The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
,JLIU COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm.

Harrison, Sole Lessees.

THIS EVENING (first time) THE TOY MAKER. Mr.
Henry Haigh, G. Pyrie ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirl-
Wall,
After which, at Eight o'clock, LURLINE. 31180 L. Pyne,
Mesdames Jessie M'Lean and Thirlwall ; Messrs. Santley.
H. Corri, C. Lyall, ratey, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven o'clock.

The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for
booking-, or fees to Box-keepers.

Sta-„re-M an %ger, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- Manager, Mr.
Edward Murray.

19-I.d EA THE. ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lesmee, Mr. J. B. Bactstone.
THIS EVENIN(T, the performances will commence with
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun-
dreary, Mr. S,)thern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C:
Young,
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Mank,Yer—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
'l' 1 lIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy,
Mrs. St. Henry.
After which, at a quarter to Eight (9th time) the new
and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen
Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles
BPlby, Edmun Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston.

Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Ch itterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at halt-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE....
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
Tills EVENING, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-
SOR. Sir John Falstaff', Mr. Ryder (his first appearance in
that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, A. Widdicomb, &e.
To conclude with BLUE JACKETS.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL
1 Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEB -tEAKER.
31r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Mis 3 Woolgar.
Atter which, the new drama, entitled TEE OCTOROON;
or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ' • written by the author of "The
Colleen Bawn," and in which Mr. and Mrs. D. Botteicaalt will
appear. A New Musical Introduction has been kindly pre-
sented by Sicatior Benedict, and will be performed by the
Orchestra, which has been re-organised, and will be con-
ducted by Mr. Riviere, by whom the incidental music has
been selected and composed. The following artists will make
their 2d appearance:-31r. G. Jamison, from the Winter-
garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea-
tres • and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. The other prin-
cipal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs.
Emery, Stephenson Billinc,,ton, Paul Bedford, Romer, Mrs.
Killington, Mrs. Marston, Sze., &c. Entirely new scenery by
Messrs. Dalby and Thompson.

To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole,
Miss K. Kelly, .tc.
Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona.
THIS EVENING, to commence with ATAR GULL,
Messrs. Sinclair, Graham, Butler, D. James, Worboys, d;0.;
Misses Clifford and Terry.
After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear In CAMELIA,
and Dance two National Dances.
Seventh appearance of Mr. Hall, who will perform Two
Bolos on his Magic Bugle.
Box-office open from 11 to 5.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven.

C kNTERBURY HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

MR. SAM COWELL EVERY EVENING, at len o'clock,
jn his New Songs, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT,"
and " THE WHOLE HOG OR NONE" (written ex-
pressly for him).

Grand Selections from
STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA,

By Miss Russell, Migs Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
with a powerful Chorus.

Tho Comic department comprises all the principal
favourites of the day, v'z. : Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall,
in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;"
Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and
his talented son, the best neg,ro de'ineators; and Miss
Harriet Covcncy

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission —Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

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

EVERY EVENING.

Anber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and
Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccanor.r,ra," by the entire
Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
16..derssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic
Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran-
dal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and
SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private
Boxes, lOs. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 48m.—Afternoon, 3h. sm.
To-mounow.-Morning, 3h. 22m.—Afternoon, 3h. 36m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Novintszit 19, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
32 —'s ighest since noon yesterday.
24 —lowest this morning and during the night.
35 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.51; a great rise.
lirtwn—South-Westerly; light, with fine, yet bitter
frosty weather.

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 1861.

A crisis has really come at last for President
LINCOLN and the Free States. The Government
mry tide over it without any remarkable move.
ment, but it is to the last degree improbable. The
promised month of action has passed away, the
month of compulsory inaction in a country deluged
in January is very near, and retirement into winter
quarters without a single retrieving blow struck,
while crushing expenses were going on, must break
up the confidence of the Northerns in their Go-
vernment, and destroy their harmony among them-
selves.

The great Expedition is the card now played,
how successfully we must learn before long. It is
hardly reasonable, however, to expect from it any
such action as will materially affect the fortunes of
the war. A larger success of the Cape Hatteras style
would appease Northern craving for a while, but
we cannot yet imagine any which would materially
affect the strategic position of things. Indeed, if
the expedition were meant to bear directly on the
position of the rebel army at Manassas, Fort
Monroe, which the North already holds, ought to
hive been the coast basis of operations. We rather
suspect, therefore, that the Armada of the North is
destined for flash work, rather than for a move-
ment of substantial importance. Of course a short
time may agreeably disappoint us all, but things
look like it.

The authorities evidently reel, themselves, that
they must do something. General M'CLELLAN,
At Washington, and Mr. Secretary CAMERON, at
New York, both speak in the same tone. The
General asserts that the war cannot be long,
although it may be desperate ; which, if it means
anything, means that he is preparing for a decisive
battle, The Secretary being engaged in a loan
hunt, assures them of victory on the authority of
the General who would pledge his life on it only
they must be patient till he had completed his pre-
parations. Evidently, the pu% lie impatience presses
on both the civil and military authorities. Well it
may. Hitherto the North has known little but re-
verses along the thousand miles of its military ope-
rations. At this moment it is held in check from
Fort Monroe on the Atlantic coast to Lexington on
the Missouri. In Missuuri and Kentucky it is
almost beaten ; in Virginia it dares not advance be-
yond sight of 'the river. The Capital is belea
guered, and dares not venture even on a sally, or if
it makes one is utterly routed; while, though an
armada can sail for the South, the Confederates
hold with their batteries the whole stream of the
Potomac, and actually are preventing the sup-
ply, by sea, of Washington itself. The Northern
army with the large city it defends are thrown upon
'what a single line of rails can bring them ! We
are told that even coals are becoming a luxury.
The South is blockading the North! A move,
therqfore, there must be soon.
The removal of General
the occasion
et
grave FREMONT may be also
difficulties. It is said the
slaveholders in -K
tackY favourable to the.Unioll

did not like him. It is certain, however, that he
was very popular in the West, and the rumour may
prove true that there they would rather make him
dictator than continue under the reign of a pro-
slavery and inefficient President. There can be no
doubt that FREMONT'S chief offence at Washington
is his Anti-slavery principles, and this brings out
afresh the grand blunder or crime of LINCOLN, or
rather of his supporters. The President, no doubt,
follows popular feeling—that feeling in the
North is strongly against emancipation ; not only
this treatment of FREMONT, but the precise
instructions of Mr. CAMERON to the new expedition
prove this. They must therefore take the conse-
quences—which are separation.

When anticipating, at the beginning, as-
sured victory for the North, we did not think
the North as foolish as it is criminal. We
well knew its bitter and cruel hatred of the
negro, but we did suppose it would make the
Southern negroes its allies, not its enemies. It
now appears that its contempt and hatred of negroes
is so great, that, though conquest is impossible
without their aid, that aid will not be accepted.
Let the North, therefore, bear its righteous punish-
ment. Let it lose the Union. Let it become for
perpetuity what it is now, a clique of negro-
hating and protectionist States, saddled with a
heavy debt. We now feel no pity for it: It has
disappointed our best hopes, and we must feel
towards it as we do towards those who have dis-
appointed us. The South has not done that, it
was too bad for it; but it is mortifying indeed
to find the North only a shade better. The de-
ciding hour is, however, nearly arrived. The
North must gain a victory or two, if it can, and
then the sooner it bids for peace the better. The
Union is gone for ever, and the sooner the slave-
holders and slave-hunters come to terms the fewer
widows and orphans will bewail the pro-slavery
folly of the Washington Government.

It will be very inconvenient to many honourable
members if the working classes should really take
their own question in hand. The real reason for
the failure of the bill of 1860 was just the fact,
that those whom it was proposed to enfranchise
made no sign of wanting the franchise. " The
apathy of the country" was the stock argument;
and It was the apathy of the working men. The
middle classes could not be expected to put them-
solTes out of the way to confer the franchise on
those next to themselves in the descending scale.
As a body they form an electoral aristocracy, and
they did not over-much relish the possibility of
being swamped by the working men. If, therefore,
the working men were content to be unrepresented
the present electors were also quite content to leave
them so. Then, as to the Government, no one be-
lieved that that had any heart to the work. At
the same time, the House of Commons was but too
well pleased to save itself an early visit again to
the country, and gladly joined in giving the subject
the go-by. It was, however, the silence of the
working men which was at the bottom of all, for
had they unanimously and jointly spoken out, nei-
ther Members of Parliament nor the Government,
nor the electors generally, would have dared to
show indifference.

We have already had the appeal of the Glasgow
Trades' Societies to their fellow trades all over the
kingdom ; this week we have the Reform Con-
ference of all classes, sitting in Leeds, to
settle, if they can, a plan of united action for all
classes of Reformers. The idea is a good one.
Whatever is effected must be effected through com-

nation, and combination to be available must be
the result of conference. The Glasgow Trades,
with excellent generalship, as it strikes us, pro-
posed, while not prejudicing their claim of right
to much more than they asked, to confine them-
selves to asking in the first instance what Parlia-
ment and the QUEEN had already sanctioned. As
at present advised, it seems to us the Conference
could not do better than accept the Glasgow pro-
gramme. They will thus have a hold both oa the
Government and the House, which they could not
have for any other proposal. Their reasoning
would be conclusive. " You read the Bill a second
time. You shuffled it out of the House before the
third reading, because you said we did not
care about it—we now tell you we do, and that but
for false confidence in you, we should have told you
so sooner; now, therefore, read it a third time, and
make it the law of the land. The meeting itself
appears to be one of the right kind."
All classes are represented in it. Members of Par-
liament take their part, and so does the late Chair-
man of the Ante-Corn Law League—a thorough
man of business, who, indeed, took the chair the
first day. He strongly insisted on the unfair-
ness of the present franchise. Allowing that
about five millions were fairly represented
by the 1,221,000 who have votes already, the re-1
maining 23,000,000 had no more to do with the
Government of the country than had the inhabi-
tants of Austria itself. "Grievous, however, as
was the limitation of the suffrage, in his opinion it
was nothing in comparison to the distribution of
electoral districts, There were 405 borough members,
representing 250 boroughs, but, as an instance of
disproportion and unfairness, he mentioned Thet-
ford, where two members represented 4,000 people,
but were elected by 216 voters, whereas Mr. Baines,
M.P. for Leeds, represented a population of 200,000,
and 7,000 voters. He also instanced Manchesterand
the West Riding constituencies, as compared with
other smaller ones having the same extent of
representative influence, and mentioned the case
of 24 members who were returned by 3,847 voters
—not one-half the constituency of Leeds. He would
advise the advocates of a redistribution of seats
not to recede for one moment from the position
they occupied, because it might be said their argu-
ments were founded on extreme cases. An actual
majority of the House of Commons-330 members
—was actually elected by no more than 160,000 or
170,000 voters, whereas the whole voting power of
the three kingdoms was 1,200,000.

He showed how absurd was the ery of danger to
the Crown, or even to the House of Lords, though
the latter was not very popular ; but he did not
believe that extended representation would affect
the character of the House of Commons itself. It
might be supposed that there would be a great in-
flux of working men into the House of Commons,
but he showed that working men could not afford
either the time or the money to live in London and
devote their whole services to their constituencies.
All that they wanted was that intelligent and
responsible men might be admitted to the privi.
lege of voting for one or more of the candidates who
might be presented to their notice every seven, five,
or three years, as the case might be. That was the
whole extent to which it was proposed by this re-
volutionary measure to carry out the importation
of new electors into the enjoyment of the franchise.
What did a man pay for that enjoyment? The
taxation of the country was £2 Bs. a-bead on every
man and woman and child in the country, and at
that rate every head of a family representing five
persons in seven years would have to pay £B4 for
of giving a vote. After that, was it
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suffrage—perhaps manhood suffrage—for the meet-
ing was called by the Leeds Working Men's Par-
liamentary Reform Associationl; the ballot was held
to be essential, and the redistribution of seats
also ; the prevailing tone of the meeting,
however, was moderation, and this is just
what will make it formidable. We 411 remember
how M. BILLAULT refused to license the transfer of
a Paris paper from more fie ry and extreme men
to some gentlemen of great respectability and mode-
ration, because he observed it was just these quali-
ties which made them dangerous; the other kind of
opposition did the Government good. This will not
improbably be the case now. Lord PALMERSTON
could overlook and snub O'CoNNoR deputations and
petitions, but the respectfully worded and moderate
petitions of tens of thousands of working men no
Minister can afford to despise. They will show a
measure of practical sense—as well as rest on the
solid foundation of right—which will force attention.
The very moderation, as BILLAULT said, will prove
their power. It will be an unanswerable answer to
all calumnies ; and will show an amount of good
sense which can no longer be trifled with;

We have frequently taken occasion of late to
direct attention in these columns to the extraordi-
nary rise, advance, and expansion of the general
prosperity noticeable in our Canadian provinces.
We have done so mainly with a view to the en-
couragement thither of the chief part of the vast
and increasing tide of emigration from the shores of
the old mother country, and of immigration
into her remote and scattered colonial pos-
sessions. We have remarked at one time, upon
the astonishing fertility and fecundity of the
soil in that favoured portion of our gigantic North
American territories. We have descanted, at
another time, upon the liberality of the political
institutions there regulating the affairs of the Cana-
dian population. Now we have commented upon
the geographicaladvantages recognizablein Canada
in respect—to the extent of her magnifieent seaboard
on the Atlantic—to the grandeur of her inland seas,
meaning those stupendous lakes dividing
her southern boundaries from the northern frontiers
of the " some time" United States—to the wondrous
length of inland navigation secured to the two
Canadas along the broad bosom of the mighty cur-
rent of the St. Lawrence. Yet, often though we
have written of late, and at length, upon this fruit-
ful theme, it is almost superfluous to add that the
subject is still very far indeed from being exhausted.
In illustration of this it is only necessary to
refer, for example, to another branch of it not yet
touched upon. A branch, it will be found in every
way eminently suggestive—and in many respects
full of encouragement to the well-wishers of
Canada generally, and to intending emigrants to
Canada in particular. We refer to the recently
gathered statistics in relation to the growth of the
chief towns and cities of Canada and the astonishing
increase of their population. The development of
the resources of the colony implied by this in-
crease in the number, and therefore also of the wealth,
and energy, and activity of the inhabitants, may
be readily appreciated upon a glance at a few of
the more remarkable of these surprising sta-
tistics. Let it be recollected, then, that
thirty years ago—namely, in 1831—Montreal
and Toronto each contained a population
of about 27,000 ! Montreal—the largest city in
Canada—has now somewhere about 110,000 inhabi-
tants ! Toronto—ranking next—about 80,000 in-
habitants ! This, when, as we have said, but 30 years
since each only contained within it a population of
27,000 ! Again, as if in striking corroboration of
the truth of the assertion, recently put forth by
competent witnesses yonder in Canada, vis., that
" other towns and cities are not deprived of
their population to swell that of more
favoured and prosperous communities"—let us
instance the case of London, in Upper Canada.
There, in 1850, were collected together exactly
5,124 inhabitants. Within six short years from
that date, i.e. in 1856, the 5,000 and odd had in-
creased to-15,000. More need hardly be said
after this in demonstration of the growth of the
prosperity of our Canadian provinces.

We believe it is intended that the Prince of
Wales shall visit the lonian Islands shortly after Christ-
mas, and then proceed to Syria and Egypt. His Royal
Highness will return to England before the opening of the
Great Exhibition.

THE SHAKESPEARE FUND.—The Prince Consort
has just sent his name as a subscriber to the Shakespeare
Fund for the sum of £lOO.

Herr Carl Formes has received the " Alolphs
Order," from the Duke of Nassau.
It is stated that the famous St. Martin's Hall is
to be converted into a " Canterbury,"
The subscription to the Shakspere fund, esta-
blished by Mr. Halliwell, has reached £2,706.
Prince Leopold of England, who was expected at
Toulon at 6 p.m., on Tuesday last, did not arrive there till
9 p.m. Lord Brougham arrived at Toulon the same evening
on his way to his residence at Cannes.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The Norwich Poli-
tical Union has adopted a memorial to Lord Palmerston,
praying his lordship to take some action on the subject of
Parliamentary Reform. The Union is also endeavouring
to revive the Reform agitation in Norwich.

THE FRENCH STEAMERS.—We (Herapatls) hear
that the Emperor Napoleon has eight steamers of 3,206
tons each building or to be built on this side of the Channel
for the West India service, the individual cost of which is
to be £llB,OOO, with £12,000 each for furnishing. The
steamers for the East are said to be of 4,000 tons each, and
to cost £lBO,OOO. There is also to be a line of larger ships
than those for the West Indies to go to North America.
We wonder whether the £10,000,000 deficit of his Imperial
Majesty will act as any oar to his steam navigation enter-
prises.

THE LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART.-A meeting
of the Polish Historical Society was held yesterday at Sus-
sex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, to commemo-
rate the seventh anniversary of the death of this de-
parted champion of the cause of Poland. In the absence
from London of the president and vice-president of the
society the chair was occupied by Major Gielgud, who, re-
calling the great servleets reuaet.a by the, lets nnbleman to
Poland, deplored his loss, at this time of the mani;estations
of national life in all parts of the country, when his perse-
vering efforts to defend the rights of Poland before the
public opinion of England would, no doubt, have proved of
national assistance it, obtaining them, and expressed a hope
that others, no less zealous friends of the cause, will not
neglect. Colonel Wiercenski and several other gentlemen
spot e to the same effect, when the meeting separated, after
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

The " EVIL EYE" IN IRELAND.—An extraor-
dinary assault case was heard at Mitchelstown, the other
day. A man, named Thomas Quinn, stated that ihe was
sent for by John Condon, John Condon, jun., and Mrs.
Condon—the defendants in the case—to their house,
where ho went; and that the defendants dragged him
into the piggery in the yard, and assaulte I him ; that they
insisting on his spitting on three large pigs which defen-
dants were preparing for market, alleging that com-
plainant had some days previously cast an evil eye on
the pigs, and by some witchcraft or necromancy prevented
them from using their food for seven days. Sub-constable
Macauley deposed that he was sent for to compel Quinn to
remove the charm from the pigs.—Mr. O'Mara : My de-
fence is, that the defendants state most emphatically that
complainant came to their house, stood over their pigs, and
by some mysterious or unholy spell or influence prevented
them from using food for seven days. Your Worship may
terceive, on looking at Quinn's vulpine countenance, he
has an evil eye. (Loud laughter.) The defendants sent
for him to remove the evil he had done, and sent for
the police to induce him to do so. Quinn refused, and said,
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