The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-13 00:00:00

Presentation of a One Hundred Guinea
Nugget to Mr. and Mrs, Charles Beam

(From the Ballarat Evening Post of March 4.)
The theatre was again crowded to overflowing on
Thursday evening to witness a repetition of Mr.
Dean's historical portrait of Louis the Eleventh.
Having fully noticed the lifelike picture upon a
previous occasion, it is only necessary to say that
the points of the character were taken with the
same intellectual appreciation, on the part of the
audience, that so strikingly marked its first per-
formance. The event of the evening, was however,
the handsome presentation of the nugget of gold
to Mr. and Mrs. Kran, and the enthusiastic np
plause, cheers, waving of handkerchiefs, and other
demonstrations of approval that endowed the de-
livery of the address, is a very satisfactory proof
that the compliments it contains is in strict keep-
ing with public opinion.
Mr. Robert Lee Puer Trench read the following
address :

To Mr and Mrs Charles Kean.
Your friends and admirers in Ballarat cannot permit
you to leave this town without conveying to you the as-
surance of their respect and esteem, and expressing the
extreme gratification you have afforded them in the display
of your genius during your present visit.
The crowded audiences which have nightly witnessed
your admirable performances afford the best evidence that
your noble art is justly appreciated in this goldfield. It
cannot be the less gratifying to you to know that the suc-
cess which has attended your dramatic performances in
Ballarat, as well as throughout the colonies, has been en-
hanced by the public appreciation of the private worth and
social virtues which you have brought to the adornment of
your profession, (Cheers.)
We feel that the success to which we have referred is no
less honourable to ourselves than to you, and we are espe-
cially proud that in no portion of the colony has that sun
cess been more marked than in Ballarat. (Loud cheers,)
We beg you to accept this nugget taken from our auri-
ferous soil, as a remembrance of your visit to our goldfield.
(Loud and prolonged cheers.)
We cherish the hope that when you have retired from
the arduous labour of the profession you have so long and
worthily adorned into the ease and comfort of private life,
accompanied, as you surely will be, with that which you
have already so well secured, "Honour, love, troops of
friends," the recollection of your short sojourn in the metro-
polis of the goldfields will not be the least pleasing re-
miniscence of your professional career, (Cheers.)
In now bidding you farewell we cordially wish you the
enjoyment of health and happiness, and subscribe ourselves,
with every feeling of respect and esteem,
YOUR FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS.
Mr Kean who was most enthusiastically received,
and who was delayed for some time by the repeated
plaudits of the audience, delivered the following
address ;

Mr. Trench, Ladies, and Gentlemen—
I fear that I can but very inadequately express how gra-
fied and honoured Mrs. Kean and myself feel at the com-
pliment you have paid us. We are truly proud of such a
mark of your favour and esteem, and beg to assure you that
this will remain indelibly impressed upen our memory as
one of the brightest days in the calendar of our lives.
I arrived in Ballarat much enfeebled by a severe and
serious illnass; but its pure and invigorating air, combined
with the warmth of our reception, and aided by the exhi-
larating influence of the most brilliant success, has acted
like a charm, and almost restored my wonted health and
strength. (Cheers.)
It is a matter of self-congratulation that we have been
enabled to visit this extraordinary and most interesting
city, with the hill of gold and mines of wealth—where all
appears so new, so strange, so wonderful. (Cheers.)
It strikes the stranger with astonishment to walk
through your wide and spacious streets, adorned with hand-
some stone buildings, substantial shops, and noble edifices
for the sick and poor ; to see the town teeming with life
and animation, occupied by an active, industrious, and in-
telligent population; and to be reminded that scarcely more
than 12 years ago this place was a lonely wilderness. Yet
upon this spot, so recently a wild and rugged bush-land,
now stands a temple dedicated to the drama, whose director,
through the liberal spirit of the inhabitants, is enabled to
pay us 4100 for each performance. (Loud cheers.)
On Monday next we commence a farewell engagement
in Melbourne previous ,to our final departure from the
colonies. After which we purpose on our way home to
visit another land of gold, Although I have passed
nearly six years of my life, at different periods, in the
United States of America, I have never yet had an op-
portunity of seeing California, but judging from the
cordial reception extended to my wife and myself in all
other parts of that vast continent, we have every reason to
anticipate a generous welcome professionally and socially.
But go where we may, we shall never, never forget our
kind friends here, from whom we shall part with deep re-
gret. Let me assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that the
precious gift you have this evening bestowed upon us will
be retained with feelings of pride and gratitude while we
live. When we are no more it shall descend as an heir-
loom in our family, to be regarded by those who follow us
as an emblem of the "golden opinions" won by us in
Ballarat." (Enthusiastic Applause.)
Mr Hoskins then came forward, and said, "Mr Kean, I
cannot permit this occasion to pass without thanking you
for your liberality in playing for my benefit this evening,
and at last consenting to remain for to-morrow and Satur-
day, after repeatedly refusing my offer of £230 for the two
nights. (Cheers.) The deputations at last prevailed with
you, and I am most happy you have consented, because I
know the general satisfaction it will give the patrons of this
theatre to behold yourself and Mrs. Kean in two such
Shaksperian plays as King John and Macbeth. Indepen-
dently of the pleasure you have expressed at your visit to
Ballarat, it must be most gratifying to you to find here so
much appreciation of histrionic talent and such wealth to
pay for it, particularly as Mr Coppin informs me that you
have played one night here to larger receipts by nearly
.C5O than in Melbourne or Sydney. (Loud cheers.) The
remembrance of your visit will ever be a pleasing one to me,
and I would fain express a hope that you have re-esta-
blished the taste for drama& literature here, and that the
theatre may once again proudly hold its own among the
temples dedicated to art in this young and flourishing
colony.

The curtain fell amidst the most enthusiastic
applause and waving of handkerchiefs. The nugget
presented to Mr. and Mrs. Kean was a specimen of
gold and quartz, found about six months ago in
New Chum Gully, and bought by Messrs. Witt-
sko wski Bros. and Co., from whom it was purchased
by the presentation committee for one hundred
guineas. The specimen measures 4.1 inches by 31
inches, and is of a rough oval shape, the intermix-
ture of white quartz and pure bright gold being
very beautiful,

We take the following summary of news from
the .211e/bourne Argus of the 24th of March:—
"The Parliament has adjourned.
" The last Act of the Legislature before the recess
was adopting in both Houses the following series
of resolutions, proposed by Ministers, on the sub-
ject of transportation, in reply to a despatch from
his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, received by the
January mail :
" ' That as the despatch from his Grace the Duke
of Newcastle to his Excellency the Governor Sir
Charles Henry Darling, dated 26th of January,
1861, on the subject of transportation of criminals
to the Australian colonies, states the determination
of the Imperial Government to send convicts, to a
limited extent, to the colony of Western Australia,
it is resolved by this House—
" 'l. That while we desire to acknowledge the
consideration which has been paid by her Majesty's
Government to the remonstrances of the people and
Parliament of Victoria against the continuance of
transportation to Western Australia, we learn with
deep regret the deternaiqation of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to maintain the existing system, by which
upwards of 500 convicts will be sent annually for
an indefinitive period from the United Kingdom to
the shores of Australia ; and we earnestly protest
against that determination.
" '2. That while we disclaim any general right
to dictate to her Majesty's Government what shall
or shall not be done throughout the whole of Aus-
tralia by the Government of the mother country,
we insist upon our right to press upon the attention
of her Majesty's advisers the injurious effects to this
colony of the policy upon this question adopted and
persevered in by the British Government.
" 3. That we deny the right of the colonists of
Western Australia to calculate upon the continuance
of the policy which was initiated ac an experiment
a few years ago, and which has produced effects of a
mischievous nature to the subjects of her Majesty
in the other colonies of Australia.
"4. That while we earnestly desire that the
loyalty and goodwill which have hitherto united the
people of Victoria to the Crown and to the empire
should continue unimpaired, we are constrained to
record our belief that so long as any convicts are
transported from Great Britain to the shores of Aus-
tralia, the feelings of attachment of the people of
Victoria to the Crown will be mingled with a deep
sense of unmerited wrong inflicted upon this colony
by the advisers of her Majesty.
" 5. And that an address embodying the fore-
going resolutions be presented to his Excellency for
transmission to the right hen. the Secretary of State
for the Colonies.'
"The formation of the Murray River Railway
northwards of Sandhurst is progressing so rapidly
that the line will be opened for traffic as far
as Rochester, within fifteen miles of the Murray, in
about three months, and almost to the banks of the
river by the commencement of the next wool season.
A difficulty is likely to occur with the New South
Wales Government on the subject of the border
duties, and it will be aggravated by this event. The
trade of the Riverine province now passes almost
exclusively through Melbourne. The completion
of the railway will secure to this port the little that
passes it now; and Victoria is naturally indisposed
to hamper her trade by the imposition of duties not
recognised by her own tariff, and to be levied on
goods just ss they cross the northern border of this
colony. We are likely to urge in vain the assimi-
lation of the tariffs, the free trade policy of Victoria
being regarded with less favour in New South
Wales; and our neighbour will no doubt be left to
collect her own dues by the establishment of a line
of custom-houses along the northern shores of the
Murray, which will cost more to maintain than
the duties they will collect will cover.
"The war in New Zealand approaches its termi-
nation. The tactics of General Cameron compelled
the rebels to abandon their great fortifications at
Paterangi. Following them by a night march, he
surprised them at Te Awamutu, and again at Kihi-
Kihi—the country of Rewi, the great engineering
chief of the Ngatimaniapotos. General Cameron now
occupies the cultivated grounds of that tribe, which
are the largest and best hitherto possessed by the
Maoris. The soldiers are now preparing for winter
quarters, and have possession of the shores of pota-
toes and corn, and herds of cattle, on which the
rebels mainly depend for subsistence. The rebels
have now taken to the swamps and mountain fast-
nesses, and may protract the war for a time, but
their final submission, without much further blood-
shed, is expected."

WORKING MEN'S CLUBS.

Yesterday the third and concluding day's conference on
working men's clubs and institutes was held in the Whit-
tington Club, Strand. The Earl of Lichfield presided, in
the absence of the Dean of Chichester, who was unavoid-

ably absent. Various ra iscell an eons questions were dis-

cussed, and resolutions for the guidance and government of
clubs were agreed to. In the evening the proceedings were
brought to a close by a conversazione in the large hall of
the club, and which was attended by the Bishop of London,
Lord Fortescue, the Rev. Robert Maguire, M.A., the Rev.
H. Solly (secretary of the Working Men's Club Union),
Mr. J. Slaney Pakington, and by many ladies and gentle-
men interested in this movement. After a concert, in
which various pieces were sung by members of the Work-
ing Men's College choir, the Shoreditch Club choir and by
others, Lord Lyttelton took the chair, and opened the pro-
ceedings of a public meeting by detailing the general objects
of the Working Men's Club Union. Mr. J. S. Pakington
described the business which had been transacted at the
Conference, and which, he said, had been of a thorougly
practical character. Lord Fortescue moved a resolution,
pledging the meeting to support the efforts being made
" to aid working men in establishing clubs and insti-

tutes calculated to promote the social, mental, and moral
advancement of the industrial classes," The Hon. and
Rev. S. Best seconded the resolution, which was supported
by Mr. Bambridge, a working man, who, on behalf of his
order, thanked the ladies and gentlemen who had aided the
working men in the establishment of the club, and by the
Rev. H. Solly. The motion was carried. The }3 shop of
L,

iondon, who was received with loud cheers, proposed b: re-
solution, "That the meeting trusts the future progress oi
this movement may be commensurate with its high impor-
tance." He said he suspected that the many difficult ques-
tions which he had found connected with this subject had
not been solved during the 10 years he had been in London,
One of those difficulties was the exclusiveness which was
apt to spring up, and which found its way in every sort of
society. Mechanics' Institutes showed how this spirit would
creep in, for these institutes were, as their name denoted,
formed for mechanics ; but, somehow or other, they had
now got into other hands than those for whose benefit they,
were originated. This was caused perhaps by those institutes
having a tenden ,y—a good tendency—to raise persons who
as they rose, were apt to look down upon those below them,
and were not disposed to sit down with working men of a
lower grade. Was there not, he asked, the same difficulty
with regard to these clubs ? Working men were spoken of
as if they were one class ; but the fact was, taking the term
to mean those to whom it was generally applied, it was his
experience there were as great variety among them as among
other classes of society. He had found the working weavers
of Carlisle, whose earnings were from 5s to 10s a week, and
he knew not how they kept body and soul together on such
pittances, were capable of making good speeches, and were
men in every way deserving of respect, but he had seen that
there was a wide difference between them and the working
men in other and larger towns. The Working Men's Clubs,
he urged, must be made to take in all classes of working
men or the system would not be perfect, to consider the
docx labourer in East London and the market gardener of
Fulham, and include in fact the very poorest classes of the
towns and the agricultural population of the country. He
also urged that care should be taken
~to bring the young
within the scope of the clubs, and he praised the institutes
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THE GALLERY OF PICTURES AT BRIDGEWATER
nousE is now open to the public, but not the Library.
MOLLARD'S SULPHUR SOA Is.--The extraordinary
demand that has sprung up for this novol article has in-
duced the proprietor to remove his business to more com-
modious and' larger premises, The depot is now 221 A,
Regent-btreet,

SECOND EDITION.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

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28 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (offend)
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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. Y. Wilde and a Common Jury.)
HICK V. HICK AND KITCHEN.

This was a suit by the husband , a turner and ironmon-
ger at Leeds, for a dissolution of marriage, on the ground
of his wife's adultery with the corespondent, a dyer in a
large way of business at Leeds. Both defendants denied
the adultery, recriminated the charge, and further alleged
cruelty and misconduct conducing to the adultery.
Mr Field, in stating the case, said that the parties were

married in January. 1859, and there were two children
issue of the marriage. The husband treated his wife
kindly, and they appeared to live on happy terms until last
June, when the petitioner discovered circumstances that
induced him ro suspect his wife's infidelity. The corespon-
dent was introduced to the petitioner shortly after the mar-
riage, and then became a frequent visitor, particularly dur.
ing his absence.

Edward Packe, a clerk in the bank of Marsham and Co.,
Leeds, proved having been present at the marriage, but
could not say on what terms the parties lived afterwards.
The petitioner had a shop in St. George's-street, and a pri-.
vats residence at Blundell-terrace, Leeds.
Mary Ann Turner was in the petitioner's service in 1861,
and shortly after she went to the place Mr. Kitchen used to
come frequently. When Mr. Hick was at home he remained
only a short time, but when he was absent he used to stay
for a considerable time. She heard " a scuffling noise"
while Mr. Kitchen and Mrs. Hick were in the parlour
together, and when she entered the room they both rose
from the sofa. On another occasion she had seen Mr.
Kitchen's dress disordered, and she had seen him and Mrs.
Hick kissing each other.

Winifred Brown said she had seen Kitchen. frequently at
the petitioner's house. On one occasion she discovered
them in a bed-room, and under circumstances that could
leave no doubt of the nature of the intimacy that existed
between them.

Mr Overend, for the respondent, said he should not deny
that adultery had been committed ; but then the respondent
was about the last person in the world who should have
come into this court to seek for damages for the loss of his
wife's society. The petitioner had himself been a most
abandoned person ; and he should call before the jury evi-
dence to prove that the petitioner was in the habit of
attending the most immoral places in Leeds, in the com-
pany of women of the most disreputable character. After
the jury had heard the evidence ho felt they would at once
assess the damages at the lowest coin current in England.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press.