The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-14 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

MR. SAM COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou-
rite Song•e, inclnding " THE HOUSE THAT JACK
BUILT. "

Grand Selections from
STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA,

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

with a poWerful Chorni.

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 delineators of the day ;
and Miss Harriet Coveney .

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

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

EVERY EVENING.

Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Boma-
nczra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and
Madame Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene,
and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F.
Jonghmans. 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. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ;
Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning,! h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Sm.
To-monßow.-Morning, 12h. 32m.—Afternoon, 12h. 54m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 14, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
51-7.ighest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
46—thisiday at noon.
BAROMETER-30.05; rising.
WlND—South-Westerly ; fresh breeze, and fine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 14, 1861.

Arr. THURLOW WEED not having been taken
out of a British Mail Packet by the Sumpter
or the Nashville, has arrived here safely, and sits
down comfortably in his hotel to write his
letter to a contemporary. He begins with candour,
at the expense, he tells us, of his patriotism ; we
were certainly not aware before, that candour to-
wards an offending nation was want of patriotism to-
wards our own. Probably, however, Mr. WEED ac-
cepts that favourite transatlantic motto—"our coun-
try right or wrong." His candid though unpatriotic
confession is that the crack case of the Americans
—the seizure of Mr. LAURENS—Must be given up
and that " the bottom has fallen out of our strongest
precedent."

What, however, Mr. WEED is chiefly concerned
about, is the, to him, unaccountable notion that
Mr. SEWARD could have been thought by English-
men hostile to their country, or that the American
Government generally had a similar feeling. How
can we have been so mistaken ? He refers to the
story of Mr. SEWARD'S remark to the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE, that he expected soon to be in high office,
and if he were, he must insult England. We con-
fess we had looked on the story us gossip, it might
be true or might be false, but we did not consider
it evidence against Mr. SEWARD. After Mr. WEED'S
remarks probably most persons will add it to
the rest. A gentleman who was in
a position to know about all such gossip
does not contradict it, speaks of it as an
alleged conversation, and excuses it as badinage,
well understood by an American, and meaning
nothing. Mr. WEED is again so unpatriotie as
not to shrink from censuring the rude remark, from
a man in SEWARD'S position, as highly offensive.
Englishmen will, however, be unable to get rid of
the impression of a proverb current enough in their
own country respecting the truth of words spoken
in jest. When the subsequent acts of the jester
accord with his jesting language, it is impossible
not to perceive that the ruling passion suggested
the man's jests.

Mr. TUURLOW WEED seems to overlook the
more serious part of Mr. SEWARD'S behaviour: We
can understand that Mr. SEWARD, in honest
ridicule of the sovereign mob, if he had dared to
satirize his patrons, might have pictured them as
blind and silly enough to demand such a feat of
bullying from him, although a gentleman would
not have selected insults to his guests, as jokes on
his own mob masters. That, however, might pass,
it being acknowledged that a spice of
rudeness
seasons the humour to American taste. None of
these excuses apply, however, to Mr. SEWARD'S de-
letters, or acts; and Mr. WEED
liberate speeches,
cannot deny that these have seemed designed to
irritate us to the uttermost, if we did not consider
it beneath us to be irritated by such a man. His
celebrated speech referring to Canada as the appro-
priate compensation for Southern losses, his
circular urging on the Governors of the States
the fortification of the sea coasts and lakes,
and his treatment of the Southern Commissioners
after they had been taken out of an English vessel,
all cohere so well with a malicious purpose behind
the joke, that we can hardly doubt that that and other
things which might be mentioned originate from one
motive—the desire to be strong with the American
mob, by going as far as he dare with England.
English feelings towards Mr. SEWARD, and, in
a measure towards the whole Government of which
he is a prominent member, has changed much
as it has done in regard to the whole Northern
party. Mr. L'ArA.B.D was long looked on here as