The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

rintE ATR E-R OY LYCEUM-
soTe I,4imsee and Dire:Areas, Madame Celette.

TRIO EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE RIMY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. ;Messrs. James
Vinning, Job Rouse, ac.; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia
St. George.

To be followed by the.new Drama Fantasfique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vining:, .T. John-
stone. F. Villiers • MissesJulta St.. George, Hudspeth, Kate
Saville, A. Burdett. and Madame celeste.
Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. Madame Celeste
anti Mr. Rouse.

ROYAL. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
ICin;-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 TIT K CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Bra-
zier ; Mesdames F. Vattheirs, Murray, and Eliza Arden.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, 'support.ll by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Came, &c.
Reduced Prices,--Gallery, fid; Pit, ls. The Box-ofEce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance Commences at 7.

A.STLEVS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—)Tr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
T FITS EVENING. the grand melo-dramatic-pYoduCtion,
by Tom Taylor. Esq., called GARIBALDI ;- illustrating the
pri-cipal events in the Lite of the Great Italian General.
To be followed by New and Transtendant Equestrian Talent
of Young Menoni, supereminent in his somersaults and inap-
proachable—The brilliant Lady Elder, Miss Emily Cooke—
Tne Wonderfully-schoqed Dogs and Monkeys, 'and Intelli-
gent Elephant—Amazing YErtril Roridines by John Henry
Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind
Man's Ruff—Vaulting Ambition, by the treble-headed Won-
ders—Sig. Delavanti and his admirable Protegees, varied by
those heralds of fun, the Clowns,. Mimes, and. Drolls.

To commence at 7.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

N..)ANTERBUR V HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera o
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con.
certs).

And a Grand Se calm from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), IV. T. Critchuleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestin Pictures are added to the Fin'e Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
R f)S A RON II EUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already mazniflcent Collection of
Paintimrs in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is °pea trout 9 a nt. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

VTIIE EATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 13.
THEILMONETEA, IN THE SHADE.
45thighest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
39—this day at noon.
BARO3IETRIt-30.19--still going down.
Wm), North-Westerly; light, with fine weather,
Heavy, fog in the morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Titis DAY.—Morning, 3h. 47m.—Afternoon, 4h. 11m
To-moußow.-Morning, 4h. 35m.—Afternoon, 4b. 59m,

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TII E SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 13, 1859.

The Spaniards having at last succeeded in picking
a quarrel again with their old enemies the Moors, are
now, as we all know, " at it" in real earnest, led
on by Marshal O'DONNELL, who with his baton
points the way unmistakeably to territorial conquest
as the real meaning of this new military expedition.
The insincerity of the pleas put forward for this
last excursion beyond. the limits of their own small

possessiona.in northern Africa, has made us disin
dined to regard the onslaught with any degree
of sympathy 'or encouragement whatsoever.
This we have already through these columns
endeavoured to express as plainly as might be in
any way practicable, and as fully as might be in
any way reasonable. To our thinking—looking
upon the course of recent events in the neighbour-
hood of Ceuta quite dispassionately—the war has'
been perversely originated by the Spaniards them:
selves. The testimony of this is discernible
indeed, we cannot but think, at the merest casual
glance, through the diplomatic correspondence
preceding the actual declaration of hostilities.
Through that correspondence between the represen-
tatives of the Queen of SPAIN and of the Emperor
or Sultan of Mondcco it will have been observed by
any one who cared to glance through the half-
dozen despatches exchanged between the Afri-
can continent and the Spanish peninsula,
that the demands made upon the Moors in behalf
of the Spanish Crown and on the part of the Spanish
Government increased and multiplied at every
stage of the negotiation. Increased, in fact, so
flagrantly, so monstrously, so shamelessly, that the
ruler of Morocco appears to have had at last no
option left to him but to take up the gage of battle
and accept the challenge. Hence, indeed, the
conflict which has again upon these northern coasts
of Africa recommenced between the Moors and the
Spaniards. The Moors, bY the way, being left entirely
to their own resources, while the Spaniards are
supported by the moral influence and the material
aid accruing to them Mom the coincident views
and active alliance of the French Imperial Govern•
ment. Glaringly, therefore, the struggle from the
outset is unequal. Obviously, it is a strife between
the forces on one side of African barbarism, and,
on the other, of European civilisation. It is
an unfair contest, not simply of two to one,
but rather, as it were, of a dozen or a score
to one—and if for nothing else, is, fur that
One simple reason (the reason expressed by the
familiar schoolboy taunt, " Hit one of your own
size !"), to us—as lookers-on—peculiarly distaste-
hi!. The quarrel, as we have said, has
been Picked, perversely and prepense " picked, e
by the Spanish Government. It has been
picked not upon one false plea merely, but upon a
series of false pleas. It has been opened in this
manner suddenly and in a method according to
which the Moors are:insidiously taken at a double
disadvantage. Nothing has yet occurred of nieye
importance in this new war of Spain in Morocco
beyond the contest upon the 25th of November. A
contest as it was deemed even at Madrid itself of
such importance that Marshal O'DONNELL at once