The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

Site,—As the lessee of the Great St. James's Hall, I have
to offer to the public and my patrons in general an apology
for the abrupt closing of the above-named hail ; but as the
facts connected with the matter are under legal considera-
tion, I beg respectfully to ask the public to suspend their
judgment until that issue, and remain, your obedient ser-
vant, •

JOHN HENRY ANDERSON,
Great Wizard of the North.
Groat St. James's Hall, Dec. 2, 1865.

Mr. James Carson, of Jamaica, had an interview
with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell at the Colonial-
office on Thursday.

The unexpected return of M. Du Chaillu to Eng-
land, says the Court Circular, has created a little
excitement in geographical circles. We believe that this
adventurous traveller has on this occasion reached a spot
much further in the interior than on his previous journeys,
and that he was about 400 miles from the sea when an un-
fortunatefracas arose between the black servant of his party
and the surrounding natives, one of the native black women
being accidentally shot. Although the traveller offered
compensation, an attack was commenced on his party,
which was compelled to retreat with the loss of all the
scientific instruments which M. du Chaillu had brought
with him, as well as the collections of specimens. M.
du Chaillu was seriously wounded with poisoned arrows in
the encounter. The journals of the expedition were for-
tunately preserved. As careful astronomical observations
were made by M. du Chaillu, we anticipate that the account
of his travels will on this occasion prove not merely of
great interest, but scientific importance. A description of
his journey will, we believe, be laid before the Royal
Geographical Society at an early meeting ; whilst the ac-
count of the natives, as well as description of some valu-
able skulls, will, we understand, be communicated to the
Anthropological Society of London.

Mr. J. L. TooLE.L-Mr. Toole has proved one of
the most successful of the numerous star engagements
at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, the houso having been
crowded every night. He has played the characters of
the Dodger in " Oliver Twist," Joe Bright in " Through
Fire and Water," and Caleb Plummer in the drama of
" Dot,"--each a perfect and distinct realisation of a dif -
ferent phase in human life. Saunders's News-Letter says,
"No tragedy could give rise to feelings more earnest and
deep-seated than the marvellous fidelity to nature dis-
played. by Mr. Toole as Caleb." " The beautiful drama
of "Dot," says the Dublin Express, "was last night pro-
duced before a'crowded audience with wonderful success.
The part of the old toymaker, by Mr. J. L. Toole, is one
of the finest pieces of serio-comic acting we have seen up-
on the Dublin stage." The Freeman's Journal declares
Mr. Toole's personation of the old man to be "grandly
natural, simple, and truthful—the most faultless of the kind
we ever saw."

The London Consul for Chili having resigned his office,
Mr. Henry Rendall has been appointed Acting Consul, and
has removed the Consulate to No. 1, Great Winchester-
street.
THE BRITISH CONSUL AT HAVANA.—The New York
papers make the following grave charges against Mr
CRAWFORD, the British consul at Havana :

" Upon the breaking out of the rebellion Mr. Henry
Holze, of Mobile, was sent to London to manufacture let-
ters and articles to be inserted in the English and French
newspapers, in order togive the mcst favourable coloring
to the Southern transactions, and with full instructions to
pay for their insertion, if the matter could not be managed
otherwise. Upon his arrival at Havana, his visit to the
British Consul, Mr. Crawford, was of a very friendly na-
ture, and they became so intimate that Holze, B. Helm,
and the Consul, pledged themselves, individually and col-
lectively, 'to aid the holy cause of the Confederacy to the
chief rendezvous
werealwuye w between
written
utmost of their power while life remained to them. From
that hour the British Consulate at Havana became the
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one
copy Europe.
beDineg-
elsent through the English Post Office, addressed under
cover to the British Consul, as
being
a sure transit.
Moneys, munitions of war, &c., all were consigned to the
kind offices of Mr. Crawford. The captains of the block-
ade-runners also first steered to Mr. Crawford as being the
trusted depository of the current port signals. These
signals were changed by the rebels every month, and Mr.
Crawford, as being the most trusted employe, was first
made acquainted with the change, for the purpose of in-
forming the blockade-runners, two business-houses at St.
Thomas, and thence to Bury-street, London. It has been
estimated that by Mr. Crawford's direct assistance up-
wards of 2,000,000 bales of cotton and 50,000 boxes of
tobacco wero thus smuggled out through the blockad©, to
say nothing of the munitions of war supplied to the South
a slight formed
idea may be
from England, and of which_ ,
forces
in Texas
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by the single statement
from
wore entirely armed and supplied Europe (principally_
from London,) directly by the aid aud personal assistance
of Ur. Crawford."