The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-01 00:00:00

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, 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, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith,
Stephenson, Romer, Lewis ; Mrs. Billing-ton, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
After which, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama
of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault,
Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c.
Box Office open from 10 till 5.

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

Under the Direction ofMdlle. Albina di Rhona.
THIS EVENING, A LES SON FOR HUSBANDS ;
characters by Mr. Sinclair, Mesas. Clifford and Terry. After
which, CAMELIA ; Camelia, Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol-
lowed by a New Operatic Burlesque, entitled THE VERY
LATEST EDITION OF IL TROVATORE ; or, Who
Killed the —; Messrs. Graham, Robins, James, Warren,
W. Worhcys ; Mesds. Mason, Craven, and Hodson. To
comiude with new and original Farce, A NICE QUIET
DAY.—Commence at half-past 7.

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 quarter-past ten—in addition to the following Comic
talent: Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Bur-
lesque Vocalist, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss
Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene.
Grand Selections from
LA TRAVIA.TA 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 OXFORD,
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. Viotti Collins (the great English
violinist). Balfe's New Ballads, by Madame Enderssohn
and Mi4s Russell (composed expressly for them), and other
Vocal and Instrumental Entertainments, the Comic portion
by Messrs. Sam Collins. E. Marshall, M. P. 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, 2h. Gm.—Afternoon, 2h. 32m.
TO-MORROW. -Morning, 2h. 57m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 1, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
37—kighest since noon yesterday.
29—lowest this morning and during the night.
33—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.40.
WlND—Northerly ; light, with dull hazy weather, and
sharp frost.

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THE SUN,
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1862.

The Africa has arrived as expected, notwith-
standing strong easterly winds. All her news is
pacific. The Stock Exchange evidently thinks so'
the funds having risen fully one per cent.
since the news was published. Second
thoughts seem to have been, indeed, in
this case best for America ; whether for England
and the world, on the widest view of things, may,
perhaps, be doubted. Present danger of war is
probably at an end. The most significant evidence
of this is the action of Congress. We have but just
heard how they thanked the " gallant" WILKES for
his zeal and courage in law-making for his country's
advantage ; we now learn that they are taking
much more cautious steps in the matter. A resolu-
tion was proposed to the House of Representatives to
support the act of Capt.ll' ILKES —the House did not
indeed reject it, but neither would they as a house
adopt it—they referred it to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs—a prudent way, no doubt, of
shelving it till the Cabinet and the law authorities
should have had time to speak.
The frantic fury which had burst forth on the
arrival of the intelligence, by the Europa and the
Jura, of the attitude of England has given way to
something like " eating the leek• The " impres-
sion" is no longer that the Commissioners will
on no account be given up, but that if
the demands of our Government for their sur-
render are couched in moderate language, they
will be surrendered. The tone of even the
New York press is, we are told, moderate. We
half expected it would be so. It was indeed
impossible to predict before-hand what course the
mob would take, and whether it would not compe-
the Government to resist justice to England as in-
justice to the Great Republic ; still, the fatuity was
so manifest of attempting to beat England and the
South at the same time that even the dullest must
comprehend the position. And, as it was hardly
likely that the prospect of being beaten on both
sides at once, could be pleasant, even the Irish of
America must understand that they had to
choose between a thorough humiliation or keep-
ing the peace with England.
As the ebullitions of rage were begining to sub-

side before the French letter, and the news from

other States who take the same view as England,
had arrived, we may conclude that when the Ameri.
cans know that all tne world is against them, we
shall hear little more of the matter. If the multitude
see that their Government must give in, the latter
will have no difficulty in doing so. After all, and
phrase their concession how they like, they will feel
deeply enough that they have to make it. A
war might have bean a more effectual teacher,
but the surrender of the commissioners on the

demand, not only of England but of the civilised
world, will make the great Mr. SEWARD, and the
boastful Bostonians look rather small. There was

positively nothing in the act but the defiance of
England. It was that which was toasted and
lauded to the skies. There was arid could be no-
thing, in a ship of war mounting thirteen large
guns, doing what it pleased with an unarmed

steamer which one broadside would sink—the glory

was not that the frigate beat the merehan

steamer, but that she beat the English
merchant steamer, not that the ship of war
defied a ship without guns, but that she
defied the _English flag and the British Lion—her
figurehead. On just this point they have to go
down on their knees. They have to confess they
were wrong to defy the English flag. They have
to say that they will not do so again. They have

o part With the men whom they would have given

anything to keep, just because they insulted the
British flag to get them. They have indeed to
read their disgrace in the Court announcement that,
at the P.esident's last levee, neither the English
nor French nor Prussian Ministers were
present.
We have by the arrival of the Africa some fur"
-they -intelligence of American
Proceedings as re
rra-
rdS themselves. A General PRELPS is said to
?„.
iitiVe landed on Ship Island, not far
prom the
mouths of the Mississippi, and to have issued a pro-
clamation far in advance on Fremont's, to the effect
that all the States which have been admitted as
slave states since the Union have been admitted in
violation of the constitution. Of course this is but
an invitation to the negroes of all the 20Utli-Wes.