The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of M
dlle. Mariettaa Rosea, rincipal an-
sense of La Scala, Milan nd first time tt
of P
the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
On MONDAY (Boxing-night) the new drama, HOME
T R.UTIIS. Messrs.G. ffelvirle, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Leciercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H.
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack -Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

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Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23
Commence at two o'clock.

W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
.L STEW
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING. THE CHRISTMAS CARROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J.
Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
After which (by desire), ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.
Mr. B. Webster and Miss H. Simms.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAH 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-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor thr bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
On MONDAY, the grand Spectacular Extravaganza, by H.
J. Byron, Esq., entitled THE NYMPHS OF THE LURa
LEYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Maidens.

ROYAL ST. SAM•ES'S THEATRE,
Ring-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.
TO-NIGHT, SATURDAY (Christmas Eve) a new Farce,
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. 11. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps
de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and
the wonderful Performing Dogs.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, ed ; Pit, is. The Box-ofEce 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.
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 Brilliant Equestrian Changes in
the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John
Henry Cooke, as the Nemman Conqueror —More Wonders by
the Educated Elephant—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily
Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alfred Cooke's sur-
passing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats
by the Athenian Athlete, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Novel
Flag Exercises on horseback by Madlle. Jenny—Varied by
those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls.
To commence at 7.

Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations
of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM
MOODY ; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. 2, 1880, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
Z+:VERY :EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.
And a Grand Se:ection from Aleyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH. _

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Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), 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
eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BON'HEUR'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 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Snx OFFICE, DECEMBER 24.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHis_DE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.14—a fall of half an inch since yesterday.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine mild weather
—some rain it the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS' DAY.—Morning, lh. 44m.—Afternoon, 2h. 6m.
To-momnow.-IWrning, 2h. 28m.—Afternoon, 2h. 49m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 1839.

Again the star of our Indian Empire is unclouded
—and, looking at it now, as the storm clouds• of
revolt are rolling off and scattering into thin air
upon that far Eastern horizon, there it is still, still
manifestly in the ascendant If we are to believe
the statements put forward by the Bombay Times,
changes in truth of the most important character
give promise of accelerating in a remarkable man-
ner the progress throughout Hindostan of Anglo.
Indian developement. The constitution of the
Executive Council of the Viceroy—of the Cabitiet,
in other words, enabling his Excellency the
Governor-General to carry on the affairs of adminis-
tration—is forthwith to undergo a thorough and
complete reorganisation. It is not simply that
modifications are to take place there, but the whole
machinery of the Anglo-Indian Government,
having its seat at Calcutta, is to be formally taken
to pieces, as it were, and to be (ab initio) recon-
structed.

The manner of this maturely premeditated re-
construction is explained, indeed, briefly, but
adequately by our Oriental contemporary. Ac-
cording to the statements advanced by the Bombay
Times, the members of the Executive Council of the
Viceroy are in the first place to become henceforth
in name, in rank, and in reality—Secretaries of
State. In which capacity, of course, they will be
held responsible ministerially each of them for the
conduct of public affairs in his own department.
By reason of this arrangement it becomes apparently
inevitable that the present Secretaries shall take
due rank hereafter, not as Secretaries, but as
Under-Secretaries of State. The announcement
goes further, however, than this. It proceeds to
specify who are to be the first recipients of the
supreme prerogatives and responsibilities devolving
upon the chief among our Anglo-Indian Adminis-
trators. Only in one particular are we disposed to
question the accuracy of these supplementary in-
timations. And our solitary doubt applies to the
very first name, or rather to the very earliest and
highest title in the catalogue. It is said that at
the head of the newly-organised Indian Cabinet
there will be installed as President and Secretary
of State for Political Affairs—Lord CANNING,
otherwise the peesent Governor-General of Hindos-
tan. That the Viceroy must nceessarily take pre-
cedence of all the other administrators of bur In-
dian'Empire, is of course not for an instant to be
doubted. It is his right. It is a part of the ar-

rangement that surely requires no notification,
under any continpncy, under any change of

events, under a-ay possible course of circumstances
Itilciis eela va sans dire. Or, let us add—But he
takes precedonce thus not so much by right of
his permanent administration in Hindostan—not
in his capacii y as President of the Executive
Council, mucl, less as Secretary of State, or even
as the first a rid foremost among the Secretaries of
State—but sir aply, clearly, obviously as the Go-
vernor-General, as the Viceroy, as the representa-
tive or alter eg oof the SOVEREIGN. Besides--

the title apportioned to him thus at the head of the
hypothetical list is -little less than a misnomer
and an egregious incongruity. " Secretary of
State for Political Affairs"—as if the other Secre-
taries of State were ,wt for politic' affairs! As
if his colleagues were to be S3cretaries of State for
ethics, or for literature, or for something altogellur
removed from the atmosphere of politics. That the
Viceroy or Governor-General, or call him whatever
else you may please (saving only Secretary of State
for Political Affairs !), will ipso facto, by right of his
supreme position as the Representative of the
SOVEREIGN, preside, whenever he sits at the board,
over the deliberations of the Council or Cabinet—
that we readily admit as not only probable, but as
certain—because simply right, and in a manner, so
to speak, a necessity. But we are not by any
means disposed to credit the intimation that his
Excellency is about to drop down into a Secretary
of State, even if it be that astonishing phenomenon,
that painted lily and gilded gold, a Secretary of
State for Political Affairs. Apart from this—
the catalogue put forward in the Bombay Times
appears to ns, not nOrely credible, but in an emi-
nent degree the very one, under existing circum-
stances, most to be desiderated. One of these an-
nounced appointments is, of course, already known
—is notoriously un fail accompli—that of the
Right Hon. JAMES WILSON, henceforth, it scarcely
matters under what designation the new Indian
Minister of Finance, or Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. An admirable appointment in many re-
spects—whatever his crotchets or shortcomings in
this country—a really admirable appointment, in
many respects, in the general estimation among
this eminent financier's fellow-countrymen
here at home ! But there are two others
of these recently announced administrators of
the affairs of Hindostan yet remaining to be
particularised, two of the right men rarely put into
the right places, men whose names thus associated
with their respective offices can hardly be otherwise
than hailed by the vast majority with peculiar satis-
faction. Sir JAMES OUTRAM, the preux chevalier of
India, is to be the Secretary of State for War—and
Sir BARTLE FRERE Secretary of State for the
Home (meaning, of course, for the whole of the
internal Anglo-Indian) Department. Under aus-
pices like these may we not reiterate confidently
what we intimated at the outset of these remarks,
that the star of our Anglo-Indian Empire is still,
still in the ascendant !

It would have been difficult for Lord ELGIN to
have acquitted himself more admirably than he
did on Thursday afternoon by the delivery of his
inaugural address as Lord Rector of the Glasgow
University. It was somewhat of an ordeal even for
one so eminent in diplomacy and in statesmanship.
The immediate predecessor of the noble Earl in that
high and honourable office of the Lord Rector of
the University of Glasgow, and the immediate com-
petitor with him for its attainment through the
recent academic contest which had resulted
in Lord ELGIN'S nomination, were men of such
mark, of such rare capacity, of such literary,
and political, and oratorical eminence, that
the contrasts necessitated might well appear,
in a great measure, really formidable : even
to the distinguished Viceroy who had so long and
so admirably conducted the Government of Canada ;
and the world-famous Plenipotentiary who had so
recently, and so signally, evidenced his diplomatic
astuteness by his wonderfully rapid and skilful ne-
gotiations with the Chinese and Japanese Govern-
ments.

Nothing could possibly, however, have
been, at once, more singularly graceful
and effective than the complimentary
allusion, rather, we should say, the noble
eulogistic tributes to Sir BULWER LYTTON and
DISRAELI, by which Lord ELGIN, in the
very exordium of his Address, at once waived the
possibility of an invidious comparison. " I know
full well," said he, " that the office which I now so
unworthily fill has been held by a succession of
eminent men, whose high reputation and great
literary attainments have lent weight and autho-
rity to the counsels which they have proffered
from this place." The noble lord might have
added that the last of these eminent men,
the right honourable baronet, his immediate pre-
decessor, had been so regarded, had been held in
such esteem by the University, that to him had
been vouchsafed an honour, a threefold honour
never before accorded by the Glasgo Qv University
to any Englishman—Sir EDWARD BULWER
LYTTON having been twice re-elected by acclama-
tion, having been three consecutive years installed
into that supreme Academic Chair at Glasgow, the
Chair occupied by the Lord Rector of her Univer-
sity ! It was only, in fact, to THOMAS CAMPBELL,
the renowned Scottish poet, that a like honour
is known to have been awarded by the Univer-
sity of Glasgow. Although the present Lord
Rector (Sir EDWARD LYTTON'S successor) said
nothing of all this, save by the courteous implica-
tion of a date, the noble earl spoke thus at least
of his illustrious predecessor—spoke thus ear-
nestly and unaffectedly in the unstinted language
of admiration :—" Three years ago," said Lord
ELGIN, " when your late Rector delivered his in-
augural address, I had the good fortune to be
present and to hear the charms of literature
pourtrayed, and the cause of learning pleaded
before sympathising listeners by one of the
greatest perhaps I might without exag-
geration say by the greatest—living master of
our language." Adding, with courtly grace, in
reference to his competitor for the Lord Rec-
torship— a And even now, gentlemen need
confess it—what chiefly overwhelms me on the
present occasion is the reflection that during the late
contest your suffrages were claimed on behalf of a
candidate whose great natural gifts, improved by
cultivation and study, and acquirements, have
placed him on the highest eminence both in
literature and statesmanship." Thereupon,
however (encouraged by the remembrance of
his success, even over such a competitor),
Lord ELGIN proceeded at once to the delivery of
an inaugural address that—for the range of its
themes, for the eloquence of its diction, for the skill
of its rhetorical arrangement, and for the easy
grasp within it of an affluent and abounding
knowledge—any one of the noble earl's prede-
cessors in the office might not have
disdained to have fathered. Who will hesitate to
admire that impressive epitome of the achievements
and the influences, the labours and results of the
last ten years ? " What," asks Lord ELGIN,
" What is it that strikes the imagination of even
the most thoughtless and unreflecting, when they
compare—to go no farther back—the phenomena
which characterised the commencement of this
decade with those which distinguished its close?
At the former period hymns of universal peace and
brotherhood, a palace of unprecedented dimen-
sions, of a novel and exquisite structure, raised
as if by enchantment, to be the receptacle of
the products of the industry of the earth—such
proofs accumulated there of man's control over
the powers of nature, of the subserviency of modern
science to purposes of human utility, of the wide-
spread benefits of commercial interchange, that it
seemed hardly extravagant or unreasonable to