The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-02 00:00:00

THE 0 X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and
Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoocanef,)ra," by the entire
Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
En derssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain-
ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randal:, Harvey
and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL.
64:1. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tilts DAY.—Morning, 12h. 56m.—Afternoon, lh. 18m.
TO-MOnuow.-Morn'ng, Ih. 42m.—Afternoon, 2h. Om.

THE WEATHER.—Sint OFFICE, NOVEMBER 2, 1861.1
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45-Idighest- since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
39—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.30.
WrNp.--North-Westerly ; fresh and cold. There was a
heavy fall of snow this morning ; the flakes were very large,
some of them showing a diameter of two inches, and even
larger.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1861.

What a windfall is America to our Autumn
speakers ! Perhaps they will return the compliment,
and tell us that Autumn editors too are not sorry
to have a standing dish of which all their readers
are disposed to taste. Well, be it so—but it must
be owned that our Tory speakers seem to relish the
American quarrel amizingly. It is a text for
harangues without end on the blessings of English
Institutions and the dangers of democracy ; nor do
we wonder they should preach from it at such length
seeing that their most dreaded radical opponents
have been wont to laud American democracy far
beyond what it seemed to merit, even while the
thirty-four States were a Union:

There may, indeed, be little in it, yet the Tories
have at least a capital stone to pelt with, and we
see how gladly they avail themselves of it. At
Worcester, for instance, Sir JOIIN PAKINGTON and
the Earl of SHREWSBURY had it all their own
way. It was the meeting of the Conservative
Association. The Tories had been making unusual
efforts to turn the scale in their favour on the
Register. They have so far succeeded, that
they think they have now a fair chance.
They have fixed on their candidate, and he was
present with all the modest and hopeful blushes
of the preliminary wooing, while looking forward
to a happy marriage at the next election. Of
course, at such a time, the failure of American
democracy was a most seasonable topic. When
the Earl of SHREWSBURY responded to the toast
of " The House of Lords," after all the scarifying
wounds left by Mr. BRIGHT, it must have been
as soothing as Holloway's ointment itself
to apply the American unguent, and to tell his
Conservative supporters that " in America they
saw Democracy on its trial, and they saw how it
had failed. He was afraid the result would show
that the separation of the two great sections of
that country was inevitable, and those who lived
long enough would, in his opinion, see an aristo-
cracy established in America; he would not say
an aristocracy of dukes and earls, but an aristo-
cracy of some sort or other, so great was the neces-
sity of h taring a middle state between democracy
and despotism."

Was it modesty:or pride, or intellectuality, that
neralised the future class which is to save Ame-
ricaaribtocracy of some sort or other." It
is philosophical to N iew things under theire a
b
mostit
general aspect, and perhaps erhap; the Earl may b
of a philosopher It
set forth the English
aristocracy
would be modest too, not to
blelone, and to suppose th as the only possi-
claims to the high poiBitionatoftere might be other
h forming
a part of the
Legislative balance wheel than that of being their
fathers' sons. We suspect, however
kind of mingled pride in Titular A'nitht at it was a
ocr
recollection that such a thing would n:r 13, and
ginated spontaneously by people in their sobere poli-
ticaler senses, which called forth the remarkAgreat French infidel declared that if there were no
GOD it would he necessary to make one ; and the
Earl's creed is of the same cast—if there be no aris-
tocracy you must create one somehow, or all will
go to rain. Now in America it was plain enough
that Dukes and Earls could never come into exist-
ence, except indeed by the Darwinian process of
development—the political gorillas of democracy
dropping one hideous feature after another, till at
length the perfect earl or duke, came forth from the
man in the course of ages. That, however,
would be a distant time to wait for; so, some kind of
aristocracy America must produce, if it would exist
as a nation at all. England, however,
enjoyed the
great blessing already, and, •
according to his lord-
,3lllP 9
account a •
aioxise appreciated it, as she ought. "The
Lords (he said) was an institution highly