The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

p 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
CO VENT GARDEN.
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Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.

Harrison

THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Mr. Santicy, Mr. H. Corti,
Mr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T.
Distin, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall,
and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
After which will be produced (written expressly by J. M.
Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a
Peep at Lilliput, and a Flying Visit to Laputa.
Gulliver, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Guliiver, Mr. F. Payne.
Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the
Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The IlarlequinAde sustained
by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Payne, F. Payne,
H. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Commence at Seven.

ri-LEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone.
THIS EVENING-, Dec. 31, Sterlinr; Coyne's Comedy BLACK SHEEP. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton,
Howe, Villiers, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. Wilkins, ttc.
Ai ter which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE
MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle-
quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Chant s Le-
clercq, Hen Cole, u Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Kosine.

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It YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Illanager---Mr. Edmund Falconer.

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THIS EVENING, Dec. 31, the new and original Drama
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs:
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fa',
cone ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
After which, a r ew and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcek. Principal charac-
ters by 3ir Chas. Selby, Mr. 11'arlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to commence at
1. Box-office open daily from 11 till 6.

THORLEY'S FOOD for CATTLE, a Condiment
for seasoning all kinds of common provender. A
barrel, containing 448 feeds, carriage paid for post order, 405.,
payable to the Inventor, JOSEPH THOItLEY, Newgate-
street, City, London.

THORLEY'S ENTIRE FEEDING MEAL,
price £l6 per ton, free to rail in London, composed of
Locust Beans, Maize, Linseed, &c„ seasoned with Thorley's
Condiment. Barrels, 12 stone each, 305., carriage paid.—
Newgate-street, City.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, Tuesday, Dec. 31, THE CRICKET
ON THE HEARTH. After which will be produced, a
Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled WHITTING-
TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol
and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening
invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the
Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The
Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous
assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard; Princess
Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclereq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le-
clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast-
ings, Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris;
Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil
of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ;
Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum-
bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will
take place at Two o'clock on Monday, Deo 30, and every fol-
lowing Monday till further notice.

NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama,
entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA :
Messrs. Grace, Billing,ton, Emery, Phillip 2, Jamison, Smith,
Stephenson, Romer. Lewis; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis.

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After which, at 20 minutes past 9, thi3 great Irish Drama
of THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouoicault,
Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c.
Box Office open from 10 till 5.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.

Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona.
THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS ;
characters by Mr. Sinclair, Mesas. Clifford and Tem. After
which, CAMELIA ; Camelia, Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol-
lowed by a New Operatic Burlesque, entitled THE VERY
LATEST EDITION OF IL TROVATOR ; or, Who
Killed the —; Messrs. Graham, Robins, James, Warren,
W. Worboys ; Needs. Mason, Craven, and Hodson. To
con lude with new and orional Farce, A NICE QUIET
DAY.—Commence at hall-past 7.

ASITEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
By particular desire, a GRAND MORNING PERFORM-
ANCE on WEDNESDAY (New Year's Day), commencing
with daring- Scenes in the Circle, by the first Equestrians in
tk6 world; concluding" with the Comic Pantomime,
JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE ; or, Harlequin Black Witch of
Edmonton. Doors open at half-past 1, commence at 2. The
Evening Performance as usual. On Saturday, Jan. 4, a
Grand Morning Performance, at 2.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Triumphant Success of' Mr. Marshall's Grand Christmas
Entertainment, "THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND
EDlTlON)—Wonderful Transformations—Every Evening
at a quart9r-prit ten—in additioa to the following Comic
talent: Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Bur-
lesque Vocali,L, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss
Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene.
Grand Selections from
LA TRAVIATA and TROVATORE,
at ten o'clock,
By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN,
" THE FLYING MAN " Every Evening at half-past
Nine o'clock.

T HE 0 X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET,

OPEN EVERY EVENING.

Grand Selections from " ERNANI," "Macbeth," and
"La Circassienne," by Madame Enderssohn, Miss Ernst,
and Miss Russell ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and
C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F.
Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. V,otti Collins (the great English
Balfe's New Ballads, by Madame Enderssohn
and Mi-s Russell (composed expressly for them), and other
Vocal and Instrumental Entertainments, the Comic portion
by Messrs. S-m Collins, E. Morahan, M. I'. Foster, W. Ran-
dall. and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 9m.—Afternoon, lh. 38m.
TO-HORROW.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, h. Frm.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 31, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
37—i ighest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
37—this day at noon.
BAROMETER— 30.42.
W„ ID—N.-Easterly; light, with dull weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1861.

According to annual custom, upon New Year's
Eve, we take a retrospect of the past twelvemonth.
But a very brief interval after these remarks of
ours shall have gone to press, the joy-bells in all
our city church towers and village steeples will
peal out blithely the transition from the one year
to the other—from 1861 to 1862. And there will
be this time far more than ordinary significance in
the dear familiar sound of these old joybells at
midnight—remembering, as who amongst us cannot
fail to do, how much more reason than usual we have
now to turn rather Hopefully to the Future than
Regretfully Lo the Past. The griefs that have come
upon us during the 'ear that is now "fast dying" are
too poignant and too manifestly irreparable to be
loitered over in unavailing regret. While we find
cause in every direction about us to obey the
English Poet's most seasonable behest in his mas-
terpiece of In enzoriana, to—

"Ring out the old, ring in the new !
Ring out the False, ring in the true l"

We have abundant reason also to act upon the
American Poet's no less earnest recommendation,
that we should—

"Let the dead Past bury its Dead."

A cursory glance down the record furnished by
our three hundred and thirteen daily impressions
will only too painfully justify this instantaneous
and almosi• instinctive preference for glancing
down the vista before us rather than down that
which we have just now been somewhat pain-
' fully traversing. Everywhere we find abun-
dant arguments luring us rather to sanguine
anticipations than to a doleful retrospect.
Nevertheless, no matter how painful it may be to
do violence for a while to this natural impulse, to
look forward instead of backward, to muse over the
Future rather than over the Past—it is always well
that upon the last day of the year we should
attempt to epitomise the more salient incidents in
its history. And turning our attention now—we
will admit somewhat reluctantly—to the task, What
are the occurrences that start forth the most vividly
to our recollection ? They are but too readily
enumerated. Death in the Palace. That to begin
with—and to end with. Death deplorably reiterated
in its advent : first, that of the venerable Mother,
afterwards, that of the honoured and beloved
Husband of the Sovereign. The year of grace 1861
will, by reason of those two events alone, be remem-
bered mournfully in our national annals. The
expiring twelvemonth closes in fact while the
QUEEN and her People are yet in the midst of the
first bitter freshness of their mourning, over the by
far more lamentable event of the two—the prema-
ture and sudden demise of His Royal Highness
ALBERT, the PRINCE CONSORT of England. The
disappearance from life of Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of KENT, was only in the course
of nature, and what might not unreason-
ably have beeu anticipated. Not so the abrupt
vanishing from the world—in which he occu-
pied so conspicuous and illustrious a position—
of her MAJESTY'S virtuous and gifted CONSORT,
while yet in the flower of his life and the full vigour
of his comely manhood. Hardly have we consigned
his inanimate remains with unaffected lamentations
to his early grave, when Christmas has come upon
us in the midst of our mourning, and that sad
Christmas is in due course fast followed by a melan-
choly New Year's Eve. The grief cf our constitu-
tional Queen is the grief of the whole Nation.
And it is consequently, in simple truth and by no
courtly pretence of sympathy in the royal sorrow,
that we may quite confidently assert that
the first and last thought of the people
of these islands, now that 1861 is rapidly