The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-01 00:00:00

Aatinz Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Notice.—ln consequence of the vast preparation necessary
for the introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The
Groupe of Performing Lions" in the new Spectacle, their ap-
pearance is unavoidably postponed until MONDAY next,
December 3.
This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
E
Acts, by . Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag- Hounds, Sze, A:lan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madam t Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of unequalled pert ,rmers, &T., Including
the incomparable Young Charles Duerow, the Greatest
Wonder of the are.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.
Doors open at half-past 8, pertormitnoe comraenoe at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4

Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

THE CA TTLE SHOW
AND
CANTERBURY HALL. _ _

C. MORTlNbegs to inform visitors to London that the
above HALL, with its Magnificent Gallery ot Modern Paint-
ings, by all the best masters, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
at 7 o'clock.
GRAND SELECTIONS

FROM
BELLINPS NORMA AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.
PRINCIPAL ARTISTES',
MISS RUSSELL MADAME MARTA.
MISS TYR REL MISS WILKINSON
Mr. -HENRY HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONGAMASg.
The COMIC Department comprises Messrs. A. B. HoMims-
worth, W. T. Critchfield, J. Blanchard, G. W. Pell, Charley
Fox, and E. Marshall, in his transformation song-, " TIIE
DOMESTIC DRAMA," personating five different characters.

WEATHER,„-SUN ()FEICK, DEC. 1, 1860,

THEICMO'KETER, IN THE SHADE.

50—highest since soon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.50.

WIND—Southerly; light, with dull weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Moming, 3h. 20m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m.
To-moRROW.-Morning, 4h. lm.—Afternoon, 4h. 22m.

One of the most interesting meetings that has
for a very long time taken place in the City of
London was convened yesterday afternoon in the
Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House—was pre-
sided over by the LORD MAYOR, and was addressed
(among others) by the Bishop of LONDON, and the
Bishop of OXFORD, and the Right llon. CHICHESTER
FORTESCUE, Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies. It had reference, this meeting, to the mission
recently founded in British Columbia by the mu-
nificence of Miss BURDETT COUTTS, a lady who—
by reason of her uniting in herself the possession of
immense wealth, with the unostentatious evidence
continually, of the most noble and enlightened
generosity—has long since come to be regarded far
and wide as among the most beneficent of our
" Institutions."

By yesterday's meeting at the Mansion House
that new mission of British Columbia may be said
in a manner to have been formally inaugurated.
It is true the Bishop of British Columbia has been
now some time since inducted into his see. It is
true even that lie has actually gone out there in
company with several of his clergymen. But the
enterprise in itself is not only in spite of this, but
in the very earliest stage of its infancy, it can
haraly be said, even now, to have been
fairly and practically commenced. Nor can
this he wondered et when it is remembered
that, in point of fact, the entire colony is only as it
were of yesterday.
was only yesterday, so to
speak, as the Under-Secretary for the Colonies
reminded the meeting in his very able address—
ti that that eminent and distinguished man, latoly
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir EDWARD
LYTTON, had the honour of founding this youngest,
an d perhaps most interesting of all the colonies of
England." None, we doubt not, will more gladly
hail than Sir EDWARD LYTTON the announcement
which immediately fell from the lips of Mr. Cut-
CHESTER FORTESCUE, when he added :—" Though
British Columbia was handed down in a very
unformed and infantile state to the present
authvrities at the Colonial Office, I can
answer for ray noble friend the I) like of
Newcastle, treat no one can exceed him in
the interest sceaich he has taken in its progress
and welfare." /Vot that, in saving this, Mr. FOR-
TES= arrogated thereby to his chief any merit
whatever for his so
,doing. "Indeed, I think it
irapoesible," said the right hon. gentleman almost
in the very next sentence that fell from him but
yesterday, "I t'aink it inlpossihle for any one to
be (treanected, bether officially or otherwise, as it
18 n S fortune to be day by day with the worldly
and, =material afro.rs of a community like British
C3i umbia., without being often affected with an
ea] 11t•st desire that its higher, holier, and more
sac ;re d interests should not be neglected." How
ur oen tly some active interposition in this way

ia behalf of the new colonists is really

required under the circumstances was strik-
ingly illustrated by the Bishop of LONDON
yesterday by his reference, almost hap-hazard,
to the state of things in the rising town of Douglas

as a case in point. Referring to the 15th page of

the printed report, relating more particularly to

- -
he moral and social condition of the new colony,

,he Bishop of LONDON there found an authorita-

:ive statement put forth in one of the letters

penned by the Bishop of BRITISH COLUMBIA him-
self, according to which statement the members of
the various races, constituting the inhabitants of
the town of Douglas when that communication
was written, proved to be in the following propor-
tions—" The coloured men there, 8 ; the Mexicans
and Spaniards, 29 ; the Chinese, 37 ; the French
and Italians, 16 ; the men from Central Europe, 4 ;
from the North of Europe, 4; citizens of the
United States, 73 ; the British subjects, 35." Nor,
added the right reverend speaker yesterday, in
adducing this estimate, could it be regarded
as in any way an unfair illustration. Another
peculiarity about that very town of Douglas,
thus peopled with a small but motley popula-
tion, was the circumstance that, out of all those 206
inhabitants, two only were females ! The dispro-
portion of the sexes, the jumbling together of the
races, the absorption of the energies of the colonists
almost exclusively in temporal affairs in sedulously
looking after their worldly interests, to the exclu-
sion of all higher and nobler considerations what-
soever—these causes, combined with others of a
kindred character not here particularised, tend to
render imperatively reqyisite to combine in the deve-
lopment of a new born colony like British Colum-
bia, more particularly situated as British Columbia
is at the opposite corner of the world, the blessings
of Christianity with the benefits of Civilisation.
Towards the furtherance of this very enterprise
—directly and obviously to this end has this new
mission upon the western coasts of North
America been established by the muni-
ficence and philanthropy of Miss BURDETT
COUTTS—precisely and pointedly to this end are
the energies of his Grace the Duke of NEWCASTLE,
and of his Ministerial alter ego, the Right Hon.
CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, directed towards the
growth of that new province, progressively and
proportionately with the rise, advance, and general
development of the Colony of British Columbia
itself.

In reference to one section alone of the popula-
tion of British Columbia, the singularly interesting
section including in it the aboriginal inhabitants of
the mainland, the Red Indians, the Bishop of LON-
DON yesterday observed most judiciously—" Then as
to the India:ns, they were anxious, most anxious, to
imitate the customs and habits of Europeans, and
they unhappily imitated them in their worst phases
—especially in that of drunkenness. They became
intoxicated, went about uttering oaths and curses
which were sufficiently horrible to bring down
from Heaven a malediction on those who disgraced
themselves by teaching evil to these men. How
different would have been the case if, instead of
teaching men to take oaths, they had taught them
their prayers, and thus brought blessings on them-
selves and those men too." In allusion to that
same subject of the treatment of the Red Indians,
Mr. HENRY HULSE BERENS, the Governor of the
Hudson's Bay Companies Territory (in succession
to the late lamented Governor Sir GEORGE SIMP-
SON, recently deceased) remarked that " the
object of the company had been always to protect
the red men, to encourage them, and to bring them
up in the way they should go," adding, " He con-
gratulated the country upon the fact that upon the
whole of the territory the red men had increased,
and not decreased as in other countries. They had
increased very much ; and why, he would ask ? It
was become the company had always set their face
against the use of ardent spirits wherever they
could prevent it. It was well known that the red
men were prone to drink ; give them spirits, and
there was nothing they would not do for you. The
company, however, had not done this, and, acting
on this principle, they had increased the Indian
population." Let that simple fact speak for itself,
as to the priceless advantages even in a merely
temporal and worldly point of view—the absolutely
priceless advantages of accompanying the develop-
ment of a new colony with an evidence of particular
solicitude for its moral, social, and religious
organisation.

Count CA. YOUR has favoured Europe with his
reply to the Prussian despatch of October 12th, in
which Baron SCHLEINITZ had to do the necessary
work of censuring Piedmontese doings in the
Marches of Umbria and the Two Sicilies. The
COUNT had easy work because the BARON had
difficult work. Prussia, while seeking to lead
public opinion in Germany, can only do se on the
principle that Germany is a nation—is one people;
and must, therefore, have a right to act as one
people. The chief northern Power in Germany
would lose her coveted position at once unless she
assumed that all the numerous divisions of the
country had still a real unity, in virtue of which
they needed a head to the members. She was
obliged, therefore, to own in the face of Germany
that her policy was founded on the " absolute
right of nationalities." She dare not even pass
this over in silence ; since, if she had, an attack on
the principle of nationality in Italy would have led
all Germany to exclaim that, by using these same
arguments, Prussia showed that she ignored Ger-

man nationality.
Count CAVOUR, naturally, was not slow to use
the vantage ground thus furnished him:—

" We are happy to see (he remarks) that the Government
of the Prince Regent not only recognises the national idea
as one of the essential elements of public law, but that he
honours himself by being the noble representative of this
idea in Germany."

With such a Government the difference between
them can be one of detail only. The Count may
well hope that Prussia will soon see things in a
better light, and he quietly proceeds to give the
light, which must soon appear to so promising a
disciple the true one :

"If we must now regret to see disapproved
the 'necessary application of a principle which is
respected, it is nevertheless permitted us to hope that the
Cabinet of Berlin, better enlightened as to the veritable
bearing of events, may one @lay regard them in a more
friendly and more equitable manner."

Prussia thinks the right ought not to be made
antagonistic to the rules of "conventional inter-
national right." The Count has an ample reply.
First be says :

" There is one point which it is important to define
clearly, and on which we roust insist ; it is that the ques-
tion of the Marches of Umbria, and of the Two Sicilies,
is a purely Dalian one, and that, as such, it in nowise affects
the positive rights of other Powers."

Of course his opponent would reply that the terri-
torial divisions of Italy had been sanctioned by
solemn treaties—that hence Europe had jurisdic-
tion there, and that to abdicate it would be to
expose the future to all kinds of dangerous revolu-
tions. Count CAVoL'R, however, justly denies that
" The clauses of a treaty imply the complete and perpetual
abdication by the nation of the settlement of its internal
constitution. It certainly is not the Cabinet of Berlin
which would support such a doctrine."
But, next, he says, we have the right to.eask, was
it any fault of ours that Italy did not follow the

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1860.