The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
111 MS EVENING, will be performed (3d time) the new
and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen
Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin. Charles
Selby, Edmun Falconer ; M. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston. _ _

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To conclude with GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy,
Mrs. St. Henry.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.
Acting Manager—Mr. P. B. Chatterton.

RO Y A PRlNCESS'SliieggeeandManager.
A.
TIT II Es ATRE.—
'l' lII'S EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.

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Alter which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ-
ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
characters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Wid-
dlcombe, Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelclercq, hiss Angle, and
Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with a new Transatlanje Rztratag•anza,
PO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John Brougham, Mr. A. Harris,
4te.

EW THRATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL-
LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Messrs.
D. N'lsher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (274th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. tioneicault, S. Emery, D. Fisher, Eburne, Romer, C. J.
Smith, Mrs. Bone'eau% Miss VV oolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Lewis.

To conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona.
THIS EVENING, Two New Pieces, ATAR GULL and
CAMELIA, In which Mdlle. di Rhona will Dance two Natio-
nal Dances. First appearance of Mr. Hall on his Magic
Bugle.
Doors open at half-past 6—CommenCe at Seven.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Great success of 3i r. SAM COWELL'S New Song, " THE
HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," which will be repeated
every evening,
Grand Selections from
STRADELLA, LA TRAVIATA, and DINORAH
By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
with a powerful Chorus.
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer
Mr. LEVY.
The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr.
Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves), and
Miss Harriet Coveney
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

111-1 E OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

tuber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and
Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccanegra," by the entire
Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
Euderssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic
Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran-
dall, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and
SAM COW ELL. Hall, tid. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private
Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. sm.—Afternoon, 10h. 39m.
To4toßßow. -Morning, Ilh. 9m.—Afternoon, 11h. 44m.

THE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, NOVEMBER 12, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—!..ighest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.80.
WlND—South-Easterly; light, with foggy, rainy, dirty
weather.

connexion with us. It is not enough that their
imports should have dwindled down under the
Morrill Tarriff and the war, from £18,000,000 to
£7,000,000 ; but her manufacturers are actually
grumbling a second time, because the Government
has sent orders for woollen goods to clothe the
troops with in cold weather. The unfortunate
Government is obliged to explain that it has spent
in this way in England not £5,000,000, but only
£160,000; that this was to supply pressing wants;
that recruiting must stop if the clothing could
not be obtained; that enlistments were discour-
aged more by the want of clothing than by
the want of money; that the department would
would be glad to pay them cash if it could but have
the clothes; and that " could 150,000 suits of cloth-
ing, overcoats, coats, and pantaloons" be furnished
him that day, it would not be more than he needed.
A shocking thing, however, to give the Yorkshire
Britishers a turn—better that the soldiers die off a
little of fever and cold.

But if the North has such work to clothe and
equip its army, what must be the case with the
South. The South wants money, and must want,
we should think, the means to clothe its men, even
if it had money to pay for them. The letter of Mr.
MEmmiNGEß,:the chief of the Southern Treasury,
is conclusive proof of the straits to which
the South is driven. Specie it has none.
Its Treasury notes have become the circula-
tion of the country, but it understands
that it eannot issue these indefinitely without
doubling the prices of everything, and that against
itself—it asks therefore for subscriptions from the
planter, to be guaranteed by the factor, who, some
day, is to sell their cotton, and the Government,
meanwhile, is to use the credit ! It is, of course, as
useless to ask the planters for money as to ask their
niggers for it. They are, therefore, to subscribe—
promises to pay when their cotton is sold ! Which
may be when, after two or three years' war,
all the rest of the world is pouring in its
cheap supplies to European factories, and
the value will be reduced by at least
half. How under such circumstances will the
South procure supplies of arms and manufactures
from Europe. It has none of its own,—it has no
money to buy with,—it can send no produce in
exchange. The Southerners may live without
luxuries, but how they will clothe themselves, and
clothe and arm their troops, it is difficult to under-
stand. If they go on as they now do, they will
burn indeed but little powder, but, when once
fighting begins to be general, it would seem as if
the exhausted stores of ammunition could not be
replaced.

While the LORD MAYOR was entertaining on
Saturday evening the diplomatic corps, and among
them the American representavive, that is the re-
presentative really of the States north of the Poto-
mac, the Fishmongers' Company were entertaining
the Hon. Mr. DUDLEY MANN and Mr. W. L.
YANCEY, the Commissioners from the Southern
States, and welcoming the speech of the latter with
hearty cheers. In returning thanks for a compli-

The American papers are filled with accounts of mentary toast, he warmly acknowledged the
small actions and other unimposing details which, promptitude of England in treating with at least
yet taken as a whole, give us a picture with lights justice :
" The name of American," he observed, "no longer
and shades worth looking at. The great expedi- represents a united people. There exists now two
tion we hive already adverted to, and indicated American nationalities—the Confederates and the Federal
Charleston as the port, the capture of which would Americans. I—as you may, perhaps, be aware—am a Con-
create the greatest "sensation" in the North, federate, or—as the Federal American, unmindful of the
although other points might equally serve the chief character of
But the
forefathers, disdainfully terms me,
object assigned to the project. Possibly, after all, justice and the sense of right of this great
agorveerne ment, promptly coincided in by France, and Spain,
as North Carolina is so much better affected to-
speedily wiped out that stigma from our brows, and my
wards the Union than its Southern namesake, and
countrymen are acknowledged here, at least, to be bellige-
lies so much nearer Richmond and the Potomac, rents. Though indebted to an enlarged and enlightened'
the object may be to place a force where it shall view of the public law, and not to the mere grace or favour of
more immediately threaten BEAUREGARD'S rear. England for this acknowledgment of our unquestionable
One county in North Carolina is already reported rights and locus standi, I must freely express here to-night
that deep sense of thankfulness, which I am sure all my
to have declared for the Union and against
countrymen feel, for its early public avowal—" Bis dat qui
Southern tyranny; but then it is pretty secure
under the guns of Fort Hatteras. Still, the fact cite dat."
seems to indicate that there is strong anti Secession Mr. ADAMS at the Guildhall did not obtain half
such cheers—he could tell of no favour we have
feeling in North Carolina ; it was, indeed, as slow
shown the North, though, we think, he might have
to secede as South Carolina was prompt to do so.
done so. To put up, as France and England do,
Two small successes, as reported, throw a
with the blockade of what may almost be described
streak of light on the Federal side. From Missouri
as the staff of life for millions of their inhabitants,
we hear of a gallant charge of 150 Federals on
is no small self-denial, and that when it would have
2,000 Confederates posted at Springfield, the latter
been perfectly easy to keep every S outhern port open,
being driven out of the town, and the former
and to have sunk the whole American navy in a
falling back on their reserves at night, not deem-
ing themselves strong enough to be secure in the trice if they had interfered. Mr. YA.NCEY, how-
ever, was grateful for a much smaller favour, and
town. Another was at Romney, Virginia, con- his heartiness in acknowledging it contrasts
siderably to the west of Harper's Ferry, on a strangely with the rudeness of Mr. SEWARD, and
branch of the Potomac. Of the numbers engaged
the exclusive policy of his manufacturers and
we are not told, but the rout is said to have been
complete, with the loss to the enemy of everything. their MORRILL tariff. He went on from the
These have been, at last, two successful attacks, pleasing text to acknowledge its accordance with
But the reverse at Edward's Ferry seems to be
inherited blessings :
From no other power could it have come so gracefully.
painfully felt everywhere. Our first observations
In this—" the old country"—the principle of self-govern-
on the apparent bad generalship, so far as we could ment is recognised and practised, however blended with the
gather from the first accounts, are quite confirmed prerogative of the Crown and the privileges of the aristo -
by the general opinion in America. The men cracy.:; To your institutions Americans are indebted for the
fought well ; but it seems there can be LUCANS chief of those vital principles which have caused them to
and CARDIGANS under a democracy as well as under style the republic—
an aristocracy.
"The land of the fr:e
And the home of the oppressed."
Our ambassador does not seem to be alone in his Such invaluable rights as the old English writ of habeas
complaints of illegality. Such is the state of corpus, of a speedy trial by jury, of freedom of speech and
things in Washington and the district of Columbia, freedom of the press, are the main pillars of American con-
that a judge has had sentinels placed at his door stitutional liberty; and lam both happy and proud to say
are observed at least throughout the Confederate American
because he issued a writ of habeas corpus to the
states as vital and practical rights, even during their stern,
provost-marshal to produce the body of a minor
struggles to preserve their "national life."
whose friends claimed him in due course of law.
The tacit sarcasm on the suspenders of the
The President has since issued his proclamation of Habeas Corpus in the North was well deserved
martial-law in Columbia, the provost-marshal com- but ought not some members of the Worshipful
plied with this writ, but the soldier will be sole Company of Fishmongers to have asked him how
judge in future. The Government is still as anxious a Confederacy, which declares that " its corner
as ever to:prevent the war from becoming one for stone is slavery," can be called
abolition. It has issued an order to the Generals, " The land of the free."
recognizing the fact that as the circumstances will This is, we believe, the first Southern speech deli-
be so diverse, much must be left to their vered on this side the water—the first authentic
discretion, but generally they are to avail themselves declaration by an official man here, of
of the proffered help of "persons held to service Southern views of their own position.
by the laws of any state," though they are to avoid It is worthy, therefore, more than usual attention
anything like a general military arming. Other- —here dismissing, as he says, all the past, is their
wise slaves may be employed in whatever way will
present view of their case—territory, population,
be most serviceable for the war, and loyal masters
and spscial interests are what he chiefly insists on.
are to be assured of full compensation. Secretary "I feel," he said, "how unbecoming itwould be in me to in-
CAMERON adds explicitly that this course is pursued trude upon such an occasion as the present any merely partisan
that all persons disposed to aid the Union may be views of the causes which have broken up the late Federal
able to do so, while "interference with the social Union. No matter what they may have been, one thing is clear
and that is that the contest now going on is upon the part of systems of local institutions of the States" is avoided,
except such interference as the course of the war the people of the Confederate states for the right to
govern themselves and to resist subjugation by the
renders needful, " which a restoration of peaceful North. They occupy a territory as large as England,
relations to the Union will immediately remove !" France, Spain, and Austria together—they are ten millions
Such is LINCOLN'S last on slavery; the peace in number—they are chiefly producers of important raw
he would make is to rivet its fetters, to materials, and buyers of every species of manufactured
furnish it the guarantee of the power of the whole
Union, and to reconstitute a Slave Republic. "The goods. Their pursuits, soil, climate, and production, are
.
Union and Slavery," is the flag he persistently die- totally different from those of the North. They think it
their interest to buy where they can buy cheapest and to
the war may engulph them')
plays.
sell where they can sell dearest. In all this the North differs
How can we but r
otoccelo from them, and now makes war upon us to enforce
It see the supremacy of their mistaken ideas and selfish interests."
seems to be true that the hero of Caprera
letter is ad-
d declared in favour of the North • has
both?
It devoutly that
We acknowledge Mr. YANCEY to be in the right
dressed to the States' Consul at Antwer
not doubt the speedy triumph of the —ll. here—the North is not fighting for any noble object
e does —certainly not to rid the Union of the institution
he cannot now go over, but, if the war continues,
by
forth, la 6°117 all England loathes, and which, would the South
promises he will overcome all obstacles and " hasten abolish it, would procure her own recognition, voted
uphold slavery
throughout this country—nothing
to the defence of a people who are so dear to him." of the acclamation
sort—
Will North is as determined to
Will they be so when the General reads the ver
as theambitionSouth— oift
Empire,fights and for
last order of General CAMERON to which we have nothing in the Iworld, but
just adverted. a selfish tariff.
If Americans do not become very dear to us, the He takes as might be expected, a hopeful view of
fault will certainly not be theirs. What they can their carrying on the struggle--
;$ In defence of their liberties and sovereign
do they are doing to cut all possible commercial

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 1861.