The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

Stage Manager, Mr. IL Phillips

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
-EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera o:
MACBETH (now first made pullic in England at these Con.
carts).
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH. - - - -

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georffe Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. V. Critchtield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting, Pictures are 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 E UR'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 opea from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 7,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAME.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.
WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with tine wtather now.
Rain in the morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. Wm.—Afternoon, Oh. Om.
To-moßnow.-Moming, 12h. Im.—Afternoon, 12h. 25m.

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TII E SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1859.

Mr. BAZLEY, M.P., is an advocate of economy
and a strenuous advocate also of peace principles,
and Mr. BAZLEY has just offered to the Mayor of
Manchester £lOO as his subscription to the funds
now being collected fur the purposes of National
Defence by the local Volunteer Rifle Association.
It is precisely, we take it, because Mr. BAZLEY is
an ardent champion both of peace principles and
of economy that he proffers for this apparently belli-
cose end this munificent contribution. According
to the Holy Words of the Sacred Volume, it is " the
strong man armed" who " keepeth his house ! "
Simply for this very reason, that we want to pre-
serve peace, we ought to be prepared for war. It
is because we wish to render invasion improbable
that we are all of us just now, heart and soul vi et,
armis, or, as JACK says, " with a will" bent upon
putting ourselves forthwith and keeping ourselves
permanently in a position to repel it—upon the mere
hypothetical notion of its ever being again attempted.
History, remote and recent, compels us to the
use of that unpleasant dissyllable " again "—pecu-
liarly unpleasant, to say the least of it, in the ears
of Englishmen. For have we not solid and sub-
stantial memorials (memorials solid and substantial
even though crumbled down into picturesque ruin
by the influence of nearly one thousand years) of
the last great invasion successfully accomplished
by a foreign army under the conduct of a kingly
and heroic adventurer ? An invasion so success-
fully accomplished, in truth, that it survives in his-
tory and local tradition in two epithets constituting
the most signal attestation of its completeness.
The scene of the battle being signalised as if
in pre-eminence over all other battles that haxe been
fought either before or since by the name of BATTLE.
The victorious leader surviving in the annals of the
country he there and then won at the point of his
daring sword by the supreme and distinguishing
name, style, and title of THE Conqueror ! Looking
to a period more within reach of popular remem-
brance—looking at that memorable crisis in the
affairs of Europe which inaugurated the commence-
ment of the present century—have we not a tole-
rably vivid idea still left to us to this day of the
formidable character of that stupendous threat of
invasion directed against the coast of England from
the opposite borders of the Channel by the mightiest