The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

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E OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
EVERY EVENING.

Selections from Auber's New Comic Opera, LA CIRCAS-
SIENNE by Madame Enderssohn, Mr. Greene, Mr. H.
Herbert. and the Company. Also from Verdi's new Grand
opera, "Simon Boccanegra," by Miss Russell, Messrs. Mor-
ley, Greene, C. Greville, and the Company. Full band and
chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic
Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and
French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr.W. Randall.
Hall, ed. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. Bd.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 16m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m,
To-mottßow.-Morning, sh. Om.—Afternoon, sh. 30m.

THE WEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, OCTOBER 8, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.
Bknomirran--29.92 ; falling rapidly.
WIND—S.-Westerly—light ; with very warm weather,
and cloudy.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 1881.

Another Federal misfortune seemed necessary to
koep the balance even. The centre, of course,
shows little oscillation, the grand armies on each
side the Potomac at Washington remain in statu
quo, like the pivot of a balance ; but the seales,
East and West, act with perfect propriety. The
Confederates kicked the beam in the East at Cape
Hatteras, so, of course, the Federalists perform the
like feat in the far West in Missouri ; and, accord-
ing to all accounts, the Confederates seem likely to
keep them hard up in that position in the most im-
portant State beyond the Mississippi. Where the
fault lies, the North itself has not yet decided.
Some blame FREMONT for not sending aid to Lex-
ington ; they tell us that he was at St. Louis with
80,000 men ready for his grand expedition down
the Mississippi, and that he trusted, if successful, in
the main attempt, the smaller mishaps would prove
of little consequence; that the roaming bands of
rebels on his flank, and in his rear, must soon give
in. Others report that he had despatched
succours, but that the regiments sent
were recalled, and ordered by the PRESIDENT
to Washington. One thing is certain that
the fort of Lexington was left to its fate; that
it was surrounded by a vastly greater force of
the enemy than it could well resist ; that the
officer in command, and his soldiers, fought most '
bravely ; but they were human beings—they could
not live without water—and the enemy was able
to cut them off from their only supply, the Missouri.
Four thousand Federalists therefore capitulated to
THIRST, and were dismissed under an engagement
to defend no more forts against the Confederation ;
the officers, more wanted than men in the North,
wore prudently retained. And thus, all quiet on
tilt) Potomac, and up and down in the East and
W est respectively, is the sum of the last advices
from America
But what is Mr. LINCOLN doing, and his worthy
Cabinet with him ? Spending money, at least,
and rather faster than he is likely to get it, for the
loan comes in but slowly. Nor should we be sur-
prised if the difficulty on this score proved even-
tually the most severe of all, and did more than any-
thing else to bring about some kind of accommoda-
But the PRESIDENT is doing far worse for his
owe objects—ho is spending his moral strength.
In every way he is frowning on negro erna„ipa_
ti( ;n. If the slaves of the loyal run away, he sends
them back ; if the slaves of traitors run away, he
forbids a general to emancipate them unless it can
be proved that their masters used them in further-
ance of the war. Worst of all, if coloured men
come to Washington from New York to fight
in the cause of the States in which they
were barn, ABRAM 3I LINCOLN, the Anti-slavery
President, strips the 'United States uniform off their
backs, and exclaims—non tali auxilio, nec clefen-
soribus istis, tempus eget! One would have thought
that of all persons in the No, •th, the free coloured men
had a right to be led agaios s; the Southerners —but
n2----es pertinaciously, as mao 9y, as our Austrianised
Ministers refused to accept a Polish legion to storm
Sebastopol, lest they should . inconvenience that
curse and bane of the Crim, )an War—Austria, so
does LINCOLN ref
use the aid of coloured men, lest
ho should inconvenience So athern Slaveholders.
Such ama n deserves to be be aten.
One fact' we are pleased to) totice—if the men are

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