The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-31 00:00:00

RO YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Wm,
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE
Miss Thiriwall and Mr. A. Core.
After which, at Eight o'clock, RUY BLAS. Miss Louisa
Pyne, Mesdames Susan Pyne, Thirlwall, Jessie M`Lean ;
Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, 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.
Stafre-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr.
Edward Murray.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer.
T HIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
Attu which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success-
tai comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
thsracters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, inl Miss Lydia Thomp-
son.

1.) conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
flui,:k Step.

P.lces as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
TIER EVENING. JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
Iltirris and Mr. H. Widdicomb.
A Her which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ-
ton by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ;
ch it azters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Wid-
dicombe, Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelciereq, Miss Angle, and
Mrs. Weston.
To conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza,
PO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John ISt ougham, Mr. A. Harris,
(4c.

THEATII:g. ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. BnOkstone.

TATR wv-pnsuNn. the nertorminces will commence with
RIC HELIELT. Richelieu, Mr. Edwin Booth ; Juli 6, Mrs.
Charles Young.
Followed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.
And THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MT LIFE.
Commence a 7

Ew THI?ATRE-R0 fAL, ADELPFII.-
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster.
Open tor the nter Season.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC Winter Season.
Ti-ITS EVENING, MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Messrs.
D. Fisher. Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (265th-time), TETE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. tioucicault. D. Fisher, Billinzton, S. Emery, Stephenson.
C. J. Smith, Romer. Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Bonelcault, Miss
W,,olgar, Mrs. Billinz,ton, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
To:"onclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
fir. SAM COWELL'S New Song, "THE HOUSE THAT
JACK BUILT," on Wednesday, Oct 30.
Also, Grand Selections from
STRADELLA, LA t itAVIATA, and DINORAH
By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
with a powerful Chorus.
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer
Mr. LEVY.
The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr.
Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French, and Miss Harriet
Coveney

Musical Director, Mr. JoinThm ans.
Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.

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

EVERY EVENING.

Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and
Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccanezra," by the entire
Company. Mate's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame
Enderssohn (compo.ed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's
Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain-
ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Harvey
and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL.
Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, Is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 46m.—Afternoon, h. m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 12b. 12m.—Afternoon, 12h. 35m.

.THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Oaromm, 31, 1861
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.82 ; falling.
WlND—South-Westerly—light; with fine mild weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 31, 1861.

The North always asserts that the Union senti-
ment is kept down by tyranny. This may be true ;
but if it be, we hear of very few facts to support
it. The Border States are naturally divided ;
Western Virginia is all for the Union, and Kentucky
and Missouri have perhaps a majority, not more,
in its favour. We have heard also one or two
strange stories, the American kind of stories, of in-
dividuals being obliged to be Secessionists against
their will in the South. We have learned, however,
nothing authentic from the South itself, though
reason would suggest that thousands in the South
as well as in the North would rather war had not

been commenced.
But whatever the tyranny of the South may be,
that of the North is certain. The spy, the police-
man, and Judge LYNCH are masters of all there.
The mob is censor of the Press, and inflicts sum-
mary punishment on every Editor who thinks
peace or a compromise desirable ; if he openly
favoured the South, not only his paper, but his life
would, we believe, be in danger. To think that the
Southerners have something to say for themselves,
is regarded and treated as treason ; and dealt with
accordingly. In this country, during the war of
Independence, a large and intelligent party
thought the colonies were in the right ; Americans
point tit it with respect; but it would be better
if they treated there own countrymen in the Free
States who differ from the majority as Eagland at
that time treated the opposition who favoured
the colonies. While the war is raging, of course,
persons who by any overt act further the
objects of the enemy must be restrained;
but not content with this, Mr. LINCOLN fills Fort

La Fayette with "suspects," against whom no

definite charge whatever is made. They have
shown Southern tendencies—perhaps they may
have connections in the South; anyhow, Mr. Secre-
tary CAMERON suspects them of what they know
not, nor does he tell them, so to prison they go.
The system is now carried out, so that not even
Englishmen are safe from arrest. If they
go to the North they must either be
friends of the North, or preserve a com-
plete silence in regard to their opinion. We do
not know that even this would be sufficient.
Silence instead of enthusiasm for the North, might
be supposed to be a proof of " Southern tendencies."
We hear of respectable gentlemen even in Liver-
pool being dogged wherever they go by an American
spy—the window of a gentleman's own house not
being privileged against the impertinent prolonged
stare and gaze of Yankee eyes. The employment
of spies on board vessels crossing the Atlantic is
certain ; while we have the names and particulars of
respectable gentlemen two n who were arrested
immediately on their landing. In fir, FORWOOD'S
case the grounds of suspicion, as stated by the
authorities themselves, are almost ludicrous. He
and his father had been heard on hoard to make
remarks "in no complimentary terms', of
the
Northern Government ! Plainly some of us had
better keep on this side of the water. Since, for
such conversation, he was placed in a cell in New
York, and had the pleasure of remaining there,

while the officials treated his papers much as the
Pontifical abirri did those of Father PASSAGLIA
at Rome.

The affair is in the hands of Lord LYONS and
Mr. SEWARD. To the latter it gives, we have no
doubt, superlative pleasure to imprison British
subjects, and to condemn British ships. He will

continue to snub our representatives, and to

Bwaager, it may be, about Canada, Mexico, and St.

Domi'.ngo, but if hostile feeling be increased in this
Count ry and other European States, he may thank
Lis own insolence for it. It would almost seem as
if the, vast army around him, which yet is not
aufaci ant for his purpose, had made the Americas

a greater man than ever in his own opinion. He
is now entitled to beard all the countries in the
world, although he is not, iii fact, master of ilia own.

American papers now tell us that the precautions
suggested by Mr. SEWARD to the Governors, of erec-
ting defensive fortifications on the coasts, were
due to the possible occupation of Mexico by
Spain. Mr. SEWARD, with all the South be-
tween him and Mexico, is going to compel
Europe to respect the MUNROE doctrine—
Europeans are to occupy no part of America
because Mr. SEWARD, at Washington, forbids !
Lucky for him that Europeans are not so touchy as
he ; otherwise they would, from resentment merely,
plant themselves in Central America again, and bid
him come and dislodge them. It seems as if no
humiliations, of which the North has had its fill
lately, could teach our Yankee cousins modesty.
Spain, France, and England will, however, certainly
pay no attention to Mr. SEWARD.

It is always pleasant at this dull season of the
year to meet with one of those rural meeting's that
break the monotony, in some degree, that inevita-
bly prevails when the political and fashionable
world of London is out of town. On Tuesday last
the South Avon Agricultural Society celebrated its
anniversary at Christchurch, Hampshire. The Earl
of MALMESBURT, the patron of the society, occupied
the chair, and thus the interest was of course in-
creased considerably. His Lordship's speech on the
Volunteers is well worthy of consideration, and the
opinions he expressed will be endorsed by all right
thinking members of the community. He observed
that there were two great dangers to which they
were exposed ; one was the idea that it was impos-
sible to attend to their duties as volunteers at the
same time that they fulfilled the calls of private
business. This the noble lord fully explained to be
a mistake, inasmuch as it was not necessary to be
as proficient in military exercises as troops of the
line, and if they attended the first year of drill
" they should know sufficient to form the nucleus of
a body of men who, when the occasion arrives,
which GOD forbid, in a month or six weeks would
make effective soldiers." The second point to which
he referred is the following :—" The other is an
opinion which I have heard advocated by some
men, that the institution of the volunteer force will
enable as to reduce our regular army. Depend
upon it that is a very great mistake. It would be
unfair to this country, and terribly unfair to the
volunteers themselves. Take, for example, the
habits of discipline, of life, of the class of men who
form the volunteers, and compare them with those
habits and customs of discipline and of order which
regulate the Royal army. It ismpossible, perfectly
impossible tkat you should change human nature
so completely. If you could transform them into
irregular troops, and subject them to some such
discipline as regular troops are subjected to, yet
if they were not always under those regula-
tions they would not be effective as a regular
army. They would be effective in their own way ;
they would be effective as a supplementary army,
relieving the troops in case of war or invasion in
toils to which they would otherwise be exposed ;
and they would be effective, doubling and trebling
the amount of the efficiency of regular troops by
enabling them to act together instead of employing
them in duties which the volunteers are able to
perform ; but to trust the safety of the country to
a body of men whose habits do not accustom them
to the stern discipline of the line, would be a most
dangerous and fatal thing to the country itself and
to the volunteers themselves." It is to be trusted
that no mistaken notions of economy will lead our
administrators to carry out this idea, as the
day that sees the army reduced will be
one of bad augury to the national
prospects, and then we lose the advantages we
now enjoy of being forewarned and forearmed.
His lordship concluded, amid general applause, in
these forcible words, "Do not, if you ever enter-
tained it, foster the opinion that, brave as you are,
patriotic as you are, you can act without the assist-
ance of the regular force, but consider yourselves
supplementary to that force, and be ever ready to
double its exertions and its usefulness." Amid
the many and varied orations, whose name is,
indeed, legion, that have been made on
this subject since the system of the Volunteers
was first inaugurated, there have not been any
which surpasses the one under our consideration
in the importance of advice tendered, and in the
right views entertained by the speaker on this
momentous question. If now by indifference or
inattention the Volunteers lose their pre-eminence
before the day of danger comes, it will be indeed
disastrous ; and again, if following the absurd doe-
trines of the peace party our rulers stultify them-
selves by decreasing the army, it will be a calamity
to the country, and a lasting disgrace to them
selves. The mere whisper of such a design is-
enough to call forth the most decided negative
from all ranks and classes. Long be the day dis-
tant when an invading force shall approach our
shores ; but should it come, it will not be the
votaries of the new school of progress and enlighten-
ment that will drive it back discomfited, but those
who keep alive in their hearts the old English
spirit of independence. Those who persist in say-
ing that there is no likelihood of invasion, and no
need of preparation, will be the first to be panic-
struck when the time really comes ; and it

is of the greatest consequence that all should