The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-10 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
DINORAH.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, 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.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
raintimrs in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICIC, DECEMBER 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHA.DI3.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
38 —lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.72.
WIND, North-Westerly; light, with line frosty-looking
weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA.Y.—Morning, Ih. 33m.—Afternoon, lh. 55m,
To-mounow.-Morning,,, 2h. 17m.—Afternoon, 2h. 38m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 10, 1859.

Fifteen years ago there appeared across the
counter of a west end publisher a book of eastern
travel, entitled " Eothen." During these fifteen
years, upon the credit of that one brilliant work,
the writer of it has been in the enjoyment deser-
vedly of a high and expanding literary reputation.

ALEXANDER KINGLAKE'S name if (he never wrote
anything else) would be preserved in the recollec-
tion of the lettered public of after times by the vivid
power, colouring, and vitalising of that single book
of Oriental reminiscences. In connection with
" Eothen " his popularity as an observant traveller
will survive not merely with that of his own imme-
diate eontemporaries--.-delightful volumes, let us
say, like ROBERT CURZON'S "Monasteries of the
Levant," or ELIOT WARBURTON'S " Crescent and
the Cross,"—but with the fair fame even of men
like BELZONI and HUMBOLDT, like LAYARD and
LIVINGSTON E. Among the literary announcements
for the present season, we observe the intimation
of a new work from the hand of this accom-
plished writer (the second work he will have
given to the public) as immediately forth-
coming. Wishing this production every possi-
ble success—wishing it, in fact, a success
worthy of the distinguished position won for him
by the radiant pages of " Dithen," we must turn
to Mr. KINGLAKE'S morn recently-acquired politi-
cal reputation with yet greater complacency than
to his ripened and securely-established repute as a
man of letters.

It is but two years or three back that
Mr. KIN GLARE entered the House of Com-
mons for the first time. He entered it then, of
course, not in the early dawn of youth, but at the
meridian vigour of manhood, with his convictions
strong within him, his opinions formed, his judg-
ment clear and energetic. It is to this we may
attribute his rapid seizure of a distinct position

amongthe more thoroughly independent of our po-
pular representatives. Without any extraordinary
capacity as a debater, without any peculiar gifts of
oratory, without any of those rare powers of sarcasm
which make a popular speaker feared, without
any of that fervid eloquence which can take even
a House of Commons by storm, and kindle en-
thusiasm among the most apathetic and super-
cilious—Mr. KINGLAKE has alreacly, in the course
of these few sessions, taken not only a recognizable
but a conspicuous place among the more outspoken
and energetic champions of Liberalism in the lower
House of Parliament. It is, in isome respects, the
very position which Mr; LAYARD might have taken
had he so pleased--but did not. There is more
firmness of purpose, more resolution, more con-
siteney &bout the political sentiments of the author
of "Eothen," than about the more impulsive and
erratic unveiler of the buried wonders of Niueveh.
Hence, Mr. LAYARD has prematurely fallen into
" the sore and yellow leaf"—has been banished to