The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-18 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
anew drama, entitled THE MASTER PASSD)N. Messrs.
Ryder, G. sTelville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C.
Lec•ereq and Mrs. Charles Your 4;.
;14.3 be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A.
Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NURSEY
CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ;
Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with the Divertissement from LOVE AND
FORTUNE.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Binington, C. .T. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAII UNDER DIFFICULTIES. MeAsrs..T. 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 tor bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
intnater, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or,
Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett,
Charles Young; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and
Nelly Moore.
Atter which (third time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE. SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis,
,3liss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Mr. R. Cockrell.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, Bd ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYALw,t
ter- AMPHITHEATRE,r

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.

Ftxtraordinary prosperous career of the new historical
DrAma, in four Tarts, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARI-
BALDI. New scenery -Magnificent Militar: Tableux.—
Supported by a Powerful Company—Mr. It. Phillips, Ennis,
Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. - The Scenes in
the Circle will be sustained by the best and most talented
Equestrians of the day, Mr, John Henry Cooke, Miss Itosiva.
Madlle. Marguerite. and a host of British, French, and
American talent—Little Menoni, the wonderful Juvenile
Equestrian—Facetious Clowns, Parisian Pierrots, and Ec-
centric Drolls—terminating to-night with THE WATER-
MAN.

Stage Manager, Mr. P. 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 Seeetion from 3leyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George ITalson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critchtleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestin 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 BONHELTIL'S celebrated PICTURE of the 'TORS E
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from t am. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 18.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
3.s—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.30.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with foggy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 27m.—Afternoon, Bh. 6m
To-Moaßow-Morning, Eh. 18m.—Afternoon, Oh. 24m.

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TILE SUN.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869

The Moorich Circular has thrown a flood of light
upon the hitherto somewhat obscure causes of the
threatened war upon the frontiers of Morocco. The
document is as clear, as honest, and as explicit, as
any State paper we ever remember to have perused.
It shows the disingenuous manner in which the
Spanish Government has acted throughout the
whole of these recent transactions. The change of
rulers over the empire of Morocco appears to have
held out to the Cabinet of Madrid an opportunity
too tempting to be resisted. Always on the watch
for any plea, however flimsy, for the extension of
hersrnall African colony, Spain has found it impos-
sible to forego the chance now opened to her for
the speedy increase of her :hitherto minute stand-
ing.point upon the northern shores of the great
Southern Continent. Nothing, indeed, could well
have been more propitious for the realisation of these
long-cherished hopes, than the circumstances im-
mediately following the death of the late Sultan of
the Moors, his Imperial Majesty MULEY ABDER-
RAMAN. Scarcely had the late SULTAN breathed
his last when the Arabs of Aujera afforded the
Spaniards the desired pretext for complaints and in-
terference, by lawlessly destroYing the post mark-
ing the limits, at that point, between the Moorish
territory and the Spanish settlements. The outrage
occurred, be it especially borne in:mind, during the
period of the interregnum between the death of the
late SULTAN and the accession to the throne of Mo-
rocco of his Imperial Majesty's successor, the pre-
sent Sultan SIDI MOHAMMED. At that precise
juncture the Moorish Ministers were, to all
intents and purpose, no more than Minis-
ters upon sufferance. They required confirmation
in their several posts by their new liege lord before
they; could act in any way energetically as a Go-
vernment. The very peculiarity of their official, or
rather semi-official dilemma was the very oppor-
tunity of which the Cabinet of Madrid had been
so long in expectation. In consequence there fol-
lowed, in due course, one—two—THREE—FOUR
successive and increasing pretentions on the part of
the Spanish Government.

First of all it was demanded by the Spanish
Cabinet that in the Camp of Ceuta certain
public buildings might be constructed. Upon
this point the protest now issued by the
Moorish Government says explicitly, " In the
old stipulations, and in that of 1815, mention
is made of the Camp, and of ground for pasturage
belonging to the Spaniards; but M. BLANCO, in his
letter, only speaks absolutely of the Camp." And
the
protest adds, " The SUL raN, our master, in his
exalted -wisdom, and inspired by the sincere wish
to maintain friendly relations, ordered us to ac-
cept the demand made, and consented that the
Spaniards might construct fortifications within the
Camp." Consrgnent:y the First Demand, deemed
not unreasonable by the 'Moorish Government,
was, it will be perceived, frankly and readily
acceded to bg the Moorish Government. Scarcely,
however, had this magnanimous concession
been elicited from the Moors when a Second pre-
tension was thrust upon their attention by the
Spanish Charge d'Affaires. This was a demand,
says the protest, " to erect' fortifications on the
ground which we had conceded in MO, and which
was exclusively intended for the pasturage of
the flocks,:" It was a demand contrary to
what hai I already been formally promised
by the Spr niards. Hardly liaa this new preten-
sion corn a to the knowledge of the

MooriA Government on the 11th October, when
on the 13th of Octol,cr, only two days later, a
THIRD and larger pretension was but forth by the
Spanish, for instant consideration by the Moorish,
Government. Possession was now demanded by
the Spaniards—possession of the heights required
from the defences of Ceuta. Finally, on the 16th
of this present November, a FOURTH, an entirely
new, a much larger, and a hitherto undreamt of
demand was brought forward in due diplomatic
form (for the consideration of the Moors)
by the Spanish representative. " This time,"
says the Moorish manifesto, " it was a demand for
the possession of a vast territory comprised be-
tween the valley of Gibel Moma and Ceuta." And
the Circular goes on to say—and no wcnder—" To
that pretension we replied that we could not give
a precise answer without applying to the SULTAN,
our master." Adding, what is, if possible, still
less reason for surprise—" From that moment rela-
tions ceased between us, and war was threatened."
The European public is now in possession of the
facts of the case in regard to these recent and
hitherto somewhat bewildering transactions. That
public can now decide whether or not the Moorish
Government has acted throughout these transactions
honestly, frankly, and unreservedly ! Or whether
on the other hand the Spanish Government has put
forward unjustifiable and exorbitantly increasing
pretensions, doing this, moreover, in a manner fla-
grantly characterised, to use the very mildest
phrase, by—disingenuousness ! Of the nature of
the European verdict we have no doubt whatever.
Our only solicitude in the matter now is to know
as speedily and as distinctly as may be possible ;
How far the diplomatic strings at Madrid have
been dragged inimically to Morocco, throughout
these negotiations, by the strong hand of that in-
scrutable Chief whose policy is now the enigma of
Europe, not merely in reference to the affairs of
Spain and Morocco, but in regard also to the des-
tinies, more or less, of all the various races of Chris-
tendom ?

London appears at length to have a tolerably
fair prospect before it of being traversed in all
desirable directions by divers railways bringing
the now scattered termini of the great existing
railways into direct and harmonious intercommu-
nication. One enterprising company has but very
recently avowed in plain terms that it looks to the
construction of a grand central terminus, say upon
the site of the Old Fleet Prison, as a project so
feasible, so practicable in every way, and that im-
mediately, that it simply asks now for permission
to construct it. It asks permission, of course, of
the Metropolitan Corporation. The railway com-
pany in question being no other than the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company.
The petition of this Company, addressed to the
Mayor,Aldermen,and Commonalty of the Cityof Lon-
don in Common Council assembled, certainly opens
up a very alluring prospect to the imagination of a true
Londoner. Fancy a tunnel at last burrowed under
Skinner Street ! Fancy a viaduct spanning that
roaring and ceaseless current of the world's
traffic running simultaneously to and fro
along Ludgate-hill ! Fancy a central station upon
the very site we have before specified, namely, to
the east of Farringdon-street, with an entrance to
it at each end of that noble, but really hitherto, for
the most part, vacant and scarcely used thorougfare !
We are not talking this way, observe, at ran-
dom—we are not uttering thoughts that are
merely fathered by our wishes. There is the peti-
tion or memorial addressed by the Railway Com-
pany before mentioned to the Great Metropolitan
Corporation, proving distinctly that these projects
are no longer in nubibus—that they are literally,
as the phrase is on the cards—that we have
but, as it were, to close our hand and
grasp the realisation of them all. The memorial
indeed states the matter plainly enough in one
singlesentence, but a sentence it must be confessed
sufficiently long-wilded. The paragraph—alluded
to for the one pregannt sentence, goes to the
length of a whole paragraph—runs in
the words and manner following :—" But Parlia.
ment has already decided that your petitioners are
to have independent access to the east and west
ends of the metropolis ; but the lines over which
such access can now be afforded are insufficient
for their existing traffic ; and your memoria-
lists, in anticipation of the speedy completion of
their line between Beckenham and Dover, have
determined to apply to Parliament for authority to
extend their line from Beckenham, through Penge,
Sydenham, Norwood, Dulwich, Brixton, Herne-
hill, Denmark-hill, Camberwell, Walworth, and
Newington, crossing the river below Blackfriars-
bridge, crossing the foot of Ludgate-hill by
a screened viaduct, to a terminus on the
east side of Farringdon-street, communicat-
ing by junction lines with the Metz o-
politan Terminus in Victoria-street and with
Smithfield." It being immediately afterwards
added in another and a briefer paragraph : " That
the proposed extensions also comprise corn-
mucications in a direct line from Beckenham
with the Brighton and South-Eastern Rail-
ways at Sydenham, the South-Western Rail-
way at Battersea, and the Victoria Station at
Pimlico." There is the whole of this grand scheme
really in a nutshell, or, at any rate, in jast simply
two sentences, a long and a short paragraph. And
the petitioners, as though they were conscious
to themselves that the natural surmise among
business men, with the members of the London
Corporation, would instantly be that people coming
thus to them, hat in hand, with an air of over-
whelming courtesy, might rather be suspected
of having a design of carrying the hat round after-
wards—the petititionors we say conscious to them-
selves that some such thought might be uppermost
in the mind of the Common Council, close the me-
morial thus distinctly with a repudiation of any
such intention whatever. Namely, by ob-
serving "That your memorialists do not seek any
pecuniary assistance from the Corporation of Lon-
don, but pray your honourable court will be pleased
to refer the subject matter of this memorial to a com-
mittee, to inquire and report as to the proposed un-
dertaking with regard to the interests of the citizens
of London ; and that, if it should be approved,
your Honourable Court will give it the weight of
your influence, support, and sanction, and its re-
ference to a committee to treat for the purchase or
rental of the site on which the Fleet Prison for-

merly stood, or of other vacant ground in that
locality belonging to the Corporation which may
be required for the purpose of the undertaking."

The fact heir g afterwards stated before the Coalmen

Council in viva race evidence yesterday, that the
capital of the London and Dover Railway Com-
pany being at present L 2,000,000, not more than
£1,500,000 additional would be required to
carry these grand ulterior designs of the
company to actual completion. heartily and sin-
cerely do we wish well to the undertaking. It is
just precisely such an enterprise as we ourselves,
in these columns have long and repeatedly advo-
cated.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have arrived
in town. The noble earl has taken a house in Bruton-
street for a few months.

The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley
will leave town to-morrow for Knowsley.