The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS 81.Z.L.

Mr. John Laird says :—ln the various discussions that
have taken place on Sir G. C. Lewis's Bill for the Distri-
bution of Seats, the population of the proposed borough of
Birkenhead is set down at about 24,000. That was the
population of the township of Birkenhead in 1851, but the
actual population of the proposed borough, whic'tt comprises
several townships, is upwards of 51,000, as sb Lown by the
following statement
35,939
Township of Birkenhead 9,607
Township of Tranmere
Township of Claughton ...............
Township of Oxton ................... .
I,Township of Rockferry District ........ 260

to vote in the above . 51,065
the population will be increased by 10,723,
The number of persons qualificl
dis-
trict will be about 5,500.
about 1,500, but,t.as the inhabitants of the
Should Poulton-cum-Seacombe and Wallasey and Lis-
acanrdd
tbheeivnoctesludbedy,
ri object to be included in the borough,and
hdaisvtesc strongly
etn:igil memorial to that effect, it is mos)t likely their
their
wishes will be complied with.
Th®
rapid increase of the townshipof Birkenhead in the
last 40 years is shown in the following
statemel at :
Population in 1821 .
Population in 1831 ******************** 200 A
Population in 1841 '''''''''''
Population in 1851
Population in 186' 24,285
This increase has, 1 ******
35,939
i contnupd oppositic 'gone steadily on, notwithstanding the
tion of the Birk ill by Liverpool interests to the comple.
1828, enhead docks, which were first proposed in

• Parliament, however, decided in 1857 that the iCorpora-
bon of Liverpool should in future be excluded from any
share in their management, and placed the docks on both
sides of tb e Mersey under the management of a new trust,
called the. Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, making it also
e°llll3lllsory on that board. to complete the entire Birken-
head dock works by October, 1863.

When these docks arc; finished they will form the most
extensive and complete, works of the kind in the world, and
this fact, coupled wit/1 the other improvements now in pro-
gress at Birkenhead , cannot fail to increase the importance
and population of '.,hat place in a much greater ratio then
heretofore.

Artillery Volw steer corps in the
Several int, uential gentlemen aro organising an
tniccropolis, which will con-
sist of colonii ,ts who am natives of the West Indies, the
Cape of Good 'rive, Australia, New Zealand, British North
ag other depewlencies of tho crown.

riIIIEA TR ?.-R OYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. 3. 13. Bnakstate.
THIS EVENING, the Performances Will commence with
the Comedy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, ,tc. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE
LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
And THE GALICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by
Messrs. F. Matthew.,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden;
Miss C. Leelercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris.
Followed by THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps.
Concluding with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq

INT EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi
"Census " every Evening.
THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (209th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. kleher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson,
'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucie,ault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Ebnrne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. ehorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

Positively the Last Week of the present Company.
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—
TMS EVENING, the most successful Spectacle ever
produced, MAZEPPA, with splendid scenery and stately
effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders
and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto-
mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced
prices. Doors open at half-past 6.

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

EVERY EVENING,

Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including
Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty
Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston,
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
rope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the followingfavourites
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
mesas. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY.
THE NER ?ES. a Comic Duet, by Messrs. Harvey and
French, EVERI'r EVENING.

T "

O X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selvtions (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Stuart,
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, finish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The followin
Harvey, and French and Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. g•ieg
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall,
Balcony and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ;
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Two DAY.—Morning, 9h. 24m.—Afternoon, 9h. 56m,
To-monnow.-Morning, 10h. 28m.—Afternoon, 11h. 5m

TER WEATHER.—SuN Ormax, Jurrz 18, 1881.

THERMOMETER, IN TIM BEADN.
69—highest since noon yesterday.:
49—lowest this morning and dttring the night.
70—this day at noon.
BAnomrrnn-30.17. ;
WlND—Easterly—fresh ; with fine sunshiny weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1861.

What the Northerns will think of our sending
a few regiments to garrison our Canadian towns
properly, we may well imagine from their unac-
countable indignation with England for the mea-
sures of neutrality which we have adopted.
Among the New York mob, and in the columns
of the New York Herald and Times, edited as
they are by emigrant Irishmen, bitterly hostile
to this country, wo should not be surprised at
anything, however unreasonable and furious,
against the British—but that the intelligent cor-
respondent of a contemporary writing from the
well-educated and half-English city of Boston
should describe the feeling as increasing there, is
very remarkable. In a letter by the last
mail, dated 4th of June, he says :—" The
feeling against England is much on the increase
in this country, and threatens to bring about
a return of those bad old times when it was held to
be the first duty of an American to hate all Eng-
lishmen. The telegraphic report of the royal pro-
clamation of May 13 had a favourable effect, but
the publication of the text of that document has
had quite the contrary effect. It is contended that
the tone and language of the proclamation are in-
sulting to the United States, and that we are
ranked in it with the man-stealers of the Con-
federacy. The debate in the House of Peers on
the proclamation has also given offence; and the
announcement that the British Admiralty were
sending Armstrong guns and other weapons of war
to Canada is construed into a menace against the
American Union. Nor is this feeling an ill-founded
one, for assuredly there is not a man in America
Who thinks of making an attack on Canada, except
as the consequence of a war with England; and
Such a war we no more desire than the Romans
could have wished for a Gaulish invasion when they
had
Hannibal on their hands and Canna3 fresh in
their minds. Men reason that such preparations
are directed. against this country, and that your
Government are making ready for a war that they
regard as in evitable. They may be wrong. I pre-
sume they are; but you might as well expect the
ascendancy of reason in a fever hospital as here,
remembering in what a state of excitement-we have
been living for six or seven months, and that now
our sole business is connected with war, for there is
literally nothing else doing or to be done in either
the Union or Confederacy."
We would charitably believe that the last re-
mark gives the true account of the case, and that
our cousins ;'iavo really lost their heads with ex-
citement. He adds that the people are ready for
anything, and seems to fear that they may get the
upper hand as they did at the First Revo-
lution in 1790, yet speaking, as it were, for
himself, as well as others, he says—" We are nog

conscious of having done anything to deserve the

treatment we have received from your Government,

and it is supposed that you believed that it was a

Over with the Union, or else you wouldn't have

made such haste to endorse the Confederacy." To
Which we may certainly reply that we are not con-

?anions of having endorsed the Confederaey." In-
deed, we know of nothing to which such an expres-
'sion would s,pply unless it were to our having
helm° wledged belligerent rights to the South,
which, we hardly need say, is a totally different
Thing. We need not defend that step either
for our own country or for France, since
the able New York writer whose views we
gave a few days ago, has shown, in the most con-
Vlusivo manner, not only that it was the only view
We could justly take, but also the only one vhich
would justify the Southern blockades, save the
North from responsibility to us for Southern inju-
ries to our commerce, and avoid placing us in the
position of umpires. What we could have done
more, as neutrals, we cannot understand. We
have not denied the right of the North to hang
11,nglishinen if they find them on board pirate
vesF;els, though we more than doubt whether it
du.re treat a Southern privateer as a pirate ; that
their concern;
but we decline ourselves to re-
gard the privAtecrs as pirates. We have forbid-