The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-22 00:00:00

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HEA TRI?, .ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessiee, Mr. S. B. Backstone.
THIS EirENING the performances will commense with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Ties
miss Florence
Farren,
Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale. Rovers,M
Baydon, Miss Ickes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF
YITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Bnckstone, W. Farren, and
Rogers; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade.
To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton.
Commence at 7.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
ASole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bonrcleanit, Esq.,
.‘ The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing.
THIS EVENING, THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Messrs.
W. Smith, Billington, Romer, C. J. Smith, and Miss Emily
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. l3oureicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romp'''
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with MUSIC MATH CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher.
Doors open at half-past a---Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, Xl.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stlo,
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; GaUerl, vu•
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith;

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEA.TRE.—
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Last Nights of " Mazeppa."
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery. costly costumes, and apppintments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained "tomes, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
To be followed by
of the day.
ast 6, performance commence at 7.
Doors open at half -r
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolt!.

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DIN ORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, le , Hall. Bd.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), 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
Segro delineations, anecdotes, dr.c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THE WEATHER.—Sox OFFICE, SEPT. 22, 1860.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.

63—this day at noon.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER—`29.76 ; falling.
Wren—Westerly ; rather fresh, with heavy rain, and
very dull weather.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 6h. 31m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m
To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 39m.—Afternoon, Bh. 21m

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1860.

England has a profound interest in the great
party struggle now so rife in America. Who shall
be the next President ? is perhaps a question the
answer to which, some would say, is no concern of
ours. It is of even more practical concern than
whether GARIBALDI shall emancipate Italy. It is
quite a mistake to imagine that all our interest in
it centres in its ultimate bearing on negro emanci-
pation, though the deliverance of more than three
millions of our fellow-men from the most cruel
bondage ever known on earth will never fail to be
a delightful hope to Englishmen. We have an
international and a commercial interest in the elec-
tion which will be made next November of a
magistrate to preside over one half of the English
race.

A noble, and, in an oratorical point of view, a
splendid speech, just delivered by Senator SEWARD,
a name well and favourably known in England,
places this truth, unintentionally perhaps, in a clear
light. We have not for a long time read anything
more truthful and manly from America. It is quite
free from all that half-schoolboy oratory, exaggera-
tion rather, which detracts so much from the prac-
tical effect of American speaking. We should think
this speech must have a marked effect on the coming
elections of the delegates who are to elect the Pre-
sident. We can only say, if it has not, it ought to
have. It mirrors to the whole republic so faith-
fully its present position, traces it so clearly to the
mistaken policy which was initiated 40 years ago,
and urges so convincingly the reversal of that policy
as the grand essential for the salvation of the
Union from Its present difficulties and evils, th
sensible and moderate men throughout the States
must feel that Mr. SEWARD has proved the case of
the Republican party, and the claims on the United
States of its representative, Mr. ABRAHAM LIN-

Grouse shooting has led the way to partridge
shooting—partridge shooting is leading the way in
its turn to pheasant shooting—Parliament has
been " up" now nearly a month—the French
Emperor has been leisurely making a holiday
tour through Savoy, through Nice, through Mar-
seilles, into Corsica, into Algeria—and Mr. Cos-
DEN is still pottering away in a back office in a
back street of Paris over that wretched Commer-
cial Treaty ! The marvellous concoction is not
yet quite finished. It requires a little more sim-
mering in the pot before the mess of pottage that
we have allowed ourselves to be sold for (and
with ourselves the Nizzards and Savoyards also !)
before this wonderful mess of pottage can be
fairly uncovered and served up for the simulta-
neous enjoyment and :refection of Frenchmen
and Englishmen. We are still left to imagine
the delicacy of the coming flavour. We are still
left (for that matter) to conjecture the character
of the various ingredients. The first account
given to us of the feast in preparation was cer-
tainly enough in all conscience to make our mouths
water with expectation. Unluckily, however, we
got a momentary glimpse of the compound seeth-
ing there in that ex-official, or perhaps we should
rather call it more correctly (remembering Mr.
COBDEN'S anomalous diplomatic character), in
that extra-official cauldron, over yonder, in the
French capital, in the Rue Quelquechose. It was
the merest momentary glimpse, it is true, but it
was glimpse enough in all conscience, neverthe-
less. It was sufficient to satisfy any mind of
ordinary intelligence that the good things there
brought together were almost entirely (if not
entirely) contributed by ourselves that the
French, instead of contributing their fair
share, had absolutely contributed Nothing at the
period of that premature, and, therefore in one
respect, most untimely eclaircissenzent. All the
encouragement we have since been able to obtain in
regard to the still incomplete Commercial Treaty
has been the constant iteration by its negotiators
of the assurance—that, if people would only wait
patiently, they should see what they should see !
And so forth with these and like empty phrases of
ambiguity. _ _

COLN.
Mr. ETERETT resented and controverted, in a very
able speech, the remarks of Lord GREY, in the
House of Lords, on the darker phases of American
democracy. But his.lordship hardly drew a darker
picture than Mr. SEWARD :now does. The great
error of Earl GREY lay in ascribing to democratic
institutions what is really the work of the most
aristocratic institution on earth, that of slavehold-
ing ; it is the slaveholders of America, and the
moneyed m,en to whom their estates are mortgaged,
who have created nearly all the evils that Lord
GREY too accurately depicts. It is they who have
corrupted the native and Irish mob, and used them
for their own purposes; they who have degraded
the administration of justice ; they who have passed
Acts, and got decisions from the Supreme Court, at
which humanity shudders; they who have dis-
graced the Union in its foreign relations, till small
or weak neighbour States dread its violence and
filibusterism, and great foreign States expect
chicane or rudeness from its Cabinet. Here is a
picture, which, though long, is worthy of promi-
nence ; had it been drawn by an Englishman it
would have been severely denounced in America,
and perhaps in our great cotton capital. Having
shown that the Government of the United States
has failed to "secure respect and goodwill abroad,
and good order, contentment, and harmony at
117;f he proceeds thus :
Canadians certainly neither envy nor love us. All
the independent American powers, from the Rio Grande to
Cape Horn, While they strive to construct Governments
for themselves after our models, fear, and many of them
hate us. European nations do indeed revere our constitu-
tions and admire our progreu, but they generally agree in
pronouncing- us inconsistent With
our organic principle,
and capricious. The President inveighs against corruption
among
the
people. The immediate representatives of the
people in Congress charge the President with immoral prac-
tices, and the President protests against their action as
subversive of the executive prerogative. The "rouse of Re-.
presentatives organises itself convulsively amid confessed
dangers of popular commotion. The Senate listens unsur_
prised, and almost without excitement, to menaces of vio-
lence, secession, and disunion. Frauds and violence in the
territories are palliated and rewarded. Exposure and re-
sistance to them are condemned and punished, while the
enlightened, and reasonable will of the people there,
though co
ustitutionally expressed, is circumvented, dis-
obeyed,ul intruskndurilti
and disregarded. States watch anxiously for un-
vs
faiaslion by citizens of other States,
while the federal
to suppress piracies on the high
eaS) and even on our ovu coasts, the cievernvaeut of the

And meanwhile—time going on—Nice and Savoy
have been absorbed into the French empire—the
Nizzards and SavoY
anis have been visited by the
French EUPEROR—the English Parliament has
been. prorogued—the Lords and Commons have
been dispersed—and we are as wise as ever in regard
to this vaunted Commercial Treaty. Mr. COBDEN
is stilt carefully hiding his light under a bushel

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Federal there in Paris. The silence still remains unbroken
Union courts and submits to State espionage of
‘-116 .
by a word of comprehensible explanation. Eng-
mails, while the States scarcely attempt to prot,l
persona 0
lric,hts of citizens of other States, peaceably pursui. lg land is still left altogether in the dark as to any
harmless occupations within their fraternal jurisdictions." -nod that can be reasonably expected yet to come
ct the,
g,
This is only a part of the picture ;—Mr. SEW.kRD 11 through this wonderfully consistent Free
of it aa..
my.
tion negotiation of a treaty of left-
proceeds to show how universal is the dissatisfac-
Trader's my
recollecting another series of com-
tion ; but the discontent of all is just the hopeful
handed Recipreei;;; I
sign, in his view. He seems desirous to exonerate
individuals from overmuch blame, and to throw it
me\r\creiacl;'rtrahneglpements entered into between Eng-
chiefly on parties; since everything, he says, de- land and France now upwards of seventy years ago
pends on the almost powerless individual States-
—as far back as the year 1787—namely, upon the
man being supported, powerfully or feebly, by his eve of the great French Revolution. And remem-
party. He exposes vigorously the ephemeral cha-
bering those mercantile dallyings between France
ratter of all the parties, and then boldly traces the
and England, we cannot but recal to mind the words
whole mischief to its source. That he shows to
in :which Mr. BURKE commented upon the then
In this we must ~,, ,
have been the departure of the country from a
newly-contrived reciprocity treaty, negotiated at
sound and healthy policy in 1820. mr. PITY'S instigation. "The right hon. gentle-
man," said Mr. BURKE, "had talked of the treaty
constitution had been held
entirely agree with Mr. SEWARD. Up to that
time the spirit .of the as if it were the affair of two little counting houses,
to be restrictive and repressive of slavery, and its
and not of two great countries. He seemed to con-
object to carry out its own well-known and noble
principle. Then, however, commenced cider it a contention between the sign of the Fleur-
funed truarae; de-lis and the sign of the Red Lion, which house
h
igalle respecting the admission of Missouri,
te
should obtain the best custom." That certainly
as a ,31,7 e State, into the Union. It was refused
appears to be the one sordid ambition of our new
admission 17. three years; but the issue was the advocate of reciprocity. His negotiations are con-
famous, or rati;er infamous, Missouri compromise,
ducted less with an eye to anything like enlarged
by which slavery s% ;as
prohibited only to the north
statesmanship, than with a view to the completion
of a certain parallel of L.'
titude. merely of a petty mercantile transaction. Don't
From that period has datea!he rapid demoralisa-
we recollect the exclamation uttered in the House
tion of the American Government, ,^f the American
of Commons, in the very nick of time, by Mr.
an
people, and even of the American Christi COBDEN'S Fides Achates, the member for Birming-
Churches. The slaveholders were emboldenet:: yet ham ? Don't we remember how Mr. BRIGHT
cunning as well as energetic. They alternately ea-
N
1 urted the whole truth out, when he ejaculated,
joled and threatened the free States, and filled the ~ rei-tsb. Savoy !" Fain, seemingly, are these Man-
Presidential chair, the Supreme Court of the United eacres to reverse, in the instance of
States, the Senate, and even the army and navy and JOHN Bu
.4.13.0 mythical history of ULYSSES.
Chester sin:
every federal State office, down to village post-
Fain are they to 5,41-Iff the
BULL,
"Ancient Mariner's"
master, with their creatures. When the Missouri
ears with cotton, so That he not receive
may
compromise, pronounced final at the time, stood in
warning from the voices either of breakers or
their way, they enforced its repeal; when they
whirlpool, but may run the double hazard of
found that their slaves preferred to escape from
Scylla and Charybdis, deaf to those imminent
the happiness of the domestic institution into the
chances of peril and even of destruction. In the
Free States, they actually procured the enactment scornful phraseology of Mr. BURKE, it is to Mr.
of that infernal _Fugitive Slave Law, which is un- COBDEN and to Mr. BRIGHT absolutely merely as
equalled in the iniquity of its provisions, not to say a contention between the sign of the Red Lion and
of its principle, by any law in any civilised State
the sign of the Fleur-de-lis.
whatever. And thus they have gone on, till they
have made slavery the permeating and controlling
spirit of the whole American Union. The slave
power dominates everywhere. It gives its hateful
character to laws, and customs, and manners.
Overthrow this power—place men in office who see
in it an evil to be checked, to be ashamed of, and
not to be nurtured at the cost of all that should
make a country dear to Freemen—and the whole
political tone of things at home and abroad would
be quickly changed. Every Christian nation has,
therefore, an interest in this change.
Mr. SEWARD, thereupon, boldly counsels a return
to the policy from which they should never have
departed. He observes that forty years, the long,
weary period during which this fatal policy has
been pursued, is not more in the life of a nation
than a single year in that of an individual ; and
then nobly adds—" It is not more true that per-
sonal persistence in error leads inevitably to ruin
than it is that every nation exists by obedience to
the same moral laws which direct individual life,
that they are written in its original constitution,
and it must continually reform itself according to
the spirit of those laws, or perish. My humble
advice, then, fellow-citizens, is that we return and
re-establish the original policy of the nation, and
henceforth hold, as we did in the beginning, that
slavery is and must be only a purely local, tempo-
rary, and exceptional institution, confined within
the slave States, where it already exists ; while
freedom is the general, normal, enduring
and permanent condition of society within
the jurisdiction, and under the authority
of the constitution of the United States." He
well knows, however, that all kind of dangers
are threatened, but in reply to all questions, of
what disasters and calamities will follow the elec-
tion of Mr. LINCOLN and the reversal of the Slave
policy, he replies "No dangers, disasters or cala-
mities. All parties will acquiesce, because it will
be the act of the people, in the exercise of their
sovereign power, in conformity with the constitu-
tion and laws, aid in harmony with the eternal
principles of justice and the benignant spirit of the
age in which we live. All parties and all sections
will alike rejoice in the settlement of a controversy
which has agitated the country and disturbed its
peace so long. We shall regain the respect and
good will of the nations, and once more, consistent
with our principles, and with our ancient charac-
ter, we shall, with their free consent, take our
place at their head, in the advancing progress test;
wards a higher and more happy, because more
1 humane and more genial civilisation."
Lat i

By the death of Major-General Sir Michael
Creagh the following promotions will take place :—Colonel
Hastings Doyle, Inspector-General of Militia in Ireland, to
be Major-General; Lieut.-Colonel Pottle, King's Dragoon
Guards, commanding the cavalry attached to the China
Expedition, to be Colonel ; and Major John Henderson,
16th Regiment, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.—.Arzny

and Navy Gazette.
The command of the cavalry depot at Maidstone,
shortly to become vacant by the promotion of Colonel Bal-
ders, will be filled, as we intimated some time since, by the
transfer of Colonel Hope Gibson() from Canterbury. Col,
Gibsone will be succeeded in the command of the cavalry
depot at Canterbury by Colonel Charles Hagart, C. 8., late
of the 7th Hussar's.—Army and Navy Gazette.
We- regret to have to state that cholera of a some-
what malignant character, has appeared amongst the troops
at Gibraltar. The dreadful disease has for some time
existed amongst the :civil population in Spain, and gra-
dually :extended first to Algesiras, from thence to the
Spanish lines, and subsequently to Gibraltar. On the 16th
of August, about four days after the first appearance of the
disease amongst the civil population, a soldier of the 2d
battalion, Bth Regiment, was attacked ; and since that time
up to the 12th of September twenty-five cases have oc-
curred, fourteen of which proved fatal. The wife of a
Sapper has also died, and two children of the Bth Foot.
Every precaution that sanitary science could suggest to
prevent the further spread of the epidemic has been adopted
by Sir William Codrington, on the advice of the principal
medical officer, Dr. Paynter.—Arnty and Navy Gazette.
THE WEATHER AND HARVEST.--Since our last
(remarks the North, British Agriculturist) the weather
has been favourable, little rain having fallen. In Edin-
burgh 'the amount for the month to the present date is
only half an inch. On the west coast, however, there have
been several days of almost continuous rain, which has
retarded harvest operations. On the east coast cutting has
proceeded with very little interruption, and on many early
farms cutting of the cereal crops is completed. In one or
two cases the whole crop is already secured in the barn-
yard. As the harvest operations advance, the
general opinion is that the crop is unusually
bulky, and on the whole will be above an ave-
rage as to the produce of grain. The only drawback is oc-
casional fields of wheat which will not come up to an ave-
rage, the fields having been thinned of plants during winter.
The potato crop still continues highly promising, and the
tubers in the early planted fields are nearly matured. The
demand to purchase by the acre is very active, and prices
have advanced. In some exceptional cases, turnips are
attacked by a fly which is raidly ccnsuming the leaves.
This will necessarily check the growth of the bulbs, and
lower their feeding qualities. As yet, the damage done is
limited, and with the occurrence of cold weather the fly
will disappear.
The Swedish and Norwegian Minister and Coun-
tess Platen returned to town on Thursday after an absence
of a few weeks spent in visiting the Duke and Duchess of
Northumberland at Alnwick Castle, and Mr. D. Carnegie,
of Stronwar, Perthshire.
MR. COBDEN AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—The fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Cobden, M.P., has just been received
by Mr. A. Stewart, of Rochdale :—" Paris, Sept. 17, 1860,
—Dear Sir,—I am obliged by your note inviting me, on
behalf of the general committee of the Roohdale Reform
Association, to visit my constituents, on my return to Eng-
land, before attending any p& tic meeting. I have under-
taken to present myself at Guildhall, to acknowledge the
presentation of the freedom of the city of London ; but, be-
yond this, I will enter into no public engagement until I
have had the opportunity of attending a meeting at Roch-
dale. -I see no prospect of completing my task ThereThereuntil
the end of next month.—l remain, dear sir, very truly
yours, RICHARD COBDEN.—A. Stewart, Esq."
CHRIST'S HOSPlTAL—Yesterday being St. Mat-
thew's day, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, con-
formably with ancient usage, went in state to the famous
seminary of Christ's. Hospital, at which some 700 boys are
now being educated, to hear the orations delivered by the
senior scholars who are about to proceed to the Universities
of Oxford and Cambridge. The ceremony was preceded by
Divine service in Christ Church, Newgate-street, at which
the Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A., the vicar, read prayers, and
an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. John D.
Williams, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly a
Grecian of Christ's Hospital, and now Head Master of
Christ's College School, Brecon. At the conclusion of the
service the civic dignitaries and governors of the hospital—
among whom, besides the Lord Mayor, were the Sheriffs
Phillips and Gabriel, Alderman Sir F. G.Moon,Deputy Holt,
Deputy Lott, and Mr. William Gilpin, treasurer of the in-
stitution, proceeded to the great hall, where a numerous
company had already assembled, accompanied by the Rev.
Dr. Jacob, the Upper Grammar Master, Mr. Chapman, the
first French Master, and the rest of the teachers. Orations
laudatory of the founder, King Edward VI., and of the
benefits conferred by the Royal hAkitals, were then recited
—in Latin by Charles Victor Merriman, Third Grecian,
Exhibitioner of the Queen's College, Cambridge ; in Eng-
lish, by the same student, as locum tenens of John Webb
Hickson, First Grecian, about to proceed to Worcester
College, Oxford ; in Greek, by Ebenezer Morris, Fourth
Grecian, who is proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge ;
and in French, by Arthur Fenning Millett, Second
Grecian, Montefiore prizeman of the present year, and Ex-
hibitioner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. To the English
oration rather a sorrowful interest was given by the circum-
stance that it was the composition of one whom illness pre-
vented being present to deliver it. The French oration of
Mr. Millett was a very spirited performance, both in matter
and manner, and was greatly applauded.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE MILITIA BALLOT AT
WREXHAM.—Steps are now being taken for the enforce-
ment at Wrexham of the Militia Ballot Act, passed in the
last session of Parliament. Notices are being issued by the
overseers of the poor to every householder, requiring them
to supply a list in writing of the Christian and surname of
every man residing in his dwelling-house, between the
ages of 18 and 30, distinguishing all who claim to be
exempt from serving in the militia, and the ground for
such exemption, within five days from the issue of the no-
tice, under a penalty, if neglected, of So.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Great sensation was created
in the Grove-road, Mile-end, yesterday, by a fatal accident.
Since the murder of Mrs. Emsley the house has been in
charge of the police, and for the last month has been occu-
pied by a constable named Watson, 180 K, with his wife
and family. About 11 o'clock in the forenoon, a boy about
four years of age, son of the officer, fell out of the staircase
window, and was killed on the spot.
CAPTURE OF THE ROBBER OF £4,000 WORTH
Or JEWELLERY.—lnformation has been telegraphed to Mr.
Webb, inspector of the C division, at the Vine-street police-
station, to the effect that the lad Giles, in the employ of
Mr. Hendsey (late llawley), jeweller, of 123, Regent-street,
was in custody in Faris. He will, therefore, in due course,
be brought before the magistrate in London. It is said
that the whole of the valuable property, for which a reward
of D5OO was offered, has been recovered.
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAIIPIONSHIP.—Yes-
terday, at the sitting of the county magistrates at Roches •
ter, Robert Brettle, who fought Mace for the championship,
Harry Crutchley, Daniel Crutchley, and Richard Long-
more, were placed at the bar charged with tumultuously
assembling, with other disorderly persons, in the parish if
Allhallows, near Yantlet Creek, to disturb the peace, and
resisting and assaulting the police in the execution of their
duty. The Chairman said the bench considered that the
evidence failed to establish anything against Brottle, and
he would bo discharged. With respect to the other three
defendants the case was different, and they would be re-
manded for a week, on putting in bail and entering into
their own sureties.
A piscatory sportsman, some time ago, while in
a shop in Edzell, observed hanging up what he imagined
was a hand bag net, and, after examining the article,
thought it admirably suited for his purpose, and accord-
ingly asked the cost, remarking that such an article would
be convenient in catching trout. His astonishment was
great when he was informed that it was a lady's crixwline
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