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

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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 Faliero," with additions from the Play of " Marino," by Casimer de la Vigne, and Musically Illustrated by Selections from the Operas of "Marino" by Donizetti, and the "Duo Foscare " and "Bravo" of Verdi and Mercadante, with New and Magni ficent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. The music selected and arranged by Mr. J. 11. 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. C. 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, dtc. Increased orchestra and numerous chorus. To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. The Duchess, Miss Beatrix 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, HAYMARKET, Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstono. THIS EVENING, THE WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Raymond, Chippendale, Rogers, Braid, Gordon, Claak, Coe, ecc. ; Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, Dal ton, Burke, Wright, &c. To conclude with PERFECTION : Mr. Kendal, Miss Burke. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. Fechter, 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 OF THE MILL. Mr. 11. Mellon, Mr. S. Calhaem ; Miss Ritter, Miss Montgomery. At Eight o'clock. Lord Lytton's Play of the LADY OF LYONS. Beauseant, Mr. G. Jordan ; General Damns, Mr. S. Emery, Glavis, Mr. S. Calhaem ; M. Deschappelles, Mr. H. Mellon, Gaspar, Mr. Dalton ; Landlord, Mr. J. Francis ; Officers, Messrs. Stuart and Fleming ; Claude Melnotte, Mr. Pechter ; Pauline, Deschappelles, Miss Carlotta Leclercq ; Widow Melnotte, Miss Elsworthy ; Madame Deschappelles, Mrs. H. Marston. UEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with a New Comedietta, in One 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. Massre. Alfred Wigan, C. Wyndham, W. H. Stephens, F. Charles, Sanger, W. M. Torrott, C. Seyton, L. Brough ; Mrs. E. F. Saville, Miss FannylAddison, Miss Ellen Teri y, Miss Henrietta Hodson. Doors open at half-past six o'clock, performance to commence at seven. Tho Box-office open irom 10 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Griffiths. ROYAL OLYMPIC T HEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, THE LIAR. Messrs. H. Wigan, Addison, Farrell, and Charles 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 PIIDDIFOOTS. Mr. Rob son ; Miss. E. Farren. To conclude with BETTY MARTIN. cent; Mesdames E. Farren, and M. Harris. Commence at Seven. Mr. G. Vin. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee 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 ARRAII-NA-POCrUE. 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. M.Lean ; Fanny Power, Miss Hughes ; Arrah Meelish, Mrs. Dion Boucicault. The celebrated scenery, by Mr. Tolbin, 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 ADELI'HI. I. 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, &c. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole pro! , rieto.r and manager, Mr. Sefton Percy. THIS EVENING, at 7, the highly successful Drama of FOR LOVE. Mesdames Stephens, Henrade, C. Saunders; Messrs. Montague, Price, Widdicomb. At 9, Burnand's new Burlesque, MARY TURNER; or, The Vicious and \Victorious \Virtue. Mesdames Fanny Josephs, Saunders, Wilmore, Clinton, .tc. • Messrs. Robins, Montague, Garden, Wilmot, &c. Magnificent new scenery, dresses, and appointments. NOT E.— Seats may be secured a month in advance. Box-office open from 10 till 5; and all Libraries. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, OUR DOMESTICS. Messrs. Parselle, Thorne, and James ; Mesdames Eliza Johnstone and Weathersby. After which, a New Burlesque, by 11. J. Byron, WIL LIAM TELL WITH A VENGEANCE. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Fenton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, Holt, Weathersby, Sze. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Mr. W. Belford. RO YAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, Inuit HOLBORN. Increased Attraction—Unabated. 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Bd.—lied Bull Wharf. ia, Upper Thames-street, London. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1867. WHEELER AND WILSON, 139, REGENT-STREET, AND 43, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AWARDED, OVER EIGHTY-TWO COMPETITORS, THE HIGHEST PREMIUM, A GOLD MEDAL, For the Perfection of SEWING MACHINES and BUTTON-HOLE MACHINES, THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL FOR THIS BRANCH OF MANUFACTURE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 6h. 30m. I Afternoon, 6h. 56m. To-Mono .-Morning, 7h. 23m. I Afternoon, Bh. Oxn. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 4, 1867. We have certainly been fortunate in having the dulness of the autumn season enlivened by a suc cession of banquets and ceremonies. At Manchester and at Edinburgh there have been grand doings, and the public have gladly turned from the harassing circumstances of social life at home, and the vexa tious occurrences abroad to discuss on more pleas ing topics. 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 he 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 ho 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 LYTTON 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 ii 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 agenciesof thought and feeling over the more barbarous exploits of naval and military 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 he had never met with them. He began to tread the path 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 can wonder 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. He 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. He will see the progress a quarter of a century has made in that wonderful land ; he will meet many ho wishes to see from old asso ciations and new ideas, and though last, not least, he will use his best endeavours to lay down s 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 Amen-- can States," 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 beauty eyes had described in theirs, he knew full well that they were a kind, large-hearted, 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 sides 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 tHE SUN, LON VON. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1867 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 i❑ America will be sure to be cordial and complete, worthy of the greatland he visits, and the noble race which 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 g.) among them. May his influence be of the happiest and huliest 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. He 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 VICTOR 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, bat the Italian people are 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. Ile 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 ! 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 leading 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 lead of thorn, fcr they have brought a continued succession of articles of jewellery unparalleled for beauty, originality of design, 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." ...CO re IkUrnal, NOT 2. Tort errtufar. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR 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 this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Thomas James Row sell, honorary chaplain to the Queen, preached the sermon. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ROMAN QUESTION. FLORENCE, Nov. 3. The Official Gazette of to-day says—" In order to avoid all doubt the Government of the King bas 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, NOT. 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, NOT. 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 10 p.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 cylone which occurred there the pre vious night. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 2, 'Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 4} per Cant. End of month — 3 por Cent End of month 6 7. 72i Credit Mobilier 180 End of month lBO Credit Fonder 1278 7.5 End of month 1280 RAILWA Bank Shares 3300 Ital'an Loan End of month 44 90 Mexican Loan 11 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Rome Debt.. Deferred . TS. Account. Orleans ... 8511 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 525 Western Eastern •• 543/ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain 55 Saragossa Roman ....................................... 46i MARK LANE.—?his Day. Abort average supplies of wheat were on sale in the leading country markets held on Saturday. For all kinds the demand was in a sluggish state, at about stationary prices. Barley and other kinds of produce were firm in value. Throughout the Continent it heat has beoome inactive ; nevertheless, the quotations .havo been fairly supported. In the value of spring corn very little change has taken place. The American markets are drooping. The imports of foreign an d colonial produce into Lon don last 3,4 tweekoB3oats.amounted 8 t 092 .30!,5, 090 6 quarters of wheat, 8,579 barley, 4, 9 beaus, 529 peas, 1,500 tares, 14,314 linse d, 17,495 rapeseed, 2,520 maize, 687 sundries, 11,477 sacks, and 6,550 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our markets to-day were moderately good, and in fair condition. The attendance of millers was rather limited, and the demand for both red and white qualities ruled somewhat heavy, at a decline in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of from is to 2s per quarter. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Even the finest samples were much neglected, and a few forced sales were effected at is to 2s per quarter less money. The fresh imports have been on an extensive scale. Floating cargoes of grain were inactive at about previ ous rates. • _ . . The supply of English barley was limited ; of foreign on the in rease. Sales progressed slowly, and the quo tations had a drooping tendency, tho 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 The few samples of beans on the stands were taken at late currencies. Peas were very firm in price, although the inquiry for them was by no means 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. MEASURE Wheat— Essex and Kent, red, now, per qr. 63s to 723 Do., old —a —8 Do. white, o ld —s -s Do., now Norfolk ' and Lincoln, rod, old —s -3 Do., nay,. Talavera Rye— ...1 -8 -s Barley —Grinding Malting 4ls 46s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware --- 74, 753 Cheialier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolash., Feeding 25a 29 Potato Youghal and Cork, black 26a 29. s Cork, white 27s 30a Scotch, Feeding 3ls 334 Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 493 52s Peas—Grey, Maple White Boilers .. _ . _ . Flour —Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk s2s 58s Stockton and Norfolk . . sos 583 American, per barrel French, per sack 44s sOs THE SUDBURY MURDER.—It was stated recently that William Martin, who has been committed for trial for the murder of a man named Burbridge 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.—The 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 half-past four o'clock. FAREWELL BANC2UET TO MR. CHARLES 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 ball of the Freemasons' Tavern was filled itx every part. Covers were laid for nearly 450 persons, and so general was the desire to be present tint a large number of applicants were unable to ol.itain admission. The committee, anxious that noth',ng should be wanting to give interest to the evening, obtained permission of the proprietors of V.,e 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 round 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 Charlesßussell, 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 Bucciani, 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. Tennent, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. Otway, M.P., Captain Houston Stewart, R.N., Lord Houghton, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Mr. An thony Trullope, the Lord Mayor, Professor 0 wen, Sir C. W. Dilke, Sir William Fergusson, Mr. B. Webster, Mr. Buckstone, 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 lees 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 Doke 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. H. Brookfield, J. B. Blackstone, 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., R. F. Chorley, Esq.,, Charles Collins, Esq., Wilkie Collins, Esq., Alderman Cotton, the Earl Darnley, the Marquis D'Azeglio, J. 0. Do Gex, Esq., Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., M.P., W. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., Rev. Alex ander Dyce, William Evil!, Esq., junior, Charles Fechter, Esq., Thomas Faed, 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., H. A. Glass; Esq., F.R.G.S., Frederick Goodall, Esq, R.A., Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A., the Earl Ciranville, K.G., Frederick Greenwood, Esq., C. L. Gruneisen, Esq., Col. E. B. Ilamley, RA., C. 8., Rev. W. Harness, M. J. Higgins, Esq., W. Charles Hood, Esq., M.D., the Lord Houghton, J. W. Iluddleston, Esq., Q. 0., the Lord Chief Justice of England, Charles Kent, Esq., Charles Knight, Esq., Henry Lake, Esq., Charles Landseer, Esq, ILA., Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., A.usten H. Layard, Esq., M.P., Mark Lemon, Esq., Edward Levy, Esq., G. H. Lewes, Esq., William Lethbridge, Esq., Frederick Looker, Esq., T. Longman, Esq., the Hon. Spencer Lyttolton, Chas. Mackay, Esq., LL.D., Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A., W. C. Macready, Esq., the Baron Marochetti, MA., 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. Novella, 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 Reads, 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. 0. 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 Tennont, Bart., John Tannic), Esq., Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Sir Henry Thompson, Rev. Channcy Tovrnshend Hare, An thony Trollops, Esq., T. A. Trollop; Esq., J. S. Virtue, Esq., E. M. Ward, Esq., R.A., Sir Thomas Watson, Bart., Benjamin Webster, Esq., Thomas Webster, Esq., R. 1., Charles Wescomb, Esq., M. Van do Weyer, W. H. Wills, Esq., Erasmus Wilson, Esq., F. 11.5, 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 Biuce, 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 Deum Lau chic 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 CHAIRMAN (Lord LYTTON) on the conclusion of the Deum Laudate, 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 literature ; 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 propos) 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 wi h the usual demoustra 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 \Vales 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 CHAIRMAN, 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 breez). May that flag soon wave triumphant over that dis tant and barbarous land in which the necessities of empire swivel 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 bad 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 de corps among different classes of the community,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 LOW 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 cagnise 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 th e h uman race f rom inferior animals by that faculty o f soc i a l p rogress 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 one 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 cf 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 family 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 are welded together? I 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 me to say Mr. Matthew 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 Sabines and Romans became ono 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 Norman, melted away ? (Mar, hear.) And by 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 can - more quicken the sense of that relationship which a language iu 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 i 3 of fellowship and unison between the hearts of Ame rica and England. (Cheers.) So that when our countryman quits their shores h. 3 will leave behind him 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 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 I am fer vently grateful to you is to say nothing ! 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 are 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 3 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 and 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 s° many brother artists, not only in literature, but also in the sister 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)—an d that it has never been falsely dealt with by fl' (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 bal e 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 presumpti on ' I trust that 1 may take this general representati oil of the public here, through so many orders, pursuit° , and degrees, as a token that the public believe that, with a host of imperfections and shortcomings Ott my head, I have as a writer, in my soul and COe" science, tried to be as true to them as they have eve r been true to me. (Cheers.) And here, in referenee to the inner circle of the arts and the outer circle 0i the public, I feel it a duty to-night to offer two re" marks. I have in my duty at odd times beard a great deal about literary sets and cliques and cot eries and barriers ; about keeping this man up, and ing that man down; about sworn disciples and svioi 1 r P unbelievers ; and mutual admiration societies, A na ,. know not what other dragons in the upward pat h ' , 1 began to tread it when I was very young, w it out influence, without money, without companion' introducer, or adviser, and I am bound to pu t I ' l evidence in this place that I never lighted on these dragons yet. (Cheers.) So have I heard in my dl e at divers other odd times, much generally to t e effect that the English people have little or no l ef of art for its own sake, and that they do not grea tly care to acknowledge or do honour to the artist. , own experience has uniformly been exactly t ° reverse. (Cheers.) I can say that of my count r i; men, though I cannot say that of my country. laugh.) And now passing to the immediate oc casion of your doing me this groat honour, the sto r d of my going again to America is very easily 5 0 ( 1 briefly told. Since I was there before a vUnited entirely new generation has arisen in the ~,.s t States. Since 1 was there before most of the b e st A n ub known of my books have been written an d 0 lished ; the new generation and the books have ° 0 T ., together and have kept together, until at 101 14 numbers of those who have so widely and const4 the read me, naturally desiring a little variety in relationship between us, have expressed a styeoo with that I should read myself. (Cheers.) Th is % i c is at first conveyed to me through public chin err and business channels, has gradually becoule in forced by an immense accumulation of letters fr o , individuals and associations of individuals , al 1 e % • I un pressing in the same hearty, homely, ex cordial 9 affected way, a kind of personal interest in n ie had almost said a kind of personal affection f:risnlih -(cheers)--which I am sure you would ag re no t to me it would be dull insensibility on my Par t so prize. Little by little this pressure has been: ivy great that, although, as Charles Lam b saY-' I hs‘ . 0 household gods strike a terribly deep rootl e , torn them from their places, and this dtty.,NlYreaciiii this hour, shall be upon the sea. Yon `will red & conceive that I am inspired besides by a c hange an sire to see for myself the astonishing to the re ' I progress of a quarter of a century over whoto rasp the hands of many faithful friends ne w aft there, to see the faces of the multitude last, looked' a nd friends upon whom I have never 100 3 lay dO W not least, to use my best endeavour to lt.o _ third cable—(ebeers)—of intercommunic, 1740 ed alliance between the old world and the now. k no ws Heaven cheers.) Twelve years ago, when H eav , bouricl ve f o re I little thought I should eve r , bei upon the voyage which now 0 3, s yriE , natural a tee, I wrote in that form of n c %ten .. ings which obtains by far the in ( 7. 00 sive circulation these words of the An . . l _ i _ otc s Lion I know full well, whatever little beamy eyes may have descried in ther. _t r l e Ll itt 1 ,,„ 5c0 are a kind, large-hearted, generous, a - I _l',„ to r them (Hear.) In that faith I am g,ol re to them again ; in that faith hball, please uvc Otn 1 and to not th most t may q It deepl3 comp r this in bl ess , The Was ~ the Lc Mr. posing peciall done ii do. th e i r d Sir Aeadei art s a t On till nobles the art illustra appeal faithf u well of hp on boldly Bo mat llicker th em, Arts," Gra n t , ably (Net receive