The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-17 00:00:00

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NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, AGUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to itt§ pristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, is each; also 55., 7s. ed., and Ms. each, includ ug brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 18, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Kendal, Mr Rogers, Mrs Chip pendale, Mrs Frank Matthews, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hiil, Mrs Laws. After which, at 8.30. "HOME." Mr Sothern, Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr Buckstone, jun., Miss Ada Cavendish, Miss Fanny Gwynne, and Miss Caroline Hill. Concluding with FAMILY JARS. Mr Compton: ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. SWEASEY. The Press have unanimously praised and acknowledged the entertainment provided at the above Hall for the Whitsun holidays to be the best in London. The Brothers Voltaire, the Champion Gymnasts, in their surprising performances, particularly their aerial leaps, extending the whole length of the Hall (nearly 100 feet), engaged to appear solely at this establishment ; Mr. H. Collard (Le Petit Sims Reeves), the miniature man, the smallest and sweetest tenor singer in the world, can be heard at this hall only ; Messrs. St. Albyn, P. 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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, J UNE 17, 1870. course he has pursued in the long run. There seems every possible reason to urge against the adoption of this course by the Ministers of the Crown. In the first place the Debtors' Act of 1869 decreed that after the Ist of January this year no arrests should take place for default in payment of a sum of money. Some exceptions were made, but they did not affect Mr. EDMUND'S case, or at any rate it has not been shewn that they did. A summons has been issued to test the soundness. of the arrest, and, therefore, the matter will have to be decided in Court. In the next place, it would be most unbecoming to take advantage of an oppor tunity legally afforded of getting rid of an awkward opponent, but the worst of all is that the chief actors in the affair are the Ministers of the Crown. Surely they had means and appliances in plenty to state their case and vindicate their rights without having recourse to stratagem. How much better it would have been for the Lords of the Treasury to have gone through with the libel case, and when they had seen itsettled in a straightforward fashion, to have dealt with the award owing by Mr. EDMUNDS, The English nation does not desire to see its states men triumph by the arts of finesse, and it cares not it they lose prestige for the want of practice in the artifices of the law, but it does demand that as they are entrusted with more power than the rest of their fellow countrymen they should be sensible of the responsibility that devolves upon them. The public may care little and know nothing of the EDMUNDS case; but they must consider it a strange proceeding that a subject of the QUEEN should lose his liberty on the eve of an important trial affecting his interests, and that no proper explana tion on the subject should have been forthcoming in the Parliament or the Press. The friends of the Government cannot wish to see them ruin their cause by the adoption of such means, for they must feel that it is a severer blow to them than any defeat could have been, while their political opponents will not fail to perceive that any idea of party satisfaction in the mistake must be swallowed up in the more comprehensive sentiment of the dis grace that attaches itself to such arbitrary proceed ings. This last phase of the EDMUNDS' scandal may furnish a melancholy illustration of the truth of the saying that some things are worse than crimes in their effect on statesmen, for they are blunders. The debate on the Irish Land Bill was resumed in the Upper House last evening by Lord Cairns, who commenced by criticising the speech of Earl Gran ville on moving the second reading of the measure. He maintained that the difference between the law of England and Ireland was a sufficient justification of such exceptional legislation as was proposed, and he proceeded to comment upon the leading features of the bill in a condemnatory manner, although in some respects he was not averse to the propositions which the scheme involved. Viscount Halifax, Lord Athlumney, and the Duke of Argyll supported, and Lords Grey and Derby did not oppose the second reading. The Duke of Abercorn thought the bill violated every sound principle of legislation. On the motion of Lord Dunaway the debate was adjourned. Their Lordships rose at a qnarter past twelve. I❑ the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone announced several changes which the Government had decided to make in the Education Bill. The proposals of the Prime Minister created great surprise, and the leader of the Opposition said the alterations practically made the bill a new one. He urged Mr. Gladstone to content himself with the bill being committed pro forma, in order that the House might have an opportunity of considering the new proposals. This course was adopted. The other business was not of a noteworthy character, and the House adjourned at twenty minutes to one. TOPICS OF THE DAY. nominal. Public advertisement is the agency by which two-thirds of the stores are supplied ; private pur chase supplies only one-third. The Times, however, which makes this announcement, is inclined to think even one-third too much. " We cannot appreciate the circumstances under which a sufficient reason should exist for purchasing other wise than by public competi tion so large a portion as one-third of our naval stores, and we presume that much of the .remaining two thirds • is supplied under . standing contracts which preceded Mr. Baxter's accession to office. Public competition is the rule of trade most generally adopted by private companies in the purchase of their stores, as being of all rules the one least liable to peryersion, and most likely to ensure a good bar gain for the buyer." £1,238; Metropolitan District, £754; and in the St. John's Wood branch there is also an increase. A FIELD FOR CO-OPERATIVE EMIGRATION. The necessity of providinz an outlet for the sur plus labour of the United Kingdom has of late made itself painfully evident, and thanks are due to every person who can suggest a path through which the dissatisfied and unemployed may find a field for exertion. New Zealand has been. repeatedly pointed out as possessing all the requirements necessary for the energetic emigrant, and "A Colonist" now writes to the Times indicating that country as.a fit place for emigration on the co-operative principle. He says that recent events have thrown great tracts of land in the two islands into the market, and that ready-made opportunities are thus offered for carrying on the business of sheep and cattle runs and commencing agricultural operations on a large scale. It would be possible to purchase land at 7a. 6d. per acre, and to buy the sheep on the ground at halt-a-crown or less. The persons who are recommended to try their fortunes in the experiment are the younger sons of gentry, who have some capital, sheep and cattle farmers, agricul turists, mechanics, , shepherds. and labourers. It is a misfortune that the principles of co-operation have not yet received a fair trial in England, at least in the southern part of the island. The tentatives of the Rev. Mr. Maurice, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Vansittart Neale, the Rev. Mr. Kings ley, and their friends, who spent much labour and money in their endeavours to solve the matter, were ill-supported by the working men themselves, and since then the subject has not been advocated with sufficient earnestness. The great want for a move ment of the kind indicated by " A Colonist " can be summed up in one word—leadership. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Esmeraldst. 8.30 p.m, HAYMARKET—At Seven; Married Life. Home. Family Jars. A nEr.rnr—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 870, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. the 'Varsity Boat Race. G AIRTY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts. Kenilworth. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S —At Seven, Frou Frou. La Bello Sauvage • WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BO( K. Egyptian Hall, Pie cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at 8. Admission ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, is.; extra 6d. 41k :111_706. 1 , 1 / 4 - milyv int EVENING EDITION. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1870. As if the melancholy ocean and Fenianism were not enough to disturb the excitable imagination of her people, poor Ireland has for several weeks had to endure the episode of Mr. DARCY IRVINE'S insanity. A country gentleman in the prime of life, with an income of nearly £B,OOO a year, having be sides this personal property amounting to some £so,ooo—a magistrate, a landowner, the possessor of a castle, and gardens, and a park, and a saw mill, he suddenly goes out of his mind in the most odd and whimsical way imaginable with all the appearance of aspiring to the notoriety of a political agitator, whose aim in life is at one and the same time—to set the law at defiance and to vindicate it. His manifestations of excitement bore all the aspect of insurrectionary demonstrations. He wielded the pen and brandished fire-arms alternately. Re appeared in Enniskillen armed with revolvers. He fired shots into the dwelling-house of his supposed foe, Captain BUTLER, a neigh bouring stipendiary magistrate. He covered his own place, Irvinestown, with printed placards of the most incendiary character. He " wired " telegrams of the wildest description to all kinds of illustrious personages. Addressing himself to the QUEEN, he informed her Majesty by telegraph that he was in possession of what his Sovereign had not—to wit, the finest lake vi , aw in the country—magnanimously adding that he placed it entirely at HER MAJESTY'S command. He informed H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, as the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief that he, Mr. DARCY IRVINE, must have martial law, and no mistake ! He announced to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND and to the LORD CHANCELLOR of IRELAND simultaneously, and, it must be said also, incoherently—what? Why nothing less than this. "I was born," he wrote to them, "what is called a genius; at seven years I was in fractious [whatever that meant], and I am the only gentleman whom I know in this country who dis tinguished himself in college." He put himself into communication, in a manner that must have astonished them all very considerably, with the Lord Mayors of London and Dublin, as well as with the Provosts of Glasgow and of Edinburgh. He apprised the Queen that he felt ill, and that he deemed it essential for the sake of the safety of her Crown and Throne and Sceptre, that her Majesty should make up her royal mind to interpose without further delay between himself and his worst enemy, Captain BUTLER aforesaid, of that otherwise the latter, after killing him gradually during these last five years would rob him with impunity by the aid of Fenian rebels and Ribbonmen.. He " cabled " under the waters of the Channel to the Queen's Private Secretary the intimation that the turnkeys were "rev olters," thereby contributing a new word to the English dictionary. He despatched an express mes sage to the Secretary of the Carlton Club, em powering him at once to send across to the sister island to his aid two first class cooks, a couple of kitchenmaids, a butler, a valet de chambre, two under-butlers, and three housemaids. On the 16th ult. he issued a wildly declamatory notice or proclamation, thus expressed :—" Rise !" he cried, "sons of civil and religious liberty, Orange and Green. Meet in Ennis killen on Friday, 20th May, on the Fair-green, in defence of the QUEEN and her throne; in defence of your lives; in defence of Irish rights; in defiance of all party government; in defiance of the police magistrates who wrote in the press that peaceful inhabitants are shocked to see loyal men carrying arms to protect their lives against assassins. United we stand, divided we fall." Finishing off not with a flourish, a la Bob Acres, of Odds, Triggers, and Bullets, but with the superb bathos of " Yours truly, H. M. D'ARCY IRVINE." The authorities at length be ginning to have a glimmering of the state of things, put him under arrest, when, lo and behold, he instructs his solicitor to issue a writ against the Crown for the recovery of damages to the amount of £50,000 for unlawful seizure and unauthorized detention. A Commission of Inquiry at length pronounces him to be of unsound mind—et voila tout. Sorrowful and absurd though the whole story is, it has its significance. It is, if you will, from first to last, like " a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." But it is for all that intensely and essentially indigenous of the soil—it is distinctly born of the mad and lawless follies by which what is called Fenianism has so long been distracting the imagination of the more empty headed portion of the Irish population. THE public will learn with great dissatisfaction that the Treasury have put their threat in execution and arrested Mr. EDMUNDS. He has been taken to Whitecross-street Prison, having been arrested at the suit of the Crown for the amount of the award given against him. This would be all very well, however hard the course of proceeding might ap pear, and however unusual the event might be, were there not another side to the question. Mr. EDMUNDS has commenced an action for libel against Mr. GLADSTONE and other Treasury officials, when forthwith he is put hors de combat, and the case is virtually decided against him. Inquiry was made in the House of Commons con cerning the matter some weeks ago, when Mr. LowE informed the House that he did not mean to "hold his hand." That promise he has kept with i, zeal worthy of a better cause, but he may regret the EDUCATION AND THE DISSENTERS. It is evident that the body of Dissenters mean mis chief with Mr. Forster's Education Bill. Most of the Nonconformist meetings lately held have displayed unmistakeable signs of opposition to the religious provisions of the measure. This is especially the case with the Methodists. Almost all the branches of this great body, including the Wesleyans, have declared against Mr. Forster, and the Times says that not a few Wesleyans are anxious for the postponement of legislation. But this hostility has not hitherto had much effect in the House of Commons. There the Leaguers are still as few as ever. REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES. A. glance at the division list will suffice to shew that Mr. Hardcastle's bill for repealing the minority clauses of the Reform Act of 1867 is not one of those questions which "decide the fate of Ministries." No party discipline was observed in dealing with this measure. Mr. Newdegate allied himself to Mr. Morrison, and Mr. Fawcett joined hands with Mr. John Hardy in opposing Mr. Hardcastle's bill, and in supporting the minority clauses. In the main the Government and the Liberals supported Mr. Hard castle, and the Conservatives opposed him ; but the latter required the assistance of many Liberals to tie the Government. The fact is that the minority clauses have had very little influence on party fortunes. They were passed to secure the representation of minorities, by enacting that no elec tor should give more than two votes for a con stituency which returned three members, nor more than three in case of a constituency returning four. It is obvious that such a provision must cut both ways. The Liberals lost seats in some of the great towns, but they won seats in some of the counties. In Oxfordshire, for instance, there was not the slightest hope of getting in a Liberal until these stipulations became law. Altogether the thirteen constituencies to which the clauses appl y have returned twenty-two Liberals and eighteen Conservatives. THE PURCHASE OF IRISH RAILWAYS. The discussion as to the expediency of the Govern ment buying up the Irish railways will no doubt be materially enlarged now that the draft bill, pre pared in Dublin with a view of promoting that object, has been published. There are in the sister island four great lines of railways, and several minor ones—chiefly, however, branch lines—and the proprietors, especially of the former, enjoy, it is said, an influence and a monopoly, owing to the want of competition, which reacts in a most disastrous way on the people, and on the gene ral progress of the country. It is now proposed that the several companies be bought up by trus tees on behalf of the Government, and that the price should be arranged either by mutual consent, or by arbitration. The loan to defray the cost might, it is suggested, be obtained from the Irish National Debt Commissioners, and stock might be issued for the amount. The term for fulfilling the purchase mentioned in the draft bill is limited to 25 years, and a schedule is appended fixing the maximum rates of fares that are demanded on the different lines. ADMIRALTY ADMINISTRATION. It seems the prevalent impression that naval stores are now purchased, by private contract, and not by open tender as formerly, is erroneous. Very few goods are privately bought, and these only in cases where it has been found that the lowest tenderwas above the market price, and the competition therefore only THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL. The question is raised whether the prerogative of the Crown has not been unduly strained by the arrest and lodgment in prison of Mr. Leonard Edmunds. Mr. Edmunds has just given notice of an action against Mr. Gladstone and other Treasury officials for libel in connection with the late celebrated lawsuits. Immediately on this fact being known, Mr. Edmunds was appre hended for the amount of the award given against him. It is now thought by some that the liberty of the subject has been somewhat summarily dealt with in a case where it was advan tageous that a troublesome assailant should be rendered as far as possible harmless. Be this as it may, the question will probably have to be settled in court, as a summons is said to have been issued to try the validity of the case. By the Debtors Act of 1869 it was enacted that no person should be arrested after January, 1870, tor " making default in payment" of money. Some exceptions are certainly provided for, but Mr. Edmunds's friends allege that they do not touch upon his case in any way whatever. SCHOOL TREATS AND THE EXCISE. The good people who make sacrifices in order to give poor children a glimpse of the green fields, thus awakening a feeling of heartiness in the enjoy ment of the beauties of Nature in the minds of the little ones, have lately met with a new obstacle by the intervention of the excise officer. This übiquitous personage, who haunts us with a perti nacity that may well cause Burns's lines to stamp themselves upon our memory, has lately discovered that the lending of conveyances for the purpose of taking school children into the country for a holiday is an infringement of the law, unless 16s. is paid for a license. Luckily, however, a gentleman has had the good sense to ask the Chancellor of the Exehequer for a confirmation of the legality of this new impost, and Mr. Lowe has intimated, that the gra tuitous employment of a waggon and horses for these charitable purposes does not entail the neces sity of a license, if the vehicles and horses are other wise entitled to exemption. SLAVERY IN CUBA. The deputation of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society which waited on the Earl of Clarendon, has performed a public duty in directing the attention of the Foreign Secretary to the con tinued existence of slavery in Cuba, in contravention of the treaties existing between Spain ' and Great Britain. Under the present circumstances it is hopeless to expect that the Government of Marshal Prim will be able to devote its attention to a subject so full of interest to the British people. Unable to arrive at a solution of the difficulties that press for an immediate answer, the question of Cuban emancipation is likely to drag its slow length along until the Spanish people are awakened to the true importance of a matter which may end in a dispute with the country that has so lately washed its conscience of the frightful evil. There can be no doubt that the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba would bring to the mother country greater sympathy from European nations, and would accelerate the settlement of the soreness long existing between the finest of the West Indian Colonies and Spain. That the question of emancipation should have been suffered to lie dormant for such a long period, is another evi dence of the characteristic injustice of this once great nation. MR. CHARLES DICKENS AS A RELIGIOUS TEACHER. A singular opinion on the writings of Charles Dickens is vouchsafed by the Guardian. That journal says many passages in the late author's writing show clearly that his religious sentiments were strong, yet, that he found it hard to conceive that there are times when the Gospel of Truth, just because it is truth, "sends not peace, but a sword." Mr. Dickens was, the Guardian goes on to say, perhaps among the chief of those who have influenced the tone of public thought in a direction now rather too fashion able, by inducing men to believe that the knowledge of God is the only kind of knowledge on which any real philosophy is misplaced, and that if men feel reverently and charitably, it matters not whether they think earnestly and truly. It is rather difficult to discover what view the Guardian exactly means to convey, but it may be that it has omitted to re member that Dickens was not so much an expounder of the true and earnest thoughts of high and noble characters, as of their acts, and that he apparently left the pureness and reality of the thoughts to be judged of by the works they are reported to have undertaken or accomplished. A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING. Variety is said to be charming, but it is scarcely agrpeable to find people infatuated enough to set forth the advantages of ignorance, and to regard learning of the simplest kind as an evil to be avoided. For some time past it has been a mystery to house holders why the dustmen did not call when they saw a card in the window with a large D on it. it has been ascertained that their disregard of the signal was due to a very simple cause—they did not know their letters. Bad as this news is, there is worse to come, for it appears that their superintendent glories in the deficiency of their acquirements. He thinks they might get better employment if they knew how to read and write. He appears himself to be an adept in that ignorance which he admires in others, and to overlook the fact that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. These dustmen do not seem sufficiently educated for the position they now fill, and therefore there is the less cause for anxiety as to their too rapid rise in the social scale. (( Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise," ex claims the poet ; but it has been reserved for this superintendent to shew that knowledge is perilous because it may lead to better things, and that it is for the advantage of employers to have the most unin formed persons about them. He may at least have the negative satisfaction of knowing that his own acquirements are not likely to necessitate his ad vance. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The returns of traffic on the English and Scotch railways for the past week are noticeable, owing to the great increase which has taken place on some of the more important lines. In some measure this is to be attributed to the fine weather, and while farmers are complaining of the long-continued drought, railway managers are reaping golden rewards. But beyond this the increase of our railway traffic is an indication of the resuscitation of trade, and must therefore be a matter of congratula tion to those outside the railway interest. The North Eastern Railway chews an increase, compared with the corresponding week of last year, of £13,120; the Midland, of £16,835 ; the Great Eastern, of £6,107; the Great Western, of £4,416. In the case of the North-Western the increase amounts to no less a sum than £16,320; while the important Lancashire and Yorkshire figures at £23,912. The Caledonian line shows an increase of £2,290; the Metropolitan Railway of DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . 9up plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.G. THE REWARD OF CHARITY. There are some natures in this world who have never thought how valuable their silence on certain occasions and on certain topics would prove to them. A lady has sent to the Glasgow Evening Citizen a tale of her own distress in the year 1839, and an account of the late Charles Dickens's kindness to her in her misfortune. She allows the great author's letters in reply to her many and, some will say, ex orbitant appeals for help to be printed, and in these Mr. Dickens, though expressing an intention to aid her, apparently very justly reproves the writer for not striving against the misfortune with which she is visited with a bolder spirit. He says in one letter, " I would impress upon you that there is no station of life in which we must not exert ourselves both mentally and bodily, if we would live and be ever so moderately happy. The life of which you speak in your last letter may be (and I know is) a very hard one, but it is in your power to make it harder and more laborious even than it really is; and I almost fear that a ner vous sensibility, and the absence of a bold determi nation to bear misfortune and adversity, and look forward the while to something better, have, perhaps, led in some degree to your present distress." At the time when this alms-seeker, who was repre sented to Mr. Dickens as a lady of literary tastes, a diligent reader, and an admirer of genius, applied to him for relief, he was engaged writing " Nicholas Nickleby," and, at this period of his life, as is well known, he was, though a prosperous, still a strug gling man. The lady, without consideration, kept continually appealing to him, until he was at last obliged to write that the many claims upon him did not enable him to see how he could assist the applicant per manently. However severely one may view the lady's past conduct, that which she is at present allowing her self to take part in must meet with far stronger con demnation. She is stated to be again in want of money and the Glasgow Evening Citizen on her behalf informs its readers that the letters of Mr. Dickens are waiting at its office for any purchaser who may again think it charitable to alleviate this woman's sorrow. It is the announce ment of this last fact that strikes us as being pain fully inconsiderate and wrong in the extreme, at this crisis. THE SEVENTH DAY. Among the many mysterious old charities and endowments which flourish in secret corners, pro bably few of us were aware of the existence of Joseph Davis's Charity for Sabbatarian Pro testant Dissenters, which possesses a net income of nearly £6OO a year. It is now being brought into notice through the medium of the ine vitable law case which lies in wait for all such inde finite funds. Joseph Davis, it would seem, was a Protestant worthy of the seventeenth century, who preferred the Jewish Sabbath to the Chris tian Sunday, and who, after the amiable fashion of those times suffered imprisonment for his opinions. His name appears in the pardon granted, in 1672, to John Bunyan and some hundreds of others. He died on the 6th of May, 1706, devising his manor in Essex to seven trustees, and afterwards his son conveyed some property in Whitechapel for a meeting house for the Sabbatarians, the surplus of the rents being applied to pious uses. These two deeds constitute the trust deeds of the charity. A dispute having arisen respecting the division of the money, the case was brought into court. It was contended on behalf of the At torney General that the bequest had been merely a device for propagating the tenets of a particular sect, and that after providing for vested interests the surplus should be applied to useful purposes. The Vice-Chancellor having remarked upon the singular nature of the trusts, said that a scheme proposed by the trustees appeared to him to be the best arrangement, and he should therefore confirm it, directing all costs to come out of the fund. THE LATE FENIAN INVASION. The volunteers of Canada are being highly com plimented by their countrymen for the marvellous promptitude with which they overcame the Fenian bands, who, though unskilled and weak hearted, were nevertheless formidable in numbers, and well sup plied with weapons and ammunition. Very different views appear to prevail on the subject of the attack in the Dominion from those in Eng land. As to General Grant's proclamation, for instance, the Canadians altogether fail to see the importance given to it in England. They cannot regard as a discharge of international obligations intervention only undertaken at the moment when an overt act of war had been accom plished. General Lindsay, in a speech in which he said that the volunteers, without the aid of the regular troops, had alone vanquished General O'Neil's forces, expressed the general feeling when he added that the proclamation was of no use, inasmuch as the Fenians did not heed it. It was wrong and negli gent, the Canadians moreover argued, for the Presi dent to allow the Fenian organisation to be fostered and prepared for an attack on English territory under his very eyes. The arrest of General O'Neil was praiseworthy, but even that did not affect the lawless raiders, who were allowed to advance so far that the Canadian fire alone drove them back. Ano ther opinion expressed in Canada is that England ought to give that country every credit for its loyalty to the Crown shown in the late expedition. The Fenians, it is said, are the enemies of England, and not of Canada. The former nation ought, therefore, to retain her full power and moral influence in the Dominion henceforth, if she wants the people to spend their blood and their treasure in fighting ex ternal enemies of the British flag. ' 2 l - ) g e gn , • Ery HELP MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 14. The Queen, with Princess Louise, went out yesterday ,norning. in the afternoon her Majesty drove to the Glassalt Shiel attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole and Miss Mac gregor. The Princesses went out riding. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. Lady Carew's Concert, at 28, Belgrac e-square. Mr. Brinley Richards's evening concert, at the Hanover square Rooms, at eight o'clock. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO-DAY. The Philological Society, at 8.30 p.m., when Dr. Wey mouth will read a paper on " Old English and Anglo- Saxon Pronunciation." MR. CHARLES DICKENS. Mr. Charles Kent has kindly consented to our printing what is in all probability the last letter that Mr. Dickens wrote. On Thursday, when Mr. Kent went to keep the appointment, Mr. Dickens was lying unconscious, and was within a very few hours of his death. The " opal enjoy ments" refer to the tints of the sky. "dad's-hill-place, Higham-by-Roohester, Kent, Wednesday, the Eighth of June, 1870. " My dear Kent—To-morrow is a very bad day for me *o make a call, as, in addition to my usual office business, have a mass of accounts to settle. But I hope I may be ready for you at three o'clock. If I can't be—why, then I shan't be. " You must really get rid of those opal enjoyments. They are too overpowering : These violent delights have violent ends.' I think it was a father of your Church who made the wise remark to a young gentleman who got up early (or stayed out late) at Verona—Ever affectionately, "To Charles Kent, Esq.," " CHARLES DICKENS. The pictures and other objects of art which belonged to Mr. Dickens are to be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson. His library he has left to his eldest son. His manuscripts and papers are at present in the hands of his executors, Mr. Forster and Miss Hogarth.—Athencewn. THE ROBUST INVALID. The Adelphi Theatre is already famous for the bene volence it shows to modern authors by allowing them to monopolise a whole evening's entertainment by their plays. The rule is advantageous, inasmuch as the public are well enabled thereby to test the ability of the owner of the pieces performed. Mr. Charles Reade's modern drama and ancient comedy allow that portion of the play going public who do not yet know Mr. Reade's capabilities a fair opportunity of judging of them. We should, while making this remark, impress upon our readers the fact, that we only intend to include the audience who see the plays to the end, as, under present arrangements, it is rather difficult to do so. Last evening, for instance, the curtain fell at seven minutes to 12 o'clock. A suggestion, which perhaps Mr. Reade will moreover allow us to make, is that the comedy should be ordered to come first in the programme, for two reasons. First, and chiefly because many people have already seen " Put Yourself in his Place ;" and, those who visit the Adelphi to witness a clever adaptation of Moliere might not particularly care to see the drama repeated. Our second reason is, because Mr. Reade's originalpiece is so excessively modern in its views that the change in going back to the seventeenth century in the comedy is too great to be suitable. The plot of the " Robust Invalid," or as everyone will better know it as the Malade Imaginaire of Moliere, is'founded upon the extraordinary vagaries of a hypochondriacal old man, who, in the French piece, plays a serious and comic role combined, but who becomes rather a fool in the adap tation. This delinquent, the father of a young girl, on becoming old, fancies that he labours under a series of complaints, and he hits upon a plan of marrying her to a medical man, by which means he will manage to have a practitioner always near him in case of seizure. Of course the daughter will not love the doctor, but pledges her troth privately to a gen tleman named Cleantes (Mr. Ashley.) A pretty scheme is devised, by which the old man is made to allow meet ings between his daughter and her lover. This consists in Cleantes pretending to be a music-master, by which arrangement he and she manage to sing several " lessons" to each other actually before the unsuspecting father. The bridegroom originally chosen by the father makes himself detestable to the family by his absurd but highly ludicrous attempts at sentiment and oratory, and ultimately through the influence of an open-hearted brother of the hypoohondriac faith ful Cleantes is accepted as the son-in-law ; a state of things which is rendered more agreeable to the father, when the lover announces that he has become surgeon, and that he means to cure all the patient's ills. The adapta tion has many faults. It is lengthened out in a positively heartless manner, and although it embraces most of the incidents and points made use of by its author, still a new dialogue of an extraordinary character is introduced here and there, and the happy ideas conveyed in the French sentences are very scantily reproduced in those in• our own tongue. Mr. Reade in all his plays professes to know a great deal of odd things well, and it is no discredit to a man to try and know everything he can. It is, however, absurd in the extreme to force his occasionally queer expe riences on the audience, especially if the experiences refer to modern customs, and when the play that they occur in is old. In "The Robust Invalid" a long discussion takes place on the subject of equestrianism. This seems to have been principally introduced in order that the public may learn that " a horse never falls of his own accord ; that it is his rider who causes him to do so." Mr. Reade does not enter into the reasons why a horse falls when being driven, under a 'buss for in stance ; probably in his next play he will enlighten the public on this matter. High praise, however, cannot be, withheld from the adapter for having reproduced this excellent piece. His work he has managed to imbue with a fresh and lively spirit, which renders it exceedingly acceptable, especially to those who think the re vivals of old dramas and comedies only can be gloomy in their nature and deserving of con tempt. There are, moreover, two or three members of the company. who take part in the " Robust Invalid," who are of themselves capable by their impersonations of doing full justice to any piece of average superiority. We allude more especially to Mr. Vining, Miss Glover, and Mrs. Seymour, whose activity and cheerful manner on the stage fairly entitled her to the many expressions Of pleasure lavished upon her during the performance. Of Miss Florence Terry's future acting we have every con fidence given us that it will be of 'a successful kind. She comes before us almost a child, and the child-like charac ter that she represents even at this early period of her stage experience is not at all ill-suited to her. The "Robust Invalid" would probably be more welcome to us were we to cease to remember that Moliere described in it a mail whose latter days contrasted in a _very melancholy vial' with hie own. At the time that he was picturing a frivol ous and complaining hyponchondriac, the author was himself suffering from a painful and incurable disease which all the doctors of France failed to alleviate. This reminiscence, however, will not, we conjecture, cause any person to stay away from the theatre. Under all other circumstances, we do not see why the revival should net meet with every encouragement. The play is put upon the stage with a large share of advantages and under veil happy auspices. During its performance last evening the curtain was not once let down, the short intervals between the acts being, according to French rule, distinctly marked by musical selections from the band—a tolerably strong one. It is thought that Mr. Fillett, the advanced Libe ral candidate for Norwich, will be returned by a large majority. We regret that owing to indisposition ) I r' Childers has been advised to seek a temporary relaxation. We believe that the First Lord is about to leave the Add' ralty for a short sojourn on the Continent. The great Liverpool Will Case has been decided in the Court of Probate. Yesterday, Lord Penzance de cided that the plaintiff, Bishop Goss, had failed to satisfy the Court that the testator was in full possession of his senses at the time of making the will, and the Court mug' therefore pronounce against the will. The question of costs was reserved. Mr. Gladstone has received a copy of a memorial from the Council of the Church Association praying that no action may be taken on the third report of the Ritual Commissioners, and that no alterations may be made in the Book of Common Prayer until such time as the Com missioners have performed the duties enjoined upon theta. and reported upon such changes as to them may seem expedient, with a view of explaining and amending the rubrics, orders, and directions, so as to secure uniformity of practice in such matters as may be deemed e ssential. The memorial has been sent to the Home Secretary, w h° presented it to the Queen. SP TIU Brennu i Allbro o Depart ' Steph, Adelaid Bcarbo r BranThr Tro cadi Bidoroli Norma] S unsith %twit Tit -nit Jersey. Last With a , The h a ° WY a raulat e Plosion Pieces, gild gr yar ds With h Th e P eron Act Nv l 1 w to c annot th en ,. } defeat liberal a dd, ti Catbo] Th( tior n i Mono who his pi the C Sr A( I ng at hitE Scr' illu eo .„ . r e f, he , t.eli