The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-03 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW.
—THE GREAT FLOWER AND FRUIT SHOW.
Open from Nine in the Morning. Admission ONE SHIL-
LtAG ONLY, as usual.

*** For full particulars of amusements see first page.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,
This Evening, DINORAH.

Commence at S.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE.
This Evenintr, THE YANKEE LEGACY. After which,
the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To
be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with
THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-
Zoug-Zoug. Commence:: at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
This Evening, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which,
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS
And THE CHRISTENING.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
This Evening, THE PRETTY' HORSEDREAKER.
Followed by ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR. And THE
SHILLING DAY.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TgEATRE.
This Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a
quarter to 8, KING HENRY VIAL With THE TWO
POLTS. Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Evening, PEEP O'DAY• Followed by KILLAR-
NEY. Conclude with TILE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED
AT LAST. Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This Evening,
MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle.
Concluding
with a Comic Ballet
Commence at 7.

MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "AT
HOME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This
Evening. Commence at 8.

w. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross.
Commence at 8.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay.
market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing.

CANTERBURY HALL—EVERY EVENING.—
Stion as teckel usual
the great Trapeze performer-Grand Operatic Selec-
- Uneworth, Kugene, and Duley, the great comic
trio, &c.

Commence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY
EVEAlNG.—Verdi's "Il Corsaro," with full band and
chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes—
Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of
Eumsey, Newcomb, tc.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1862.

A Confederate congress is now become a settled
institution. Though hardly more than a year and
a half old, its acts are as regular and attract quite
as much attention as those of the North. The
Southern PRESIDENT'S Messages have also had the
great advantage of being perfectly lucid and intel-
ligible; those who have to present readers with
the pith of the message, and to comment on its
meaning, are thankful enough to have the sen-
tences of JEFFERSON DAVIS rather than those of
Mr. LINCOLN to deal with. The Confederate
Congress met this time, as usual, at Rich-
mond—itself a great fact, after all that has been
-done to capture it, and received the message of the
PRESIDENT. It is principally a business document,
but the tone of it is quietly confident. In his last
message, it will be remembered, he had to acknow-
ledge the reverses that had befallen the Confede-
racy in the Border States, and to point ost the ad-
vantage of greater concentration of their forces, and
contracting their line of defence. lie has now to
meet them with the brighter story of their unques-
tioned success in baffling and defeating the North.
DAVIS'S Messages have been so free, generally,
from anything like Yankee brag, losses have been
so frankly acknowledged, and threatening intima-
tions have been so soon fulfilled, that we naturally
place some reliance on his more hopeful statements,
When, therefore, he states that the military events
have assured the friends of constitutional liberty of
their final triumph in the pending struggle against
despotic usurpation, we feel disposed to believe
that he does not say so without good ground for it.
Before, he considered that his strength lay in telling
the unwelcome truth, and in stimulating his people
by the knowledge of real dangers. We may assume
that he would not now hazard inducing a false
security if a reasonable hope did not exist. De-
nunciation of the war policy of the North must, we
suppose, occupy some sentences in a Southern Mes-
sage ; the Northern one will, we may be sure, fully
repay all eloquence of that kind ; and " constitu-
tional liberty" means of course, in Southern lan-
guage, government with the free consent of the
governed ; just as in the north rebellion means
breaking away of " Sovereign States" from the
Federal compact without the consent of other
Sovereign States " the inference from both
statements being, that federation of sovereign-
ties wont do. It is a device for weakening
the collective power of a people, as Loris NAPO-
LEON well knew when, unasked, he planned a con-
federacy for Italy.
Mr. DAVIS seems to have great hope, while
asking for power to extend the conscription, that he
shall not be obliged to do it. The immense levies of the Federals may render it neo„„eary that they
should extend the age of exemption from thirty-
five to forty-five. This would seem
t° that
.
the South has pretty well exhausted
supplied by the younger age, while the North,:
present, can order a large conscription without
extending the age. Mr. DAVIS, however, seems
quite confident that, at the worst, he shall be able
to meet fully the attacks of the North.

What fills him evidently with the greatest dis-
may, is the poor approaches made by the North
towards making the use they ought to do of the
negroes. With the denunciation of POPE'S and
BUTLER'S atrocious proclamations we shall all sym-
pathise; but his alarm at black enlistments shows
at once the really weak point of the South and the
supreme folly of the North. Not only does he de-
nounce the arming of slaves, but "a bill has been in-
troduced providing that a Federal army, composed
incongruously of white and black men, shall not
he entitled to the privileges of war. All negroes
belonging to such an army 'who may be captured
wail be sold, and their commanders hung or shot !"
We beg to inform Mr. DAVIS that he could not take
a better course to arouse against him all the best
n this side the water the
feeling in Europe' O
universal feeling is that of all persons the negroes
are 3tiat those who hare a moral right to fight.
TtlLiV,,ersta sympathy would go with the black man
~-;
.-agu"ng with the white oppressor. We cannot

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