The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-12 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1864.

M. THIERS has spoken out like a man. The his-
torian—the most elcquent and admirable of the
historians of the BONAPARTES—is no mere pane-
gyrist. He can extol a great man or a great
action when occasion offers with a fervour of eulo-
gium amounting to enthusiasm ; but even in his
impassioneil tributes to the great NAPOLEON, M.
THIEES did. not forget his own liberal convictions.
Still less mow, when instead of holding the pen
of the biographer ho stands in his place as a
popular representative, is M. TRIERS led away by
the glamour of a great name and a great position.
He spoke yesterday in the Corps Legislatif on the
debate oa the Address like a worthy Tribune of
the People. In a tone of respectful but earnest
remonstrance he urged that the time had come for
the enjoyment of a fuller degree of constitutional
liberty in France. More especially he insisted
upon the necessity of restoring liberty to the na-
tional representation, and, above all, he demanded
the renewal of ministerial responsibility—that
mainstay of constitutional rights, without which,
indeed, free parliamentary action is impossible. M.
TIIIERB maintained—and, in so doing, he Was
only expressing the feelings long entertained
by all who admire or appreciate the wisdom and
discretion so frequently evinced by NAPOLEON
M.—that the EMPEROR might himself be_
come the initiator of freedom. If he have the

Courage, the wise courage, to venture upon such a
course, he will by that unprecedented coup de main
fortify his own position and increase his own pope•
larity, to the delight of his friends and the confu-
sion of his foes. In such a case he may say, as the
great NAPOLEON said of his memorable code, "I will
go down to posterity with the Constitution in my
hand." The modern ULYSSES, in his sagacity,
endeavoured to defend Paris by a cordon of fortifi.
cations. When the moment of danger came the
inutility of these precautions became glaringly
apparent. With a truer wisdom NAPOLEON may
fortify his throne, not by distinguishing it with
the evanescent splendours of external magnificence,
but by adding depth and breadth to its foundations.
Sprung from the People, owing all to the People,
as both the First and Third NAPOLEON have ever
been wise enough proudly to acknowledge, the
BONAPARTES ought so to act that the
popular element should not and would not be
uncongenial to the Imperial Constitution. In

the old fable, ANTZUS, while fighting
for his life, acquired new strength and vigour every
time he touched his mother-earth. In his own
vicissitudes NAPOLEON 111. has experienced a
similar result. At each successive appeal to the
people he found his power augmented and his
strength of position increased. So now would he
find it, if he took the bold resolve, not of appealing to
the people, but of recognising the rights of that
people who have been so ready to recognise him.
If he would frankly, loyally, of his own free will,
without coercion or constraint, give a wider basis to
the popular representation, and a freer utterance
to the Parliamentary debates, he would acquire a
far greater accession of power and of world-wide
applause than attended upon him on his return from
he victorious fields of Magenta and Solferino.

The Volunteers are now an established inssitu-
tion, and recognised by all, and warmly welcomed
whenever mention is made of them in a public
assembly or at a social meeting. Ills is as it
should be; but still it is of paramount importance
that due attention should be paid to the require-
ments of the force, so that efficiency should be
kept up. This cannot be done without strenuous
exertion and constant watchfulness. On these
grounds, then, it is moat gratifying to note the
brilliant gathering that took place on Saturday
evening at Westminster Hall. Rank, fashion, and
beauty united to grace the assemblage, and add
honour to the occasion. The distribution of prizes
in a public form is always a desirable thing—it
stimulates the exertions and gives a fitting crown
to past toils. In all countries and in all ages such
awards of merit, and trophies of renown, have
exercised a peculiar spell and exerted an irresistible
fascination. The poet has immortalised the de-
lights of such honours, and celebrated the attrac-
tions of public recognition of gallant exploits and
glorious services in these well known lines :
The festal blazes, the triumphal show,
The ravished standard, and the captive foe,
The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale,
With force resistless o'er the brave prevail—
For such the rapid Greeks o'er Asia whirled,
For such the steady Romans shook the world.

Earl GROSVENOR has distinguished himself at all
times for the zeal and energy with which he has
conducted the affairs of his corps, and it must be
especially gratifying to him to exhibit the profi-
ciency of those under his command, while the suc-
cessful candidates cannot but rejoice at the happy
issue of their arduous toils, and the honour paid
to them by the presence of a distinguished circle
to witness their receipt of prizes at the
hands of Lady CONSTANCE GROSVENOR.
The prizes were of great value, and the donors of
them are most deserving of the recognition made
by Earl GROSVENOR in his brief but appropriate
address, for the sums thus expended are not use.
lessly lavished, but are invested in a good cause, and
tend to elevate the standard of efficiency to which
all more or less aspire, and to gain which end no
efforts should be spared. His lordship's speech was
not a mere complimentary form of address, bat it
was an exposition of the state of the regiment. The
number of marks has increased, and satisfactory
proof is given as to the improvement in the shoot-
ing. Among others who gained honourable men-
tion the 13th Company of the QUEEN'S Westmin-
sters were most conspicuous, they having, to use
the words of their commender, " won and held ten
times against all comers the Inland Revenue Chal-
lenge Cup of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers."
It is important that these achievements should be
cited, as they afford landmarks of progress, and en-
courage the doubting, confirm the wavering, and
present a wholesome reproof to the careless or over-
sufficient. After Earl GnosvEeioe. had concluded
his very telling speech, and Lady CONSTANCE had
distributed the prizes, Colonel M'AIuRDO came for-
ward and delivered a most instructive and interest-
ing address. His remarks were most appropriate,
and effectively set forth the nature of Volunteer
service generally, and the advantages that might
thereby be gained to the community. He said
very truly that it was idle to expect a Volunteer
force to compete in excellence with regular troops
in enduring the hardships of a campaign. There is
no cause to be disheartened at this announcement,
because it was not for campaign work that
Volunteers were designed, and they have
other, and equally important and honourable
duties to perform. Colonel NEMURDO spoke with
the authority of his position as Inspector-General
of Volunteers, when he declared it as his opinion
that the " efficiency of the rifle volunteer force has
in fact vastly increased." This is cheering intelli-
gence, and it is to be trusted that it will have its
due effect in affording that agreeable stimulus
which is necessary for the successful termination of
all results, and which all volunteer efforts pre-
eminently demand. The communication that in-
creased strictness was now the rule with all the
officers in command of corps, also testified most sa-
tisfactorily as to the present working and future
prospects of the Volunteer establishment. If, un-
happily, the "-last of war should sound in our ear,
and call forth the suns of England to do their duty
in the eventful struggle, there is no cause to dread
that this generation will be unmindful of past times
of enterprise, and prove unworthy of the sires before
them. It is now some years since, in the midst of
discouragement, this enterprise was begun, and
more peaceful times have seen it securely fixed and
highly honoured as a national institution, And
honour is due to those who originated the scheme
of the Volunteers, and just praise should be awarded
to all whose efforts have enabled it to attain its
present degree of brilliant success, May the earnest
efforts of the members of the forces, and the stead-
fast support of the nation, be never found wanting
to carry it on to a triumphant goal, and render it a
rock of defence to the country in the hour of peril,
and an unfailing shield of defence against all
enemies, near or far; and if war should intervene to
dispel the smiles of peace—when our armaments
are preparing and our fleets weigh anchor—
" A virtuous populace may rise the while,

And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle!"

The correspondence respecting the European-
Chinese Navy has just been published, and wilkbe
read with some interest and curiosity. Whatever
maybe the result of the affair there will be few Eng-
lishmen who will not acknowledge that Captain
OSBORN acted with commendable spirit and reso-
lution in refusing to undertake the command of the
force on the terms proposed by the Chinese, and in
refraining from surrendering possession of the ves-
sels until he had consulted the English Ambassador
Ps to the propriety of doing so. According to the
information contained in this correspondence,
Prince KIING, the Regent, on the 24th October,
1862, addressed a letter of instructions to Mr. LAY,
the Inspector-Gcneral on this subject, in which the
Prince states that the acting Inspector had assured
him that in order to render the Imperial navy
efficient " it was necesssary that foreign vessels and
foreign guns should be proeured." After giving
further directions and investing Mr. LAY with the
sole responsibility of the disbursement of the funds
sole
tedfortbe purpose—the Regent remarks
that China being in urgent need of the vessels and
nuns, which should both be of first-rate quality,
therefore no time should be lost in completing
them to Shanghai. Upon these Wks proceeding

to their destination an agreement was entered into
between Captain SHERARD OSBORN, R.N., the
officer in charge of them, and Mr. LAY, the Inspec-
tor-General. The principal clauses of this agree-
ment stipulated that Captain OSBORN should take
command of the force for four years ; that he
should be the sole European naval commander-in-
chief, and have authority over all vessels of Euro-
pean construction, or Chinese vessels manned by
British seamen ; that he should obey all orders of
the EMPEROR transmitted through Mr. LAY, but
through no other party—and Mr. LAY, on his
part, undertook to refuse to be the medium of im-
, proper or unreasonable orders. These stipulations
were especially necessary to guard against the
barbarity which the Chinese carry into their war-
fare, as we have too good reason to know. As
Captain OSBORN remarked in his remonstrance,
"My force, powerful as it will be for good or
evil, might be directed against the interests of com-
merce or of common humanity. Brutal butchery
might be perpetrated, and I should be powerless to
preveet it. The European-Chinese force, instead
of being a blessing, would become a curse to the
Chinese people, and to the best interests of Europe
in this empire." Prince KUNG, however, declined
to ratify this agreement, and in his letter of instruc-
tions to Captain OSBORN, dated July, 1863, he styles
him Assistant Commander-in-Chief, and tells him
that he is to co-operate with the Chinese Com-
mander-in-Chief, and to consider himself under the
orders of the Governors-General, of Two KEANG,
and of KEANG-SOO, and to take their instructions
as to the disposal of his force from time to time.
Captain OSBORN upon this distinctly declined to
accept the office of commander, pointing out that
the position he would be placed in would be
entirely opposed to the understanding on which
the British Government had allowed him, and the
men under his command, to enter the service of the
Emperor of CHINA, and also that, fettered by such
conditions, any naval operations he might under-
take would be practically useless. Such may be the
Chinese system, he says contemptuously, adding
that if such be the case, their unfitness for military
or naval operations is sufficiently explained. The
Regent still refusing to ratify the agreement upon
which Captain OSBORN very properly insisted, that
officer intimated to him that he should proceed to
disband the force under his command. He further
proceeded to communicate with Sir F. BRUCE,
requesting his instructions as to the disposal of the
ships, and pointing out to him that there might be
some danger in entrusting such formidable vessels
to the rowdies and pirates who throng the port of
Shanghai. Sir FREDERICK BEVCE was fully sen •
sible of the mischief that might ensue from such a
course, and immediately intimated to the Regent
that her MAJESTY'S Government would not have
agreed to the organisation of so powerful a force
had they not understood that it was to be placed
under the control of an officer in whom they could
rely, and that, consequently,he should refuse permis-
sion for the transfer of the ships until he had
received further instructions. Captain OSBORN
consequently applied for information respecting the
funds for the maintenance of the force, to which the
Ambassador very shortly replied that the Imperial
Government bad, as we know, abandoned the
scheme of the flotilla, and that Captain OSBORN
must, therefore, take charge of the officers and men
and ships, with a view to proceeding the former to
England, and to disposing of the latter to the best
possible advantage. The Regent further desired
Captain OSBORN to accept 10,000 taels as a remu-
neration for his labour, a compensation which that
officer will probably consider very inadequate after
the anxiety and exertion he has undergone, the
disappointment to his natural ambition, and the
unsatisfactory termination to the whole affair. We
have cause to feel grateful to him for having by his
firmness and prudence kept out of an awkward
position, which would very likely have ended in
bringing discredit upon our nation, and in iden-
tifying us with acts totally opposed to our princi-
ples and feelings. It is gratifying to find that Sir
FREDERICK BRUCE expressed warm approbation of
the course pursued by Captain OSBORN, and that
the captains and commanders of the force under his
charge unanimously declared their approval of his
conduct, and their conviction that he had preserved
them from an essentially false position. All that
remains to be done now is to settle the necessary
expenses, and we cannot but hope that, if the matte e•
is brought courteously but firmly under the notice
of the Regent by our Ambassador, w'ao should
express at the same time surprise seed displeasure
at the slight put upon England 1-ey the recent trans-
action, Prince KUNG will be too prudent and
politic to wish giving fur:cher offence to a formidable
Power. At all events, this course should be pur-
sued without delay, and we must await the result
of it before anticipating the necessity of further
proceeding's.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAM.]

AMERICA.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Bavaria, from New York on the 30th ult., has
arrived off Cowes. She brings 47 passengers,
105,000 dols. in specie for England, and 1,950 dots.
for Hambuog. Her news has been anticipated.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.
The Cunard screw steamer Hecla from New York
on the 30th ult. arrived here this morning.
Her news has been anticipated.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
ALTONA, JAN. 11 (Evening).

According to advices received here the families
of subaltern officers and others inhabiting the Castle
of Gottof p have been ordered to evacuate it within
24 hours, as the Government of Schleswig will be
transferred thither. It is said that the King and
Queen may possibly take up their residence in
the Castle.

The party in Schleswig favourable to the claims
of the Augusten burg family are reported to have
sent an address to Kiel expressing their devotion
to the Prince of Augustenburg.

VIENNA, JAN. 12.

It is stated that the Danish Minister for Foreign
Affairs has addressed a note to the Austrian Cabinet
indirectly admitting that Denmark had not fulfilled
her engagements, and requesting that the negocia-
tions between Denmark and Germany might be
continued from the point at which they ceased in
1851-52.

SPAIN.
NE Ar ELECTORAL LAW.

MADRID, JAN. 12.

In the sitting of the Congress to-day the Minister
of the Interior read a bill for a new Electoral Law.
Opinions upon the measure are divided,
It is thought that a Ministerial crisis will now
soon take place.

THE EOSTILITIES IN INDIA.
The folio wilg telegram has been received at the
India-office :

"BOMBAY, DEC. 29.

" An °facia. telegram from Lahore, dated Decem-
ber 24, states that the Guide Corps and a con-
tingent of the Bonair tribe, which were detached
for the purpoT of destroying Mulka, have returned
to Umbey lb h. The original object of the expedition
has thus heel accomplished, in the destruction of
the seat of Hildustanee fanatics. The force, there-
fore, will retirn to the plains, and, after the exac-
tion of hostages from the Judoon and Othmanzye
tribes will go into quarters.
"The Peshiwur district and border are quiet.
" The Punab is perfectly trAnquil,
" Funds at Bombay.—Fours, at 9 per cent. dis-
count ; Fives; at (par ; Five-and-a-Haifa at 6 pre-

mium."

FRANCE.
PARIS, Jan. 11, Evening.
The debate upon the Address was commenced at
the sitting of the Corps Legislatif to-day.
M. Thiers showed that the necessity for liberty
was now uniiersal in Europe. He maintained that
the Emperor night become the initiator of freedom.
The speaker 7.laimed the re-establishment of that
liberty the exercise of which was suspended by the
Empire, and insisted particularly upon the neces-
sity of restoriig liberty to the national representa-
tion, and of re-introducing Ministerial responsi-
bility. M. Thiers further showed that France was
ripe for liberty, and said, " If the Chief of the State
does not know how to cede, the country will exact
that which it now respectfully requests." Upon this
condition M. Thiers promised his unreserved sup-
port to the Government.

M. Rouher, in reply, recalled the words used by
M. niers, " The country will exact," and stated
that he ccesidered that expression a threat, of which
the Government was not afraid, as it did not belong
to those whom people menaced. M. Rouher main-
tained that none of the liberty demanded by M.
Thiers was deficient in the country, that the Par-
liamentary system which it was sought to bring
back hP..Ct hed its day, that the Emperor reigns and
gov'.,rns, and that liberty would follow when the
'time bad arrived, but that it was necessary to wait.
M. Jules Fevre, replying to the speech of M.
Rouher, reproduced in part the arguments of M.
Thiers.

'the debate will be continued to-morrow.
BOURSE, Jaa. 11.—The market has shown more
animation, but without any improvement in prices,
Threes, for the Account, being unvaried at 66fr.
90c. Mobilier remains unchanged at 1,035 f. Rail-
way Market firm, but without any material change
in quotations. The market again became heavy
towards the close, and left off as follows :

4 t per Cents. 94 90
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 80
Credit Mobilier 1025
Do. end month 1030
Bank Shares 3270
CreditPoneier 1245
Roman

Italian Loan 69 05
Do. end month 69 40
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. 7B 75
Spanieh Threes
Horne Debt
Deferred

RAIL WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 440 045
New ditto - --
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 282 5G 385

Austrian
Lombard - .. 522 50
North of Spain
Saragossa 595 .. 590 25
Ditto to Barcelona

COLONEL HOPE.—We ate requested by the
friends of Colonel Hope to state that the accounts
received by them to the 3d of December, from Nowsheras
near Peshawar, and also by the India-office, lead them to
believe that the report of his having died of his wounds is
not correct,

THE LAIR LORD ELGIN,—The result of the post
mortetn examination of the late Lord Elgin has
proved what had been suspected from the first—that his
death was not attributed to Any (iisease of Indian origin.
It was fraud that the heart was in a state of what is called
pr,J:easionally "fatty degeneration"—that is, that it had
lost its milscular character, and becomes weak and dilated.
The right ventricle was fatally affected. There was also
advanced disease of the kidneys. The changes in the struc-
ture of these vital organs had been long in progress. It is
strange thet they had not earlier given marked evidence of
their existence, for they would have proved fatal under any
circumstances and in any climate.

We understand that Mr. John Paget, of the
Middle Tample, who has had considerable experi-
ence in criminal business at the Liverpool Sessions and on
the Northern Circuit, has been appointed a metropolitan
police magistrate, in the room of Mr. Combe, deceased.
l‘tr. Woolryoh will succeed Mr. Combe at the Southwark
Police Court, and Mr. Paget will take Mr. Woolrych'a
place at the Thames Police.

EXECUTION AT MELBouuNt.—A Melbourne
letter of Nov. 25 says We have had of late an
unusual number of murders. Western Australia, of course,
has contributed hor contingent of offenders; Tasmania
hers. Among several other very horrible cases, we have
witnessed within the last fortnight the first female execu-
tion ever known in Victoria. A woman, young and very
good-looking, was hanged a few days back for inciting and
taking part with her paramour and with k, third murderer,
her servant, in the deliberate shooting through the head of
her own husband as he lay sleeping off a drunken debauch
in tie tent at one of the distant diggings, In company
with the two men she walked from hor cell to the gallows
with the indifference—for all that appeared outwardly—of
one taking an ordinary morning walk. It las been ascer-
tained that all of these criminals are but Ikte arrivals in
this .colony; that all received their educatiok—sach as it
was—in England ; and, therefore, even our mtderate people
grow somewhat intemperate
in speech when they read of
fresh intended arrivals from the same country via Western
Australia.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE,

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DONNA DIANA.

" Donna Diana," a comedy in three acts, adapted
from the Spanish of Moreto, by Westland Marston,
Esq., was produced at this theatre last evening,
and met with the most brilliant success.
It is with more than ordinary pleasure
we record the fact because the result was as
genuine as it was spontaneous. In many in-
stances means are taken to secure an apparent suc
cess of a new drama irrespective of its merits, but
generally in such cases, although the end desired
may be attained for a time, the play, like other
things, finds its own level, and notwithstanding the
most fulsome adulation has been heaped upon it after
a few representations it passes into oblivion, and
is heard no more of. This has certainly
been the fate of most of the "new and:extraordi-
nary successful" dramas produced of late years ;
but such will not be the case with "Donna Diana."
It will become a favourite and stock comedy, and
will take its place amongst the brilliant comedies
of Snakespeare, which are never represented with-
out producing the most elevated thoughts and
feelings.
The plot of the new comedy is clear and
compact—virtues that are not now common
amongst -dramatic authors, for intricacy, not
to say impenetrable mystery, is often relied
upon to procure a favourable verdict. The
comedy opens in Barcelona, the duke's daughter,
Donna Diana being the bright sun round which all
the love-sick swains in his domains revolve. This
lady, strange to say, has foresworn all allegiance
to love, and has determined to set a pattern to her
sex, and showithem that woman has a right equal
to that of man. The lady at the time the play is
supposed to commence has three lovers, all dying
for the possession of her fair hand, but, notwith-
standing their entreaties, she coldly repels two of
her flatterers, and determines to do the same with
the third. Don Cesar, however, previous to his
interview with Diana, meets, and makes a confidant
of Perin, a gay light-hearted countryman of his
own, and who, moreover, is a gentleman attached
to the suite of the imperious beauty. Perin
advises Cesar not to approach the lady, as all
before him have done, with sighs and entreaties,
bat to meet her disdain with disdain, and thus
create her astonishment at his seeming indiffer-
ence to her great attractions. This he resolves
to do, and Diana is piqued nearly beyond endurance
by the declaration of Cesar that he has determined
to solicit her hand—not because he • bears the
slightest love for woman, but simply because it is
necessary for state purposes that his dukedom
should have an heir. Diana stung at his coldness,
determines spite of himself he shall fall in love
with her, and that when she has the pleasure of
seeing him at her feet she will have the still greater
delight of rejecting his proffered love with scorn.
She arranges her puns accordingly, and begins her
attack on Don Cesar's heart by making it appear
that chance has made him her cavalier for the
Duke's masked ball. Cesar is informed by Perin of
the stratagem, and for a time he acts with the
utmost coolness towards the scheming lady,
but most unfortunately his resolution forsakes him,
and in a short time he is brought, on his k nee, to
the feet of the triumphant beauty. With im-
perious scorn she throws back his proferred love,
and Cesar is, for the moment, lost in utter despair
Fortunately he remembers the character he has been
selected to fill at the ball, and collecting all his self-
possession, he calmly raises himself erect, and in
the most careless manner asks the lady whether she
really thought hikn in earnest. Amazed at the
mistake she imagines she has made, Diana's pride
is sorely wounded, ;and she determines on another
scheme more potent, she' believes than the first.
This also fails, and thus, while she is using all her
arts to subdue the :stubbornness of Don Cesar
her heart gradually opens to real and un-
affected love for him. Her pride prevents its
avowal, the sentiments she formerly held compels
her to be silent, and her only hope of forcing from
her seemingly adamantine lover a declaration is to
work upon his jealousy. Here Perin has again to
screw up the Dou's failing resolution, because he
imagines the fruit is not ripe, and that the proud
and disdainful -lady has not felt the anguish of un-
requited love long enough. The last scheme fails,
and Diana, with a bursting heart, is about to pro-
nounce, in the presence of the Court, her intention
of marrying Don Louis, when she encounters the
gaze of Don Cesar, and her resolution falls irre-
trievably to the ground. Pride is conquered—Cesar
makes an avowal of long hidden love—
the lady hears the delicious words with
ill concealed rapture, and the curtain falls
of course upon the union of Don Cesar and Donna
Diana. There is a capital comic underplot for
Perin and the lady's waiting-maid, the former re-
pelling with a bluntness almost amounting to rude-
ness, the spells of the pretty little coquette, although
he is, in fact, as madly in love with her as Don
Cesar is with Diana. It told immensely, and pro-
voked the most enthuPiastic applause.
The part of Donna Diana wail allotted to Mrs.
Hermann Vezin, and, great and numerous as have
been this lady's triumphs, she has never
achieved a more splendid one than that of last even-
ing. The different and difficult phases of the part
—coldness, indifference, scorn, and contempt almost
amounting to hatred, jealousy, and utter despair—
were pourtrayed with consummate art. It was, in
a word, a charming performance. Mr. Vezin
as Don Cesar was also highly successful.
His coolness as the indifferent lover was finely and
carefully hit off; but his great triumph was in the
second act—his warm, impassioned, avowal of love
to Diana, and the sudden change to freezing cold-
ness on recovering the mastery over his feelings,
which ho had temporarily lost. It is an admirable
performance, and one that cannot but add an-
other laurel to his well-won wreath. Mr. G. Vining
as Perin had a character that fitted him to nicety—
an assumed woman hater, but in reality a perfect
volcano of love. He was as full of spirit and vivacity
as a bottle of champagne, and never have we seen
more genuine comedy embodied., Mr. D. Fisher
has a small but telling part, and the same may be
said of that supported by Mr. Forrester. Miss Rose
Powell acted delightfully as the pretty little wait-
ing woman in love with Perin, and Miss Carson and
Miss Emma Bennett gave their parts with good
effect.

The applause throughout the piece, and at the
fall of the curtain was unanimous and enthusiastic.
The calls for Mr. and Mrs. Vezin were frequent
during the representation of the comedy, and at its
conclusion they had again to appear to bow their
thanks. The same mark of honour was conferred
on the talented and energetic manager, and
although a strong determination was shown to have
Mr. Westland Marston " before the floats," the
audience were ultimately satisfied with his bowing
his acknowledgments of the appreciation of his
latest work from a private box.
The dresses were sumptuously beautiful, and the
scenery and appointments were elegant and appro-
priate.