The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

BE.NSON's. ,WATCHES.
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ROYAL ENGLI SH OPERA,
COVENT-GAR DEN

Under the management of Miss L. PV4 ne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, SA TANELL A. Messrs. Santley, 11.
Corri, a Honey, St. Albyn,,and NV. 1 larrison Miss F. Cruise,
Miss Pilling, and Miss Louisa Fyn(
Conductor, Alfred .
Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. P. H. Payne, H. Payne,
F. •Payne, Mdlle. I.equine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan,
and Mons. Vandris.
Doors open at half-past 7—Comm tttoe at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, 1 iA YMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Ruck stone.
TATS EVENING the performances will commenee with
A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE.
After which, by desire, THE CONTW.STED ELECTION.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c.
And' A KISS IN THE' DARK.
Commence at 7.
a.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
- Lessee, Mr. A. Harrlg,
THIS EVENING. the new drama: entitled HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Mattheivs,
Miss C. Leeercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris,
Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leelereq. •
• After which, Mons, Espanosa (Premier •Danseur Comique),
will appear. with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the'Ladies of
the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as
danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la
Porte St. Martin, Paris.
To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs.H.
Widdieomb, Meadows, H. faker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs.
Weston.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Elanager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING. THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
BMW:4ton. C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; lifissiWoolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINO RAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six--Commence at seven. Box-
Ellice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

TH TRE-ROYAI LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James
Pinning., Job Rouse, &c. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia
St. George.'
To be followed by the um Drama Fantastique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining', J. John-
stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate
Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste.
Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. Madame Celeste
and Mr. Rouse.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being. open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, A DEAD SHOT.
With A DAY AT PARIS. Miss L. Thompson and Mr. C
Young.
After which TH r. CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret,
zier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden.
Bra-
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Casse, &c. •
Reduced Prices--Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-oflice open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half—past six ; perform
ante commences at 7.

A smEy S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
AsaL, Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
*THIS EVENING. the grand melo-dramatic production,
by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the
principal events in the Life of the Great Italian GeneraL
To be followed by New and Transeendant Equestrian Talent
of Young Menoni, supereminent in his somersaults and inap-
proachable—The brilliant Lady Rider, Miss Emily Cooke—
We Wonderfully-schooled Dogs and Monkeys, and Intelli-
gent Elephant—Amazing tErial Rondines by John Henry
Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind
Man's-Buff—Vanning Ambition, by the treble-headed Won-
ders—Sig. Delavanti and his admirable Protegees, varied by
those heralds of fun,
To oom the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. • •
menoe at 7. •
Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public-in England at these Con-
certs).
And a Grand Se:ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchileld, and E. w. Mackne3r.
Several interesting rictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the-most =blue and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEU 'VS celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is opea from 9 a.m. 1111 12,p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, DECEIIITER 11.
THEILMOMATEIL,
,IN TILE SHADS..
4G—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
36.:--this day at noon..

BAROMETER-30.60, falling.
WIND, South-Westerly; very light. Sharp frost, and
very thick fog. -
ONz.—Tho fog has increased in density, so
much that darkness visible was nothing to be compared
with it.

DEC. 12.
THERMOMETER,- IN THE SHADE.
38—highest since noon yesteiday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
40 —thii.day at noon.

BAROMETEIte-30.40.
WIND, Southerly ;light, with dull, rainy, hazy weather.

t HIGH NVA.TER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tim DA.y.—Moraing, 3h. Om.—Afternoon, 3h. 23m,
To-mounow.-Morning,, 3h. 47m.—Aft moon, 4h. 11m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 12, 1859.

Justice (? ) has at length been done to the
descendants of that remarkable man who was the
TUBAL CAIN of modern civilisation ! ConT, the
inventor of the different systems now in use in the
manufacture of iron, by means of his important
scientific discoveries, has enhanced the wealth of
England by an amount almost beyond anything
like accurate computation. He has thereby, during
the best part of the century last past, not only thus
increased the material resources of the country, not
only multiplied the advantages derivable toEngland
from the mineral treasures dug from the very
entrails of her soil—he has beyond this, as a
national benefactor, given (by means of his inven-
tions) to one generation after another of the indus-
trial part of our labouring community, increased
and increasing employment. It is difficult to arrive
at any distinct or even any proximately accurate
notion of the good such a man as this has done in
one way or another, directly or indirectly, to the
masses of his fellow-countrymen. His benefactions
are of a kind so obvious, so numerous, so conspicu-
ous, so varied in kind and in magnitude, that bad
he lived in the old pagan days he would infallibly
have had his effigy treasured up in many and many
a household, as one among the beloved lures and
penates of the land that gave him birth and witnessed
the phenomenon of his intellectual development.
Lesser benefactors of their race than CoRT have
been deified by the grateful Romans and Athenians
in the wild enthusiastic days of Classic Heathendom.
In startling contrast to such appreciative ardour as
that, has been the apathetic indifference displayed
very frequently amongst ourselves towarda men
. who have worked more wonders in their way, dur-
• ing a singly lifetime, than such old mythic con-
querors and wonder-workers as BAccut:s or HER.
CULES. Data oboip Belesario ! is a cry that has
only too often been audible. °TWAY'S crust and
• BOYCE'S blanket are painfully remembered in this
island in contrast to the antique /arcs and penates
• aforesaid. National benefactors, time and again,.
while filling the coliers of their country-have by that
very process been only the more effectually im-
.
- poverishing themselves. A more striking illustra-
tion of this miserable truth could hardly be adduced
from the whole of the varied records of art, science,
or literature, than that of which the mere name of
CORT is instantly suggestive. Here was an inven-
• tor, whose discoveries have added to the wealth of
the United Kingdom so enormously that the sum
already attained by this single means of increase