The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-08 00:00:00

TiIEATRE ROYAL • DRURY-LANE. — SoIe Lessee and Manager Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. — PROSP ECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS.—This Evening, Monday, Oct. 8, and during the week (Saturday excepted), Shakspere's Tragedy of KING JOHN ' being the last five n i g hts it can be performed previous to the Christmas holi days in consequence of the numerous novelties in prepara tion. To conclude with Shakspere's COMEDY OF EIIRORS. Saturday, Oct. 13, Monday, Oct. 15, and during the week% Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. To con clude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Saturday, Oct. 20, will be produced for the first time on the English Stage, in respect to several of its chief scenes, a Romantic Play, in Four Acts, entitled FAUST, adapted from the Poem of Goethe, by Bayle Bernard. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. H. Talbot, Mr. W. Harri son, Mr. T. Swinbourne, Mr. Henri Drayton, Master Percy Roselle, Mr. T. Mead, Mr. James Johnstone, Brothers Webb, Mr. Edmund Phelps, Mr. BarMrs.rett, Mr. H . SiVezin,nclair, Mr. Barsby, Miss Am y Sedgwick, Hermn Madame Jenny Baur, Miss Poole, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, itirs. H. Vandenhoff, Miss Florence Bennett, Miss Adelaide Go'ier, Miss Isobel Ado.ms.—The Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. William Beverley. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward St irlin g . - _ _ THEATR E ROYAL, lIAYMARKET, a Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucksione, KNIN. I , 'I HE OV siltL Ni)k ROUTE. Me•isni. l els' lea lala• hews, Ruckstone, Coin ton, Chipperßozcrs, cal- Gordon. White, &c. ; Meador'', Mathews, Chi e , pcs: dale, 11111, Wright, Arc. Atter which, the BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. The Misses Healy. To ba followed by THE CRITIC. Me sm. C. Mathews, Compton, Rogers Mrs. I.l;zwilliam, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, BRUTUS AND CiESAR. M iss ile3rade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Ac's, THE LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Snenery by Mr. T. Greive and assistants. Mess; s. S Emery, Widdicomb, r itzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, riewbound Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynotds, nd J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; and Miss Grafto n Amtng Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. rTHE LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM TFIEATttE.— Johnby Reilly (an Irish Sailor). Mr. D. foucicault; Jane Lcaroyd (a Factory (iirl), Mrs. D. Bond- Cault. At 7 o'clock. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. Geo. Vining. WINTER SEASON.—REVIVA NCE.L OF THE TRIPLE ALLIA N.B.—Doors open at Half-past dix, performances to com mence at Seven. THIS EVENING, a Comedy. In Three Acts, by John Oxenford. Esq, entitled THE PftIFLS ALLIANt.:E Mr Vining, 31r. J. G. shore; Miss K. Rogers, Miss Neilson, and )lrs. Buckingham White. Atter which, at 9 o'clock, THE El UGUENOT CAPTAIN, by Watts Phillips, Esq. Mrs. Stir'in.4, Miss Neilson, Miss A. Thomson; Mr. J. G. shore, Mr. U Honey, and Mr. Vining. of Bohemians, in which MM. Flageolet, Clo dochc, Comete, and iNormande, will appear. Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TADS EVENING, Tail, I &LSI' TIGER. Messrs. Ste,ehen son, .Eburne, Rom r; Miss D'Este. Alter which, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOT Miss Kate Terry (her 7th app.arance in this Theatre, ; xe.,srs. Bilhngton, Stuart, ..,haw ; Mi,s Turtle, &c. To conclude with HELEN ; or, TAKEN FRO II THE GREEK. Mrs. A. Melton, Miss Furtado. Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, - R. Phillips, F. A. Shaw, Ashley, .h.burne. Commence at Seven. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. dole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. bwanborough. TH IS EVENING, THE bIAREtIs.D B ICHELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and II IL hes. To be followed by WAIrING FOll, TUE UNDER GILOUND. Atter which, will be produced the Latest Edition of KEN ELWORTEI. Messrs. 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T. Swinbourne, T. ead, Phelps, W. M•lnty re. G. Sp encer, C. Seyton, and Master rercy Roselle; Mesdames Herman Vezin. Miss Florence Bennett, dm To conclude with Shakspere's COMEDY OF ERRORS. Brothers Dromio by the Brothers Webb. Commence at Seven. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T lug DAY. —Morning, lh. 44m.—Afternoon, 2h. Om. T3-MORROW. -Morning, 2h. 20m.—Afternoon, 2h. 38m. z i t SW , LONDON, IVIONDAL OCTOBER 8, 1866. A matter of very great importance was on Satur day discussed at the Social Science Congress. Whe ther we regard the nature of the subject, the repu tation of the writer of the paper read on the occa sion, or the ability and experience with which the question was treated, we must regard Major- Gen. Sir ARTHUR CorroN's essay on " Famines in India : Their Causes and Remedies," as one of the most remarkable contributions to the Congress of 1866. Indian interests are now happily regarded as Imperial interests. At one time no one not immediately connected with India either in a civil or military capacity took any trouble about its prospects or its concerns, and consequently no one presumed to give an opinion on matters on which every man of ordinary intelli gence and education is in reality capable of forming a judgment. The result has been that the administration of a ff a i r s has bee n left altogether in the hands of a limited number of gentlemen, whose prejudices, interests, and associations all bound them to the old red tape and routine system, bad enough in any country, but worst of all in a half-civilised nation like India, where the population are totally devoid of the power of self-government, and private enterprise never counteracts the deficiencies of public neglect. The people expect to have everything done for them, and even were they differently constituted, it would be idle to expect them to effect what engineering skill and science are necessary to do. The slow and uncertain manner in which the public works of India have been carried on is disgraceful to our intelligence and our humanity alike. It is not surprising that Sir Aran un,C orrox, after nearly half a century's experience, cannot contain his indignation at the neglect and supineness which results inwhole sale murder. Ile sees the splendid natural capacities of the country ; he sees the comparative facility with which they can be turned to account ; he sees the wonderful success which has attended the little that has hitherto been done; and he sees the hundreds of thousands that periodically perish from our neglect of these opportunities. The sta tistics which Sir A. COTTON brought before the meeting on Saturday were certainly most startling, and he plainly reminded his hearers.that he was fully conversant with his subject, having been engaged on irrigation works during the last 45 years. Whether we consider thii7qlT -7--7;--- estion, says Sir ARTHUR, "sim ply as connected with the lives of millions, or as to our character in their eyes, from the mode in which we deal with it, either leaving them to perish, or showing sympathy, wisdom, and energy in endea vouring to save them ; whether we look upon it as a matter of duty or of interest, the terrible importance of the subject is beyond calculation." It must be remembered that not only is every famine in itself a terrible and devastating calamity, but their periodical return makes them assume a prominent place in Indian . history. In some parts of •India they occur every ten or twelve years, and consequently, as Sir A. COTTON observes, " they ought to occupy a regular position in the cal culations of every Indian Government. One dis trict, severely visited by famine some 30 years ago was selected by Sir A. COTTON as a sample of the devastation effected by it, because there happened to be fuller statistics concerning it. In 1831 the population of Guntoor, a district of 4,700 square miles, the 270th part of India, was 512,000 ; in 1833 it was 255,000—a loss of 257,000 ; and of these the report states that it appears certain that 200,000 had perished," and this was not an exceptional case. In Colonel BAIRD SMITH'S report on the famine in the north-west in 1810, he esti mated the mortality at 80,000 or 90,000 in the cen tral section of the famine tract alone, or 2 per cent. of the population ; in another part 8 per cent. In the accounts now received from India it is stated that 2,500 are dying weekly in one district, and that 900 dead bodies were picked up in the streets of Balasote in one morning. The extent of country suffering under this visitation is unusually large, and it is as yet impossible to estimate the total loss of life. Those who are more sen sible to the claims of property may reflect upon the actual loss sustained by the country in conse quence of these famines. Of the loss of property, Colonel SMITH estimates it, in 1860, at 31 millions sterling. In 1833, in Guntoor alone, the public works report estimates the total loss at 21 millions. " But," as Sir ARTHUR COTTON says, "how can we estimate the loss of character to a Christian Go vernment which foresees such evils, but lifts no finger to avert them ?" In 1854, when there was a local famine, he wrote, he tells us, as chief engineer, to press upon the Government the necessity of pre paring for it, but nothing was done ; and when the local officers found themselves overwhelmed with 100,000 starving men, the Government tried to employ them, but nothing was ready, and the poor creatures were too weak to work. So it has been now. So soon as the failure of the harvest was known, engineers should have been sent to plan out works of irrigation, to provide shelter, to supply tools, and lay in a stock of food from a distance, so that as soon as the gaunt enemy showed itself employment and food could be found for all under proper organisation. Had this, says Sir A. COTTON, been done in Bellary, that district would ever since have been secured from famine. " It is, in fact, only labour and organisation that is wanted in most cases. When Guntoor lost 200,000 by famine, a river was flowing through it which never fails, and which, in a single day carries to the sea 4,000 million cubic yards of water ; and as 6,000 cubic yards will secure a crop of rice, on an acre, water enough was running to waste in that one river in a day, in that very district, to secure 700,000 acres of rice, the food of 21 millions of people for a year. A single day's water would thus provide food for five times the whole popula tion of that district. The sole cause of the famine was that the water was not distributed over the land." What startling facts are these, and how greatly must we blame that official supineness which, from the highest to the lowest, seems to pervade ourAnglo-Indian authorities. Money can scarcely be the obstacle, since, as Sir A. COTTON observes, if the Government can afford to lose a million by a famine, it can surely afford half a million to prevent it. The works at Godovery, which have produced such beneficial effects, and which water a million of acres, were executed at a cost of half a million of money. It is not a question which can afford to be longer trifled with, for we are surely answerable for every life lost through our neglect of our plain and mani fest duties as rulers of the country. British sub jects are dying and suffering by the thousand for want of the common necessaries of life ; while we in England pause and hesitate and are indifferent, and our representatives sit with their hands folded, while famine does its terrible work. The Prussian Royal Patent taking formal pos session of Hanover was promulgated on Saturday, and no disturbances took place on the occasion. There was nothing new in the terms of the docu ment. It demanded, as all such formulas do, that the sway of the Prussians should be complete, containing some rigmarole at the end about the community of origin, language, and customs of Hanover and Prussia. llanover is insulted •by being reminded that the " reorganisation of Ger many demands the incorporation of Hanover, and thus Germany has acquired what Prussia has gained." How absurd this is, when every one is quite aware that Prussia fully intends to keep all her possessions exclusively for her own use. This fact is best proved by noticing that the Berlin Government go on precisely the same whether they meet with ac quiescence or non-acquiescence to their demands. The Frankfort Senate has sent the Prussian Com missioner a document which protests against the incorporation of Frankfort with Prussia, and re serves the rights of the citizens as based upon the independence of the city. What regard or attention is this.likely to meet with? we may very well ask. Will there not be the same asseverations made as to the claims of Prussia, and will there not be a repetition of what • has gone before in other States, resulting in the loss of liberty to the doomed dominions. From Stutgardt we hear that the Chamber of Deputies has recorded its opinion against the union of thesouthe t r r n ul p y ar t t ha o t f Germany seekmany with the north, declaring very the North G ermanberty, and b Confederation teprotection guarantees in nvainin of progress, liberty, of right. Even if a union hat w i m e r finally p e r tan t i s u h t o e Nn to r v es t s r b e e desirable, it is urged t l a l, tio n n o oftheSo ern doubt, Southern ea eth b a e t t u h n e it m ed il . itary Th or is gan il i , s i States ur desirable thing, and, at any rate, it shows that already suspicions are b e ing entertained as to the desirability of th likely hastily made by Prussia.changes so Austria to get into diffi cu lti es w ith h e r affairs ; and, indeed , e seems she has reached that stage where the complications aresogtro spring up eatthatas . fast as one is arranged anot her is sere The cession of Venetia seems to ha ve b een conducted in as satisfactory a manner as possible, and no feelings of enmity appear to be indulged in by the Austrians. The semi-official Vienna Journal contains an article that is written in a very sensible strain respecting the affair. It declares that it is the wish of the Austrians that their former adversaries should expel all bitter feelings from their hearts, and learn how much they will consider their true interests by cultivating a friendly feeling towards Austria. It is also announced that the mission of the latter in Europe does not lead her in the direction of the South. It seems a pity that this conclusion was not arrived at at an earlier period, for it would have IHE SON, Will ON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1866, saved a great deal of loss and annoyance. To-day the formalities for handing over Venetia to General LEBCE.UF will commence, and they this week will witness an important era in the history of Europe. Hungary will be the bete noire of the Vienna Gover mont, and in respect to its relations with that country they have shown themselves most ignorant and in competent. Nothing can eradicate from their minds the desire to be absolute in their policy instead of proceeding in company with the spirit' of the age. The recent complications of the war render it more than ever difficult to rule Hungary after the old fashion, and the question is, can or will the Imperial Government adopt another and a better course? Hungary will no doubt seek to obtain a totally separate Government of 'its own, and to this the EMPEROR is not likely to agree ; then, again, some have proposed a middle course to be taken, and this might eventually prove the safest means of settling the knotty point, but then difficulties pre sent themselves to this. It is to be hoped, ere it is too late, that the Vienna Government will not fall into the fatal error of resorting to force should per suasion fail. It will not be a real triumph if the power of Austria be again arrested by the success of an appeal to arms, and we trust that more wisdom will have been gained in the high places of Vienna than permit so suicidal a step to be taken, for it may prove the beginning of the end respecting Austrian power in Europe. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Moniteur states that a treaty of commerce and navigation between Italy and Japan was signed at Yeddo on the 25th of August last. This treaty is to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1367. On the proposition of M. Armand Behir, Minis ter of Commerce and Public Works, a decree has been issued, which, after stating that the cattle disease is nearly extinct in Belgium, is rapidly on the decrease in England, but still prevails with a certain intensity in the Netherlands, cattle from England, with certain exceptions, from the Nether lands and froth Belgium, may be freely admitted into all the ports of France. The Seine has completely returned; to its bed and the Loire and other rivers which have created such serious disasters are also rapidly retiring to their accustomed position. The total amount of the subscriptions is now 392,814 f. After being invisible for some eight or ten days the sun has reappeared and has shone brightly all day. The weather is again splendid and warm. There is a report in political circles in Paris, which, upon inquiry, I believe to be well founded, that the Chambers will assemble this year about three weeks earlier than usual, viz., in the middle of December. The many important events that have arisen, and which will require consideration, also strengthen the belief in the report. Another reason for an early meeting of the Chambers arises from the desire to terminate the session, so that its labours may be finished before the opening of the Great Exhibi tion. The Constitutionnel (I believe, exclusively) defends the proceedings against the .Memorial Diplomatique, at the demand of Prussia, but chiefly on the ground that this course of policy would enable France to proceed against Prussian papers which might attack the French Government. Princess Handjari, of the family of Schleswig- Holstein, whose chief claims the sovereignty to the Duchies of the Elbe, has just died at her chateau of Malherbe, in Normandy. An illustration has just been afforded of the pro verb, " There is many a slip between the cup and the lip." Shakspere is again right in saying, that " the course of true love never does run smooth." At all events, it did not run smoothly in the case of Jean Blempin and Marie Leroux, whose true love has brought them to the Correctional Police Court. Those young lovers (they are not 20) get a living by gathering rags and other "unconsidered trifles." In short, Marie is what is called in Paris a " chif fonier." She goes about with a basket and a crook to pick up all sorts of things in the streets and high ways. What she finds sometimes is nothing to any body. One day Marie said to Jean, " I have an idea, if you like, we will marry and have a legiti mate wedding." Blempin seemed very much astonished, but, however, he consented ; and the banns were published and the formalities fulfilled. Thus the affair got wind, and the news soon electri fied all the chiffoniers in the neighbourhood of the barriere de Fontainebleau. From that moment the lovers became the object of the jokes and sarcasms of the whole camp, women and all. Whenever they were seen the rag-gatherers " chaffed" them ; as it would be called in London. Some said it was against all the rules of the fraternity of the hook and basket for any member to get married. The thing was un precedented and dangerous, and would bring dis grace and ill-luck upon the whole body of rag gatherers. Blempin and Marie, however, were undismayed by all these demonstrations, and held to their purpose. The day for the wedding was fixed, and the wedding party, with Blempin at their head, went to the Maine of Gentilly. The clerk be ing absent Blempin got impatient, and very much out of temper. At length the clerk arrived, and finding the bridegroom very drunk and very up roarious, he took him by the shoulders and turned him out of the room. This move did not exactly suit Marie.- " I want to get married to-day," said she ; " that's what I came for." "In that case," replied the clerk, " you must choose somebody else among the company, " fur Blempin is too drunk to be married to-day." The clerk, perhaps, thought that Blempin saw double, and did not want another, if even a better, half. "Do me the favour to leave the place immediately," added he. It was quite clear that the wedding must be postponed, unless Marie took the clerk's advice and named some other person of the party. They therefore all turned their faces homewards, Blempin again at the head, but instead of being full of fun, as he was when he went, he was furious. He cried, swore, kicked, jumped and sang. In order to drown his grief he stopped at every wine shop on the way, and swallowed wine or brandy until he became quite insensible. On the return home of the party they were all out of humour. The jokes and witticisms against the lovers were renewed with tenfold force. Blempin at first answered the jokes with jokes, but on their repetition he could stand it no longer, and began to hit and kick at his tormentors. A general row and battle ensued, in the course of which two rag gatherers of the softer sex, Eugenie Valentin and Josephine Depienne, received some rather severe injuries in the legs, which were inflicted by the dis appointed bride and bridegroom. Blood had been shed, and the rag gatherers cried aloud for venge ance. The two ladies in question, therefore, ap peared at the office of Correctional Police to de mand it. shi T ps he a c n o d u d n i s s el ap f p o o r in th tm e a en cc ts us o ed f tdhv,e'ierltellueploans,tahnedhasrd aia it would be cruel indeed if the court were to punish them for wishing to set an example at once moral and religious, for which they had already received nothing but kicks, insults, and sarcasms. The court did not at all sympathise with the lovers. They had committed a violent assault, and must be punished. So, instead of enjoying their expected happy honeymoon, they were sent to prison, Blem pin for a fortnight, and Marie Leroux for a week. It is at the present moment undecided whether the levers will make another attempt at marriage. The rag-gatherers will probably persuade them to think better of the matter, and not inflict " such a heavy blow and great discouragement" upon the fraternity. A rather beautiful vegetable phenomenon now attracts attention in the Square des Arts at Metiers. About 20 chestnut trees out of 40 are in full bloom for the second time this year. The same thing is to be seen on the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle and in the Champs Elysces. Two male children, twins, of the Albino races have just been born at the hospital of, the Hotel Disu, a fact which has excited much attention among the medical men of that establishment. At twenty they will have hair as white as snow. This white hair is the chief characteristic of the Albino, but they have other peculiarities,—great transparency of skin, and such weakness of sight that their eyes, which are red, cannot support the daylight. Ac cording to African travellers the negroes have a superstitious dread of Albanos ; they lie concealed in caverns while the sun shines, and only go out at nights like wild beasts. There have been two murders near Marseilles. At St. Pierre in a dry ditch the body of a young man, about 20, has been found with his hands tied behind him. There was a deep wound in the sto mach, and the head was nearly smashed to pieces. Almost at the same time another body Was found, that of a man who had evidently been assassinated. The police have not yet been able to discover any clue to the circumstances of these murders. The wife of a Prussian Colonel residing at San vigny, in the Haute Saone, was a short time time ago confined, and had three children at a birth. A letter was sent to the husband with the news, which he received just as he was about to mount his horse and place himself at the head of his regiment in Bohemia, the evening before the battle of Sadowa. The Colonel, in a hurry and excited, and perhaps thinking that the births referred to a favourite bitch which he had left at home, said to a comrade, write and say, "Keep the handsomest. Drown the other two." The Prefect of the Seine has decided that the bust of Henri the Fourth, and the tablet in black marble recording his assassination by Ravaillac, which was on a house in the Rue de la Ferrarerie, which has just been demolished, shall be bought by the city and sent to the new Municipal Museum. M. Victorien Sardou has read a new piece to the actors of the Vaudeville, and it is said that there will be an innovation respecting it, and that it will have no title, but be merely announced in the bills as "A Comedy, in Five Acts." A very curious relic is abOut to be presented to the Emperor—the head of Richelieu. During the revolution of 1792 it was stolen from the Sorbonne by one of the persons employed there. It went into the possession of several persons, but by the researches of M. Duray, Minister of Public Instruc tion, it has been traced to M. Armez, an honest mercer of Paris, who gladly surrendered it. The violators of the tomb of Richelieu cut the head into two parts in order to conceal it more easily. The face is the colour of mahogany, and the white teeth still remain. The moustache and the pointed beard on the chin call to recollection the portrait of Phi lippe de Champagne. As at present arranged, the Emperor, Empress, and the Imperial P r i nce w ill l e ave Biarritz in the course of the week, and after a short stay in Paris will go to Compiegne. There is no truth in the report that the Emperor intends to visit Spain. NEW HOLBORN THEATRE. - f The inauguration of a new theatre in the metro polis is a rarity, and to this circumstance is to be attributed the great interest that attached to the opening of the doors of the New Holborn Theatre on Saturday for the admiration of the public to the splendid edifice that has been erected by Mr. Sefton Parry in Holborn. For a considerable period prior to the time fixed for the opening of the doors the approaches to the theatre were besieged, and hund reds left the scene ere half-past six arrived, unwill ing to encounter the pressure from without. Punctually at the tim e announ ced the doors were thrown open ; in a very f ew m i n utes the house was crammed from floor to c e ili ng , and then another ex traordinary scene waa enacted, viz., the house-warm ing. The audience were enthusiastic in their applause, the brilliant and beautiful appearance of the new house gave much satisfaction, and the general desire seemed to be success to the spirited and energetic gentleman who had provided so splendid an addition to the amusements of the metropolis. We need not here repeat the general description of the interior of the theatre—that has already been made widely public, but we proceed at once to notice the performance. The first piece was a new farce by Mr. Williams, entitled " Larkin's Love Letter," but the great interest appeared to centre' in " Flying Scud," and therefore the farce was endured with the same patience that the piece preceding the pantomime on Boxing-night usually secures. The descent of the green curtain was the sig nal for a renewal of applause, in the midst of which Mr. Sefton Parry made his appearance to deliver his managerial address. For some time he stood bowing his thanks for the flat tering reception given him, and when silence was obtained he proceeded as follows . " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— " I come to bid you welcome to my house—the welcome is warm, but I hope you will find the house cool, and al though I have en d e avoured to make it roomy, I trust I shall never see any room in it. I have sp are d not hi ng to make it convenient and comfortable; and I honestly thinkl have packed ed ceed in someindiff partsn t figs in a box, it is not the fault of the box, it is the fault of the figs. Some cheerful friends of mine encouraged succeeded indifferently well closelynow—if, in If fact, you f ee l like you feel a little me with the remark, that I had lodged my theatre too far east. I replied, that the people of Lond on w ill go to a good entertainment wherever it is —and I mean to give the best. With this resolve I addressed myself to the dramatist who really seems to wield a charmed pen, and he gave mo his cordial adhesion, and, what was better, a new drama. The company contains the very best artists that I could procure, and I believe I have left no en deavours untried to win that public support on which my fortune now depends. Ladies and G en tl emen,— l n this enterprise is embarked the savings of my professional life, and I regard with gratified pride my ship, the only one that has been launched in London for upwards of a quarter of a century. Hero I stand alone at the tiller looking out for the breeze of public favour. I am engaged in a more perilous voyage than the Red, White, and Blue. That little wonder put to sea with two men and a dog; I am alone in my venture ; will you please to take me in tow ? —(Prompter's bell.) Eh, what, oh ! it is the prompter ! He is in a hurry to begin the drama. I told him 1 would allow no long waits between the acts, and he is trying the guillotine on the inventor. I was about to add—(Promp ter's bell again.) It is no use ; he won't let me add more than this :—I hereby declare and pronounce that on this the 6th day of October, 1866, and in the 30th year of the reign of Victoria the Good, there is opened for public en tertainment and recreation a new theatre, to be called the Holborn Theatre Royal. God save the Queen." The National Anthem was then performed, and when the excitement of the auiience was at its highest pitch up went the curtain on the new and original racing drama by Dion Boucicault, entitled " Flying Scud, or a Four Legged Fortune," a piece showing the ups and downs, crosses, double crosses, events and vicissitudes of life on the turf. Mr. Boucicault has in this drama achieved another of those won derful successes for which he is so remarkable, and "Flying Scud" will, doubtless, prove one of his greatest, if not the very greatest of his triumphs. The plot of " Flying Scud " is as follows : Four worthies known as the Quadruped, because of being four " legs," Captain Grindly Goodge, Col. Mulligan, Mo Davis, and Chouser, are allied toge ther for the purposes of winning, by whatever means they have within their reach, at all games of chance and skill, and particularly on the turf. Their chief source of income is Lord Woodbie, a young and not very wise nobleman, in love with Julia Lattimer, a young lady who, unconsciously to herself, is used as a decoy duck by her uncle, Colonel Mulligan. Honest of purpose, and sensible that she is an ad venturess, Julia refuses the proffered hand of Lord Woodbie, with whom, however, she is hopelessly in love. Meantime the Squire of Nobbley Hall, who is the uncle of Goodge, has died, and the latter, who is next of kin to the dead, and believes himself heir to the estate, invites his associates to the hall to hear the reading of the will. Waiting till all prepara rations are ready, Goodge amuses himself by falling in love with Katey Rideout, the pretty grand daughter of Nat Gosling, an old ex-jockey, looked upon with the highest respect by all members of the ring. Finding in Tom Meredith, a young far mer and trainer on his estate, a rival whose suit is accepted, Goodge turns him off the farm he occu pies, of which he has no lease. This is ruin to the prospects of the lovers, and Katey, know ing the influence of her charms, ventures to Nobbley Hall to ask for a lease for her intended husband. This is refused by Goodge, who insults Katey by unmanly violence. Trying to escape, she runs into the stable of Flying Scud, a young race horse concerning which the highest anticipations have been formed by Gosling. Goodge locks the door upon her and retires, leaving her a prisoner. Shortly afterwards Meredith approaching the place listens at the door of the stable, and hearing the voice of Matey, who thinks him Goodge, and begs him to let her out, he arrives at the conclusion she is faithless to him. With other tenants of the late squire, Meredith goes to the reading of the will, and finds himself, to his great surprise, the inheritor of the entire estate, which, originally belonging to his father, had been lost on the turf, and now, by the will of the deceased squire, reverted to the family of its former possessor. The property does not console him for the supposed loss of Katey's affection, and he disconsolately bids Gosling go to Flying Scud's stable to learn why a marriage with his niece is now impossible. The second act is mainly concerned with Flying • Scud. Gosling, knowing his value, has laid on him for the Derby to the extent of his means. Meredith has also backed him largely, and though still a " dark" horse, he is the favourite of the Pig-skin Club. Those who have betted most heavily against him are Goodge and his associates, and many attempts are made by them to get at the horse for the purpose of disabling him. Thanks to the watchfulness of Gosling, all these attempts are unsuccessful, and Flying Scud advances in the betting till the odds are in his favour. At last Goodge, who knows that for Flying Scud to win will be entire ruin to the " Quadruped," offers Gosling £2,000 to be admitted into the stable. Gos ling takes the money and distributes it among the jockeys. Goodge and his associates are admitted into the stable the night before the Derby. A change, however, has first taken place in its occupants. Fly ing Scud has been removed, and another horse, closely resembling it in appearance, been substituted. This animal, accordingly, is doctored, and the con spirators, believing themselves safe, lay still more largely against the favourite. The Derby-day comes round. The course is seen crowded with assembled thousands. The conspirators arc in the highest spirits, when they are horrified by the intelligence that Flying Scud, in perfect health, is among the intended starters. All now is dismay where a mo ment before all had been confidence. A desperate trick, however, is tried, and succeeds. The jockey of Flying Scud (Ned Compo) is tempted with a glass of brandy and water; he takes it, and imme mediately becomes so ill that he is unable to get on his horse. All now seems lost. Gosling himself yields momentarily to despair, then regaining hope, he vows he will ride the horse himself. The yellow cap and jacket are hastily put on, and Old Nat, at sixty, rides his darling Flying Scud to victory and glory. This scene of Epsozn Downs is a truly wonderful stage illusion, and one altogether without parallel. The race is seen in the distance, whilst in the foreground we have all the peculiarities of the race course. Niggers, tumblers, thimble riggers, card sharpers, gipsies, pic-nic parties, Punch and Judy, &c., &c., all tend to make up a scene which must be seen to be properly appreciated. The applause it elicited was extraor dinary, but when old Nat Gosling appeared, riding the winner, " to scale," after the race, the audience became perfectly frantic with delight, and altogether a more remarkable performance, actors, audience, and horse included, has never been presented within the walls of a theatre. The two concluding acts of the drama excite but little interest. The conspira tors, driven to the utmost shifts, try to re gain some money by cheating Meredith at cards, and by forging the signiture of Lord Wood bie. Playing, at a club, both Goodge and Davies are detected cheating byLord Woodbie, who exposes them. A duel is consequently necessary, and a meeting is arranged to take place on Calais Sands. Goodge, who is a dead shot, determines to kill the young nobleman, as when he is dead the forgery that has been committed cannot be detected. Julia, overhearing the arrangement which has been pro jected by her uncle and Goodge, determined to thwart it. She contrives that Lord Woodbie shall mistake the hour of meeting, disguises herself in his semblance, and receives the fire of Goodge, falling wounded. In the fourth act the allies find that " the game is up." They endeavour, then, to swindle each ot.'•ier. The forgery on Lord Woodbie is dis covered, and Goodge, to escape punishment, con fesses his villainy towards Kate. The other young lovers are betrothed, and Nat comes in at the finish with a very telling " tag. " The great part in the drama is that of Nat Gosling, the old jockey, and in his impersonation of it Mr. G. Belmore held the feelings and emotions of the audience as completely at his command as • did the late Mr. F. Robson. It was a performance of first rate excellence, and deserved the applause it elicited. Miss Saunders also is fitted with a comic part of more than usual excellence (Bob BUckskin), and she thoroughly enters into it. Miss Fanny Josephs made a very good Lord Woodbie, and Miss Bessie Foote (Kate Rideout) and Miss Fiddes (Miss Latimer) respectively supported their parts with taste and judgment. We have to compliment Mr. G. Neville (Captain Goodge) and Mr. G. Blake (Charles Meredith) for the judgment they displayed, and, though last, not least, the beautiful filly, " Fly ing Scud" enacted her part to admiration. The scenery of the drama is beyond all praise. The great illustration of " Epsom Downs," in the second act, we have already noticed, but the opening scene of the first act, and Calais Sands in the third, are marvels of scene painting. The dresses and appointments are all in perfect keeping, and the admirable manner in which the entire drama has been produced is worthy of the highest commen dation. Mr. Sefton Parry, Mr. Boucica ult, and Mr. G. Belmore were vociferously called for at the con clusion of the play, and greeted with the loudest plaudits, and altogether the success of the opening night was as perfect and complete as the enterpris ing lessee himself could well desire. Visit of the Volunteers to Belgium. More than 1,100 Volunteers have taken tickets to entitle them to participate in the invitation of the Belgian authorities, and the final arrangements for dividing the party into companies will be made to day. Lieut.-Col: Loyd Lindsay, M.P., on accepting the command, has issued a memorandum, in which he says he accepts it at the request of the committee, and because the Belgian Minister has assured him that his doing so would be acceptable to his Govern ment. He observes that detachments from nearly every corps in the service have signified their inten tion to join the expedition, and that, therefore, the volunteers visiting Belgium will in the strictest sense be the representatives of the great volunteer army of England, which service will be judged by their ap pearance and conduct during their presence in Bel gium. He adds that the visit will be under military organisation, and that it will be the bounden duty of each volunteer to make himself acquainted with the orders and regulations, and to attend to them carefully. The force will be told off in ten companies, each company having its proper staff of officers and non-commissioned officers. " This organisation," Col. Lindsay says, " is not intended for any unne cessary restaint, but with a view to establish a sys tem of responsibility for the issue of orders and the proper appearance of the force when taking part in any fetes or processions which may be promoted by the Belgian Government." Parades will take place in full dress, the men wearing their belts and side arms, but not carrying their rifles. Volunteers will on all occasions appear in uniform, and in no case will a volunteer be allowed to appear in a mixture of uniform and plain clothes. Those volunteers who go over with the intention of competing at the Tir will have to obtain the permission of their com manding officers to carry regulation rifles. Govern ment rifles are not to be taken over by volunteers who do not intend to compete. Competitors may shoot in the undress uniform of their corps. The baggage of volunteers going over on Thursday morn ing will be taken charge of at the railway terminus at Brussels in the evening, so that they may be able to take part in the torchlight procession. On Friday morning a parade will take place at half-past 8 pre viously to the opening of the Tir. Lord Bury will be second in command, and there will be a large staff of officers among the volunteers, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA, BERLIN, Oct. 8. The Royal Prussian patent, taking formal pos session of Frankfort, Nassau, and Electoral Hesse, is drawn up in almost identical terms with that pro mulgated in Hanover. A decree published here to-day orders that the functions of the Hanoverian and Hessian Ministers of Justice are to be transferred to the Prussian Minister of Justice, and that the Chief Tribunal of Frankfort is to be replaced by the Supreme Court of Justice at Berlin. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN. (Via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (Evening.) Despatches from Washington emphatically deny the report that the President had changed his policy with regard to the adoption by the South of the consti tutional amendment. There is, however, reason to believe that he contemplates recommending Congress against the representations of all States, and their proposing a constitutional amendment which will embrace, in a less objectionable form, the essential elements of those now pending. The committee of the Cleveland Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention has paid a visit to President Johnson, and presented him with a report of their proceedings. Generals Gordon and Grange had made speeches stating that the Constitution desired peace, and that the Union would soonest be restored in accordance with the true theory of the Federal Government, when the measure proposed met the approval of the loyal people in the North, South, East, and West. Any proposition not accomplish ing this end would not secure the object for which the soldiers and sailors had fought. In replying to the Committee, President Johnson referred them to his previous career as evidence of what his future conduct would be, and declared that constitutional limitations must be observed if free Government is to exist. Amass convention of soldiers and sailors favour ing the Radical policy has assembled at Pittsburg, and reported a series of strongly Radical resolutions. General Butler addressed the Convention, demand ing that General Lee as well as Mr. Davis should be hanged, and declaring that the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment would not ensure the admission of the Southern States. Mr. Davis's trial is again postponed beyond October. President Johnson has appointed Gen. Dix Minister of the United States to France and Naval Officer of New York. It is believed that he will accept the former appointment. Mr. Bige low has been recalled at his own request. Mr. H. Emery, of Kansas, has been appointed United States Minister at the Hague. According to advices from Canada, rumours existed that the Fenians threatened a movement along the Vermont frontier. The Canadian military forces were kept ready to move at a moment's notice. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. Intelligence received here from Mexico (via San Francisco), dated the 19th inst., states that the French troops and fleet had abandoned Guayunas, and that the town was occupied by the Liberals. The Liberal General Martinez had slaughtered the garrison of Wrez. The Austrian General Lanuberg had been -killed. The Imperialists made no attempt to enforce the blockade of Matanaoras. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 6.—Two o'clock.—The market still continues dull, and quotations show a slight decline. French Threes are lower by 21c., to 68f. 80c. Ita lian Fives are dealt in at a decline of 25c., the actual quotation being 55f. 45c. Mobilier Shares are if. 25c. lower, to 636 f. 25c. Credit Foncier, Comptoir d'Escompte, and Paris Gas Shares remain unvaried. Hardly anything is doing in Railway Shares, which show in some cases an insignificant decline. Three o'clock.—The unsatisfactory state of the market continues, and some securities have further declined. The close is as follows : Bank Shares 3615 Italian Loan 55 60 Do. end month 53 30 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds 4} per Cents 97 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 70 Do. owl month 6B 75 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foneier — Do. end month 1355 . Spanish Threes — Home Debt - Deferred - rh.103. RAIL' For Account. Orleans Northern 1163 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 Southern 572 50 Western — Eastern 543 75 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4OB 75 North of Spain lO7 50 Saragossa, Ditto to Barcelona — Roman THE SALMON FISHERIES SPECIAL COMMISSION.--- On Friday the Special Commissioners for inquiring into the fixed engines on the river Ribble, all the week delivered their judgment in two or three important cases that had been reserved. There were altogether 15 claims for fixed nets in the estuary of the Ribble. Two or three of them were quickly disposed of. The claim of Colonel Clifton to exclusive rights of fishing in the Lytham was undefended, as far as related to salmon fishing, and the Chief Commissioner (Mr. Paterson) adjudged that all fixed engines used in any part of the parish or township of Ly tham were illegal. A claim of Sir T. G. Hesketh, M.P., to stake-nets on his property on Hesketh Sands was also an nulled by the commissioners. The claim of the trustees of the late Mr. C. Scarisbrick to a large fishery near the same sands in the manor of North Meoly, led to much legal argument. There was a manorial right claimed under a supposed grant by William the Conqueror, andconfirmed by an inquisition under the seal of the Admiralty in the reign of Henry VIIL, of which both the original document and a translation were produced in court. The manor was in later years divided, and the claimants possessed that part of the manor in which the nets were placed. The parol evidence went to show that all the tenants of the Scarisbrick family--which were stated to be some 10,000 in number—were allowed for a nominal acknowledgment of id. per head to fish in the waters of the manor, and they placed their nets as they could arrange among them selves. The fishermen joined their nets together, and it was shown that as much as 1,400 yards of netting was used in 1861, one of the years in which proof of user is re quired by the Act of 1865. The commissioners decided that the Charter conveyed a several fishery, but did not authorise fixed engines, and they condemned all the nets. Another important case arose out of a claim by Mr. Rawsterne, lord of the manor of Hutton, to three " balks" of stake nets of 400 yards each and one varying from 50 to 90 yards, in the estuary of the Ribble. This fishery originally belonged to the Abbey of Cockersand , and when the monastery was broken up by Henry VIII., that monarch sold it to ono Laurence RAwstorne, an ancestor of the claimant and bearing the same Christian name. It had been in the possession of that family from that date down to the present. Evidence of user was given, and the claim was opposed on the ground that the stakes were dangerous to navigation. Witnesses proved that boats had been upset by getting hampered with the nets and foundered by striking on the stakes, and that lives had been lost and endangered thereby. The Chief Commissioner, in deliver ing judgment, said that although it might be reasonably presumed that the lords of Hutton enjoyed a several fishery, created before Magna Charts, extending to the mid stream of the river, there was no reasonable evidence that any grant of the Crown over authorised the use of fixed nets. They were therefore of opinion that the proof of use during living memory was not of itself sufficient to overcome the presumptions drawn from the titles them selves, and they wore driven to the conclusion that no grants to use balks were ever made by the Crown prior to Magna Charta and the ancient statutes preceding. On these grounds they decided that all the stake nets in the Ribble in the manor of Hutton were illegal, and must be removed. There was a third decision in respect-of stake nets on the Longton fisheries. This was a similar case to the last, and the nets were declared illegal; thus abolishing the whole of the almons stake nets in the Ribble estuary, dim , * cratbr. HER MAJESTY. BALUORAL, Oct. 5. Princess Christian drove in the afternoon, ac companied by the Duchess d'Aumale. Prince Christian went out deerstalking. OCT. 6. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice drove to Loch Callater. OCT. 7. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Gen. the Hon. C. Grey, returned to Balmoral yesterday evening. The Royal party drove from Dunkcld in the morning to Loch Ordie, and rode across the hill to Orndrogan from whence the Queen drove by Kirk michael and the Spittle of Glenshee to Balmoral. The Dowager Duchess of Athole and Miss M'Gregor accompanied the Queen to Kindrogan. Mr. Keir and his son walked across the hill with the Royal party. During the Queen's stay at Dunkeld, which was of a strictly private nature, her Majesty and the Royal family made various excursions in the neigh bourhood. We understand that Lord Cowley has withdrawn the resignation ho had placed in the hands of her Majesty's Ministers, and that the noble lord will remain at his pre sent post until after the Exhibition of 1867.-1 - Jerald. We are informed that Lord Stanley has applied to the French authorities for a postponement of the trial of M. Lamirande until an official statement of the proceed ings under which his extradition from Canada took place has been received from the Governor-General. Until that statement arrives it is plainly impossible for the Foreign office to take any further steps in the matter.—Herald. --- IMITATION DAMASCUS SWORD BLADES.—Sword blades resembling thoso of Damascus are made at Solingen in Germany. A faggot is first formed of alternate fine bars of iron and steel. It is drawn out, doubled and twisted several times, and then formed into a ribbon. Two such ribbons are welded together, enclosing between them a thin blade of the best cutting English steel. After polishing it is dipped in dilute sulphuric acid to give it a pattern—The Engineer. TIIE CUNARD STEAMER SCOTIA.—This vessel, which sailed from tho Mersey for New York on Satur day had on board the unprecedented number of 270 cabin passengers, the largest number of saloon passengers ever carried westward by any of the Cunard mail steamers. WINDSOR LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITLT noN.—The want of a larger and more commo diou4 building for the Windsor Literary and scientific Institution having been seriously felt for some time past, a member, Mr. W. R. Harris, ex-mayor, announced at the annual supper that Mr. R. Eykyn, M.P., had generously offered to contribute a sum of 100 guineas towards a build ing fund. Mr. Harris will also give £5O, while Mr. Oliver, a resident, has promis3d a piece of ground for the site, valued at above 300 guineas. MR. SWINBIJRNE AND HIS CRITICS.—Under the title " A Parley with my Critics," Mr. Swinburne is about, it is understood, to reply to. some of the ,reviews of his lately published poems. It was imagined that the reply would be in a metrical form, on the "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" model, but this is incorrect. It appears that Mr. Swinburne's "Parley" will be in prose, and will form the preface to a second edition of the " Poems," now in the press. We have not had any published replies to criticism since Mr. Alfred Austin's "My Satire and its Censors," which was in verse, or the same gentleman's prose effusion, "A Note of Admiration—to the Editor of the Saturday I?eview." NEW COIFS AND SILK GOWNS.—The statement that the Lord Chancellor " exercising his privilege" would confer the rank of silk and the coif upon several members of the outer bar next term we believe, says the Observer, is premature, as the Lord Chancellor,- just pre vious to the last circuit, conferred the honour of silk upon several "stuff gownsmen." It is understood, however, that during Hilary Term several additions to the front row will take take place. IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Justice Hayes (Ireland) has resigned. Mr. George, M.P., is to be the new judge. The Attorney-General is to be Irish Master of the Rolls. Mr. Morris is to become Attorney- General. Either Mr. Miller, M.P., or Mr. Chatterton, Q.C., is to be Solicitor-General in the room of Mr. Morris. There 'will consequently be new elections for Dublin University, Wexford County, Galway, and, perhaps, Armagh.—Observer. Exc ITING FISHING ADVENTURE.—On Thursday afternoon last two young men, Charles Thornley and Thos. Park, accompanied by. Mr. J. Crook, of the Pleasure Boat Inn, all of Preston, had an extraordinary fishing adven ture at Naze-point, near the estuary of the Ribble. They were out in a boat spearing Hooka, when their attention was arrested by a violent floundering in one of the shallows on the sands, and they at once concluded that a large sal mon had been left by the receding tide. To satisfy them selves as to the real character of the creature, armed with their long flea rakes, they cautiously approached. On nearing it what was their astonishment to find a monster that displayed two formidable rows of teeth, and a tail that bristled all over with spines. Seeing its visitors, this very strange fish showed fight at once, and seemed rather anxious to begin. The three set upon it simultaneously with their spiked rakes, and stabbed it repeatedly. After an exciting struggle, they at length exhausted the creature and transfixed it with their prongs. With great difficulty they at last got it into the boat. Some fishermen who had seen the " fight" from a distance now came up, and one of them informed the victors that they had captured a "sharp nosed" skate, one of the three varieties of that fish. This is the first skate ever known to have been caught in the Ribble. Its length is sft., breadth 3ft. 9in., and weight about 601 b. It was brought to Mr. Crook's, Preston. THE Russo-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. —The Rus sian papers published a detailed account of the proceedings of the Russian engineer-in -chief, M. Abaza, and three American engineers, Captain Meyhood, Lieut. Busch, and Lieut. Kennan, who were instructed to survey the line of country through which the Russo-American telegraph is to be constructed. The party started from Petropaulovsk on the Bth of August last year, and succeeded after many difficulties in tracing the exact course of the future tele graph. At last, says a letter in the Post du Nord, "the surveys have been completed from Anadyrsk to the Amour, a distance of six thousand versts, and the di rection of the line has been determined. This immense task has been executed by the chief of the expedition and three engineers in the course of a dreadful winter, dur ing which they have had to contend against incre dible difficulties, traversing day by day vast deserts, some times mounted on reindeer, sometimes drawn by dogs, but more frequently travelling on foot with the aid of snow* shoes, and always accompanied by fierce hurricanes and dreadful frosts. As soon as the Sea of Ohkhotsk shall be free, vessels belonging to the Telegraph Company are ex pected to arrive at Guigiga from America with the neces sary materials for commencing the works immediately. These ships will also bring a number of Yakoute labourers, who are already hired for the works, which will be ac tively pushed on from the Amour to Behring's Straits. Already between Ohkhotsk and Anadyrsk the works have been commenced with the assistance of the inhabitants of the country, who are engaged in constructing houses and trimming trees to serve as telegraph poles. Considefing the persevering and indefatigable activity of the chiefs of the expedition, there is reason to expect that within three years from the present time the works will be finished, and this difficult but noble undertaking will bo entirely and successfully completed." . CAITHNESS SHOOTING.—The grouse shooting in this "the most northern county in Scotland" is now about closed for the season of 1866, and at no period do we remember such excellent sport -with the single exception of one or two of the lower moors next the sea, which did very little indeed ; on the other, and particularly the higher moors, the spert exceeded the " sportsman's most sanguine expectations. On Braemore-moors, Rowland Hunt, Esq., and party killed upwards of 1,000 brace of grouse, leaving. an ample stocl to breed from ; on the Glutt-moors, James C. Brown, Esq. , and party killed upwards of 700 brace of grouse, besides other game ; on Dallavulin the sport has been quite extra dinary, Richard Stackpole, Esq., and Charles Hayne, Esq'' killed to their two guns alone, in six weeks' shooting, 900 brace of grouse, exclusive of other game ; Mr. Stackpole 'S best day 621 brace, and his worst day 22 brace ; he is a first rate shot—au eye-witness who accompanied him saw hi° kill 42 birds without missing one shot ; on the Dunheath moors we hear the sport was very good; on the Browl Castle moors, which are not large, S. C. Leister and his brother killed 572 grouse in 18 days' shooting, exclusive of other game, and a number of salmon. The sporilmen on Dorrari have also had fair sport. On all the moors in the county we hear the sportsmen are well satisfied, with the singl e , exception of the moors of Bruan, Lybsten, Swenie, a nd Murgerie, which have keen poor beyond precedent, and 3 : 0 " quire a jubilee.—Land and Water. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Our readers will $ be glad to learn that Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, with 3 1 r* John Parry, will re-open the Royal Gallery of Illustrati on on Monday evening, the 15th instant, with the excellen t entertainment that has already had a run of many m onth! , and which from its literary merit, and the rare artisti! ability of the performers, is likely to enjoy a further care er i of success, uutil replaced by novelty, which we hoar s 0 1 preparation. The Entrepreneur and his companions hav e not entered upon a professional tour during the recess , b u _ return, refreshed by a country trip, to do full justice to the" "Yachting cruise" and "The Wedding Breakfast." 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