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KING'S THEATRE.
t LET NIGHT TM'S SEASON.
This Evenlog, SATURDAY, August 14, will be performed Morrell
favourite Open of
11. 'MN GIOVANNI.
Principal Performers—Madame Monet dr Bernie, Madame Candor!,
end Nl,dame itiagioi.; Sigma Garcia, Mr. Bogner, Signor de Bestl%
sad Signor Porto.
Ow rig to the length of the performance. there will be no Diver.
tosement.
After the Opera the Scandinavian Ballet of
1. !.SO.6E Irt):1!,1 AN.
App!featlona re.perthig Burrs to be made to Mr. Beduin, at the
Opera-otbce. 105, quadrant

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7'IIEATRR ROYAL, IIAYATARKET.
T. Evening. SATVIIDAV. Amnon 14. will be perforated
MATRISIoN V.
Baron de Llmberg, Mr. Williams; Delas'. Mr. Vining* CrClogitorty,
Mr. Lee, Clara, Mrs. Chatterley.
After wind,
TILE ALC AID; or. rll sc.c BETS Or °VFW&
Tberrinelpid Cimrsotera I. Mr.W. Curren, Madame Vestrls, Messrs.
Mu* kr'. William.. Liston. and Male* ; Mesdames Glover, Paton,
11.1arnek, Mb*, and C. Jones.
To eonelnde With
A ROIAND run AN OLIVER.
Alfred Illehileer. Mr.% Mine ; Maria Darlington. Madame Vestrla
on 111.,m1s), Lovers' Quarrels. The Aleald, and Lore, Law, and Physic.

TITEATRE ROYAL,
STRAND. iiOPERA-1101"SE,
WPR
Or, TUE SEVENTH lII'LLET!
Kuno, Mr. nertleyt Caseate., Mr. Bennett: IMAolph, Mr. Brihnm:
Thi. Evening. SATURD kV, Almost I I. will be performed
\lr. Ta-lrare: ?Emile% Mr. T. P. Cooke. Agnes, Miss Ste.
n it li additontal by Weber (being her drat appearauxe in
ti a'l Keene': Ann. [tiles Peery.
After whieh
REIGN ill, TWELVE Hill:115.
Ti.e Csliph, Mr. Hartley: 7fintigir, Mr. Merman: l'ilelcour, Mr. W.
• :).Rl.lllrtn• PTIIIIV444IIornIthi, Miss Henry: Nournis, Miss Kelly.
Ni:v Stephens end Mr. Orthenti will perform every Evening.

/VP W .7'11E4 TRE.
Putatively Om Linr Nicht of tho Comic Pantomime.
T`,ll present SATt RHAV, Amnion 14. will be presented a Melo.
Drama. called
rig GIPSIES 111,UNT; or. THE C %%TANS or THE CINDE.
Pritut:pal Characters—Mows. llnd Mrbi. . kemle, llowbothans, Loveday. iind
Griot : a Young.
After which a Conile [Wiens, called
THE OPIATE:
Ow, THE DOCTOR. Tilt. MISER, AND THE BUTCHER.
In Melt Mr.Writt will appear.
A Nautieal Hornpipe (in Character) by Miss Rountree.
The whole to emelode ith the celebrated Comte Prototnhoe. called
EAIRIES' P tRAPP4F.: Or, HARLEQUIN PtinfillinoV.
Harlequin. Mr. Auld: Pantaloon.
Mis Mr. Hartnett Clown, Signor Paulo;
Columbine. s Adcock.

The Ratline Tares commenced publiehintr yeetettlay rooming
et it quarter Tweet five o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AVOUST 14, 1894.

:reland

The good effect of the system under which Ii is at
prrsent governed, becomes every day more manifest. Loan
WILLI/LEY perceived, from the commencement, the evils
with which it had been for ages afflicted, and he saw that
there was no mAlual for remedying those evils, but by
removing the causes which led to them. To do this
of must be a work of time. Violent and sudden
reformstions are never lastirg ; something must be
yieLled to habit, nrd something must be conceded
to Trtjudice. The condition of Ireland required that
a more equal distribution should be made of the offices and
distlnctions of the civil government. It was most desir-
able that whatever change for the better was made, should
le so made that the evils of the old distribution should
revs be able to return. This has been done, and done in

a Insurer that will redound to the lasting honour of Lord
Wellesley's administration in Ireland. We are strenuous
advocates for the Church Establishment : and, therefore
it is, that we never wish to see that preponderance of power
whidt it ought always to possess, exercised in the spirit of
intolerance towards any class of Christians, whatever may
be the conscientious peuliarities of their religious opi-
nion. It is high time a. e had got rid of all enmity and
slissention on the score of orthrulory. Evangelical cha-
rity • knows no distinction between men who, be their
r"ccd what it tray, keep their conscicace void of offt nee.
The salutary arrangements which have been rec.ntly
made towards extending to the Catholic body those po-
Mica' benefits. from which they hare brt•nso long anti so
oppreesively excluded, is hourly giving peace to the popttla-
Curl. and introducing that confidence in the Government
which best insures its prosperity. Much, however, re-
mains to be done by the Irish themselves towards putting the
emnforts of life within the fair reach of labour and industry.
Before any vital good can be done—that is, before any
positive, permanent amelioration in the Irish peasantry
can i.e effected, the condition of the higher ranks must be
improved ;—we do not mean improved in wealth, or in '
outward circumstances, but in liberality of mind, in
justness of thinking, in genuine patriotism, and in
that frame of mind which brings a man to the con-
viction, that he is horn for the good of his fellow-
men. and to remote—as far as his means reach—the
comfort and happiness of mankind. We may depend upon
it, were this conviction universal, both Church and ST AT§
would rest upon a rock. To snake converts from this to
that sys:tan of faith—from Catholic to Protestant, or from
Protestant to Catholic—is not the business of religion. It
is a zeal with which practical Christianity bas no concern.
The only corn. worth making, is a concert from vice to
virtue—from dishonesty to fair-dealing—from corrupt and
immoral habits to purity of conduct and uprightness of
life—this is the only courerciun which CiIItISTIANITy
seeks to snake in the heart of man, and which it is
well calculated to make, when taught with a view to
its real purposes, and is most desirable end. It was
iu this spirit thzt the great Founder of our Religion
taught it, and it is in the spirit of this example that it
must be taught. When the Legislature interferes with
the religious opinions of any man or body of men, it ex-
ercises its power in the spirit of persecution. As long as

ant data of M.:enters from the Established Church,
whether Catholics or any other desetiption, conduct them-
selves as loyal and fhitkrel subjects, to subject flit m to any
civil disabilities is the height of injustice. This assurance
is, we think, gaining ground in Ireland. Men arc taught
wisdom by the progress of events, and we rejoice to per-
ceive a better understanding growing up between the Pro-
testant and Catholic population. The conciliatory system
which has been acted on by the MARovis Vet I.ESI tv
has contributed to foster this mutual good feeling. It has
done this by softening down the evils agiinst which the
great majority of the Irish nation bad to strivgle, and by
adopting a steady course of policy, which tends every day,
more or less, to relieve the many from the imperious
domination of the fly.

The advice' received yesterday from Jamaica are more
satisfactory than the previous accounts would have war-
ranted us in expecting. The conspiracy among the negrocs
was, it appears, almost exclusively confined to some estates
in the parish of Hanover. 'The runaways have been taken
or compelled to surrender; and when the latest ineelligence
left the island only twelve or fourteen negroes were in the
woods. On the other estates the slaves appear to have acted
with fidelity, and some were employed to pursue the muti-
neers. We are gratified to learn that none of the white
inhabitants have been injured, and but a few negroes have
lost their lives. The promptitude and activity of the military
contributed essentially to this happy result, which was
considered so securely accomplished, that the militia would,
for the most part, be allowed to return home in a day or
two. According to some reports, the plot was very wis'e ly
spread, and only prevented from bursting forth en every
I side by its early detection. We are disposed to look upon
these statements as the natural consequences of the state of
alarm in which the Colonists have been living. Every
danger is readily magnified by our fears ; and it is manifest,
though this conspiracy has been thus timely crushes!, that
it had a very formidable appearance at first, and that one
reverse sustained by the planters might have led to the
most calamitous results. One feature of this insurrection
is too well calculated to justify the alarm which has been
felt ; we allude to the savage desperation of the negroes in
their attempts to commit suicide after their apprehension.
Such men arc not ordinary rebels : they are evidently un-
der the influence of some enthusiasm, which has oeerconse
even the instinctive love of life. They are not driven to
rebellion by the pressure of some new and intolerable
grievance, or by the apprehended imposition of additional
restrictions or severities. It appears that one of the ring-
leaden, who died by his own hands, cods:seed that the in-
surgents had been " always treated with the greatest kind-
ness and indulgence :" yet they had deliberately planned
the murder of two of the proprietors (Mr. Malcolm and
Mr. Campbell), who had taken the most pains in forward-
ing every measure for the improvement of the condition of
their slaves. The ringleader himself admitted, that he
" had no fault to find" with those gentlemen. how then
was ho instigated to enter into a plot to imbrue his hands
in their blood? " Because," says the dying and deluded
criminal, " see acre certain that the ling and Will& rlbree
and his party had made us free, and our masters, from their
great influence in the parish, withheld nut freedom from
us." After this, we trust that no further supply of the
materials of mischief will be made from this country. It
will be a matter of excessive difficulty, under the most fa-
vourable circumstances, to save the colonies from the ebul-
litions of a spirit like that new prompting the negroes to
insurrection. If, however, there are men to be found who
would, on any pretext of benefiting the negroes, expose the
white population to the hazard of ruin and massacre, we
' are convinced that the feelings of our countrymen gene-
I rally have nothing in common with them. No humanity
can be more spurious than that which overlooks those most
entitled to our benevolence, in order to travel in search of
objects who have no claim upon our affections.
The discussion of the case of Smith and Starkie, in the I
Vice-chancellor's Court on Thursday, before I.ord Gifford,
was rendered generally interesting by the considerations it
involved with respect to the delays permitted by the prac-
tice of the Court of Chancery. The facts of the case were
these:—ln 1819 a person named Smith died, leaving a
considerable property to be divided among eighteen lc-
gates's, his relations, all persons in humble life. In Easter
Term, 1815, an amicable suit, as it is called, was in-
istituted in Chancery. Five years afterwards, viz. in I
IMarch, IFC.ns, the ease was heard before the Vice-
, Chancellor. In January, 1927, the Master, to whom
the proceedings were referred, reported to the Court. In
March, 1e23, the ease was set down for further directions,
but at the close of the month following the surviving
plaintiff died, and the suit abated. His Solicitor, in
whose hands the ease had then lingered for eight years,
filed a bill of reviver. Some of the parties to the suit, how-
ever, were dissatisfied with his conduct, and they gave him
notice that they should dispense with Isis services in that
rapacity. The Solicitor was not disposed to relinquish Isis
bold so easily. Ile proceeded to put in an appearance
for the parties who dismissed him, and prepare the briefs
for the next hearing, which, in the fuluess of time, be
might obtain for the litigants. The parties in question
could not understand either the reason or the equity
of the sovereign contempt with which he had treated their
discontinuence of his agency, and they therefore applied to
the Court to have the appearance, entered in their names,
discharged. Mr. Heald, in stating their case, animad-
'and with just indignation on the shocking abuses result-
, ing from the delay to which the parties in this suit had
been subjected, and observed, with conclusive force, in sit-
ticipation of the arguments on the opposite side, that no
proposition could be snore monstrous or absurd, than that
"a solicitor once employed was, right or wrong, to be con-
Itinued to the end of a cause, unless he was dismissed by a
rule of Court." Mr. Hart, in defence of the solicitor, took
occasion to complain of what he called " Mr. Heald's ad-
dress to popular opinion relative to the delays charged on
the Court of Chancery : he (Mr. Hart) thought it might'
as well have been spared. Those who beard it to-day
would, when they went abroad, report it, and the po-
pular clamour would be increased, while those who
looked into the interior of the system of the Court of
Chancery must know, that no human system could be
devised better calculated to promote the ends of justice."
The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to justify his
' client from all imputations of impropriety in the per-
Ifonnance of his duty towards the parties to the suit, and
concluded with a sarcastic observation, that " this was not
the season of the year to indulge in long sad violent
Ispeeches7 The reply of Mr. Heald was eloquent, intrepid;
and forcible. It carries conviction in every line; and it
reflects great honour upon him, that in support of his
client's interests, and in the discharge of an important
public duty, be put at defiance all the feelings of hostility
which he knew he should excite against him, from what-
ever quarter they might proceed. His high standing and
great talents will protect him against the consequences of
that wrath which few could withstand, and none, we be-
lieve, would needlessly incur; and the public owe him a

deep and lasting debt of gratitude, for his fearless tlenuncia-
tions of the abuses of the Court in which he practises.
We suldoin from our report of yestenlay, for they are
worth repeating, the observations to which we allude :

"Mr. Heald, in reply, observed, that the season of the year,
or the day—being near the long vacation.—should have no weight
whatever in a case of so much importance as the present. M ith
respect to Mr. Hart's observations, about addresses to popular
opinions, he (Mr. Ileahl) would say. it would be disgraceful hi a
Barrister not to urge those topics which might suggest themselves
to him, in any ems-, much more so on the present motion,
than
which, perhaps aat one of greater importance ever came before a
Court. • • tt • Ile stated nothing out of his affidavits; though I
Mr. Hart and Mr. Moore had both stated the circumstances of his
( Mr. Ile:throe' lents, anti had added matter which in no wise related
to the case pew le fore the Court. His clients were priax and weak,
and these were the strongest moons why it was the duty of this
Court to interfere for their protection. He (Mr. Heald) did not
mean to say that this cause could have been more advanced than it
was—that greater expedition could have been used in its manage-
ment ; neither did he say that it was as if moved arms the Court
in a sledge drawn by a worm. lint this he said—thst if the
solicitor could not go as more quickly, was it not a shame that such
a Court as this should be allowed to exist a moment longer? The
complaints were loud and heavy, and deep-rooted against this
Court ; hut it was said they could not be made against the Judges
or the prat.? i: inners of the Court. or the system upon which the Court
itself was canducted ; and, in fact, no one knew against whom to
prefer their complaints. • • • • What will this country as,
—this country so favoured above all others—what will her industri-
ous people say, when they are told that a laborious man may amass
a fortune and bequeath it to his relations, but that they, like him-
self, may die off before his will can be carried into effect, owing to
the perfect system of this Court ?" • • • •