The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1859,

equal to that of his old proprietor if not superior.
Well if he had continued this useful work

But his holy ambition was to be the Liberator of
the entire captive people, and his fervid enthusiasm
blinded him to the horrors which must attend
Liberation by insurrection; worse, fcr himself, than
that, it blinded him to the fact that the negroes
were few in that part of Virginia, that the brutali-
ties of the slave gang were little, if at all, known
in that district, and that the slaves there, being for
the most part domestic servants, were better
treated. Had he commenced near to the Southern
plantations, and had he been at pains to diffuse
secret information of his plans among the gangs
who work the estates under the lash of the driver,
the consequences might have been awfully different.
One shudders to contemplate the scene in localities
where slaves vastly outnumber whites, where mas-
ters might resist, amidst the madness of thousands,
who were prepared any of them to receive the first
few shots of a planter's revolver or rifle, that the rest
might enjoy the horrid satisfaction of dealing with
their oppressors as he had dealt with them.

As it was there was nothing but the armoury to
favour a rising at Harper Ferry. No slaves rose.
For a year or more BROWN had been working on a
farm he had taken, to avoid suspicion, but he had
only a party of 17 in all, including his own two
sons, to be the commencement of a second war of
independence in the United States. A second war,
not merely to deliver a few white Americans from a

few unconstitutional taxes, but to emancipate three
millions of sable Americans from the innumerable
miseries, degradations, and oppressions of slavery.
A better cause, truly, than WASHINGTON'S,
though not as yet to triumph by the means to
which WASHINGTON and the white Americans re-
sorted. WASHINGTON fought to free men from un-
constitutional Government; poor BROWN fought
to free them from the denial of all human rights, and
from the cruelest oppression wo know of yet, in a
world which has always abounded in oppression.
If courage deserve honour, BROWN has earned
the Victoria Cross, not only before the sad event,
but in his two days' fight with his brave little band
with all the force of the State, till all but two

were killed, and these two, himself and son, severely

wounded. If a cause deserve honour, then BROWN
must be rightly numbered with all the heroes who
have sought at the sword's point liberty for those
who were unjustly deprived of it. If ill success in
a good cause deserve commiseration, then BROWN
deserves it ; and if imprudence springing from a
blinding but noble enthusiasm deserves censure,
then must he share that censure with hundreds
whom history taunts because their abilities wore
unequal to their aspirations.
Righteous as would be the retribution of a

servile war, likely as it is one day to occur; yet
must incitement to it be condemned by all men
whose wrongs, like those of BROWN, have not over-
powered their judgment. Still, well may the
planter tremble. He sees BROWN standing at their
bar calmly, not vainly, confident in the righteous-
ness of his cause. There lies the element of terror.
BROWN and his little rash band may be speedily
offered up as martyrs tonegro emancipation, but the
cause is righteous still. Nothing can crush that fact.
The infernal wickedness of slavery and the righte-
ousness of emancipation are the spectres which will
survive the blood of BROWN and his associates, and
which will haunt the guilty consciences of planters
throughout the Union. Not all the sermons of a
clergy, worse than faithless to their holy calling,
can lay these tormentors of the slaveholder. He
lives on in defiance of the rights of man and of the
frown of man's MAKER. He hardens himself like
another PHARAOH, and will not let the people go.
But his day must come. He will not seek to avert
it, will not, by any mitigation of his accursed
system, prepare his bondsmen for a liberty in
which he could even find his profit. On the bench
of justice, where oaths are taken in the name of the
GOD of Heaven, he pronounces that the fellow-man
whom his GOD has made of the same blood with
himself is his property, his chattel, that HE HAS NO
RIGHTS. Can the day be distant when those rights
will be asserted in the blood of those who refuse
them, and who madly refuse to be warned ? If
BROWN fought madly for right, it may yet appear
that American planters fight yet more madly
against right.

ROYAL _ENGLISII. OPERA,

COVENT-GARDEH.

Mr. Balfe's "Satanella" was given last night for the first
time this season The cast differed in three instances from
that of last year—Miss Pilling assuming the part of Stella,
heretofore filled by Miss Susan Pyne ; Miss Fanny Cruise
taking the place of Miss Rebecca Isaacs in Lelia; and Mr.
Santley appearing as Arimanes, in the room of Mr. Weiss.
All three substitutes acquitted themselves well, and left
little to be regretted in the absence of their predecessors.
Miss Fanny Cruise's debut was entirely successful.
" Satanella" is perhaps Miss Louisa Pyne's most incom-
parable achievement. Her singing of " The power of love"
alone would constitute a night's intense gratification. Mr.
Harrison's Count Rupert, too, is an excellent bit of acting,
while his singing is vigorous, finished, and manly in the
extreme. On the whole "Satanella," with all its drawbacks,
is likely to obtain a new lease of popular favour, for which
it has been, and no doubt will be, in a special degree, in-
debted to the artistic exertions of the directors.

TILE LORD :MAYOR'S DAY.

The 9th of November, from time immemorial, has been a
great day for the City of London, notwithstanding that it
obstructs business to a very great extent. Still, the Lord
Mayor's Show is lOoked upon as one of the institutions of
the country, and to speak against it may be little less than
treason. :This morning, big with the fate of battles,
opened bright and brilliant upon the mighty city ; civic
functionaries and gaudily-attired footmen were heard to
exchange mutual !congratulations upon being able, after
all, to exhibit their finery with the advantage of a Novem-
ber sun. Long before the City had begun to wear its
wonted bustle and activity the carpenter's hammer was
sounding forth its noisy note of preparation, and through-
out the line of procession riLkety windows were secured,
dusty flags unfurled, and stout barriers erected to stop in-
trusive vehicles. The Mansion-house, of course, was the
scene of much commotion, and during the whole of the
morning policemen, city marshals, and lively flunkeys with
large bunches of flowers and unexceptionable limbs, were
flitting to and fro in a dreadful state of excitement ; while
at the various ward halls, beadles, whose shabby-genteel
coats were concealed beneath heavy cloaks trimmed with
gold lace, were furbishing up their wands of office, and
inspecting the banner-bearers who were to take part in the
all. important pageant.

At an early hour the Lord Mayor was duly instal-
led in his civic palace, and his lordship commenced
the duties and pleasures of his office by putting his cook's
abilities to the test, and entertaining his friends and offi-
cers of the household at a sumptuous breakfast. The well-
known venerable coach, drawn by six high-spirited steeds,
and caparisoned in massive crimson trappings, was then
ordered to the door, and his lordship, attired in his robes of
office, decoratecrwith his gold chain, and attended by his
chaplain, the Recorder, the Sword-bearer, the ponderous
mace, and the scabbard sword, entered the antique equi-
page, and drove off to the Guildhall, followed by the Sheriffs.
Here for the first time he was welcomed and cheered as the
Lord Mayor of London, and having partaken of luncheon—
eating and drinking forming the principal, and certainly
the most agreeable features of the ceremony—his lordship
announced it to be his will and pleasure that the procession
should be arranged in the order in which it was to move.
Accordingly the City Marshal set to work, and with the
aid of a body of police succeeded, after some difficulty, in
his task. The procession, although it was curtailed of
many of its usual adornments, such as knights armed cap-
a-pie, attended by their esquires—men in brass and steel,
with plumed helmets—was as imposing as usual, and the
missing objects were well supplied by the substitution of a
number of additional military bands of music, amongst
which was that of the London Volunteer Rifle Corps, which
made its first appearance in public this morning. The uni-
form of this newly-raised corps was very handsome, and
did credit both to the taste and patriotism of the City of
London.

The procession then passed along Gresham-street, Princes-
street, King William-street, Gracechurch-street, Cornhill,
Poultry, Cheapside, Queen-street, Cannon-street, St. Paul's-
churchyard, Newgate-street, Skinner-street, Farringdon-
street, Fleet-street, the Strand, and thence by Parliament-
street to Westminster-hall, in the following order :

Police Constables to clear the way.
Drums and Fifes of the Royal London Militia.
City Marshal's Man.
The Band of the Royal Artillery.
Three Trumpeters.

Watermen carrying Thinners of the various Livery Companies
of the City of Loudon. I
The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
The Band of the London Rifle Brigade. .
Watermen bearing the following Banners:
'Royal Standard.:
..`) Banner of Arms of the Clockmakers Company.
- Banner of Arms of the City of London.
Union Jack

Banner of the Riht Hon: the Lord Mayor. 77, R-
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Clerk of the Company in his Chariot.
The Court of Assistants in their Carriages. • p.
The Master in his Chariot.
Three Trumpeters.
The Under City Marshal on Horseback.
The Lord Mayor's Beadle.
Watermen bearing the following Banners :
Royal Standard.

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Banner of England. Union Jack.
Banner of Scotland. Banner of Ireland.
Six Streamers of the tity Arms.
Banner of the City of London.
The Band of the Coldstream Guards.
The Two Under Sheriff's.
The Officers of the Corporation of London.
The Band of the lloy-al London Militia.
Three Trumpeters.
Banner of Mr. Sheriff Gabriel.

Mr, Sheriff Gabriel, in his State Chariot, attended by his
Chaplain.
Three Trumpeters.
Banner of Mr. Sheriff Phillips.

Mr. Sheriff Phillips, iu his State Chariot, attended by his
Chaplain.
The Aldermen who have not passed the Chair.
The Recorder.
The Aldermen who have passed the Chair.
The, late Lord Mayor.

The Lady 3fayoress, in her State Carriage, will join the
Procession on its return from 'Westminster.
The Lord.3layor's Servants in State Liveries.
The Band of the Life Guards mounted.
The Upper City Marshal on Horseback.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household.
THE RIGHT HON. TILE LORD MAYOR,
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In his State Carriage, drawn by Six Horses, attended by
the Chaplain, Sword Eearer, and Comm n Crier.
Guard of Honour on Horseback.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

On the arrival of the Lord Mayor at Westminster•ha:

his lordship at once proceeded to the Court of Exchequer.
- The civic party took a standing position in front of the
bench reserved for Queen's counsel.

The Learned RECORDER, in addressing the Court, said :
My Lord Chief Baron,—l have the honour to introduce to
your lordship and this Court the Right Honourable John
Carter, elected by the citizens of London to fill the office of
Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. The gracious approval
of her Majesty has ratified the choice of the citi-
zens. The learned gentleman then proceeded to give a
short history of the career of the new Lord Mayor, stating
that he had for many years carried on business in the City
of London, during which time ho had won the good opinion
of his fellow-ci Hier's, and had for a considerable period been
their representative in the Court of Common Council, and
on the death of the alderman of his ward (Cornhill) was
unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. He had subse-
quently served the office of sheriff, and at the termination
of his year of office received a vote from the livery, and ho
felt well assured that ho would not be found wanting at the
post of honour to which he had been now elected. The
learned gentleman having also iptimated that the late Lord
Mayor, who had so well fulfilled the office during the past
year, was in attendance, concluded by presenting the new
Lord Mayor in the usual form to take the oaths.

The Loup CHIEF BARON said--My Lord Mayor, I beg
to congratulate you on having attained that honour.which
-the learned Recorder has expatiated on in his address to
the Court. You appear here as first magistrate of the
greatest city in the empire. You appear here to claim cer-
tain rights which belong to the great city of which you are
the chief magistrate, and the ceremony which takes place
on this occasion is not to be considered as a mere idle
pageant, for in reality it is to retain on your part those pri-
vileges which have existed from time immemorial. I rejoice
to hear the account of the learned Recorder of your past
life and success, and doubt not that during your mayoralty
you will continue to deserve the good opinion of your fellow-
citizens. To you, the late Lord Mayor, I beg to offer my
congratulations, and you retire, having undoubtedly dis-
charged your important duties, into comparatively private
life. You have, during your year of office, displayed every-
thing that could belong to a patriotic citizen and upright
magistrate. I feel assured that in retiring into comparative
privacy the discharge of those public duties that remain to
you will occupy the whole of your attention, and that you
will continue to deserve that approbation, and to meet with
that sympathy in the discharge of them which you have
hitherto experienced.

_Alderman Wire bowed his acknowledgments.
The Lord Mayor was then sworn. The late Loi d Mayor
was also sworn to render unto her Majesty a full account of
the receipts on account of the Crown during his mayoralty,
and to " behave himself properly" according to the old form
of oath whilst he did so.

The other formalities having been gone through, the Re-
corder invited the judges to the banquet at Guildhall this

eveaing.

The Lord Mayor, the late Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and
the officers of the City then withdrew, and passing through
the other courts the Lord Mayor, through the Recorder,
invited the judges presiding to the banquet.
The procession then returned to the City in the same
order as in its coming.

MILFORD HAVEN.—With reference to the re-
marks yesterday on Mr. Page's " Report on Milford Haven
for ocean steamships, and a naval arsenal," the South
Wales Railway Company desire to state—first, that pier
accommodation at present exists for ocean steamers at
Milford Haven; and, secondly, that there is railway com-
munication thence to Manchester. A floating pier extends
into deep water at the terminus of the South Wales Rail.
way at New Milford (Milford Haven, and is available for
large steamers at any state of the tide. At this pier, the
Calcutta, a large ocean steamer, which sailed for Lisbon
and 13razil on the 2d inst., took in cargo and coal direct
from the railway trucks, which are lowered to the floating
pier by means of hydraulic machinery, and the traffic in
connection with the stunners to and from Waterford and
Cork is -carried on in a similar manner daily. Railway
communication exists between Manchester and Milford
Haven both by way of Newport and by way of Gloucester.
Through rates are established, and Manchester goods are
now sent to New Milford by one or other of these routes
for exportation.— Times' Correspondent.

Tril DEFENCES OF VICTORIA.—A meeting of
the Chantb, r of Commerce, held on September 13, for the
purpose of discussing the question of defence, was but thinly
attended: The following restilution, proposed in a long
speech by Mr. Sichel, and seconded by Mr. Sumner, was
carried without opposition :—" That a deputation, consist-
ing of the following gentlemen, the President, Mr. J. G.
Francis, Mr. T. J.Siunner, and the mover, do wait upon
the Chief Secretary to request information as to the steps
which have been taken for the protection of the colony; and
in the absence of any such steps, to request that he will
urge upon the Government at home the necessity of keep-
ing upon the Australian naval station not less than four
powerful steam-frigates, and, further, send out to Mel-
bourne three fully •armed men-of-war, to serve as flag:ships
for the protection of this part of the country.—dtaeralian

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LATEST NEWS.

CALCUTTA & CHINA. MAILS.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Valetta, with the mails from Calcutta and
China, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day.
The mails left for London at 10 a.m.
Letters will be delivered on Friday morning.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, Nov. 9.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes a dispatch from
General Martemprey addressed to the Mir ister of
War, and dated near Zekkora, Nov. Gth. General
Durienx with two divisions attacked the Zekkora
and forced the hostile tribes to retire towards the
south. General Durieux by skilful manoeuvring
obtained a victory over the tribes, equally as bril-
liant as the victory of Malah. In addition to a
great quantity of booty, the horses and arms of the
Spahis who had been killed at Sidi-Zaer were re-
taken.

The troops are in excellent health and spread
terror everywhere before them, and the people im-
plore their mercy,

PARIS, Nov. 8.

The Emperor arrived here to-day at 3 o'clock
from Compiegne, and proceeded to the Hotel du
Louvre to pay a visit to the Grand Duchess Maria

of Russia.

12.10 P.M.
The Bourse opens rather firm, but inactive.
Routes, 70f. 10c.

3.25 P.M.

The market has undergone no change. The final
price of Itentes is 70f. 5c., being only a shade
higher than yesterday.

ZURICH, Nov. 8.

The signature of the treaty has been delayed on
account of Austria claiming payment of the
40,000,000 florins due by France on account of Pied-
mont in Conventions Munze instead of the new Aus-
trian currency. Baron de Bourqueney has referred
the question to Paris for instructions, and it is
thought that the difficulty will be overcome, and
the treaty signed without further delay.

FLORENCE, Nov. 7.

The Assembly has resolved to take into conside-
ration the proposition to create Prince Carignan
Regent of Tuscany in the name of the King of Sar-
dinia, and will give its vote on this subject to-
morrow. The resolution was received with cheer-
ing by the public.

BOLOGNA, Nov. 7.

The Minister, the Marquis de Pepoli, read to-day
before the Assembly a message announcing that the
Government had always pursued a system of mode-
ration, and further stated that the financial re-
sources of the country had during the last quarter
increased a million and a half ; and concluded by
saying that the establishment of a Regency would
place the credit of the country on a firm footing,
and that Central Italy would appear before the
Congress with more authority.
The National Assembly of the Romagnese has
unanimously voted the Regency of Prince Carignan,
and has invested him with full powers.
The Prussian Gazette publishes an article of
which the following is a summary :
" The Algemeine Zeitung insists on its statement
that the interview between the Emperor of Russia
and the Prince Regent of Prussia had a tendency
hostile to England. The same paper pretends that
Prussia had entered upon the policy of France and
Russia to isolate England, and had promised to
maintain an unconditional neutrality in case war
should be declared by France against England. In
order to support these absurd insinuations, the Al-
gemeine Zeitung refers to the imaginary statements
of some Prussian newspapers which are known to
belong to the Opposition press, and which have
a self-understood interest to disfigure every step of
the Government for the sake of obtaining a basis
for attacks against it. The writers of the Alge-
meine Zeitung place themselves by their conduct
on the same footing with certain French journals,
which, in translating the malevolent conjectures of
the Prussian Opposition press, transformed them
into positive facts. These tactics may be considered
ingenious, but are hardly patriotic or useful to the
interests of Germany.' "

VIENNA, Nov. 8.

The Schiller Festival has been celebrated here
to-day in a most brilliant manner in presence of
immense crowds of people.
The torch-light processions were numerous and
well attended. The greatest order and enthusiasm
prevailed throughout the tom n. The weather was
exceedingly fine until towards the conclusion of
the festival, when rain fell, but not, however, in
any considerable quantity.

MADRID, Nov. 7.

Marshal O'Donnell will positively leave this
evening. The transport steamers detained on
account of the bad weather have now arrived at
Algesiras, and offensive operations will commence
immediately.