The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-05 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN,

THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of 50 Horses; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century,
Alfred Bradbury, Mdlle. Montero, M. Napoli, F. Clifton, and
t::amwell's Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.30.

AGRICULTURAL HALL, IsLINGToN.—FAIRY PALACE
CONCERTS, Every Evening, at 8.

CHRISTY lIINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Eyery Night, at $
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL AL iTAMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4,
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN'S, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex
cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on ➢londays, 6d.; Children
under twelve, 6d.

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LOXDON, 7HUMSDAY, NOV. 5, 1838.

Again the Republicans in the United States have
triumphed over the Democrats. As the Eighteenth
President of the United States, General ULYSSES
GRANT was elected yesterday by a sweeping majo-
rity. The foremost soldier of the Northern Armies,
the chivalrous conqueror of the heroic LEE, has been
wisely selected by the vast majority of the people of
1 the United States as the successor to ANDREW JOHN-
-1 SON, who attained his supreme position as PRESIDENT
simply by mischance, namely, by the fact of his being
Vice-President at the time of ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
assassination. The Democratic candidate, Mr. SET-
MO un,was selected indiscreetly as the antagonist of Gen.
GRANT. But, even if the Democrats bad chosen the
fittest man that could well have been named in lieu
of Mr. SEYMOUR, that fittest man, we may feel now
reasonably assured, would never have successfully
withstood the dominant popularity of America's first
Generalissimo, the victor of 1865, the triumphant
Commander of the Northern Forces, into the hands
of whose troops General LEE delivered himself
up on the 9th of April, in that last named
year (1865), at the Court House of Appomatox.
As to the two great contending political parties in
one or other of which most of the smaller political
parties became absorbed during the presidential
electioneering agitation of 1856, they have long since
lost very much indeed of their original significance.
Negro Slavery having now, thanks be to GOD, disap-
peared altogether from the United States as a re-
cognised and legalised institution—the Democrats no
longer signify as they did originally those advocating
the views of the pro-slavery party of the Southern
States—any more than the Republicans mean as they
did formerly the Nordiera Abolitionists. So regarded
the words are as obsolete now throughout the United
States as Free Traders and Protectionists are obso-
lete throughout the United Kingdom. But in ano-
ther sense they possess a far more distinctive signi-
ficance throughout the United States of America,
than is implied at this moment, here in Eig'and, by
the two Great contending parties of the so-called
Liberals and the so-called Conservatives. Gen. GRANT,
the chosen champion of the Republicans is not
in any way a partizan Leader. Ills extraordinary
reticence leaves him at the moment of his assuming
the supreme position as PRESIDENT wholly and abso-
lutely uncommitted. His antecedents are altogether