The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-08 00:00:00

Commence at Seven

FA Tlt ROYA
• HAY MARKET,
ARPAPP,.. Mr. J. Ftan-stm.,
TM EVENING, to commence with THE ITONEYNIOON.
Juliana, Miss Jane Coombs (her 4th appearance in Eng-
land).
After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE
MISS NICE PET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, Haile-
mid Old aiddj Lon .2-,legs. I .onise Leclerc(' 'Clutrics Le-
qui" and - Cole, G. liccket, aid Miss Eosin°.
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1) 0 Y .-k I. YCEUM THEATRE,
Tr, :1:t! cr --Mr. Edmund Falconer.

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EvENINI7, Jan. 5, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEET' or, Savourneen Deciish. Atessrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann N ezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-
coner : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara WePton.
After which, a new and ori,rin al Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Th., Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcek. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby Mr Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.' •

Actinger—Slr.F. B. Chatterton.

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Prices as usual. Doors open at halt-pas,, to commence at
f Box-office open daily from it till 5.

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39 —lowest this morning and during the night.
45 —this day at noon.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1862.

the newspapers and letters which have just ar-
rived by the Europa are more unfavourable to
peace than the telegrams which preceded them.
New York, the merchant's and banker's city, was
much more in favour of suvren der than Washington,
the politician's city. The responsible politicians

have not indeed yet spoken, but the noisier ones
cannot be disregarded, for they dictate too com-
monly the policy of the Government; and, up to the
time when our advices left, the Cabinet appeared to
be waiting to see what the masses would allow them
to do. At New York, and with the more thought-
ful at Washington itself, the opinion seemed to be
that the prisoners must be surrendered, as a neces-
sity of the hour, but under a protest or
TOW of eternal enmity to England. Some
of the papers describe this feeling, with
too much truth we fear, as the one most
deeply seated in the American breast. The news
of the death of Prince ALBERT has not lessened
their inclination to quarrel with a nation in mourn-
ing; but only nurtured the hope that we shall be
too loyally sad for our QUEEN to trouble ourselves
further about the Commissioners.

We notice with regret that Dr. RUSSELL, whose
opinion is certainly of no little weight, is by no
means confident in his hope of peace. Writing on
the 23d, the day on which Lord LYONS at last
communicated his despatch officially, he says :
" My impression is, that Mr. SEWARD will endea-
vour to open a correspondence, and that failing,
as he necessarily must, in that, he will refuse on
the part of the Government to surrender Messrs.
MASON and SLIDELL and their secretaries. In
that case Lord LYONS loaves the United
States with the members of his legation. Then
follows a declaration of war—a sudden, destructive,
and sanguinary war between two nations, of which
the one is already engaged in a desperate conflict
with en internal foe, and of which the other is an
ancient monarchy, jealous of its honours and its
rights, but which has, nevertheless, endured so long
the threats and menaces of its powerful offshoot that
forbearance has been construed into dare not,' and
endurance has been mistaken for pusillanimity."
He acknowledges that we should suffer greatly by
the war, avid that England and France would pur-
chase cotton and tobacco at a dear rate, but he
chews, what, indeed, had been obvious to us all,
that the Federals would be in an almost hopeless
position between the two fires. As one effect of
the apprehension of war with England, there is an
increased impatience to gain some great Federal
success on the Potomac, before Great Britain shall
become the virtual ally of the South. The weather,
however, makes military operations exceedingly
difficult ; and the South seems to be better prepared
than ever to resist an attack. The fight would pro-
bably be a desperate one, and under every disad-
vantage to the Federalists, On the whole, the
fuller details we receive this morning give much
cause to fear that the cunning of SEIYARD, and the
technical special pleading of the Lawyer-President,
may have devised some evasive reply, of which, of
course, Lord LYONS will be himself the bearer.

How alarming the position is out at Washington,
the following remarks in our able contemporary
the Norning Post, the organ of Lord PALMEP,
STON, if not of his Government, will sufficiently
indicate. The Post says :
" Any day may now bring us the American deci-
sion ; but every hour's delay in its arrival dimi-
nishes cur hope of a favourable answcr, and in-
creases cur expectation of seeing Lord Lycns on
next Sunday or Monday. His Excellency was to
leave Washington, v‘ ith the Legation, on the 30th
ult., unless, by noon of that day, the American
Government had complied Si ith our demands. We
may as well recapitulate what we have already
stated, and what is confirmed in every detail by the
intelligence now received. Lord Lyons' instruc-
tions reached him on the night of the 18th ult. He
sought Mr. Seward on the 19th, and explained te
I him unofficially their object. This proceeding he