The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-14 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE,

Messrs. Shepherd and Jars Anderson on Satnr
day commenced their winter campaign with great
success ; and, fron-i the strict manner in which Mr.
Shepherd redeems all his managerial promises, a
brilliant season seems certain. The house was
crowded in every part, and each old favourite as
he made his entry on the stage.received at once a
warm and hearty welcome. The great performance
of the evening was the first representation of a
grand romantic melodrama; entitled "The Scottish
Chief; or, the Maid of Etlerslie," Of course the
principal part, Sir William Wallace, fell to the lot
of Mr. James Anderson; and, if the applause of a
first night can be taken as a criterion, Mr
Shepherd will have no cause to regret
the co-partnership he has entered into. Ali,;
Pauncefort acted the heroine (Helen Marr) C
the intense delight of the audience, and without
etopping to particularise the efforts of each artiste
engaged in the play, we can truthfully say they
acquitted themselves in a most satisfactory manner.
The piece has been mounted with all that care and
minuteness that of late has been such a distin-
guished feature in the management of the Surrey,
and in no former instance have Messrs. C. Brew and
J. Johnson, the scenic artists,shown more brilliantly
their proficiency in stage illusion. Planche's
pretty little piece, " The Loan of a Lover," in which
Mr. Therne, Miss Esther Jacobs, and Miss E.
Webster took part, brought the evening's enter•
tainments to a pleasant conclusion. A new serio-
comic drama is, we perceive, underlined for Satur-
day next, in which Mr. Shepherd will sustain the
leading part.

RIVER STEAMERS,—A correspondent of the City
Press writes :—Of late years considerable improve-
merits have been made in all kinds of public conveyances
save one. Railway carriages have been rendered more
comfortable, but still there is room for further improvement
in that respect ; omnibuses have undergone considerable
reform ; and as the London General Omnibus Con:pany
are now paying a five per cent. dividend, and hope to have
a larger dividend in future, perhaps we shall get even more
commodious vehicles than now, with civil conductors, and
drivers who will not go on until a passenger has had time
to get off the step ; the new cab company have turned out
some decent vehicles and Jehus to match ; all our means of
locomolion have improved to :some extent, save, as I said,
one—the river steam h.)ats. They remain as inconvenient
and uncomfortable as ever, 'rake a trip up the river in
one. If you remain on deck, you sit on an uncomfortable
and betwixt your knees and those of your vis-ci•vis
the space is so small that you are nearly dragged off your
seat where anyone pasts by ; you are half roasted by the
heat from the boiler, or half starved by the sickening va-
pours; and if you hare the good fortune to escape these
contingencies, you stand a good chance of getting your leg
broken or your foot crushed by the gangways or the ropes
when you get off the boat. if you go below you find a
cabin with bare boards and bare seats, dirty little windows
which you cannot see out of, but by which the Thames
water can enter freely, to your great discomfiture, and the
whole place has a close, suffocating smell about it. Some

time ago there appeared a prospect of these grievances being
put an end to. A company was to supply uc with roomy
steam boats after the American plan, propelled by quick
engines, tended by civil servants, and quick in their
journeys. Whether the proposed company ever came to
anything, or whether it was wound up, or what becamo of
it, I cannot say, but of this I feel convinced, that an exc:d-
lent field for the investment of capital is here presented,
and the wonder is that monied men have n(4 taken advan-
tage of it,

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER:

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Arthur Schopenhauer was born at DanfzTe,
February 22d, 1788. To his father, a wealthy
merchant of great practical ability and force of
character, it was his habit to trace the development
of his own marked ethical temperament, as to the
influence of his mother he was led by his theory of
mental organisation to attribute the germ of his
no less striking faculties of intellect. Johanna
Schopenhauer, distinguished for her voluminous
romances, her social genius, her somewhat wild,
not to say Bohemian ideas of life, and powers of
imagination and wit which made a slave of Goethe,
could hardly fail to stamp the mind of her son with
some impress of her peculiar idiosyncrasy. The
atmosphere in which he was reared fostered this
❑ative influence. Precocious in talent, he was early
thrown among a social circle of which the leading
lights were such as the Schlegels. Klopstock, Rei-
marus, the Staiils, Goethe, and Wieland, Puckler
Maskau, and, at one especial period, Nelson and
Lady Hamilton. Expelled by the outbreak of the
French Revolution from their own city, the family
started upon a round of travel through Belgium,
Switzerland, France, and Great Britain—an advan-
tage which a youth of such quickness and obser-
vation did not fail to turn to account in the acqui-
sition of modern languages, a lively horror of
popular insurrections, and an intense love of English
habits and institutions. His father, himself some-
what of an original, recommended to him at this
early period the habitual reading of the Times
newspaper, as the most faithful and living picture
of society and the world at large. And to this
practice he adhered to the day of his death, having
the paper transmitted to him punctually wherever
he was. At Gottingen he studied side by side
with Bunsen, under the direction of G. E. Schultze,
chiefly in the direction of Plato and Kant. Medi-
cine formed also one of his pursuits. His life was
from the first one of solitude and reserve. In 1811
he repaired to Berlin for the teaching of Fichte, to
which, however, he shortly became inveterately
opposed. The example of his mother ruining her
children by dissipation, added to the rather prosaic
scandals of her connexion with Goethe, is said to
have contributed to that cynicism which he ever
felt, or affected to feel for women. We bear of
him, notwithstanding, enjoying life, both at Venice
and Dresden, after a truly Byronian model-1n
Italia mille e tre. The great work of his life, "Die
Welt els Wille and Vorstelinng," was first pub-
lished at Leipzig in 1819. It is strangely in keep-
ing with the cold and cynic element of his character
that on the eve of its appearance he started on a
tour to Rome and Naples, where he passed above
a year, heedless apparently of the fortune of a book
which contained his whole original system of meta-
physics. After a short term of profess :rship at
Berlin, he resumed his travels in Italy till the year
1825. Flying in 1831 from the cholera, which
carried off Hegel at Berlin, he finally established
himself at Frankfort, in company with a female
servant and a shock-dog, its comfortable apartments
on the quay of behone-Aussicht. His life was that
of a classic sage, regulated by maxims of prudence,
comfort, and supreme self-regard, to which end his
means and resources were husbanded with parsimo-
nious care. Without pretending to stoical absti-
nence from the good things of life, his rule was that
of Seneca and M. Aurelius—nafuranz sequz. His
confident expectation was, by this reginze of healthy
physical activity, to live to a hundred years, but
death surprised him, in the form of a pulmonary
attack, at the immature age of 72. With those who
disliked him—and they were many —Schopenhauer
passed for a morose, selfish, and crusty old bachelor,
a fanatic in his opinions, and dictatorial in laying
down his crotchets. To the few who admired him
and penetrated his reserve, he seemed a creative
and inspired genius, to whose serene, unruffled in-
tellect truth had revealed herself in the final posi-
tive forms of philosophy, science, and art. Amongst
these, M. Foucher do Careil was admitted to an ex-
ceptional degree of intimacy, and has drawn for us
a friendly yet discriminating portrait of the sage.
For the men and books of his country he cherished
an equal contempt. English, and, above all French,
authors attracted his sympathies and filled his lib-
rary. Next to Kant, he used to aver, Helvetius
an Cabanis marked epochs in his life. It ibelais,
rattily read in Germany, was another of his favou-
rite... Ho almost blushed to be a German, taunting
his metaphysical countrymen with looking into the
clouds for what they had always under their feet.
" The word ' idea," he would say, "so clear and
precise to a French or English understanding, sets
a German off in a balloon/ His conversation
struck M. de Cariel at their first meeting at a table
d'hote at Frankfort. He was then in the last year
of his life, an old man, with a clear blue eye, thin
sarcastic lips, an immense forehead fringed with
long white tufts on either temple, and an expression
of mingled nobility and malice. His laced frill and
white cravat recalled the image of an elderly gen-
tleman of the time of Louis XV. Like most men
who are constituzionally shy and reserved, he was
most at home, next to a few intimates, in the society
of utter strangers. A brilliant talker, jealous of
contradiction, quick and petulant in tone and ges-
ture, of rich and unerring memory, and measured
while easy precision of phrase, he exhibited much
of the conversational cleverness, as he anticipated
many of the special opinions, of the late Mr. Buckle,
His was the same vast erudition, the bookish know-
ledge, at the same time devoid of pedantry, which
characterised Montaigne. A lover of order and
clearness, ebseurantisnz was with him the unpar-
donable sin. His philosophy, like that of Socrates,
formed one with his life, and his special demon was
humour, that modern analogue of the Socratic
irony. His method of analysis and observation was
the same. At the base of the metaphysical and
moral system of Schopenhauer lay the peculiar idea
of Will. This, he would boast, was his great dis-
covery.—Saturday Review.

Stonewall Jackson's Personal Appearance.

This redoubtable chieftain was no less a subject
of interest to his enemies than to his friends. In
eery Federal account is apparent the intense
anxiety his presence and movements created.
During the battles a Federal captain, who had been
taken prisoner, was reclining under a tree, when
General Lee and staff rode by. The captain,
struck with the dignified and soldierly appearance
of the General, languidly inquired who he was,
and expressed unfeigned admiration at his fine
figure on horseback. Soon after General Jackson
rode by, and the weary prisoner again proffered
his inquiries. " That's glorious Old Stonewall !'
exclaimed the guard, cheering lustily as his eve
followed the hero. Up sprung the recumbent
prisoner, and, gazing curiously until the General
was out of sight, lay down again, with an expres-
sion of disappointment, muttering, " Well, he ain't
much for looks anyhow !" The awkward figure of
Jackson upon horseback has been the subject of
frequent merriment. He usually rode in a loose,
shambling attitude, and was very indifferent about
his dress and appearance. On one occasion he
approached a squad of soldiers at dusk, his horse
floundering along the mire, and himself reeling in
the saddle, like a drunken man; so that one of the
soldiers, not recognising him, shouted, as he passed,
" I say, old fellow, you look as if you knew where
to help yourself to liquor; 1 wish you would hand
me some." . . . On first ,jJining the army of
the ShenaiAoah, the horse General Jackson rode
was said to be very characteriitic of himself, "
plain beast that went straight ahead and minded its
own business, an excellent quadruped, that was
shot under him ; after which un elegant mare was
presented to the General. This was a nigh-strung,
visionary animal, who cut capers, and threw her
rider, and was soon discarded foe a third, a more
controllable creattree, 13ut the General never ceased
to regret the logs of his first steed.—" The Hero's
Life," just published by Chapman and Rail.

THE SOUND OF TnuNDER, is caused by the sepa-
ration of the atmosphere by the electric fluid, and
the excessive rapidity of the separation• force counteracts
what would otherwise be the neutralising effect of the air's
elasticity. Similarly, the smack of a whip is not effected
by the coming together of the atmosphere, but by its rapid
separation, inasmuch as otherwise a less quick stroke or
the wave of the Land would occasion a considerable sound.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept 12.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this
morning.

Her Majesty held a Council this afternoon, which
was attended by Earl Granville, the Duke of New-
castle, Viscount Palmerston, and ►he Right Hon.
Sir George Grey.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur•
ther prorogued from the 14th of October next.

Mr. Arthur Helps attended as Clerk of the
Council.

The Hon. H. Elliot was presented to her
Majesty at an audience.
Sir Andrew Buchanan had an audience of her
Majesty.

Earl Granville and Viscount Palmerston had
audiences of the Queen.

SUNDAY.

The Qaeen, their Royal Highnesses. Prince
Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and
Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service
this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. J.
Ellison preached the sermon.
Count Gleichen visited the Queen.

Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George
Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Andrew Buchanan, and
Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, left the Paddington.
terminus by a special train on the Great Western Railway
at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon to attend
the Queen at Windsor Castle. Ihe Ministers left Windsor
by a special train at 4 o'clock on their return to town.

This evening, at 6 o'clock, the Queen and Royal
Family will leave Windsor, and proc2ed by the usual route
to Balmoral, whence the return of the Court to Windsor is
fixed for the Bth of October.

On Thursday afternoon, soon after the arrival of
her Majesty at Windsor Castle, the Queen and royal children
visited Herne's Oak, which had not been removed. Since
the downfall of this venerable relic it has Leen religiously
guarded by keepers until her Majesty's pleasure should be
known as to its ultimate destination. During the late storm.
which peered over Windsor another fine old oak was struck
down by the lightning.—Court Journal.

On Friday her Majesty visited the Mausoleum
at Frogruore, and expressed her k atis fa c lion at the progr(!..,:s
of the works.

The Prince and Princess of Wales will shortly
return frorr`•• Scotland to Sandringham Hall, his Royal
Highness's seat in Norfolk.

King Victcr Emmanuel is now hunting the
gaz,qle in the Valdieri.

The King of the Belgians will go to Austria in
the month of November, and will pass the winter in a villa
near Venice.

The Royal Family of Orleans are at present
dispersed in all directions. Prince de Joinville is in Swit-
zerland, and the Duc do Chartres in Mecklenburg, where
he and his bride are on a visit to the Grand Duke. The
Comte de Paris is at Tunbridge Wells, with the venerable
Queen Amelie, and the Duke de Nemours has gone to join
his family in Spain.

The Pope has just presented to the Museum of
the Capitole, the colossal statue of the Empress Faustina,
from the time of the Antonines, recently found at the villa
Massino, which has been acquired by the new railway com-
pany. This is the statue which is of such extreme elegance
and beauty, and which has, besides that, preserved all the
gilding and colouring, It has now been placed in the
Gladiator-room.
His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman is announced
to lecture at the Hartley Institution, on the 16th instant, at
Southampton.
As if alarmed by Sir Wm. Armstrong's recent
threat as to the exhaustion of England's coal supply, the
Duke of Sutherland is engaged in experimenting near the
river Skiach in searches for albertite, a substance resem-
bling coal.
The magnificent memorial window in honour of
his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, in St. Mary's
Church, Nottingham, was completed on Saturday last.
PROBABILITIES OF ANOTHER JAPANESE WAR !
It is rumoured, and we believe with truth, that the
state of affairs in Japan has determined the Government to
increase the force in China by ono regiment, which will be
available for the protection of British subjects in the
.domi-
aloes of the Tycoon. The 31st Regiment was sent home
inconsiderately, just at the moment they were wanted for
this purpose, through a not very enlightened observance of
the letter of his instructions from home by General Brown.
The 31st, we believe, will now be replaced by one of the
battalions that lately sailed for India. Whichever of them
can be first made available will be sent on to China instead
of landing in India. Either the 2d battalion of the 20th or
the 21st would have this duty allotted to it, as the 2d bat-
talion 19th and the 36th sailed long after, and the 2d bat-
talion 25th were to laud at Ceylon to enable the 50th to go
on to New Zealand. Between the change thus rendered
necessary, and the diversion of the 50th from Madras, the
Indian establishment will be left two battalions short of its
proper proportions. Our new system of Indian reliefs ren-
ders any reduction of this kind undesirable, and accordingly
two regiments from England will, in all likelihood, be at
once sent out. The two first on the roster are the 55th, at
Portsmouth, and the 76th, at Aidershott ; and most pro-
bably these two corps w ill be placed under orders for
Madras within a few days from the present time,--Arnly
and Nary Gazette.
AN INVITING OLD LANDLADY.—“ 6 Whu wants
me ? A stranger, I answered, wanting lodgings.
Rea, mon I whu are ye ? let's hae a look at ye Well,
was my reply, a man at present somewhat lonely in the
world, wanting a home, and a kind old mother who will be
very good to me, and accept a little kindness in return:
dare you take me in ? Hech, mon alive I I'm ber just a
puir lonely old body mysen, and know what it is both to
went kindness and gie it : dun ye stay out of neets, and
come home drunk ?' Oh, no I there's not much danger of
that, for I'm there or thereabout a teetotaller : what are
your terms ? Six shillings a week, and find yersen, and
they're two o'th' nicest rooms i' aw Derbyshire ; and aw've
got some o'th' nicest pictures in em, and the best collection
o' minerals yo'n ever seen; an aw'n got the front door
made up to keep awth' beggars and riff-rag out; an th'
finest rose-tree up th' house end y'n ever seen; a good
garden an' the best milk free th' nicest cow i' aw'th neigh.
bourhood.' "—Spencer sail's Days in _Derbyshire.
" JOHNNY WHO UPSET THE COACH !"—We re-
gret to state that on Wednesday evening, as Earl
Russell was passing through Coupar-Angus on his way to
Meiltlec.ur Rouse from Dundee, where he had been taking
a prominent part in the formal opening of the Baxter Park,
au accident occurred which might have been attended with
serious consequences. As the noble earl's carriage, contain.
ing himself, the countess, Lady Victoria Russell, and Lord
Amberley, was passing the Cross at Coupar-Angus, about
nine o'clock, one of the wheel horses stepped on the cause-
way and came down heavily, breading the pole and startling
the other horses. This produced considerable fear and com-
motion both among the distinguished occupants in thecar-
ria;e,w andd
speedilyalso among
collected,
we
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adopted to raise tho fallen horse and to secure hen
tly
atcnc.ient.
e safety of
the noble earl and family. M ir. Chisholm, etter-carrier,
eh:ei,tifsr:d w tet h
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at once threw open the carriage door and got the occupants
out, who immediately made anxious inquiries as to the
tp Aims Inn (Mr.
ex-
tent of the damage done to the carriage and horses, and espe-
cially as to the safety
nof u
the postilion.
to he Perth
The noble earl and
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family were then co
Penny's) by Mr. Gardener, inspector of poor, where every
d the
attention was shown to them, Another pole having been
obtained for the carriage, two horses were attached, when
the distinguished party proceeded on their journey, after
hating expressed their thanks for the kindness shown them
by the
people. As they drove off they were loudly cheered
by
the crowd. The detection lasted about au hour. We are
happy to be able to state that the noble earl and his family
sustained no bodily injuries, though from the nature of the
accident they must have felt considerably alarmed. The
postilion, who appears to have been slightly hurt, was able
after a little time to resume his duty.—Dundee .zidver-
trscr.

More than 12,000,000 cockchafers have been
destroyed this year in the canton of Bale, in Switzerland.
The amount paid by the authorities as premiums tor their
destruction has exceeded 1,0001.
DR. HOOK ON " BAD COPy."—The chairman of
the Slaugham harvest home dinner on Friday said
the dean had preached a magnificent sermon to them, and
he (the chaitman) was very sorry he was not now pr.esent,
but he was compelled to leave a short time ago in order to
catch an early train. Before the dean went ho asked him
whether, if they wished it, he would pint the sermon.
The answer the dean made was that he should not say

" No," but should leave it to them, upon which he (the
chairmen) at once said Yts." He told the dean he thought
they could sell 100, and he believed they would print it.
With respect to the copy of the sermon he offered to the

(lean to get it written out plain for the printers. The dean

made answer and said that would never do, he would write

it out badly himself. Upon his asking the dean why, ho

_ .
explained that if the copy was plain, it would he put into

the hands of the worst compositors, whereas it it was

written badly tho best, hands wculd get it, and the work
would be better done, (Laughter,)—,East ,Sussex Arows.