The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
litu Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WOOING- IN JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST: ;Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan-
borough.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE LAST OF THE PIG-TAILS : Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented
TILE WOODMAN'S HORSE, introducing a treble company
of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world.
Characters by Messrs. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis,
Mark Howard, Anderson.
Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
3ladlle. Blanche will appear.
After which, Madame Amile Maurice, from Paris, will make
her Terrific Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries..
Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to introduce his
extraordinary Dogs.
To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. • Galleries, .6d.
Private Boxes from £1 Is. to £2 2s. and upwards.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FIN E
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-
imr Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as re,,_.;•ards 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
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, NOT. 17.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

48—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night
42 —this day at noon.

BAnomETER-29.64.
WIND, South-Easterly ; rather fresh—cold, with sun-
shiny weather. It blew a perfect gale for the last four
days, with biting cold.

Not far short of 100,000 disciplined soldiers are
now assembled under the QUEEN'S colours is. Hin-
dostan. Our gallant army is led, moreover, by one
of the most eminent of our heroic generals. The
hot season has termivated in India, and the winter
campaign of 1858-1859 was fairly commenced on
the 15th October. The serpent of the Sepoy Rebel-
lion, scotched by Sir COLIN CAMPBELL before the
commencement of the Asiatic summer, now remains
to be destroyed and exterminated by Lord CLYDE
of Clydesdale. It has dragged its slow and terrible
length along during more than a whop twelve-
month ; throughout the lapse of which it has been
trampled upon and crushed here and there at in-
tervals—assailed and beaten, as it were, piecemeal.
The closing campaign, which has now begun, or
rather which has already been developed by exactly
one month, is inaugurated with the comprehensive
design of surrounding the monster—gradually
contracting the avenging circle, and eventually
annihilating the hitherto scattered, and some of
them scatheless, legions of the foe. The result is
simply a question of time. Yet the undertaking is
immense—because the enemy is still very nume.
rous ; because they are men, for the most part, at
bay, fighting with halters round their necks, and
ncited against us by the maddening goad of despe-
ration ; because, beyond this, they are scattered far
and wide over vast tracts of country. Altogether,
it is easy to number up 60,000 or 70,000 insurgents
still in arms, under despotic chiefs like NANA SAIIIB
and his brother BALAROW—bands of rebels varying
from sometimes the merest handful up to cornpaci
bodies of fifteen thousand men-13,000 at Churda
11,000 at Bithoor and Futtclpore, 6,500 at Boandee,
3,000 at Birwa, 2,500 at Belgraon, 2,000 at Thule-
pore, 2,500 at Khyrabad, 900 at Sandee, and so on
hither and thither in separate masses of varying
strength—one of the most formidable bands of all
being that assembled under the lawless banners of
the Nawab of Bareilly, KIIAN BAHADOOR KIIAN,
at a diAance of a few miles to the east of
Shahjchanpore. Around all these desperate
hordes of rebels the net will have to be spread
adroitly, to be then drawn tighter and tighter in
contracting meshes until the whole swarm of insur-
gents have been routed, disarmed, and finally con-
quered. With a mere handful of men, and these
mostly Sepoys, Sir CHARLES NAPIER accomplished
in a few weelisa precisely similar feat, when opposed

not by a rabble of ruffian insurgents under leaders
eminent for nothing but their guilt and cruelty,

but by formidable armies of warriors like the Beloo.

chees, under great soldiers like Au MouRAD and

the Lion of Meerpore, SHERE MAiromED. And the
Conqueror of Soinde had to encompass his anta-

gonists by means of a combination of military

operations, some of them separated from each other

by distances of 200 miles.

Yet heroism, genius

sagacity, daring, forethought, vanquished every

obstacle, vanquished distance and numbers—and a
vast province was won for the empire on the
bloody plains of Meanee and Hyderabad. Then,
the proportions were enormously against us—the

enemy was, moreover, formidable in intellect and
valour—their arms were not paralysed by the
remembrance of atrocities like those of Delhi and
Cawnpore. Now, the situation is altogether diffe-
rent. Our troops are numerically powerful. They
are heartened, besides, by the memory of men like
HAVELOCK, and NEILL, and NICHOLSON. They
enter the last campaign of the war of the rebellion
opposed to a scattered and dispirited foe, a foe
without any one leader of note—they themselves
led by a Crimean hero no less illustrious than the
Highland chief who defended Balaklava, COLIN
CAMPBELL, Lord CLYDE of Clydesdale. Remem-
bering this, and remembering our just cause, we

can have little doubt as to the camp-aign being

carried to a satisfactory close rapidly and tri:

urnphantly-,

What part will the working man take P This
question, asked by many an independent Reformer,
and asked, we are sure, with no little seriousness
by Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI, no one can
affect to despise. The millions are a power if they
choose to act, and, if they act peacefully and yet
firmly, ft power very difficult to retaist. Do the

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1858.