The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME.",
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c.
To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
BaWngham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa. Virginius, Mr. Charles Young.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, fki ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Coot,, his Farewell Season.

THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production,
by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the
principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General.
To be followed by New and Transcendant Equestrian Talent
of Young Menoni, supereminent in his somersaults and inap-
proachable—The brilliant Lady Rider, Miss Emily Cooke—
Tne Wonderfully-schooled Dogs and Monkeys, and Intelli-
gent Elephant—Amazing lErial Rondines by John Henry
Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind
Man's Buff—Vaulting Ambition, by the treble-headed Won-
ders—Sig. Delavanti and his admirable Protegees, varied by
those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls.

To commence at 7.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public-in England at these Con-
certs). _ _

And a Grand Se-ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interestinq Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is ope L from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
34—highest since noon yesterday.
30—lowest this morning and during the night.
32—this day at-noon.

BAROMETER-29.68.
WIND, West-North-Westerly ; light, with very cold
weather, and enow.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1859.

The noblest-hearted of modern Americans—old.
BROWN, of Ossowatomie—was executed on the
2d of this month. Though it was said that he
was reprieved till the 16th, this was again contra-
dicted; and ~ve now learn that the gallant old
man no more. Virginia has converted the enthu-
siast for liberty into a hero, and exposed to all the
world the welkness of the Southern States of Ame-
rica. The days will certainly come when " Old
BROWN" will be remembered by emancipated Ame-
ricans as a WALL.IcE, or a TELL, or a WASHINGTON
if they prefer it--when a statue will be erected to
his memory, and when the orators who shall cele-
brate the anniversary of a better Declaration of In-
dependence than their last, will elicit deafen-
iEg cheers by reciting the exploits of the
murdered Liberator. Equally will the cowardice
of Virginian slaveholders be recalled as one
of the warnings to American youth, that a bad
cause can destroy the courage even of Americans.
We know of nothing, indeed, more degrading,
and in that way instructive, than the manner in
which the Southerners have quaked and trembled
before weakness itself. For three whole days
BROWN and his seventeen comrades held a whole city
and State at bay ! A force, as one of their best
orators told them, which would have been put down
at once by any small town in the Northern States,
actually terrified a whole State, and neighbouring
States too, where the same cause of fear existed.
Militia and artillery and volunteers of all sorts were
summoned to the scene of action—all to reduce to
submissioa seventeen men !

And that is not all. They cannot be satisfied
without blood; but they are terrified at the Nemesis
which threatens on every side. Let our readers
only glance at the vast military preparations to
prevent a rescue—the ingenious arrangements to
prevent his noble old voice from being heard in his
last moments—the crowding of " volunteers" in the
cause of slavery and of murdering a Puritan abo-
litionist—and, were it not all associated with a fran-
tic earnestness to shed the blood of one of whom
Americans are not worthy, we should laugh unre-
strainedly.

But the lesson as to the condition of the Southern
American States is unmistakeable. Austria herself
cannot be more at fault in Hungary and Venetia
than these men in the Southern States. She could
execute a patriot or two there at any time without
half these precautions. The cowardice which trem-
bled at the seventeen now trembles at the blood-
shedding of the few fettered and wounded survivors.
A rescue is feared ! The ordinary police of the
place is insufficient to allay their fears. There are
—for we cannot suppose Virginians would make
themselves needlessly a laughing-stock to the world
—there aro such a host of sympathisers with the
brave old man, that Virginia cannot wrench from