The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECRIVIBER 10.

legislation has done and is doing to destroy our
population. A fearful responsibility is thrown upon
us, for we must act." Or imagine BRITANNIA
roused to indignation by such stuff as that with
which THE OTOONOGIVIE brought his amazing
speech of Thursday night to a close, as follows :
" It has also been said that there has been an insult
to the British flag, and I see by the papers that this
has caused very great and natural excitement in
England, and that we are expected to share in that
excitement. Why should we share in that excite-
ment If the people of Ireland have accepted the
British flag as their flag—well, I said 'if ; ' if
they have, I was going to say that then I suppose
they would become gradually excited ; but if they
have not adopted the British flag as the flag of
Ireland, I suppose we shall continue in the blissful
state of resignation in which we are at present.
Fellow-countrymen, I shall not detain you longer,
but I believe I am expressing your opinion, and
also the opinion of the people of Ireland generally,
when I say that we are against aiding England in
a war with the Northern States of America."
JOHN BULL can only have one response to make
to any and every such demonstration as that—
gasping out faintly while he wipes the tears of
laughter from his eyes (like the fat old gentleman
in the pit when LISTON was one night grimacing
him almost into convulsions)—" Take him away,
or he'll be the death of me ! "

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is about
to visit the Holy Land and the East. On Monday next
the prince will leave Cambridge, and on the following
evening a grand entertainment is to be given in his honour
by the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke. On Wednesday,
the 18th, the prince joins the court, and after spending the
Christmas holidays with his august parents, will start for
the regions which from remote ages have presented such
interest and attractions to western Europeans. On his way
to the East the prince will visit Prince Leopold in his
Franco-Italian retreat at Nice.

Lord Macdonald is lying dangerously ill at Set-
trington-hall, near Malton, his lordship's occasional resi-
dence. On Friday morning his lordship was seized with a
fit, and had a second on Saturday. No improvement was
apparent on Sunday.
_ _

The New York papers say that General Have-
lock, son of the General Havelock, of India fame, has been
appointed aide to General 11l'Clellan, with the rank of
colonel, and takes the post of inspector general of cavalry.

The Europa, which took out the instructions to
Lord Lyons on the subject of the Trent steamer, left Queens •
town on the Ist inst. for Halifax; and the Federal Govern-
ment will most probably know the nature of those instruc-
tions to-day or to-morrow. The following are the steamers
which will bring important news from America subse-
quently to the receipt of the instructions in Washington,
viz. :—Tb.o Canada will leave Boston on the lltb, will call
off Cape Race for news on the 13th, and reach Queenstown
on the 22d. The North American will leave Portland on
the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 15th, and reach London-
derry on the 23d. The City of Baltimore will leave New
York on the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 16th, and reach
Queenstown on the 24th. The Bavaria will leave New
York on the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 16th, and
reach Cowes on the 26th. Tho Africa will leave New
Yotk on the 18th, call off Cape Race on the 20th, and
reach Queenstown on the 30th.

THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE—The Right Hon.
T. R. Mowbray addressed a very numerously attended
meeting of his constituents in the Town-hall, Durham, on
Saturday night. In referring to the seizure of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, on board a British vessel, he stigma-
tised this act as an outrage quite unparalleled. In this
case he should offer no opinion upon the precise bearings of
the international law, but ho was sure that the Cabinet of
Lord Palmerston would have acted under a sense of great
responsibilty, and he trusted that the Parliament of Eng-
land would support the Cabinet in that course which their
sense of responsibility to God and their country should
advise them to take. He hoped that no party views would
be allowed to interpose at this most momentous crisis, and
that when Parliament assembled the Irish members would
not meet in the spirit of that letter, which he was sorry to
see had been written by Mr. Smith O'Brien, a man who
owed his life to the clemency of his Sovereign after his
futile insurrection had justly forfeited that life. He trusted,
also, that the representatives of England would not follow
the example of the member for Birmingham, who, whether
in quarrel with Russia or America, always assumed in the
first instance that his own country was in the wrong. (Loud
applause.) But he believed the House of Commons would
be almost unanimous on the question, and that Mr. Bright
would be informed by his constituency at Birmingham that
ho is as little entitled to speak their views as some years
back he was told that he was not entitled to speak the sen-
timents of the men of Manchester. (Loud cheers.) He
hoped the voice of England would be the voice of one man,
and that, come what may, all party differences would be sunk
in the determination to support the honour of our Queen,
and upheld the interests of this great country. (Mach
applause.) _ _

The next advices from America may be expected
by one of the three following steamers, which were to leave
on tho 30th of November—the City of Washington, from
New York for Liverpool; the Saxonia, from New York to
Hamburg, via Southampton ; and the Norwegian, from
Portland to Liverpool. The City of Washington and the
Saxonia, which may be expected about Thursday or Friday,
will bring only two days' later news; but the Norwegian,
which may be looked for to-day or to-morrow, will touch
at Cape Race, and most probably bring telegrams from New
York to the 3d of December, with an outline of the Presi-
dent's Message. The next subsequent steamers will be the
Asia, from New York direct on the 4th of December, and
the Fulton on the 7th. The announcement of the destruc,
tion of the Harvey Birch was taken out by the Quebec and
Montreal steamer of the 21st of November, and the Nor-
wegian, therefore, will perhaps bring accounts of the recep-
tion of that news at New York.
The commercial advices from New York yester-
day state that the speedy approach of financial difficulties
was now becoming a subject of general anticipation. Al-
though, until the closing of the canals from frost, the ship-
ments of grain would continue sufficiently active to prevent
the full pressure °lathe situation from being felt, the advance
in the rate of exchange to 1091 had created much alarm,
the banks, weighted with their present and prospective lia.
bilities for loans to the Government, being especially sensi-
tive to any adverse movement. As the feeling was thus
anxious, while the banks were in expectation probably of a
favourable reply to their proposal, which was brought by
the last steamer to some of the principal London bankers,
for a large advance on the deposit of American securities,
the consternation to ensue when it shall be found not only
that not a shilling can be obtained in that way, but also that
the settlement of the Trent question will not be made de-
pendent on " protract: d negotiations," may be very consi-
derable. Of the total loan of £30,000,000 to bo supplied by
these establishments to the Government, the proportion
already paid was £16,000,000, of which sum the public had,
up to the latest date, taken only £7,110,000, leaving the
banks with £8,890,000 on hand, and £14,000,000 additional
to be taken and provided for in the course of a few weeks.

EXETER HALL.—Mr. Martin has requested us
to announce that the following aro the arrangements for
admission to the grand performance of the Messiah to the
military by the members of the National Choral Society,
at Exeter Hall, on Thursday evening r.ext. The non-
commissioned officers and men of the 2d Battalion Scots
Fusilier Guards to enter in. Exeter-street. The Ist Batta-
lion, the Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), the
Grenadier Guards, and Coldstreams at the Strand entrance.
The officers and holders of reserved seats to enter by the
grand staircase from Exeter-street, not later than 7.15.
THE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS.—At theli•oyal
English Opera, Covent-garden, a pantomime will be pro-
duced, written by Maddison Morton, and in which Mr. W.
H. Payne will be the prominent feature. The theme selected
is Swift's remarkable satire of " Gulliver's Travels," and a
grand transformation scene, by Calcott, is already whispered
to be a stupendous feature. At Drury-lane, which has well
maintained its celebrity for this kind of amusement, there
will be a grotesque burlesque pantomime, by Mr. E. L.
Blanchard, founded on those legendary stories of the nursery
"The House that Jack Built," and " Old Mother Hub-
bard and her Wonderful Deg," and which will be as usual,
magnificently illustrated by Mr. Wm. Beverley. Tho Hay-
market pantomime will be, as usual, furnished by Mr. Buck-
stone himself, entitled "Little Miss Muffott and Little Boy
Blue; or, Harlequin and Old Daddy Long Legs." The
Princess's again advantageously employs the smart pen
of Mr. H. J. Byron, who has founded his pantomime
opening on the adventures of " Whittington and his Cat."
Tho St. James's has a mythological extravaganza by Mr.
Wm. Brough, on the subject of" Perseus and Andromeda."
The Lyceum has enlisted the services of Mr. Leicester
Buckingham, who has based his extravaganza on the story
of "Little Red Riding Hood," Miss Lydia Thompson
being the heroine. The Olympic has a fair extravaganza
written by Mr. Burnand and Mr. Palgrave Simpson. The
Strand is sure to be well furnished with another of Mr.
Byron's pun-crammed burlesques. The subject selected is
"Puss is Boots." Sadler's Wells has an extravaganz
cum-pantomime, written by Mr. L. Blanchard, entitled
" Cherry and Fair Star; or the Singing Apple, the Talking
Bird, and the Dancing Waters." The Surrey pantomime
will be called " Harlequin Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and
the Fiddle ; or Oranges and Lemons, and the Twelve
Dancing Princesses," linking the nursing rhymes with an
effective German Fairy tale. At all the other theatres vast
preparations are being likewise made, and managers are
looking forward to a season which, if only as prosperous as
their several displays of liberality, tact, and energy seem
likely to render it, will be one of the moat remunerative
knoyufor many years,—,Era.