The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

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ITER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE,
Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK.
THIS EVENING, ng and duri the week, the performances
will commence with YOU K.N OW WHO.
Followed by Gounod's Grand Opera, FAUST. Margarita,
3liss Louisa I'ync ; Faust, Mr. Sims Reeves.
To-morrow (Wednesday) Evening, and Friday, Verdi's
Grand Ok,era, TRA.VIATA. VioleCta, Madame Kenneth;
Lemont,-r. Santley.
Conductor, Signor ARDITI.
Frivate Boxes, from 10s. Id.; Stalls, 7s. ; Dress Circle, 55.;
ru„,t Circle, 45.; Iliner Boxes 3s. ; Gallery, Is.
8.,x Office ( pen from Ten till, Five. No charge tor booking
places, nor tees to box-keepers.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,-
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH FOR GOOD ATURE.
Messrs. G. Eelmore, Fitzjames, G. Wes on ; Misses Helen
II °ward and R. Leclercq, Mrs. Vandenholl; Mrs. C. Melvi:le,

ttc.
After which, Shaksoere's Trage-ly of M %CRETE!. Mr.
Creswick; Messrs Marston, R. Itoxby, G. Belmore, A Rayner,
3. F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, J. Neville, Bartleman,
e
Afieses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and 'Miss Atkinson,
Doors open at ha. f-past Six—Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET,-
Lessee, ,Ir. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, T BE SUN AIN D THE WIND.
After which, THE STRANGER. Messrs. Howe, Chip-
pendale, Farren, Compton, Rogers, Gordon, Braid, &c. ;
Mesdames Beatrice, Keeley, Fitzwilliam, Moore, &c.
Followed ty ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers,
Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c.
And OUR MARY ANNE. hiss H. Lindley, Mr Clarke.
To commence at. 7.

ROYAL LYCEU:.I. THEATRE.
Ender the sole management of Mr. Fechter.
THIS EVENING, THE KING'S BUTTERFLY. Fan-
fan, the King's Butterfly, Mr. I. cchter. Messrs. Rytoret er,Wid-
and,
dicomb, Ch M'ln'tyre, Garden, Raymond, 3l
C ifford, Collett; Misses Carlot a Lezlercq, M. Henradc, E.
:..avenue, and B. Lavenue.
Preceded, at 7, by NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H.
Widdicomb, Garden, Moreland, Collett; Miss Lavenue, uis.

lee.
Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7.
The Box-office open daily from ElLv,n till Five.

KING'S BUTTERFLY.-LYCEUM
THEATRE.—Fanfan, the King's Butterfly, d
for
Mr
iliullTEß,—The most euccessful Drama produce
years.

ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVE ENING
minickM , BORN
ay TO GOOD LUCK. faddy
O'ltalrerty, r. Do urr.
Atter which, THE STREET:3 Nelso
OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. n, 11.
Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynn?.

NEW THEATRERO YAL, ADELPHI.-
Sale PTolDriGtOr and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EI7E:NANG, DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke,
Mr. Stephenson ; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Seaman.
Mr. B.
After which, MASKS AND FACES. Triplet,
Webster ; Peg Woffiagton. Mrs. Stirling (their original cha-
racters) ; Messrs. Bil.ington, It. Phillips, P. Pedford, Stuart,
Eburne, C J. Smith, and Miss H. Simms.
To conclue with THE COLLEEN HAWN. Myles (with
), Mr.d John Collins Messrs. Billingto a, R. Phillips,
songs
Stephenson, Eburne, Mssr, C. J. Smith :ND's. Alfred
Mellon (Miss Woolgar), H. Simms, Mrs. Billing,ton, and
Mrs. H. Lewis.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATREI
Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster.
EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA.
This Popular Theatre is now Open.
THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE
BARONET ABROAD AND THE RUSTIC PRIMA
LONNA Mr. Flank Matthe s I Miss Constance Ro
orden.
After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new and iginal
Comedy Drama, in three acts, by J. Palgrave Simlsson.and 3lenti
tled SY RILL A ; or, STEP BY STE V. Mr rs.
Charles Mathews.
To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy
Farce ot WOOD,OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews.

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Hand IclBasAsicAbeCauSty, tlrlanEsceNndantEhNis!
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in herWo as she has astounded
ed
and enthralled the New, appeargreat
of MAZE I'PA EVERY NIGHT at ASTLEY'S,

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Nlanag.;eress. Mrs. Swanborouzh.
Tins EVENING, WILFUL WARD. Messrs Parselle
and Belford ; Miss Palmer.
Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven,
Stoyle, James ; Mesdamcs Swanbor ugh and Mande s.
To cDnelude with mxzErrA. Mesdames Raynham,
Simpson, rte.

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dreadful moment, were a positive confession of his
guilt. Whether, as Dr. KAPPEL seemed to think,
upheld by the hope of reprieve, or whether from re•
luctance to admit his guilt to his fellow-men,
'MULLER persistently replied to the adjurations
that were addressed to him with declarations of his
innocence. It is true that after a recent visit from
one of the Sheriffs, who found him reading the
Bible, and reminded him that the promises of mercy
were dependent upon repentance and confession,
t' at he remarked that confession to man was use-
less, an observation that seemed to indicate he had
something to tell if he would. But to the moving
appeals of Dr. KArrEL he continued to repeat the
same assertions of innocence, although his kind
visitor told him plainly he believed he had a hand
in the crime, if not the only criminal. Only, at the
last moment, when with the fatal rope round his
neck, and his feet resting on the frail supports
about to be drawn away, were Dr. RAPPEL'S
Efforts successful, and MULLER, shrinking seem-
ingly from facing his Maker with the reiterated lie,
said firmly and plainly, " Yes, I did it." Some
versions say that he added that no other person was
concerned in it, but whether or no, the admission
of his own guilt was the great point, and this was
conclusive and unmistakeable. So much was Dr
RAPPEL overcome by the emotion attending the
scene, and the almost unexpected success of his last
appeal, that he nearly fainted from agitation. And
so ends this dismal story, and those who, from mis-
taken kindness, would have sought to mitigate the
culprit's doom are now finally con vinced of the justice
of his sentence. The conviction of MULLER'S guilt
was almost unanimous, and for the most part those
who denied that he was the only criminal, believed
with Dr. KArrEL that he was concerned in the
murder. His confession was the only thing to be
hoped for to set the point definitively at rest, for,
although the chain of evidence had not a link mis-
sing, still there will always remain some who are
hard to convince, and others who, appalled by the
nature of the punishment, shrink from the respon-
sibility of condemning a possibly innocent man to a
violent and shameful death. No crime of late years
has created the same intense and general excite-
ment. From the first announcement of the murder
to the tragedy of yesterday, all London was moved
by it, Even in quiet byeways and out of the way
suburbs the curiosity and anxiety:to obtain tidings
of the culprit's last moments were intense, and
the ordinary channels of news could not be obtained
fast enough. When it was known that MULLER
had confessed his guilt there was a sensible relief
in the public mind, for however great the moral
conviction, an absolute admission deepens and
strengthens it. So much have we recoiled from
the Draconian theory of a past generation, and eo
deeply has the public mind been impressed with
the tales of innocent victims to a mistaken convic-
tion dying on the scaffold, that judge, jury, and
public would now be far more willing to acquit a
guilty man than to condemn unjustly, though, in
truth, as the Lord Chief Baron very justly observed,
both are great misfortunes in the administration of
national justice. Still we must not hope or rely
on always obtaining such an admission, and justice
would soon stand still if murderers knew that their
silence would ensure their escape from the gallows.
The man who deliberately plans to take the life of
a fellow-creature is not likely to hesitate about tell-
ing a lie, and it would cost him very little to deny
his guilt, and to persist in that denial in spite of
every entreaty. One thing is forcibly shown by
the circumstances attending MULLER'S death and
confession, and that is the injury which is done to
the criminal and the public by the present uncer-
tain action of the law. Dr. KArrEL declared his
convictio❑ that the Lope of life was so strong in
MuLLEP, that he had made up his mind not to con-
fess until the very last moment, and this deter"
mhaation, as we have seen, he fully carried cut.
Reprieves and commutations have become so fre-
quent that the criminals rely upon them, and are
❑aturally reluctant to speck the words that would
for the most part seal their doom. Thus the deters
rent influence, which is the great argument in favour
of capital punishment, is in a great measure lost,
and, when inflicted, the culprit refuses to make that
confession which is the only atonement in his power.
Wise and good men may naturally object to capital
punishment in any shape, but so long as it is the
law of the land, it should be administered with
firmness as well as with mercy. The band of Justice
should not tremble when she uses her sword, however
reluctant she may be to wield it. However forcible the
arguments against the extreme penalty, a civilised
community may well shrink from breaking down
that barrier with which ,men in all ages have
thought it necessary to protect the sacred temple
of life ; and when we reflect on the number and
violence of the temptations which beset the uncon-
trolled passions of men, the love of gain, the thou-
sand frauds, and plots, and intrigues to which our
complicated social machinery gives rise—anger,
jealousy, revenge, and all their attendant motives,
we shall hesitate to remove the warning influence
of a public death. At least not at a time when the
whole tendency of society is too much in favour of
extenuating the crime, when the rigid rules of right
and wrong are too likely to be forgotten in the desire
to apologise or atone for the transgressor, No one
can read of MULLER'S last moments without pro-
found compassion for the man, and a deep sense of
his awful position ; but we must not forget that his
own guilt brought him to that appalling situation.
We must not forget that he hes made a happy home
desolate, has sent a good and honourable man to a
death more violent and more hurried than his own,
and that to the natural regret for the loss of
a friend and relative he has added the terrible
shock of so sudden and so dreadful a catastrophe.
He has gone with his sins to a higher tribunal, and
the one feeling of all Christian men will be a hope
that he may there be found worthy of mercy ; but
in our narrow and shortsighted sphere it behoves
us to remember that the command to respect life
comes from a higher authority than our own, and
while we hesitate about condemning a guilty man,
there is no doubt that the criminal infringes the
laws of heaven as well as of earth, when he
renches on the command, " Thou shalt do no

murder."

The uninitiated in such matters would be sur-
prised if they were to find out all the lets and hind-
rances that are put in the way of the poor, when
struggling to gain their daily bread. It would
seem as if the laws and enactments of this country,
so perfect in many reppects, and so admirably
adapted for the people they appertain to, had a par-
ticular exceplicn in regard to the clauses which
affect destitution. Well might Lord STANLEY say
the otter dsy, that to pauperise a man in England
was to degrade him. It needed not one, of the noble
lord's observation and experience, to detect this
flew in our social system, and this glaring evil that
lurks among our laws and statutes. The case of
Mr. BAUYARD, at Cambridge, is one which is most
extraordinary, and aptly represents the anomalies
that are continually presenting themselves in our
poor-law arrangements. A man named PARKER
had worked for him in his manufactory, and when
he died Mr. BAIIYARD naturally felt an interest in
his family. He met the widow accidentally, and
she then informed him that she was desirous of pro-
; ceeding to Leeds, where she had frie de. To enable

her to do so Mr. BAUYARD gave her a sovereign
to make up the necessary sum for her journey.
From this simple circumstance, however, great con-
fusion arose. The poor woman became chargeable
to the union -at Leeds, and there she related the
generosity of Mr. BAUYARD. As this latter was a
guardian, the authorities at Leeds became vir-
tuously indignant, and prosecuted him for having
infringed the statute which prohibits any one en-
gaged as officer under the Poorelaw Board from
giving or causing to be given any assistance, pecu•
niary or otherwise, to persons, in order that they
may,by that assistance, declare themselves destitute.
In consequence, Mr. BAUYARD incurred the penalty
of a fine. The Cambridge guardians consulted the
Poor-law Board as to the advisability of their carry-
ing the matter to a higher court. Of course the
answer to such a question may be guessed. Ani-
mated with the true spirit of red-tapism, and fired
with the zaal of precedent, the Board returned for
reply that they had no power to interfere in the
decision of the court on the matter at all, but they
were of opinion that " the expenditure of Union
funds for the defence of a guardian charged with
offences against the poor-law was illegal." In con-
sequence of this utterance of the oracle, the Cam-
bridge guardians forbore to press the case, or else
they had intended to carry it to the superior courts.
Can anything be more absurd than such an occur-
rence, and does it not prove in a striking manner
how faulty is the system which is supported by
such aids and preserved by such means? Why
should a ma►n be prevented from exercising his
feelicgs of benevolence because he happens to be
a guardian ? Is it to be understood that it is as if
he was enrolled a member of the Secret Tribunal,
bound to carry out its mandates, and forbidden to
interfere with any other concerns than those which
relates to its immediate province ? Is it necessary
that, to be a worthy guardian and a faithful servant
of the Poor-law Board, he must sink feeling, stifle
conscience, and renounce independence ? It is
strange to note how very successful has been
the crusade waged against penury, indigence,
and want by the votaries of the new regime, and
how effectually they have made the Unions the
subjects of terror to all who are threatened with the
likelihood of being immured therein. No prison is
ever looked upon with such feelings of horror,
loathing, and detestation. To gain bread many
commit crimes to become immured in the one, while
many, on the contrary, starve rather than enter
in or remain in the other. In a Christian
country it seems most strange to class one thus
above abject misery and complete destitution, but
so it is, and the stigma is affixed to our society so
much as to make one ashamed of upholding such a
mockery of justice and profanation of mercy.
Numberless are the instances which accumulate
around us to prove the dread which the poor enter-
tain of the Union, and the approaching inclement
season will multiply them tenfold. It is all very
well for the effluent to descant upon their likes and
dislikes for this or that mode of living or choice of
occupation, but those of whom we speak have pro.
claimed their feelings and made known their senti-
ments on life's worst agonies and death's most
dreary advent. It is indeed in the form of the king
of terrors that the stern messenger seeks out their
shivering frames in their unfurnished rooms, de-
void of food and firs, and amid the many
dreary scenes which every year gives rise to the
ruling motive that seems to actuate the
greater part of these hapless sufferers is
their unconquerable dread of the workhouse.
The other day a coroner's inquest was held on the
bc.dy of a little girl who died in the greatest want,
which aggravated the disease under which she sank,
The jury returned a verdict that her death was oc-
casioned by want of the common necessaries of life.
A similar case was that of a❑ infant literally starved
to death, and the parents observed that the deceased
had been fed by halfpenny worth's of arrowroot that
they procured at any hour of the day or night as
they could get the means to do so. It is the old, old
story still throughout all of these distressing incidents
the poor have an insuperable horror of entering the
poorhouse, and those with families especially dread
it. Surely something is fundamently wrong in a
system whose workings are so faulty and so unsatis-
factory. A man died the other day of destitution,
and those who afforded him some relief deposed that
he would not be persuaded to enter the workhouse,
declaring that nothing should induce him to do so.
Life after life falls a sacrifice, death after death swells
the dreary list of those who carry their dislike te
such establishments to the borders of the grave, and
only leave it on the confines of that other world
which knows no distinction between rich and poor,
but where all are equal, from Divas to LAZARUS.
It seems as if no multiplication of instances can or
will impress those most immediately connected
with the workings of such matters.; but has not
society at large any interest in the fate of these
hapless sufferers, and cannot any philanthropic
persons take up the question with interest and good
will ? The reforms that have taken place in many
social affairs of late years have been worthy and
memorable. The factory women and children are
now released from the pressure of much overwork,
the condition of those who labour at unhealthy
trades has been greatly improved, the arrange•
ments that concern the madhouses and lunatic
asylums, both public and private, are placed upon
a much better footing ; but why should it be consi-
dered that the poor are not to be relieved and tended
in a more pleasing fashion. It is well to enter into
detail, because it is the principle that is wrong, and
it is proved in the practice in such a manner that
if one rose from the dead he could do no more to
persuade us. Perhaps the best way of settling
the question would be to ask, would those who
frame and fashion all these devices for the poor
choose any of such arrangements for themselves,
their families or friends, if He ss ho gives all worldly
goods suddenly deprived them of their possessions
and sent them forth to beg in the wilderness of the
world. It is a scandal to the wealthiest com.
munity that poverty should thus be ground
down under our feet and treated with such con-
tumely and reproach. Its ills are numerous enough
without these mortifying additions, and it is not
upon the principle that actuates the other regula-
tions of our laws that for fear one undeserving per-
son should receive relief the young, the aged, and
the sickly are to starve in our streets and perish
miserably by our roadsides. Such conduct is a
prostitution of the name of charity, and it cannot
be called in accordance with common sense or

simple justice.

The Princess's Theatre.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A paragraph having appeared in Me Sun,
to the effect that a rumour is in circulation that my
tenure of this theatre is about to cease, in conse-
quence of my violation of conditions of the agree-
ment under which I hold the theatre, I beg to
state that no such conditions exist, and that the
report is utterly false and without foundation.
I am happy to say, that in all my business trans-
actions with my landlord,' am on the most friendly
relations; end, believing the report to be as in-
jurious to him as to myself, your courteous insertion
of my flat denial to the rumour will greatly oblige.
I —Your obedient servant,

G. J. VINING

Nov ember 14.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
:ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Evening).
(Via Greencastle.)
The Richmond Sentinel, the organ of the Con-
ederate Government, recommends the arming of the

slaves.
General Hood, with 30,000 men, is reported to
have crossed the Tennessee river, and to be moving
northward. the Confederates have captured the
gunboat Undine on the Tennessee river.
Forrest, Buford, Chalmers, and Bell are concen,
trating their forces. They have 14 cannons besides
the gunboat Undice.
Deserters state that orders had been read to the
Confederate troops to the effect that Hood would
cross the Tennessee at Bridgeport and march north,
ward, whilst Forrest attacked Johnsonville,
Southern papers say that Hood is now probably
in middle Tennessee. They anticipate great results

from his movements.
Beauregird's headquarters are at Gadsen.
The Federal garrison of Atlanta is reported to
number 6,000 men.
Grant's troops are building log houses.
Mr Seward has informed the Mayors of New
York and Buffalo that the State Department had
information from Canada that a conspiracy existed
to fire the principal Northern cities on the Presi-
dential election day. The Mayor of New York in-
formed Mr Seward in reply that he had no fear of
incendiary threats being carried out. He was, how•
ever, prepared for the emergency.
The D.Acnocratic press charge the Administration
with fabricating the report in order to put cities
under martial law.
Considerable excitement prevails at Ogenaburg,
a raid from the Canadian frontier being appre-
hended.
General Butler has arrived at New York, giving
rise to a supposition that he will assume the com-
mand during the elections.
Governor Seymour has issued a proclamation,
appealing to all parties to unite in allaying undue
excitement during the election. The S:ate officers
will me that every man has a free ballot, and no
military organisations will be permitted near the
polls. Military interference will be resisted with
the full brce of the law.
General Dix has issued another proclamation;
stating that no military will be embodied around
the polls. The military will, if called upon, aid the
civil authorities.
Several Democratic electioneering agents have
addressed reports to Governor Seymour, stating
that the Administration and military authorities
put every possible difficulty in the way of their ob•
taining soldiers' votes, and that they give unfair
facilities to the Republican agents.
The privateer Chickamauga, which left Wilming-
ton on the 27th, has burnt the ship Shooting Star
and two barks off C.lpe Delaware. The Tallahassa
has destroyed several vessels off Black Island.

MONTREAL, Nov. 4

The Judges have refused to grant a writ of
Habeas Corpus for the St. Alban raiders, on the
ground that they were still under the magistrates'
jurisdiction, and that no commitment had been yet
made.

reserved for an enormously wealthy and spiritually
handsome country equire turned poetaster,one Roland
Lansdell—a sort of cross between Lara and the
Heir of Redclyffe ! With this difference, however,
that he has no such maddening reasons for remorse as
the former, and certainly no such justifying sense
of religious truth as the latter. Isabel, it must be
nnderstood, however, at once, is neither a bigamist
nor yet an adulteress. Shu la so far true to her un-
congenial spouse, the surgeon of Graybridge I
Bat—with incorrigible naughtiness (there is
evidently no severer term for it in the
novelist's imagination)—she carries on a kind of
a half intellectual, half emotional flirtation with
Roland Lsnsdell, of Meidred, in Midlandshire. IL
comes to nothing,after all—this flirtation,in the way
of a guilty liaison. Isabel falls not complete'y under
the glamour of Roland's fascination. She preserves
(save only in her secret heart) her conjugal purity.
Roland, failing to persuade her to elope
with him from her husband, while dogging
her footsteps, gets murdered by Isabel's re-
turned-convict father. The violent death of
Roland Lansdell, occurring at the close of the book,
just immediately after the death in his bed (from a
fever caught i❑ his professional practice) of George
Gilbert, of whom, by the way, we are really glad
to get rid at the last by any means the novelist might
have cared to contrive for that merest nonentity of
character—one that is from first to last insufferably
dull and tedious. Jeffeon, the gardener, may grieve
for " Master Jarge " if he likes, and as
it befits him ; but, for the life of us,
we can't. The moral of the story seems to be little
short of high treason, on the:part of Miss Braddon,
to her own craft,t hat is,—the craft of theNovelist,the
Romancist, the Fictionist. The lady spoken of in
one of Mr Disraeli's now almost forgotten political
stories as having guano'd her mind with French
novels could hardly have more seriously
imperilled her character than Isabel Sleaford,
afterwards Isabel Gilbert, is here represented
as having done—by her excessive addition as a
reader to our own by no means intrinsically dele-
terious masterpieces of imaginative literature,
world-famous fictions, let us say, like those of
Mr Charles Dickens or of Sir Edward Lytton. Ii
Edith Bombay is mentioned once in "The Doctor's
Wife" as having haunted the memory of Isabel to
a great extent prejudicially—she is mentioned
scores upon scores of times until we become abso-
lutely fatigued by the continually recurring reference
Otherwise than in minor particulars such as these,
the work before us is almost uninterrup'edly en-
tertaining. Upon its successful completion as a
work Miss Braddon is here entitled to—what we
would now venture to offer to her—meaning our
very, earnest and cordial congratulations.

Can you Forgive Her r By Anthony Trollope
No. XI. Chapman and Hall.
Although Phiz's name is retained upon the cover
of this popular serial as its avowed illustrator,
another than Phiz has evidently contributed to the
current instalment its two very clever and inn
geniously pencilled embellishments. " Great Jove"
—one of the two—is especially good, as a glimpse
of a House of Commons Interior, with Great Lye
himself (meaning Lord Palmerston) smiling
complacently as he reclines in an easy attitude,
with his hat pulled down over his eyes, on the
Treasury bench. Before the number closes we learn
without one particle of interest or satisfaction—
that that horrid, worldly minded, selfish, horsey
vulgarian, George Vavasor, has been returned as
M.P. for the metropolitan constituency of the
Chelsea Districts. Hsppily, we count upon his
being either summarily unseated upon the charge of
gross bribery and pot-house corruption, or by the still
more sweeping announcement of a dissolution. Alice
is not yet out of the thralls of her sordid Betrothed.
Let her bat once more extricate herself from them
and we may Forgive Her. Certainly not before
then ! Lady Glencora seems to be still going,
going—though she is not yet gone as the unfaithful
wife of the high and mighty Mr Palliser. Of the
divinely handsome scapegrace Burgo Fitzgerald,
who is wickedly tempting her to an adulterous
elopement, we hear more than once, in these open-
ing chapters of Volume Two, though we see
nothing of him. The situation attained in this de-
velopment of the plot is such that Two heroines,
atd not one, simply, must in the end apparently
claim the reader's forgivenness.

MASKED ROBBERS.—Three yoang men were ap.
prehended on Sunday at Wa.deley, a village near
Sheffield, on the charge of committing a very daring rob-
bery in that neighbourhood. The prisoners are named re-
spectively Hutchinson, Chapman, and Bramhall, and the
circumstances out:of which the charges arose are briefly
these :—On Saturday night while a woman named Bibbs,
who lives at Wadsley, was in the house during the absence
of her husband. a man with his face concealed by a mask
suddenly entered at the open dc. or. He seized her by the
throat, threw her into a chair, and stood menacingly over
her, and two other men, also masked, entered the house and
went up into the bedrooms. Mrs Bibbs, who was dread-
fully alarmed on account of her children, who were in bed,
attempted to get up, but the ruffian drew a clasp-knife and
threatened to murder her if she made the slightest noise.
The affrighted woman asked what the men wanted, and
the fellow replied, " We want your money," and h© then
inquired for her husband's wages. Sho told the men, who
were now together, that ner husband had not drawn any
Rages, and earnestly entreated to be allowed to go upstairs
to her children, but the men refused, and the one who had
the knife said ha would cut her throat if she made any noise.
He appeals were cantinued for some time, and one of the
fellows remarked that if the eldest child awoke it would not
scream twice, as he would cut its head off. This scene con-
tinued minutes, when the men made off with all the money
(a few pounds) there had been in the house, and a large
quantity of wearing apparel, to obtain which they had ran-
sacked all the drawers and boxes. The men compelled Mrs
Bibbs, upon pain of violence, to say that she would not
leave the house for half an hour after they had gone. The
robbery created a great sensation in the village and the ad-
jacent town of Sheffield. They were brought up and re-
manded yesterday.

M. BERRYER SKETCHED BY M. CORVRENIN.•
M. Timon, in his book " Les Orateurs," thus de
scribes the oratory of M. Berryer :—Yes, since Mirabeau
nobody has come up to Berryer—neither Gen. Foy, who
recited rather than improvised, and who did not unite close
reasoning to the powerful voice and the vast eloquence of
Berryer ; nor Leine, who had only harmonious and pathetic
accents ; nor De Serre, who, heavy and embarrassed in his
exordium, only at intervals utteroi the cry of oratorical
passion ; nor Casimir Perier, who was vehement only in
apostrophising; nor Benjamin Constant, whose talent had
more flexibility than movement and energy ; nor Manuel,
whose judgment was sure and bold, but who was more of
a reasoner than an orator, and who never could, like Ber-
' ryer, produce an involuntary thrill of wonder and delight.
Nature has been favourable to Berryer. His stature is not
tall, but his fino and expressive features reflect all the pass
sions of his soul. He fascinates you by his glance and
by, his gesture, marvellously noble, like his language.
He is eloquent in his whole person. He takes
possession of the tribune as if he were its mas-
ter—l should say its despot. But what ho has boyoni
all other speakers in the Chamber is his incomparable
voice—the first, of beauties for actors as for orators. It is
not, however, to his external qualities that he owes his pre-
eminence. He is a master in the art of oratory. The gene-
rality of speakers abandon themselves to the vivacity of
their inspirations; and in their digressions they have now
and then some fine bursts, but they are deficient in method.
We do not always see, and they themselves do not know,
whence they come and whither they go. They halt on the
journey as if to reconnoitre the road. But what makes
Berryer superior to them all is, that from the very begin-
ning of his discourse he marks from an elevated point the
obj :et ho aims at. He does not abruptly attack his adver-
sary—he begins by tracing round him many lines of cir-
cumvallation ; he dislodges him from all his positions; he
deceives him by skilful marches ; he approaches him gra,
dolly ; he follows him up ; he presses him, lays hold of
him, and binds him round and round in the coils of his
arguments. This method is the one employed by great
minds. It would, however, soon weary an auditory so
inattentive as a French Chamber, if M. Berryer did Lot
keep their interest awake by the charm of his voice, the
animation of his gesture, and the nobleness of his diction.
The Hon. Lloyd Kenyon is recovering from his
recent severe illness.
THE HANDEL FESTIVAL is due at the Crystal
Palace in 1865; the date of it, however, is not yet fixed,
HERR JOACHIM will revisit England next
season.
The fafrie asserts that England intends calling
upon the Powers to protest collectively against the capture
of the Florida, and to support the claims of Brazil.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING I)AY, MON.
DAY, Nov. 14.—Admissions on payment, 676 ; ditto by
season tickets, 868 ; total visitors, 1,544.
About £24,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday, but 80,000 soveroirs were withdrawn
for Alexandria,