The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIOAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 18E15.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
MADD V. MAUD.

This was an undefended suit by the wife for judicial
separation, on the ground of cruelty.
The learned counsel for the petitioner read some letters
written by the respondent admitting ill-treatment, and the
marriage, which took place in 1863, having been proved,
Robert John Eldridge, the son of the petitioner
by her first husband, said that he lived near his
mother, at Woodville-terrace, Harrow-road, but
fJr some time was unacquainted with the fact
of her marriage. He identified the signature of
both parties to the marriage register. In August last he
called at her mother's and saw her with her face bound up,
and in going to her room ho saw the respondent lying on
the scfa in a state of intoxication. His mother refused to
tell him how she had received the injury in her face, and
ordered him out of the house lest he should disturb
the respondent. On the 23d of the following month he
was attracted to his mother's house by screams issuing
from it, and he succeeded in getting in. The respondent,
who had a large stick in his hand, seized his mother by the
throat, and threatened to murder her, but he interfered and
turned him out of the house.

The petitioner and other witnesses were called, who
proved the case, and in the course of examination it was
elicited from the former that the ground for keeping the
marriage secret was that she was intitled to between £4OO
and £5OO a-year, which she would lose in the event of-her
second marriage being known.

His Lordship said that acts of violence were proved not
only by evidence, but by the admission of the respondent
himself in the letter which ho had read. The wife, no
doubt, was very foolish to sacrifie £4OO or £5OO a year
for such a man, but she was entitled to the protection of
the Court. He would therefors decree judicial separation.
There was no application respecting costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

--41.

BOW-STREET.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Admiral Sir Henry Chads, K.C.8., one of the
members of the Ironclad Committee, accompanied
by his son, Capt. Henry Chads, Superintendent of
the Victoria dock and victualling yards at Deptford,
yesterday went down to Woolwich and inspected
the batteryfitments inthe cupola ship Prince Albert,
alluded to in The Sun of yesterday. They likewise
visited the ironclad ship Pallas. They were received
and accompanied in their inspection by Commodore
Dunlop, Capt. Connolly, Capt. Wihnshurst, Com-
mander Towsey, Commander Dillon, Lieut. Pon-
sonby (secretary), and other officers of the yard.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Supply, Com-
mander Bawden, in basin at Woolwich, was yester-
day inspected by Commodore.Dunlop, C. 8., Super-
intendent of the Dockyard, in preparation to her
being paid off to-day. It is expected that Captain
Bawden will be reappointed to the command, and
that the whole of the officers and crew will rejoin-
The Supply will be recommissioned immediately on
her being paid off.

Her Majesty's six-gun paddlewheel sloop Spiteful,
Commander A. D. W. Fletcher, in Woolwich har-
bour, preparing for sea, yesterday sent up top-gallant
masts and cross-gallant yards, and made all a-taut.
Lieut. W. E. Miller, late of the Satellite corvette,
from the south-east coast of America, recently paid
out of commission, yesterday joined the Spiteful.
Her destination is still officially notified as the coast
of Brazil, for which station she has received her
charts, and to relieve the Stromboli, whose term of
commission has expired. It is, however, expected
that her ultimate destination will be Jamaica.

The following appointments and promotions
have been made at the Admiralty :—Commauder
A. H. W. Battiscombe to be an Inspecting
Commander in the Coastguard ; Strff Com-
mander Charles Bawden to the command of the
Supply, when commissioned ; Lieut. Henry S.
Hutchings to the Excellent ; Lieut. Edward 11.
Verney to be Lieut. and commander of the Oberon,
commissioned ; Lieut. William E. Milks to the
Spiteful ; Lieut. Richard G. Kinahan, Lieut. Somer-
led M'Dougall, and Lieut. Henry A. Digby to the
Malacca; Sub.-Lieut. Robert G. Baker and Sub-
Lieut. George S. La Costa to the Malacca ; Wm.
S. P. Graves and Allan M‘Jephson, midshipmen,
to the Malacca; Douglas Crampton, naval cadet,
nominated ; Charles E. Playfair, surgeon, to the
Cossack ; Dr. James D. Cronin, surgeon, addi-
tional, to the Saturn; John A. P. Williams, assist.-
paymaster in charge, to the Oberon ; Robert J. W.
Tucker, assist.-paymaster, to the Irresistible ; W.
J. C. Row, assist.-paymaster, to the Lion ; John
E. C. Sullivan, assist.-paymaster, to the Victory,
as supernumerary ; Cecil R. Bloxom, master's as-
sistant, to the Malacca ; David Robb, chief engi-
neer, to the Oberon ; Win. Filcher, chief engineer,
to the Malacca ; Edward D. Dooley, engineer, to
the Osborne ; Nathaniel Stearn, ekgineer, to the
Malacca ; Matthew Litt, promoted to the rank of
engineer; Joseph Wyllie, promoted to the rank of
acting engineer ; John Crew, first class engineer,
to the Malacca ; Richard Dobson and Peter M'Cor-
mick, pronioted to the rank of first class assist.
engineers ; James R. Osborne, master, to the Cum-
berland, for the Icarus ; Richard T. Alartell, engi-
neer, to the Irresistible ; and Henry W. Masterman,
second class assist. engineer, to the Spiteful.
The following list of promotions and appoint-
ments in the Royal Marine Light Infantry Forces,
dated the 10th instan, was yesterday received at
Woolwich—viz., Capt. and Brevet Major William
Alfred Garner Wright, of the Plymouth division,
to be Lieut. Colonel, and appointed to the Ports-
mouth division, vice Lieut. Col. Robert Seppings
Harrison, retired ; First Lieut. Arthur Huntley Hill
Wash, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain,
and appointed to the Plymouth division, vice
Wright, promoted ; Second Lieut. Edwin Poole, of
the Portsmouth division, to be First Lieut., vice
Wolsh ; Capt. and Brevet Major George Went-
worth Forbes, of the Plymouth division, to be
Lieut. Col. and appointed to the Chatham division,
vioe Blythe, retired ; First Lieut. and Adjt Alexan-
der Basset Stephen Shairp, of the Woolwich divi-
sion, to be Capt., and appointed to the Plymouth
division, vice Forbes ; Second Lieut. Oliver Armi-
tage Beadon, of the Portsmouth division, tobe First
Lieut. of the Woolwich division, vice Shairp, and to
be appointed to a division to be hereafter named.
The undermentioned appointment, dated the 11th
inst., was also received at Woolwich yesterday—
namely, Francis Render Mounsteven, of the Ply-
mauth division, is be First Lieut. at the same divi-
sion, vice W. H. Smith, resigned.

Mr. Charles Keen in America.

(From the Chicago Times of Oct. 31.)

Hazlitt begins his essay on the tragedy of " Lear"
with the words, " We wish that we could pass this
play over, and say nothing about it"—a remark
with which the critic would gladly dismiss Dean's
acting of it, not because of any shortcoming or in-
adequacy therein, but because all that can be said
in a few hurried words must fall far short of the
subject itself, and of what the writer conceives of
it. To say that Charles Kean was, in the first place,
true to Lear's rash hate, his violent impetuosity, his
blindness to everything but the dictates of his pas-
sion, or affections that produces all his misfortunes,
that aggravates his impatience of them, that enforces
our pity for him ; to say that he passed over all that
awful interval, through the pitiful sense of ingrati-
tude, cruelty, and final bereavement, to that of

Matter in impertinency mixed !

Reason in madness !"
is to say perhaps what will best recall his action to
those who witnessed ; and words are indeed feeble
to describe or even suggest it to those who were not
present with Kean through all Lear's terrible transi-
tions frDm proud and wilful strength to hopeless
madness, and the helplessness of age, and grief, and
death.

If Mr. Kean was grand in the most stormy
passages, it was in the more pathetic ones, with
which fortunately the play, except in the opening
scene abounds, that he was most himself and
most the character he assumed. The gradual
dawning of the consciousness of his daughters'
ingratitude, his struggles against it, his eager
haste to seize upon any pretext which
could afford him a moment's rest from mad-
dening grief, the perversion (obscuring, it cannot
be said), of his wits, his fear of madness, his struggles
against it, and his convictions of its approach and
presence—all were presented with a fidelity which
by turns moved the audience to indignation, pity,
grief, and terror as though all were real. No one
who saw can ever forget Lear's ironical prayer, in
which there was a thousand times more of tender-
ness than of sarcasm, as he kneels before his cruel
daughter, "Dear daughter, I confess that I am
old ;" his pathetic appeal to the heavens, " if your-
selves are old, make it your cause ;" his half-
rational pled, " I am a man, more sinned against
than sinning ;" his pitying and pitiful cold comfort
to the fool, " Art cold ? I'm cold myself !"—his
transition in Act 111. to unmixed madness, in
contrast with the assumed madness of Edgar,
(excellently performed by Cathcart), and above all,
the tender, half-sure, half-doubtful recognition of
Cordelia in the closing act, " Be your tears wet ?"
To name Mr. Kean in these few culminating pas-
sages is to praise Wm in all the scenes of the most
consistent, sustained, and truly powerful assump-
tion he has yet given. His Lear is superior to his
Louis XI., not in act, perhaps, or in fidelity to W_s
theme, but because of the thousand points of sym-
pathy between it and all the human hearts that re-
spond to its indignant or pathetic appeals. It only
remains to say, in the same general terms, that Mr.
Everett played the noble role of Kent with really
commanding power, and Miss Chapman that of
Cordelia with intelligence and feeling. The house
was well filled.

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The friends and sup-
poiters of the British House for Incurables, Clapham-rise,
will be gratified to learn that the Most Hon. the Marquis
of Townshend has lately presented the noble sum of
£l,OOO to the funds of that excellent charity.

In the Court of Chancery yesterday Vice-Chan-
cellor Wood, on the motion of Mr. John Camden
Hotton, the publisher, granted an injunction restraining
certain parties from the publication of his edition of
" Artemus Ward." It has been so edited and annotated by
Mr. Hotten that he is able to claim the protection of the law

THE LATE CASE OF ALLEGED POISONING BY A
SWEETHEART, AT SALISBURY.—Wm. John Storer,
the surgeon's assistant lately charged with administering
strychnia to Miss Emily Sophia Blake, the daughter of Mr.
Blake, surgeon, of Salisbury, has, since his committal, en-
deavoured to obtain poisonous drugs, with the view, it is
supposed, of committing suicide. He wrote out a prescrip-
tion under an assumed name, and addressing a letter to
Messrs. Savory and bthore, of London, succeeded in in-
ducing a newly engaged turnkey to post it for him, a
further arrangement being also made for the " medicine,"
on its arrival, to bo left at the turnkey's house. Messrs.
Savory and Moore, finding that the prescription included a
dose of morphia more than sufficient to destroy life, imme-
diately put themselves in communication with the police at
Salisbui y. The result of their investigation went to prove
collusion between the turnkey and the prisoner. The
turnkey was at once suspended, and a further inquiry into
the matter has been entered upon by the .visiting justices.

We are now, however, informed that these calculation;
favourable as they appeared, underrated the productive-
ness of the revenue, and exaggerated the probable expen-
diture. The actual income of the American Government
for the quarter ending at Michaelmas last was upwards of
£29,000,000, representing a yearly sum of £120,000,000,
instead of £80,000,000, or an excess of 50 per cent. above
the estimate. At the same time Mr. MiCulloch had reduced
his estimate of the year's expenditure to £52,000,000 in.
place of £70,000,000, so that the gain would be equally
remarkable on both sides of the sheet. Nor are these new
figures necessarily to bo suspected. We observed at the
time that the calculation of £70,000,000 as the expenditure
of an ordinary year was so liberal as to savour of extra-
vagance, and that it would probably be found to admit of
reductions when brought to test. The receipts, again, of
the last quarter represent a mere matter of fact, though
we are not told whether the quarter question can be
taken as a fair sample. The general statement, however,
does undoubtedly suggest a most favourable view o
American Finances—so favourable, indeed; as to make us
fear that the Americans may be proposing too much ; but
there are certain points on which information is still very
desirable.

If it should prove that the wants of the Union do really
not exceed £50,000,000 or £60,000,000, it cannot reason-
ably be expected that the Amer 'cans should be willing to
have twice that sum extracted from their pockets. They
will ask, of course, for the repeal of superfluous taxes. We
should do the same, and it has, indeed, been the policy of
financiers generally to keep the strain upon the national
resources as small as possible. Mr. Gladstone stands
almost alone in his desire to see the public debt reduced
by more active treatment than we apply to the case, anti it
is commonly thought that if we render the charge of the
debt easily supportable by relieving taxpayers from pros-
sure we are doing enough. The Americans, it is true, are
so far in accord with their Chancellor of the Exchequer
at this minute that they express a decided objection to
the perpetuation of the burden which they have
assumed. They have loudly declared that, in some
way or other, the debt must be rapidly liquidated, and
that a new country like theirs cannot resign itself
patiently to the incubus endured by the uld nations
of the world. But we are already told that they may be
expected to rebel against the only policy by which their
desires could be gratified, nor aro we surprised at the
spectacle. The sight of a people raising £60,000,000 for
current needs, and £60,000,000 more for payments of their
debts, would be an unparalleled phenomenon. At this
rate the Americans might unquestionably clear off their
whole debt in ten years' time, but the speculation is too
incredible to be entertained.

The truth is, such works are works less of effort than
of endurance. It is very easy to borrow, but not so easy
to pay. The mere calculation that the people of the
United States can, if they please, raise a surplus revenue
of £60,000,000, and that the present estimates of income
and expenditure would really present this result, is in it-
self an extraordinary testimony to the resources of iho
country. But we are not believers in the theory of con-
vulsive action as applied to Finan.ce. We place greater
reliance in the steady operation of moderate or insensible
forces. We know well that the Americans can pay their
way if they please, and if they should make fair provision
for doing so, and for cancelling their debts by easy and
graceful instalments, they would be doing quite enough
to establish their financial credit in the eyes of the world.
It would not be good policy, according to our notions of
finance, to attempt much beyond this—at any rate, at
first. The Americans have given proof of many things,
but there is one thing of which proof has to come yet, and
that is their ability to bear pressure patiently for years to-
gether without the excitement of national strife or triumph.
It is in their interest that we should regret to see this
pressure applied too severely in the first stage of the ex-
periment.—Tizzies.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Nov. 17.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly; moderato breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.

PLYMOUTH, - Nov. 16.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Flora,
from Havan,nah.

CARDIFF, Nov. 16.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Witch of the
Wave, for Buenos Ayres.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Eaglet,
from Rio Grande.

HOLYHEAD, Nov. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sunder-
land, from Liverpool for Cuba.

QUEENSTOWN Nov. 16.—Wind
from Callao.

KINGROAD, Nov. IG.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Emma
Mina, from Quebec.
CLYDE, Nov. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Benfrew-
shire, from Quebec.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrived—Young Mary, from Dunkirk; Hawk, from
Landserona ; St. George, from Guernsey; Waterloo, from
Rotterdam.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Anchored —Antioch, of Boston, from Shields, for Boston.
Passed—Elizabeth, from Limerick, for Sunderland ;
Southern Ocean, from Callao, for London.

Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to
cap. 32, for the week ending
IBBVE V
Notes issued ......07,50),9051

;he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
,Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1865.
,A.RTMENT.

.C27,50J,995'