The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-06 00:00:00

CANTERBURY BALL

Our agricultural friends, who annually visit the metro-
- 4n eit in judgment upon the most useful portion of the
-,lllnext week, after the critical labours of
'^ et entertainments inviting their
-nerior attractions, as
a pleasing

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animal creation, ~

the day, find hosts of even',
attention. If the music hall offers se,
no donbt it will, to the majority, we feel it to _
task to remind the visitor to London that the Canterbui,
Hall and its splendid Fine Arts Gallery present a fund of
amusement which is not to be found in the collective dis-
plays of any other music hall. It will be seen that we
allude to the double attraction of the Music Hall and Pic-
ture Gallery. The Canterbury Hall also enjoys the advan-
tage of a noble ante-hall, which gives elbow-room to the
visitor, and affords easy access from the Concert Room to
the Picture Gallery. There is an air of quiet grandeur
about this building, derived from its gigantic proportions
and unostentatious style of decoration, s hich is not attained
by others. The salle, comprising Picture Gallery and
Ante-Hall, offers a grand promenade for the fairer portion
of the visitors, and " fashion" need not circumscribe itself
to ensure an undisputed march about the interior.
So much for characteristics eminently distinguishing
this hall from its competitors, which have made its
triumphant success their starting point in a similar
career. The musical atttractions for the " Cattle Show
week" will not be found without special interest. Should
we be offending our provincial friends, if we suggested that
a good " laugh" would be the most welcome excitement
after the profound labours of the day.? Food for laughter,
then, there is in abundance. The sway of Mr. Sam Cowell
over the visible muscles is as potent, but genial, as ever.
" Tbis is the House that Jack Built," is a song founded:on
the nursery legend, and " Sam" traces the incidents of
the story, to which a modern application is given with the
most ludicrous effect. Each actor on Sam's magic can-
vass—from the " malt," to the " cock that crow'd in the
morn," is invested with some astounding attribute, which
would have made our infancy tremble. The joke about
the aqueous liquid given forth by the London
representative of the " cow with the crumpled horn,"
will be accepted by our country cousins rather
as a playful satire upon the weakness of the metropolitan
milkman than a reflection upon the purity of our Alderneys.
Mr. Cowell has a budget of old and new songs. Of the
old ones we incline to the time-honoured " Lord Lovell,"
for the novel and masterly character of the make-up. There
is a song sung by another clever comedian, which is pecu-
liarly apt at this moment. " They Don't Bamboozle Me,"
(a song for " John Bull" personified by Mr. Marshall)
suggests the difficulty, as in" The Young Man from the
Country," of " getting over" one of our countrymen.
" John Bull's" complacent chuckle now applies with equal
force to Brother Jonathan as to the " Mounseers." Messrs.
Harvey and French are unique in the indescribably ludi-
crous and vocally accompanied dances. In the Ethio-
pian department, Master Wood bandies equivoque
and solves riddles with alarming precocity, and
dances with all the finish and more than the
agility of the famous " Joe Brown" of America and Can •
terbury Hall fame. Miss Harriet Coveney sings some
"sensation" songs and ditties a la Mrs. German Reed, with
fascinating effect, and combines with many of these efforts
some very piquant and graceful dancing. We have left to
the last our mention of the operatic selections, which are
the most conspicuous features of the whole entertainment.
Flotow's " Stradella," and Verdi's "La Traviata" have
furnished the facile Mr. Jonghmans with material for two
striking selections, in which those accomplished artists,
Miss Ernst, Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli,
supportedby a powerful chorus (made up of excellent solo
singers) take part. The completeness attained in these
selections has long been a theme of admiration, to which it
will be merely necessary to advert, even while addressing
such occasional visitors as will appear in London during the
next busy week.

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The Earl of Sefton has left town, on a visit to
,he Countess of Craven, at Ashdowne Palk, Berks.

DEATH OF LADY CANNING.—We deeply regret
to announce that intelligence was yesterday received at the
India-office, by telegraph, of the death of the Countess
Canning, wife of the Governor-General of India. The
lamented lady expired on the 18th ult. at Calcutta. The
late Lady Canning was the eldest daughter of the late Lord
Stuart de Rothesay, G.C.8., and Lady Elizabeth Margaret,

third daughter of Philip, third Earl of Hard wicke, and was
born in 1817. She married September 5, 1835, Earl Can-
ning, then the lion. C. J. Canning, the only son of the
well-known statesman. Her ladyship was for many years
Lady in Waiting to the Queen, and was deservedly much
esteemed at Court. The late Countess was sister of Louisa,
Marchioness of Waterford.

DEATH OF HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL AT CAIRO.—
We have to record the death of Mr. Fredk. Henry Crowe,
recently appointed to be her Majesty's Consul at Cairo,
which occurred at his father's house, near Devizes, on the
2d instant, after a fortnight's illness, at the early age of 34
years. The deceased was acting Vice-Consul at Tripoli in
1846 and 1817, and at Bengazi in 1848. He was promoted
to the rank of Vice-Consul on Jan. 27, 1855, af.erwards
appointed to Susa, and in Dec., 1856, transferred to Bengazi,
Tripoli.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA.—The Cue and
steamship Australasian, which was to have taken the
American mails of Saturday next, has been chartered by
the Government for conveyance of reinforcements to Canada.
Her place will bo supplied by the America.
The Cunard steamers chartered by the Govern-
ment as transports are the Australasian and the Persia,
both to convey troops to Halifax. The Australasian is a
powerful screw steamer of 2,700 tons.
_ _ _

At Lloyd's yesterday not much business was
done, but the tendency is towards higher premiums for
war risks. The rates at present usually charged are about
15s. per cent. for outward ships to the East, and about 20s.
for those coming home.

THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The weekly meeting of
the executive committee of this society was held at the
office, 5, auildhall -chambers, on Tuesday last, Mr. F. Clowes
in the chair. Mr.Whitehurst, Mr. Elt, Rev.W. 11. Bonner,
Mr. Mann, Mr. Le Maitre, Mr. B. T. Williams, &c., were
present. Various subscriptions were reported. Mr. Thos.
Yates, of Warrington, was elected a member of the council.
The approaching election for Birkenhead underwent careful
consideration at the hands of the committee, with reference
to the desirableness of bringing forward a candidate for this
newly created borough, Mr. Brassey, the soi-disant Liberal
candidate, not being favourable to the protection of the
voter by the ballot.
THE FINSBURY REPRESENTATION.—Mr. Mills
met the electors of the western district of the borough last
evening at the Music-hall, Store-street, Bedford-square.
The meeting was very fully attended, and the hon. candi-
date experienced a most favourable reception. His address
was precisely of the same nature as those previously deli-
vered, and at its close, having answered several questions
satisfactorily, a resolution pledging the support of the meet-
ing was adopted. Mr. Cox's address is expected to appear
to-morrow or Monday. In the meantime a strong com-
mittee in his behalf has been formed, the head-quarters of
which are at the Ma ]clesfield Arms, City-road.
THE EXPORT OF MILITARY STORES.—BIRMING-
i/AM, Dec. s.—The Queen's Proclamation prohibiting the
export of arms, ammunition, ph-reussion caps, &c., has pro-
duced a sort of convulsion here. As to the gun trade, there
are large offers on hand, in which all the principal makers
are participating. There are a great many guns ready for
shipment, and many more approaching completion. The
manufacture will at once be stopped, and a heavy loss will
accrue to the trade, particularly to a large number of work-
men who have become little masters during the late excite-
ment created by the American demand. Persons so situated
will be left with a considerable quantity of unfinished work
on hand, upon which extravagant wages have been paid.
The legitimate military arm trade will share in the loss,but
those engaged in it will now be in a good position to proceed
with their contracts for our own Government, these having
been hitherto interrupted, in spite of all the efforts made to
prevent it. This has not been, however, to any serious ex-
tent, inasmuch as the contractors have been guarded in
the engagements they have entered into with the pur-
chasers of arms for America, and no very receet contracts
have been made for that quarter. There have been seve-
ral agents hero from America, all eager purchasers of guns,
but none very recently,
BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, &c., SHOW.—BIRMING-
HAM, Thursday.—The annual meeting of the promoters of
this show was held at the Hen and Chickens Hotel this
morning, the Earl of Dartmouth in the chair. On the
motion of Mr. C. M. Caldecott, of Rugby Grange, seconded
by Sir John Ratcliff, the Earl of Ailesford was elected
president for the ensuing year. Thanks were voted to the
various honorary officers, including Mr. John Shackell, the
treasurer, whose active services have extended over 13
years. The noble chairman announced his intention to
give next year, as a special prize, a silver cup, value ;ClO,
for three Shropshire shearlings that shall have been shorn
before the Ist of May, 1802, and not touched or trimmed
except on the face. Suggestions were made that separate
classes should be opened for Scotch cattle and Shropshire
ewes. The number of persons attending the show this
year has been enormous—on the " private view" day,
; on Tuesday, 8,600 ; on Wednesday, 7,500, exclu-
sive of the working-class tickets, of which 30,000 were pur-
chased. To-day the attendance has been very large. The
attendance at the dog show has been on a corresponding
scale—on Monday (the ss. day ), 2,500; on Tuesday, 6,466 ;
on Wednesday, 7,200.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT NEWMAP,KET.—Won-
derfully as the Prince of Wales has been educated, widely
as he has travelled, and ably as he has fulfilled the few
duties be has as yet been eJed upon to perform, no act of
his life, we believe, bee been mere generally acceptable to
the great mass of the people than his visit to Newmarket.
Cantering on his grey pony, with the Duke of St. Albans
and Lord Pollington, who were b-,th Cantabs like himself,
the trio formed as pretty a group as we could desire to see,
and not a point of interest escaped the Prince's notice. Had
his Royal highness been the winner of The Cesarewiteh or
The Cambridgeshire, or The Two 1.11011:aud, he could not
have been mere closely inspected ; but he bore the gaze of
the multitude well, enjoyed his cigar, and watched every
race with the utmost interest.—Erom OW Van" in
I Baily's Magazine for Deeendier.

LATE6T NIELf.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
(PER THE EDINBURGH, via QUEENSTOWN.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 22, EVENING.
Edward t veret, George Sumner, and other lead-
in - mei-lean legal authorities, declare the capture
g
and Slidell to be in accordance
of Messrs. Masoi:
with international law. The subject, nevertheless,
causes a universally uneasy feeling in the public
mind in respect to the relations of America with
England.
The Secretary of War has notified to the Governor
of Maine that an officer will immediately be ap.
pointed to report on the sea-coast defences of that
State.

The Federal. troops are reported to be in full pos-
session of Accomac, Northampton County, on the
eastern shore of Virginia.
Governor Jackson and the State Legislature of
Missouri have passed a Secession ordinance.
Mr. Smith, Federal Secretary of the Interior,
has disavowed the policy endorsed by Mr. Cameron,
Secretary of War, of putting arms into the hands
of the slaves, declaring that such is not the policy
of the Federal Administration.
Twenty-five vessels, which are to be sunk at the
entrance of a Southern harbour, have sailed laden
with stones.

The Union men of North Carolina have esta-
blished a provisional State Government at Hatteras.
The Confederates have burnt Warsaw, Missouri,
in order to prevent the Federals making winter
quarters there.
General M'Clellan reviewed 70,000 men at
Washington, on the 20th inst., being the largest
body of troops ever reviewed on the American
continent.

General Halleck has iEsued a proclamation noti-
fying that no more fugitive slaves will be allowed
to enter the Federal camp, as they have carried
valuable information to the enemy.
The steamers Asia and City of Manchester have

arrived out.
The French frigate Bellona arrived at New
York on the 21st inst.

Nov. 23,11 A.M.
The British frigate Immortalite arrived at Port
Royal on the 18th inst.
The bids at yesterday evenings's stock board were
slightly firmer.

PRESIDENT DAVIS'S MESSAGE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.

President Davis has delivered his Message to the
Confederate Congress. It is most determined in
tone, and states that after seven months the Fede-
rals have failed to extend their occupancy of
outhern soil, and at many points have been driven
to act on the defensive.

The Message announces that the military means
and the financial condition of the Confederates are
stronger now than at the commencement of the
struggle. It praises the people of Missouri, and de-
fends the occupancy of Kentucky.

The Confederate financial system is stated to have
Worked well, and to promise good results for the

future.
The Message continues :
" The system of issuing Treasury notes has fully
answered the expectation of the Confederates, and
and if they husband their means and make judicious
use of their resources, it would be difficult to fix a
limit to the period during which the Confederates
will be able to carry on the war against the Federals.
" The reconstruction of the Union, which the
Federals seek to effect by force of arms, has be-
come more and more palpably impossible. The
causes which induced the separation not only re-
main in full force, but have been strengthened.
" The Confederates shrink with aversion from
the bare idea of renewing connection with the
North.

" The South will be content to live at peace with
the North, but the separation is final. The South
will accept no alternative."
President Davis then informs the Congress that
Messrs. Slidell and Mason, commissioned to repre-
sent the Confederacy abroad, had been seized while
under the protection and within the dominion of a
neutral nation, and says, " The claim of the United
States to seize them in the streets of London would
have been as well founded as the seizure on board

the Trent." •
" Had they been malefactors their arrest could
not have taken place on board British ships except
according to the law provided for tie extradition
of criminals.
"The Confederates asked no aid from foreign
Powers, but perhaps had a right to inquire if the
European doctrine that the blockade to be binding
must be effective, was to be generally applied, or

only in particular cases.
"Evidence will be laid before the European Go-
vernment of the total inefficiency of the blockade."
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23, EVENING.
Stocks tending downwards. New York Central,
78 ; Illinois, 60.

Money easy. Exchange very firm at 1081.
Cotton very firm ; middling upland is quoted 241 to
241.
Flour heavy. Wheat and corn, good inquiry.
Provisions unchanged. Coffee very firm. Sugar
steady. Molasses dull.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO CAPE RACE.)
BOMBARDMENT OF PENSACOLA.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.

Southern accounts report that Fort Pickens,
assisted by two Federal steamers, has opened a
bombardment on Pensacola.

Exchange—Banker's bills, 1091. Stocks firm.
New York Central, 781 ; Illinois, 601; Erie, 301.
Cotton advancing. Breadstuffs active, but lower.
Provisions steady.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA•

La Patrie publishes the following, under the
head of " Latest Intelligence" :

" It is stated (on assure) that the despatch ad-
dressed by the British Cabinet to Lord Lyons, to be
communicated to President Lincoln, is based ex-
clusively on ltgal considerations. This document,
it is said, establishes that the commander of the
San Jacinto, by acting as he has done, has corn
mitted a flagrant breach of maritime law and in-
sulted the English flig ; that the only right that
officer possessed was to compel the Trent to go to
some American port, where the case could have
been brought before the proper authorities in pre-
sence of the English Consul. That if, in this search,
despatches had been found establishing that MM.
Slidell and Mason were on a mission directly or
indirectly connected with military operations, the
Commander would have been justified in seizing
those despatches and arresting the envoys, sending
in a detailed report of the transaction, with such
notes and observations as the English Consul might
think fit to annex. These formalities not having
been fulfilled, no charge could be established against
the two persons arrested ; their arrest must be re-
garded as nul and non avenue ; that the Trent being
the -victim of an arbitrary act, contrary to every

principle, England, acting in a conciliatory and
friendly point of view, has asked as only reparation
of this grave act the liberation of MM. Slidell and
Mason ; but that, if she does not obtain it, Lord
Lyons would leave Washington with all the mem-
bers of the Legation.

"We are assured that the despatch is drawn up
with great moderation—that it carefully avoids any
hurtful expression—but that it is firm in its con-
clusion. From the information we have received
up to the present we do not think it likely that Mr.
Lincoln will give up the prisoners."

TURIN, DEC. 5, EVENING.
The debate on the Roman question continued to-
day in the Chamber of Deputies.
Signor Buoncompagni said :
" The path followed by the Government in
regard to the Roman question is the one which
was recommended to it by the vote of the Cham-
bers. It could not think of acting otherwise
than in accord with France, it being necessary
that Italy should still have a stranger in her bosom.
As long as Venice is in the possession of Austria,
Italy will always be at war. We could not obtain
Rome without first having Venice. Italy will go
to Venice when she shall have an army of 300,000

men."

Signor 13uoneornpagni approved the policy of the
Government on all points.
Two Members of the Left afterwards spoke against
the policy pursued by the Government in the
interior.

Baron Ricasoli will speak to-morrow.
General Bixio was present at to-day's sitting.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30.
Mumtaz (Mouchtar P) Effendi has been appointed
Minister of Finance in the place of Teffik Pasha.
This appointment caused a panic in the money-
market, and during the week the rate of exchange
rose to 246. Confidence, however, is now re-
turning.

It is said that the Porte will replace Fuad Pasha
in Syria by one Governor with a political Commis-
sioner.

A reduction has been effected in the Army Budget
,o the extent of 25,000,000 piastres yearly.

THE ENTRANCE OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS
INTO THE HERZEGOVINA.

VIENNA, DEC 3.
The evening supplement of the Wiener Zeitung of
yesterday contains the following official notice:—
"Not long since the Civil and Military Governor in Dal-
matia made known to the Imperial Government that the
insurgents in the Herzegovina had in two different parts of
the Sufi ring constructed batteries which commanded the
Imperial Royal military road across the Turkish strip of
land (enclave), and also the waters of the Gulf of Cattaro.
" In virtue of a convention between Austria and the
Porte no change can be made in the status quo in the Suto-
rina except by mutual consent. As the batteries in question
interfered with the security of the communication between
the territory of Ragusa and the district of Cattaro, the
Imperial Royal Government was necessitated to summon
Luka Vukalovich, the leader of the insurgents, to remove
them, and that within a given period. At the same time
it stated that if the abovemenLioned chief of the insur •
gents did not do what was required of him the Imperial
(Austrian) troops would not fail to take the matter in hand.
s Luka Vukalovich did not attend to the summons within
the period fixed, which was at an end on the 30th of
November, the Commander of the Imperial Royal Brigade
lying at Ragusa received orders to destroy the two batteries,
and, when he had done so, to return with the troops em-
ployed to the Austrian territory."
By a telegram of the 2d inst. from Castelnuovo
a fortified town at no great distance from the
present entrance to the war port of Cattaro, we
learn that a body of Austrian troops under General
von Rodich entered the Sutorina yesterday, " and
without having fired a single shot," demolished
the two batteries that were between Svinjo and

Lucich.
To the best of my knowledge no convention be-
tween Austria and the Porte gives to the former a
right to send troops either to the Sutorina or to
Klek. On the 14th of February, 1853, the Porte
simply promised that it would undertake nothing,
either in the Sutorina or in Klek, " which in the
difference of opinion that at present prevails could
lead to a conflict or ultimately to a war."