The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

T "

O X FOR
6, OXFORD-STREET.

Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selecti,ms (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, dr.c., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Ckarles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Hr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
@horns, conducted by Mr, F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French. and
the Brothers Conrad In their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall sixpce ;Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, , 10s. Cd.

HIGH WA-TER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tg DAY.—Morning, sh. 37m.—Afternoon, sh. 58m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 6h. 24m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m.

THS WEATHER.-Srx OFFICE, JUNE 14, 1861,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73—highest since noon yesterday.:
58—lowest this morning and during the night.
76—this day at noon.

BARomETER-30.13; falling.
Wirth—S.-Easterly—fresh; with tine summer weather.

- •
Ntf
t
' - !:-•1)

try

THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE, 14, 1861.

It is gratifying to see that the intelligence of the
Northern States is not wholly overborne by the
anti-Southern fury of the hour. Our readers have
seen that speakers and writers in the North, and
even at Washington, have joined in denouncing
England, with whom they must now associate
France, because our Government acknowledges
the Seceded States as belligerents. A course quite
in accordance with all precedent, as certainly as it
is in accordance with humanity. The object of
such an acknowledgment simply being to spare us
the cruelty of treating Southerners at sea, more
especially with letters of marque, as haste: generic
ILuinani. Both England and France stand per-
fectly neutral ; they forbid privateers with their
prizes from entering the harbours of either country ;
they prohibit their subjects from enlisting, and
refuse to protect them from any consequences of
doing so; but they decidedly refuse to treat the
crews of Mr. JEFFERSON'S privateers as pirates, and
this neutral, yet humane, policy it is which has
called forth such denunciation in the North, and
is spoken of as hostility on our part.
One of the most respectable journals, how-
ever, in New York has thought it time to
put down this unreasonable hot-blooded jar-
gon, and has done it in a style which must
give a quietus to these foolish' talkers. The
writer turns the tables so completely upon the
wrongheads that he shews the opposite course could
only be demanded of our Government, on the
assumption that England might be umpire in the
strife ! If she is required to condemn one side it
implies that she is warranted in judging of the
right and wrong of the quarrel. " If," he says," we
were to insist upon her judging of the contest, we
should admit her right of judging. If she has a right
to decide on this as a question of principle, then
we must consent to her deciding as she may judge
fit, for we cannot insist that she shall form a judg-
raent only on condition of its being in our favour."
Rather hard this for men to digest who took pains
to let Lord LYONS know that his mediation could
not be accepted before he had ever thought of the
offer.

He shows that Southern privateers could only be
regarded as such or as pirates; that England could
not regard the Southern movement as a mere riot
or /local disturbance, and must therefore deal
with both as belligerents. He further shows
that acknowledging the South as belligerents, in-
volves the more important point of acknowledging
the right of blockade on the part of the Northern.
In America this argument has great weight, Since
it must be remembered the Americans, in the case
of the King of NAPLES, asserted the principle that
no power could blockade its own ports ! If, there-
fore, the Americans themselves do not regard the
Sarah as ou t 'of their power—as belligerents to be
vanquished--they could not, on their own principles
blockade the Southern ports !

He further shows, that unless the Southern
privateers are regarded as the ships of belligerents,

the Washington Government must be held
responsible for any insult or violence they