The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1863

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1863.

Mr. ROEBUCK has consented to withdraw his

proposition ! The momentous question is postponed
sine die. At the eleventh hour, at the critical mo-
ment of the encounter, the once determined assail-
ant holds his hand,
"And back recoils he knows not why,
Scared at the sound himself has made."

We must confess that we are disappointed in Mr.
ROEBUCK. It was not in this pusillanimous, vascil-
lating spirit that he orginated and perseveringly
carried out the famous Crimean investigation. No
cause should be undertaken unless we are persuaded
of its justice. But if, so persuaded, we have once
" put our hand to the plough,', nothing should in-
duce us to turn from our enterprise—nothing but a
conviction that we were mistaken, and that we have
embraced an unworthy cause. Such a conviction
can justify and even ennoble a change of opinion,
as was remarkably evidenced in the career of Sir
ROBERT PEEL; but we have no reason to suppose
that Mr. ROEBUCK is shaken in his belief as to the
justice of the cause he had so gallantly espoused.
He is in his heart as convinced of the rights of
Southern Independence as he was some three days
back. Why then does he shrink from the self-
imposed responsibility of advocating those rights
at the very moment of trial ? He draws back in
consideration of the PREMIER'S assurance that the
motion proposed would " interfere with the good
government of the country." On that assurance,
Mr. ROEBUCK withdraws, after having raised the
hopes of the lovers of Peace and the advocates of
Southern Independence, and Lord PALMERSTON
assumes the responsibility of the situation. What
his course will be, may be very easily imagined.
Following that very safe and prudent counsel which
assures us that— _ _

" Success is virtue and misfortune shame,"
our Government will reserve their decision. They
will wait yet awhile until new telegrams again and
again announce new victories to the South, and at
last they will come forward with their tardy and
then valueless recognition of an Independence that
will then stand in need of no acknowledgment.
That such will be the case ultimately we do not
doubt. The instinct of the People, which is generally
far in advance of the actions of the Government, has
already long since aroused the popular sympathies.
Those sympathies found, as they have often found
before, a worthy exponent in Mr. ROEBUCK, but
he has abandoned his cause and neglected his op-
portunity. Lord PALMERSTON, of course, com-
mends him for so doing; but, while approving that
portion of the hon. member's conduct, the noble
Premier took occasion to administer to him a very
severe and well-deserved rebuke for his recent diplo-
maticinterference. "I hope," said LordPALm ERSTON,
and the cheers of the House ratified his assertion" that
this will be the last time when any member of this
House will think it to be his duty to communicate
to the British House of Commons that which may
have passed between himself and the Sovereign of
a foreign country." " The British Parliament,',
added the noble lord, " is accustomed to receive mes-
sages from the SOVEREIGN of the United Kingdom
but we are in no relation to, we have no intercourse
with, no official knowledge of, any Sovereign o
any foreign country." The advisability of such a
rule is sufficiently obvious, and it might have been
supposed that Mr. ROEBUCK would have been the
very last person likely to infringe it. But as " some
failingsleau to virtue's side," so do some virtues lead
their possessor into error. Thus it is with the
learned but impetuous member for Sheffield—
" Prone to the rash, revolting from the mean."
his gallantry occasionally places him in a dilemma.
Proud of his position as a Tribune of the Peeple, 1. e
allows himself to appear in Peliament as the envoy
of a foreign Sovereign i The resolute advocate of
the recognition of the South, an untimely prudence
arrests him in his career, and carries disappoint-
ment to all who had relied upon him. As Lord
PALMERSTON admitted with regard to Mr. ROE-
BUCK, we are persuaded that he "acted with the
very best intentions," but these intentions have
proved singularly fallacious in their result.

The correspondence between the King of PRUSSIA
and his son, which has been recently published, is
of a significant character. If all that is reported
be true, this will not be the last altercation of the
luxd, either verbal or epistolary. The first cora-

munication reported is one from the CROWN PRINCE,
which was forwarded at the end of May. In this
his Royal Highness alludes to what the KING had
observed on the subject of the aspect of affairs.
" You told me," said the PRINCE, "that I was more
liberal than you.'' This is manifestly true, for
recent occurrences have testified to the validity of
the statement. Then follows some very plain truths,
deferentially put, but not the less telling. The
PRINCE says that while he makes no opposition, he
yet must tell the truth. He conjures his father not
to attack the laws, and warns him of the insidious
designs and dangerous machinations of the func-
tionaries. " With their art of interpreting the laws
they know how to represent the legality and neces-
sity of their measures in such a sense that they lead
the Sovereign step by step into a very different path
from that which he had proposed to himself to fol-
low." Had the KING taken t his advice at the time,
what mischief might have been avoided and what
trouble spared. If the PRINCE wrote such
words, he has, indeed, proved himself a true pro-
phet, and there is no doubt that the same
verification will attend his later predictions. The
KING, in answer, declares that his son has not
been circumspect eiviugh, and has made speeches of
an opposition character, and intimates that an
opportunity is offered to him to repair the mis-
chief that he has done by declaring energetically
in an opposite sense, by coolness towards the men
of progress, and by extolling the doctrine of the
Conservatives. The PRINCE protests against the
decree of the Ist of June, in a letter addressed to
M. BISMARK. He declares that he " considers

the restrictive measures against the press as
illegal, and prejudicial to the state of the Royal
house." He furthermore adds that they were taken
without his knowledge, against his will, and he
protests against them. The next day he writes to
the KING, declaring against the decree, and repre-
senting that the spirit of the constitutiou had been
violated by not submitting it to the Diet. The
KING had stated in his previous letter that it was
to be. On the sth the PRINCE made the celebrated
speech at Dantzic. This called forth a letter from the
KING, in which he " energetically disapproved" of
the address. In case the report was incorrect, the
KING demanded a contradiction in the journals, and
required the PRINCE to pledge himself to avoid such
declarations for the future. The PRINCE replied that
his words were not " thoughtlessly uttered. His
conscience had imposed on him for some time
past the necessity of adhering to the doctrine whose
truth he felt more and more each day. The wish to
avoid contradiction had kept him silent hitherto ;
but now the Ministry, without consulting him, had
compromised his future and that of his children.
He would retract nothing, but keep silence. As
for his position in the army and Ministry, he was
willing to give it up, and only desired to reside
where he might bo a stranger to politics. The
KING'S reply was moderate ; he said that he wished
the PRINCE to express his opinion to no one but him-
self, and towards everyone else to maintain a strict
silence. M. BISMARICS reply was not of great
purport. He said—" It depends upon your Royal
Highness to lighten or to render more difficult our
great task." The last sentence, in which he states
that he also has a conscience, is rather astonishing,
as no very visible proofs of its existence have been
apparent of late months. These reports of the cor-
respondence may not be altogether strictly correct,
but it is most probable that they are so in substance ;
and, at all events, they faithfully represent the
spirit by which the various parties are actuated,
even if the details are not strictly accurate. The
speech of the CROWN PRINCE at Dantzic is an un-
disputed fact, and, of course, it is well
known that its utterance must have pro-
voked the KING, and incensed his Ministers

to no common degree. Some communication is
sure to have been addressed to the PRINCE, and
some forcible representations made to him. He
would have 'answered these letters, and after mak-
ing a public profession of his faith in the legitimate
rights of the state and his belief in the efficacy of
the freedom of the press, he could not abjure those
opinions in private. So far then there is every
ground for giving credence to these reports, and
granting their authenticity, it is a matter for re-
joicing that the heir to the throne of Prussia should
so comport himeelf at a critical juncture like the
present. It would be impossible to conceive a more
difficult position than that in which he is placed,
or to imagine a more delicate task than the one in
which he is engaged, to reconcile opposing interests,
to attend to conflicting claims, and so to adjust his
course, as, on the one hand, to give due respect to
his father, and on the other not to compromise the
coarse he so honestly believes in and conscientiously
advocates. This is, indeed, an awkward dilemma,
but the PRINCE appears to have steered clear of
any great coliision, and to have avoided any contre-
temps that would have been peculiarly unpleasant.
So much decision and reticence speaks
well for his after career. In his place
many would have yielded to the temptations
that surrounded them, and allowed things to take
their course, shrinking from the responsibility, and
disclaiming all idea of personal interference if
suggested to them. Again, some would have
gloried in the notoriety of standing isolated, of
abandoning their position, and coming forward in
a reckless spirit of defiance to confront the KING
and oppose the Ministers, whose counsels so n_ili-
teed against the best interests of the country. The
PRINCE has done neither, but chosen and kept the
difficult medium course which so few contrive to
maintain successfully, but which in the doubtful
ways of life has often been trodden with so much
success. The CROWN PRINCE is not called upon to
make a decided stand, because ha is not invested
approves
with direct responsibility, at the same time he is
called upon to let the nation kencohwaasnigfehs he
done that pr
entirely
p hiveoes
or disapproves of the sTtahritalinh g h
recently been made.
and emphatically, and hence he merits the respect
of all who appreciate candour and admire self-
command. In the complicated affairs in which
hereafter he will be called upon to take a prominent
part, there is every reason to expect that he will
acquit himself to the satisfaction of the country
and the benefit of the community, while he adds
lustre to his own reputation.

We are not likely soon to find a limit to the
versatile capacities of steam. We have already
seen the greater part of DARWIN'S famous prophecy
amply fulfilled, and though " the realms of air" are
still left in undisputed possession of the man of
science and the professional aeronaut, there is no
saying what use another generation may put them
to. The advantages which We derive from the
application of steam power to machinery are, how-
''
ever, as great as those conferred on nal:lli:f'
ae
assist-
ance in locomotion, and the mills and, l:1
of our large commercial towns offer as striking a
contrast to those of a hundred years since as an
express train does to the pack horses of the middle
ages.

The powers of this wonderful agent have now,
however, found a new field in which they are likely
to be no less beneficial, though in a less conspicuous
form. It is a sphere where we shou d hardly have
expected to find even our übiquitous friend. The
eager traveller, the busy manufacturer, might well
be ready to hail its assistance with eagerness and

delight; but who would have expected that the
great motive power of trade and manufacture would
be found offering its services to the time-honoured
but rival profession of agriculture. Yet so it is, and
the farmer, proverbially cautious and careful, slow to
follow new schemes and suspicious of modern in • no-
vations is likely in future to be as
anxious
the steam up" as any of his more
ambititoo "getusand
society offered a prize for an
energetic fellows. Some years ago an agricultural
implement worked by
steam, which should turn up and till the land, and
prepare it for the reception of seed. The idea, as
might be supposed, was ridiculed in many quarters,
but there is no room for laughter now, for it has
been amply demonstrated that a 10-horse steam
engine can do the work of cultivation better and
cheaper than it can be done by horses; and this,
too, in hard clay land, where the task of ploughing
is both laborious and unsatisfactory. An interest-
ing letter from the Right Hon. E. DENISON to
General PEEL gives an account of his experience in
steam farming. It is curious and amusing to fin::
the grave President of the Lower House coming
forward as an authority on such points. He speaks,
however, from personal experience, and therefore
commands attention. He says that he had long
been watching with interest the application of
steam to the purposes of agriculture, but it was not
antil the spring of this year that he made any ex-
periment with it. At that time a fine farm of 600
or 700 acres of clay land was left in a bad state by
a careless tenant, and he resolved to try the aid of
steam in reducing it to order. He procured a
10-horse steam engine, and worked it dur-
ing the month of May last. " When the
iand was baked as hard as a brick, and
when no implement, moved by horses, could make

any impression, my ten-horse power steam engine
began its work, smashing and breaking up the land
in a manner which was suite surprising." The
neighbouring farmers who came to look on at once
perceived the great advantages of the system, and
many of them declared they would gladly pay £1
or £1 10e. per acre to have avy clay land so
broken up. The first outlay on the machinery,
says Mr. DENISON, is £500; the cost of working,
when the ground is very hard, is 6d. per acre the
first time, and 3d. the second. The exact daily ex-
penses were Ll ls. 4d.; and Mr. DENISON justly
observes that the question is well worth the consi-
deration of farmers, especially those who have
strong clay lands to work upon. He suggests that
the heavy preliminary expenses might be met by
the combination of several neighbours, or by an
arrangement with some persons who would make it
their business to let out the machinery on hire,
charging so much per acre for the work. We have
little doubt that when once our large farmers have
fully realised the advantages of steam cultivation
they will find some means to avail themselves of
them, and that steam, which, as Mr. DENISON says,
" has brought Edinburgh within ten hours of Lon-
don, and America within ten days of England,''
will perform no less valuable, though humbler,
services in the cause of that old-fashioned tilling of
the soil to which, after all, we are all indebted
for bread.

Very general regret will be felt at the total de-
struction of a graceful and popular building. The
gay and brilliant Bazaar in Langham-place, so long
a favourite resort for fashionable idlers willing to
spend time and money alike at its fascinating stalls,
is now transformed into a heap of blackened ruins,
surrounded by a few tottering walls, The loss is
something greater than mere stocks of fancy goods,
many valuable paintings having unfortunately been
in one portion of the Bazaar, among them a famous
Titian. The large and valuable collection of a well-
known naturalist, Mr. WHITAKER, has also been
almost entirely destroyed, the poor little birds who
had been brought from all parts of the globe being
found dead in their cages. Mr. WHITAKER'S de-
partment was just by the entrance in Langham-
place, and consequently was entered before the
flames had reached, but the work of destruction was
unfortunately done by the smoke. A beautiful
cockatoo of great value, left in Mr. WHITAKER'S
charge, was among the victims, and his own collec-
tion of birds, insects, &c., are roughly estimated at
£6OO. A fortunate exception to the devastation
was the escape of the lizards, who, with singular
sagacity, crept under the hay in their cages as the
smoke came in, and thus escaped unhurt. One of
the most painful features in the case is the number
of honest and industrious persons that will be thrown
out of employment by the catastrophe. Forty or
fifty young females presided over the stalls, and
many of these rented the stalls themselves, having
stocked them with the proceeds of their own in-
dustry. All their little property is thus suddenly
swept away, and the promising investment has
proved an utter failure. This is surely a case to
call for some help from the public, and we cannot
doubt that those who have often lingered at the
pleasant counters, and purchased elegant trifles
from these poor stall keepers, will willingly contri-
bute to their assistance in this sudden and lament-
able catastrophe.

IMPROBABLE !—A rumour is afloat to the effect
that an interview has been managed between Napoleon 111.
and Garibaldi, who has been ordered to Mail, the great
waters for rheumatism and neuralgia, and that already
several messages had been conveyed to and fro between the
great hero and the hero-factor before the departure of fiar
latter from Fontainebleau.

LIEUT.-COLONEL HENDERSON, late Controller-
General of the Convict Department of Western Australia,
and now recently appointed Chief of the Convict Depart-
ment here in England, is said to be the officer Sir Joshua
Jebb always hoped for as his successor. This selection,
therefore, must be a source of gratification to Sir Joshua's
family, as it seems to mark Government's appreciation of
their lamented relative's judgment and opinion in so im-
portant a matter as the appointment of his successor.

Mlle. Boucourt, a charitable lady well known at
Saint-Quentin, and who has just died in that town,
has bequeathed a capital of 17,000 f. and the income arising
from an inscription of 450 f. rente, to assist in the construc-
tion and repairs of a church in the Faubourg d'lsle; to the
civil hospitals a sum of 20,000 f. for the foundation of two
beds for incurable patients ; to the establishment of the
Petites-Sceurs-des Fauvres, 15,000 f,; and 5,000 f. among
other institutions.

A " FAIR" PUN.—I remember (says Lord Eldon)

I was coming away from the Queen's Drawing-room in my
full dress as King's Counsel (Lord Clarendon, then Mr.
Villiers, was with me), and we came into the rooms where
milliners were collected to see the fashions. Said I, " Why,
Villiers, I think all the prettiest women are here." One
of the girls, and a most amazingly beautiful creature she
was, stood up and said to another, " I am sure that gentle-
man is a judge."

A correspondent of the Toronto Leader, writing
from Vicksburg, says the Confederates have a gun
which domineers over the river, and ie a pestilent bother to
the Federals. They call him " Whistling Dick." No gun-
boat has any business where this terrible gun can get a shot
at it. It shoots a ball two and cne-half feet long, steel
pointed, weighing 2501 b., can tear through our best iron•
clads, and is thought to be the best gun of the war,
THE EXHIBITION BUlLDlNG.—Negotiations ai e,
it is said, now going on between the Alexandra Park Com-
pany and the contractors for the purchase of every part of
the Exhibition building except the picture galleries. This
Alexandra Park Company was some time ago formed for
the purpose of establishing a North London Crystal Palace
at Muswell.hill. The work of demolition is therefore for a
time suspended.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA-
MENT.—Yesterday in committee of the Lords the
bills of the London and North-Western Railway Company
for new branch lines and additional powers were passed.
The company, however, elected to withdraw the bill for the
prop-fed transfer to them of the Lancaster Canal, on the
ground of certain clauses proposed to be inserted. 3.1 r.
Rope Scott, Q C., opened the opposition of the Scottish
Central to the Edinburgh, Dunfermline, and Perth, and the
clauses of the North Eastern, Hull, and Doncaster Exten-
sion were settled,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,

ROSMUNDA."

No greater test could be demanded of the power
of Madame Ristori than the interest she is able to
infuse into the classic play of Alfieri, with which
last evening she concluded the present term of her
performances. We can compare it to nothing but
the ardour of Pygmalion, which sufficed to endow
a statue with vitality. A greater triumph of
the unities could scarcely be instanced
than " Rosmunda." A play of a single
movement—for its five acts are but momentary divi-
sions of one action—of a single scene, a single
incident, and, in all creative respects, a single pas-
sion—carries unity to a point that is almost a pun
upon the term. Nothing, objectively at least, could
be closer to its Greek original, and nothing, to
modern sympathies, could be more monotonous and
dull. Our belief in the Shhksperban method,
which presents man as a complex being,
and insists on incident as the great means
of developing and contrasting character, will
not permit us to subscribe to a rescusci-
presented man
hctual being, atastaiopnaorfelythiedeaanic,iaenadt tnhaetorays, wanhiea
be-
cause he was always associated with some great re-
ligious or historic lesson.
The story of Rosmunda needs but to be detailed
to exhibit a rigid simplicity that entirely unfits it
for the modern stage, unless sustained by an ele-
ment to which it makes not the least pretension—an
extraordinary amount and force of character. The
hosa heroine—widowshehad
of
king of the Lombards,
w
treacherously
Aii
put to death in revenge
of his murder of her father, and by means of a chief,
Almachiide, whom she had rewarded for hie crime
by raising to a share of her throne—is shown as no
sooner possessed of the great end of her vengeance,
than she is unexpectedly punished by it. Sne dis-
covers that her ne w husband, to whom she is passion-
ately attached, not only regrets the service he
has done her—which he now denounces as the basest
treachery—but that he also loves the daughter of
the murdered king, Romilda, who is detained
at the court a prisoner. The most terrible
revulsion of feeling is the instant and
natural result and revenge, which is the
master passion, becomes the sole tenant of her
heart. Learning that Romilda has a lover in
Ildovaldo, a Lombard general, she tempts
the latter with the hand of the Princess if he
will head his troops and arrest her husband.
He eagerly
consents, but in the struggle that ensues
Almachilde gains the advantage, and the two
lovers of the Princess rushing in to her presence with
their followers she sees bat one way to defeat them
both and perfect her revenge—which is to destroy
their unhappy idol. Dragging
her victim to the
summit of the staircase, which is surrounded by
the contending troops, she compels their leaders to
dismiss them, and recall her own
guards to
the palace. This is no sooner done, and she is once
more reinstated in her power, than she buries her
dagger in her victim, and brandishing it above her,
tells her husband that its next blow is reserved for
himself.

Such a subject it will be seen, however capable
if rightly treated—of being sublimed by a
great tragedian—
when spread over five acts, and
only sustained by a single incident, could scarcely
fail to become wearying even to the most ideal of
spectators. It affords but three opportunities to
the powers of Madame Ristori. First, the discovery
of her husband's falsehood—and after its outburst of
dismay and fury, the terrible acknowledgment of
vengeance, as the only passion of her soul—next, her
fierce enjoyment of the first step to it on Romilda s
indignant rejection in her presence of Almachilde's
passion and confession of her love for another, and
lastly the Closing scene which sates her
vengeance with the destruction of her rival.
Of the manner in which Madame Ristori
deals with these positions, no words of ours could
convey an adequate idea. An intensity as deep in
feeling as it is poetic in expression, sweeps from
a subtlety the most keen to a grandeur the most
Impressive, and leaves but the one conviction in
the mind of the spectator of a tragic genius wholly
unequalled on toe modern stage of Europe. Terri-
ble indeed is the condensed passion with which she
murmurs the invocation to revenge to return and
fill her breast as its sole diety—

Tu cola
Riedi, o Vendetta ; riedi, e me riempi
Tutta di tutto 'I notne tun, s' io sempre
Per prima e sots Deit a mix t'ebbi.
Fearful the exultation of her smile and gesture as
Romilda repays the confession of Almachilde—by
avowing her own love for anot, er—and still more
appalling is the fury with wh:cli she grasps Romilda
on hearing her proclaimed as the future Queen, and
waving her dagger over her, presents her as her
own victim—
" Donna di me Costoi. di me, nel petto
Io quest° stil gia gia le immergo."
Above all, however, is the mad ferocity with which
she drags her victim up the staircase, folding her
as in the coils of some infuriated serpent, and then
having secured exultingly destroys her, and bran-
bin their terrible
ya power which we
find h e
in
dishes her dagger as the impending doom of a
perjured husband.
"Ho it ferro ancor, trema, or principia appena,
La vendetta che, compiare in to glum."
O
but
hrtkeedise
rose
ardour to something higher than her usual level.
t onlyr passages
h herself,
sv:
letr ~ e
y
say they were thoroughly It is needless to appre-
ciated by her refined and excited audience, who
were raised to enthusiasm repeatedly, and sum-
moned her before them with the loudest demonstra-
tions at the end of the third act and also of the
play. Madame Ristori, it is right to add, was very
ably supported on this occasion by the talents of
Madame Glech in Romilda, h
Who acted with great
spirit, and signori Pezzana and Ciotti in the
characters of the husband and the lover.
We cannot take leave of these performances,
which have avowedly been a source of such high
enjoyment to the pub ic, without expressing a Wish
that we know to be the echo of a general feeling,
that they may be speedily repeated, and without
also tendering our thanks to the spirit and taste of
Mr. Mapleson, in becoming the means of
such a gratification within our reach.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The annual benefit of
Mr. Buckstone takes place to morrow evening, and
with it closes his second season, which has now extended
to the unusual length of five years. The attractions are of
a very varied description, The great feature of the even-
ing will be Mr. Bucketone's annual address; and in the
one to be delivered to-morrow evening the events of the
Twelfth,"
Brock,
t rho, " in icpast, as well as the arrangements for the future, will be
described in the manager's most agreeable and witty style.
The entertainments commence with the very pretty ballet,
ok,and whmh is, M
Louiser. Bu°it Betelne
uy
e
"The Star of Andalusia;" then follows the celebrated
dramathat
h s
sustains the part" Charles o thet Adam .
Mr. and Mrs Wigan next appear in the
capital
tt o
f farce 4i The Bengal Tiger," Mrs. Howard Paul
gives her celebrated imitation of Sims Reeves, and the
balladoiof "Goodbye, Sweetheart." The whole concludes
old but excellent farce " Deaf as a Post," for Mr.
n,
Mr. W. Farren, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. It is
aCwstmohUprtC the
Compton,
aof great satisfaction to know that the season has
been one of a very prosperous description, and Mr. Buck-
stone has our best wishes for a continuance of that good
fortune which he most richly deserves.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—A grand amateur per-
formance is to be given at this theatre on Wednes-
day, the 24th inst., for the benefit of Madam Celli, the
widow of the late Baron Fillippo Celli, the distinguished
professor of music—the instructor of Grisi, Albertazzi,
Boccabadati, Signor Poggi Ivanhoff, the famous Zucchelli,
and Mdm. Lemaire, who is at the preseni time giving proof
of the Baron's excellent method of teaching in Lab',
showing
that age, which had deprived him of his voice, had not
robbed him of the power of developing that of others. The
performance will be one of no
ordinary description, as Mr.
Tom Taylor appears in the
part of Oppenhardt in his own
'
original comedy " The Lesson for Life," in which the
characters will be sustained by the members of the Civil
Service Rifle Volunteers, assisted by Mrs. Stirling and Miss
E. Ferry. We are also to have other entertainments of a
very attractive nature, but we feel certain the simple fact
that the widow of the late talented maestro stands in need
of help,
will be sufficient to ensure an overflowing audience
The honorary secretary has made arrangements by which
tickets for the performance can be obtained at Mitchell's
Library, Old Bond-street.
THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—OOI. Yolland,
the Board of Trede Inspector,
has been bolding a
private inquiry as to the state of the permanent way from
Pontypool-road to Newport, and upon his decision, to a
greater extent will depend the question as to whether the
West Midland or the Monmouthshi. e is the responsible
company for the accident. The damage to the railway and
?exPectid, amount to from 48,00 to 410,000,
plant and the compensation to be paid to sufferers will, it is