The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 29.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
Royal Highness Princess Helena, went to Ham
yesterday afternoon, and visited their Royal High•
nesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres. The
Royal party travelled by special train on the South
Western Railway to the Kingston Station, and
thence in carrieges to Ham, and returned to Wind-
sor Castle shortly before six o'clock.
The Maharajah Duleep Sicgh and the Maharanee
visited her Majesty to-day.

The Duke and Duchess of Grafton are entertain-
ing a limited circle of visitors at Euston Hall, Thetford.
The Earl of DAlkeith has arrived at Bowhill,
Selkirkshire, from town.
The Countess Ferrers and Captain Walsh have
arrived at Brown's Hotel,

Miss Bateman's Leah.

(From the North British Mail of Nov. 28 )

Coleridge, writing with a reference to the elder
Kean, says that so overpowering was his supers
eminently earnest acting as to be almost painful,
and to give one the imp:ession of reading Shahs-
pare by flashes of lightning. This characteristic
criticism is recalled by the appearance of Miss Bate-
man upon the stage of the Theatre Royal yesterday
evening. It is long since we have witnessed a per-
formance of equal passion, power, and beauty; and
we are afraid that we shall have to wait a long
while again for such another noble and affecting
dramatic exhibition. From first to last it had evi-
dently been long considered, and last night it was
most successfully given, in the truest spirit of lofty
tragedy,
Miss Bateman's figure is fine ; her attitudes are
often exquisitely statuesque; her countenance has
a mobility and play that are altogether extraordi-
nary ; and her eye is the very finest we can remem-
ber—large, lustrous, beaming, now full of what Mrs
Browning (speaking of Burns) calls " pungent pas-
sionings," anon lorn, fixed, seeming to look far
away beyond things near her on to those that are
invisible. Before she utters one word she capti.
vates her auditors, and the character of her
utterances enhances the spell. Her voice is good—
even, never strong, yet not the least monotonous,
carrying a slightly foreign accent that accords well
with her part, and used for a grave measured elocu-
tion that is also admirably in keeping with it, as be-
tokening the restraint and self-watchfulness proper
to her situation. And all these advantages are
turned to happy account. They are completely
under the control of a disciplined intelligence.
She seems endowed indeed with an exquisite and
apparently intuitive knowledge of the human
heart as it acts and is acted upon. She has a
subtle and penetrating insight into the springs
and modes of human thought under the dominion
of past, present, and future. And she has a vivid
and realising imagination by which she can abso-
lutely identify herself mith the character she de-
picts—seeing with her eyes, hearing with her
ears, speaking with her tongue, and seeming to
think, feel, and understand as she would. Her acting
is like the human body which may be specially alive
in the eye or the heart, or the brain, but yet is pene-
trated with vitality. Last night every part of her
frame was made to move in unison with the working
of the soul. Every nerve and muscle was played
upon by the cunning hand of Fantasy, drawing
forth eloquent music—the still, sad music of
humanity. Hence, the performance was not a thing
of points and hits, but a triumph of acting through-
out. Other incidents, we think, were even better
than the terrible curse with which she electrified
full two-thirds of her audience, speaking its concen-
trated malignity with a deliberation and emphasis
that made the blood run cold, and supplying a good
illustration of the lines—

" Etrth has no rage like love to hatred turned,
And hell no fury like a woman scorned.'

General Zamoyski.

The following letters appeared in the Kentish,
Gazette of Nov. 10 :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HENTISH GAZETTE.

Sir,—l take advantage of your kind permission to make
public the letter of Gen. Zamoyski through your columns.
Your readers will desire to know something of the writer.
He is a distinguished soldier, and commanded the Polish
contingent in the Crimean war by the consent of our Go-
vernment.

Unfortunately for Poland that war was brought to a close
before ho had an opportunity of engaging the Russians. He
is of one of the first families of Poland, and, what will make
him better known to Englishmen, he is an intimate friend
of the Earl of Harrowby.

No person can read the letter without profi', because the
ardent patriotism and high religious feeling which it
breathes cannot be lost to the thoughtful reader.
To use the simile of Pope in his Prologue to Addison's
Play of " Cato"—
"When Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause F''
I have the honour to be, sir, yours very faithfully,
GEORGE DERINO•
Barham Court, Canterbury, Nov. 7.

Paris, Quai d'Orleans, 6. Nov. 3.

Dear Mr. Dering,—l beg to offer my best thanks for
your perseverance in advocating the cause of justice and
right as regards my country, I have read with great inte-
rest and not without emotion Sour remarks in the Kentish,
Gazeitte, though I could not help wondering that you should
pay to the writers of the Timor the compliment of treating
their assertions in earnest, since they have long made it
their invariable rule not to promote either principles or
fixed opinions, but simply to make themselves the time-
server of whoever appears likely to be a gainer in his daily
pursuits.
A good and thinking man might however offer his warn-
ing to those who read it and shelter their own indifference
to matters of great consequence under its pretended autho-
rity. I wish the latter could all have heard the words
which, in the course of this year in England, a person in a
high situation addressed to me. After alluding to Eng-
land's neglect of duty with regard to Poland and Denmark
she added—" I cannot doubt but we must be severely
punished for it." And when I replied that, while sharing
in the conviction I was far from wishing its realisation, her
answer was—" Well for you not to wish it; but I should
net be true to my love of justice did I not actually wish for
a visitation of Providence upon such con .uct as ours has
been and seems likely further to be."
Such words might perhaps not be lost with the great bulk
of the British people. I, for one, can never reconcile my-
self to the admission that they can remain incurably deaf
to such warning, and not—before it is too late—be roused
to indignation by the selfish and improvident policy of their
stewards in the management of their national honour and
well-understood interests.

But after saying so much, I must hasten to add that, if a
great nation is bound to weigh in the destinies of the world
on the side of justice and right, it is not necessarily by war,
and certainly not by war only, that such a nation can satisfy
her duty to herself and to Providence. Long before any
question of war is implied, in fact leaving war entirely out
of the question, the all-important step for a Government to
perform is, after mature examination, to proclaim what in
its opinion is the right and the wrong of the case, and then
to leave no doubt that it cannot otherwise than side with the
right while throwing unconditional blame on the wrong.
By doing so much, duty is redeemed; the rest may safely
be left to Him who taught us that Heaven shall be given to
those who remain faithful in suffering for the sake of

ustice.

Excuse, dear sir, these remarks, partly elicited by your
Etonian friend's letter, which 1 return,

My best compliments to Mrs Dering.—Yours truly,
L, ZAMOYSILI,

ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—A full dress ball,
in aid of the funds of this institution and the sup-
port of the pensioners now resident in the college, will take
place at St. James's Hall next Wednesday, under the
superintendence of several persons of rank and dis-
tinction in the arts and the drama. There needs no
urgency of ours to call attention to this admirable and
thriving institution, which in so comparatively short a time
has reared homes for several members of the theatrical pro-
fession, and which is carried on with such unceasing energy
by its great promoter and director, Mr Ben. Webster, and
his able and indefatigable assistant, Mr Anson. To those
who may not be induced to attend the ball from purely
philanthropic motives, we may tell them there will be a
champagne supper and a capital band.
THE CHARGE AGAINST FOUR MILITARY OFFT-
czßs.—DrriurN, Tuesday nigh t.—This morning the four
officers of the 78th Highlanders who took part in the dis-
turbance at the Exhibition last night were brought up at
the pol'.ce-court• The Exhibition authorities declined to
prosecute, the cfficers in the meantime having entered into
explanations and apologised, They were discharged.