The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

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
r ope, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.
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The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

TH E OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from "Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the 11 erves),
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpense ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. ed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tifis DAY.—Morning, sh. sm.—Afternoon, sh. 26m.
To-mohaow.-Morning, 512. 46m.—Afternoon, 7.6 h. 6m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFYICE, JuNE 27, Is6l.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
71—highest since noon yesterday.:
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.75.
WlND—Northerly ; light, with some rain, and fine
weather now and then.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1861.

Mr. COBDEN, though a man of the strongest
common sense, must yet be practically regarded as
a special pleader. And this arises from the very
opposite reason, morally, to that which we assign
for special pleading—the strength of his convic-
tions. Neither his oppolents nor his supporters
have ever doubted the sincerity of every sentence
he has uttered ; but they have also never doubted
that, :while with the most unswerving and
unexaggerated truthfulness he describes things as
he sees them, he sees them but in one direction. Free-
trade is in the foreground of his prospect, and the
softened tints of universal peace extend to his
horizon. All the facts belonging to the first he
lives and moves amongst. Some of them he has
created. Few of them do not owe some part of
their completeness and finish to his exertions. He
is quite at home there ; and if we must act, in
regard to them, on faith, to no living man would
Englishmen rather commit themselves than to
RICHARD COBDEN.

He himself, however, well knows that in regard
to the other topic—Peace—they could not so con-
fidingly surrender themselves to his guidance.
Peaceful intentions on the part of other countries ;
the prospect of peace between other nations and
between them and us ; the policy, diplomatic and
defensive, best calculated to preserve peace—on
such subjects as these we cannot so safely rely on
the great free trader. He looks at them all with a
free-trader's eye. He knows, as we all know, that
trade is a most efficient bond of peace, and, unable
to divert his vision to any other near prospect, the
more distant one is, to him, always of the same
character. He denies the existence of the clouds,
and the threatening signs of atmospheric electricity,
because he has no time to look at them. lie can be
in France ; can live in the midst of 600,000
armed men ; men who are longing for a battle
somewhere, anywhere ; can hear the noise of the
dockyards building a fleet, absardly large in pro-
portion to the national marine of the country, and
he perceives nothing more than he would in 600,000
policemen, and in the echo of mercantile ship-
building. He was in France negotiating a treaty
of comme rce;—nations trading reciprocally can no
more afford to quarrel than private manufacturers
and their customers ; therefore, all must b e ringght.
nothinothißayonets and iron-plated frigates mean
but defen ce—indeed they may be only so many bits
of display r —guards of honour, simply indicating the
rank of La Belle France among the nations. They
have no r. sore to do with blood, least of all with
attack on the peaceful, than the Guards which turn
out in honour of our Queen on State occasions.
But Mr. COBDEN must be as patient with us, as
he used to be with Chartists and farmers, if we
look around us a little more than he does. We
cordially 'congratulate him on his popularity in the
borough he represents ; we read with pleasure of
the vast r umber who assembled to hear him ; we
sympathii oe with the crowd, whom he with diffi-
culty prei •ented from taking the place of the horses
which dre w his carriage; but we still imagine that
a resoluti on which should have been a logical
sequel to :his speech would have met with doubtful
acceptance from the four thousand who squeezed
themselve s into the room. That they can confide
in him as their representative, that they approved
his comma 'reial policy, that he deserved the thanks
of the co untry for his treaty—all this would be
voted for by, perhaps, all parties and all persons
in the mat ,ufacturing town of Rochdale. But, sup-
pose it hael been put to the thousands before him
as a resol htion—" That this meeting believes that
inbuildinso large a fleet and maintaining an
army twit :e as great as her frontier defence re-
quires, Fx ante has s never contemplated anything
hostile to this coil )1
nirY —would not a large number
of hands h ave declined tosanction it; and unless from
unwilling ness to disturb uaaniraity on a festive
occasion, vould not a considerable number in Mr.
COBDEN'S own borough have been held up against it.
To be ;sure, Rochdale seems not to have in it
much of f he martial spirit, or of the pro patria more
spirit. It declined to establish a volunteer rifle corps,
and received due praise for it from Air. COBDEN.

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