The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-11 00:00:00

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I.ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENIN(f, Jan. 11, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O' DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fa!-
corer i Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
Atter which, a new and original Burlesque Eravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, Th xt
Fairlei of
the ROW, the Thistle, and the
Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr Chas
Miss Lydia Tho • Selby, Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
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Danaher—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1862.

We have several times reminded our readers of
the political worthlessness of the men for whose de-
liverance from prison we have been ready to go to
war. We must, however, now, emphatically insist
on their demerits, since they are not unlikely to pay

us an early visit. It would be a most mischievous
error were the persons themselves to be received
here with anything but the silent contempt due to
their political baseness. When a Southern gentle-
man was recently honoured with a dinner, with a
hearing, and with a certain measure of applause, by
a Worshipful London Company, we pointed out
that it was by concealment alone he could obtain

those cheers. Ilad he told the Company that he
was a slaveholder, the son of a slaveholder, and
seeking to establish a Government, of which the
corner-stone, to use their own expression, should be
slavery, we assured him that he and his cause would
have been hissed and hooted by all classes of Eng•
lishmen from the West-end to Bankside. Southern
agents can obtain a hearing in England, only by
suppressing the infamous principles on which they
are acting. But, if they have the sense to veil the
atrocity of their cause, let them not expect to be
treated as if we were ignorant of it.
The worst tyrants and the noblest patriots have
equally found a refuge on our shores, but we have
not shown ourselves insensible to the difference be-
tween them. In 1848 the despots and their agents
who landed here from our packets were received
with silence which would not insult even the un-
worthy in their calamities; but a KOSSUTH was
welcomed with ovations. We do not counsel in-
sults to Messrs. MASON and SLIDELL, but we do
counsel that every Englishman who comes in con•
tact with them should let them see how we regard
their cause. We could wish some fugitive slave
should come over in the vessel with them, and
that the latter should enjoy the welcome we so
joyfully accord to the oppressed escaped from
the hand of his oppressor, and the two Commis-
sioners reminded that they and theirs stand in
English regard infinitely below the poor negro.
They will rerhaps attempt to be great at Manches-
ter, like the orator at the Fishmongers' dinner, on
free-trade. Hypocrisy could not be more hateful.
These very men helped, without a dissentient voice,
to pass all the protectionist tariffs but the last
and then they were absent for the worst of rea-
sons. But they will say—" We did it, not wil
lingly, but for political reasons." Yes, for political
reasons, indeed ; reasons which make their conduct
ten times worse. They purchased fugitive slave laws
for themselves by tariffs hostile to England ! Are we
to clap men who sold Free-trade for Slavery and
kidnapping ? And to this hour what is their
policy—to use Free-trade as a bribe to England to
put up with their Slavery ! It is from no love to
Free-trade that they offer it to us. It is be-
cause they want our cheaper commodities, and
because they love Slavery.

We have mentioned before that Mr. MASON was
the main author of the accursed Fugitive Slave
Law, and Mr. SLIDELL one of lis most active sup-
porters. The fitting precession to bead their pro-
gress from the ship to their hotel would be one in
which that law was printed en its first flag, whilt
the other flags should exhibit the seizure of the
escaped negro, the flogging; and the auction block
where human beings are sold,and the mere sight of
which, this summer, almost turned Dr. RUSSELL
sick. MASON and SLIDELL are not sick at such
sights. They deem them the glory of Virginia; they
are Virginians,and Virginia is a slave-breeding state.
These are the men who are fighting that they may
retain the power to breed men and women and to
sell them, precisely as we do cattle and horses.
This is not the slightest exaggeration. We have