The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Two Extra Performances only, at Reduced
Prices, on Friday, Septimber 18, and Saturday, ilePteraber
19. with Piccolomini, Spezia, Ortolani, Giuglini, Violetti,
Rossi, Beneventano and Belletti, when will be presented
LA TRAVIATA and IL DON GIOVANNI.
PRICES :
Boxes to accommodate four persons,
Grand Tier, Pit Tier, and One 1 0
Pair £2 2 0
Two Pair. 1
Three Pair 0 15 0
Pit Stalls 0 3 6
010 6
Pit....... .. . ._. ....................
Gallery Stalls .............................. 0 3 6
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GallerY ...................... , 0 2 0
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TH.EA.TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
ring EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled
VICTIMS, in which Mr. Bnekstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William
Barren, Miss Reynolds, Miss Emma King, die., will appear.
After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED
SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.
Orchestra Stalls (which m.ay be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (ffo charge for booking.)
First Price.; s. d. Second price. a. d
Drags Boxes 5 0 Dregs Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit .. .
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEAR.—
ITALIAN OPERAS, at theT usual
PRINCESS THEATRE PRICES.
O NIGHTS ONLY.
THIS EVENING, FRIDAY,
Positively the last appearance of Madame Gassier, in LA
SONNAMBULA.; and Saturday, positively the last night of
Grisi, Alboni, Mario, Dragone, and all the eminent artistes,
in IL TROVATORE.
Prices :—ls,

25., 45., ss.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be performed
LA SONNAMBULA.
Amina, Madame Gassier ; Theresa, Madlle, Gramaglia ;
Lisa, Madlle. Baillou ; Rodolfo, Sig. Kinni •, Ale.siot Signor
Gabusii ; Notaro, Sig. Annonini ; Elvino, Herr ;Reichardt.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREEN
BUSHES. Mr. B. Webster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford,
and Madame Celesto.
Followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wright,
P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &c.
To conclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER.

ROY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE.•
Lessees. Messrs. F. Rob3on and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE
Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G. Murray.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
13. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
son, Cooke, Danvers, dec. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall,
Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd. and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING, CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear.
After which, will be performed THE SURPRISE, in
which Messrs. W. Smith, T. Robertson, Butler, and Miss E.
Webster, will appear.
With other attractive novelties.

A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPRITHEA.TRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness
• Prince Albert.
Complete and unexampled Success of the Grand a iental
Spectacle of EL RYDER. Mr. Wm. Cooke announces with
great satisfaction another Triumph. Tho intensely interest-
ing and thrilling Equestrian and Dramatic situations with
which this splendid Hippodrama abounds have been nightly
received with increased delight and enthusivm.
TIIIS EVENING, an 1 during the week, the entertainments
will commence with the Grand Equestrian and Oriental Spec-
tacle, in 2 Acts, entitled EL HYDER ; or, THE CHIEF OF
THE GHAUT MOUNTAINS. El Hyd-3r, Mr. James Hol-
loway. Introducing Mr. W. Cooke's magnificently Trained
Horses.
After which an unapproachably brilliant series of Mr.
William Cooke's inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA, sup.
ported by the popular and talented Artistes of the establish-
ment, including Madlle. Mililos.
To conclude with Shakspear's KATHARINE AND
PETE UCHIO, with Equestrlan IllustratioNs.
Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Uppar Gallery, Ed. Half-price at
half•past Eight.
&a-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West, Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooks, jun.

FfIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tars DAY—Morn., 57 min. aft. I—Even., 14 en aft. 2
Tc-Nionnow -Morn., 32 min. aft. 2—Even., 50 min. aft. 2

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65 highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and doting the night
67 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.62.
Wirrp, S.W. ; light, with finer weather. It rainod a
little this morning.

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1857.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Seb-ctions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES !DUETS, &c., viz.: Mrs. Palmyre, Miss
E. Scott, Mips Brunel, Mrs. Le Jenne, Miss Leslie, and.
Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, B. Grover, T. Far-
rant, S. Toner.. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An.
tonio, E. L. Rime, and Mr. St. Albyti ; Master Corri; Messrs
Sam. Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil
Hicks; harmonium, Master Wi!lizms ; Director, Herr F.
Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sap-
pers, &c., until twelve o'clock.—Signor PICCO will perfoi in,
at hal-past Eight and half-past Ten, every Evening after
Taeiclay neat.

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A superstition appears to be prevalent among
the Hindocs that the British rule must terminate
in due course within one hundred years from the
date of its foundation. That cycle of a Century
—as we have before intimated—has but just now
been actually completed ! A Hundred years
having elapsed since 1757, when the great Angle.
Indian Empire may be said to have been first
organised.

A similar superstition, it may be remembered,
was really in vogue a year or two ago in reference
to the anticipated close, at the end of four hun-
dred years, of the Turkish rule at Constantinople !
In each instance, of course, " the wish was
father to the thought !" It was encouraging
enough to Russian ambition—that opportune
freak of fatalism which seemed to point out the
very time when the mere touch of the Muscovite
sceptre was to strike down with palsy the pride
and puissance of the ()matins ! As encouraging
A 3 this new and!kindred belief is now to the hopes of
the Asiatic, race—a conviction that the hour has
struck for their liberation at last from the long
thraldom of their British conquerors.

In Heaven's good time the folly •
both superstitions will have been alike swiftly
and signally demonstrated. Already the
world knows perfectly well that the notion of the
downfallh of the Turkish empire, after 400 years
have passed by, shouldwag, in spite of the CZAR,
and his myrmidons,
,after all the merest phantasy
and delusion. The fifth century has commenced,
three or four summers of it have already gone by,
and still the Mahornetan lieges of the Sultan
Caliph have not vet been driveu across the Bos-
phorus ! The supposed fatal period has lin,g
since expired, and still the
anointed representative
of the House of Romanoff has not -e.
G conclude I
his victorious legions through those gates of
Stamboul, the streets of Adrianople, sad the
channel of the Dardanelles ! The Russians uay ,
II
still fl, tter themselves, it is true, with the notion \
that eventually the long-looked-for hour of their
success in the Golden Horn will inevitably be
struck after all these reit rated disappointments.
But at any rate the fact has by this time become
indisputable that it was not lisonuied. as it wa
prophesied that it would be soundel, as it was
superstitiously believed that it would be sounded,
gt the fatal instant prelictA—the close of the
fourth century.

Precisely as it has been with the Russian?, F
wilt it infallibly be now with the Hindoos in re-
gard to a like evil and sanguinary superstitior. A
superbtition instigating the former to draw tbe
sword and fling away the se thbartl at the comple-
tion of 400, and the latter at the completion of