forgotten in the great change already gained, and
in the great questions which for a time occupied
the public mind. Later, it issued in the Chartist
movement ; and ever since then an impression has

remained on the minds of working men that thcii

immediate superiors in the social scale have' not

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