The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

LAST WEEKS OF

ALFRED MELT,O
ERTN'S PROMENADE
CONCS.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.

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The following Vocalists will appear during the Week :--
Mdlle. PAREPA, Mdlle. FLORENCE LANCIA, Mdlle.
LAURA BASTE R, Miss S. COLE, Mr. G. PER REN, and
Mr. WEISS.

BAND OF NEARLY ICO PERFORMERS.
An entire Symphony by a great Master every Evening
this Week.. Overtures, Operatic Selections, Polkas, Quadrilles,
Galops, Waltzes, Songs, Solos, by the principal performers,
4.te.,

To-morrow (WEDNESDAY), a BEETHOVEN NIGHT.
On SATURDAY next a VOLUNTEER NIGHT, when
Beethoven's Battle Symphony will be given.
Commence every Evening at 8. Promenade, ls.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.

'FTTEATRE.ROYAL, HAYMAREET.
Lome, Mr. J. B. Rackstone.
T►f!S EVENING. the performances will commence with
FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX.
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Buckstone,' Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers,
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c.
With THE CRITIC: Mr. C. Mathews.
Toconelude with the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
Commenoe at 7

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,
Mana,er----Mr. Edmund Falconer.
EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezfn,
.f. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
Preceded by, each evening, the new and original farce
entitled THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of Single
Mary 0 'Brady,
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ;
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 tin 5.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manarrer, Mr. B. Webster.
This Theatre will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, September
23, when Mr. and Mra. Dion Boueicault will re-api ear in
THE COLLEEN BAWN.
This Drama will be played for a limited number of nizlits
durinc_r, the preparation of the new American Drama, by Mr.
D. Boucieau,t, entitled THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN
LOUISIANA.
Box-office open on Thursday, Sept. 19.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
31. r. SAM COWELL every Evening* at Nine and a quarter
to Eloven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE,
TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c., by Miss Russell,
Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivo'i, 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.

Musical Diractor, Mr. Jom,,limans.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

T H E

O X F OR D
6, OXFORD-STREET.
EVERY EVENING.

A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boo-
canegra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by
Nils, Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, Morley,
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,
sixpenee; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.

Iman had no rights which a white man was bound to
respect. Mr. NEWDEGATE must, therefore, not
speak of slavery as a polluting accident :
primogeniture, the wicked degradation of the
negro race, and the connected degradation of the
non-slaveholding whites, are related as causo and
effect. Aristocracy and slavery, in America, are
parent and child.
It is a long stride to take from Warwickshire to
Missouri; also, we may be allowed to say, from Mr.
NEWDEGATE to General FREMONT ; yet thither
doth Mr, NEWDEGATE'S remarks and the news of the
day lead us; and with great relief. The proclama-
tion of General FREMONT, which we now have in
full, is worthy of the man. It suggests to us what
America lost when the sleek Pennsylvanians in-
stalled their oily-tongued, hard-hearted BUCHANAN,
as President, instead of the sound-hearted General.
Had he been elected then, before the conspirators
had had four years to conspire for Secession, in the
event of a Free•soiler being placed in the Pre-
sidential Chair, we should have had no
rebellion. The General would have been a second
JACKSON, and have told DAVIS at once that if
he moved against the Union he would hang him.
Had he now been in LINCOLN'S place he would not
for ever have harped upon legal and constitutional
technicalities. If the constitution itself were
threatened he would have dealt with facts, not with
fictions. An American describes LINCOLN'S position
thus :—" It is a lamentable fact that the constitu-
tion of the United States does not unquestionably
recognise the right of American citizens to hold
slaves. Loyal and liberal-minded Americans feel
this ; but, looking upon the PRESIDENT as the
chief servant of the people, not their master, they
know that it is his duty to administer existing laws,
not to make new ones. Mr. LINCOLN cannot,
therefore, be expected to proclaim universal eman-
cipation; but he has done the next thing to it, viz.,
set his face against the farther extension of slavery ;
and be is prepared to oppose it by all constitutional
means. Hence the hatred of those politicians who
seek to perpetuate slavery, to the name and Govern-
ment of Mr. LINCOLN."

Now General FREMONT could not, more than
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, have acted otherwise while
there was no rebellion. What we believe of FRE-
MONT is, that when the South had organised and
armed itself, without the shadow of a constitutional
reason, against the Republic, he would not have
given them the benefit of the constitution while they
were in arms against it. His language would have
been, " Gentlemen, while you are loyal to the consti-
tution I must acknowledge that I am bound by one
of its clauses, bad as I hold it to be, to respect your
claim to your slaves—but if you kick the constitution
overboard, we also kick slavery overboard, and
hence, therefore, we proclaim all your slaves to be
free.

In fact General FREMONT, far away in Missouri,
is doing pretty much as Sir JOHN LAWRENCE did
in the Punjaub, He is acting as pro-consul, and
doing what the situation requires. What cares
he, as CARLYLE would say, for " formulas," He
sees that slaveholders have thrown all things into
anarchy in Missouri, therefore, says he, no more
slaveholding. Forth comes a scheme of martial
law, drawn with admirable clearness ; each man
under it can clearly see the way to the bullet and
the halter, if he likes to risk it. "All persons," he
says, "who shall be taken with arms in their hands
within these lines shall be tried by court-martial, and
if found guilty will be shot. The property, real and
personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who
shall take up arms against the United States, or
who shall be directly proven to have taken active
part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be
confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, ft any
they have, are hereby declared free men."

This last clause has astounded all at Washington ;
the timid quake for Kentucky and Tennessee; the
President would like to disown it, but he dare not
quarrel with FREMONT, while all the bolder and
better spirits, the men of realities, the men
who want a cause worth fighting for, applaud
and rejoice. Instead of speculating ourselves, we
subjoin the remarks of an American New York
correspondent, expressing, as he does, with, we may
presume, better means of judging what we should
expect to be about the truth :—" To return," he
writes, " to FREMONT in Missouri, nearly all the
strength of the rebels is among the slaveholders,
with their relatives and dependants. Where slavery
is strong, there is the rebellion strong. Where
it is weak, the Union men are strong, and this is
the case all over Missouri. Mark how quick this
blow at slavery by FREMONT will subdue rebellion
in the State of Missouri, where at the last accounts
all is anarchy, and confusion, and danger of the
rebellion driving every Union man out of the State.
In Missouri the rebels will not listen to reason.
They will continue war to the knife, until slavery is
destroyed. Then they will be as submissive as they
are harmless. So it will be all through the slave
States. When the rebellion broke out there really
was no idea of interfering with slavery. We com-
menced war to restore the Union, the Constitution,
and our nationality. All this is changed. All
now wish to see the cause of the rebellion
exterminated. This sentiment will become
so powerful that in six months all who oppose
it will be crushed oat. The South has made it
absolutely necessary to abolish slavery, in order to
save Union. This fact, now apparent, will make
millions of Abolitionists. An after question will
arise—what shall be done with the slaves ? One
half would find instant employment in the great
Free States. FREMONT has declared that the
slaves of rebels shall become fr"e. This covers
the whole ground. lam inclined to think that
every slaveholder is a rebel. FREMONT has given
the people a healthy electric shock. It will have
one good effect—it will bring the subject of
African slavery fairly before the people of the states
of Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. The Union
men in those states will now conquer or be con-
quered by slaveowners. True, it will be but a
short contest. It will carry through with it the
most tremendous results. Slavery is doomed in
those states, and it is to be hoped that the state
legislatures will hurry 'it on to its destruction."