The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

t STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. We. BATTY.
Triumphant success and increasing popilarity of the Grand
Spectacle of Ronm HOOD.
Last Six Nights.

This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three
acts, by Fiteball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the
Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly-
trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan-
a-Dale, Miss Rebecou Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit-
chard.
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome
and their Troupe of uneqnalled pert,rmers, &c., including
the. incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest
Wonder of the age.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-oflice open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. weal..
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERT EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma Miss RUSSELL.
Adahrisa .
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistingof Seventeen Per-
formers. organised expressly for this et;tablishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGH3IANS.

Balcony, la, -Hall, gt-L

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 18, 1560.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
42—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.91.
WlNO—North ; light, with fine dry cold weather.

Nov. 19.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHAMS.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
30—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.12.
WIND—North-Westerly ; moderate, with fine weather.
Prost in the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TRIM DAY.—Morning, sh. 56m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 6h. 45m.—Afternoon, 7h. 13m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 19, 18CO3

The election of Mr. LINCOLN is now secure.
New York, the city, we presume, which is the more
remarkable, has given her vote in his savour by a
majority of 10,000. This is decisive ; the House of
Representatives, and the Senate, will have nothing
to do with the matter. The Republican candidate,
the man chosen to reverse the pro-slavery policy of
the last forty years, will be the elect, directly, of
the delegates chosen by the people.
We congratulate, from the bottom of our hearts,
the great American nation on this propitious result.
It is one as truly important, politically, as that of
GARIBALDI'S noble and brave enterprise. It will

tell most happily, both on the internal and the ex-
ternal relations of America, and will, we cannot
doubt, be one of the most important eras of Ameri-
can history. Ever since 1820, at least, a policy has
been gaining the political ascendancy, which,
though it may seem paradoxical to say so, was not
the policy approved by the hearts of the great
majority of the people enjoying universal suf-
frage and the ballot a sufficient proof
we shall be told of the uselessness of those institu-
tions. This, however, is simple ignorance or
thoughtlessness ; for we see before us that univer-
sal suffrage and the ballot can correct popular
errors, and that without turbulence, when they
become manifest. But the truth is that the long,
dreary, pro-slavery policy of so many years has
been due to a well-organised, but utterly unscru-
pulous party combination. The slave States, who
are naturally the aristocratic States of the Union,
perceived that the Democratic party, as opposed
the Conservatives, there called Republicans,
werethe stronger. They made, therefore, with
them the unholy compact, that if the Democrats
would include in their programme a pro-slavery
policy they .
Would aid them with all their
strength. It has been a coalition of extreme
republicanism and slavery—of men who asserted
liberty of white men to the. uttermost, with men
who trode underfoot every right of a coloured man,
and even declared that
he has Lone which a white
man is bound to respecti Universal suffrage and
the ballot-box • therefore
have done what they
profess to do. They have responded faithfully to
the will of the majority. If a
majority was
treated by an immoral compact, its verdict was
given, had though it might be. If the majority,
coolly reviewing what they had been doing, pro-
nounced against their former decision, Universal
Suffrage and the Ballot gave place for repentance;
and the right vote was manfully given. This is the
simple account of the matter, adding and subtract-
ing nothing, and we do not think the friends of
these institutions have anything to be ashamed of,
or their enemies anything to boast of. It is evi-
dent that by their means a change for the bettt r
in a nation's sentiments can quietly give effect to
itself; and they point to the true method of gain-
ing the upperhand with a free people—patient
teaching and persuasion.

We congratulate our cousins on the happy effect
which their choice will have on the estimation in
which they are held by the nations of tht old
world, and especially by England. The election
of ABB.ARAM LINCOLN will be hailed everywhere,

as a declaration that the great Republic is not a
slave Republic. We shall not, indeed, expect
impossibilities. We know better than to imagine
that Congress will interfere in the smallest measure
with the sovereign rights of the slave States ; we
do not even look for any very strong federal action
against slavery, being quite aware that the two
houses, the Senate especially—would not yet con.
cur in anything of the kind. But we saw the
plague spreading in every direction—we saw the
new territories proclaimed by the South to
be slave-land even before they were settled
—we saw it threatened that this awful
moral and political pestilence would soon
cover the whole of the Northern Continent—but
A BRAHAM LINCOLN " stands between the living
and the dead, and the plague is stayed." Hence-
forth slavery is limited to the Pandemonium it has
made; henceforth it will perpetrate no n'ore Kansas
atrocities to resound throughout Europe to the
disgrace of free institutions ; henceforth it will
pass no more fugitive slave-laws ; henceforth it will
nominate no more partisans to the Supreme Court
of Justice ; henceforth it will be limited to its own
blighted domains, till it exterminates itself by its
unfitness for existence without the safety-valve of
extension over new territories.

The friends of liberty in Europe will soon
cease to be taunted with the policy of the great
Republic, and cease to be ashamed of it. For it
was not the mere existence of slavery in America—
that was known to be an accident of the nation's
birth—but the fact of its being governmentally
fostered and defended, which so injured the repu-
tation of liberty in American hands, and enabled
old Toryism in Europe to point to her institutions
as really unfriendly to genuine freedom. We may
now hope that the slavery spirit will be
cowed for ever. It would hardly seem to be
within the power of a cause so inherently
villanous to regain its ascendancy. It is not like
those Conservative tendencies, which are as right
in themselves, and as inherent in all civilised
society, as the tendency to progress. Slavery is
confessed to be an utterly and irredeemably bad
thing. It can have none of the vitality, therefore,
by which a defeated good principle is for ever re-
viving till it finally conquers. One serious defeat
like this must be a final defeat. The cause of
slavery is henceforth a retreating one. It has been
defeated in every stage. Mrs. STOWE'S raillery made
it ludicrous; the better theologians of late have proved
it wicked; Helpers Book and Mr, SEWARD proved
it to be the commercial impoverishment and ruin ;
and now ABRAHAM LINCOLN has shown that it
cannot, even by a base coalition, keep its political
supremacy. After this fourth public defeat we may
hope, therefore, that it will retire to its old
position of a necessary evil in some sections of the
country for the present ; an evil which all good
men will exert themselves to mitigate as much as
they can, and finally to extirpate.

We must regard 1860 as a year of unusual good
omen to the future relations between this country
and the United States. The visit of the PRINCE is
a fact which has produced an equally favourable
impression on both countries. They will be long
before they forget the spirit in which he was sent
to them, and the spirit in which he conducted him-
self among them ; and we shall be as long in for-
getting that the descendants of the revolted
colonists exerted themselves to the utmost to show
how cordially they esteemed the present SOVE-
REIGN of Great Britain, and how they
delighted to do her honour in the person of her
son, the future Sovereign of these realms. But if
the PRINCE'S visit will do much as a single and
pleasing incident, the election of an anti-slavery
President, as an indication of permanent policy,
will do even more. England will now approve of
the general course of United States policy; and
with the derninancy of the Slave power half the
causes of irritation between the two countries will

England must ever be an anti-slavery
country, and its Government of any party an anti-
slavery Government. When on this great point the
two countries and their Governments are at one, we
may be confident that it will be a source of mutual
goodwill.

cease.

If ever the Poles have hoped, it must be now—
now in the presence of Italy risen and emanci-
pated. Let Poland but yet a little longer be faithful
to herself, and the day will come, too, for her
political resurrection. The beginning of the end,
indeed, of her misfortunes may date actually from
that sinister gathering, in her ancient capital, of
the descendants of the three rulers by whom the
land of SOBIESKI, the Kingdom of STANISLAUS,
was seized and subdivided. It may even be that
the expiation, fated ever since the first partition of
Poland to fall with avenging weight sooner or
later upon Russia, upon Austria, upon Prussia,
may be thus signal and direct, if only the noble-
hearted sons of Poland continue a little while
longer true to the lofty hopes they have each
and all of them so long cherished. Of this there
are unnumbered auguries--many of them singu-
larly and even wonderfully auspicious. The
example of Italy has already been particularised,
and that as a scarcely resistible incentive and
encouragement. The probable emancipation (be-
fore many months more have elapsed) of the
heroic Hungarians, contributes another " sign of the
times," full of fair promise to the Poles and to
Poland. Added to either of these interests—the
interests of the Italian nationality already, in a
great measure, re-established, and the interests of
the Hungarian nationality nearer than ever now to
its eventual and inevitable re-establishments—added
to the new hopes awakened by the influence upon
the hearts of the more ardent and faithful of the
patriots of Poland, is there not fresh encouragement
to be drawn by them from the rapid and obvious
decadence, the visible and very manifest crumbling
away of one of the three great robber-powers, that
of the Austrian KAISER ? It was but yesterday
that the finest province of all Austria was violently
wrenched from the grasp of that Govern..
meat by the strong hand of the Em-
peror of FRANCE at the head of his armed
legions ! It was but yesterday that Lombardy
was thus torn from the young Austrian KAISER
by NAPOLEON 111., and handed over at once, with a
magnificent grace, by that Monarch to the Soldier-
King VICTOR RIDIANTJEL 11., the royal leader
of the Italian population. Since then Austria has
been mustering her forces in the covert of Venetia
and the Quadrilateral—there fairly driven to bay
by the terror of the great movement in the South
headed by GARIEALDI—the movement now concen-
trating its force in that Sceptre of Italian Unity
which has but so very recently been placed by
GARIBALDI in the grasp of the knightly gauntlet
upon the bold right hand of the Re Galantuonzo.
It has been estimated that, within the shadow
and shelter of that stronghold of Venetia
and of those fortresses of the Quadrilateral,
Austria with a bankrupt Exchequer !
has been gathering together, at enormous
cost, during these last fourteen or sixteen
months, an army but little short of 200,000 men.
This—as we have said, with her coffers empty and
her Exchequer literally all but in a state of bank-
ruptcy-. Her position as a great power is, in truth,
so precarious, so obviously perishable, that we have