The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

Doors open at half past 6—Commenoe at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand SLlectlon from Verdi's new Opera,
ITN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
(First produced in England at this Establishment),
With a Chorus of Forty Voices.
Also, Verdi's IL COItSARO, never performed at any
other Concerts.
Solos on the Cornet-a-liston, by Mr. Levy.
The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in
their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his
talented lit,le Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol-
lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS.

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yr. 'l..Ev4, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selecti ms (01 the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signo• Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, 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, sixpence ; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIR DAY.—Morning, 55. 6m.—Afternoon. sh. 24m.
To-m.O Ritow.-Morning. sh. 48m.—Afternoon. sh. 14m.

TUB WEATHER.—Strs OPFICE, MAY 15, 1361.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.46.
Wtim—North-Westerly—light ; with fine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1861.

The dreadful fact of a sanguinary Civil War
having broken out between the Northern and
Southern States of the Great American Republic
has now been formally notified to Her Britannic
MAJESTY'S subjects by a Royal Proclamation. This
important document we yesterday transferred im-
mediately to our own columns from: those of the
London Gazette of last evening. Our readers have
consequently enjoyed the opportunity of weighing
well the purport of every notable sentence in this
proclamation since the date of its first appearance.
The circumstance that the Proclamation here refer-
ring, in the first place, to the reality of these most
lamentable Hostilities in America, and, in the next
place, to the "vexed question" not unnaturally aris-
ing out of them, in regard to the Probabilities of
Foreign Enlistment—the circumstance that this
Royal Proclamation addressed to all her MAJESTY'S
subjects, in the name of our beloved SOVEREIGN, is
essentially a Proclamation of Neutrality—comes

before the world, IN e cannot but think, as a happy
pendant, and even, we might say, as a direct and
logical corollary to the policy of non-intervention,
latterly adopted in regard to the nations of Europe
by the British Government. A s a Proclamation
of Neutrality—it is a document almost, but not
quite, unprecedented in the annals of our own
empire—an empire peopled by one of the most
warlike and conquering of all the races of Christen-
dom. It is a Proclamation of Neutrality, in point