The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

LAST WEEK BUT TWO OF

ALFRED-MELTON'S PROMENADE
CONCERTS.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THE ENGLISH NIGHT.

Vocalists this Evening :—Mdlle. PAREPA, Mdlle. LANCIA,
Madame LAURA BAXTER, Miss S. COLE, Mr. VERNON
RIGBY, and Mr. WEISS.
The first part of the Concert this evening will consist of
Vocal and Instrumental Music by English Composers.—rhe
second part will be Miscellaneous, and include Beethoven's
BATTLE Symphony, performed by the Orchestra, assisted
by the Bands of the Victoria Rifles and the City of London
Rifle Brigade.—Grand Operatic Selection, "Robert le Diable."
—Part Song by Mendelssohn, Solo Oboe, M. Lavigne, and
other Vocal and Dance Music.
Commence at R. Promenade, Is.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
To-morrow (Tuesday), a MOZART NIGHT.
On Wednesday, a FRENCH NIGHT.
On Thursday, a MENDFU,SOHN NIGHT.
On Friday, an ITALIAN NIGHT ; and on
Saturday, a VOLUNTEER NIGHT.

HET 5.i. It YA L. HAY MA.B.,KET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone.
Ting EVENING, the nertormanoes will cc rnmenoo with
FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX.
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers,
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c•
With THE CRITIC: Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
Commence a 7

j~UYAL PItINC F. S S'S THEATRE.-
1 V and manager, Mr. A. Bangs.
This theatre will open on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a new
and original comedy, in five acts, written by John Brougham,
entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John
Brougham (his first appearance at this theatre), Mr, Ryder.
Mr. ff. . Widdicombe, Mr. George Jordan (of the principal
theatres of the United States, his first appearance in Enc,-
land), Miss C. Lelcee.xcq, and Mrs. Weston. With other En-
tertainments. In active preparation, Shakespeare's tragedy
of OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments-
Othello, Mr. Fechter. The box-office will open on Wednes-
day,.
Sept. 25. •

T 1 0Y AL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Du 3Tanez,rer7Mr. Edmund Falconer.

- ---• For the Benefit of Miss Lydia Thompson.
THIS EVENING, the new and original farce, entitled
THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of a Single
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'BradV,
miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success-
ful comedy of 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 AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Messrs.
D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
After which (232 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. rimier, Billington. S. Emery, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard. Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington. and Mrs. H. Lewis.
To conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Mr. SAM COWELL every Evening at Nine and a quarter
to Eleven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE,
TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c., by Miss Russell,
Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a
powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs.
Harvey and French, " The Nerves " Mr. Marshall—Mr.
Wood and his talented Son -• and Miss Harriet Coveney.
New Opera by Auber LA CIRCASSIENNE.—A Grand
Selection, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, from
this Opera will be produced, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS
COUNTRY, on MONDAY next. Principal Artistes—Miss
Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli.

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is,

T' HE 0 XFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, "Simon Boc-
canegra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by
Miss Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, HoHey,
and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame
Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain-
ments by Messrs. M. P. Foster, Sam Collins, Harvey and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. RandalL Hall,
sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. f3d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TRIO DAY.—Morning, 4h. 7m.—Afternoon, 4h. 20m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m.

THE WEATHER.—Suar OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE•
62—highest since noon yesterday.
49 —lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.06.
WIND—S.-Westerly—light ; with dull, dirty weather ;
heavy rain yesterday and during the night.
SEPT. 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
58—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.
BAROMETER—Down to 29.38 ; now up to 29.47.
WlND—West. N.-Westerly—fresh , with fine weather.
It rained in the night and morning.

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THE SUN.

LO;;DON, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1861.

Colonel FREMONT'S proclamation has created, it
would appear, some little perturbation in the Cabi-
net at Washington. The President, with kis con-
stitutional and paternal care for the integrity of
the unmodified Union, his constant solicitude,there-
fore, and that the war should not be a war for eman-
cipation, is not a little disconcerted to find that one
of his most popular and efficient generals has gone
so far beyond the bill which he was reluctant to sign
as the Congress broke up. The Bill authorised the
confiscation of slaves who had been employed for
purposes of war. General FREMONT confiscates,
or rather decrees the liberation from slavery, of all
slaves of rebel masters. Now, as in Missouri, the
slave-masters must, as a body, have been rebels,
practically the proclamation is one of emancipation
in Missouri. The Examiner has some severe, and
not unjust criticisms on the proclamation ; it illus-
trates, however, as we conceive, both the real desire
of General FREMONT and the difficulty of his posi-
tion under Mr. LINCOLN, and close upon Kentucky.
FREMONT desires emanicipation as a fruit of tie
war. LINCOLN does not. What, therefore, can
FREMONT do more, than strain the act of the re-
cent
extra Session of Congress far beyond its letter i

or even its spirit.
We observe that the cant is still frequently heard,
both in America and here, of the crime of liberating
" four millions of savages," and involving all the
South in the horrors of a servile war. If the
negroes be savages, the fault and the consequences
of it lie at the door of the slaveholders. They have
had them entirely in their hands to teach and train
as they pleased. The School, and the Church, end
social training were all at their disposal. Presidents
have sent messages to Congress on the blessing of
a Christian training and teaching, as the compensa
tion for what they termed " involuntary set vitude.''
And if, after such professions, with such absolute
power in their hands, and with such a parade of
compensating for enslaving, by Christianising, the
blacks, the latter are still " savages"—all we can say
is, that those who have left them so deserve to suf-
fer the consequences of their wickedness. The
truth, however, we believe to be far otherwise. It
is not a servile war of liberated negroes against
their masters which is dreaded, but a bloody and
ferocious onslaught by their masters, the real
"savages," on the negroes who endeavour to avail
themselves of the war as a means of escape from
bondage. If slaveholders in the South die, they
will perish as DIGGES, the would-be captor of
ANDERSON, perished, in endeavouring to reconvert
into chattels the MEN who had become the masters
of their own persons. It is a question of a master's
war, not of a servile war ; of a raid of " white
savages" on inoffensive blacks, not of blacks on
whites ; and still more is it a question of dollars
and absolute power. The slaveholders are mad for
the right to beat a negro as boys do a donkey ; and
at the bare thought of their " property" using its
set to run away. IVe are by no means sanguine,
t
11°Ilisa we would hop a the best from the FREMONT
commencement, Of one thing we feel pretty cer-