The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-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.

THIS ETBNIN(4- the performances will commence with
GABIBA.LDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.

Foil Owed 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, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office 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.

Great Attraction for the Holidays. The new bombastic
hippodramatic, operatic Pantomime, abounding in comicality,
called HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler the
Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, with songs by Miss
Esther Jacobs.—Gorgeous and Dazzling mechanical transfor-
mation scene. Harlequin. M. Richarde ; Pantaloon, Mr. P.
Abbot, Columbine, Maddle. Mazzoni ; Clown, Mr. Hilde-
brand ; a family of Sprites by the Elastic Incomprehensibles.
Scenes in the Circle by the Star Riders of the World. Three
Morning performances of the Pantomime, and Scenes in the
Circle, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. e, 1860, at Two o'clock each day.

OANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
v EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN.
And a Grand Se ection from 211eyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georze Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.

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
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Svw OFFICE, DEC. 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMITE7I-29.70.
WIND, South-Westerly; fresh, with dull rainy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 411. 19m.—Aftemoon, 414 30m.
T 0-M0 ILROw.-Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, oh. 11m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1859.

A greased cartridge, we all know, was the plea
for the Sepoy Revolt throughout the Bengal Pre-
sidency. A pig—nefariously killed, like that cele-
brated animal in the nursery legend of which Tom
the Piper's son is the felonious and blatant hero
positively, and literally, A Pig originally gave rise
to that San Juan Difficulty which not many months
since seriously threatened to provoke a disastrous
collision between the British and American Govern-
ments.

A veritable grunter belonging to a British sub-
ject out in those regions having been wantonly
killed by an American citizen, there was under-
stood (among some of the countrymen of the lat-
ter) to be an intention on the part of our authori-
ties to summarily abduct the offender. Hine ilice
lachrymal The blood of HARNEY was " up" at the
rumour. His chivalrous soul was fired with in-
dignation. Tantance animus ccelestilzes irce !
Captain PICKETT'S company of fifty American sol-
diers was suddenly landed—in obedience to ths
orders of General HARNEY—in obedience to his
orders individually, for no authority whatever for
any such proceedings had been received from the
Government at Washington. It was an illegal act
--an act resulting from one man's petulance—an
act perpetrated wholly and entirely on his own per-
sonal responsibility. How the original offence of
this lawless and unjustifiable (=option of San
Juan by the fifty troopers under Captain PICKETT,
was enhanced very soon afterwards by the pouring
in of other bands of American soldiery, by the
military occupation, in fact, of the whole of the
disputed territory, by the building of fortifications
and the encouragement given to American squatters
in the name, and on behalf of the United States'
Confederation, we have known full well long since,
not only on the eastern borders of the Pacific, but
upon both sides of the Atlantic likewise, Remon-
strances, correspondence, negotiations followed in
due succession. And after a good deal of angry
feeling had been excited upon both sides, the mis-
understanding, if not definitively settled (which
certainly, in honest truth, it must be acknowledgeda
as yet, it is not by any means), is at least in a fair
way to be brought to something like a satisfactory
settlement.

Already it has been now some time brought to
the knowledge of people in this country that the
American Government (having indeed before it but
a very feeble alternative) found itself con-
strained in a manner (it matters little to us how
unwillingly) to repudiate General lIARNEy's
illegal, unjustifiable, and 'wholly unauthorised
proceedings. To that end, indeed, General HAIINEY
was some time since replaced in the command of
the American troops in Orogon ;and Washington
Territory bv G2fierkl SCOTT, who we now
hear has promptly taken occasion to evidemee
his readiness to enter upon a course of
conciliation and reconcilement. Having offered
to Governor DouGLAss (as the American
proposition for the solution of the San Juan Diffi-
culty) a joint military occupation of the island—a
proposal at onoe rejected by his Exceilency—Gen.
SCOTT in his own turn declined to accede to the
English proposition—the one emanating from the