The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-07 00:00:00

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including
Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
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in England and onito heard at this Es tablishment), with
Chorus of Forty Voices,e and upon a scale unequalled at any
other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a-
piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day) ; the
Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain-
ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con-
tinned success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and
numerous other artistes.
Re-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

T H 0 X F OR D
6, OXFORD-STREET.

Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selecti me (on 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, Signor 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.
TEM DAY.—Morning, lh. sm.—Afternoon, lh. 28m
To-momtow.-Morning, lh. 46m.—Afternoon, 2h. 5m

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THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
50—lowest this morning and during the night.
55—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1861.

It is but four or five years ago since a member of
Parliament told the House of Commons that an
intelligent man of business with whom he had
ridden to town in the railway carriage had ex-
pressed his opinion, that the best thing for England
in regard to India was, to " cut the connection,"
'and that the speaker was himself pretty much
inclined to the same opinion, had he not thought
that we should injure our position among nations
if we allowed ourselves to be driven out ; while we
owed it—morally—to India to surrender her neither
to anarchy, nor to conquest by other nations who
would not fail to step into our place. Perhaps
till this year, and not completely till the Budget
Speech of Mr. LAING, which we publish at full
length to-day, arrived, has the opinion of the
Railway Traveller not been more or less a part of
the judgment of most of us in looking on India.
Like his companion, the member, we saw indeed,
that the "connection could not be cut,"—political
reasons forbade ; but who of us was prepared to
say that time would not prove, and possibly to this
generation, that, commercially speaking, to have
lost India in the mutiny would have been a
gain. Another mutiny, however, in America, the
prospects of cotton, and this last Indian Budget,
now assure us that India may be worth more to us
than any other colony.
We now regard India as the not improbable
saviour of our vast cotton manufacture, the feeder
of four millions of our population, the emancipator
of American slaves, and all without hazard to the
English Exchequer. May all these possibilities
prove icalities! Right thankful should we be to
pass through one year of a little cotton difficulty,
if it eventually ruined the accursed cotton culti-
vation of the Confederate States, and transferred
it to the free labour of our own subjects on the
plains of India. Right thankful if our Indian
ryots pocketed the millions of money which now
go to maintain the reign of the slave driver, and to
make profitable the sale and purchase of human
flesh and blood.
Mr. LAING himself, thorough man of business as
he is, and intent upon arithmetic throughout his
long speech, could not help warming up into a
kind of British eloquence when he touched on
cotton, India, America, and slavery. Having to
advert to public works, to roads in particular, as
the most advantageous way of spending money in
India, and to their purpose to construct good roads
into the cotton districts, so as to be prepared
to " bring the resources of India into play, to
supply the threatened deficiency of cotton in
America," he added, "Immense interests are
at stake on this question, not only material
—for who can measure the extension of commerce,
and the mutual benefit to England and to India
which v ould result from a transfer of the chief
supply of ‘eltton from America to the East ?—but
moral, also, for rte, issue for which WILBERFORCE
contended, and for which England has sacrified her
West India colonies, and poured forth her millions
like water—the issue of slavery or freedom is staked
mainly on the gaettho. n, whether America's danger
is to be _England's opportunity. Tf cotton produced
by free labour can undersell cotton tn. uceof
slavery, then, and net till then, the cause of free- ,
dom will be finally gained."

Mr; LAING intimates that the Government is
thoroughly awake to this vital question, that it will
not perform its duties negligently, that it will do
everything to encourage independent -European
enterprise ivhich justice to the natives permits