The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

laxly contrasts with its origin. theatre had its source in the - quity, so the modern ..._ of the Miracle-Plays and MI? tbu... Middle Ages. Even now, in the rel villages of the Pyrenees, the practice survives, performers prepare themselves for the represen tation of sacred parts by fast and prayer. This sacred character isunavoidably lost from the stage., No one can desire to restore it. But the union of the stage with morality need not be sacrificed. The devotion to it of men of pure aims and blame less character will be the most effectual means of ensuring that an influence necessarily powerful shall be also beneficial. In the " Memorials of " WestininsterAbbey," which its accomplished Dean has just given to the world, the author attributes the higher moral character of the English as com pared with the French theatre to the toleration and consideration afforded to its professors in this country and denied to them, until recently, on the other side of the Channel. The sanctuary which refused its shelter to BYRON contains the tomb of GAR.RICK and a cenotaph in honour of KIMBLE. Powerful interest was necessary to insure to MOLIERE interment in sacred ground ; and R.scutz, whom Port Royal had educated, was driven by the fear of ecclesiastical censure from dramatic literature. VOLTAIRE praises the com prehensive toleration which found a place in the Temple of Memory equally for " the charming " OphiLs " (Mrs. OLDFIELD) and for " the im " mortal NEWTON." To banish good influences from the stage is to make room for depraving ones. To outlaw a profession is to demoralise it. To drive away BA43NE is to invite CREBILLON. Whatever may be thought of the late Mr. KEAN'S merits as an actor or as a manager, no one dis putes the credit which is due to him in having by his personal character and by his respect for his vocation done much to make the stage a vehicle for wholesome and innocent amusement. In a career abounding with temptations he steadily, ministered to the better sense of the public, instead of pandering to its worst feelings. Ms example may profitably be followed not only in his own profession, but in higher arts and graver pursuits. A deputation from the Evangelical Alliance, consisting of Lord Chichester, the Hon. W. Ashley, Lieutenant. General Clarke, the Rev. Dr. Steens, Major-General Burrows, the Rev. James Davis, the Rev. Dr. Sehmittan, Colonel Lawford, Rev. Henry Jones, Mr. R. N. Fowler, and Mr. F. C. Fox, bad an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreigo.onice yesterday, upon the subject of the persecuted Nestorian Christians in Penis and Turkey. THE PRINCE OF WALEs.—His Royal Highness ! the Prince of Wales has been staying this week with General Hall at Slx.mile Bottom, near Newmarket. The guests invited by the gallant general to shoot over the estate with his royal highness were his Highness Prince , Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Fee of Leiocater, the Earl of Dunmore, the Earl of Tankerville, the Marquis of Blandford, the Hon. T. de Grey, Mr. W. Bullocke, and Major Teesdale, in attendance on the Prince. Some good sport has been obtained during the week. The Maharanee Dhuleep Singh gave birth to a son on Thursday last. The Earl of Derby, according to accounts re ceived in town yesterday from Knowsley, is somewhat better. Baroness Charles de Rothschild and Miss de Rothschild have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham , gate, from the Continent. ..a allow to Austria . right in the solution of the North Schleswig question, and that it would reject any interference from other quarters. It is to be noticed that simultaneously with this semi-official declaration on the part of Prussia, the St. Petersburg Journal announces that while Rus sia claims no preponderance of power for herself, she will not suffer the arrogation of it by any other state. AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES. At a banquet of the democratic party at Wash ington on the Bth, the following letters were read from Secretary M'Culloch and Secretary Seward : - Lamm OF SECRETARY II'CULLOCH. Treasury Department, Jan. 6, 1868. Dear Sir,—Your note of the 31st tilt. is received, enclos ing an invitation to be present at the meeting to be held at the Metropolitan Hotel, in this city, on the evening of the Bth inst., for the purpose of commemorating the battle of New Orleans, and the gallantry of the distinguished general and the citizen moldier by whom it was won. Other engage ments prevent me from accepting your complimentary invitation, but I take pleasure in saying in this manner that I heartily sympathise with the hope ex pressed in the accompanying printed letter, that in cele brating the occasion of such imperishable renown for the Arneeican name, happier memories will be awakened, and that the magnanimity of the nation may be re-amused to • noble sympathy for the descendants of those who as " bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh" so nobly illustrated the Mr. Stanton. patriotism and progress of the American citizen. There never has been a period in the history of the United Stake when a broad and comprehensive nationality of !sentiment was so greatly needed as at the present time. It is deeply to be deplored that the passions which were excited between the sections during the recent war, h►ve not been succeeded by kindness and insg nanimity on the part of the victors, and acquiestonce in the result on the part of the vanquished, that the avowed purposes for which the war was prosecuted on the part of the government seem to have been forgotten by so many of our fellow-citizens, and that the condition of the Southern States has in no wise been improved since the hostilities were ended. It may not be proper for me in this communica tion to discuss what is called the question of " re construction;" or to condemn, or to criticise the opinions or action of my old political friends in re gard to it. This much, however, I deem it my duty to my, I consider the restoration to the Southern States of equal rights with the other States under the constitution as essential to the existence of our republican institutions, ' and to the improvement, if not to the maintenance of the national credit, and that, in my judgment, this is unlikely to be affected by any policy differing materially from that which was substantially inaugurated by Mr. Lincoln and attempted to be consummated by the present amain tive. As civil liberty is not the offspring of military power, but is in danger of being destroyed instead of being fostered by it, I have not favoured the establishment of military governments in the Southern Staten As a true Union sentiment is not to be renewed in these States by a general ostracism of their prominent and trustworthy men, I have regarded with great apprehension the enact ment and continuance of laws which exclude from Federal offices and from the ballot citizens of ability and influence, without whose co-operation a reliable re union of the States is not to be expected ; and believing, as I do, that the question of suffrage should be controlled by the States, and not by the Federal government, and that the elective franchise cannot be safely bestowed upon a race recently in bondage, and with few exceptionsutterly unprepared to use it intelligently, I have deeply regretted the legislation which deprives a part of the States of rights heretofore enjoyed by them, and still exercised by others ; and which, by ignoring all distinction between races so dissimilar, and by its sweeping disfranchisement of certain dames, virtually subordinate the superior to the inferior race. I gave to the executive policy of " re construction " my hearty approval before it became a party question, and I have never doubted its wisdom or its prac ticability. A different policy has been adopted, and is now being tried. Should it be summed ul in restoring the true union sentiment in the Southern Stated, in stimulating industry, in increasing production and in establishing harmony be tween the races, the wisdom of congress will be fully vindi cated, and their action will be approved by the people, and by none more heartily than by those who now disap prove it. Should it fail in accomplishing these moat de sirable results, the embarrassment and suffering which now exist must be endured for a season, and they will doubtless be aggravatel, by their continuance, but they will not be lasting. The different sections of the United States are not to be permanently sntsgonised, nor is the essential character of our institutions to be changed by the war, nor by the troubles which have followed it and by those which are still to be encountered. There is power enough in the government to stand any trials so which it may be subjected, and intelligence enough in the people to correct any errors that may have been committed by their agents. Hoping that the celebration of the Bth of January in Washington and elsewhere, by awakening agreeable and patriotic memories of the pest, may tend to excite through out the country a true Union sentiment, I am, very truly, your obedient servant, Haas It'Oni.ocff. Juba, from New York irrived at Queenstown and 241,280 dohs. in She landed all mail, except those for Liverpool and a portion of the Scotch, and six passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool imme diately ; all well. (Per the Cubs, viA Queendowo.) NEW YORX, JAN. 14, NOON. The Senate passed the bill reinstating Mr. Stan ton in the post of Secretary of War by 35 votes to 8. The Senate has adopted the resolution instruct• ing the judiciary committee to investigate the expe diency of providing a law for the suspension of offi cials from office pending impeachment and trial. A bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives declaring that no valid civil go vernments exist in the States lately in rebellion, transferring all powers of removal and appointment in those States under the Reconstruction Act from the President to the general commanding the army, and making it a high misdemeanour for the Presi dent to employ the army or navy to enforce the authority of the present civil governments in the rebellious States. [lntelligence has since been re ceived, per Atlantic cable, that this bill has been passed. j Senator Doolittle has presented the report of the minority of the Military Committee, strongly defending President Johnson's course in removing —.-----. General Meade has removed the state treasurer in Georgia, and has appointed a military successor to the post. The general has also issued an order legalising the convention ordinance staying execu tions to collect debts in Alabama until January, 1869. General Hancock has just issued an order nul lifying General Sheridan's special instructions for the registration of bonds. The Louisiana Convention has passed an ordi- 111111C0 declaring it a misdemeanour to reject any labourer from the plantation where he is registered until after the vote upon the new state con- stitution. General Butler addressed the negroes at Richmond yesterday, and was enthusiastically received. The New York papers publish intelligence from Ravannah, stating that it was reported Santa Anna was clandestinely sending recruits to the insurgents in Yucatan. NEW YORK, JAN. 15, Moasmc. Yesterday Mr. Stanton resumed possession of the War Department, General Grant voluntarily surrendering the keys on receipt of the resolution of the Senate not concurring in the suspension of Mr. Stanton. General Grant notified President Johnson that, under thew nure of Office Bill, his functions as Secretary of ar ad inkrist ceased the moment ho received notice of the action of the Senate. It is reported that Mr. Johnson has announced that he will issue all military orders through General Grant instead of Secretary Stanton. A resolution has been introduced in the Senate to reduce the quota of the major-generals of the army. The resolution is so framed as to cause the discharge of Generals Hancock and Rousseau. The North and South Carolina Conventions assembled yesterday. The Ohio legislature has elected Judge Sherman, a democrat, as senator to succeed Mr. Wade. The caucus of republican members of the Con. necticut legislature strongly favours General Grant as candidate for the presidency. The New York Herald publishes news from Vera Cruz of the sth inst., stating that 24,000 men under Diaz have gone to Yucatan to suppress the revolution. The same journal states that another revolution is imminent in Hayti. SOUTHAMPTON, Ji'e. 25. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia, from New York, has arrived here with 76 passengers for this port, Has-re, and Hamburg, 45 sacks of mails for London, 15,000 dohs. for England, and 800 dole. for Hamburg. On the 23rd the Hammonia passed a Bremen steamer bound west, supposed to be the Union. THE CHARGE OP FIXING; A PENIANPLACARD ON THE MANSION-HOUSE. James Cough, alias Coffee, aged 17, a thin strip. ling, who refused to give his address, was this morning brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with affixing a seditious placard upon the north-west wall of the Man. don-house on Friday afternoon. denies Cross, a police-constable, proved that he saw • placard on the side of the Mansion-house on Friday, Aunt half-past 2 o'clock, and about twenty persons were stand ing round, reading it. He afterwards saw the defendaut 4 the pulioe station. The defendant said he had no questions to ash of tho witness. Samuel Nest•, one of the Corps of Commissionaires stationed at the corner of Charlotte-row, deposed that he saw the defendant stick the paper that had been produc-d on the wall and ha then ran away and witness pursued him and took him into custody. The Lord M►yor—Did he say anything ? Witness—No, not n word. James Burn, a clerk in a dock or commercial house, gm e similar evidence u to the prisoner being the person whu stuck up the bill, and he added that he did not see any one with him at the time the bill was stuck up. Prisoner, to the witness, in an impudent tone—Are you sure there was no one with me! Witness—Quite sure. Defendant—Wu it posted upside down! (A laugh•) Witness—lt was not. Defendant (laughing)—Good bye. (Laughter.) James Carroll, a City constable, proved that he searched the prisoner, and found upon him a Prayer-book, a large knife, a copy of Moore's " Melodies," and a copy of the Unierraal News newspaper. The prisoner at first refused to give his address, but he had since ascertained that he lived at No. 16, Uxbridge-terrace, Newington-causeway. He made inquiries, and discovered likenesses of Burke, Kelly, and Daffy, and also several copies of the Illustrata Nres containing reports of the Irish state trials. Inspector Foulger proved that when the prisoner was brought to the police station he said that his name was Michael Cough. He told him that he was charged with attiring a placard to the Mansion-house without the authority of the owner, and the only re. ply be made was, " Did you see roe?" Wit. ness told him he did not, but there were two witnesses who did. He at first would not give his address, but afterwards be did so. The prisoner dropped a pencil-cane, and as witness was picking it up the prisoner told him to be very careful, as it was his revolver aml it might go off. (A laugh.) lie found several documents in the possession of the prisoner, and among them was one suggesting that the youth of Ireland should be in. strutted in the history of their country, and be taught how to fight for it. At this stage of the case there was the noise of some. thing falling down the ventilating shaft in the court, awl the prisoner burst out laughing and mid, " Mind, there is an explosion going on." Inspector Foulger went on to state that among the other documents found upon the prisoner was his will. (A laugh.) The Lord Mayor said it was useless to go into any mem of these documents. Edward Rowland, a City constable, proved that LA Saturday a placard of a similar character was posted in :be same place. The placard was then read. It has already appeared. The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner whether he wis:ted to say anything ? Prisoner, in a careless, impudent tone. —I don't under. stand much about it. By the way the witness read the placard it appears as though Duffy was dune to death by the Irishmen of London. (A laugh.) The Lord Mayor told him it was evident that be was well acquainted with the contents of the placard, and he remanded him for a week, for inquiries to be made. THE SICK POOR OF POPLAR. -- CASUALTY, INQUEST, AND SPECIAL VERDICT. An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, at the Market House , Poplar, lset night, mire Live to the death of Caroline Siddle, aged 45 year*. The dressed was the wife of a painter living at 45, Augusta-street, Poplar. _She had been a healthy w oman all her life, but being seised with a sudden illness onTues day week an order fur the perish doctor was got the next day. Instead of Dr. Gale, however, a " boy of la;' visited the deceased and prescribed for her. He saw Itvr spin on the followinir Saturday ; another gentleman haw her on Sunday, and on Monday she died. Mr. H. Stanley Gale, M. 8., the parish surgeon, de. posed that he saw the order to visit the ileceesed left at his house on Wednesday week. Ho bed such an enormous number of cases that it was quite impossible for him to see half of them personally. There were 120 to be visited at their man homes end over 400 whom be had to treat at his surgery-600 in all. Those whom ho could not personally visit were seen by two wan/tante. One was ZI years of age and had walked the hospitals ; the other had not studied at the hospitals. but had been with witness a year and a half. Neither was legally imaliried. Coroner — But is there not a stemiling order wriest a parish doctor employing anyone who is nut properly qualified ? Wit neis —There is ; but how can a man be expected to do imp ossibilities! The salary is just 101$. a year for attending to all these sick patients, and the medicine for them is to be found out of it. I remonstrated with the board of guardians, but without result. I then wrote to the Poor-law Board, and they sent an irmistant for a short time; but one day, without any diminution having taken place in the sickness or distress in the district, they sent me a curt note stating that the assistance would be dis continued. No reason whatever was given. Dr. James Edmunds , 4, Pitney-square, lecturer to the Female Medical Society , s aid that the deceased had died from strangulated hernia. In reply to the coroner Dr. Edmunds said that , a most are the case was certainly happy one, as the intestine might easily have been fe rebel ul & d by an operation, and the n the poor. an li li eu have been saved. But it was only fair to say that the amount of work cast upon the medical officer was alto gether overwhelming, end was moat miserably paid. The 10:V. a year would not pay for the necessary medicine. for 600 patients, a number greater than that of all the sick in the London Hospital. Dr. Gale said that he had written to the Poordse Baird to say that he was sure some accident of this kind would happen, anal that no reasonable mall could kin! would blame under the circumstances upon him. The day this woman died 32 fresh orders came in to him. In answer to a question as to the sort of physic be gave six hundred patients, end at 21. a week, he said that he g ave • good deal. There was a two gallon vessel, which was filled and emptied three times a day. It held the water for making ; the mixtures. Of course he could not give the poor luta. ties in the way of medicine, he did the he beet could.ot Reen would have seen the deonamed himself if he was n gaged in visiting cases that he believed to be more serious. • The stricture was so small that it could hardly be detected. The Coroner having summed up The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased died from strangulated hernia, and that her death was accede _ rated bytbe want of properly qualified medical attendance: and that the board of guardians are to blame in requiring 5 the puish surgeon, Dr. Gale, to attend ands upply meaieine to so many more patients than he can pesonally see and prescribe for, while they pay him so small a salary that be is not able to employ properly qualified assistants to help dismissal of him." ST. JAMES'S Pewit, JAN. 18. —The Queen hie been pleased so appoint Captain Lord Frederic Herbed Kerr, R.N., to be one of the Oroones-in-Waitine, en Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Rear-Adma n, Sir William Haste, Bart., resigned.—Gazetfe. COWING OF Ann OF EARL FERitERS. —Yesterday (Friday) was the 21 st birt hda y of the Right Hon. Sewsllis Edward Shirley Earl Ferrer', and was celebrated at Chart' 1g Castle, the ancient seat of the family, one of the eel oldest in the British parse. His loniship's father died in 1857, and the noble mei, with the wanton and his nice, the Lady Augusta Shirley, has sinoe resided at Staunton Harold, the family Beat in Leicestershire, visiting Chuck/ only t o, shoots nd hunt, Torts in which the noble earl takee • warm interest. After being educated by •• pr i ests tutor hie lordship ea a student at Trinity College, Cambridge , and duly took his degree of B.A. Lord Ferrer", the countess, Capt. Walsh, and the Lady Augauta leftStauntonliero ldes Wednesday, but previously Mr. Leadbeater the house steward, distributed the dash of an with io 12 mores • quarter and of two fat sheep end ele amongst the cottager" on the Staunton estate. 11* at the containing the noble party eme 164 ,_ at the border et the estate at Unlade, or the and Stafford rcad. bY tbo thi roc e um a "' Ants ' wine yam.horseback, wore r • es members of the After those assembled had cheered the eal and his noble mother and elder, the serrisge proceeded ene met • crowd of upwards of 500, base of the ached Aflame, tenantry, he., at the Fend* entelee . to the Hall, Where an arch te7 tastefully de, dawasted with evergreens and led the welt °' the haft witk the theaseirden " Weacano" had tea andad. Several of tie earl in their oareieges teas also present The made earl was received with lead er Planse, and en leashing the hall was introduced to the beneMshwrith wham be sleek kends, oncoming his warm ih m k. th e " N oes arm to him. 'The tonantrY we! Airliall=l MO awe hy liewlest.—Llieffere• ..,. .. . TAE FERESS, SATURDAY EVE t, JANUARY 25:1r11. i On. As t 44, choice' •:t . i t ,itgrgr' t. t4` f ri' LATEiir INTZLLI GENCE,,,, inipin *in the corm ~ii to . obtain relief at Tangier the present scarcity throughout Northern Africa. air 1 . ' Il • axio Teton. At the and Spanish Legations religious dies of anti- -. • , "—&--. amain sprang out . • ?. 08BOlit e SA24. PRUSSIA, FBARCE, AND RUSSIA. iieranglar bread was daily distributed. A mom- I ties of the 'Oa Queetsjrave out yeibirday .5 - Nciewithstaaiffilliika more friendly feeling which MO of dry seasons suffiasieficient harvest led to )w in th e re mote °appealed by Prfncess Louise and Princess H tie of is said to have recently grown up between the practice survives, and, Sehletwill-Helatein. and her Majesty WI" 1° the governments of France and Prussia, there are in- Acclimate from the West Coast report copious Ives for the represen- d ' th"cening' attended bY she Doohar ' A B " . dications that the old jealousies have not been rains, with prospect of an abundant crop this year. at and prayer. This I ,burgh s . in. and Princess Christian rode i n the g de . wholly removed. A telegram from Berlin, dated Exchange on London, 49a ; Paris, 522 ; Madrid, Lay lost from the stage . %Ise Priam of Leiningen has left Osborne. yesterday, informs us, for example, that a semi- ito 1 dia• --- s it. But the union of 1 The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Chance ll or of the o ffi cial reply was immediately given to a remark of AMERICA. Lead not be 'sacrificed. Exchequer, arrived yesterday, and had the honour of dining La France—that foreign interference would take f pure aims and blame- with the Queen and the Royal Family. The royal mail steamship Cuba, from New York place if negotiations between Prussia and Denmark • nod effectual means of Lord Alfred Paget has arrived as Equerry-in-Waiting to should lead to no result—to the effect that Prussia on the 15th January, has arrived at Queenstown .........._ t „i her Majesty. with 17 cabin passengers, and 241 , 280 dohs. i n ,_ could allow to Austria alone a right of interfering suede. She landed all the mane, except those toe THE BISHOPRIC OF NATAL. Since the announcement that Mr. Macrorie would be consecr►ted Bishop of Natal to-day, the subject huh ten repeatedly referred to by our contemporaries. By one it is spoken of under the heading of " the duplicate Bishop of Natal ;" another uses the term " the rival bishops;' and a third " the Colenso cabsL" The contem plated consecration was to have taken place to-day, and the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, was, it is said, the place originally intended for the ceremony ; but this morning, we are informed, that the consecration is post poned, and, so far as England is concerned, is " abandoned." The Herald andStanelard,whiehhavewarmly supported the Bishop of Capetown, say the most probable solution of the difficulty is the consecration of Mr. Macrorie by the Bishop of Capetown, ss metropolitan of the African church, and the Bishops of Grahamstown and the Orange River state, either in Scotland or at the Cape. Another report post pones the project until a meeting of Scotch bishops has ' considered the question. It is quite understood by the ' Herald that the Archbishop of Canterbury is by no means opposed to the consecration of Mr. Macrorie, " although his grace is naturally anxious that it should be carried out in strict accordance with the statute and ecclesiastical law." In episoopel circles there has been not a little excite ment. Several of the English prelates were prepared with " inhibitions" to prevent the Bishops of Capetown, Gra hamstown, and Bishop Tozer—who had been suddenly summoned to England—from consecrating a bishop in their dioceses. Among these objectors was the venerable Bishop of Exeter, who is so strongly opposed to the pos sible violation of law that he has loaned a warniog to all the clergy of his diocese. The Tines is reminded by what has taken place within the List few days of the familiar arrangements which pre cede an encounter hi the prize ring. Hitherto scarcely an element of similarity is wanting, and it only remains to add the special train, the hurried journey to the border, snd the final evasion of the ecclesiastical police. The Archbishop of York has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Capetown, dated Wednesday last, urging " that time should be given; that steps should be taken for pro curing the opinion upon the whole case, either of the highest court or of the best lawyers, canonists, and civi lians." His grace adds :—" Of the evils of the present state of things no one can think more strongly than I do ; but it is a maxim that you will not dispute, that no wrong is to be cured by another wrong. The present evil in Natal may endure for a few years, but • wound might be in flicted in a hasty endeavour to snatch a present remedy, from which the church of England might suffer for gene. rations. As there seems to be some secrecy about the arrangements you will pardon me for adding that the con secration could not take ?lace in this diocese, nor, except with the consent of the bishop, in any diocese in the pro vince." OUR OONTEMPOItABIKB. (THIS DAY.) Referring to the action of the American House of Representatives relative to the Fenian prisoners in Canada, the Times observes that it cannot be the desire of the government of the Crown, whether in England or in Canada, to detain prisoners a moment longer than the ob ject of their detention warrants, but it is impossible to talk of mercy when new offences of the same character are planned by the associates of the former offenders. In an other article the Times depicts in the most unfavourable colours the financial state of Italy. The scheme of the finance minister, Count Cambray-Digny, is declared to fall lamentably short of the mark. The only hope of remedy is in the very extremity of the evil. The Daily News comments on the unsatisfactory con dition of the metropolitan police, and observes that we want • chief commissioner who is not always running to the Homenffiee to know what he shall do and leave un done. Such a commissioner Mr. Hardy must be prepared to give London, after his statement at Bristol. The grievances of the Custom-house clerks and the, Hungarian Loan, which is announced this morning, are among the other topics treated of by the Daily News. The Post asserts that Russia has been at last induced to postpone for • time the active advancement of her tra ditional policy in the East. This result is mainly due to the firmnani end good sense of Lord Stanley. The Telegraph discusses the retirement of Sir 3. Bolt, and the hint mode of tilling the vacancy. To promote the Solicitor-general, Sir C. Selwyn, would, it thinks, be ridiculous. Both Sir R. reel and Earl Russell put aside' political considerations when there was a necessity for securing first-rate ability, and were Sir R. Peel now alive the vacant judgeship would unquestionably be offered to some eminent equity lawyer—Vice-Chancellor Wood or Sir Roundell rainier, for instance—irrespectively of poli tical considerations. There is much reason to fear that the present government will not exhibit a similar desire to -rilinate political to public interests. THE lamented death of Mr. CHARLES Kase marks the close of an era in the history of the British theatre. He was not, perhaps, the last of our legitimate actors. To say nothing of a greater name in retirement, there are still veterans strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage, who rant in Macbeth and perspire in Othello according to the received traditions. But he was the last of the scholar-actors who still pursued their profession, and brought to it the breeding of gentlemen and the education and tastes which are taken for granted in the practitioners of the other acts. GARRICK, who was the pupil of JOHNSON, and tho friend on equal terms of Buttes, and Goiosuivii, and Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, and who retained, even after her conversion, the affection and esteem of HANNAH MORE, had true succes sors in theK r-MOLES, in Yoexti, and in MACREADY, happily the survivor of his younger contemporary. These men brought the best classical train ing of tho continental and English schools, of Douay, of Eton, and Rugby, to the vocation into which choice, accident, or necessity had impelled them, and, under the moral conditions of their time, pursued it with the respect which artists owe to their art, and gentle men owe to their character. During the director ship of Mr. MAIBEADY, Covent Garden and Drury kuie might be entered with the feelings with which a visit is paid to the Louvre or the Royal Academy. The " Masque of Comes," which lie I brought upon the stage, happily typified the spirit of his own management. He strove to banish the impure spirit of revelry from its chosen haunts. In this respect, and in the feeling fur history and for poetry, which marked his revivals, he had a worthy successor in the late Mr. CHARLES CAN. Antiquarian research might occasionally, perhaps, be pushed beyond the limits of artistic fitness in the celebrated Shakespearian re-produc tions at the Princess's. It is impossible to pin down to geographical or chronological accuracy, the author who puts into Heertot's mouth a re ference to A RISTOTLE,SIXI who makes a ship touch on the deserts of Bohemia. But the error was on the right side, and was more tolerable than MAC BETH in the bag wig and breeches, and CONSTANCE in the hoops and furbelows, of the eighteenth cen tury. The closeness with which SHAKESPEARE fol lows in his historical plays the chronicles of the times that he pourtrayed, is the beat justification of a similar attention to antiquarian accuracy on the part of the producer of his plays. The artistic conscientiousness which was dis played in these revivals was not more re markable than the moral conscientiousness which earned for the Princess's under Mr. Krva's management the title, which he used to quote, with justifiable complacency, of the " Parsons' " Theatre." The fortunes expended, not once only, by Mr. KEAN and his predecessor in the efforts to restore the British drama and the stage to their reputation, afford the best proof of their disinterested enthusiasm, and of their failure. The Titanic placards which now appeal, in letters of a yard long, to the public indifference ; the trum pery wood-cuts which would disgrace a penny peepshow, and are as truthful as the pictures which adorn a travelling caravan at a country fair, and the " sensation " headings of the play bills, are so many low-water marks by which the decline of the theatre may be measured. Who can imagine a painter or sculptor, LANDSREIL or Gismos, for example, descending to such expedients? No one could practise them to whom the drama was more than a trade. After all, the condition of the theatre, as the moat popular of all arts, reflects the state of society. If it does not hold up a mirror to human nature it holds up a mirror to the age in which it flourishes. If " hoofs profane the boards which " GARRICK'S genius graced ;" if a generation which fails to produce masterpieces of literature is fertile in burlesques of the masterpieces of earlier times; if thestageexhibits atendencyto Para disiacal nakedness without Paradisiacal innocence the fault is not with it alone. These things are but indications of a laxity of morals which the com mercial transactions and the political maineuvres I of the time more explicitly declare. The art which was practised by SHAKESPEARE and by MOLIERZ, which enriched literature by their genius, and which furnished to Attirrw the wealth nobly spent in the foundations of the Dulwich College and Gallery, is not necessarily the hand maid of frivolity or dissipation. Its divorce from the severer forms of religion and morality singn- THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Examiner represents Lord Stanley as re turning the reply, " I say nothing," to every question that N can interest the public mind. Garibaldi may threaten Rome, and Napoleon may threaten Italy; but Lord Yesterday evening, at the weekly meeting of Stanley can only say, " I say nothing." R - alaia may the members of the Royal Institution, Professor Tyndall incite the Danubian. to conspire against the Turk ; the delivered his second lecture "On Faraday as a Die- French may incite the Egyptians to invade Abyuinia coverer." The Professor concluded by giving an affecting under cover of our expedition ; and the Turks may con- account of Faraday during his illness, and read two letters tinue to butcher children, ravish women ' and burn down which h e h a d written, in one of which dated in the villages in Crete, while every Christian flag save that of autumn of 1865, he alluded to his loss of memory, and of England affords the fugitives shelter and safe passage not being able to recollect at the end of one line what be WON the ~V;ean ; but all Lord Stanley can do is to look had written in the line before. The lecture was not ended on, and when asked what England has to say to these until 20 minutes after the usual time, and at it. oonclu things, to repeat his catchword—" I say nothing." How a n p r a m° , T yn d a ll seemed mus h a ff ec t e d. thi democratic Reform Bill came to be passed, after his The chair of Moral Philosophy in the University lordship had indignantly declared in parliament that it of Edinburgh, vacant by the decease of Prof. MacDougall, was a calumny to insinuate the possibility of his being an I is to be filled up by the curators about the middle of June, accomplice in such a design, be has but the tame dull an thereby allowing the successful candidate sufficient time MU to give. What sort of education bill Mr. Disraeli to prepare his lectures previous to the commencement of contemplates he may be pardoned for not expounding, for the session in November next. Applications for the chair possibly he may not know, will be received by the curators, who are the following The Bristol banquet is the subject of • paper in the gentlemen :—The Right Hon. W. Chamber, Lord Provost Saturday Review. There is nothing now left, it observes, of Edinburgh ; the Right Hon. J. Inglis, D.O L., Lord foe liberals to say. Not • single word was uttered at the I Judas Genera . th e Right Hon. sir W . G . C r a m Bare. ; Bristol banquet which might not have been uttered if it Sir David Bre wst e r . Bailie Russell ; Bailie Fyfe ; A. bad been a liberal gathering. Conservatism is so Black, Seq. utterly wiped out that its very language is lost. The Athenanun understands that the authorities Lard Stanley repeated the old argument which we have so . of the National Gallery, lamenting the probable cessation often heard from the lipe of Mr. Bright, that the Reform , Bill was justified by the numerous anxieties and embarrass- ; of the most valuable annual exhibition of pictures by the meats which En has encon e, as it not he old masters and deceased British artists at the British E land to ute wise that, in a moment of trouble, s of the ima m., w h o t hi n k they I Institution, are in treaty with the . proprietor . have a fair claim to a share in the government of the ' named gallery for the further hiring of their premises in country should be kept aloa from it. Mr. Ga thorns ! Pall-mall, in order to the carrying on of the gatherings of Hardy entreated his conservative friends not to stand pictures on loan from the best furnished English private apart from politics after the new Reform Bill cornea into ; " 4ft-tie "' operation, but to go in love and coofidence among the I The Council of the Zoological Society have working classes, and strive and labour with them elected W. Jesse, Esq., as their zoologist to •accompany the for the general ' good of the country. This is I Abyssinian expedition, which appointment has been not only in the key, but in the very spirit, of Mr. approved by the government. Mr. Jesse will join the Gladstone ; and it is only natural that Mr. Gladstone ,head -quarters of Sir Robert Napier. should feel and should express, se he not long did in Lou- ; The London Student is to start from a committee cashire, his surprise at this being the sort of talk offered I of professors and teachers in London, with an able staff of by the very person whom Oxford chose to substitute for writers, 01101011 at our public schools, ha., throughout the him. We may confidently assert that, if Mr. Hardy had kingdom. said anything of the sort before the last general election, I No day has yet been definitely appointed for the he would never have been returned by Oxford. But he obsequies of the late Mr. Kean, bat it is understood that say. so now, and no one reproaches him, for he only Says the funeral will certainly not take place earlier than next what everyone else says. On every single topic of public Wednesday, while there is some likelihood of its being de interest—on education, on the Irish church, on Ireland !erred until the Friday following. The place of sepulture generally—the talk of the conservative leaders at Bristol will be the family vault at Keydell, near Herndean, in was either that of their old opponents, or of men prepared . N em pshira, to go forward, if they only knew how, and willing sad i LITERARY AND ficistrriric MEETINGS TOR THE to longing be educated. ENSCING WERE.—Monday : Futom s =od, 7,AnniversaiT; The Spectator thinks Lord Stanley's ability was chiefly Geographical, Bi, " Liv . ingstone Expedition," Mr. meat of Commu tati on, or shown in the very conservative teak of explaining how to 1, 7 2 1 44.21:1. i1 7 ; chie Arr h a e r e : . ‘ Tuesday : Ersgineers ~ 8. let ill alone. His apology for the conservative policy of " Freshwa ter Floods of River ," Colonel VConnell. last year on reform was, however, as good as such an Wednes day : Soetety art Arta, 8, "aimate, he. of N a t a l," apology could be in the nature of things, and infinitely : Dr. Mann. Thursday : Royal Institution, 3, ' Faraday's more effective for is purpose than Mr. Dieraeli's at Etta- , Disoon i ties S ." , _ l l i l ee. r. t°3:OSITDRISI, ;Ro yal rdemy: 8, burgh. Our oontempomry is profoundly convinced that :: tem ueorge's Chapel . Windsor, by Sir P. H by 6 Edw. them is so hope discernible for Ireland in the best toy ' wi.. ,, ffee. G . p . T ownsen d. p r io,, y : R o y al / nat io,. otrurffAMPTON, JAR. 2S. statesman of the present day—and very little immediate tion, 8 . , "Public School Edusatio?_ " Rev. F. W. Farrar. The Pen i nsu l ar so d O r i en t a l c o mpany's steamer hope for any other want that asks urgent attention. Lord Saturday: Royal Institution, 3, ' N -Metallic Elensents," Stanley is evidently disposed, like Lord Rummell • few years Professor Itee"ft, — .Atteft efte • ago, to " rest and be thankful," with this difference only, ISr. or PAUL 'e CarEZDIAL.—The special Sunday ; : i rth anza' ff pamongess airTying °I , l e l a r7 - 4,.. -ils in.,..i. , hal : arri anr a l ber ,3oo awing the winter and spring seasons,i I o f auk Tape that he has assented to a measure which will terminate his =tervidis ete ' are as overfloingly attested now as in Packages =gel ncluding 681. bales rest MOO enough; while ea fee Pawl" thankfulnessat the On y night Usk the Very Bev. Dr. 50,0001. In the Bay of Biscay the Nyasa* asps . present moment, it certainly takes • mind disposed to be , Dean of Exeter was as preaeher, and te-asstrow rime d o hard r d o so d a boon bane sea. On chiefly for calamity, to produce it. evening this Bev. M. Faison, M.A., {nom- Ilsent of Vit. Bride's, Liverloool, will deliver the eveielsg the 23rd ahe spoke the dimmer Ceylon. discourse. Nest month the Maar ci Lenders la. ap- GIBEALTAB, JAL ID. The benches of King's Inns Society, Dublin, en palsied, as preethers. Feb. 2, Rev. Dr. 1144 . es tertained the Lord-Liestsaant at dinner on Thrusday Mut ' lf l ' altambaat c elle P ed lies ; r esa l lt ; e th t h f geb * 1 R ev. . sa 1 people th e irci os i g u ra Tangi. b oor ‘ i% o d and of Tstma those gli terms till‘ infe: ..,.._ Dr. Telford, the evening. Nearly a ll the bashers wen present. Ana weed 3B..A . B . M e n effid mu m .. G e oi d , l ucid , wi gaseing arrimay thew & wi naly a i f oo d . Tw o . Lord•ldeufesamt was greatly sheered. The only resolves mom, Mlddlasax at , sad simplain to the Mae el " The Health of the QUAIL" 1 Landes ; sad Fah. 13, bin Grote the Archbishop et T. nth& 31 Pero ea thebrink at diroli l li a l Inn - imk J. D. Hoover, Esq., Chairman, &0., National Hotel, Washington, D.C. PROM !IMPART REWARD. Department of State, Weshington, Jan. 8, 1868. ToHon. Charles Mason, Chairman, Sze., Washington, D. C, Sir,—l shall be unable to accept the kind invitation of your committee to the Bth of January celebration this even- I t og , without departing from the habit of self.denial which I have found necessary to maintain, in the hope of recovering constitutional health and vigour which have been somewhat impaired. I would, however, cheerfully make sucha sacrifice now. as I have oecasionally done heretofore, if it seemed to be necessary Dow—as eertainly it was then—for the vindication of the President of the United Slates and his administration in their piney of seeking the earliest and oompletest passible reiteration of the Unica. New advo- cates and defenders of that policy have arisen in the North, as well as in the South, in the East, and in the Wed, while it has come to command the admiration and respect of I all foreign nations ; sad those of our tellow"itimms who have opposed, resisted, and hindered it by illegitimate proceeds, have ceased to be samilants, and have been brought to an attitude of self-defence or evasion. The unerring instinct of a great and enlightened people bee promptly discovered the exact political situation. It is, thereto'', no longer neownsay far times who are engaged in administering the executive department of the government to show that chronic disintegration would be as fatal as violent separation, or that prosperity, pesos and harmony mu be obtained only by laying aside the sword without delay, end by restoring to the subjugated States an their constitutional rights. fasultito, and Iran i chises.—l am , my d ear dr, with sh/C4RO respect, your obedient servaat, Waxiest H. BZWAILD. (UUTZLI TZLI4IAIIS.) THE BOMBAY MAIL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. REPORT IN TILE AY (now OUR on coalsarcurnamo PARIS, FRIDAY EVIDTING. M. Dumas, the reporter chueeu by the com mittee on the Army Bill, named by the five bureaux of the Senate, read his re port at a public sitting yesterday. The committee, ten in number, consists of--Count Boulay de la Meurthe, the vice-admiral ; Count Cecilia, Marshal Count Bandon, Vice-President Boudet, General Count de la Rue, M. de Goul hot de Saint Germain, Marshal Canrobert, M. Dumas, Vice-Admiral Count Bouet-Willaumez, and M. Bahia. The report, which professes to express the unani mous opinion of the committee, is from beginning to end an elaborate apology for the bill. The correapondence relating to the D. O'Sullivan, of Cork. from the commission of the psacebas been published. Mr. O'Sullivan says in reply to a letter from the Lord Chancellor, " I shall always consider the offence of the three Irishmen executed at Manchester purely patinas', and that opinion le endorsed by catholic Ireland. I should consider it wrong if I encouraged any other than constitutional m eans far redress of their wrongs." The New York Herald advises Mr. Dickens to take a hint by Mrs. Yelverton's experience :—" Not less than 80,000 dollars has thus far been drawn from the popular pocket to pay far Dickens' tickets, and of this sum Dickens himself his mowed about one-third—perhaps less. It will be seen, therefore, that the lion does not pt the lion's share when it comes to dividing. Mr. Dickens should Sang* his programme and profit by the experience of ano ther diatinguished :codes--the Hon. Mrs. Ye/verbs. That lady reed several times, but made no money. Her agents, however, lived on the fat of the land. and sold not be in duced to tad* any fluid lees expensive than champagne. 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TAM Evincrso, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TEILEZA. Mn. Lane, & Mimes Edwin & Bca.th ; Pan unaimarta Messrs. Deane. Louis, Newham, and Vlctarelli C. Stephan and Illaa Rose Nathan.—And WHO DID IT? HIGH WATER AT LANDON BRIDAL TVA ?)At —Horning. Yd 31m..—..Aftarneoft, BL BMA co-110tmoir—MornIng. 3A. 13m---Afterhoon. Lt. 29111. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. wrl .Ir. DIOTL►n Lloyd e d I Li rpool, in nt aro wit of ns e eir r e e had ng Tt:eetro, n . h lry tn h e att' e c k , l -r,. i in ori : t hv f hi ht , neda r milteddofP e t w , e c tah igt Peti tioner. length liheherthat ati l nd hfr begun t o hie b i s niY; kicked hi band s o rT t g u :i P kh r n, a n i hi g er turned or d iI • bask r as n into • lowed r n ow ati runk. at multed him excel at was in aelf•defe 'ked it better new ways begun throe uken old woman. The respondent, • was oin years of n ways lived with hi e had married the ke ears of his ho .und, however. On e money he hail 'ldle she was dm uld hardly be rep , as entirely false. larks which she ha , v his holding her • ribs, they had b got a bed. (The Me was Is to: N. 45! The bankrupt, I Pna, out of busu ly.....llehts en o dral ud, Mr. Harrisou or removed part erift's o ffi cer wa oveniently abut Mr. Ilasaabrue, tat the goods 11 tber•inlaw, t. The bankrupt, Nicer had allow of rainier u g ""a ia Honour ise ukrnpt had fig of. The bankrupt Crsaborne-itr Mr. Sydney op 1 1542, under w mifioate. 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