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

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS 'EVENING. the new drama.' entitled HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
To be followed by the new Petite Comedy, entitled
GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, H. Bland, J. G. Shore;
and Mrs. C. Young.
After which. Mons, F.spanosa. (Premier Danseur Comiquel.
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 Ia
Porte St. Martin, Paris.
To concinde -with NITRSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. 11.
Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs.
Weston.

11/4TEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
.1.1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Billinaton•C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAIf 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-
Gqice melt from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING. a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James
Vinnlng, Job Rouse, &c. ; Mesdames A, 11. Hatton and Julia
St. George.
To be followed by the new Drama Fantastique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vininz, 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.

ROY AL 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 THIC CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Bra-
zier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, support:d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 5d ; Pit, is. The Box-oflice open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road. _

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
lfr THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production,
by Tom TaylOr, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the
prineiipal events in the Life of the Great Italian General.
To be followed by New and Transcendant Equestrian Talent
of Young Menom, upereminent in his somersaults and Inap-
proachable—The brilliant Lady Rider, Miss Emily Cooke—
Tile Wonderfully-schooled Dogs and Monkeys, and Intelli-
gent Elephant—Amazing Erial Rondines by John Benry
Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind
Man's Buff—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

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERT EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera 01
MACBETH (now first made public' in England at these Con.
certs).
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And a Grand Se:ection from Meyerbeer's new opera o
DDTORAIL
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Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George 'Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestincr, Pictures arc added to the Fine 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.
ROSA BON H EUR' S 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 open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

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THF,EXCIMETER, IN TEE SHADE.
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3.s—lowest this morning and during the night.
39—this day at noon.
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WIND, North-Westerly; light, with fine weather.
Heavy fog in the morning.

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THE 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 Makshal 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 pleai put forward for this
last excursion beyond the limits of their own small
possessions in northern Africa, has made us disin-
clined 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 Morocco it will have been observed by
any one who cared to glance through the half-
dozen
despatches exchanged between the AM-
can . continent ani 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 und the material
aid accruing to them from the coincident views

and active alliance of the French Imperial Govern•
ment. Glaringlj-, therefore, the struggle from the
outset is unequal. Obviously, it is a strife between
the forces on one side of African barbarism, and,
on they othei,. 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, for that
one. simple reason (the reason expressed by the
familia4;cehoolboy taunt, " Hit one of your own
size !"), 'to us—as lookers-on—peculiarly distaste-
ful.: he quarrel, as we have said, has
been picked, perversely and prepense " picked, "
by net° Spanish" Government. It has been
picked not upon one false plea merely, but upon a
series or false pleas. It has been opened in this
manner suddenly and irk a method according to
which the Moors are insidiously taken at a dou' 1
disadvantage. Nothing has yet occurred of more
importance in this new ward 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