The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-02 00:00:00

FROM THE PACIFIC.

At Valparaiso exchange was quoted on London
at 46d., with an upward tendency. Mercantile
affairs still continued in a depressed state, and
money scarce.
The political state of the country was more satis-
factory, and the liberal administration of Senor
Perez, combined with the decided attitude of the
country, centinued to gain the confidence and the
good-will of the people.

Off Point Antonio, a place some forty miles south
of Valparaiso, a French transport ship, the Re-
source, bound to Callao, was wrecked. Upwards of
600 souls were on board when she struck, and it
was reported that not more than five or six persons
wore saved. The Duguay Trouin, French line-of-
battle ship, stationed at Valparaiso, proceeded to
the scene of the wreck on the evening of the 17th
ult., but was unable to render any assistance, as
the vessel was under water, with only a portion of
her masts above the surface.

At Cobija, Nov. 22, the British barque Anne
Pitcairn, of Maryport, which sailed from Cobija
on the 13th for Galico, struck upon a rock and
became a total wreck. The cargo, consisting of
about 300 bales wool and 1,000 hides, was saved,
but in a damaged state.
At Isley,Nov, 24, it was reported that San Ramon
had been joined in Arequipa with 3,000 more troops.
In consequence all kinds of provisions were selling
very dear.
H.B.M.'s ship Clio was at Callao.
Exchange in Lima, 37;;.
The news from Bolivia is by no means encourag-
ing. It was thought more blood would shortly be
shed in addition to the terrible massacre recently
perpetrated.
General San Ramon had received a large num-
ber of votes for the Presidency of Peru, and was
expected to be elected.
Trouble was expected during the elections.
From Guayaquil there is no news of importance.
The foreign residents in Tumaco had addressed
a letter to the consuls at Panama, soliciting their
interference in the outrages perpetrated on them
by the Arboleda administration.
Ou the 25th November the New Granadian block-
ading schooner ran ashore and went to pieces in the
mouth of the Charambra, Buenaventura. The cap-
tain and crew were taken prisoners by the Mos-
quera forces, so that the blockade is terminated.
The brig French Bazaar was captured in running
the blockade at Buenaventura, and afterwards
went
ashore and to pieces.

There was a probability of another collision be-
tween the Church and State in Salvador. The result
was expected to be the entire defeat of the priest
party.

The coffee crop in Costa Rica was not expected
to come up to the average, and would probably fall
short of 80,000 quintals. The harvest was expected
to be very bad, and the crop ready for shipment by
the end of the year. Quotations ranged very high.

SPECIAL EXPRESS.—THE AMERICAN MAIL.—•
The American mails by the Africa, which were landed at
Queenstown yesterday morning about 3 a.m., left Queens-
town by special boat to Cork at 340 a.m. A special train
conveyed them to Dublin, and thence to Kingstown, where
a special boat, which had been kept in steam all night, was
in readiness to carry them to Holyhead. They left Holy-
head by a special engine, which had also been kept in wait-
ing all night, and arrived at Euston-square at 10 minutes
before 9 in the evening, having thus accomplished the jour.
ney from Queenstown to London in 17 hours and 10 mi-
nutes. The distance from Holyhead to London (264 miles)
was accomplished in five hours and 43 minutes, including
all stops and delays by impediments on the line. This is
probably the most: extraordinary expressing on record,
bearing in mind the fact that the railway company had very
short notice of the intentions of the Post-office, and that
the ordinary traffic of this important line did not admit of
interruption.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN.
TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock.
THIS EVENING (2d January) her Majesty's Ser.
wants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckstone,
Esq., entitled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob
Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby; Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Hope; Susan Sweetapple, Miss Keeley; Miss Wadd
Miss Stuart; Miss Tibbit, Miss Bland; Miss Gimp, Miss'
Harfleur ; Deborah, Mrs. Dowton.
After which will be produced, with that attention to com-
pleteness in every department by which the Christmas
Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis-
tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT;
or, Old Mother Hubbard and her onderful Dog.
"If a man do build a dwelling upon common land from
sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein
there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim-
ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall
be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con-
trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter.
The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by
WILLIAM BEVERLEY,
Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c.
Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and
Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn.
The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr.
J. H. TULLY. The Maehinery by Mr. Tucker and As-
sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor-
mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H.
Adams, H. Langhara, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin-
son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments
by Mr. Binckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by
Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by
Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the
Flowers supplied by Bimmel's process.
The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written
by E. L. BLANCHARO.
And the whole arranged and produced uhder the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY.

Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters,
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE,
With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the
Distance (Daylight).
" Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get
her poor Dog a bone ; when she got there, the cupboard
was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur-
sery Legend.
Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor
Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn"), Miss
F. Hunt; the Squire, Mr, Tom Matthews; Dame Wiggins
of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won-
derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master
Sageaninguns; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab; Parish
Beadle, Mr. Bumble ; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin,
Whackstraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c.; Rosetta (the " Maiden
all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a
certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable
pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat,
and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative—
Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning—
Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own
hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick.
THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL,
in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight.
Will-o'-the-Wisp

I gnes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes,
Livermore ; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammilton, Stap-
ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer, Hawkins, Delaney,
Wilson, illiams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel-
ton.

Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN
NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.
The Invocation 1 The Incantation I 1 and the Evapora.

tion I I I

THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE
HOUSE.
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Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon •, Old Scratche
(his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ; Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe,
Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway ;
Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tight& ; Mum-
mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides,
O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the
Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ;
Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear-
Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins ; Land-
lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap,
Flip, Flap, &c., &c. • Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman.
How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village
Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time—
How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is
treated in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub-
bard's reason.
THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset).
Grand Scena Comique and Pas de Broomstick, by
Mother Hubbard.
The Dreamer and the Worker—The Vision of Pleasure
and the Division of Labour—Figures of Fun (from the
Fancy-store of Dykwynkyn) —Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes,
Carpenter, Hodman, Old Brick, and Young Shaver, Lilli-
putian Labourers, Pigmy Plasterers, Tiny Tilers, Minia-
ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf
Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters by a Host of Juvenile
Auxiliaries.

THE SUN, L ONDON, THURSDAY EVENT-G, JANUARY 2, 1862.

is just what was probably expected even by Lord
LYONS himself. The Government has a free course
left it by Congress. An Ohio opposition member
only obtained 16 votes against 109 for the Go-
vernment in favour of his motion to forestall its
action by engaging the house to support Captain
WILKES. And this was the vote of the same house
which before it knew the mind of England voted
its thanks to the Captain !
The blockade is not all gain to the North. In
The Sun of yesterday it was mentioned that several
thousand bales of cotton were actually being shipped
from Liverpool to America, some East Indian, but
the greater part what we had ourselves received
from America previously. Lowell can no more get
cotton than we can ; and the Southern expedition
instead of sending cotton to the North finds the in-
habitants readier to burn it, than to sell it to their
enemies. The whole quantity actually seized by the
expedition seems to be very small, and all the
rest within reach is destroyed. A writer
from Paris, in a contemporary, even asserts that,
however the Trent affair may be settled, France and
England have agreed to represent to the Govern-
ment at Washington that the blockade is not
"effective," and that they should therefore disregard
it. This we can hardly credit, though Mr. JEFFER-
SON DAVIES said in his Message that he had pre-
pared the proofs of its ineffectiveness, ready to be
submitted to the two Governments. We must
repeat that we do not wish it, Our eye has
been on India ever since the war began, and still
is there. Now we lave gone so far towards
creating a suply from India, we should certainly
wish the American supply to be locked up till it
rotted before it interfered with the rising industry
of our own great colony. Our Eastern Empire, des-
tined to become, as we believe, the home of
thousands of freehold purciasers of estates there,
is of far more consequence to our trade than the
quarrelsome Yankees. If Cotton be King, and the
war goes on, his throne mast be erected in India.
Indeed, as we have just seen, he has already touched
Massachusetts itself with the tip of his sceptre.
Another year might find American cotton factories
dependent on Bombay and Surat.,

As we are now rapidly approaching the com-
mencement of the Parliamentary Session of 1862,

some of our representatives are drawing forth their
oratorical weapons anew, and furbishing them up
for the coming encounter. Mr. KINGLAKE, as our
readers were made aware yesterday, has been edify-

ing his constituents again with another of his
elaborate political Bridgewater Treatises. Mr.
WHITE and Mr. CONINGHAM, the Radical and
Ultra-Liberal members for the borough of
Brightelmstone, have together made a clean breast
of it with their constituency. Others will, doubt-
less, within the next week or two, follow suit
with all befitting eagerness. There is reason
for this moreover. It is especially desirable
at the present juncture that divers matters of great
national import should bo ventilated, here and there
about the United Kingdom, prior to the meeting of
the Lords and Commons down at Westminster.
This is desirable in two ways, in two distinct direc-
tions, for the People of these islands and for their
responsible Administrators. The community at
large will do well to appreciate the exact bearings
of the present political situation both Abroad and
At Home, both in regard to our Domestic Concerns
and our Foreign Relations. And there are Her
Majesty's Ministers also, who not only do look to
the course taken by the currents of Public Opinion
with a view to their guidance of the state vessel in
its Constitutional Navigation, but who frankly
avow that they do so—instance Earl RUSSELL'S
intimation, a year or two back, as to the indefinite
postponement of Parliamentary Reform until the
wave of Public Opinion should have swelled to such
strength and such dimensions as to be enabled to
lift that weighty question over the bar of the House
of Lords. The Ministers of the Crown, no less
than the lieges of the Crown, may turn with advan-
tage, immediately prior to the reassembling of the
Legislature, to scrutinise this intermittent but
periodical squarings of accounts between the various
constituencies and their respective representatives.
It is worthy of remark as yet that the members
who have latterly evidenced a greater readiness to
unbosom themselves upon this theme of public
import and that, have for the most part been among
those who sit below the gangway, on the Govern-
ment side of the House—
conspicuous represents
fives in truth of that energetic and eminently
useful, but rather impracticable race, the
independent supporters of the Liberal Ca-
binet. Many a wholesome truth is blurted
out by them in their public " confidences" with
their sympathising constituents. Some of these
"confidences"—uttered, it may be, in Town Halls,
and forthwith spread far and wide upon the wings of
the Press, sometimes even flashed instantly in an
abbreviated form hither and thither on the thread-
like lightning conductors of the electric telegraph
—coming rather whimsically forth in this way as
Confidences, somewhat after the fashion of Stage
Whispers ! We don't know any more practically
useful survey in this manner that has been vouch-
safed to us for long, than the one recently taken
down at Bridgewater by the hon. member for that
western borough, the brilliant author of
"Eathen," himself a sort of ex-official Under-
Secretary of State for Foreign :Affairs, a keen-

eyed, sharp-toothed Cerberus to our Foreign Policy,
as Mr. ROEBUCK is its watchful and loud barking
Tear'em. It is instructive to glance down the
mere enumeration by Mr. KINGLAKE of the various

liberal measures introduced one after another last
session—one after another earnestly supported by
himself and other conscientious members of a Select
Few—one after another (lamentable to relate,
scarcely credible to remember), utterly and flag-
rantly abortive. It is precisely in what was said
by Mr. KINGLAKE in reference to the failure of
these repeated efforts with such " damnable itera-
tion," all through the session of 1861, particularly
"on Wednesdays," that we recognise the happiest

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part of the hon. gentlemen's recent oration

down at Bridgewater. Referring to these

repeated failures, Mr. KINGLAKE observed :---" I

know, gentlemen, the ready answer of our oppo-
nents will be that it is as clear as possible that there
is a great Conservative reaction. But I don't be-
li6ve that that is true. I don't believe that that is a
solution of the question. I believe that the reason
may be more safely sought for in this direction. I

observe that all these bills are bills which have

been introduced into the House of Commons by
private members of Parliament, and experience
teaches us that measures introduced into the House

of Commons by private members are not those which
lead to actual and practical legislation. There are

many causes which I think tend to account for
this. When a bill is introduced by a member of

the Government, then, if not the existence of the

Government, is at stake, and the very fact that
such is the case gives a practical character to
the discussion ; and this, I must take leave to

tell you, is wanting in bills introduced by pri-
vate members of Parliament. I would therefore

submit whether it would not be better that

such measures should be left to the patronage of