The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
A Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Last nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and
Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington,
Mr. J. L Toole, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors oven at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Zox-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, 12 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 49. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. •
pit stalls, b.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 19 ; Gallery, d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Crowded Houses.—Re-engagement of the celebrated Dela-
vanti Troupe, Mr. George Hutchingson, and the Wonder of
the World, the Great Little Menoni.
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Sept 8, commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointinents,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in te Arena b the Stardrs
of the day, including the greatest Equestrieny Riders
Equestrienne in the
Madlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Dimon!.
Doors open at half-past 6, performanoe commence at 7.
Box-aloe open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt!.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
mART HA,
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, .. ~..Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimics), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 5, 1860,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAnomsTER-30.28.
WlND—North-Westerly; light, with rather dull weather
but fine in the morning.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m,
To-moaltow.-Morning, 4h. 55m.—Afternoon, sh. 11m,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1860.

An able northern contemporary lately, in an
article on the " kept press," pointed out, with
much vigour and justice, how one member espe-
cially of the penny press, though always loudly
proclaiming its own peculiar independence, and
attacking almost daily the servility of the Times
and other journals, gave, itself, some rather un-
mistakeable signs of writing to order. And, we
were certainly exceedingly surprised the other
day to find in it a prominent leader, in such
painful antagonism to the sentiments of English
Liberals—indeed, of almost all Englishmen—that
we could not at first account for it. The leader
was on the candidates for the Presidency at the
coming election for that office in America, and it so
openly espoused the candidature of the worse man
and commended the worse party—judging, we mean,
from the anti-slavery stand-point of Englishmen—
that we could hardly believe our eyes. It was impos-
sible to suppose ignorance of the views of each can-
didate. They have been long before the world, and the
journal referred to is very partial to American In-
stitutions, and always defends them. It would
seem also to use the leading American papers. Its
avowed sentiments are thoroughly anti-slavery—
but like so many in America, who speak against
slavery, it is writing in the very strain to serve
the interests of the domestic institution.
The solution which occurred to us at last might
be expressed in two words—Manchester—Cotton.
We have reason ourselves to know how tender is
Manchester on the subject of American slavery.
We have long been accustomed to write our views
on it when the occasion required, without
reserve. We have been assured by gentle-
men of the highest standing in America,
including a well known and respected judge, that
it was most desirable that English literature should
speak the minds of Englishmen freely on the sub-
ject of slavery. Yet for this we, with several other
journals of long established reputation, incurred
the contemptuous and angry denunciation of no less
a personage than Mr. JOHN BRIGHT. This was at
a time when the hon. gentleman was the oracle of
Manchester and its member: Ever since that time
we have noticed that Manchester orators completely
Americanise on the subject of slavery. They talk
very philanthropically and liberally of it as a great
evil—but as one about which the less said the better.
And as to the Abolitionists, they never men-
tion them, but to vituperate them in the well-
known slang of the Yankee respectables. The
truth we take to be, that Manchester trembles
lest tho infernal iniquity of slavery, and the
atrocity of the American slavery laws and
system, should one day recoil on it as the
far inferior villainies and atrocities of Neapolitan
despots have recoiled on them. And then—What
would become of Manchester's supply of cotton ?

and Liver-
This is the great dread of Manchester
pool, as it is of New York, merchants. By slave-
grown cotton not only the Southern States, but the
merchants of the Free States, and the merchants
and manufacturers of Liverpool and Manchester
make their wealth. Bristol, before negro emanci-
pation, could not be moved to advocate like other
places the abolition of slavery. It was said of
it that its very bricks were cemented with the
blood of slaves, and it seemed like it. Manchester
does not, we believe, hold mortgages and property
in the Southern States, as Bristol did in the West
India Islands; but it fears an unsettlement of the
slave-growth of cotton, because it cannot feel sure
that free labour would supply it. Its wisest men
are, indeed, using every means to seek other fields
for growing it, that we may not be solely de-
pendent on America ; this is the right course.
If Manchester did its duty to India—it

might soon obtain thence all the supplies it needed.
Generally, however, Manchester is nervously an-
xious to keep slavery as it is, lest cotton should fail.

Now it can hardly be aoubted that DOUGLAS and
his section of democratic party are the favourites of
Manchester and Liverpool—the favourites of that
class, we mean, which is wealthy enough to raise a
very large sum and spend it in " keeping" a daily
penny paper. Mr. BREKENRIDGE is too atrociously
southern to be acceptable to the free states, or to Man-
chester respectability ; but Mr. LINCOLN, for whom
every freedom-loving Englishman would cer-