The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

ROYAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.

Under the manatzement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING (the 2d time) VICTORINE. Messrs.
Santley, Haigh, H. Corri, G. Honey, Bartleman, &c. Misses
Parepa, Thirlwall, &c.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.

Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne,
F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan,
and Mons. Vandris.

Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
A GAME OF SPECULATION.

After which, by desire, THE CONTESTED ELECTION
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c.

And SHOCKING EVENTS.

Commence at 7.

RO VA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the new drama,' entitled HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris
Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which, Mons, Espanola (Premier Danseur Comique),
Will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of
the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as
danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la
Porte St. Martin, Paris.

To conclude with WURS MY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H.
Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs.
Weston.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford, Stuart,
Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful niece of extravagance, called
DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office ouen from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE KEY UNDER TIIE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James
Vinning, Jno Rouse, &C. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia
St. George.

To be followed by the new Drama Fantastique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, J. John-
stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate
Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste.
Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE.
and Mr. Rouse.

Madame Celeste

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.

THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production,
by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI; illustrating the
principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General.
To be followed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in
the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John
Henry Cooke, as the Nemman Conqueror -More Wonders by
the Educated Elephant—Eletrant Equitation by Miss Emily
Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Ad red Cooke's sur-
passing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats
by the Athenian Athlete, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Novel
Flag Exerc'ses on horseback by Madlle. Jenny—Varied by
those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls.

To commence at 7.
Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations
of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM
MOODY ; or, Old Tower the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. 2, 1380, at Two o'clock each day.

CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY ,EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.
And a Grand Se ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DD TORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. Georp:e Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. P. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interestinz 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
eights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONFIEUR'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 from4i till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICt, DECEMBER 21.
THEMNIONIETER, IN THE SHADE.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night,
46—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.
WIND, Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weathir,
Rain last night and this morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, llh. 32m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om
TO-MORROW. -Morning, 12h. In.—Afternoon, 12h. 21m,

♦
It is amusing to observe the difference between
the Moorish and the Spanish accounts given of the
different minor actions an 1 skirmishes that have
already taken place in the neighbourhood of Ceuta,
since that melancholy little war commenced there
upon the north-eastern frontiers of Morocco. Ac-
cording to the Moors the Spaniards have met with
nothing hitherto but reverses and discomfitures.
They have been killed and wounded in numbers
altogether disproportioned to the importance, or
rather to the want of importance, of the different
engagements. They have repeatedly been ,driven
back ignominiously. They have, even by this
time, in some measure expiated the guilt of their
hostile movement beyond, their own African boun-
daries by the severity, the swiftness. and the reitera-
tion of their punishments. This, all this and a
great deal more, according to the accounts given
to the world by the Moorish authorities, from the
Commander-in-Chief downwards! And upon the
opposite side—reading the military records laid
before Christendom by the Madrid Government—
how wide and glaring the difference ! Running
the eye down these despatches one is led to the
conclusion that even now, almost by this time,
Morocco is—all but—conquered. The skirmishes
there in the immediate vicinity of Ceuta, viewed
through the Spanish lorgnette, appear to be mag-
nified almost to the dimensions of momentous
pitched battles pitched battles only just
short of being conclusive ! Warlike achieve-
ments, that supposing them to answer accu-
rately to those descriptions would certainly
necessitate a very copious appendix to
Professor CREASY's literary masterpiece. When
all is said and done, however, in turning over these
extraordinary bulletins from the side of the Moors
and from the side of the Spaniards—there stands
out the significant and undeniable fact that the
fighting is still restricted to the immediate neigh-
• bourhood of Ceuta ! Showing as plainly as possible
that whatever other advantage has occurred to
them, the Spaniards have decidedly not
advanced ! It has been bloodshed hitherto
to no purpose whatever beyond that of
enabling
,the belligerents to flesh their swords
and their bayonets—and tcrtest their skill as marks-
men upon living targets closely clustered together.
The situation is thus as nearly as possible the same
now that it was when the struggle commenced.
Only the foes are a trifle breathed, a trifle heated,
a trifle more irritated against each other.
As evidence of the bias of the bowl as it 'rolls
from either side in the form of the last bulletin, note
the Moorish account of the affair of the 9th inst.
" At daybreak on that day," quoth the Moorish
record, "a force of about eight' thousand Moors
attacked , the Spaniards encamped outside the
frontier lines of Ceuta at thrce different points,
put them to flight immediately, and got posses-
sion of all their recently constructed earthworks..
Shortly after Wards the Spaniards rallied, and
with a considerable reinforcement from the town
attempted to regain the defences they had lost.
Three times they fell upon the Moors, and were
each time repulsed with great loss. Then the
Spaniards brought up still larger forces than before
and attacked the Moors whilst they were engaged
in carrying off the field their dead and wounded.
Thus assailed the Moors retreated slowly and
steadily to their own ground, and were pursued by
the attacking Spaniards down the hill side be-
low the further redoubt, where some 200 Meoriqi
cavalry charged the enemy and drove him back
most gallantly, the Moors regaining the redoubts.
A huoie band of mountaineers, numbering some

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1859.