The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

TILE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
WASHINGTON, AUG. 10.

For good or for evil, the issue between the North
and South is rapidly approaching to that which the
South predicted and feared, and the North at first
disavowed and does not now altogether accept,—
the struggle if it continues will be narrowed to a
contest between slavery and abolition. It is not
improbable that in a day or two the President will
declare that all slaves within the lines of the United
States army become free. On the very last day of
Congress the Bill which sets free slaves belonging
to rebels engaged in war was signed with re-
luctance by Mr. Lincoln, and was all but
lost by lapse of time, for, had he not been
persuaded to overcome his scruples, the Con-
gress would have adjourned without the signa-
ture of the President having been given to
that Act. Indeed, but for the prolongation of half
an hour agreed upon the signature could not have
been obtained, as the President at first refused
peremptorily to put his name to the Bill, alleging
that " it will lose us Kentucky ;" but there was a
pressure of Senators put upon him, and he yielded
at last but ten minutes before the Houses rose. On
such occasions the President comes down to his room
in the Capitol, and affixes his name, or receives the
official visits of the legislators, and if the clock had
not been put back, and the sittings carried on be-
yond the time agreed upon for the adjournment,
this Bill could not have been presented to
the Senate. But now, after the lapse of a few
days, it is said that a step far in advance of
that measure will be taken, and that the glove
will be thrown down to the South and to the De-
mocrats of the North as well. If so, there can be
no longer any doubt as to the nature of the fight
or as to the means to be used in it, but it argues the
possession of no common courage and self reliance
on the part of the Republicans to offer battle on
the question at the very moment that the Demo-
cratic Convention of New York has refused to act
in common with the Republicans, and when " a
peace at any price and compromise if you can party"
is beginning to make itself heard in the Northern
and North-Western parts of the Union. In revo-
lutions the moderate politicians who start up before
the last act of the drama approaches in order to
become mediators, or to propose terms to the con-
tending factions, are generally crushed betwixt the
upper and the nether millstones ; but there are ex-
ceptions to that rule—the violent and fanatic sec-
tions are sometimes either neutralised, absorbed, or
overcome by the juste milieu. Much as Americans
might wish for such a result, and greatly as Euro-
pean politicians would really desire the reunion of
the States by the agency of compromise, it is hoping
against hope to expect they will be gratified.
Before Manassas some wonderful combination of
good luck and dexterity on the part of " the devil
of Compromise" might have led to an adjustment,
or a patching up of the torn seams and tattered flag
of the republic. The North could not now in honour
submit to amalgamation with all the taint of base
metal on her part of the compound. The continent
of America could not hold Northern men in the face
of defeat, insult, and contempt from the men of the
South. As well might the comrade of ancient Pistol
hope to live on good conditions with his trucu-
lent friends because he had submitted quietly to
the pulling of his nose and the kicking of his
person as a basis of amity and equality.
Philosophic statesmen, like Mr. Sumner, may
not be affected by such considerations. They
look, like him, to great principles. Mere American
politicians, caucus-mongers, wire-pullers, like Mr.
Blair, do not appreciate any result which does not
produce an immediate effect on the votes of the
Houses, the appointments to office, or the legerde-
main of official life, in which they are all glorying
and disporting. Men who have studied patiently
and long the whole of the political mechanism of
the Union are so much enamoured of the fineness of
the machinery and the beautiful play of its parts
that, like Mr. Seward, they think if all the bits are
put together, a little oil applied, and the steam got
well up, with a good whistle to clear the way
against England or Spain, or some European Power,
it is sure to preserve its consistency and run its
course as of yore.

Meantime troops are pouring into the neighbour-
hood of the capital. Although General Scott is per-
fectly tranquil, and is quite satisfied the Confede-
rates can make no aggressive movement without
signal chastisement and defeat, General M'Clellan
is most uneasy and apprehensive of danger, and is
urgent in demanding more men. He prefers his de-
mands on all who come near him, and some senator,
one at least, was so much impressed by his statements
that on his own responsibility, and without any
communication with the Government, he tele-
graphed to the Governor of his State to send on at
once every regiment he could muster to Washing-
ton. Acting on his own account, and without General
Scott's knowledge, I apprehend, General M'Clellan
has also from time to time sent regiments to points
which he conceived to be menaced or most in need
of reinforcements. He is very short in a proper
complement of cavalry and field artillery. His
troops are as raw as can be ; the officers not a whit
better as yet than the Bull's Run officers. In fact,
his army is not a fighting machin3 which can be
handled as a whole, nor do I think the Confederates
are much better in any way, except in cavalry. The
material of some of the Northern regiments cannot
be excelled. Splendid men, young, tall, robust, in-
telligent, and accustomed to adventure ; if the
workmen know their business, there is plenty of stuff
to make a good army in their hands. My estimate
of Mr. Jefferson Davis's forces in cavalry and guns
was not far wrong, bat by this time he has probably
received reinforcements to his horse power and has
certainly increased his artillery. But, after all,
what will another battle effect? Even if the result
at Manassas be reversed, there is little likelihood
that more will be done than increasing the feeling
of bitterness between the Extremists and a fresh
loss of life, for the Federalists would be as little

broken at any place. If it forms in strong corps,
the difficulty of transportation of food and materiel
arises. It is greater than one would imagine who
has not seen how widely scattered is the population.
The State of Georgia, for example, which is as
large as all
England, has less than a million of
people. The further these corps advance the
greater must become their diffictiliy. They must
diverge as they advance, and the cinemy will
get in
between them and operate in their rear and on the
communications with their bases. The people of
the South declare they are ready for a guerilla war,
and the remarks I have made presuppose there is
no large amount of Union feeling in any of the
seceded Stat* which would revive and become ac-
tive on the appearance of a friendly army. If we
were to judge of the States generally by what is
taking place in Missouri, however, it would seem
as if a large number of the inhabitants preferred
to let Unionist and Secessionist fight it out by

themselves. General Jackson and his friends—
General Lyon and Colonel Siegel—fight and retreat,
advance and countermarch, and engage in numerous
skirmishes, without adding one particle of force to
the cause in which they are engaged, and the mass
of the people stand neutral between them. Gover-
nor Wise flies through Western Virginia before the
Federalists, burning bridges and tearing up rail-
roads, and the inhabitants, possibly, are disgusted
equally with both sides. These desultory opera-
tions contribute little or nothing to the end of the
war. And how the poor people suffer ! We do not
know what takes place in the South, but the cries
of distress in the county exposed to the Federal

troops are loud and lamentable. Generals issue
orders, but the troops do not mind them. Houses
are entered, property is pillaged. Even in Maine
far removed from the rancour of hostilities, the mob
has recently been showing its respect for freedom of
opinion by attacking democratic newspaper offices
and destroying and burning all they could lay their
hands on. In Maryland the voice of complaint is
loud and indignant. Respectability of station and
attachment to the Union avail but little. One officer
in command at Alexandria, within sight of the
White-house, is obliged to recommend the people
to fix the stars and stripes on all their property and
over all their houses, and then he promises, if that
does not do, to make strict inquiry into the cases of
outrage. One does not know where to look for a
solution of the difficulties which are springing up
on all sides. Not the least of them is the dangerous
socialist movement, which I foretold some time ago,
among the working classes in the northern cities,
where we may yet hear the terrible cry of the
French Revolution re-echoed by the masses whom
the war has plunged into poverty. New York. Bos-
ton, Philadelphia may well grow pale at the thought.
These mass meetings which demand bread or work
from the Government mean no good, but at present
they only indicate approaching danger rather than
its actual presence; and, meanwhile, the expendi-
ture of the Government is going on at the rate of
one million two hundred thousand (1,200,000) dol-
lars a day ! A rain of paper money is threatened.
But the capitalists see the mischief too clearly to
abandon the Government in its extremity, and it is
said here that 111. r. Chase has succeeded in the ob-
ject of his interview with the moneyed men of New
York, and is hopeful of success in getting all the
money he wants on tolerable terms. Of all this you
will receive more accurate accounts from your re-
gular correspondent at New York. With the new
Treasury notes at 4 per cent, below par in Wall-
street the future was indeed lowering. Has it ceased
to be so ? Even Garibaldi, whom some people ba
lieve to be coming out here, can scarcely give the
Government sunshine unless he brings out with him
a loan from France and England, but if anything
could induce these countries to make an advance it
would be the pleasant tone adopted towards them
both by the American journals.
If the moneyed people hold back there can be no
doubt the churches are coming to the rescue, and as
the congregations melt away into the ranks their
pastors follow them " a-colonelling. Bishop and
Gen. Leonidas Polk, of the Southern army, has been
followed by a number of his clergy to the camp, and
one of them lately wrote a most affecting letter to
one of his rev. brethren in the North, in which he
declared with the unction of a Covenanter that he
would smite hip and thigh the aforesaid rev. brother
if he encountered him in the flesh on Southern soil.
The religion of the South is fervid. No Canaanite
was ever in worse case in Israelitish hands than
will the black Republican be who may find himself
in the grip of good, God-fearing Georgians or Caro-
linians. There has been a blessing of flags and a
cursing of enemies all over the States, the like of
which has never been seen since the time of the
Crusades—let us say in a general fashion. As one
of the coloured brethren observed of a celebrated
Baptist minister whom he followed in Savannah,
" We don't care much for him blessing ; but his
cussin' is jist bewtiful and make we feel awful
happy." But cursing is generally done, it must be
said, by implication. Notwithstanding the great
expenditure there is but little excitement visible at
Washington, unless one goes into the War and
Navy Departments, where crowds of contractors
block up the passages, each waiting for his interview
with an unhappy Minister or his representative. In
America these personal interviews are the rule. Each
man is entitled, perhaps by the theory. of the Con-
stitution, to walk in and take out his own share of
the public time ; but the pressure is so great that
some men have been there for a week or ten days
without seeing the particular person they desired to
favour. The streets are now clear of soldiers. The
galloping of orderlies is very much reduced in pro-
portion as things get into order, and on the other
side of the river there is incessant drilling and
plenty of hard work, principally in completing a
great abattis from Fort Ellsworth, at Alexandria,
across the front of the position. None of this, how.
ever, is seen in the capital itself.

It would seem as if the torpor which prevails at
Washington had its counterpart at Richmond. The
Southern papers attribute the inactivity to design
—" a great coup' soon to be made, and it is neces-
sary to be cautious and to be silent." On both sides
the utmost care is taken to screen such movements
as may take place ; passes are strictly examined at
all the exits and entrances of the Northern camps.
General M'Dowell, who was in attendance on Prince
Napoleon last Thursday, was stopped by one of his
own sentries because his pass was not en regle.
General Beauregard evinces the utmost sensitive-
ness in respect to any approach to his lines. Prince
Napoleon was, however, received with feelings
stronger than respect by the Confederates.
On Thursday morning early the Prince started
with M. Mercier, the French Minister, and his suite,
from Washington, and proceeded to Alexandria,
attended by General M'Dowell, who provided him
with an escort of United States cavalry. On
arriving at the outposts the General returned, and
the Prince's party went on till they met the Con-

the present Imperial succession, attended by a
United States general and escort to the camp of the
rebels and to the generals in command of them,
with the sanction of the United States Government,
and the return of the party to the United States
lines, is one of the most extraordinary cases that
has ever been permitted to occur by any Goven-
ment in the world. I doubt if any neutral prince
would have been allowed tn.pass from the allied
lines into Sebastopol and to have returned to the
allies by either side ; but there could he no's if "
the matter at all had the one side considered and
proclaimed the other to be rebels. It was late on
Friday when the Prince returned, and on Saturday
he left Washington for the North in company with
M. Mercier.

His visit will be construed in many ways, none
of them just—the significance of the act will be
magnified and its importance exaggerated. People
here cannot understand that an illustrious person-
age travelling incognito as a neutral can visit both
camps without impropriety, and that he is animated
by no other desire than that of seeing with his own
eyes the actual condition of the contending parties.
In itself, again, the visit of the Prince will be re-
garded as nothing less than an act of preparation
for the formal recognition of the Confederacy. With
and insolence
characteristic good taste, the only journal in the
world capable of such mingled folly
selects the occasion of the French Prince's visit to
accuse France of a secret hostility to the United
States and to denounce the Prince himself as a spy,
and in an excess of absurdity, which really looks
as if the paper in question were in the pay of
some bitter enemies of the United States who
are determined on its ruin, this journal, having as-
serted that France is encouraged by England, which
will soon follow her example, to break the blockade
and recognise the Southern Confederacy, demands
by way of conciliating the two great maritime
Powers of the world that a force shall be immedi-
ately prepared by the Secretary of the Navy to re-
sist the united fleets on seas where at the present
moment he has failed in establishing a blockade be-
fore his own ports. However, this is of a piece
with similar crnduct, and can only be explained
on the ground already suggested.
In nothing is the weakness of the Federal Govern-
ment more strikingly shown than in those questions
on maritime rights on which it was wont to main-
tain such defiant language and haughty attitude.
It stigmatises Southern privateers as pirates, and
treats them as prisoners of war. Let us now see
what will be done in the case of those men who
were saved off the wreck of the Confederate vessel
Petrel, the stolen property of the United States
commanded by Confederate officers, which actually
engaged a United States frigate, aid was sunk by
her.

Every seagoing vessel of the United States, ex
cept five, which are now being refitted, is in active
employment, the great majority of the vessels afloat
are sailing ships, and it will be observed with sur-
prise that the new steamers ordered comprise a
number of paddlewheel vessels. Of 1,354 commis-
sioned officers in the navy 312 were from the Con-
federate States, of whom 321 have resigned, and it
is feared that there are many officers in the service
whose hearts are not in the right place on this
question, or who, to use the American slang, are
" not square on the goose."

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND
THE FUGITIVE SLAVES.

By the last packet we received the letter of
General Butler asking for instructions tis to the
runaway slaves in his keeping. The answer of
the Secretary for War oa this important ques-
tion deserves to be given at length

" Wethington, August, 1861.
" General,--The important question of the proper dispo-
sition to be made of fugitives from service in, the States in
insurrection against the Federal Government, to which you
have again directed my attention in your letter of July 20,
has received my most attentive consideratio n. It is the de-
sire of the President that all existing rights in all the States
be fully respected and maintained. The 'war now prose-
cuted on the part of the Federal Governiz tent is a war for
the Union ; for the preservation of all Cow ditutional rights
of States and the citizens of States in the Union. Hence,
no question can arise as to fugitives from service within
the States and territories in which the authority of the
Union is fully acknowledged. The ordinary forms of judi-
cial proceeding mast be respected by military and civil
authorities alike for the enforcement of legal forms. But
in the States wholly or in part under insurrectionary con-
trol, where the laws of the UnitedlStates are fi ;o far opposed
and resisted that they cannot be effectually 'enforced, it is
obvious that the rights dependent upon the execution of
those laws must temporarily fail ; and it is equally obvious
that the rights dependent on the laws of tlie) State within
which military operations are conducted must be necessarily
subordinate to the military exigencies created: by the insur-
rection, if not wholly forfeited by the treasonable conduct
of parties claiming them. To this the general rale of righ
to services forms an exception. The Act of Congress, ap-
proved on the 6th of August, 1861, declares that if persons
held to service shall be employed in hostility to the United
States, the right to their services shall bo forfeited, and
such persons shall be discharged therefrom. It follows,
of necessity, that no claim can be recognised by the military
authority of the Union for the services of such persons
when fugitives.

7,A more difficult question is presented in respect to per-
sons escaping from the service of loyal masters. It is quite
apparent that the laws of the State under which only the
service of such fugitives can be claimed must needs be
wholly, or almost wholly, suspended. As to the remedies
by the insurrection and the military measures necessitated
by it, it is equally apparent that the substitution of military
for judicial measures for the enforcement of such claims
must be attended by great inconvenience, embarrassments
and injuries. Under these circumstances it seems quite
clear that the substantial rights of loyal masters are Ea
best protected by receiving such fugitives, as well as fugi-
tives from disloyal masters, into the service of the
States, and employing them under such organizations and
such occupation as circumstances may suggest or require.
Of course a record should be kept showing the name and United
character, as
description of the fugitives, the name and
loyal or disloyal, of the master, and such facts as may be
necessary to correct the understanding of the. circumstances..
of each case, after tranquillity shall have
doubtless
restored
properly.
Upon the return of peace, Congress will
received. into the service of
. can the duty and safety
provide for all the persons thus
the Union, and for a just compensation to loyal masters.
rights of all be fully olfn
ttbhei ways
Government only, i t
andworld
tthe
seem,jas t
recon-
ciled and harmonized.
" You will, therefore, consider yourself instructed to go•
vern your future action in respect to fugitives from service
by the premises herein
stated, and will report from time to
time, and at least twice in each month, your action in the
premises to this department. You will, however, neither
authorize nor permit any interference by the troops under
your command with the servants of peaceful citizens in A
house or field, nor will you in any way encourage such
servants to leave the lawful service of their masters. Nor
will you, except in cases where the public good may seem
to require it, prevent the voluntary return of any fugitive
to the service from which he may have escaped:.
4, I am, ivery respectfully, your
obedient servant,
" StmoN CAMERON, Secretary of War.
, "To Major-General Butler, commanding Department of
Virginia, Fortress Plonroe."

The Gazette de Trieste states that the attempt to
launch the iron cased frigate the Salamamdler at that
port proved a failure. The vessel stuck fast cku the ways
before reachipg the water.

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L. S.

Commence at 7.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

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BA.RommTnn,---30.35.
WIND—W.-N.-W. light, and fine.

TETE SUN.

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CINQUE-PORTS' E. TO WIT.—In o. s. DIEZ-
Cinc'kent-.500 N. Sire-arch'y Bby /3 AstrageOgraph
pilotage of Dover's *no • • : : off and on, Diepp's-
Rouen •-••• to Lizard's o'er Ind. Quadra.sculmination.
Gentlemen ! A circular—for an illegal fete-meeting on
the 28th, August'en A.D. 1861, as eve of "the comber-
reheading day of Ihon Bapte'st"—was issued on the 13th
instant, Old Lam'mass-day from the " Mandato office
of the Grand Master (of Malta's,";Downing-street, as of the
1802 Amiens Treat on duplex plea-scholastic.
y- Nap :),
The said illegal circular [as the proverb goes, "like
G.G.G.-father Co"WPZR (1712) like G.G.G.+ehild PAL-
MERSToN (1861), as H. J. Temple)—cites the surreptitious
Charter of Bristol by 9 Anna, 24 Jy. for its " warning to
,
six five, or four," combar-(on's of Spanish Cabotage)-
curvature a Latrinity-ns., e'er the Sunk-port " Add-por-
tura" land-set's s. d. now resumed for " Carthage-mud
port-like edict Comin. of Review on Egypt's 1828. '
The aforesaid being illegal as follows :-Ist, By Act 1
Edw. VI., cap. 2—re-enacted in 1832, Will. IV., cap. 92,
sec. 4, as yet pending—entitled, The Submission of the
Clergy 4. Rt. Apts. as Non-intervention, 25 Hen. 8, cap 19,
viz., Whereas divers life-titled noblemen and civil spiritual
persons have sent out their summons in their own names,
as in the time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome,
contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes
of correction, de jure patroncitus, and probates of testaments
—Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes
by advocates or other officers on behalf of the King's High-
ness, for validity- sake do bear the State endorsement, as
well as the official Common-clerk's name be placed under
the citor's name, and after the registered seal, in public
TEST of its authority..." Pevensey" o transit : : to wit.
Thus " men of Kent," etc., as under Nature's subsyderal-
lathe epochs for P. L. audits to town's 51e Pow a) prefix as
L'ond'on-wave by firencester seven hundreds (1-4 H. IV),
over Wall-in-ford as of Bristol's constabulary of the Sea's
fresh and salt water " Admiral's Court." 2dly. Whence,
by 1 Philip and Mary, cap. 7, as aforesaid, fONo man
shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator of the Water's
Silver-oar or Indian-paddle of the Pilot's E'ven-Lode-mh-
nagement of Fiscal-Crts., who shall " take en himself " the
power "to direct and serve his own precept." Therefore !
this negative-letter since by Act 1832 the Church Queen's
etc. have ceased to be the head of the monetary (" by civil
list"), Realm of England's Lay-presbytera'l estate, and at
your peril disobey this law for one and all.
Aug. 24, 1861 [unpaid martyr of 19 years], London.
PETER BASQUET,
England's Antipodal Chiet Income-tax
freeman of 1842, as the Criminal Law's
Bulo. Extradition Act, Constable of the
Temple. Sea, bearing America's paddle of the
Labouchere. Admiral's Court, late in Canterbury's
settlement, for New Zealand's Probate
v Court, it's Stil'lord Warden —.
CHARLES H. ACKERIET, * J.P. of America's
England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- I
miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- S C
retary ; Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Presbyter,
on the Holy Alliance of King's abolition, its
Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. R.N. pay
--supporter of poor Indian PETER 10 yrs.
To all local treasury officers and Mayors, taking prece-
dence by "Reform Act" at all Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, and of all official-ministers.
Vide * " Maritime Register, 17th Au... 1861, p. 1051."

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THEATRE. R 0 YAL,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
THyS EVENING. the nerionisances will oommenee With
THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, arc.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.

To conclude with a Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Lecleroqs.
Mr CH
Webster, &a

N" THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
116th Night of " The Dead Heart."
THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD
HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing-
ton, Ebnme, Smith, Homer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate
Kelly. -
To conclude with MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
F. Bedford, Billing,ton ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray„
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with, each evening, a new and original farce
entitled THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of Single
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'Brady,
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

CANTEAND
FINRBURYE ARTS GA HALL
LLER CONCERTS,
Y.
Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO
IN MASCHERA. arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor-
dinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Harvey and French,
Sly," l
and
in " The to Brion," " Selina
and " In the Park." Excursion And Miss Harriet ht
Coveney Every
Awning.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

CA.ANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND
N.--) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COVirELL, the
Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance
since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of
September. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony is.

O X FORD
6, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble braiding, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-,
gramme is varied, and includes-Selections from "La Tra-
viatl," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, scotch Duets by the
Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P.
Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
.10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tim DlAN—Morning, sh. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. 56m.
To-mointow..Morning, 6h. 16m.—Afternoon, 6h. 36m.

THE WEATHER.—Sus OPFICZ, AUGUST 27, 1861.
THERMOHETBB., TN THE SHADB.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
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Loxnus, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881.

The .IWoniteur yesterday condescended in the
most in tperial manner to give the " lie direct" to
Mr. ROEBUCK. It said, " Mr. ROEBUCK has
recently affirmed that he knew of the existence of
a convention, by which the Island of Sardinia
would be eventually ceded to Prance And it
added eaereupon—" We give a formal denial to this
assertion. Not only does such a convention not
exist, but even the thought of entering into _ nego-
tiations on this subject with the Cabinet of Turin
has never occurred to the EMPEROR'S Government."
Now, whht—we should very much like to know—
does this positive denial by the Monitene instantly
remind one of? Is it not—of the equally explicit,
the equally emphatic, deliberate, and categorical
denial of any intention whatever of absorbing the
territories of Nice and Savoy into France by the
Impe:rial Government ? Why, the denial in that
instauce was, if possible, still more positive, and
was, if possible, denied to the world still more
authoritatively. It was not simply, then, that the
imperial journal denied it ! The understand-
ing, said to have been come to with Sardinia, to
the end that Savoy and Nice should be ceded as a
quid pro quo by that (save the mark !) disinterested
and magnanimous " Liberator of Lombardy." It
solemnly declared to be nothing better than an idle
rumour—this not once, but again and again—not
merely by the official organ of the French Govern-
nicht, but by the EMPEROR himself and by his Minis-
t.ers. This was asserted, naoreover,by word of mouth
in Paris and in London. It was declared in printed
n.eciainents and in written documents. There could
be ev) possibility of mistake about it. If credence
was to be given to a great reigning Sovereign, if
reliance Was to b •
e placed upon the assurances volun-
teered by Ministers
of State and Ambassadors Ex-
traordinary, there
could not be a moment's hesita-
tion about Our
being necessarily compelled to
believe that the Preservation of Savoy and Nice to
VICTOR EMMANUEL was
perfectly well secured.
Yet 'we all know the result no, but too well. The
EMPEROR and the EmPEßows
Ministers, the Im-
perial journal, and the Imperial
Ambassador were
proved after all to have been—how possibly can we
express the fact in any way politely, or with any
semblance of courtesy---well, we will Bll7—in error.
They were proved to Jive been error. Savoy
and
word
Nice were ceded to Fr tinee—what though the