The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

2.-THE GREAT SENSATION KITCHEN.

Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss.
Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader—
The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head
dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and
Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence those dreadful Bells—
Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on
the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed—
arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his
own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad
Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a v ell-
known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not
Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it.

3.—THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION.
Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper—
"'l he Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book
that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a
Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on
the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree—
late arrivals—Messrs. Neverintime, Toolate, Dearme, and
Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person
that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale
of goods.

4.—The SEA-SIDE.
The Sands! The Sands I I The Sands !! !
Come unto these yellow sands.
A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier
Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn
sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight
Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon
gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner—Clown asto-
nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but
don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a
National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader-1 he
Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's
Concert—fine ears for Music—they fish in troubled waters
—a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all)
—The latest Novelty in Parrchutes.

Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm
appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE
OF SPLENDOUR.

Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven
o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be
had at the Box Office before the opening.

,ROYAL

NG 1, S H OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Mr. Santley, Mr. 11. Corri,
Mr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T.
Distin, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall,
and Mr. W. Harrison.

Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
After which will be produced (written expres,ly by J. M.
Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Probdlg a
Peep at Lilliput, and a Flying Visit to Laputa.
Gulliver, Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Mrs. GuLiver, Mr. F. Payne.
Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the
Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequin Ale sustained
by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. 11. Vayne, P. Payne,
11. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.

Commence at Seven,

TIE EA l'R '.ROYAL,
I.,c,,scee, Mr. J. H. 1o.:

HAYMARKET,

THI EVENING, to commence with THE LOVE CHASE.
Constanze, Miss Jane Coombs (her first appearance in Eng-
land). _ _

Ater which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE
MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle-
quin and Old Daddy Lomrlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le-
clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Resine.

Commence a 7

10 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

THIS EVENING, Jan. 4, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourncen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Srlby, Edmund Fat-
coney : Mrs. D. 1". Bowers. Miss Clara Weston.
After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE NED RIDING HOOD ; or, 'lli • Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr Chas. Selby-, Jr. 2 Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Tho.npson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual.
.onice Doors open
2 Box at half-past 6, to commence at
open daily from 11 till 5.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 1862.

At present, all is informal, but all pacific. Up
to the 21st we find that Lord LYONS had not for-
mally presented his demands, but had had several
unofficial, and it is said perfectly friendly inter-
views with Mr. SEWARD. The latter it is well
known allowed Mr. CHASE, who was in chase of
money at New York, to announce to the moneyed
men there, that there was to be no war with Eng-
land.; but as that was merely a bid for money, it
was of course open to some doubts. The friendly
enmmunications between our Ambassador and the
Foreign Secretary are much less so. The main fact
is, however, certain that the press,which represents
the populace, has quite changed its tone, and seems
now as desirous to find excuses for giving up the
Commissioners as it was before bold in asserting

that they should be on no account surrendered. The
mad New lork, herald, to be sure, in making the
concession, advertises us of an intention to wind
up this war successfully w. th the rebels, and then
with a million of men, and a vast fleet created
by the war, to settle its accounts with Great Bri-
tain, and with all Europe too. The herald re-
minds us of the zebra in the hands of Mr. RAREY,
which, after the great horsebreaker had compelled
it to submission, as it was being led out gave a
scream and a kick, as much as to say, "I've my old

emper in me yet."
The private commercial information is of the
same tendency as that in nearly all the papers.
The letter of NEILL Brothers adverts to the "salu-
tary and extraordinary change in public sentiment
in New York and throughout the country. It was
now everywhere thought that " the prisoners were
not worth fighting for." The letter state's that all
classes have the fullest conviction of the power of
the North to re-annex the South ; hence it is
argued that the idea of the Government get-
ting out of war with the South by going to
war with England, is simply absurd. On the
contrary they see that were the South aided by
England its independence would be certain, while
they could not accomplish the object to which they
believed themselves fully equal. Our peace men
here will do well to notice one point in this busi-
ness circular. Messrs. NEILL believe that the
chance of a war with England is now more remote
than ever. And for what reason ? Just because,
they say, the Americans have got the leseon they
so much needed. The American Government has,
they say, for some time past acted on the presump-
tion " that England's interest in the preservation of
peace was so great, that she would bear any num-
ber of paltry indignities rather than make them a
cause of war," but that this idea will now be modi-
fied. 'We, as politicians, are confident that our Go-
vernment has acted in the interests of peace. The
one thing needful for Americans to know, al-
though it might cost the sending out a
few regiments and ships, was, that the
day for England to put up with endless violence
and insults was now over—and the prospect of
peace is therefore doubtless better than ever—when
it is understood that if we show moderation in our

own behaviour we expect reciprocity.
We rather wonder at the confidence of final vic-
tory and reunion ascribed by iNlessrs. NEILL to the
respectable classes with whom their association
must be. To us, on this side the water, the grounds
are not very obvious. The military victories are
certainly small enough. Ey this mail we receive
information, indeed, of a small success of the Fede-
rals in Missouri. If late accounts do not diminish
totals in. the way they have hitherto done, without
bloodshed, it would seem the Pederals captured
1;300 men, three colours, seventeen captains,
other officers in proportion, a thousazd
stand of arms, as many horses, with tents
and baggage. This little well-managed feat may

reasonably gratify our Northern friends after such
a series of disasters. The skill was worth morn
than all—there having been hitherto such a total
want of it on the side of the Federals.

The Confederates appear, however, to be in un-
diminished force near Washington. Not long ago
they attempted the passage of the river, and had
collected, to the surprise of the North, not less than
50 boats. The attempt was, however, frustrated.
By this mail we observe that a force of the Fede-
rals having advanced a little to reconnoitre, and to
seek forage, it was met immediately by four regi-
ments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a battery of
six pieces of artillery. After an hour and a half's
action the Confederates,we are told,were thoroughly
routed, with a loss of 60 killed, and of all their
equipments, the Federals only losing 10 men. This
also is a little encouraging to the North, but it

seems also to show that the Southerns are close at
hand in considerable force; and they have, as we
know, long commanded the ascent of the Potomac
from the sea to Washington.

An admirable letter addressed by his Royal
Highness the PRINCE of WALES to the Council of
the Royal Horticultural Society will be read with
profound interest by the community at large. It
may sound the merest commonplace, yet it is at the
same time the literal truth, to remark, as hardly
any one can fail to do instinctively, that it is a
communication that does honour alike to the head
and heart of the young PRINCE. It is written
within a week from the interment of the beloved
and ever-lamented father of the heir apparent to
throne of England. Five days after his Royal
Highness has assisted as Chief Mourner at the
solemn sepulture of those dear remains, he takes
pen in hand at Osborne on the 28th of December,
1861, to express in the most simple and natural
affecting manner the emotions of tender regret and
grateful remembrance, henceforth sanctifying for
the QUEEN and her children the every recollection
of their dead Father and Husband. "Prostrated
with overwhelming grief," writes his Royal
Highness, " and able, at present, to turn her
thoughts but to one object, the QUEEN, my mother,
has constantly in her mind the anxious desire of
doing honour to the memory of him whose good
and glorious character the whole nation in its sorrow
so justly appreciates." The young Prince then goes
on to explain how it is that her MAJESTY now
proposes to do this in the first instance—the pur-
port in fact of his Royal Highness's missive to the
learned Council, who are the recipients of his gra-
cious communication. " Actuated," he writes, " by
this constantly recurring wish, the QUEEN has
commanded me to recall to your recollection that
her MAJESTY had been pleased to assent to a pro-
posal to place a statue of herself upon the memorial of
the Great Exhibition of 1851, which it was intended
to erect in the new Horticultural Gardens." The
sentence which then immediately follows contains
within it perhaps the most graceful and gene-
rous tribute that has yet been paid in words to
the memory of his Royal Highness the PRINCE
CONSORT ! His eldest son, writing of him so very
truthfully and tenderly thus ;—" The characte-
ristic modesty and self-denial of my deeply-lamented
father had induced him to interpose to prevent
his own statue from filling that position, which
properly belonged to it, upon a memorial to that
great undertaking which sprung from the thought
of his enlightened mind, and was carried through
to a termination of unexampled success by his
unceasing superintendence." Any such magnani-
mous self-abnegation, however, his widowed CON-
SORT cannot for an instant dream of allowing
thus, in his regard, to be posthumously perpe-
tuated. "It would now, her MAJESTY directs me
to say," continues the Prince of WALES, "be
most hurtful to her feelings were any other statue
to surmount this memorial but of the great, good
PRINCE, my dearly beloved father, to whose honour
it is in reality raised. The QUEEN, therefore,"
he adds, " would anxiously desire that, instead of
her statue, that of her beloved husband should
stand upon this memorial." Than which—by the
way—we cannot well imagine to ourselves any
more splendid or appropriate memento to the noble
life now so prematurely terminated. For—beyond
all question—among the individual achievements of
the Royal CONSORT of Queen VICTORIA, the Great
International. Exhibition of 1851 stands forth su-

could be in every respect more suitable. But—
besides this, we perceive that the chief
among the adulators of the Court are now seriously
beginning to propose that something in tho way of
a far grander memorial should bo raised, not at
Kensington Gore, within view of the site of the ever
memorable Crystal Palaeein Hyde Park—but down
in that hole-in-the-corner at South Kensington !
About the very worst spot within the immediate
neighbourhood of the metropolis that could possibly
have been selected for anything whatever of the
kind. It is seriously proposed then, that there
down at South Kensington those absurd and most
ridiculous, ugly, and expensive outhouses, dubbed
long since in derision, but very accurately, The
Brompton Boilers, shall, at the cost of somewhere
about an additional quarter of a million sterling
be expanded and perpetuated for the wonder of
future times, under the title of the Albert Museum!
Now we cannot but very earnestly hope that
nothing of the kind will be attempted. Because of
our profound respect and admiration for the
memory of his late Royal Highness we are re-
joiced at the notion of the Memorial and Statue
about to be erected in the Gardens of the Royal
Horticultural Society at Kensington Gore. But—
for precisely the same reason—we do quite as sin-
cerely trust that we nny hear nothing more about
the Albert Museum at South Kensington.

How are we to interpret the sending of General
PHELPS to Ship Island with two regiments, and
the proclamation he has seen fit to publish ? On
the coast of the State of Mississippi, and within
easy reach of Mobile and Pensacola, and also of
New Orleans, the General sends to the mainland a
proclamation, one would have supposed, too grand
and rhetorical for slaves to understand, yet one
which mainly concerns them. It is an expose
of the " motives and principles by which his
command will be governed." These are, that
every State admitted as a slave state since
the ad@ption of the constitution has been
admitted in defiance of it—next, that the States in
which slavery existed at the time of the
'Union, are bound in honour and morality to abo-
lish it !

Not, however, content with this out and out an-
nouncement, he says, "It is our conviction that mono-
polies are destructive as competition is conservative
of the principles and vitalities of republican govern-
ment; that slave labour is a monopoly which
excludes free labour and competition; that slaves
are kept in comparative idleness and ease in a
fertile half of our arable national terri-
tory, while free white labourers, constantly
augmenting in numbers from Europe, are
confined to the other half, and are often dis-

treassed by want; that the free labour of the North

has more need of expansion into the Southern
States, from which it is virtually excluded, than
slavery had into Texas in 1846 ; that free labour is
essential to free institutions ; that these institutions
ere naturally better adapted and more congenial to
the Anglo-Saxon than are the despotic tendencies of
slavery ; and finally, that the dominant political
principle of this North American continent, so long
as the Caucasian race continues to flow in upon us
from Europe, must needs be that of free institutions
and free government. Any obstructions to the
progress of that form of government in the United
States must inevitably be attended with discord and
war." He goes on to show that the constitution was
made for freemen, not for slaves; that slavery might
be endured awhile as a social evil,but is unbearable as a
political institution, and that, "It could exist under
a free Government only where the people, in a
period of unreasoning extravagance, had permitted
popular clamour to overcome public reason, and
had attempted the impossibility of setting up
permanently, as a political institution, a
social evil which is opposed to moral law."
He presents, indeed, to the South an attractive
picture of what they would be without the institu-
tion which their Vice-President terms the corner-
stone of the Confederation. Instead of the whole
building tumbling about their ears, "we feel
assured," he says, "that the moment slavery is
abolished, from that moment our Southern brethren
—every ten of whom have • probably seven
relatives in the North—would begin to emerge

from a hateful delirium. From that mo-
ment, relieved from imaginary terrors, their days
become happy, and their Lights peaceable, and
free from alarm ; the aggregate amount of labour
under the new stimulus of fair competition becomes
greater day by day ; property rises in value ; in-
vigorating influences succeed to stagnation, dege-
neracy, and decay ; and union, harmony, and peace,
to which we have so long been strangers, become
restored, and bind us again in the bonds of friend-
ship and amity, as when we first began our national
career under our glorious government of 1789."

preme and paramount.
It befits the loyalty of course of the Council
of the Royal Horticultural Society, while
obeying the behest of Her Most Gracious
MAJESTY, and while accepting the offer of His
Royal Highness the Prince of WALES (an offer
which we shall take occasion immediately to specify
as comprised within the closing sentence of
H.R.H.'s letter), it befits the loyalty of the Society's
Council, of course, to express, at the same time, the
regret with which they contemplate the loss of
Her MAJESTY'S statue, Yet it cannot surely but be
recognised by everyone, as clearly as it is first of all
recognised by her MAJESTY herself, that the most
appropriate statue wherewith to crown the memorial
of the Great International Exhibition of 1851 mast
be—not that of the QUEEN in whose reign it took
place, but that rather of the august and gifted
PRINCE, her MAJESTY'S Husband, in whose refined
and cultivated genius the whole magnificent scheme
originated. The Exhibition of 1851 was the
original suggestion, was the superb creation of his
late Royal Highness; and it is but fitting, conse-
quently, that his effigy, and the effigy of no other than
himself, should crown and complete tho memorial of
that resplendent enterprize.
As to the gracious offer with which the communi-
cation of the Prince of WALES to the Council of
the Royal Horticultural Society closes—that
is one certainly which is eminently deserving consi-
deration—particularly couched, as it is, in language
so eloquent with the tenderness of filial love and
gratitude. " Anxious," writes the young Prince
in conclusion, "Anxious, however humbly, to testify
my respectful and heartfelt affection for the best of
fathers, and the gratitude and devotion of my sor-
rowing heart, I have sought, and have with thank-
fulness obtained, the permission of the QUEEN my
mother to offer the feeble tribute of the admiration
and love of a bereaved son, by presenting the statue
thus proposed to be placed in the gardens under
your management." And so has it in consequence
been now definitively decided.
The memorial of the Great International Ex-
hibition of 1851 will be crowned, as it ought
by right and in reason to be, by the statue
of the Originator and Creator of the Exhibi-
tion, his Royal Highness ALBERT the PRINCE
CONSORT of England : and that effigy, while it will
serve to remind the people of after times
of the genius and philanthropy of the de-
parted PRINCE, will affectingly commemorate
also the tender regrets and the grateful affection The Queen continues to have good nights, and is
with which his beloved memory was treasured by tranquil.
his eldest son, ALBERT EDWARD, the future King of The Duchess of Athol° has arrived at the St.
England.
George's Hotel from Osborne.
the Earl of Norbury has arrived at Farrance's
Here, however—in this suggestion of the QUEEN, r
and in this proposition of the Prince of WALF.S—
Hotel from Vallence, eat.
The Countess of Ilardwicke comes to town on
let us hope that the notion of commemorating his
late Royal Highness's memory dawn in the neigh-
Tuesday next from linavole Hall, Cambridgeshire.
bourhood of Kensington will terminate. The me-
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) OF MAC-
mOrial to be raised in honour of the Great Prince,
and of his master- work the Great Exhibition (of 1851) CLESFIELD.—We to announce the demise of Eliza,
at Kensington Gore, is in the notion of it, and in Dowager Countess of ?Macclesfield, who died at Eynsham
every possible point of view---admirable. Nothing • Hall, at the advanced, age of 81 years.

The South has hitherto sneered at the North as a
nation of manufacturers, tradesmen, and artificers.
With the pride of an aristocracy, all white men
there scout labour. " But," says General PHELPS,
" it is the conviction of my command as a part
of the national forces of the United States,
that labour—manual labour—is inherently noble;
that it cannot be systematically degraded by
any nation without ruining its peace, happiness,
and power ; that free labour is the granite basis
on which free institutions must rest ; that it is the
right, the capital, the inheritance, the hope of the
poor man everywhere ; that it is especially the right
of 5,000,000 of our fellow-countrymen in the slave
States, as well as of the 4,000,000 of Africans there;
and all our efforts, therefore, however small or great
—whether directed against the interference of
Governments from abroad or against rebellious
combinations at home—shall be for free
labour. Our motto and our standard here
and everywhere, and on all occeasions—
' Free Labour and Working-men's Rights.' It
is on this basis, and crn this basis alone, that our
munificent government, the asylum of nations, can
be perpetuated and. preserved."

We wait of course to see how this deed in the
Gulf of Mexico will be dealt with at Washington.
As a proclamation, it far transcends in abolition
principles that of General FREMONT. Will
PHELPS be recalled, or his proclamation dis-
allowed ? ' Or is he really sent to the South
to make use of the last weapon, and to try what
the fear of emancipation would effect. We must
confess ourselves uncertain of the most likely inter-
pretation. We know, on the one hand, that Ame-
rican captains and generals aet with wonderful
independence of the central autholity. We know
on the other that the central Government is hard
pushed indeed with the ill success of the war—
menus abolition. Time only will interpret.