The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-12 00:00:00

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POYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
T 'ITS EVENING the nertormAnopm will commence with
THE DAY AFTEIi. THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy
and Mrs. St. Henry.

Alter which, at a quarter to Ei,ht (20th time) the new
and orizhial Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen
Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles
S,lby, Edmun i Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, MESS Clara
Weston.
To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer
Step

Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices 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.
THIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER.
After which, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Mr.
Ryder, Mr. Widdicombe, Mr. Meadows, &C. ; Miss Carlotta
Leclercq, Miss Angell, &c.
To conclude with BLUE JACKETS.

EW THRATRE-R0 VAL, ADF,LPHI.—
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Cattle chow Week.—Mr. and Mrs

Dion Bouc cault in two pieces.
THI9 EVENING, commencing at 7, the great American
drama of THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA;
Mr. and Mrs. Dion roncicault, Messrs. Billington, Emery,
Phillip , Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Lewis, Mrs.
Billinrton. Mrs. 11. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer,
and Mrs. H. Lewis.

At 20 minutes past 9 o'clock the great Irish drama, TAE
COLL MEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault, Mr. Fisher,
Mr. Emery, Mr. Billington, Miss W oolgar, Mrs. Billington,
Mrs. H. Lewis.

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 THE GOVERNOR'S
WIFE.
After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear in CAMELIA ,
and Dance two National Dances.
After which, BAMBOOZLING.
To conclude with LES PIERROTS.
Box-office open from 11 to 4.
Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

MR. SAM COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou-
rite Som.'s, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK
BUILT. "

Grand Selections from
STRADELLA and LA TitAVIATA,

By Miss Russell, slits. Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,

with a poWerful Chorus.

The Comic department :—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 negro de!ineators of the day ;
and Alas Harriet Coveney
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls.

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

EVERY EVENING.

Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Boma-
-1.7r.r,ra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and
Madame Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene,
and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F.
Jonzhmans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and
Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And
Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney,
Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French
(The Nerves), E. M2rshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 641. ;
Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

_HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning,! 10h. Bm.—Afternoon, 10h. 38m.
TO-MORROW.-Morning, 11h. 10m.—Afternoon, 11h. 40m.

TIIE WEATHER.—Surt. OFFICE, DECEMBER 12,11861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
48—JAghest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the. night.
50—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.97.
WlND—South-Westerly ; rather fresh, with dirty rainy
weather, but mild.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1861.

The Norwegian and the Etna, the summary of
whose news we gave yesterday, have brought ns
information of no facts of serious importance. It
will hardly be thought one, that Mr. EDWIN
JAMES, in return, we suppose, for the adulation of
some of the press, and the hospitality of the New
York bar, should have made such progress in
Yankeeism, as already to justify the seizure of the
Commissioners. Whatever importance that fact
may have, is destroyed by another—that
two leading American lawyers in Philadelphia
have written to the papers—one to show, what has
also been proved here, that the case of the seizure
of Mr. LAURENS was wholly irrelevant ; the other
to show that an exact precedent is yet wanting, but
that the opinions of President MADISON are against
the American claims.

The PRESIDENT'S Message was yet but matter
of conjecture and guess ; that 700,000 men and pro-
portionate pecuniary supplies would be voted, was
the opinion of the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune. Numbers, therefore, still seem
to be the craving of the North. Religion comes
to their aid. Not indeed the religion of letting the
oppressed go free, but of Presbyterian Synods
asking the blessing of Heaven on a war to crush
rebellion against a Government " in which is centred
all the hopes of civil and religious liberty." A
rebellion " antagonistic to the advancement of civi-
lization throughout the world." Mr. SEWAItD
thanks the Synod for its patriotism and its
prayers. It is certainly rather amusing to see
how the Americans seem to regard themselves as
the political hope of the world, the salt of the
earth. The PRESIDENT himself, Mrs. STOWE, and
other distinguished Americans, openly describe the
Northern cause as the cause of mankind and of
civilisation,and as far transcending the small affair of
negro slavery. To Europeans it seems unaccountable
how they can overlook the "beam in their own eye."
A Federal Union, one half to be slave-holding, the
other slave-catching, does not appear, compared
with European Governments, to boa cause of such
transcendent worth.
Respecting naval and military operations nothing
certain of any consequence had occurred since the
preceding mails left. The Southerners appear to be
abandoning the coast everywhere, having nothing
able to cope with the powerful guns of the fleet.
They appear to take away their own guns for the
use of the army—which in numbers not inferior to
the Federal forces had already mustered about 20
miles from Fort Beaufort. The Canadians appear
to be quite alive to the desirableness of self-preser-
vation, and not yet disposed to be swallowed up, or
regarded as compensation for losses in the South.

While the Americans are occupying so large a
share of our attention, the European despots are
playing their old game of cruel repression to the
uttermost. President LINCOLN and his democracy
in the Northern States are doing what they can to
show that tyranny may be many-headed as well as
single-headed, and that personal freedom, and free-
413i' of the press, may be es unsafe in the hands of
the elect of 20,000,000 as in those of a ROMANOFF
and a Czar. The rulers of Russia and of Austria are,
however, determined to show that they are not to