The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-11 00:00:00

ONE POET THE LESS.

Under the above heading Le Courrier de l'Europe pays
a tribute to the late John Edmund Reade, who died at
Elverstone, Satterton, on September 17th. Reade, says
the memorialist, belonged to the old poetic school, which
was not too classical. His longest poems are generally
cold, but his fugitive pieces are very pleasing. Some
fifteen years ago the writer knew him well. A daughter
was just born to him, the hope of his old age, whom he
named Agnes, and whose birth made him the happiest of
mortals. His salon was the meeting place of
one of the most agreeable circles in London. Alaric
Watts, our Louis Blanc, Robert Bell, the editor of Chauce
Delapierre, the Belgian consul, Cyrus Redding, some
bus bleus, and several musical artists composed these rd-
unions. The dance, the charade, music, and conversation
alternated in this salon ; one thought oneself in France,

Vienna, St. Petersburg, or anywhere but in England,
for rigidity, phlegm, and coldness, were strictly excluded
from the doors of 17, Gloucester-place. Alas ! during
nearly ten years the songs have ceased, the salon is closed.
Illness -installed itself by the bedside of the poet, and
threw a veil of mourning over those pleasant days. John
Edmund Reade leaves behind him the heritage of his
fathers, an honoured and honourable name.

Mr. Gladstone, the Premier, was in Liverpool
yesterday, and paid a visit to the Mayor, at the Town
Hall.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Monday,
Oct. 10th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 1,340; do.
on payment, 2,153. Total visitors, 3,493.
An interview took place between Napoleon the Third
and Count Bismarck, in a small house on the road to
Sedan. The Emperor and the Minister first sat down at
the door of the house and afterwards continued their-con-
ference in a small chamber on the first floor. The chairs
which were used on this occasion belonged to two different
owners. Siemer, the lodger in the ground floor, sold his
chairs to the Prince of Prussia, who sent one of them to
England and the other to Berlin, as for the occupant of
the first floor he has hitherto rejected all the offers which
have been made to him, but he allows his visitors to sit
on the chairs used by Napoleon and Bismarck, charging
them so much per head, and his speculation has succeeded
admirably as yet.

LOYAL ODD WOMEn-A curious case has come before
the Wolverhampton county court. Mr. Frederick Dol-
man, a miner, sued John Bevan for £4l3s. The plaintiff's
wife was a member of a society called "The Reformed
Order of Odd Women," and at her death he was entitled
according to the rules of the society, to £lO, but of this he
had only received £5 M. The rules of the "order " were
produced in court. The introduction said :—" The culti-
vation of friendship, the pleasures of good company, and
the improvement of the morals are the primary objects for
the attainment of which a number of individuals of the'
first respectability have formed themselves into a fraternity
of Loyal Reformed Order of Odd Women." Rule Ist
states :—" The members of the fraternity do therefore
bind themselves, under the most solemn obligation, firmly
to unite, sincerely to love, and inflexibly to stand by one
another in sickness or in health, in poverty or in compe-
tence, in prosperity or in affliction." In Rule 2nd it
is stated that—" Every odd woman cheerfully subscribes
her wit to enliven the meetings as well as her money to
defray the expenses of the lodge, and entertains us with
a song, amuses us with a tale, or instincts with advice her
sisters assembled. Good humour and good will are the
characteristics of its fraternity. Honesty and good sister
ship can never be separated. Friendship, love, and truth
is the motto of the fraternity. Truth ought therefore
to reign on the lips, love in the affections, and
friendship in the heart of every odd woman." Rule 3
says : " Any sister swearing, or singing an
indecent song, or giving an indecent toast or
sentiment, or disobeying the N.G. [Noble Grand
or any officer when called to order shall he fined
3d." The fifth rule provides that—" Any sister entering
the lodge room in a state of intoxication shall be fined Is.;
and every visiting sister shall be fined is. ; and every
visiting sister shall pay 2d. for ale, to be drunk with the
lodge ale the same night, and any sister refusing to do so
shall be fined is. to our own lodge fund, or be expelled.'
Part of Rule 6 says :—" And any sister divulg-
ing the secrets of our own or any ether lodge
shall be fined for each offence 2s. 6d," The
defendant was sued as secretary and treasurer of the order
but he said he did not now hold that office, and that the
club was no longer in existence. The judge, however,
after a good deal of discussion, decided that the defendant
was liable, and gave him four months to look after the
money. It was stated that the deceased woman had been
a member of the club for twenty-eight years, and had paid
10d. in every three weeks.