The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-08 00:00:00

Commence at half-past 7.

ikSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Last 5 Nights of the Pantomime.—Last 7 Nights of
The Colleen Bawn.
EVERY EVENING THE COLLEEN BAWN.
To be followed with the wondrous feats of the greatest
Equestrians in the World, Young Gunerius, Madlle. Halvor-
sen, and Mona. Goldkette.
Concludina with the 'Comic
JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE Grand
TO EDMONTONPantomime of.
In preparation, a gorgeous Eastern Spectacle, introducing
Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in this
country.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
"THE ENCHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION)
by Mr. E. Marshall, with Eleven Wonderful Transformations
(the most talented performance ever attempted by a single
person), at a quarter-past ten. Also the following extraor-
dinary combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mr.
Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Harriet Coveney,
and Miss Greene.
Grand Selections from LA TRAVIATA, by Mdlle. Negri,
Mr. Herbert, SignOr Tivoli, and a powerful Chorus, at Ten
o'clock.

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, le.

VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN,"
at CANTERBURY HALL, Every Evening at half-
past Nine o'clock.

11 H E 0X F OR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET,
Two Selections Every Evening alternately from " Ernani,"
" Lucrezia Borgia," "La Traviata," "Simon Boccanegra,"
"La Circassienne," by the entire Company, Full Band
and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr.
Viotti Collins (the great English violinist). And other at-
tractive Entertainments, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet
Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, E. Marshall,
M. P. Foster, and W. Randall.
Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

THE OXFORD, 6. OXFORD-STREET,-
" LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES"

By Masters HENRI and PFAU
(aged Nine and Eleven years),

From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they
performed for Three Hundred Consecutive Nights, creating
the utmost enthusiasm and excitement.
The Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze of these Youthful
Artistes are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace.
They make their First Appearance in England at this
Establishment on MONDAY, the 17th of February.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 50m.—Afternoon, Bh. 22m.
To-MORROW. -Morning, 9h. 2m.—Afternoon, 9h. 41m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 8, 1862
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
34—highest since noon yesterday.
24—lowest this morning and during the night.
28—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 1862.

A document longer than our readers will care to
peruse is now before us—No. 74 in the first of the
Parliamentary Papers on North America. It is a
letter delivered on the 14th of August last, by
Messrs. YANCEY, ROST, and MANN, to Lord
RUSSELL, and sets forth in full the object of those
worthies in coming to this country. They soon
obtained an informal interview with his lordship,
and tell us in this letter the purport of their repre-
sentations to him. They gained nothing by them, as
the brief answer of Earl RUSSELL plainly shows. No
hope was given them of the recognition they desired
—civil war and belligerent rights had already been
acknowledged—and for the rest Lord RUSSELL tells
them they must fight it out, unless they find a
better means of adjustment.
Now it is as well these Southern gentlemen
should know, that if we look upon the shortcomings
of the North as so great as to chill our sympathy—
we look upon the great vice and crime of the South
as so hateful, that we not only cannot sympathise
with their cause—we detest it. We think it bad
in its inception, and in its object revolting.
We think respectable men ought to be ashamed
to belong to it. If we look at Mr.
YANCEY'S old plea of state Rights, and the hos-
tility of the Federal Government to their liberties
and rights, we only wonder how these persons can
think to impose upon impartial Englishmen by
arguments which could only pass in Slavedom. We
know, as a matter of fact, that the pro-slavery party
had the ascendancy till Mr. LINCOLN'S election,
and their rights were not threatened certainly then.
Their weak tools whom they placed in the presi-
dential chair, and all the officials appointed by
them, and sanctioned by a pro-slavery senate,
could have done the tyrants of the South no
harm. At last they were beaten fairly at
the ballot-box; and what did these precious lovers
of liberty do—these men who had been loyal
enough while they could elect their own party
man P Why, they secede! Never was anything
in politics done by free people more unfair, more
base, we must confess, as between the two parties.
The South accepted the game as long as every
throw was in their favour. On the first adverse
throw, these mean wretches clutch the stakes and
run away with them. If we admit that, in
regard to slavery, the North is only not
the slaveholder in possession, and hardly better than
the South, yet, as between the two parties, no
" welshers," no " blacklegs" of the turf ever did a
more disgraceful deed than that of the Southerners.
Mr. YANCEY omits the chief cause of the quarrel,
and assigns a false one. He would palm
off upon us the pretence, that the South was
for Free Trade, and that that was the
chief cause of secession. Nothing of the kind. It
was a mere after-thought or bribe to be held out to
Europe. It failed any longer to bribe the North,
so now it was to be tried on England and France.
Why, for the last forty years the South has voted
with the North all the hostile tariffs which have
yet existed. There have been tariffs worse
than the MORRILL Tariff—the South voted
them. Nothing in the way of protecting native
manufacture against the Britishers came amiss to
them. Of course they wished to have things as ,
cheaply as could get them, so do all protectionists
—but like other protectionists they would vote
against free trade in one article that they might get
support to prevent it in regard to another. The
Southerns are all fanatical against free trade in
labour. They believe only in the lash, and as long
as the North would protect them in the use of the 3,