The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

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Smith, Lessee.—THE RIGHTFUL HEIR—The great success of this Play, the enthusiasm with which it is re ceived, and the ovation to the distinguished author, is one of the greatest triumphs that has occurred in the dramatic world for years. The principal artistes are several times called before the audience to receive their hearty congratulations. The play will be produced EVERY EVENING, at a tinarter to 8 o'clock, until farther notice. Principal characters: Mr. Bandmann, Miss Palmer, Mr. G. F. Neville, Mr. Basil Potter, and Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Vezin. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI t- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. _ _ THIS EVENING, TOM THRASHER. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. J. CI-. Taylor, and the Misses Harris. At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. 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Bandmann. .F. Neville, Lin Rayne, Harding, Basil Potter, Mr. and Mrs. e Vezin, Milly Palmer, <te. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manlier, Mr. Vining. TIM EVENING, at A CHARMING PAIR. After which, at R. Ai TER DARN.. a Tale of London Life: 31r. Vining, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murmy; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore. aclean, Holst on: Mi ss Trissy Marston and M i ss H ose L ec i cre q. oncluding with ;BASTE tt. JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This EVENING, A PRETTY PIEuE OF BUSINESS: Messr , Buckstone, Howe, &e. After which, LEAH: Messrs. Howe, Ro gers, Kendal, Braid, Clark, P. Buckstone, White, Weathersby. &a.; Mesdames Bateman, Francis,Wright,Maccabe, Fitzwilliani Laws, Coleman, &c. And POUNDED ON PACTS. Mr. Comp ton. Commence at 7, -------- THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOM THRASHER. At a quarter to 8. 310 ‘IE CRISTO: • Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W. H. r burne, R. Horner; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. f'D An t i t og erigg ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE. Messrs. Bel ford, Harcourt; Miss Longmore. THE FIELD 0 V' THE C LOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TROBADOUR: Mr. L. Brough and Miss Montague. And THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery; Mesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Under the Management of Miss Fanny Josephs. THIS EvaxiNG, at 7, MISCHIEF MAKING: Messrs. Drew, Howard; Mesdames Turner and Challis. At 8, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, Cowper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parselle; Mesdames Foote, Weathersby, and Rio°ld. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, and H. Wigan; Miss Lennox Grey and Miss Furtado. After which, at 8, THE TICKET OF LEAVE MAN: Messrs. 11. Ne ille, G. Vincent, H. Cooper, E. Atkins, R. Soutar, H.Vaughan, and 11. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, E. Farren, and Caulfield. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, MARRIED DAUGHTERS: Messrs. Day, Russell, and Dewar; Mesdames Thompson, Bromley, and M. Oliver. After which, THE RISE AND FALL OF RICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con clude with THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL TIIEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton. Tats EVENING, ATCHI! Messrs. Blakeley and Montague; Misses Addison and A. Wilton. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montagne, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, THE MODEL HUSBAND. And at 7.45, LAND RATS AND WATER RATS: Mavis, Mr. Creswick; Jonas, Mr. Shepherd; Messrs. E. F. Edgar, Vollaire, W. Crosby, Mat. Robson; Miss Pauncefort, Miss Elizabeth Webster, Miss E. Lennard. With BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tins EVENING, Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century Frank Pastor, Champion American Equestrian; Alfred Brad. bury, M. Napoli, F. Clifton, Almonti, and Delevan4i. Montero; Fratelli Vo'Mires; and Samwell's Performing Dogs, Commence at 7.30. ROYAL ALFRED THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. 11. E. Lacey—Directress, Miss A my Sedgwick. Tuts EVENING, at a quarter to 8, PINDEE SINGH. Preeeded by the fauce of THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—FAIRY PALACE CONCERTS, Every Evening, at 8. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET?, Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at S. Is. Box-offloo open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 63. LOIVDOIV, TUESDAY, OCT. 20, ~1868. Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made by the managers of the excellent institution which superintends our lifeboat establishments round the coast, the number of shipwrecks and disasters at sea shows no diminution in the yearly record. On the contrary, the returns for 1867 give a very large number of casualties, the ships lost or damaged on our coasts during the twelvemonth amounting to no less than 2,513, being 224 more than in 1866, and forming a larger number of shipwrecks than has ever before been recorded in one year on the British coasts. This fact is the more noticeable, as the preceding year was by no means exceptionally fine. The winter of 1866-67 was unusually long and tempestuous, and the gales of the early months of 1866 will long be remembered. The loss of the London in the Bay of Eiscay was not of course reckoned among the disasters in our Wreck Regis ter, but the same storm which proved so fatal to that overladened vessel and her passengers played havoc round our shores, more especially on the south-west coast, 61 vessels were lost or destroyed in Torbay on the 11th of January, and 35 lives lost in that neighbourhood alone. Thus when we com pare the losses of 1867 with those of the preceding year, we are startled to find the number so much above the average. Taking the last nine years together, the annual losses we find average 1,961, whereas, as we have stated, the returns of 1867 show no less than 2,513 disaters, accompanied by a loss of 1,333 lives. It was the latter part of 1867 which proved so fatal to the mariner and the fisherman. During the heavy gale from the Ist to the 3d of December 326 vessels were lost or damaged, with a loss of 319 lives, a most unusual number from the gale. This particular storm, it will be seen, was nearly as destructive as the memo rable gale of October, 1859, still known as the Royal Charter gale, when 343 vessels were lost. So far from those melancholy statistics casting any disparagement on the services of the National Lifeboat Institution, they enable us to discover how much we owe to that admirable and efficient asso ciation. The number of lives lost, it is true, in 1866 amounted to 1,333, being the largest number lost in one year, with the exception of 1859, the Royal Charter year, when 1,647 perished at sea. But, [in contrast to the 1,333 lives lost, we must place the 1,086 saved during the year mainly by its instruments and agents, and we shall then appre ciate the value of the services thus rendered to the country by preserving so many valuable lives. If, in place of 1,333 lives lost, we had to record 2,419, we might well be startled; but had it not been for the efficiency of our life boats and the skill and courage of their crews, as well as the stimulus which the institution has given to heroic efforts for the rescue of life from shipwreck, we should have had to chronicle very nearly that amount of loss. Very often the lifeboats and their crews are able to give such timely assistance that the ship is saved as well as the men on board, and thus much valuable property is preserved from damage. The occasions on which the lifeboats render such valuable aid are mostly those on which no other kind of craft could get near the imperilled vessels, and though the total number of lives saved last year by all means„was 5845, yet the 1,000 saved by the direct agency of the Lifeboat Institution could hardly have been rescued in any other man ner. If we quote at random from the periodical records of the lifeboat services we shall form some idea of the perilous nature of the tasks undertaken. On the 11th of April the Blackpool lifeboat pro seeded to the rescue of the crews of two vessels in distress. One of them was not in much danger, and it was thought sufficient to put a pilot on board of her while the lifeboat proceeded to the other vessel, which was rapidly becoming a total wreck on the Salthouse Bank. "On arriving alongside, after nearly three hours' conflict with tremendous breakers, the whole of the crew, 14 men, were safely got into the lifeboat. Owing to the ebbing of the tide, however, on the banks, and the unabated fury of the surf, the lifeboat could not land at Blackpool, and was obliged to run before the sea to Lytham, and there land the shipwrecked sailors." Off Ilfracombe, on the 20th of April, an American ship, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with coals, went on a lee shore owing to a sudden change of wind, when the steam-tug towing her was powerless to help her. Two other tugs went to her tssistance, but were also unable to remove her from her dangerous position. On signals of distress being hoisted the lifeboat was launched from Ilfracombe, Ind made for the ship through a heavy sea. The first task, when the lifeboat was alongside, was to sake off the capt min's wife, children, and servant girl, a task of no small difficulty, as they had to be , owered in a basket down the ship's side. Having ;anded them in safety, the boat returned to the ves sel and assisted to get her out of danger, when she was taken back to Cardiff to refit. These are only iamples of what goes on round our coasts con tinually, and there is no storm without its corres ponding history of successful courage and cuter. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1868 prise. It requires incessant vigilance to maintain the efficiency of the whole fleet of lifeboats now numbering 189, and the regular out lay, it may be readily - seen, is not slight, when we remember that each station requires about £5O a year to keep it in a state of efficiency. The brief summary of the work of the Institution during 1867 and 1868 to the end of last month, given in the report, is as follows : " Number of lives rescued by lifeboats, in addi tion to 53 vessels saved by them, 1,128 ; number of lives saved by shore boats, &c., 536 ; amount of pecuniary rewards for saving life, £4,763 ; gold and silver medals, 20 ; votes of thanks, 22." It will thus be seen how well and how indefatig ably the work is done, for it is no sinecure which the gentlemen forming the maaaging committee undertake when they voluntarily assume their onerous responsible duties. They have good rea son to congratulate themselvees on the result of their labours and on the evidence which they are thus able to pre s ent to the subscribers and the public of the efficacy of their work. In anoher aspect of the case, too, the lifeboat institution does good service. The committee do not hesitate to declare that a large proportion of the lives lost at sea are risked unnecessarily and improperly by the employment of ships which are totally unfit for service. We do not hesitate on a careful analysis of the Wreck Register to affirm that 447 vessels out of the 2,513 were lost entirely by man's carelessness. The immense number of vessels employed in our coasting trade lost in proportion to the total number of shipwrecks shows the most superficial observer that there is great negligence and indifference, to say the most of it, on the part of the owners. The wreck chart shows a terrible line of black dots round our eastern coasts, and of the whole number of wrecks in the year nearly half occur to the "unseaworthy, overladen, or ill found vessels of the collier class." If we add to these the losses by collisions we shall be of opinion that it is more than time the L3gislature supplemented .the efforts of the Lifeboat institution by organising a system of official inspection. The end is not speedily seen when Prussia once mixes in the affairs of other nations, and long after the treaties of peace are signed, and the inexperi enced may imagine that all danger of disturbance is over, there appears much to confuse and distract the statesmen and perplex the public. In two or three instances the mischief is now apparent, and the insidious working of Berlin tactics is traced in the discontent and disunion that exist in some parts of Europe. From Copenhagen we learn that the Agricultural Party have moved an amendment to the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, in order to change the character of the paragraph relating to the Scandinavians, which, it will be remembered, congratulated the KING upon the betrothal of the Crown Prince of Denmark with the Princess Royal of Sweden. These excep tionists, it appears, are against the idea of a united Scandinavian Kingdom, and those who are puzzled to account for their prejudices will find it in the fact that they propose to add to the address an al lusion to the importance of preserving the friend ship with Prussia. This is to be placed in the para graph which expresses hopes for the reunion of North Schleswig with Denmark. This is most mistaken policy, to say the least of it, and shows a want of appreciation that is sad to witness. It will never do for those who have been oppressed to give up all claims to nationality, and to content themselves with always agreeing to the proposals of the strongest party whether or not they meet their views of equity, and coincide with the re quirements of their own people. Denmark will lose all and gain nothing if she shows the white feather after this fashion, and it is to be hoped that the mistaken party which has organised such a scheme for the readjustment of affairs will see the error of their ways, and forbear to press their claims. Anything like disunion is much to be de plored, but even a want of unanimity is preferable to the putting forth of sentiments like those re ferred to, and to modify the address after the pro posed fashion, and to mar the effect of that well considered affair would be much to be regretted. It would establish a precedent that would be most injurious, and the Prussian Government would not be likely to believe any manifestations of indepen dence on another occasion. There is no doubt that the policy of BISMARCK is against the union of Den mark with any State that can strengthen her; but then the world cannot stand still to suit the views of these anti-progressionists, and the Danish people may rest assured that it will be a fatal error in their course if they persist in a timid, hesitating policy, instead of indicating their meaning and illustrating their views by a bold and straightforward one. Another proof of Prussian jealousy and covert acting may be foand in respect to Austria, as with Denmark she is not content with the direct injuries inflicted in war, but persists in the prose cution of subtle schemes and bidden designs, the results of which, ever and anon, strike the unpre pared beholder with astonishment. Bohemia threatens to become very troublesome, and it will be a work of time to settle the differences that have arisen in that quarter, to say the best of it. Galicia is also unwilling to adopt the new regime, and alto gether the Vienna Government will have enough to do in giving satisfaction to all parties. Already, much to the regret of all parties, the authorities have had to suspend temporarily in Prague some portion of the Habeas Corpus Act as relates to Aus tria. The greatest care has been taken in resorting to those extreme measures not to go too far, or to violate in any degree the forms of the Constitution. There is no doubt that the best has been done under the circumstances, and that the Reichstadt will cordially approve of the measures taken, which have been fully justified by the pres sure of circumstances. It may never be fully proved, but there is little reason to doubt that Prussia is greatly to blame for the existence of this evil in the Austrian dominions, and much as we may hope that the sentiment of discontent will be an evanescent one, it is impossible to avoid feeling that the risk is a considerable one, and that those incur a grave responsibility who foster the spirit of discontent totally indifferent to the conse quences. The public will see with satisfaction that Sir RODERICK MURCHISON has written a letter, in which he makes known that communications have been received from Dr. LIVINGSTONE, to the effect that all is well respecting that distinguished indi vidual.. Some weeks may yet elapse before we can know of his arrival at Zanzibar, but there is no longer any reason to doubt his return ; and it is even possible that he may bring the news himself, and " enable his admiring countrymen to give him a hearty welcome before Christmas." This is, in deed, joyful intelligence, and will afford the greatest gratification to all those who mourned over the loss of one so appreciated by his countrymen, and of so world-wide a reputation. Dr. KIRK of Zanzibar has received, through an Arab messen ger, short letters from Dr. LIVINGSTONE, written at Marangee and Cazembe, which lie to the south of Lake Tanganyika. These bear the dates of Octo ber and December, 1867. They contain. intelligence which accounts for the delays that have occurred since he wrote from a more Southern latitude in February of the same year. Dr. LIVINGSTONE has been living for three months with friendly Arabs, and waiting for the close of a native war, and he told the Arab messenger that he should return to Zanzibar after he had explored the Lake Tan ganyika. Curiously enough this intimation con firms the suggestion made by Sir R. MURCHISON to the Royal Geographical Society. On the whole the letters of Dr. KIRK are most reassuring, and serve to lessen, if not wholly to do away with, the fears which were entertained of the well doing of the great traveller. Since LIVINGSTONE went in the direction where he now is the map of BAKER has been sent to him, and he will have seen the importance of " solving the great problem of the Nilotic watershed of Africa." Many things have thus contributed to the delays which have taken place, and there now seems every reason to believe that the telegram from Bombay was correct, a much more satisfactory version of the story than at one time any one ventured to expect. LATEST INTELL EGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN. MADRID, Oct. 19, Evening. An important circular, explaining the policy and intentions of the Government will be sent on Wednesday next to the Spanish diplomatic agents abroad. The revolutionary Junta of Madrid will dissolve itself to-morrow. Their example will be followed by the provincial Juntas. The official Gazette is expected to publish to morrow the law on the new monetary system to be established in Spain on the basis of the franc as the monetary unit. It is also expected that the Gazette will publish on Wednesday - official decrees proclaiming liberty of conscience, liberty of the press, the right of association, liberty of teaching, and universal suf frage. Senor Olozaga, upon his arrival, made two speeches, the first at the Palace of the former Chamber of Deputies, and the other from the balcony of the Hotel of the Minister of the Interior, when he was frequently interrupted by " Vivas," and al most frantic applause. He said : "My whole life has been devoted to liberty, and is in unison with the spirit of the present day and with that of the future. I strongly recommend that powerful support should be given to the movement in order definitively to determine as soon as pos sible our national position, and inspire Europe with a feeling of confidence towards Spain." Tranquillity prevails throughout the country. AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, Oct. 20. The Allan Company's steamer Nova Scotia, from Quebec on the 10th inst., arrived at Lough Foyle at 540 a.m. to-day with 82 passengers. She landed the mails for London and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 19.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 4i. per Cent. End of month,.. -- Ital;an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 69 97} Mexican Loan ... 231 Credit Mobilier Spanish Threes -- Home Debt 3O 25 Deferred ... _ a. Cash_ Orleans ... 900 Northern llBO Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 568 Western Eastern • • 577 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 415 North of Spain 56 Saragossa • 7l Roman 46} End of month... 281 25 Credit Foncier ...1458 End of month... - RIILWA POLICE INTELLIGENCE_This Day. WESTMINSTER. A VERY BAD PROCEEDING.—Emma Lenstead, a middle-aged woman, was placed at the bar charged with endeavouring to pass counterfeit coin. Marion Barton, barmaid at the Crossley Arms, Fulham-road, said that the prisoner came in last evening, and, calling for a glass of spirits, put down a bad shilling. She tried it on the detector ; finding it was bad gave it back to the prisoner, who said she would give her another shilling, and did so, when to her surprise she found that that was also spuri ous. She told prisoner she should detain her, and, sending for a police-constable, gave her in charge. James Brown, 195 B, said he found the first bad shilling upon the prisoner. Prisoner—l did not know the shilling was bad. Mr. Selfe —You had two bald shillings. Prisoner—l had them given me by a friend. Mr. Selfe--Who was your friend ? Prisoner—l don't know his name, and don't knowwhere I was overcome with liciner whenhe lives, I wentu t:tthe house, and did not know what I did. • This was positivelydenied. Prisoner was remanded. THAMES. DARING ROBBERY OF TEA IN THE LONDON DOCK. —John Brissen, a bricklayer, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing 2lbs. 6oz. of tea, the property of the London and St. Katherine Dock Company from their premises. William Marshall, a dock constable, stated that yesterday afternoon he was passing along the west quay of the London Dock and observed the prisoner seated on the ground, with his back against some chests of tea, and in the act of putting tei which he took out of a chest into his stockings. He walked round the chests of tea several times un seen by the prisoner, who continued to deposit tea in his stockings until they were quite full. He then pounced upon the prisoner and took him into cus tody. He released the prisoner's legs of his stock ings, in which he found 2lbs. 6oz. of tea, which had been taken out of a chest. The prisoner was ex ceedingly violent, and kicked at him on the way to the station-house. police, Inspector Ellis, of the dock company's produced a chest of tea, from which the prisoner had abstracted the tea found in his stockings. He could bring a witness to prove the chest was perfect when it was landed. Mr. Paget—There is no occasion for that at all. The prisoner was seen to take the tea out of the chest. The prisoner made no defence, and was coin mitted for trial. A NEW STEAM-ENGINE,..—An ingenious and ex tremely simple steam-engine, in which piston, crank steam-chest, Sol i aro dispensed with, has been invented by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, of Westmoreland, Penna., U.S. It depends entirely on centrifugal force, friction is almost entirely overcome, and it will produce 1,500 revolutions par minute with one-fourth the steam usually required, although tho same amount of horse-Power is developed. The centrifugal steam-engine condenses almost all its steam (which in itself is a great saving), whilst from its simplicity it can be constructed at one fourth the ordi nary cost, and it is not liable to get out of order. —Mining Journal. The Right Hon. Mr. Corry, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday even ing, and remains at tho Admiralty-house, the guest of Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to /desire. Danville and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O ..-EAd- TertiseMent.] 4 1,&,a Curt Critair i HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove t 2 Glen Quoich yesterday. Princess Christian, Prince and Princess of Teck, and Prince Arthur, drove to the Lynn of Dee. Princess Louise and Prince Leopold drove to Alt-na-Guithasach. The Lord Chancellor had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal Family. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Coke, yesterday. LITERATURE. The British Quarterly. No. 96. Hodder and Stoughton. Besides the usual very comprehensive survey of Contemporary Literature appended to each num ber of the British Quarterly, the current number, published simultaneously with the magazines for October, contains seven articles of a very varied character. Two of them relate, more in detail than is possible within the compass of the minor notices, to two other recent contributions (each of them of some importance) to Contemporary Literature, one poetical, the other biographical. The lat ter relates, in fact, to "Bunsen's Memoirs," the former to George Eliot's " Spanish Gypsy." The Reviewer, here (in the British Quarterly) of George Eliot's poem of "The Spanish Gypsy" speaks of that work in no measured terms of appro bation. While proclaiming as still " utsinipeached" "the supremacy of Mrs. Browning among poetic women," he asserts that " no poem of equal length lnd equal merit with ' The Spanish Gypsy' has ever been produced by a woman." He goes further. He says, " It belongs in the best sense to the grand style:" adding, " In emotion, in thought, in pictorial delineation, its scale is large and lofty." And, for fear, apparently, that he might, even then, be misapprehended, ho goes on to declare—" We feel ourselves raised out of the sphere of patty and merely personal interests into that high and august region of art in which the charac ters of Homer and of Shakspere move." Surely words could not go further than that. Homer ! Shakspere !—lt is " piling Pelion upon Ossa " with a vengeance! It is nuking " Olympus like a wart" indeed ! What our American cousins call " piling it up mountainously !" No wonder the ecstatic re viewer closes the panegyric of the magnum opera he is trumpeting thus loudly by declaring " It is a picture which seems framed into the history of the world"—whatever that may mean. No wonder that the last words of his extravagant eulogium are with a reduplication of emphasis that rises even to the height of the ridiculous :—" Our final estimate —THEREFORE —of that work is that its 'writ is SUPERLATIVE, and [after so much tall talk about it all, the fag end of the sentence comes upon us almost with the feebleness of an anti-climax] —we pronounce its appearance an important event in the history of literature." Important ! After Homer and Shakspere and all the rest of it—we should think it needs must be important. Why, if Tetrarch was crowned for his sonnets in the capital of Christendom—What ought not to be done for GeorgeEtiot? Ile, or she rather, ought not only to be crowned but enthrone I—sceptrel—svrathel in the robes of coronation. The key here struck in the British Quarterly is of so high a pitch that the dis courses of the other contributors sound flat by comparison. Otherwise, there is good solid matter in the article on " Parish Law," in another on " Education in the United States," and in another on " British India under three Administra dons." Upon the whole, however, the two most re markable papers in the number are the first on the list, namely, the article on " Neanier," Dr. Johann August Wilhelm Neander, the ecclesiastical his torian, born at Gottingen, arid who died ou the 14th of July, 1850 ; and, still more, the article third on the list relating to the genius, the career, the elo quence, and the sanctity of the great Archbishop of Constantinople (the Golden Mouth at the Golden Elora) St. John Chrysostom. Nean ler's eccentric appearance is thus characteristically described So completely Jewish was his appearance, that, in the streets of London, he would probably have been mistaken for an old clothesman. His short, spare, boot figure; hooked fleshy nose; bushy eyebrows; thick, black hair ; large mouth, high cheekbones, and round chin, all bore witness to his nationality; while his loag-tailed coat, shabby brown hat, and unfashionable jack-boots, were quite in keeping with his otherwise Israelitish contour. Then comes the following— Neander's appearance. in the professor's chair must have been exceedingly peculiar. A sketch exists of him, whi h represents him as in a long coat, leaning forward on the desk, with his legs crossed behind, his head bowed down, and his hands stretched out in front, playing with an old quill -regularly supplied for the purpose by his amanuensis —which he unconsciously twisted about whilst the un - broken torrent of learning, thought and ezotion flowed from his lips. It was his custom also, at home, when conversing with students and others, to keep kneading all the time a piece of soft wax between his fingers. Finally let us give the subjoined passage, where it is related of Neauder that He once, at the University, took his clothes-brush out of his pocket instead of his manuscript; an I that he was seen on the street with a broom under his arm, instea I of an umbrella; and that after walking a consi ler.tble distance with one foot in the gutter and the other on the trottoir, (the Berlin gutters, moreover, are somiti nes nearly a couple of feet deep), he exclaimed to his man-servant who accompanied him, "Hollow, Carl, I must be lame !" With which comical anecdotes we close oar notice of the British Quarterly. IIAYMARKET THEATRE. The winter season at this theatre commenced last night with the production of "Leah," in which Miss Bateman made her re-appearance after an absence of three years. The reception she received was nearly overpowering, and the repeated acknow ledgment of the compliment by the highly accom plished artiste only seemed to add to the intensity of the welcome. The world-wide renown which Miss Bateman has achieved by her magnificent im personation of the Jewish maiden now renders criticism on the performance totally unnecessary, and therefore we can only repeat that which we have said over and over again, that Miss Bateman's conception and impersonation of Leah is one of the finest specimens of dramatic art ever witnessed on the stage in any part of the world. She was excellently supported by Mr. Kendall, Mr. Howe, Miss Virginia Francis, a very promising young actress, new to the London boards, and by little Miss Maccabe. The house, which has been very beautifully redecorated, was crowded in every part by a delightful audience, who loudly testified their pleasure at the fall of the curtain. Speaking. of the performance, the limes says the acting of Miss Bateman, as Leah, at once cap tures the sympathies of all classes, critical or other wise ; and the impulse given at the commencement of the play continues to the end, the applause of ac clamation being everywhere accompanied by- the more genuine applause of tears. The Star is quite as complimentary. Its critique says the audience burst forth as the curtain fell into a long roar of thanks and welcome, which it was impossible to construe otherwise than as a tribute rarely paid to histrionic power, however signal, and in this instance blended by the magic of histrionic power with such feelings of personal kindness as a stranger seldom receives. The 'Telegraph also is highly eulogistic. It says Miss Bateman, throughout her performance, was accompanied by the warmest sympathies of the audience ; and the touching pathos of the last act evoked the most complimentary expressions of deep emotion. The Standard says—" The audience was enthu siastic throughout, and testified its applause by frequent calls ; and at the termination of the drama Miss Bateman received a perfect ovation of bouquets." TOPICS OF THE DAY. WANTED, A CAUSE FOR AN EFFECT. --- - - A ieport of the fall of the three houses lately erected in the Holloway-road closes with th e remark " that the cause has not yet been ascertained." Those who have lived in our modern London dwellings will be at no loss for a reason why houses should fall directly they are built. A people reveals its character in its architecture. In the massive grandeur of Egypt there was written the character of a people warlike and powerful ; in the Greek temple there is culture and refinenlnt ; in the houses of Hampstead, Holloway., f t 3 el se a , and Pimlico, some of which appear to only shells on which to plaster an inordinate .7, - inount of stucco, there is revealed the greed of " speculating builder." To use a cant tem:, in the trade, the work is " stamped," the sur veyor deceived, the houses hurriedly run up with bad materials and slovenly workmanship ; and then the tenant is condemned to the torment of doors which will not shut, windows that do not open, and first floors which will shake with the tread of a mouse. Sometimes these wretched shams tumble down from sheer weakness. We can heartily echo the Usual con gratulation, " Fortunately, no one was in the house, or passing at the time." May it ever be so while houses fall, STREET OUTRAGES. During the summer, complaints have been many and various of the perils attending pedestrianism in the London streets. In open day and frequented thoroughfares people have been robbed and beaten. The celebrated London fog has at last made its appearance, and under its protection cases of garot ting and street robbery are likely to be more nume rous than ever. The police actually admit that on such a place as Westminster Bridge nightly robberies are committed with impunity, because the police are " underforced." In matters of private detection and surveillance and in regulating traffic they are ready enough, and places of public amusement they willingly take under their charge ; but the alley where the Irish row is per petually on, or the corner where the young thieves congregate, is not so much favoured by them. It is quite time that the force was increased or re organised, and if Sir Richard Mayne were not so entirely absorbed by the study of hydrophobia he might find something here to employ him well. CHEAP LIGHT. Sir Walter Scott was never more at fault in his prophecies than in his 'estimation of the discovery of gas. He thought it was absurd to think-that ever the streets of our large towns would be " polluted" by gas-pipes. Sir Walter lived to see his mis take. Now the question is how we may get the best . gas at the lowest possible ,cost. Plymouth is;: iii point of light, the cheapest town in the World. London, on account of the large.munber of companies and .for other cogent reasons, is lamentably behind; so much so, that an agitation has for some time been going on for the establishment of a kind of gas com pany for the populace. Captain Arthur Cochrane, of the Royal Navy ( son o f th e Earl of Dundonald), claims to have discovered a plan by which the price of gas can be lowered considerably. -He proposes that bitumen shall be used in gas retorts with the coal. The result is, he says, that the illuminating power is increased and the cost lessened. The price named, however, is 3s. 7d. per thousand feet. Gas from coal is provided in Westminster for ss. ad. Here bitumen might be used with advantage. But in some of our towns the price charged is under 3s. 7d. Here, unless some important reductions could be made, it would obviously be of little use. THE THIRSTY TRAVELLER. - - The Act regulating the public-houses of the metro polis provides that they shall not open till one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, except for travellers. Some of the " travellers " occasionally found therein live within a stone's throw of the hostelry, and are of such a temperament that they require refreshment at the very beginning of their journey, if they intend to make one. The Act, we need hardly observe, did not intend to oblige such as these, and therefore, when some police inspec tors dropped into two Highgate public-houses on Sunday morning, and saw some old familiar faces, they were obliged to procure a summons against the publicans, who were convicted and fined. It is manifest, however, that the law is easily evaded, although the red nose of the local toper is too glaring a piece of evidence for the conscientious policeman to ignore. SCARLATINA. " C. X." writes to the Daily News, pronouncing " our London dispensaries the shame of Europe." He says our dispensary system kills more than it cures. Poor children are brought to these places with scarlatina, and perish from the cold. " One feverish child in the miserable, cold, out-door department of our hospitalS and dispensaries in London itself, contracts incurable kidney or other disease, and. perhaps gives the scarla tina to half a dozen other children ; this suits the statisticians or sanitarians, but nobody else. It is a most distressing thing for a conscientious physician, as at the chief dispen sary in Westminster, to be asked to prescribe for children in scarlatina at the dispensary, where there are no funds to help the sick or to pay for a visiting doctor." Scarlatina is essentially a case for visiting, and if the dispensary does not engage a medical man to visit, it should be handed over to the parish doctor. Such cases should be refused altogether, both in the interests of the , institution and the poor. CAPTAIN MONCRIEFT: GUN BATTERY. Captain Moncrieff writes to the Times denying some statements which have appeared as to the neglect of his invention for a long time. " I have ever (he writes) been treated on the same footing as any other inventor, and since, on the invitation of the Secretary for War, I have been engaged at Woolwich, I have received the kindest and most cordial assistance." Captain Moncrieff adds, however, a statement which shews that the authorities ran a risk of being too late. After pointing out that though a lot of money has been spent in experiments, yet not altogether use lessly, he says : "If the Deputy Director of Works, Colonel Jervois, R.E., had not so warmly taken up my. invention, it would probably have been carried out in another country, after England had wasted some millions of money on iron shields and case mates, which now can be dispensed with, with an actual increase of power and security to our artil lery." STATE RAILWAYS. Mr. Arthur John Williams is determined that his scheme for the purchase of railways by the State shall not fail for want of detail. Step by step he argues the whole matter out in the Daily News. His latest production is most interesting. It abounds with figures. What he contends for is a low single fare. He would have only two classes; and he examines the traffic receipts on English railways to see the lowest single fare that could be adopted. He comes to the conclusion that the expense of carrying every passenger of every class, whatever distance he travelled, whether two miles or three hundred, is rather less than qd. per head. Further, he calculates that if each passenger who travelled in 1860, whether first, second, or third class, and whether he travelled from one station to another or from one end of the kingdom to another, had paid a small fraction of a penny more than 13d., the companies would have received the income they received in 1866. He submits, therefore, that a table of fares, something as follows, would pay the State without profit. Under five miles, first class 4d.; second, 2d ; under ten, first, Bd.; second, 4d. ; under twenty, ls., and Gd. ; under fifty, 2s. Gd., and ls. ; above fifty, 55., and ls. Gd. A uniform single fare of 2s. Gd. and ls., with a scale for very short distances, would do, Mr. Williams thinks, all that was required. The importance of these calculations cannot be over-estimated. It is to be hoped that the whole matter will be thoroughly ventilated. THE EXPECTED RETURN OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. The safety of Dr. Livingstone is now placed beyond doubt. Thereat Sir Roderick Murchison rejoices greatly. In a letter to the Times he points out how correct he has been in all his predictions.. Even the route of his journey homewards Sir Roderick marked out. It appears that Livingstone has been living during three months with friendly Arabs, and waiting for the close of a native war before proceeding on his way to Ujiji ; and he told the Arab messenger that after exploring Lake Tanganyika-he intended to return to'Zanzibar. His further delay may be accounted, for by the fact that when he wrote he was unaware of what discoveries had been made by Sir Samuel Baker. The map of Baker has been transmitted to hiM. In Sir, Roderick's opinion Livingstone would at once see from `it that " it was more than ever incumbent on him to, try to solve the great problem of the Niletic watershed of Africa, by determining whether these great lakes are united or separated by high lands, and, if separated, by ascer taining into what river system Tanganyika dis charges its surplus waters.' He - would, in doing this, be once again prevented from making imme diately for the coast. But it is by no means impro bable that he will be at Zanzibar before Christmas. A CHALLENGE TO MR. GLADSTONE. The Rev. R. J. M'Ghee advances to fight the leader of the Opposition, fearlessly asking " Who is this Philistine ?" and armed only with a sling and a stone. The stone is what the reverend gentleman considers " the Truth," and the sling to carry it home to the conscience of the nation is a jury to investigate the question as to whether the miseries of Ireland are to be attributed to the Established Church or to the sinister influence of the Pope. The giant, however, refuses to fight, not even deigning to answer the reverend gentleman's letters. In his trouble Mr. M'Ghee finds shelter in the columns of the Advertiser, which publishes his last letter to Mr. Gladstone, an effusion of Mr. mulfida.which.reat trWAIL ii_werta..a hoax, or ha,ci been written from Hanwell: Tne names of the jury are, mil- abile dietu, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Rev. Newman Hall, Rev' Mr. Spurgeon, Rev. Mr. Burney, Rev. Mr. Arthur, Rev. Mr. Martin, Samuel Morleh Esq., Edward Miall, Esq., Sinclair Aytoun, Esc'' , m.p., the Editor of the Times, James Grant, Escl• (editor of the Morning Advertiser), and the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. When Mr. INlGhee gets, a report upon Church matters drawn up and signed by all the members of this commission, without apY reservations or exceptions, it will doubtless receive Mr. Gladstone's attention. ARGUMENT AND ABUSE. The rev. gentleman who declared that Mr. Gla d " stone had been appointed general by a king who not, according to the commonly received opinion s, a model of righteousness, does not appear to be alone in his idea of the functions performed in the SatanL c army by the leader of the Opposition. A clergyman of the same town, at a meeting attended by one M.P. and the son of another, manifested e xtrem e anger at the expression bein described as villanons. I can only say this, that if to speak the truth be villanous, if to speak the truth boldly be villano° °, nen I for one glory in it. I say tef, because I feel strongly on it; and I will not hesit aL a v to say that he who deprives the people of Engin' of the great and glorious freedom, religious as we as civil, which has been obtained by the blood of our forefathers—that man, call him by what name 3T° ll like, ought to be execrated and scouted from human society." These gentlemen amuse us too much to make us care to deprive them of their freedo m They are but a few out of the many who, taking o ft . granted that a certain disastrous effect will foli' from a certain cause, attribute to those w ll 2 have originated the cause the desire 1 " produce that effect. It is nothing to this clergyman that Mr. Gladstone believes the dises t l blishment of the Irish Church will tend to civil an religious freedom. Not only does the clergy" believe believe the contrary, but he argues that Mr. Olt; stone believes it too, and is acting out of wick' malice. MR. LAIRDS WORKING MAN. Mr. Laird, the Conservative candidate, has been addressing the electors of Birkenhead. He had n a fine specimen of the Conservative w orki n g man, Ifiw bawled out to the meeting that he " stood there as witness of the meek and lowly Jesus," and was fol "Tory principle," and " Laird for ever." There ensu e ! confusion, and remonstrances from his friends, but he proceeded to say that " if Mr. Gladstone was wis e ; than Jehovah-" The sentence was not finisbeuf for the audience could not suffer the name the Jer dare :not utter to . be used thus. They sPeed l , drowned his voice with . groans. The Conservati v. " working man hakbetteileave oratory alone. THE IRISH CHURCH. On the Irish Church we have a flood of talk. I t seems as if everybOdy and his brother determined " add their little items to the discussion." And s" we have arguments upo n argumen t s over and ova; again, till even the rankest Tory must be almost ~lea to wish that th e I r i s h Ch urc h h a d never existou; Here . are two clerical opi n ion s . Th e Rector Liverpool thinks a compromise might be effectecial though it is not for "an humble individ u like himself " to propose the nature ° it. Still he suggests, as a " peaceful dige r tanglement of the Gordian knot," that should - "hot sit in the House of Lords 311 ,, that the Church sh ou ld b e d en ud e d of 116 7, political privileges. "A Middlesex Incumben t thinks Mr. Gladstone's proposal meets the fair clam of the Church. He therefore signed the petition from 300 clergymen to the House of Lords. But 1 1 is much troubled about the " residue " of the Churc h property. He thinks the scheme of national edil„ . „° 3 ' tion has failed; he therefore does not support a 1: 47 '„ giving the money to schools ; but he w i s hes the P°°' to have it. - - The Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chaplain-General of the Forces, has written a letter to the Times, which I ' ll been rejected. He therefore sends it to the Hera" thanking the editor of the Times for admitting s ci much of his argument a lr ea dy. M r . Gl e i g does 'l9 t , question the abstract fitness o r un fit ness of Nb' Gla,dstone's policy. He simply maintains that it not in accord with the ancient Constitution of thee! realms, and that it will bring about a social revoluti°' of which no human forethought can point the issu es ' The case of Scotland is no precedent. No disende; ment or disestablishment took place in Scotland years ago, but the mere transference of the endoVe ments and the status of the Establishment from et, Church to another. The change of Churches Scotland was brought about when it was a distill: State. He objects to the doctrine that the &son; blishment and disendowment of the Irish Chi d will not affect the supremacy of the Queen, sil l shews the different positions of the Establish Church and Dissenting communities in their relatiow with the State. THE " RECORD " AND THE ARCHDEACON. There is a quarrel between the Record newspalt and Archdeacon Allen, and as the newspaper likes ,`" have all the scolding to itself, the editor r efuses; admit the clergyman' s l e tt ers t o it s co l umn s. ~T.c h archdeacon had made a speech at Shrewsbury, wsu i , e was commented upon by a correspondent of it Record, signing himself "Nestor." The venerable Oct, deacon wrote. a letter to the editor in answer this, and the result was a paragraph as follovi's..,, " Archdeacon Allen has been lately exhibited having untruly accused the Record of 'slander,' 131 1._ he has neither apologised nor r etr ac t e d. W e cann ° l therefore, place the columns of the Record 11 04 his disposal for the i nser ti on o f o th er ellarF— against its correspqndents, equally grouneur e and insulting." The archd e a con a pp ea l s to Daily News to insert his protest, and not in In it we fail to see anything to discredit ell e ch such a temperate and impartial journal as the Reel n He thinks that a letter speaking "evil of dignitl e :b should have the writer's name. He objects to 0 1, 9 expressions as " the Lambeth parturition " and viper," and questions the taste which characterl s 7 3 the debates of the bishops as " a bray." " words spoken in. Convocation may be unret o t only our Master can j u d ge w h e th er th e y b e so. But Convocation does not, assume anything. It clainis__, meet under the Queen's license. It rests on cei e ancient precedents. The proctors may be inadeclu .. „ a a representatives, but they are bond fide elected; in some sense they do represent the clergy. A s i ll colonial bishops, only our Master can tell what is 0 their hearts; no one, however, should attribute to the motives, as ' desire of personal aggrandisement.' '' THE S. P. C. R. GRANT. Some further correspondence on this subj ect i appears in the Times. Mr. Fitz Roy, editoro the John Bull, who proposed the grant of £2, which has given rise to so much controversy, Co tends that no one could have been taken by surer' since the Record and the Spectator alike urged the i.o readers to be present to oppose the grant, and . Guardian contained a letter f r o m M r . Fit z Roy nwa : self, urging both supporters a n d o pp onen t s to atte), The sum propcsed was o n ly h a lf o f th a t originr suggested. Moreover, the grant was, it is contenej a thoroughly legitimate one. A lady has left £2 5 ,u74 for distribution in various dioceses; why should p eut Natal have its share ? and if it ought, the gr ii 0 must be made independent of the bishop, for his does not appear in the society's almanack. The Re a W. G. Humphry, treasurer of the society, an brother-in-law of Bishop Colenso, wr it es that as ' o f society numbers among its subscribers membersq every school in the Church, and as th e grant, be assuming the deposition of Bishop C o l enso , mgt offensive to those who do not acknowledge . 4 4 transaction, it is essential, if the society's neutral and harmony are to be preserved, that the gif t ,' should be rescinded. It is for this reason that he '" o f given notice to that effect for tb,e meeting.- December 1. THE CHURCH Or THE POOR. It is announced that the receipt of pa 3 rinent s .,.!l any shape whatever for sittings in Exeter Cath&O!3 is an infringement of the ru l es o f th e Dean rtp Chapter, and the public are particularly requested a, abstain from the practice. Th e wors t o f it is w o l as in the case of the railway guards, the public vil o , abstain ; but it is satisfa c t or y t o fi n d th a t the an" 6l v . rities do not intend t o encourage th e vergers in 1(.3_7,4 ?rig black mail. FOREIGN NOTES. THE THRONE OP SP4IN. Save that all indications point to the contintaiiEgA r ail i tne' nonarchy, the future government of Spain is as do lll) ''':i t s is ever. In Paris there is a rumour that Ai w - f Provisional Government has inquired in a fri eTl- 1,,s nanner what choice would be most favours wig it the Tuileries. Whether this inquiry has l i ' A— made directly or through Prince Napoleon is dou b ;s 'mt it is said that the Duke of Montpensier has b a g finally tabooed ; and it is further reported th at f Empress is doing her utmost to promote the interests ". the grandson of Don Carlos. The Times Paris corresVfild,' 'lent thinks the chances are in favour of Ferma t i father of the King of Portugal. This opinion is 0 11 ' ..41 by the Spectator. "According to a letter f' irs Madrid, Prim, Serrano, and Olozaga are agre ed 9 :0 preferring this prince. We know that 01 0 1 eyes have long been turned in that dir ecti o t And it is certain that France, if consulted, -would tit abject to the choice." The Times special cors es p oud e7t ventures no suggestion as to what will be, but is 11 0, positive as to what will not be. Queen Isabella willzlv°oo recalled ; a republic will not be established ; and will not be representative of the inevitable monarchP gl et, may be at the head of the Government, but he Will aspire to the throne. PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION. 4 Isolated cases of outrage. are still reported frow • - th trnemsa_w_hieh committed eackfAc#C c olonies, The e; natio n beyond Prov e d Itost den, —otat fronted Be; le a d ers Sulta n °41 7 t Cuund o i With th kore ar eves th e has tra il ffendi, in the d dark a , have ass 'Neat d e e nee th tesPectil over, ur Gr ee k r cotspira Th e a C onvent in battl °hail b e during and th Possible. hospital declared nativ e c( With. 7 WoundeC hberated Serve in Societies ditions. During mile Chi na, v Previous circles a, the itinul w as coin to the entertaii 800 Mil, 15°1 ns ti practica; with a lost two n ow be Bible. Resting Si,