The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

Commence at Seven,

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Williams.
To conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD ;
of, Harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merry Men of Sherwood
Forest.

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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presentedCßETH. Shakspere's Tragedy of
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Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE KING OF THE CASTLE; or, Harlequin Frillee
Diamond and Princess Brighteyes.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed TUE BUSYBODY.
Messrs. Buckstone, Farren, arc. ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam and
Miss Reynolds.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
17NDINE ; or, Harlequin and the
e Spirit of the Waters.
Commenc at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer,
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE SISTER'S
SACRIFICE. - Messrs. Emery, Barret, and Rogers. Madame
Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Julia St. George.
After which, will produced the new Burlesque, written
be
expressly for the Lyceum Company by Robert B. Brongh,
and entitled THE SIEGE OF TROY. The principal cha-
racters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia St. George, Mrs. Weston,
Bliss Portman, Miss Talbot, Miss Kate Saxon, Miss'E. Romer,
; Mr. Emery, Mr. Charles Young, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. J.
Rogers, Mr. Barrett, dm. ; Miss Rosina Wright, Miss M.
Charles, Miss Harriet Dalton, &c.
To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime, replete with
new tricks and mechanical devices, entitled HA_RLEQUIN
TOY HORSE ; or, The Cremorne Fete. Clown, Mr Charles
Lauri ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry
Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Jenny Lauri.
Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ;Pit,
2s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, is.
Box-office open from it to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past
6, to commence at 7 every evening.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
First Night of a New Drama.
THIS EVENING, THE BORGIA RING : A Legend of
Stonehenge. Mr. Ben. Webster, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. J. L. Toole,
Mr. P. Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington.
To be followed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS.
Mr. C. Selby, Mr. j. L. Toole, Miss Henrietta Simms.
To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
MOTHER RED CAP ; or, Harlequin Johnny Gilpin's Ride
to Edmonton. Clown, Mr. Crouest ; Harlequin, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; Columbine, Miss Hayman ; Pantaloon, Mr. Lupin° ;
Sprite, Mr. Le Barr.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh.
THIS EVENING. THE RULE OF THREE.
Alter which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or
Ye Queen% ye Earle, and ye Maydenne.
And THE LITTLE SAVAGE
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke.
- Crowded Houses Nightly.
Great and glorious Success of the gorgeously- appinted Pan-
tomime.—The celebrated continental equestrians, Mr. A.
Brydges and Madame Brydges, every Evening.
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, Is. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
Gallery, M.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, the grand Spec-
tacle of THE GIPSY GIRL OF MADRID ; or, The Edict
of Spain.
After which, the inimitable SCENES IN THE CIRCLE,
introducing Mr. Wm. Cooke'e, beautiful and highly-trained
palfrics and ponies, and the Starßiders of Europe.
Te conclude with the great Operatic and Burlesque Eques-
trian Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BARON MUN-
CIIAUSEN, AND HIS COMICAL CREAM COB
CRUISER. Baron Munchausen, Mr. W. Anson ; Harlequin,
Mr. H. Hemmings ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morley ; Clown, Mr. A.
F. Forrest ; Columbine, Miss Julia Weston.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.
The last grand Morning Performance of the matchless Pan-
tomime on Saturday next, January 29, at Two o'clock.
Carriages for the day 'performance at half-past four, and
night representation at hall-past eleven,

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road:—
Proprietor—C. -MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS WOW
OPEN DAT 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 MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.
In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
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 Nine awl Eleven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
4j—lowest this morning and during the night,
51—this day at noon.

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BAROMETER-29.75.
Wnm, Westerly; fresh, with beautiful weather,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1859.

The extraordinary rapidity observable in the
development of the most gigantic of all our great
colonies—Australia—was strikingly notified last
evening at the anniversary dinner commemorative
of its original foundation. Within the compass of
an ordinary life-time, during the lapse of just
threescore years and eleven, our magnificent
colonial possessions at our antipodes have become
enhanced in importance with a speed altogether
unprecedented. Instead of comprising exclusively
a single penal settlement of comparative insig-
nificance, Australia is now peopled by one
million loyal freemen, devoted and enlight-
ened subjects of the Crown of these domi-
nions. There, according to the last published
estimates, flourishes a dependency having a yearly
revenue of more than £5,000,000, absorbing im-
ports to the annual value of £27,000,000, and sup-
plying exports to the annual value of nearly
£23,000,000. An extraordinary efflux and influx
of wealth—a really wonderful revenue for a colo-
nial possession so youthful as this dependency of
Australasia—remembering that the revenue of
the venerable mother country herself, the entire
revenue of the United Kingdom at the
date of the Revolution was, upon the average,
actually no more than £4,000,000 ! Remembering
again, that our imperial imports in 1857 amounted
to just £187,000,000--and the whole of our exports
in the same year to £122,000,000. Yet, within the
brief interval already particularized within the
compass of a single lifetime, one dependency of the
Crown of England, founded as recently as the year
1788, has so swiftly developed its varied.and prolific
resources that we find it now, in 1859, with an
annual income of almost £5,000,000---importing
yearly to the value of £27,000,000, and exporting
yearly to the value of £23,000,000. One remark-
able circumstance vouched upon by a comparison
of the returns of the United Kingdom and
those of our antipodean possessions in Aus-
tralasia, is that of the imports in
each instance being in excess of the exports. What
to a supeificial observer might in this appear to be

an adverse balance in our commercial transactions,
is one of the most reliable indications of the
healthy condition of the trade—here in the United
Kingdom, there in Australia. _Together with the
growth of the commerce of that great dependency,
and with the rapid increase of its aggregate re-
venue
has been the steady advance there made
in the educational interests of the dependency. The
university already established under Royal charter
at Sydney, will, in all human likelihood, obtain the
balance of a sister university, established also
under Royal charter, at Melbouhie. Simultane-
ously with all which striking evidences of the mate-
rial prosperity of the colony, there have, within the
last few years, come to the old mother-country the

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