The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-17 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, lIKYMARKET , Sole L e ssee and Manager, Mr. Backstone. TFIIS EVENING, A. ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT : Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farren ; Miss Ada Cavendish. After wh T fl F. FAVOU KITE OF FOR ruNE : Messrs. F. othern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Saville, Moore, Fitzwilliarn, hill, Lindley, &c. Concluding with A DACTURTER ro MARRY : M.r. W. Farren and aliss ilelen Ilowari. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM T REATRE.- Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. The Last Four Night' Rap earance of Mr. Pechter as Edgar nswood. TINS EVENING, SIM t'SON AND CO. Maws. S. Emery, C. U orsman ; Mesdames Ebworthy, Henrade, Hors inan, atd E. Boy Alter which. ce. THE MASTER OF RAVENS WOOD. Mr. .Fchter ; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin, J. FL Fitzpatri&, D. Evans ; AesdamesTernan, E.sworthy Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL D ELL 111. Sole Proprietor and Manager, jrN. B. Webster. TI EVENING. ICI ON PAULY, FRANCAIS. M Messrs. J. L. Toole , Billington, Phil ips ; Mesdames Kate , carnal], and Godsall. - Alter which, 2nd time, a new Opera Bonffe, entitled CRYING JENNY A\ D LAUGHING JOHNNY• Mtasrs. ,J. L. Toole, Eburne, Mi,s Furtado, Mrs A. Mellon. To conclude with THE -WRECK ASHORE : Messrs J. L. Toole. P. Bedford. Stuart, Isillingtcr, Ashley; Miss Woolgar Miss 11. Simms. and 0 y RIN C ESS'S THEATRE. It sole Lessee and Manager , Mr. G eo. Pinin g . BIS EVENING, A GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. Alter which, at a quarter to Eight, THE STREETS OF LOS DON. Messrs. Ninlng, T. Mead, D. Murray, Shore, Villiers ; .Ors. H. Marmon, 3E03 E. Barnett, and Miss K. Rodgers. OPAL STRAND THEATRE. Jai Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, PERFE TION. After which will be produced grand Easter Burlesque, PA KIS ; or, Vive Lempiere : Mes-q.s. Stoyle, lhorne,Jameb : Mesdames A. Swanbovougb, Raynham, Simpson. Johnstone, Kanoe, and Holt To conclude with DEAF AS A POST : Mr. Belford. ADLER'S WELLS THEATRE SUnder the Eole Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation. THIS EVENING, F. C. Burnand's pathetic drama, THE DEAL BoATMAI:. Mr. Be:more and Miss F. Gwynne, Followed by Douglas Jerrold's nautical Draml, BLACK EYED SUSAN. Messrs. T. Swinbourne, Barrett, Belmore, Misses Ada Dya., Harland, L. Wilmot e, &c. Concluding with Burnand's Burl,,sque of IXION : Misses Lizzie Willmore, Hudspeth, ratllly Gwynne,Harland, Hetty Tracey, and G. Belmnre. Commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. NYE CHART. ..----- usually followed, and declared that a moderute enfranchisement of the people was the best way to avert the peril, " graduallyanchaainusg time," he argued very sensibly e t l a y 13 a , a •: w e is il l e concessions gracefully given, did not tend to brie ig revolution. It was the resistance to all chang es, the refusal to grant reasonable popular demands, that tended in the end to endanger the institutions of the country." R e ferring to the effect produced by the great Reform Bill of 1832, he asserted that the tide of the uneducated masses was them rolled backed for 30 years, and he believed the same thing would happen now. had not the upper classes been wise in time something like universal 1 suffrage would have been adopted, and he believed that the result of lowering the franchise at the present day would be precisely the same as it had been then. In the House last evening the arguments in favour of the measure were strongly urged by Mr.L..kYARD. His speech corroborated, though no doubt acciden tally, the statements of Mr. BAXTER as to the effect of the bill of 1832, in rolling back the tide of demo cracy. So far from becoming more democratic, he declared his conviction that England was becoming more Conservative. The annual motion against the law of primogeniture had fallen into desuetude, the Charter was never heard of, and as member for one of the most democratic constituencies in the kiragdom he ventured to affirm that it did not contain a single Chartist. The willingness of the working classes to refer their difficulties to men of position instead of to their own immediate associates had been strikingly evidenced during the great Staf fordshire strike, when the men, instead of going to any demagogue for assistance, applied to Lord LICHFIELD, a nobleman well known for his sympathy with working-men, to act as arbitrator. Although his arbitration was not entirely successful they afterwards presented the Earl with an address thanking him for what he had done. This certainly showed that during a time of irritation and discon tent these men entertained no feeling of animosity against the ranks above them simply because they were above them ; but they had the good sense to perceive that a man who by education and po sition was entirely removed from the influences of trade was the most likely to take a fair and impartial view of the situation. Referring to the wholesale charge so recklessly brought against the working men as a class of being open to cor ruption, Mr. LAYARD, with spirit and justice, re turned the charge upon the heads of those who brought it. "You have no right," exclaimed the hon. member with honest indignation, "to throw it in the teeth of working men that they are unfit to exercise the franchise because they are corrupt, while you are their corruptors." This is, in fact, the real secret of the matter ; and if corruption and bribery, if un fair influence and intimidation are to exclude our artisans and mechanics from the right of voting for a Parliamentary election, let us at least be con sistent in our application of the principle, and deci , mate our existing House of Commons. The great speech of the evening on the Oppo sition side was, of course, that of Sir HUGEL CAIRNS. An able logician, an experienced con stitutional advocate, an eloquent orator, Sir HUGH CAIRNS is always a powerful friend and a formidable foe, but last evening his address was more argumentative than impassioned. He went back to examine the constitutional principle of representation, and spoke at length upon the necessity of preserving the balance of political power. He contended that the bill was a step towards universal suffrage, but the same might be said of any extension of the franchise whatever. He admitted that the working classes were entitled to a fair representation, but he be lieved this measure would give them a predominance t I -which no one desired, and which would not be for their own advantage any more than for their general good. A powerful reply to all the argu ments against the measure was brought forward by Mr. MAGUIRE early in the evening, when he quoted the words used by Mr. DISRAELI in 1859, when he asked, " Is this question of Reform to be suffered to remain as a desperate source of faction, or only to be taken up at a moment of great popular excite ment, and settled, not by the reason, but by the passions of the people ? Are we to establish a chronic irritation in the public mind upon a subject which, of all others, should not form the staple of our party contests." This, as Mr. MAGUIRE said, was a strong opinion, but who can deny its truth or . , its applicability to the present occasion ? Sir FITZROY KELLY keeps firm to his post as the staunch champion for the repeal of the Malt-tax ; and last night his determinationowas put to the proof. The Chancellor of the Exchequer asked the hon. and learned member whether he would postpone his motion on the subject, in order that the debate on the Reform Bill might be continued. Sir F. KELLY very forcibly replied that he would do so on condition that Mr. GLADSTONE would give him another day prior to that on a hich the Budget was brought forward. To this very reasonable request Mr. GLADSTONE replied by one of his ingenious cir cumlocutions, respecting the " convenience of the house," the " exigencies of the public service," &c., but wound up by stating that he would not give a night, because he had already pledged himself to bring forward the Budget on the first Government night after the disposal of the motion for the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill. According to this view of the question,the right hon, gentleman had no right to ask Sir F. KELLY to post pone his motion, because it was virtually sacrificing it to put it off until after the consideration of the Budget. Sir F. KELLY intimated that he should therefore be obliged to bring forward his motion to-day, which announcement was received with cheers. Mr. GLADTSONE, it is true, admitted that there was an extensive desire for the discussion of this subject, but his acts did not correspond with his words. After this unpromising episode it does not seem that we have good ground for hoping that the right hon. gentleman has altered his views on the subject of the Malt Tax, or at all events modified them. It has long been known that Mr. GLADSTONE has had a prejudice against the reduction of the Malt Tax, far more against a repeal. We may fairly say, however, that the period has arrived when he must concede some thing this respect. It is all very well to talk b in indirect t a xation, but the commerce and a t lt interest of the different class with should ctoimiamnuntithye o f re s a h e o eo u na ld pli N s r h . favourite schemes, and the e m ig e h n t more maintenance of particular schemes. The also oie greatly calamity of the Cattle Pla g ue changed the aspect of things, and calls imperatively for some change in this direction. Half of this tax should be remitted at any rate, and unless this be done the Opposition will have a right to say that INir. GLADSTONE'S financial reforms are very elastic, and can be turned to suit anv purpose. Justice and reason certainly call for this reduction, and we hope that the Government will be prepared to do their duty in this respect. Sufficient has been said on this subject to show the necessity for the reduc tion of the tax, if its repeal be possible, and Mr. GLADSTONE will find that he has mistaken the feel ing of the House and the country if he persist in measuring out his financial scheme„ by line and MOSES AND SON'S E. LONDON HOUSES, __A • 04, 155, 156. 157, Minories ; 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, Aldgate 506, 507, 508, New Oxford--street; 1,2, 3, Hart-street; 137, 138, Tottenham-court-road ; 288, Euston-road. Country Branch—Bradford. Yorkshire. ------ M OSES AND S 0 N E• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest fabrics are combined with the latest and most fashionable designs, and the best workmanship. E. 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QPORTING.--JOHN ROBERTS supplies the KY LATEST EDITION of "TIII4I SUN" as soon as pub lished.-1, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. - THIS DAY.—ltonaing, 3h. 16m.--Afternoon, 3h. 38m. To-Monnow.-11@rning, 41i. Om.—Afternoon, 4h. 23m. jig t C.P".0117,111 LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1866. The resumption of the debate on the Reform ques tion, though it brought forward a good many . _ able speeches on both sides, did not introduce to us any very new views of the subject. In fact the whole question has been so repeatedly discussed, analysed, and examined, argued and counter argued, that little that is fresh can be said about it. The points at issue are in fact narrowe to two qstions. Wh e ther any reform in the repdresentatiouen of the People shall be effected at all, and whether the present Government shall retain office. The answe rs to these two queries are the secret moving springs that sway a large proportio n of the speakers on both sides, and in the final contest the struggle will be bet ween them. Without doubt there are many member s 01 the House who, from either pri vate or public reason, object to any extens ion of the franchise whatever, and it is not a little singular when we look at the opinion s repeatedly antagonists the terms expressed in the course of this debate to remember of the motion which the g o uts of Reform are su pporting. Mr. BAXTER, who made a very able speech on Friday evening , commented on this sin gular discrepancy. The resolutions moved by the opponents of the Bill and their speeches gpok e said, an e ntirel y different language. Most of them spoke, he the enfranchisement of the spoke againstmasses. " Whereas, t o judge from t heir resoluti ons , they wished for a n leasare of Reform more comprehen sive than that wh ich the Government proposed. Their voice was the vo ice of JACOB, but their hands were the hands of ESAU." Mr. BAXTER'S opinions on the measure are worth having, because he has seen a good deal of the working of the democratic system, and is _ entirely opposed to it. No man in that House was, he said, more alive than he was to the great danger of handing over a monopoly of political power to mere uneducated masses ; but he adopted a different line of argument from that THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1866 ;re's Sonnets. and among the aristocratic assemblage was the Emperor and the Prince of Denmark. The Em peror, as is always the case when he appears in public, was cheered continually and vociferously. The discussion respecting the Merchant Navy in the Legislative Body was not concluded on Satur day, and it seems probable that it may continue for several days longer. Even the Paris papers seem to be getting sick of it. M. Welles de Lavalette, who has been appointed to the responsible situation of Manager of the Western Railways, is only 32. He is the adopted son of the Marquis de la Valette, Minister of the Interior, and son-in-law of M. Rouher, Minister of State. He is a deputy to the department of La Dordogne, and Secretary to the Legislative Body. Some of the alarmist opposition French papers, and one or two of your English contemporaries, have talked of the early assemblage of a vast camp at Chalons, drawing the inference that France was ready, or even desirous, to take part in a struggle between Austria and Prussia, should it take place. I have frequent access to official sources of infor mation, and I have full reason to believe that the French Government will, if events should render it necessary, take the opportunity of declaring its intention to preserve strict neutrality in regard to the differences between the two great German Powers. We have had another midsummer day. At 11 o'clock this morning, the thermometer of Reaumur in the shade had risen to the point which indicates the temperature of the Sevres (hot- houses.) We have had uninterrupted sunshine all day. There has not been even an April shower to remind us that Ls early spring. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) REPLY OF PRUSSIA TO THE LAST AUSTRIAN NOTE. BERLIN, APRIL 17. The Prussian reply to the Austrian despatch of the 7th inst., which was forwarded to Vienna on Sunday last, refuses to rescind the order issued on the 28th ult. for the mobilisation of Prussian troops. VIENNA, APRIL 17. It is positively stated that the Prussian reply to the Austrian despatch of the 7th inst. declines to accede to the request of the Austrian Government for the demobilisation of the Prussian troops. DISTURBANCES AT JASSY. JASSY, APRIL 16 (Everting). The rioters have issued a proclamation openly pronouncing for the separation of the Principali ties, and declaring the election of a foreign Prince to be an impossibility. A battery of artillery has been ordered from Bacau to this city as a measure of precaution against any renewal of the disturbances. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 16 (Evening) The Minister of Finance is ill. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies upon the bill for the New National Bank have announced that they will not meet until the Minister of Finance is able to be present at their sittings. FRANCE• PARIS, APRIL 17, The election of a Deputy to the Corps Legislatif for the Department du Bas Rhin has resulted in the return of M. de Bussieres, the Government candi date, by 19,600 votes. M. Laboulaye, the Opposi tion candidate, obtained 9,900 votes. BOURSE, April 16, Three o'clock.—The marke closed at the following quotations :- 41 per Cents 97 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 15 Do. end month 67 05 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 593 75 Bank Shares 3460 Italian Loan 54 75 Do. end month 54 60 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred linis — Do. end month — 'AYE. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman - - ... 825 - - ... 1105 - - ... 865 542 50 - - 533 75 - -- •• . 100 - - •.. 370 - - - 381 25 - •.. 140 -- - - •• • 195 - 77 50 Attempted Assassination of the Czar. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. An abortive attempt has been made against the life of the Emperor of Russia. At four o'clock this afternoon as the Czar was entering his carriage, after a promenade in the Summer Garden, a pistol shot was fired at him by a stranger, but without taking effect. His Majesty is uninjured. The perpetrator of this outrage has been arrested and brought before the Tribunal of Police. EASTER SUNDAY AT ROME. The Pope's Benediction Urbi et Orbi. Easter Sunday (says the Roman corresponden of the Morning Herald) was at its first dawning a little threatening as to weather, but the clouds "lifted," as we say north of the Humber, about nine o'clock, and though the sun was never very brilliant the day was a very fine one. I have described the ceremony so often that a variation of detail is almost impossible. The principal feature of St. Peter's was the extraordinary crowd, and the great affluence of occupants of the Royal box ; the entire families of Naples and Saxe-Coburg, the Comte de Flandres, and the Dowager Queen of Saxony, with a most brilliant and numerous suite, completely filling it, nearly double the usual number of sove reigns and princes being present. The Pope entered about ten, and having received the homage of the cardinals and the authorities of the city, sang high mass, Cardinal Antonelli assisting as deacon, and Cardinal Pentim as subdeacon. The annual benediction, Urbi et Orbi, was given by the Pope in the usual form immediately after mass. The Communion was barely over when the crowd began to pour out of the Basilica into the Piazza, and to occupy every corner of the galleries and arcades whence a good view could be enjoyed. The Pope appeared at the window, borne on his throne, sur rounded by the cardinals, a few minutes before 12, and as the chimes which had heralded his ap proach died away his voice, clear and audible to the furthest part of the Piazza, rose in invocation of the blessing of God on the world and on the city. Often as I have heard that magnificent prayer' neverheard it spoken more impressively : the Pope seemed to throw his whole heart and soul into the words, and his still stately and unbending figure was drawn up to its full and majestic height, as with arms out stretched in the form of a cross, he rose from his throne and blessed the crowd in the name of the Holy Trinity ; and then, as if moved by a sudden impulse, as the acclamations of the vast multitude rang through the air, renewed it, making the sign of the cross a second time over the people. Was he thinking of next Easter-day, and the events the in terval may bring forth ? There were few present but put this question to themselves, although a far greater feeling of confidence appears to reign in well-informed quarters since the almost certain out break of war in the north of Italy. In such a case a very strong impression exists that even if the French troops leave, the number, composition, and instructions given to the foreign legion will be such as to offer an ample guarantee of the intentions of France. The Orchestra informs us that Signor Carlo Patti, the young vocalist, and brother of the diva, has just ar rived in town front Spain, with the intention o f a pp ear. ins at the ensuing concerts. measure instead of adapting them to meet the wants of the public and the exigencies of the time. Sir F. KELLY has shown a spirit and determination that deserve success in the prosecution of his task, and the Government will find it difficult to withstand his attack. A very significant circumstance came to light yesterday respecting the state of public opinion in Prussia. A very crowded meeting was held on Sunday, at which it was unanimously resolved by those present that war between Austria and Prussia should be denounced as a " national mis fortune," and also asserting that a "Liberal Prus sian Ministry could alone command the general confidence required for Federal Reform." No wonder that this intelligence was not transmitted with much rapidity, for, of course, it was most obnoxious to the powers that be. It is fortunate that this meeting should have taken place, because it shows undeniably how very unpopular will be the war into which the mischievous machinations of Herr BISMARCK are plunging the Prussians. He will find himself and the Government in a very different position now from what they were at the time of the Dano- German war. Then, to the lasting disgrace of the people of Prussia, all was considered fair and right that expedited the conflict, and all attention was directed from the affairs of home interest in order to further the cause of aggression pursued abroad. The Prussians are in general so apathetic and indifferent that it is quite a relief to find their asserting something like spirit at this important juncture. It will now remain 'or us to learn if more heed is paid to this popular manifestation of opinion, in Berlin than has been generally done of late. At any rate, such an affair as this meeting on Sunday will go far to strengthen Austria, and will give the enemies of Prussia the opportunity of saying that with all its parade about Reform in Germany, the Government of Berlin does not rightly represent the feelings and carry out the opinion of its own people. There is certainly no earthly reason why the two Powers should go to war if it is not that Herr Bismarck has been allowed to overrule influence, and to mono polise all power to himself. The question resolves itself into this : either that statesman must retire or modify his views, or a general war throughout Germany will be the inevitable result of all this turmoil. The difficulty will be to drive so arrogant and assuming a man from his post ; and yet, unless this be accomplished, we would not give much for any chance Prussia has of extricating herself from her present subservient position with dignity to the Government, or interest to the people, who arc so seriously compromised by the turn these recent events have taken. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening. Here is the comment made to-day by the Consti tutionnel in reference to its latest news from Ger many :—" The news from Germany continues to be less alarming than it has been for the last few days. Beyond the Rhine they discuss—that is to say, they are not ready to fight." The illoniteur does not contain any political or other news of interest to-day. It publishes a very long report from M. Behic, Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, relative to the num ber of mad people, idiots, and fools in the public and private asylums, from which it appears that it has been on the increase up to 1860, the period up to which the voluminous tables refer. The Journal des Debats contradicts the report of Ministerial changes in the Prussian Cabinet, and says it does not believe the report of the illness of M. de Bismark. The 3foniteur contains a Ministerial order ap pointing M. Emile Perrin director of the opera, an arrangement of which I informed you some days ago. It is perhaps a curious coincidence that, the same privilege was awarded 200 years ago to a per son of the same name, the Abbe Perrin. The direc tor has a subvention of 800,000 f. per annum, with the recent addition of 100,000 f. annually from the Emperor's private purse. The competition is about to commence at the Im perial School of the Fine Arts for the Grand prix de Rome. The subject allotted to the ten painters who will compete is Empedocles receiving from the inhabitants of Salim° nte divine honours for having disinfected a river. The following story is told of an English lord who i went to the sale of fancy articles now in progress at the Ministry of War for the benefit of the poor. The English nobleman first asked the lady at the stall what was the price of a beautiful cigar-case. " Two hundred francs," was the reply. " 'Tis nothing ; I take it," said the lord. " And this jewel-case ?" " Eight hundred francs." " Nothing," again said the lord, handing a note of I,ooof. "Do you wish for anything else ?" said the lady. " Ah !" replied he, " what I wish for is not to be compared with any of these articles, but fix a price." " What do you wish ?" "To kiss your fair hand." The lady blushed, reflected, and replied—" Three thou sand francs." The lord gracefully kissed the prof fered hand, given with some hesitation—but what will not charitable ladies do for the poor ? " I want something else," said the lord—" a lock of your hair." " That will be 6,000 f." "That is nothing," again said the lord, on receiving the lock of hair which the lady cut off for him. " Six and three are nine," said the noble lord, and, handing 9,000 f. to the lady, his lordship departed, pleased with his bargains. This narrative may or may not be true. It is related as authentic, and I hap pen to know that at the Anti-Corn-Law League bazaar, held some years ago at Covent Garden Theatre, a gentleman offered £2O to a lady, who is now and was then the wife of a member of Parlia ment holding a high office, to be allowed to kiss her check. The offer was accepted, and the amount agreed upon was paid upon the spot. Gladiateur seems decidedly to be invincible. At the Boulogne Races yesterday the betting was 7 to 1 against the field for Gladiateur, and 10 to 1 against Gontran. For the Cup, value 10,000 f. and 10,000 f. added, of the 12 horses entered, only- four under toOk the contest against him. The following is the result of this important race : Gladiateur, 4 yrs, 1331bs (H. Grimshaw) 1 Le Mandarin (also belonging to Count Lagrange) (Mizen) 2 Gontran, 4 yrs, 1271bs (C. Pratt) 3 Ronce, 4 yrs, 1081bs (Chifney) 4 Gladiateur won the race so easily that really all struggle against him for the future would seem to be quite hopeless. One is reminded of the birds in America, which, according to the American papers, knew that Colonel Crockett's gun was so unerring that when they found themselves within its range they considered themselves shot at once, and gave in. The story of the coon is known to all sportsmen. An unfortu nate, perched on a tree, observed the Colonel with his terrible gun, and, it being too late to fly away, said, " Colonel it's not worth while to fire, I know lam a gone coon, I will come down." This sur render at discretion seems likely to be the watch wordwith all owners of race horses where Gladiateur makes his appearance. The Prix d'Auteuil of 2,000 f. was won by Scudo ; Gaulois, 2 ; Henriot, 3. The Prix des Cars of 4,000 f., for three-year-olds, was won by Colombo ; Victorieuse, , 2 ; Can- nonicre, for a wonder, Count de Lagrange this . race, I n a ier , was unsuccessful. His filly la Germaine occupied but a very backward position. The Ninth Biennial of 500 fr. was won by Count de Lagrange's Fleurette, 1; Stilton, 2 ; Etoile- Filante, 3. The Prix de Suresncs of 4,000 fr. was won by Anglo-Saxon, 4 yrs ; Prince Regent, 2 ; Astrolabe, 3. The betting was sto 2 against the winner. The attendance at the ra ces was very numerous, The Mystery EXPLAINED BY ROBERT H. GILES. to gentleman, of the mere fact of whose existence we were not aware until we happened to see his name mentioned for the first time in the Examiner of last Saturday, has just now put forth, through the columns of our contemporary, a long-cherished theory of his own in explanation of that hitherto utterly bewildering enigma, the Book of the Son nets of Shakspere. And the suggestion thns set forth in this most ingenious theory certainly does appear to us to bo not only, as we have here pro nounced it to be, most ingenious, but, intrinsically, in the root idea of it, in the very nature and form of it, of such really exquisite beauty that we are tempted here to give the bulk, or at any rate the gist of the charming paper propounding it, a paper which we would suggest, moreover, that the more curious would do well to examine for them selves in its entirety, as it is given with all due pro minence and at full length in the pages of the Examiner. The author of this new and very startling com mentary on one of the most remarkable works ever penned by Shakspere, signs his name Robert 11. Giless, and dates his communication on the 10th of April, 1866, from No. 68, Guildford-street, Russ-ill- • square.] He prefaces his argument by remarking, that— " The question to whom the sonnets were ad dressed has given employment to several ingenious minds. The Woman has ever remained a complete mystery, but three or four names have been put for ward as candidates for the representation of the Man. Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, had a supporter in Drake. Mr. Boaden and others have taken considerable pains to impose the sonnets on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. A [certain] W. Hughes has been wildly suggested; and still more wildly Shakspere's own nephew, W. Hart. From one quarter we are deliberately informed that the sonnets arc a heterogeneous medley of unconnected love verses, from another that they are not sonnets at all, but distinct poems. Mr. Armitage Brown was the author of this theory, but his classification of the poems is so loose as to defeat itself. For instance he tells us that us that stanzas one to twenty-six are written by Shakespere to his friend persuading him to marry—but all persuasion to anything of the kind stops at the seventeenth verse. In fact, Mr. Armitage Brown was working in a mist. Another and a new theory some four years ago reached us from Ger many, entitled a Key to Shakspere's Sonnets,' wherein, by an analysis of nearly every verse, the author endeavoured to prove Shakspere's own Genius to be the subject of the poem ; this was treated as a German idea,' but I strongly suspect the only fault of the German lay in the simply confounding of Shakspere's Poetic with his Dramatic Genius." Then comes the writer's, that is Mr. Robert Giles's own suggestion : the new Shaksperian commen tator expressing his notion in the manner fol- lowing : " My own theory," he writes, is that the so-called sonnets are an entire poem, in two parts—that the Boy is the Personification of Poetry or Poetic Genius ; and that the Woman is the Personification of the Drama or Dramatic Genius. The first part of the poem is the expression of Shakspere's religious love of Poetry. The second of his more familiar but not less absorbing love of the Drama. The whole is a Psychological Hymn, dedicated to the Genius which inspired it. " For those who argue from a material point of view, and for the sake of argument, we will suppose William Herbert, Henry Wriothesley, W. Hughes, and W. Hart combined in the person of one indivi dual, whom we will designate by the initials in the dedication, Mr. W. H., beautiful and accomplished, but thoroughly mortal; and placing him in perspec tive before us ["Tis distance lends enchantment to the view'] we will open in the middle of the first part of the poem, and choosing the fifty-third sonnet or verse, read as addressed to him these lines of our ever true and wise-speaking poet What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend, Since every one hath every one one shade And you but ono can every shadow lend.' Millions of strange shadows do not tend on ordi dinary persons,,but they do upon the imagination of a Poet. Addressed to Mr. IV. IL these lines have no meaning. Let us substitute the Genius of Poetry, and read them once more : What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend, Since every one hath every one one shade, And you but one can every shadow lend.' The lines become luminous, more than that, they become Shaksperian. Now apply the same test to a verse which to me appears to end the first divi sion of a two-part poem. We commence with Mr. W. : 0 thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour.' If Shakspere is addressing a Mr. W. H. of flesh and blood, then is Shakspere not to be depended on. If, on the contrary, he is addressing a conception of the Genius of Poetry, then still is Shakspere true to himself. For poetry can truly be said to hold in its power Time's glass, sickle, and hour. Poetry triply shows, reaps, and endures. It shows the changes of men and manners, it reaps the beauty of all things past or present, and it endures when other things have long decayed. It is the last survivor of a realm destroyed—the ono thing not oblivious. Who bast by waning grown and therein show'st, Thy lovers withering as thy sweet self grow'st,' Addressed to Mr. IV. H. this is without meaning ; addressed to Poetic Genius, it is a time-embracing truth. If Nature, sovereign mistress, over wrack, As thou goest onward still will pluck thee back, She keeps thee to this purpose that her skill May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill. Yet fear her, 0 thou minion of her pleasure, She may detain but yet not keep her treasure ; Her audit, though delayed, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee.' Mr. W. H., or Poetry Personified ? Shakspere the the Poet, or Shakspere the writer of hyperbolical and meaningless love-verses? What shall it be ? " In what manner of estimation [our theorist next considers] was the drama in Shakspere's time : and [he almost asks point-blank] whether Dramatic Works were considered as much a part of Literature asPoeticWorks. Referringto thehistory of the time, we find that they were not. Against the one poem of the Faery Queen,' as recognised literature, all Shaksperes plays were for naught. Dramatic writ ings depended on the stage for perpetuation, for continual approval, or for public neglect. The stage at the same time made their fame and was their condemnation. " How then if Shakspere, knowing himself [to be] as great as a Poet as he was a Dramatist, and feeling assured of the non-durability of his plays, should have contemplated writing a poem which would live, and adequately represent to future times how true a Genius his was ? How if in these lines he is speak ing to his Poetic Genius as contra-distinguished from his Dramatic Genius? How if this all beautiful, all accomplished ' Boy' be the personification of his Poetic Genius? Would such a conception be beyond Shakspere,:or is it not such as a great poet like Shak spere, whose sole hope to be remembered with Spenser rested upon his earliest productions, the ' Venus and Adonis,' and the Rape of Lucrece' Tould conceive? Thou which art now the world's fresh ornament.' Was not the Elizabethan Poetry, the world's fresh ornament, is it not now the cause of wonder and admiration? Might not Shakspere, knowing the divinity within him, have embodied his Genius with Poetry and Poetry with his Genius ? Was s uch a conception too great for him, who was all Poet as well as Dramatist? Is it not possible he may have experienced a bitter remorse at having expended all his genius on the possibly perishable Drama, and neglected the imperishable and higher-estimated Poetry. Read in this light, does not the first sonnet read as worthy of our poet? " In the second sonnet we read When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, &c.' Might not forty years have exhausted the fame of his dramas, or have exhausted their popularity ? Did it not nearly ? Have they not been preserved to Ile almost by a miracle ? Did be not well to fortify himself, or .the beauty of his picte'd his Genius Poetic, and contrasted it with his own Genius, against oblivion by a Poem ? Genius Dramatic—holding himself between the two And taking this combination of sonnets, this poem, —bending in love, which is almost idolatry, before as the 'fair child' of his Genius, will it not be the one; and, utterly against his conviction, yield found worthy of it? I have called it a poem, and ing i n l ove t o th e other—is food for long astonish a poem complete I shall prove it to be. meat. " Having his plays as proof of his capacity, we "Not Hamlet, unstable, between the slow move can well understand his meaning. meats of his awfully invoked moral purpose and the "I take the first sixteen verses to be inductive to the incessant activity of his mental abstractions—not poem. It is his own exhortation to his Poetic Genius to Anthony, all human, between his dominions, and beget by marriage with a subject or verse —or, in his honour; and his love for the Egyptian, are more poetic signification, with his muse—a true and faith remarkable contemplations than the knowledge this ful likeness of itself, which likeness will be found poem reveals to us of how the mind of Shakspere in the poem. was tortured between his life-deep love of Poetry " But how about the Woman ? and his helpless passionate fondnesS for the Drama•. " The ' lovely Boy' is the personirication of Poe- ' Two loves I have of comfort and despair, try—the Woman the personification of the Drama ! Which like two spirits do suggest me still ; What but Poetry could Shakspere so seriously love? The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill ; _ What but the Drama could he, against his reason, so To win me soon to hell my female evil passionately pursue ? How but in its love for the Tompteth my better angel from my side, Drama could Shakspere's Poetic Genius have been And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, false to him ? " And how is it that, by reading the poem in this light, it not only becomes lucid throughout, but takes the shape of the finest Psychological Poem in our language, even to the last two discarded son nets, which become an apt and necessary ending. " But [it may be objected] some of these Sonnets r had been written long before 1609, the year in which they were published. True ; and so long had Shakspere contemplated this poem, so long had the dramatist known and bitterly felt in what estimation the world held him. For all the appreciation his astounding merit had created—he knew the scarlet brand of Dramatist and Actor to be upon him. The vulgar impurities of the stage dragged even him, in the intellectual opinion of the world, to a kindred level. But why did he not, cognisant as he was of all this, give his attention to the composition of a Great Poem ? "The Puritans were bitter against the stage, and not without cause. But to Shakspere, who wrote with a great and good object, and than whom Mil ton was not more spiritual, the knowledge of being classed with vicious and false writers must have been most galling. As bad as the invective of the Puritans, to a noble and excelling mind must have been the familiarity of the vulgar. And the abbre viation of his name into Will' by unthinking fools was as much an insult to Shakspere as it would have been to Milton to have heard himself desig nated Jack' by an illiterate cobbler. But Shak spere, knowing his blamelessness, found solace in communing with his Friend—his only true Friend —and that was his Genius. Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow, For what care I who calls me well or ill So you o'ergreen my bad, my good allow. You are my all the world, and I must strive To know my shame and praises from your tongue, None else to me nor I to none alive. That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong. In so profound Abysm I throw all care Of others' voices, that my adders' ears To critic and to flatterer stopped are. Mark how with my neglect I do dispense : You are so strongly to my purpose wed That all the world besides methinks are dead.' No biography—though it chronicled him to the daily lacing of his shoes— could yield us such a knowledge of Shakspere as this one Poem. But let us come to the Second Part. In the first fuur lines we find him contrasting the opinion of his own times regarding the Drama with the estimation in which it was held of oldby the Greeks, and more than that we read in a sonnet a vindication of his own originality. In the old time black was not counted fair, Or if it were it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame; For since each hand bath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face, • Sweet beauty bath no name, no holy bower, But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited; and they mourners seem At such who sot born fair no beauty lack, Slandering oreation with a false esteem. Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe That every tongue says beauty should look so.' Shakspere—no copyist, no disciple of other men, bu a free and absolute master of his own art—is here thinking with his own mind and unreserved judg ment. As an original mind, he is on a level with Sophocles; and equally capable of furnishing'a stan dard of dramatic excellence. His judgment tells him that his dramas are good, great, and original. His critics tell him that they are irregular, not after the Greek models ; in fact, that they are bastard composi tions. Weighing his critics' condemnation against his own right estimation of his works, he says : In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were it bore not beauty's name ; • But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame.' In the construction of his plays Shakspere fol lowed the dictates of his own judgment; he pur posely discarded the ancient form of the drama, and chose to be original. Had he pleased he could have constructed his plots with as exact a regard to the unities as the Greeks themselves. He wanted greater space. The Greeli had their own ideas of excellence. Shakspere, like all great masters, had his. It was not from ignorance, but from abso lute choice that he so constructed his pieces. The Greeks chose narrowness of space and time, Shaks pere breadth and length. The Greeks, art. Shakspere both art and nature. That his contem poraries did not understand him we can well imagine. It is only now that his independence and excellence are beginning to receive a proper acknowledgment. Ho was not only in ad vance of his own time, bnt ho is of ours also. His plays could not be otherwise than pleasing but they were not understood. It is only the other day that Hamlet' was co mprehended,. and possi bly the failure of its being appreciated in his own day as a great masterpiece gave birth to the ninety third sonnet : Then hate me`when thou wilt, if ever now, Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross, &c.' Leaving the hundred and twenty-eighth sonnet, which is a wonderfully written allusion to the Stage and Actors, we will pause at sonnets cxxxv. and the one in which Shakspere alludes to his faniiliar title of The sonnets are good-humoured, and probably were written after a dramatic success, but there is still expressed in them a sense of to what familiarity his vocation doomed him. " Wonderfully popular as a Dramatist we know him to have been, but c - Hticism, though it awarded him many excellences, was against him as a Supreme Artist. It was his own knowledge of his own great ness which struck out lines like these : In so profound ilbyssni I throw all care Of others' voices, that my adders' ears To flatterer and to critic stopped are.' This feeling is obvious in many stanzas of the poem, and a deep and bitter feeling it was too. The know ing that he had abandoned Poetry for the Drama, and that his Poetic Genius was only truly represented iu his dramas, caused him deep regret. He represents his Genius, in the form of his Friend, as altogether in the Woman's (the Drama's) power : That thou bast her, it is not all my g r i e f, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly, That she hath thee is of my' wailing chief— A loss in love touches me more nearly. But his consolation is, that in having his Genius the Drama hath him (Shakspere) also : 'But here's the joy ; my friend and I aro one, Sweet flattery shows she loves but me alone.' "The second part of the poem, after fully reveal ing in what manner he estimated and how tho roughly he loves the Drama, concludes with two stanzas, leaving him still her Lover and her Ser vant. Wooing his purity with her foul pride And whether that my angel be turned fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell, • But being both from me, both to each friend I guess ono angel in another's hell. Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.' As I have before stated, he has personified his Poetic Genius in the form of Man, youthful, beauti ful, and all-accomplished. "But, with doubtful attributes, the colouring of the time, and in the form of Woman, he has personified the Drama. Thoroughly to unfold the thousand beauties of this work of ideas, would require a long and complete analysis of nearly every line. Afore real knowledge of Shakspere will be derived from it eventually than all the labours of his lovers have brought to light. Careful and most attentive study is required to read it, and only those of peculiar minds will ever understand it. I doubt if in the world there is another poem at once so abstruse, so beautiful, so delicate, or so difficult. "Completed in his forty-fifth year—his very prime —he left it as his masterpiece : so carefully veiling under a material garb the faithful likeness of his own Great Soul, that for nearly three centuries it has passed before the eyes of curious men utterly unobserved I I conclude with a verse addressed to the Genius of Poetry as it existed in him, and as it may in others be existing now : Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage, To witness duty, not to show my wit ; Duty so great which wit so poor as mine May make seem bare in wanting words to show it ; But that I hope some good conceit of thine, In thy soul's thought all naked will bestow it ; Till whatsoever star that guides my moving Points on me graciously with fair aspect, And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving To show me worthy of my sweet respect ; Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee ; Till then, not show my head where thou waY' st prove me.' " [And so—with the sound of Shakspere's own words ringing in our ears—we are left by Mr. Robert Giles to meditate over the ingenuity, and, as it app ears to us also no less distinctly, the exquisite beauty and self-evident reasonableness - of his expansion or adaptation of the German theory he himself Las frankly alluded to as having first indicated in any way satisfactorily (but, even then, when left to itseal but very dimly) the real inner hidden meaning '3' these wonderful Sonnets. As affording an exP l3- nation of a very lovely but (until now) inscrutable enigma, this little essay of Mr. Robert Giles's might henceforth, as it appears to us, be most judicious l y. prefixed to every new edition of the Sonnets that may hereafter be published. For having merely propounded his theory we feel almost under a Per sonal obligation to this true lover and most saga cious reader of Shakspere.] "The poem was published in 1609, with an enig matical dedication to a Mr. W. ii. Those who truly study this last poetic work of our foremost man will easily understand that to none other than himself could it have been dedicated. William and Himself beyond all question are the . two words indicated by the initials. " But the poem is the most valuable in our lan guage. There is nothing like it in literature. Upon its composition Shakspere has expended the trea sures of his most intricate thought, all his best com mand of language. From beginning to end there is not one purposeless word. It is at the same time the delineation and celebration of his Poetic Genius, and the revelation of his moral associations with the Drama. " The inconceivable skill with which he has de- Adelphi Theatre. Last night a lively opera buffa, entitled , g Crying Jenny and Laughing Johnny," by Offenbach/ was produced at this theatre with success. rrilie music is light and pretty, and Mrs. Mellon and Miss Futardo gave their respective portio ns of with great taste and effect. Mr. Toole has a highly comic part in the trifle in which he has to dr ess himself in petticoats; the laughter produced therebY can be well imagined. Mr.. Eburne, too, acted l!!* 4 part well, and we have great pleasure in conipw' menting him on this occasion, as we have had roll times gone. by to find fault with him. T he p iece _ was well put on the stage, and doubtless w ill p rovu attractive. DEATH OF DR. MARR.—OUr obituary eoutal"- an intimation of the death of a respected fellow-citisen —Dr. James Marr. Dr. Marr, though an Englisllo, by birth, received his education in this neighbourhooa —namely, at the High School of Leith, where he g uished himself by taking the gold medal — an d at the Ifn i- rgi versity of Edinburgh. He was possessed of great eneeo f combined ,with considerable talent, and was an t ee med lecturer on midwifery in tho Edinburgh -1"--- t r a Academical School for some years; but an ° A t; \ t u nity offering of acquiring the extensive typefoun'7 establishment of the Messrs. Wilson, carried on in d o n, Edinburgh, and Dublin, he left the medical Pr": i ossion and applied himself to that lino of businessl Dr. Marr was a general favourite amo n g his u rn e edit t brethren, and was very highly esteemed by those whom his latter pursuits brought him into communicatiO• He died in his 54th year.—Scotsman. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN WORKI10110 5. " ' The following form of petition to Parliament fro ul the wives and mother s p rofessing the Roman Catholic re: li g i on was read yester da y from the altars of the churc!: an d chapels in the Rom an Catholic Archiepiscopal diocc7. of Westminster by direction of the Archbishop, the eY R h ev. Dr. M v a ae n c n ienu i n sat g ol : amneci l d ' o S it h or o e w ll eegatih— or religious n Th liberty youra t t han kfa and dl p ot e of ti failsorbt el a; and that especially their 0 that e a a u v e a l they l b a e l e v n s h: longer proscribed or subjectedted to to penal a o t w ie n s r • e t i h ig a l t7 tlele theless, they are still Subjec cruel ' pena lt Y, ll3 „ d;- e severe to them than bodily pain in what may truly c al scribed as the compulsory education in principles onP°;-if to their own, and privation of all instruction i t own religion, and of all opportunities of practising 1g to which a large number of the orphans and Yara children of Roman Catholic parents are e 2 4 ese- nd poorhouses, Poor Law schools, reforntatories, ;Q-0, industrial schools. That a large proportion of the go industrial man Catholic population is very poor and engage d the very necessary for the general good, but injurious to er a health of thOse who carry it on ; and hence the nunibjo Roman Catholic orphans and children who corns " d io e n t o the Roman of Poor-law and Reformatory Acts of l'"" 0 0 ment is exceptionally large. That system of whi eU p e titioners complain, of forcing young child ren to at te to re ligious services and instructions diff eren t from th °s° . tting which their parents have accustomed them, an d cu A bi them off entirely from the instruction and consolation iv ta t the clergy of their own faith are ready gratuitously to ire e OO O to them, usually results in destroying on o set of Dug convictions without implanting others, an d in hardellior' and embittering the minds of those who are`m ade to lin tto go it. That to conscientious Roman Catholic par eu t : or the hour of death whose children are not provided f or , or are in any such poorhouses or schools, the knowledge of ou system pursued in them is the gi eatest grief oh ic j it not embitter their last moments. That this systems thou. „, directly prescribed by any law, and, as your petitionero Hove, contrary to the spirit and character a the legisla;to of the country, is carried on under the sanction of Abet of Parliament, and by powers granted by such acts* tribute s of your petitioners, or most of them, are. o bliged to coutr l se to poor rates and county rates , by which the exPellu the the poorhouses, reformatories, and schools in whie e go un children of their friends and fellow-religionists cr cruelly treated are defrayed. That your petitionera derstand that Parliament has interfered to protect „et:1'1.00 classes of persons in danger working in mines and factories, although the evils t° .,,fo prevented were less serious, and those whose powers 'a-0,1 of oppression, as 0 111 1 , 0 restrained were not receiving grants of public nion e l' w the alleged oppression was not exercised in virtue of P or e, ors given by Parliament ; that your petitioners, the re De earnestly pray that your hon. House will no leeg ° :, l o - contented to pass Permissive Bills which Poor La Vl , l ' e tiao di an s and others disregard , but will forbi d, under ei-bor provisions, the re f u sal of f ree access t o a properli aTholio ized Roman Catholic clergyman to the Roman in ¢el children, and the education of any such children o ther than their own faith in any poor-house, P ec) ' b r - 0 119 school, reformatory, or industrial school, sup Ported Tcoor or in part by taxes, poor rates, or county rates, an petitioners will ever pray." the SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY. —Monday next, b - do r, inst., is the anniversary o f Shakspere's ir tb ,r. P. The banquet which, under the will of the late 31r. bur p Cooke, is provided at the Dramat ic College at .1 13 Y, t he " at which the master, warde ns, and members e' _ o r h council shall preside, and to wh ich the whole o f th0: 0 0 sioners and any supporters a nd p atrons of the dr3dl r vo So well-wishers of the co sh be invited,'' ,/ce" Webster for its pretAdent llege and all ick Mr. Cresw for its : v at president. Special din n e r s in honour of the occasie also be held at various social and literary clubs. ,ef a...a t