The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

BOVAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
finder the management of Miss L. rylle and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, DINOIt A. H. Messrs. Smiley, H.
Corn, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling*, Thirl-
wall, and Miss Louisa Fyne.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
DIVERTIS.SE.,ENT. Mdlles. Levine, Pasquale, Ber-
ton, and Mons. 7andris.

mmence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-I: OYA L , HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
TUTS 117141NING the performances will commence with
THE ROAD TO RUIN. _Mr. C. Mathews.
And PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
Comtaence at 7.

OPAL PR INC E S'S THEA.TRE.—
Lessee, Hr. Harris-
ence with
THIS EVENING, the perforWances will comm
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH.
After which, PUSS ; or, liletempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley.
To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. R. Plauche, Esq., entitled LOU AND FOR DUNE.
To conclude with THE TWO POLTS.

"MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
.A.l Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON PARLE
FRANCAIS. Messrs. J? L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss
Kelly.
After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben.
Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L.
Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats ,
nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. 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-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen-
ford Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, suportml by Miss Lydia
Thomps,on, Miss Clara St. Casse, andp a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINI ITS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa.. -
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 5d ; Pit, is. The Box-offsce open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and 'Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An-
Other Retreat from Moscow.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY Ole LYONS.
And-CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Commence at 7 o'cloOk.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.'
Brilliant reception of the New Historical Drama, by Tom
Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI, sustained by a New Dra-
matic Company, full Stud of beautiful Horses, Characteristic
Costumes and Picturesque Scenery. Engagement for a
limited period of the Great Delavanti troupe, GYmnasists
par excellence; also, Little Menda, the most Wonderful
Juvenile Equestrian in the World. Scenes in the Circle by
Star Riders and talented Equestrians. Terminating with a
Laughable Farce.
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 Selection from 3leyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.
Comic Vocaists —Messrs. George Trois= (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleid, 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.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the eght.
48—this day at noon.

BattomETEit-29.40.
WlND—South-easterly, light, with dull but milder
weather.

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Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 49m.—Afternoon, 1. 11m.
To-31onudw-Morning, lh. 32m.—Afternoon, lh. 53m.

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1859

The calamitous effects of the Strike are at length
beginning to tell upon its victims, and even to force
a tardy suspicion of its folly (to use the very mildest
phrase) upon the judgments of some among its

most ardent promoters. The melancholy conse-
quences of the whole proceeding are no longer to

be concealed They glare upon our notice—the

most fatal of these consequences—through the

weekly report of that inexorable Gazeteer of

Death, the Registrar-General. For these are evi-

dences now only too visible, from week to week,
upon those tabulated records official records

more than most records of an offieial character to be

accepted upon all hands as perfectly reliable—these
are frightfully conspicuous evidences, these, that
the
.Strike has added, in a deplorable way, its own
peculiar quota to the general mortality. The
impoverishment necessarily , produced by. the
Steike has told, naturally enough, upon the
weakest, frailest, and most delicate constitutions
—it has cut off by scores the poor women
and children ! Before the actual death of which
unfortunates, we are constrained to bear in mind
the lengthened sufferings endured day by day in
these now bereaved households of the poor ! Be-
fore that most deplorable of natural deaths can
come—if we can in any way induce ourselves to
speak of it as a " natural" death—the death pro-
duced by actual inanition ; before the wives and
children of working men-can die of absolute star-
vation—every stick and rag (be sure of that) has
long since gone to the pawnbroker.
The scenes of misery thatmust have been
rife in all parts of this metropolis during the
chief part of the deplorable interval which
has elapsed since the strike commenced
scenes that must have come to the knowledge of,
if they have not actually been witnessed by, the
daring originators and obstinate upholders of the
Nine Hours' Movement—must have served to
attest the hardness and stubbornness of their
philosophy. Whatever they may argue to the con-
trary these men have been all this while coolly
driving these scores upon scores to death, and these
hundreds and thousands to misery. Better, they
have seemed to say, that all these sickly women
and children should continue to perish—better that
all these fathers and husbands should be denied the
chance of saving them from destruction by work—
better that all these unnumbered families should
be rendered utterly wretched and impoverished
to the last degree of impoverishment, than that we
should do anything so mean and paltry now as to
"give in" after allour bold words and resolute pro-
ceedings ! And, so—weeks, months have gone by
without a hint at the probability of any relenting.
And during the lapse of these same miserable
'weeks and months the Registrar-General has been
ticking down more and more rapidly the lists of
the helpless victims. At last—with the prema-
ture indications of approaching winter suddenly
upon us—at last the funds begin to fall
off. The boldest spoken hitherto show signs of
the dawn of something like timidity, or at any
rate of something like hesitation. An appeal to

the general community is talked of—without any

distinct idea evid,.mtly of the principle upon which
it should be at'.dressed to the sympathies of the
population. Arid so out of the very depth of the
groom of the geu eral wretchedness there comes the
glimmering of r ghostly hope of amelioration.
The worst ofi .tall now is, however, that so very brief
an interval is really left to attempt even to make
up arrears be: fore the building season is ended
peremptorily t iy the annual setting in of the sharp
frosts, when lb e trowel and mortar can no longer
be
handled bY the bricklayer any more than the
ra-4e Pa BREW
can be used by the poor frozen-out