The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-24 00:00:00

Doors open at halt put B—Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original
comedy, entitled 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 the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine,
Miss Lydia Thomson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
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,
Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina
Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every
Evening.
Admission—Hall, Bd.; Stalls and Balcony, is.

fIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND
k-) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, 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, ls.

0 X F 0 R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of, lighting of this noble building, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra-
viata," "Un Ballo in Masehera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, -icotch 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.
li'oster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 9m.—Afternoon, 4h. 24m.
To-noßnovr.-Morning, 4h. 39m.—Afternoon. 4h. 54m.

THE WEATIIEP..—Strs OPVICII, AUGUST 24, 1661.
THERMOMETER, IN TUB SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
CS—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.15.
WlND—North-Westerly—fresh; with cloudy weather.

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THE SUN.

1,0N1)0N, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1861

Interests of the most varied and of the most vital
kind link England to her most distant colonies.
Those interests, moreover, as time advances only
increase and multiply—growing with the growth
and strengthening with the strength of the whole
empire. So that in proportion to the advance of
our commercial enterprise, and to the steady con-
tinuance of emigration from the shores of the
mother country to those of her enormous and scat-
tered dependencies, the ends of the earth are knit
together more and more intimately, the world-wide
frame of the British dominion is rendered more and
more, strictly speaking, homogeneous. As to the
mere force of the current of emigration—viewing
that, alone—it has long since been accurately
calculated in all its fluctuations. We are enabled
to estimate with the utmost nicety the rate at
which it " sets" towards this or that dependency.
We knew the average extent of it during so many
yeara, counting them by fives, by tens, by twenties.
We know theprecise number to a man, to a woman,
or to a child, in any given twelvemonth
quitting England for Canada, for Australia,
for New Zealand, for British Columbia.
The records of the Board of Trade enable us to
compare the extent of our imports and of our ex-
ports in connection with this possession, and with
that, at our own variable whim and plea-
sure. And in aid of all these regular sources
of increasing interest, of a reciprocation of
mutual interest, binding together the entire
fabric of our British Empire in both hemi-
iipheres, there comes occasionally—intermittently
and quite -unexpectedly—some extraneous circum-
stance of an extraordinary cbaracter, bringing, now
one colony now another more vividly than ever
under the scrutiny of the old fatherland, under the
'lnv? of the mass of untravelled Englishmen, and in
an _ "tees and peculiar manner under the consi-
deration the then more than ever responsible
consideration of the Imperial Government.
It was thus a few years back that attention was
drawn in an uniisuea ,
manner to the status of our
South African possessions at the Cape of Good
the refusal of the colonists there to
Hrroe--n ow by
re oei ve even a sir,gle shipload of our criminals (so
great was the dread of Cape Town that it might de-
genei-ate pennanently into the le ere capital of a penal
by the sanguinary
settli mien —noW incidents of a
deactly war with the barbarous natives of Kaffir-
landt. It was thus more recently that the discon.
the Greek population of the
regard of the United
tent manifested by
loni an Islands rivetl;ed
Kin .gdom upon the character and bearing oet
Thus, moreover,
theite 0 the British notectorate.