The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY (Incorporated by Act of Parliament).
71, Lombard-street, London.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company
will beheld at the Company's Offices, 71, Lombard-street, on
TUESDAY, the 2Gth inst., at two o'clock precisely, pursuant
to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and
to declare the Dividend for the half-year ending the 31st
December, 1860. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary.
London, February 1, 1861.

•0Y AL ENGLISH OPERA
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.

TO - MORROW, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA,
Miss Matilda Moron, Madame Palmieri, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr.
H. Corn, Mr. Wallworth.

Followed by Balfe's SATANELLA. Miss Louisa Pyne,
Miss 'Mirlwall; Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. H. Cord, Mr. H.
Wharton, dr,c.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

TREATItg-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
T,easee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
TO-MORROW, the pertormances will corraiwnee withTO-MORROW,
ham;
THE RIVALS. Sir Lucius O'Triager, Mr. John BrougLucius
Lydia Languish, Miss Fanny Stirling.
LADYBIRD
Alter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Lec'erects, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

_II O'V AI, PRINCES S'S THEATRE....
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
To.moirßow. the performances will commence with
DON C—ESAFt DE RATAN. Messrs. Pechter, Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq,
and Mrs. Weston.
After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CBI:T.9OE ; or, -Harlequin Friday, and the King'
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dnmilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soia Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

TO-MORROW, the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRK DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
nap: vrsrov OF A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Lydia
Thompson, &c.

ADELPHT, NW THEATRE-ROYAL.E
Role Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster.
TO-MORROW, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bousicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD F ,tOM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and R. Thorne.
Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7.
BOX-Office open from 10 tills.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XI. _

Oreheatraltalls, ss. • Balcony, 4a. ; FrOnt Circle Stall', is. •
Pit Stalls, 26.; Pit, la. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 11 ; Gallery, 6d.

Acting Manager—Mr. Wxn. Smith.

H A L L,

CANTERBURY
WESTMINSTER-ROAD.
The GOVERNOR and COMMITTEE of the LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL beg respectfully to announce to
the friends of the Institution and the public in general. that
they have accepted the kind invitation of Mr. CHARLES
MORTON, the Proprietor of the above celebrated Establish-
ment, for the CHILDREN of the SCHOOL TO ATTEND A
MORNING PERFORMANCE,
TO-MORROW, (TFIURSD AY), 14th February inst.,
on which occasion a variety of Entertainments will be given
by the talented Company.
Mr. Morton has generously signified his intention to allow
the Governor and Committee to appropriate the Receipts for
Admission in Aid of the Funds of the School.
Admission
Children under 12 years of age
Doors to be opened at One, and the performance to com-
mence at Two o'clock.
The JUVENILE BAND, from the School, accompanied by
their Instructor, Mr. Blackman, of the Blackfriars-road, will
attend, and perform various popular Airs.
Tickets may be obtained of Mr. MORTON, Canterbury
Ilall ; and at No. 127, Fle
It-street, of
WLLIAM SMALLEY, Secretary.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tam DAY.—Morning, 4h. Bm.—Afternoon, 4h. 26m,
To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 53m

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 13, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
35—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
35—this day at noon.
BAROMETER--29.65, still falling.
Wrap—Southerly ; light, with dull weather, and snow

7 ,
~,r
d ,
c',„ 1 .i.',..1 :,' N.. •' - ',.. _ ,
...1
‘.. •••
~,,i
.4,1 X.
~.,
~,- ''''17,3.7 ..,`'<j\ ' .74 , r-61'14 '
....,...
2.. ~.‘ el1,1411›)..
).,...4,___________
,irt,...A....
E,.--z..,+.4.....
t... ' . _.,,N:ti-..L:--,-;- , •

`t _~
"'~2

THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13, 1881

The Defenders of Gaeta are evidently at their
last gasp. Another Telegram may now bring us
the tidings so long looked for that the struggle has
ended, after all this useless bloodshed, as humanity
could alone hope that it might rather have ended
before so many lives had been sacrificed, before
so many months had been wasted, before so
much gunpowder had been burnt, and so much
treasure squandered ! And all this in order
simply that the old Neapolitan Sovereignty
might die game in the last corner of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. REUTER'S Tele-
gram received this morning gives to western
Europe clearly enough intelligence of the "begin-
ning of the end." We learn by these latest advices
from that scene of conflict, that little fortified
hole-in-the-corner, that grimly little cade-sac,
where the fugitive Monarch who had been
scared away from its capital by the mere
rumour of the approach of General GARIBALDI fled
for shelter behind stone walls and there turned at
bay upon his pursuers—we learn now by these last
tidings from Gaeta, that a parley is going on once
more between the beleaguered and the beleagurers
—although the firing is still continued from with-
out and from within, from the investing camp and
from the battlements. Another armistice has been
demanded by the garrison, an armistice of fifteen
days, during which may be negotiated the terms
of the final capitulation. A tolerably cool request,
under the Circumstances, remembering that little
affair of the repairs done to the breaches during the
last truce—in magnanimous return of course for the
present of ice and of drugs sent in by the Sardinians
for the use of the wounded in the Gaeta
Hospitals. Having a .vivid and very recent
remembrance of which rather discreditable incident,
General CIALDINI is understood now to have given
a prompt refusal to this modest request for a fresh
armistice to last over a fortnight. Negotiate, if
you will—is the Sardinian Commander's reply—but
no further armistice ! And so the firing continues
—the batteries of the besiegers, says one of the last
telegrams, causing very considerable devastation.
Apart from all which, as tokens that King
FRANCIS 11. has only now to give in, and make the
best of it in the latest moment of his surrender —there
are two little French incidents that have just come
to light, and that are neither of them without their
significance. Firstly, we learn that "M. DEPUNES,
Attache to the French Embassy at Rome,
has demanded permission of General CiAL-
bzir to convey a letter from the Empress
the FRENCH to the young Queen at
Gaeta " h" hic permission has, as a matter of
cou me,because really only a matter of courtesy, been
graated. And nest, we learn, also that " The
Preach steamer Nluette is said to have received
ordi;rs to be in
readiness to receive the family of
FRANCIS IL at Gaeta."
An intimation followed
up with the ominous assurance that the surrender
of the place cannot, in reason, be expected to be
nov: much longer delayed. When the history of
threse Italian doings shall come to be written by
the future SISMONDI, it will
be said by that
probably now unborn annalist, that if the "Libe-
rator of Italy," as the French EMPEROR at one time
assumed to be, that if the Liberator of Lombardy
(as he unquestionably is) contrived indirectly to
knock down (among other princes of the Roman
peninsula) the KING of the Two Sicilies, that im-