The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

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Leone, Mr, J, B, Baokstone. . .

T.GIS EVENING, tic performances will comracne.c with
s new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP.
iinekstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Rowe, (to• ; Mrs. Wilkins,
?dm Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
COllll3lOlOB at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, la A. Harris,
TIIIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leelereq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezln, Ryder, Meadows, dr.c. ; Misses
Heath, klsworthy, and R. Leelereq.

NEW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphl

"Censum " every Evenin7.
THIS EV/MING, Ist time of a new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.

After which (lB6th time), THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr.
D. Boncicault, D. Ostler, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
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To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. t.. Toole, Marne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; 31189
Kite Kelly, Miss E. thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.

Doora open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

C ANTERBURY- HAL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.

Proprletor ........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection' from Verdi's new Opera,
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cided success which charactise 1 the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
to ether with a Selection trorn LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
t . W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmins.
Th. Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
it. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, P. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Mirtin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
N., low a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIM" WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TTris DAY.—Morning, 4h. 48m.—Afternoon, sh. 13m,
To-monnow.-Morning, g, sh. 37m.—Afternoon, Gh. 4m,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OPPICZ, APRIL 28, 1861.
THERMOMETBII, IN THII 811A1)11.
39—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this mornintr and during the night. Sharp
frost in the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.10.
WIND—Wea.-North-Westerly— moderato ; with fair
qeat her.

APRIL 20.
THERMOMETER, TN TRP. SWAMI.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAucourrica.-30.23.
Witio North-Easterly—rather fresh; with cloudy
weather,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, 'MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1881.

Another arrival from America brings information
of the President's response to the fall of Fort
Sumter—it is tantamount to a declaration of
war against Rebellion. In this proclamation
which the President specifes by name seven med-
. ing States, and declares that they have now for
some time opposed the due execution of the laws
by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary means, and that he therefore calls
forth the Militia of the States to the aggregate
number of 75,000 men. He also finds in the
present state of affairs an extraordinary occasion,
such as was contemplated by the Constitution, for
summoning a special Congress, which he calls
accordingly—not, however, at once, but for the
4th of July.
This is what he has done. If we ask his object
in all this, he tells us that it is "to maintain the
power, the integrity, and the existence of our
national Union, and the perpetuity of popular Go-
vernment, and to redress wrongs already long
enough endured. That his first practical effort
will ~erohably be to repossess the forts, places, ,
anti property which have been seized from the
union," in doing which all possible care will be
taken to avoid injury to property and to all
peaceable persons, Those who have entered into
the combinations denounced by the proclamation
are warned to retire peaceably from them within
twenty days from its date, (the 15th of April.)
His purpose in calling the Congress together is " to
consider and determine such measures, as in their
wisdom the public safety and interest may seem
to demand.
Thus, as far as the words of a solemn public docu-
ment are concerned, war is declared ; the 75,000
militia area to suppress said combinations, and to
cause the laws to be duly executed," and with the
halting *.word " probably," the reconquest of the
forts, and regaining of all federal property is
announced as one of the first measures to be at-
tempted. Looking impartially at all the circum-
stances, there seems to have been a desire on each
side to provoke or tempt the other to be the first
to commence war. If it were so, Mr. LINCOLN has
been the cleverer, for he has led the Southerns
across the American Ticino, and they have to bear
the blame of firing the first shot, with, however,
the unparalleled result of killing, almost of wound-
ing, none on either side. The blood of Federal
troops has not been shed, but a federal fort is in the
hands of the Confederation. The commencement
of the war wants, happily, one of the most irritat-
ing things in such cases ; yet, it was as truly an
outrage on the Flag of the Union; and a declara-
tion of war on the part of the Seceders, as if the
garrison had been, as all M. LAMARTINE'S defeated
armies were, a dprimafpfl."
it in this light. That the defeat was bloodless, was
accident, or a special Providence, according to one's
creed; that the United States have been defeated in
a petty enc‘mnter, is the undeniable fact, and the
Ruler, for the time being, of the United States

prepares to redress the disgrace and the wrong.
There is something, however, in the general tone
of the proclamation which suggests the possibility
that immediate action is not likely. Congress was

not to assemble for seven or eight weeks ; and the
threat of repossessing himself of the forts, &c., is,

as we have seen, introduded with a qualifying ex-
pression. Mr. LINCOLN may only intend to place
himself in the formal position which the attack on
the fort required, and may especially have had in
Niew the threatened attack on Washington itself.
kould ruck an act be ventured by the Southerners,
hPare desperate enough for almost anything,
and , indeed, we might expect a long, exhausting, bl
13°43' strife, which would enfeeble the entire
States, and •
end in a rising of the slaves and the
extermination or Possibly
flight of the greater part
of the Southern
-whites. It would infuriate the
North, and pas,io
n would overpower every pru-
ofntial consideration Even as it is, the spirit of
no North is rising fea,rto
ly. Perhaps one of the'
most striking indications of this is, that Senator
DOUGLAS, Mr. I.INtOLN'S antagonist called on him,
and after rally avowing his political differences to
be as decided as ever) told theTresident that he was
Prepared to sustain
him in all his constitutional (
efforts to preserve the
Union ; that a firm policy
and prompt action were necessary ; that the capital
was in danger, and Must be protected at all hazards
and at any cost, and DOUGLAS' friends are said to
rejoice in the course which he has taken. The-
North, We are told, will be as a unit in the support