The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-08 00:00:00

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
DINORAII.
Comic Vocalists - Messrs. Georme Ho,lson (the Irish Come-
dian and 3limio„ W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
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.
E')SA BON fi EUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the lIORSE
FAI it is uow added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is opea, from 9 am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—Strs OFFicx, DECEMBER 8.
THERNOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and daring the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.25.
WIND, South-Easterly; light, with fine cool weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE

Ting. DAr.—Morning, 12h. lm.—Afternoon, 12b. 25m.
To-momtow.-Morning, 12h. 47m.—Afternoon, lh. 10m.

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TII E SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1839.

Anxieties and difficulties begin to increase
rapidly about the Coalition. Apart from the Con-
gress we mean—in regard to other questions be-
yond that of Italian Independence. Though that
arch difficulty alone has signalized, in a remarkable
manner, very recently, the chief flaw in this boasted
strong Government! The rivalry, namely, of the
two Premiers—the Premier defacto, and the Premier
(in his own estimation—if in no one else's) delure
my Lord JOHN RUSSELL and my Lord PALMERSTON;
So very much afraid are they of each other—
or at any rate, as Mr. SNAGSBY would say, " not to
put too fine a point upon it"—they are so painfully
jealous of each other, these " friendly brothers,"
arcades ambo, that they cannot dream for the life
of them for one instant of trusting the one the
other out of his immediate presence and observa-
tion. So that while the• rest of the Powers of
Christendom may be represented at the diplomatic
board of green cloth in the French capital by their
respective Prime Ministers or Foreign Seere-
taries—not so England! Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and Lord PA MERTON must sit side by side
,on that delightful front Treasury Bench
in the House •of Commons : they- are so
cordially attached to one another—they cannot
brook separation ! This, however, in truth, for the
one iimple reason that the one left behind (sup-
posing either went to the Paris Conference as Ple-
nipotentiary) would infallibly take advantage of
the other's absence to topple down, as the case
might be, his rival's actual or pretended hold upon
the Premiership. And so my Lord. COWLEY slips
into the vacant fauteuil—having as his coadjutor
and compatriot the noble Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, my Lord WODEHOUSE. And
having thus adroitly solved the difficulty of the Con-
gress, so far as it more immediately affected them-
selves individually, Lord SottN and Lord PALMER-
STON are likely to havd a wonderfully pleasant time
of it together in the approaching session of Par-
\ liament !

First of all, there arc so many nice big
and little, questions, of the utmost possible
urgency and delicacy, that really and truly
must be taken into account at last, that there is
no escaping from, that brook not by any chance
of the faintest probability of further postpone-
There is the largest, the most urgent, the