The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform the new Romantic Play, in 4 Acts, entitled THE DOGE OF VENICE, adapted by Bayle Bernard from Lord Byron's Tragedy of "Marino Falioro," with additions from the Play of " Marino," by Casimer do la, Vigne, and Musically Illustrated by Selections from the Operas of "Marino " by Donizetti, and the " Duo Foscare " and "Brav"o" of Verdi and Mercadante, with New and Magni ficent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. The music selected and arranged by Mr. J. H. Tully. The dances and panto mimic action devised by Mr. J. Cormack. The costumes and masks invented by Mr. R. W. Keene. The play will be produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. U. Cowper, 11. Sinclair, E. Phelps, Barrett, James John stone, C. Warner, W. M'lntyre, C. Harcourt, Webb, F. Moreland. &c.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Grattan, &c. Increased orel.estra and numerous chorus. To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. The Duchess, Miss .Bestrix Shirley ; Ruy Gomez, Mr. J. C. Cowper. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o'clock. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYAIRKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Raymond, Chippendale, Rogers, Braid, Gordon, Claak, Coe, &c. ; Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, Dal ton, Burke, Wright, ttc. To conclude with PERFECTION : Mr. Kendal, Miss Burke. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. Pechter, sole, actual, and responsible Manager. THIS EVENING, November the 2nd, the perform ances will commence at Seven o'clock with a comedietta, entitled THE MISTRESS OP THE MILL. Mr. H. Mellon, Mr. S. Calhaem ; Miss Ritter, Miss Montgomery. At Eight o'clock. Lord Lytton's Play of the LADY OF LYONS. Beauseaut, Mr. G. Jordan ; General Damns, Mr. B. Emery, Glavis, Mr. S. Calhaem ; M. Dcschappelles, Mr. IL Mellon, Gaspar, Mr. Dalton ; Landlord, Mr. J. Francis ; Officers, Messrs. Stuart and Fleming ; Claude Melnotte, Mr. Pechter; Pauline, Deschappelles, Miss Carlotta Leelercq ; Widow Melnotte, Miss Elsworthy ; Madame Deschappelles, Mrs. H. Marston. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with a New Comedietta, in Ono Act, by Felix Dale, entitled HE'S A LUNATIC. After which, at a quarter to eight, a Romantic Play, in Five Acts, by Auguste Maquet and Charles Reade, called THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE. Messrs. Alfred Wigan, C. Wyndham, W. H. Stephens, F. Charles, Sanger, W. M. Terrott, C. Seyton, L. Brough ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, Miss FannylAddison, Miss Ellen Teriy, Miss Henrietta Hodson. Doors open at half-past six o'clock, performance to commence at seven. The Box-office open from 10 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Griffiths. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Solo Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, THE LIAR. Messrs. H. Wigan, Addison, Farrell, and Cbarles Mathews; Mesdames L. Moore, and Caulfield. Followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A-YEAR. Messrs. C. Mathews and Farrell ; Mesdames Caulfield and St. Henry. After which, THE TWO PUDDIFOOTS. Mr. Rob son ; Miss. E. Farren. To conclude with BETTY MARTIN. Mr. G. Vin oont; Mesdames E. Farren, and M. Harris. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessen and Manager, Mr. Vining. Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAULT in Arrah-na-Pogue. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with a Comedietta by T. J. Williams, Esq., entitled A LITTLE FLIRTATION. . After which, at a quarter to 8, Mr. Dion Boucicault's celebrated Irish Drama, entitled ARRAH-NA-POGUE. Shaun the Post, Mr. Dion Boucicault; The O'Grady, Mr. Vining; Feeney, Mr. Dominick Murray, M'Coul, Mr. G. F. Neville ; Mayor Coffin, Mr. J. G. Shore ; Secretary, Mr. 31 Lean ; Fanny Power, Miss Hughes ; Arrah Meelish, Mrs. Dion Boucicault. The celebrated scenery, by Mr. Telbin, and Mr. F. Lloyds, entirely repainted and renovated by Mr. F. Lloyds. To conclude with NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MAN IS NOT PERFECT, NOR WOMAN NEITHER. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Miss E. Pitt, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. After which, 10th time, MAUD'S PERIL. Messrs. Billington, G. Belmore, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Billington, Miss Emily Pitt. To conclude with THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Harris, Miss Nelly Harris, ezc. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole proprietor and manager, Mr. Sefton Percy. THIS EVENING, at 7, the highly successful Drama of FOR LOVE. 3lesdames Stephens, llenrade, C. Saunders; Messrs. Montague, Price, Widdicomb. At 9, Burnand's new Burlesque, MARY TURNER ; or, The \Vicious Willin and Wictorious \Virtue. Mesdames Fanny Josephs, Saunders, Wilmore, Clinton, &c. ; Messrs. Robins, Montague, Garden, Wilmot, &c. Magnificent new scenery, dresses, and appointments. - - - NOTE.—Scats may be secured a month in advance. Box-office open from 10 till 5; and all Libraries. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, OUR DOMESTICS. Messrs. Parson*, Thorne, and James; Mesdames Eliza Johnstone and Weathersby. After which, a New Burlesque, by H. J. Byron, WILLIAM TELL WITH A VENGEANCE. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Fenton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, Holt, Weathersby, (Ire. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Mr. W. Belford. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HIGH HOLBORN. Increased Attraction—Unabated Success of the new Comic BALLET by Charles Lauri's and his talented troupe—Charlie Abbott's laughable and original Eccen tricities - The Brothers Daniels in their inimitable Violin Performanees—Airec's thrilling Aerial Act—The Dele vauti Family, the incomparable acrobats—Fillis's wonder fully trained Fire Horse " Zamor," &c. SCENES IN THE ARENA by the matchless Troupe of Equestrians. "Altogether universally acknowledged to be the most successful combination of remarkable equestrian feats, with singular acrobatic dexterity and episodes of discreet drollery, for many years witnessed in the metropolis."— Vide Daily Telegraph. Commence at 8. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. GR. GLENIE, of the Sporting Library, . 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. 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On Saturday last a most interesting affair took place, and the Freemasons' Tavern pre sented a brilliant spectacle on the occasion of the complimentary dinner given to Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, previous to his departure for America. No pains were spared to render the arrangements of the evening as perfect as possible, and we are happy to say that all was most successful. The walls of the room were decorated, and on the panels were the various works of Mr. DICKENS in gold letters. Lord LYTTON performed the duties of chairman, and acquitted himself in the most felicitous manner. In proposing the toast of the evening the noble lord made a most interesting speech, in which be said neither too much nor too little. He commenced by a most ingenious comparison between the sovereignty of the State as represented by constitutional government, and that other royalty of a very different kind which does not always meet with due homage. He who wins and adorns it has often to depart from the sphere of his triumphs unconscious of the effects he has produced, and of the empire his thoughts have bequeathed to his name. " Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius, while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and the reverence of those he has subjected to his sway." It may be observed en passant that this is more applicable to the present race of authors, a circum stance which redounds greatly to the taste and credit of the generation in which we live, and it is no exaggeration to say that no one living offers a better proof of it than the distin guished guest of Saturday. In the course of the illustrations of his varied and vigorous discourse, Lord LvrroN said that a Roman poet had declared that Nature had sought to distinguish man from the inferior animals, and gave tears and laughter as the most special and noblest attributes of humanity. "This humanity itself obeys an irresistible instinct in rendering homage to all who refines it by tears that never enfeeble, and gladdens it by a laughter that never offends." Mr. DICKENS will visit no strange country in going to America, for his works are there as fami liar and popular as they are here. Whatever irrita tion or anger may occasionally exist between our country and that of America, it is perfectly true that on both sides of the Atlantic it is a grand thought that we are related to each other. No more potent agency brings about that affinity of feeling than the fact that both na tions speak the same language. As the noble Chairman said, " It is the one mother tongue that their poets must sing, in which their philosophers must reason, and their orators argue for truth or contend for fame." Hence it follows that a writer who is honoured alike in the Old World and in the New must be welcome on the shores of the far West, and his influence may serve to dispel some of those differences, or to soften some of those asperities which have arisen of late. MACAULAY has said that literature has established a tie stronger than the tie of consanguinity between us and the commonwealths of the Valley of the Mississippi, and how true is that forcible declara tion of the principles, won by the peaceful and yet glorious agencies of thought and feeling over the more barbarous exploits of naval and rAilitary prowess. Mr. DICKENS was most warmly received on rising to make his response, and expressed his feelings in language that was rendered the more effective from its simplicity, and the more eloquent from its genuineness and earnestness. He declared, indeed, that his welcome that night would have been a re proach to him had he not thought that from the earliest days of his career he had always striven to be true. Respecting the difficulties that attend the path of the self-made, Mr. DICKENS said that they had all heard a good deal lately about the dragons that infested the way, and of cliques, sets, coteries, and barriers that kept one man up and held another down, but that he could speak from experience, and say that ho had never met with them. He began to tread the pith when very young, without influence, introducer, or adviser, and he had never experienced their in fluence. Concerning his visit to America he drew a pleas ing picture, and adduced many potent reasons for his visit there. A new generation has sprung up in that mighty land since he was last there, and some of his best-known books have been published since then. No one canwonder that a great writer should desire to see those who have expressed so warm and so deep an interest in him as the Ameri cans have done in CHARLES DICKENS and his works. Ile has accordingly relinquished for a season the engagements and pleasures of his home and his life among us, and will cross the seas to find, however, beyond these seas, a new home and new friends in those who already are familiar with him. lie will see the progress a quarter of a century has made in that wonderful land ; he will meet many he wishes to see from old asso ciations and new ideas, and though last, not least, he will use his best endeavours to lay down a third cable of intercommunication between the Old World and the New. Some persons have been pleased to animadvert upon various expressions that are " found in Ameri can State: , ," but it hardly needed Mr. DICKENS'S disclaimer of them some years ago in the compre hensive words he alluded to on Saturday, that what ever motes his beainy eyes had described iu theirs, he knew full well that they were a kind, large-heaited, generous, and great people. In that he expects to return from them in the spring, and in that faith to live and die. Mr. DICKENS most appropriately con cluded his expressive speech in these eloquent words :—" If I may quote one other short sentence from myself, let it imply all that I have left unsaid, and yet deeply feel—let it, putting a girdle round the earth, comprehend both Biles of the At lantic at once in this moment. As Tiny Tim observed, God bless us every one.' " It was a fitting thing that a great author should have due "honour paid to him previous to his depar ture from among us, though for a brief season only, - to visit those shores of the New World, in which we take so deep an interest. His welcome in Arne rica will be sure to be cordial and complete, wor thy•of the greatland he visits, and the noble race whit h flourishes in so astonishing a manner, with gigantic steps, ever seeming to catch up the civiliza tion of the Old World. We know that if there is one thing wanting in that community it is softness, and how better can this deficiency be supplied than by the refining influences of literature? A great high priest from the Temple of Fame is then to go among them. May his influence be of the happiest and holiest kind—may he teach them to value the great advantage they enjoy, and assure them of the goodwill of his countrymen ! May his visit to the New World be a prosperous one, and though it can hardly increase his fame, it may be a proud reflec tion to him when he returns to the end of his days that he has acceded to the request of his numerous admirers across the Atlantic to read to them his works, which are in the same language as their own. The crisis in the affairs of Italy, whose progress is now watched with such intense interest and anxiety on all sides, has assumed a new phase. The Government of King VICTOR EMMANUEL is placed in a poSition of almost unparalleled difficulty, and whatever step they take they are certain to offend some one or other of the conflicting parties. There are the French, their quondam allies and self-con stituted advisers, whose formidable assistance is drawing nearer and nearer. There is the POPE, whom, as professing Catholics, they dare not dis regard, for fear of the consequences. There are their own people chafing under foreign interference, and clamouring for Italian unity. Above all, there is GARIBALDI, whose name is a tower of strength to the enthusiastic revolutionists, and whom it seems, impossible for force or reason to restrain. Amid such conflicting passions and interests it is no great wonder that neither the old nor the new Government of the Kingdom of Italy has found itself able to avoid the risk of collision with one or other of the contending parties. The last move, in the occupation of the Papal territory, has called forth the disapprobation of M. DE MOUSTIER, whose despatch, which we publish this day, emphatically disavows any sympathy with the movement. The French Minister is emphatic in his condemnation. "If the Government of the King of ITALY," he says, " believes that he may expect from us even a tacit adhesion, suck a belief is an illusion which we must not hesitate to dispel." In a lofty and dictatorial tone of reproof, the French Minister censures the action of the Italian Govern ment. lie cannot invest in any degree with his ap proval a step which France as an adviser has always blamed and dissuaded from. The previous declara tions of King Vicrorc EMMANUEL had, he says, led the French Government to hope that the new Ministry, " proceeding firmly in the course that had been traced out for them," would have been able by efficacious measures to discourage all revolutionary intrigues and to re-establish order. But M. DE MOUSTIER and his chief appear alike to forget that they are dictating not to one man not even to a Cabinet but to a sensitive, impassioned, and enthusiastic popu lation. It is easy to sit in the Cabinet at Paris and pen positive directions to the Government at Florence, but the Italian people aro something more than a dead letter. They cannot see, without excitement and apprehension, the threatened reoc cupation of any part of the Peninsula by foreign troops. The Moniteur, indeed, has explicitly de clared that the intervention of the French troops had no hostile object towards Italy, but the embar kation of troops and horses continues incessantly at Toulon, where the ironclad fleet has arrived, and already a French brigade is in Rome. The Italian Government and people can hardly fail to chafe under the tone of M. de MOUSTIER'S despatch, which is, in fact, neither more nor less than a direct reproof and censure to them. The French Minister's despatch will not even entertain the considerations which General MENABREA advances in support of their proceedings. "We do not wish to discuss to day the reasons by which endeavour is made to justify an act so contrary to international law, but we desire to manifest without delay the impression which the determination of the Florence Cabinet has caused us to experience." General MENABREA'S Circular presents a strong contrast to that of the French Minister. He entered at some length into the position of affairs between the September Convention and the present crisis. He expresses the regret with which the KING'S Government have found themselves unable to change the resolution of France to intervene, and he affirms that the crossing of the frontier by the KING'S troops cannot in any sense be construed into an act of hostility to France. The troops are to occupy a few points only of the Papal territory, to respect established authority, and to endeavour in every way to conciliate the people. The intervention of the Imperial troops has, he points out, altered the situation, and he plainly hints that since the Imperial Government no longer abides by the terms of the September Convention, the KING'S Government is not constrained to do so. By plac ing itself in an identical position with that of the other contracting Power, says General MENABREA, " the KING'S Government will be able to open fresh negotiations on a footing of perfect equality." Unluckily for VICTOR EMMANUEL, it will need a good deal more to put Italy on an equality with France 1 A hostile collision between them, indeed, would be as discreditable to France as it would be unfortunate for Italy, and it would be inconsistent alike with all NAroucox's professions, as well as with his former services to Italy. The sympathies of the French people, too, would be strongly opposed to any such a measure, while it is difficult to say who would be really the gainer. GARIBALDI is holding the torch. Should he once kindle the fire, it is hard to say when or how it shall be extinguished. Unhappily the hero of Sicily is a conspicuous example of that valour without discretion which so often loses all it gains. He is now entrenched at Monte Rotondo, and refuses to listen to appeal or re monstrance. It is said that he courts death, but his sacrifice would but complicate matters still further. No nation in Europe would hear without a thrill of emotion and regret that GARIBALDI had met his death at either French or Italian hands. The situation is a grave one, and each of the con flicting parties must make concessions and act with moderation, or all alike will have cause to rue the events of November, 1867. A correspondent says, with regard to the com parative merits of English and French manufacturers " After all, the loading jewellers of London have exhibited some good and tasteful articles. Messrs. C. F. Hancock, Son, and Co. have, however, fairly attained the right to take the load of them, fcr they have brought a continued succession of articles of jewellery unparalleled for beauty, originality of dorign, and skill in execution. Of course they had a gold medal. Had it been set with diamonds the reward would not have been too great." It is said that Mr. C. F. Hancock's name was down for the red ribbon, had the English Government not prohibited the wearing of the red," being almost as afraid of it as the wearing of the other colour, " the wearing of the green." —Court Journal, Nov 2. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1867. QM+ .: . -- P7 -. , ~,, r d i e-7.1,1;* HER MAJESTY. WIIIDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Balmoral yesterday at eight o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle this after noon at five. Nov. 3. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service thi3 morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Thomas James Row sell, honorary chaplain to the Queen, preached the sermon. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TZLEQRAMS.) THE ROMAN QUESTION. FLORENCE, Nov. 3. The Official Gazette of to-day says—" In order to avoid all doubt the Government of the King has determined neither to accept nor encourage in the neighbouring Papal States any action calculated to effect a change in the actual state of things. That determination is in conformity with the desire of the royal Government to, leave to a future period the arrival:at an understanding, whereby a definitive and satisfactory solution of the Roman question may be obtained." THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOP. 2. The Grand Vizier has addressed a proclamation to the Cretans, reminding them that the delay for the amnesty has now expired, and that the time has come for energetically proceeding to the pacificated and administrative reorganisation of the island, with the aid of their delegates. Measures are to be at once adopted for the troops protecting the well disposed, for the action of the tribunals, and for the authorities supplying the urgent wants of the popu lation. Every foreign volunteer, under whatever circumstances he is arrested, is to be tried by court martial; and every Ottoman subject who shall be taken in arms, or shall assist the insurgents, will be judged by a mixed tribunal. ARRIVAL OF THE MANHATTAN. QUEENSTOWN, NOV. 4. The Guion steamship Manhattan arrived here at 7 a.m. with 61 passengers, of whom she landed a portion, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Cimbria arrived out to-day. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, Nov. 3. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris, with the above mails, arrived here at 10p.m. to-day. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received a telegram from Mr. Pater son, their superintendent at Calcutta, dated Nov. 2, announcing that none of their ships had been in jured by the cylonn which occurred there the pre• vious night. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 2, Three o'clock.—Tho market clos3d as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month - 3 per Cent End of month 67 72 Credit Mobilier End of month... 180 Credit Foncior ...1278 75 End of m0nth...1280 Bank Shares 3300 Ital'an Loan End of month 4l 99 • Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Dsforred TS. Account. Orleans ... 851 f Northern ll2Bk Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 525 Western 7 Eastern .. ........................ 543! Sardinian Austrian 4BO Lombard 360 North of Spain 55 Saragossa Boman ....................................... RAILWA' MARK LANE....this Day. ofProduce were firm in at about stationary Abort average supplies of wheat were on sale in the leading country marke ts held on Saturday. For all kinds p t h r i e c e d s e . m aßnadr w ey as an i d n a oth sl e u r gsh kinds state, value. Throughout the Continent vi heat has become inactive ; nevertheless, the quotations have been fairly supported. In the value of spring corn very little change has taken slcian 69, fresh up t o our mar k e t s place. The American markets are d roop i ng. The imports of fore i g n and colonialsspe 50ba r p r r e o ls du o c f e fl i o n u to r. The arrivals last week amou nted to 52,5 69rauaeretder 2 quarters 5 2 f 209 p w m h ae e ia a zs t e ., : 8,579 barley, 30, 483 o ats. 892 ry 0, 4,090 s beans, 6 1,500 hs sundries, tares, adrrriiev sa, l l 4 1s , 1 3 0, 4 4f 4 7E7 lni sngaeshks d, d wheatl74 to-day were moderately good, and in fair condition. The attendance of millers was rather limited, an d th e d eman d for both red and whit e qualities ruled somewhat heavy, at a decline in the quot ations, com p ared w i th Monday last, of from is to 2s per qua rter. with neglected, fo r e wheat. Even tho ig a n nd a few forced sales were effected at is to 2s p er q uarter less money. The fresh imports have been on an extensi ve scale. finest lVe s w am er p e le w s e w ll e s r l e ip m Pl u ie c dh Floating cargoes of grain were inactive at about previ ous rates. The supply o f English barley was limited; of foreign on the in rease. Sales progressed slowly, and the quo tations had a drooping tendency, the decline being is to 2s per qr. There was a moderate inquiry for malt, the supply of which was tolerably good at last week's prices. Oats moved off slowly at barely previous rates. The show of foreign samples was good, of English very limited. The few samples o f beans on the stands wore taken at lato currencies. Peas wore very firm in prico, although the inquiry for them was by no moans active. The sale for flour was very inactive, at barely stationary prices. Seeds and cakes commanded very little attention, on former terms. - - ----- CURRENCY PER IMP. MILLECURX Wheat— Essex and Kent, rod, new, per qr. 635 to 728 Do., old S -3 Do., white, old —s --s Do., new 645 76 3 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, -3 Do., 635 72s new Talavera 74s Ms Rye— —2 —s Barley —Grinding 353 39s ............................ Malting 4lB 46s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 663 70s Brown s6s 623 Kingstown and Ware 723 735 Chevalier 745 755 Oath—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 250 29 s Potato 375 Youghal and Cork, blank Cork, white Scotch, Feeding Beans—Tick 49s 488 Pigeons Peas—Grey, Maple Whit© Boilers 48s Flour —Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 51 581 5 585 Stockton and Norfolk oBi American, per barrel French, per sack THE SUDBURY MURDER.—It was stated recently that William Martin, who has been committed for trial for the murder of a man named Eurbridge at Sudbury, is suffering from illness and in a dying state. Martin has been examined by Mr. Macnab, temporary surgeon at Bury St. Edmund's gaol, and no symptoms of disease have been detected, although the prisoner exhibits great depression of spirits. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Tho court was specially convened on Saturday for the purpose of fixing the days for holding the sessions for the ensuing year. It requires the attendance of eight judges to form a quorum, but this number did not attend, and after waiting for more than an hour the court was adjourned until this afternoon at Lair-past four o'clock. FAREWELL BANQUET TO MR. CIL4I?,LES DICKENS. A complimentary banquet was given on Saturday evening to Mr. Charles Dickens, previous to his departure for the United States. The numerous literary, artistic, and scientific friends of Mr. Dickens mustered in great force on the occasion, and the large new hall of the Freemasons' Tavern was filled in every part. Covers were laid for neatly 450 persons, and so general was the desire to be present that a large number of applicants were unable to obtain admission. The committee, anxious that nothing should be wanting to give interest to the °voting, obtained permission of the proprietors of the already magnificent hall to introduce deco rations appropriate to the occasion. "It was the happy thought" (says the Observer of yesterday) "of the hon. secretary, Mr. Charles Kent, not only that the guest of the evening should be surrounded by his friends in the flesh, but that the walls of the dining hall should suggest the presence of those other friends, scarcely less real, who from our dear old acquaintance Mr. Pickwick, to our dear new acquaintance Dr. Marigold, have become, as it were, identified with the family history of every household in the kingdom. It was entrusted to Messrs. Green and King, the decorators, of Baker street, to carry out this idea, under the direction of one of the stewards, and with the professional aid of Mr. E. C. Robins, architect, of Southampton-street, who generously volunteered to design and superin tend the work, both the architect and the decorators accomplishing their task with a zeal and ability in every way worthy of the occasion. The walls of the hall consisted of twenty large blank panels with arched tops. Each of these has been entirely recoloured. Borders of laurel leaves on a deep red ground have been run rouud the panels, and in the arch top of each the name of one of Mr. Dickens's works has been introduced in gold letters, the post of honour over the chair being given to the immortal Mr. Pickwick. The walls literally glistened with the dear familiar names, and the noble room had all the semblance of a temple specially erected to the ho nour and for the glorification of England's favourite author. "It should be named that the work was a marvel of expedition, the whole having been designed and executed in less than three days, and it should be also added that Messrs. Green and King contracted to do the work for a sum amounting to less than a moiety of the actual cost to themselves—in fact, all concerned, even to the very workmen, who did not cease their labours day or night, seemed to share in the pride and pleasure of contributing to the success of the festival. "The Dinner Committee (to whom," adds the Observer, " great credit was due for the manner in which they carried out the arrangements) consisted of Mr. S. Arthur Chappell, Mr. T. Chappell, Mr. Wilkie Collins, Mr. Charles Fechter, Mr. Charles Kent, Mr. Edward Levy, Sir Charles Russell, Bart., M.P., Mr. George Russell, Mr. W. H. Wills, and Mr. Edmund Yates." While so much was done for the interior of the banquet-hall, the lobbies and corridors leading thereto, the reception room and the ladies' tea room were profusely decorated with the most ex quisite statuary the celebrated atalier of Brucciani, in Great Russell-street, could produce, which, aided by the effect of the choicest exotic plants, gave the avenues a very charming aspect. The chair was taken by Lord Lytton ; the guest of the evening sitting on the right, and the Lord Chief Justice on the left. Among the company seated at the cross table on the dais being noticeable, besides the three already named, Sir Charles Rus sell, V.C., M.P., the Chaplain-General of the Forces, Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy ; Sir Benjamin Phillips, Sir E. Landseer, R.A., Sir J. E. Tenneut, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. Otway, M.P., Captain Houston Stewart, R.N., Lord Houghton, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Mr. An thony Trollope, the Lord Mayor, Professor O wen, Sir C. W. Dilke, Sir Willis u Fergusson, Mr. B. 'Webster, Mr. Buckatone, Mr. Charles Dickens, junior, and his brother, Mr. Sidney Dickens, R.N. Among the rest of the company seated in the body of the hall were very many of the Royal Academicians, besides other artists of celebrity— authors of more or less importance in great abun dance, journalists, members of the bar, and the other learned professions, and among others, nearly the whole of those whose names are inscribed upon the following remarkable list of one hundred and twenty stewards : The Duke of Argyll, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Tho Lord Chief Baron, Jules Benedict, Esq., Richard Bentley, Esq., John Blackwood, Esq., Algernon Borthwick, Esq., the Dean of Bristol, Robert Broadwater, Esq., Shirley Brooks, Esq., Rev. W. 11. Brookfield, J. B. Buckatone, Esq., Sir John Burgoyne, R.E., Samuel Cartwright, Esq., the Chap lain General of her Majesty's Forces, Fred. Chapman, Esq., Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., S. Arthur Chappell, Esq., Thomas Chappell, Esq., Robert Chambers, Esq., LL.D., H. F. Chorley, Esq.,, Charles Collins, Esq., Wilkie Collins, Esq., Alderman Cotton, the Earl Darnley, the Marquis D'Azeglio, J. 0. De Gex, Esq., Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., M.P., W. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., Rev. Alex ander Dyce, William Evill, Esq., junior, Charles Fechter, Esq., Thomas Feed, Esq., R.A., Sir William Fergusson, Bart., Percy Fitzgerald, Esq., John Forster, Esq., W. P. Frith, Esq., R.A., the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., 11. A. Glass, Esq., F.R.G.S., Frederick Goodall, Esq, R.A., Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A., the Earl Granville, K.G., Frederick Greenwood, Esq., C. L. Grunoison, Esq., Col. E. B. Hamley, C. 8., Rev. W. Harness, M. J. Higgins, Esq., W. Charles Hood, Esq., M.D., the Lord Houghton, J. W. Huddleston, Esq., Q.C., the Lord Chief Justice of England, Charles Kent, Esq., Charles Knight, Esq., Henry Lake, Esq., Charles Landseer, Esq, MA., Sir Edwin Landseer, RA., Austen 11. Layard, Esq., M.P., Mark Lemon, Esq., Edward Levy, Esq., G. 11. Lewes, Esq., William Lethbridge, Esq.,- Frederick Locker, Esq., T. Longman, Esq., the Hon. Spencer Lyttolton, Chas. Mackay, Esq., LL.D., * Daniel Maclise, Esq., 8.A., W. C. Macroady, Esq., the Baron Marochetti, R.A., J. Westland Marston, Esq., the Master of the Mint, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, J. E. Millais, Esq., R.A., Professor Henry Morley, Sir Roderick Murchi son, Bart., K.C.8., General Freeman Murray, John Murray, Esq., J. H. Novelli, Esq., A. J. Otway, Esq., M.P., Frederic Ouvry, Esq., Professor Owen, John Oxonford, Esq., J. C. Parkinson, Esq., Sir Benjamin Phillips, the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., P. F. Poole, Esq., R.A., Dr. Priestley, B. W. Procter, Esq., Charles Reade, Esq., D.C.L., J. R. Robinson, Esq., the Earl Russell, K.G., Sir Charles Russell, Bart., M.P., V.C., George Russell, Esq., G. A. Sala, Esq., J. Palgrave Simpson, Esq., F. C. Skey, Esq., F.R.S., George Smith, Esq., Dr. William Smith, the Earl Stanhope, Captain W. Houston Stewart, R.N., Marcus Stone, Esq., Tom Taylor, Esq., Sir Jas. Emerson Tennant, Bart., John Tenniel, Esq., Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Sir Henry Thompson, Rev. Chauncy Townshend Hare, An thony Trollope, Esq., T. A. Trollopo, Esq., J. S. Virtue, Esq., E. M. Ward, Esq., R.A., Sir Thomas Watson, Bart., Benjamin Webster, Esq., Thomas Webster, Esq., R.A., Charles Wescomb, Esq., M. Van do Weyer, W. 11. Wills, Esq., Erasmus Wilson, Esq., F.R.S, Dr. Forbes Winslow, D.C.L., Edmund Yates, Esq. _ _ Dinner was served shortly after seven o'clock. At the entrance of the guest of the evening, accom panied by the chairman and followed by the mem bers of the dinner committee, the whole company rose en masse and cheered with enthusiasm. Grace before dinner was said by the Rev. the Chaplain-General of the Forces. The Band of the Grenadier Guards, who were in attendance, by the kind permission of Colonel Michael Bruce, occupied the gallery, arrayed in their regimentals, and during the dinner performed, under the direction of Mr. Dan Godfrey, a choice selection of music from Mozart, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Strauss, and Offenbach. On the cloth being cleared, the grace Deuna Lan (late was sung by the Messrs. Baxter, Coates, Land, Chaplin Henry, and Winn—vocalists, who enlivened the after part of the evening with occasional glees and madrigals. The CHA I RMAN (Lord LYTTON) on the conclusion of the Drum .Latidate, rose to give the first toast— his rising being the signal for long continued applause. Ho said—ln rising to propose to you the health of a Sovereign so dear to her people, it is not irrelevant to he character of this meeting, nor to the occasion that brings us together, to remark that one special at tribute of the reign of Victoria has been the vast in crease in the popular cultivation of litaature ; while a glance at the list of our stewards may suffice to show how much has been added to the glories of that reign by inventions in science and master-pieces of art. And when we consider how many of our most eminent public men, including the leaders of both parties, have combined literary distinction with political honours, we may recognise,in the connexion between literature and statesmanship, a sign of the civilisation which ever seeks to draw closer together the legitimate union of knowledge and power. (Cheers.) Permit me to accompany the toast that I shall now propose with the hope that that union may be rendered more lasting and complete by securing new facilities for knowledge wherever we enfranchise new elements of power. I give you " The Health of the Queen." (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with the usual demonstra , tions of loyalty. The CHAIRMAN—The next toast is " The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," and in proposing it permit me to express our thankfulness that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales is, we are told, happily recovering from a long and painful illness, borne with a resig nation which has heightened our sympathy in her affliction, and increased our respect for a character womanly in gentleness and royal in its fortitude. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRHAN, in giving the next toast, said— I have now to propose to you "The Health of our gallant defenders in the Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers." To the Volunteers we leave the de fence of our shores, to the army and navy we intrust the honour of our flag in whatever sea or on whatever soil it may brave the battle and the breeze. May that flag soon wave triumphant over that dis tant and barbarous laud in which the necessities of empire econpel us to prove that there is no spot on earth to which the Queen of England sends her representative beyond the reach of her power to protect her delegate or to avenge his wrongs. (Cheers.) Sir CHAS. RUSSELL, V.C., returned thanks for the army, and expressed his strong conviction that the valour of the British army would very speedily cause the British flag to wave in triumph in that "barba rous country." Captain HOUSTON STEWART, R.N. acknowledged the toast on the part of the navy. Mr. Tom TAYLOR, in returning thanks for the volunteers, said he did not know whether it was for tunate or unfortunate that the volunteer force did not exist in the days of the immortal Pickwick—(laugh ter)—because he could not help thinking that, had it existed then, some of its members would have been painted in colours rather different from those in which the force was generally presented in speeches after dinner. (Renewed laughter.) If he had figured under the pencil of their honoured guest, he was afraid he could claim no place except alongsid e of the unfortunate Mr. Winkle in the famous sport ing scene, where he was compelled to sit down under the stern but well-merited rebuke of Mr. Pickwick as an impostor. (Loud laughter.) For five years he had most undeservedly worn the uni form of the Civil Service Volunteers ; he had now, by his own act, been most deservedly reduced to the ranks, and reversing the usual order of military pro cedure, had held, as a full private, a court-martial upon himself as captain, and he was compelled to pronounce that he had thoroughly deserved dismis sal from the volunteer service. (Laughter.) But the experience which had forced the humiliating fact home to him had also forced upon him the conviction that the reproach under which he had left a com mand in the volunteer force did not attach to the majority of his brother officers. Indeed he was afraid that the deficiency under which he laboured was due not so much to a want of application as to a rooted incapacity for military command. Certainly, in the proportion of four out of five of the volunteer officers they were zealous, intelligent, and able sol diers, and the Civil Service Corps had furnished some of the best officers in the volunteer force. (Hear.) He bad seen the advantages connected with the volunteer movement, promoting as it did a healthy and manly feeling of esprit do corps among different classes of the comwunity,and teaching some thing like a common duty of citizenship beyond the mere payment of rates and taxes, with which an Englishman's perception of public duty was very apt to be bounded. (Laughter and cheers.) The CHAIRMAN—I now approach the toast which is special to the occasion that has brought together a meeting so numerous and so singularly distin guished. You have paid the customary honours to our beloved Sovereign—due not only to her per sonal virtues, but to that principle of constitutional monarchy in which the communities of Europe re cognise the happiest mode of uniting liberty with order and giving to the aspirations for the future a definite starting point in the experience and the habits of the past. You are now invited to do honour to a different kind of royalty, which is seldom peaceably acknowledged until he who wins and adorns it has ceased to exist in the body, and is no longer conscious of the empire which his thoughts bequeath to his name. Happy is the man who makes clear his title-deeds to the royalty of genius, while he yet lives to enjoy the gratitude and reverence of those he has subjected to his sway. (Cheers.) Though it is by conquest that he achieves his throne, he at least is a conqueror whom the conquered bless ; and the more despotically he enthrals the dearer he becomes to the hearts of men. (Cheers.) Seldom, I say, has that kind of royalty been quietly con ceded to any man of genius until his tomb becomes his throne ; and yet there is not one that is now present who thinks it strange that it is granted with out a murmur to the guest we receive to-night. (Cheers.) It was said by a Roman poet that Na ture, designing to distinguish the human race from inferior animals by that faculty of social progress which makes each combine with each for the aid and advance of all, gave to men mollissima corda— hearts the most accessible to sympathy with their fellow kind ; hence tears, and, permit me to add laughter become the special and the noblest attri bute of humanity. (Cheers.) Thus it is humanity it self which obeys an irresistible instinct when it ren ders homage to ono who refines it by tears that never enfeeble, and gladdens it by a laughter that never de grades. (Cheers.) We are about to trust our ho noured countryman to the hospitality of those kindred shores in which his writings aro as much household words as they are in the homes of England. And if I may presume to speak as a politician I should say that no time for his visit could be more happily chosen ; for our American kinsfolk have conceived, rightfully or wrongfully, that they have some recent cause of complaint against ourselves ; and out of all England we could not have selected an envoy, speaking not in behalf of our Government but of our people, more calculated to allay irritation and propitiate good will. (Cheers.) In the matter of good will there is a distinction between us English and Americans which may for a time operate to our disadvantage ; for we English insist upon claiming all Americans as belonging to our race, and spring ing from the same ancestry as ourselves, and hence the idea of any actual hostility between them and us shocks our sense of relationship. And yet in reality a large and very active proportion of the American people derive their origin from other races besides that of the Anglo-Saxon. Germans and Dutch Celtic forefathers combine to form the giant f am il y of the United States. But there is one agency for ever at work to cement all these varieties of origin, and to compel the American people, as a whole, to be as proud as we are of their affinity with the Eng lish race. (Cheers.) What is that agency ? Is it not that of one language in common between the two nations ? (Cheers.) It is in the one mother tongue that their poets must sing, their philosophers must reason, and their orators must argue for truth or contend for power. Does not history show us that it is always through one language in common that differences of origin arc welded together? 1 see before me a gentleman distinguished for the manner in which he has brought together all that is most modern in sentiment with all that is most scholastic in thought and language—permit Inc to say Mr. llfatthew Arnold. (Cheers.) I appeal to him, I appeal to you all. Am I right when I say that that is the cause cementing together all difference of origin, that is the cause why Etruscans and Oscans, and Sahines and Romans because one family, as Latins once as Italians now. Before the influence of a language in common, have not all ancestral differences in England between Briton and Saxon, and Dane and (Hear, hear.) And by Norman, molted away ? the same omnipotent agency will not all difference of orgin equally melt away in the nurseries of Ame rican mothers extracting the earliest lessons for their children from our own English Bible, and in the schools of preceptors, who must resort to the same models of language whenever they bid their pupils rival the prose of Macaulay and Prescott, 'or emu' late the verse of Tennyson and Longfellow (Cheers.) Now, it seems to me that nothing call more quicken the sense of that relationship which a language in common creates than the presence and voice of a writer equally honoured and beloved in the Old World and the New. (Cheers.) I cannot but think that wherever our American kinsfolk wel come that presence or hang spell-bound on that voice they will irresistibly feel how much there is of fellowship and unison between the hearts of Ame rica and England. (Cheers.) So that when our countryman quits their shores he will leave behind bim many a new friend to that old fatherland which greets them through him so cordially in the accents of the mother tongue. (Cheers.) And in those accents what a sense of priceless obligation, per sonally to him, but through him to the land he re presents, must steal over his American listeners ! How many hours in which pain and sickness have changed into cheerfulness and mirth beneath the wand of his enchantment ! (Cheers.) How many a hardy combatant, beaten down in the battle of life —and nowhere on this earth is the battle of life sharper than in the Commonwealth of America has taken hope, and courage, and force from the many lessons of this unobtrusive teacher ! (Cheers.) No wonder the rising generation of those who have learned to feel and to think in our language should eagerly desire to see face to face the man to whose genius, from their very childhood, they have turned for warmth and light as instinctively as young plants turn to the sun. But I must not forget that it is not I whom you have come to hear ; and all that I could say, had I to vindicate the fame of our guest from disparagement or cavil, would seem but tedious commonplace when addressed to those who know that his career has passed beyond the ordeal of contemporaneous criticism, and has found in the applause of foreign nations a foretaste of the judg ment of posterity. (Cheers.) I feel, indeed, as if I had already too long delayed your natural im patience for the toast that I now propose : —" A Prosperous Voyage, Health, and Long Life to our Illustrious Guest and Countryman, Charles Dickens." The toast was drunk:with all the honours, the cheering being renewed again and yet again. Mr. DICKENS, who was received with enthusiasm, said—No thanks that I can offer you can express my sense of my reception by this great assemblage, or can in the least suggest to you how deep the glowing words of my friend the chairman, and your acceptance of them, have sunk into my heart. But both combined have so greatly shaken the compo sure which I am used to command before an audi ence that I hope you may observe in me some traces of an eloquence more expressive than the richest words. (Cheers.) To say that lam fer vently grateful to you is to say nothing I To saY that I can never forget this beautiful sight is to say nothing ! ! To say that it brings upon me a rush of emotion not only in the present, but in the thought of its remembrance in the future by those who aro dearest to me, is to say nothing !! ! But to feel all this for the moment, even almost to pain, is very much indeed. (Cheers.) Mercutio says of the wound in his breast, dealt him by the hand of a foe, that —" 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve." I may say of the wound in my breast, newly dealt to me by the hands of my friends, that it is deeper than the soundless sea and wider than the whole Catholic Church. (Cheers, and a laugh.) Imay safelyadd that it has for the moment almost stricken me dumb. I should be more than human, and I assure you I am very human indeed—(cheers) —if I could look around upon this brilliant representative company and not feel greatly thrilled and stirred by the presence of so many brother artists, not only in literature, but also in the sistrr arts, especially painting, among whose professors living and unhappily dead, are many of my oldest and best friends. (Cheers.) I hope that I may, without presumption, regard this thronging of my brothers around me as a testimony on their part that they believe that the cause of art gene rally has been safe in my keeping—(cheers)—and that it has never been falsely dealt with by me. (Cheers.) Your resounding cheers just now would have been but so many cruel reproaches to me if I could not here declare that, from the earliest days of my career down to this proud night, I have always tried to be true to my calling—(cheers)--- never unduly to assert it on the one hand, and never, on any pretence or consideration, to permit it to be patronised in my person, has been the steady endea vour of my life—(cheers)---and I have occasionally been vain enough to hope that I may leave its social position in England better than I found it. (Cheers.) Similarly, and equally I hope without presumption, I trust that 1 may take this general representation of the public here, through so many orders, pursuits, and degrees, as a token that the public believe that, with a host of imperfections and shortcomings on my head, I have as a writer, in my soul and con science, tried to be as true to them as they have ever been true to me. (Cheers.) And here, in reference to the inner circle of the arts and the outer circle of the public, I feel it a duty to-night to offer two re marks. I have in my duty at odd times heard a great deal about literarysets and cliques and coteries and barriers ; about keeping this man up, and keep• ing that man down; about sworn disciples and sworn unbelievers ; and mutual admiration societies, and 1 know not what other dragons in the upward path. 1 began to tread it when I was very young, with out influence, without money, without companion, introducer, or adviser, and I am bound to put in evidence in this place that I never lighted on these dragons yet. (Cheers.) So have I heard in my day at divers other odd times, much generally to the effect that the English people have little or no love of art for its own sake, and that they do not greatly care to acknowledge or do honour to the artist. My own experience has uniformly been exactly the reverse. (Cheers.) I can say that of my country men, though I cannot say that of my country. (A laugh.) And now passing to the immediate oc casion of your doing me this great honour, the story of my going again to America is very easily and briefly told. Since I was there before a vast and entirely new generation has arisen in the United States. Since I was there before most of the best known of my books have been written and pubs • lished ; the new generation and the books have come together and have kept together, until at length numbers of those who have so widely and constantly read me, naturally desiring a little variety in the relationship between us, have expressed a strong wish that I should read myself. (Cheers.) This wish at first conveyed to me through public channels and business channels, has gradually become en forced by an immense accumulation of letters from individuals and associations of individuals, all ex pressing in the same hearty, homely, cordial, un affected way, a kind of personal interest in me—l had almost said a kind of personal affection for me —(cheers)—which I am sure you would agree with me it would be dull insensibility on my part not to prize. Little by little this pressure has become Bo great that, although, as Charles Lamb says, ml household gods strike a terribly deep root, I have torn them from their places, and this day week, at this hour, shall be upon the sea. You will readily conceive that I ant inspired besides by a natural de sire to see for myself the astonishing change and progress of a quarter of a century over there, to grasp the hands of many faithful friends whom 1 1-ft there, to see the faces of the multitude of new friends upon whom I have never looked, and last, not least, to use my best endeavour to lay down 3 third cable—(cheers)—of intercommunication and alliance between the old world and the new. (Loud cheers.) Twelve years ago, when Heaven knows I little thought I should ever be bound upon the voyage which now lays before me, I wrote in that form of my writ ings which obtains by far the most exten sive circulation these words of the American na tion :—" I know full well, whatever little motes iiiY beanly eyes may have descried in theirs, that they are a kind, large-hearted, generous, and great peo ple." (Hear.) 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