The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-21 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1870.

to the North German Confederacy. Bavaria it
likely to follow suit shortly, Prussia having aban-
doned her claim of having the direction of the
Bavarian troops in peace as well as in war.

THE MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Stock Markets are better to-day, the character of
the news from the Continent being considered peaceful.
The Funds are higher, Turkish, Egyptian, and Italian,
1 to 11 ; and Spanish, 2.
Consols aro 92} to 921 for money and account. Turkish
Fives are 41i to 412; Italian, 531 to 541 ; Spanish, 301 to
31 ; New French Loan at 2 to 1 die.
A statement, received in the City from Vienna, that
the Emperor Napoleon has expressed concurrence with
the action of the Government of National Defence in
rejecting the conditions of the proposed Armistice and in
raising means for continued resistance, seems to have
stimulated an idea which was previously gaining ground
in many quarters, that the conclusion of peace may be
accompanied by a restoration of the Imperial authority
and the re-establishment of a settled Government. It is
argued that, in the event of the capitulation of Paris, the
return of the Emperor, and of such of his generals as
still command public confidence, would apparently furnish
the sole guarantee against an indefinite period of anarchy,
while at the same time, so far as the external relations of
France are concerned, it would more than anything else'
facilitate a satisfactory settlement of the Eastern guts-
tion, and re-awaken hopes of the possibility of some
approach towar.l.l a European disarmament. With the
Roman, Spanish, and Turkish difficulties removed,
Europe, it is suggested, would have prospects of pro-
longed peace better than any that have existed during the
past 20 years.
The report of the Chontales (Nicaragua) Mining Com-
pany, to be presented on the 22nd inst., states that the
property could now at several points be worked at a
profit, but that capital is wanted for the purpose. It is,
therefore, proposed to issue £60,000 12 per cent. preference
shares to supply the requisite funds, and also to extinguish
the existing mortgage debt of £23,695.
The report of the directors of the Great Indian Penin-
sula Railway Company states that the gross receipts for
the half-year amounted to £1,063,367, and the expenses to
4569,051, spewing a net profit of £494,316, being equal to
£5 7s. 4d. per cent. upon the amount of capital expended
to the 30th June last on the open line.
The half-yearly meeting of the Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India Railway Company is called for the 16th
December.

An extraordinary meeting of the Alliance British and
Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company is convened
for the 14th December.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This DAY.

A HYPOCRITICAL FATHER DESERTING HIS CHILDREN.—
Joseph Henry Falconer, a seaman, late boatswain of a
ship, was charged, at the Thames Police-court, with
deserting his two children, and leaving them chargeable
to the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town. The case was
proved by Mr. Slight, the 'relieving-officer, of Milo End,
who said the prisoner's two children were chargeable
to the Hamlet for more than a year. The prisoner,
since he had deserted them, had received large sums for
wages, and had not contributed one farthing for their
maintenance. He was taken at the gate of the House of
Correction on Saturday week, after a month's imprison-
ment. He now cried and howled, and was laughed at.
He talked about his inability.to support his dear little
ones. Mr. Paget said if the prisoner had any affection
for his dear little ones, as ho termed them, he would have
contributed something for their support. He committed
him for a month, and to hard labour, in the House of
Correction.

THE SMOKE NUISANOE.—Henry Rafael, gold and silver
refiner, in Thomas•street , Limehouso, was summoned, at
the above Court, for having furnaces on his premises so
constructed as not to consume their own smoke. Mx.
Sandison, Government Inspector, said the defendant
worked several furnaces, and two of them had no
apparatus for the consumption of smoke. Witnesses
proved that smoke in dense volumes had frequently issued
from the defendant's chimney shaft. A young gentleman,
on behalf of the defendant, said that every precaution had
been taken, and every means resorted to, to prevent the
chimney from smoking. Mr. Paget fined the defendant
405., and £l6s. 3d. costs.

t, NELL.'

If Charles Dickens could have witnessed Mr. Halliday's
version of " Nell and the Old Curiosity Shop " at the
Olympic Theatre as he had some months since done at
the first performance of "Little Em'ly," we believe he
would have been even more gratified with the dramatist's
last work, and would have grasped his friend's hand with
a more genial fervour than he did when the celebrated
Yarmouth story came to its conclusion. A more brilliant
and attentive auditory than that collected at Mrs. Liston's
small but pretty house,on Saturday, it could scarcely have
been possible to bring together on a "first night,"
and yet we have no anxiety on the ground that a
single person left the theatre dissatisfied or wearied.
Mr. Halliday's reticence in appearing behind the
footlights, in immediate response to the call for the
"author," at least enabled him to see how genuine was
the applause bestowed upon his work. And yet the
drama of " Nell" is not altogether free from its faults,
although they may be somewhat judicious in their nature.
Indeed, if there were persons in the house who had never.
read of the trials and hardships of the little darling in
Dickens's mournful narrative, they would have failed to
believe that the Ne'l of Mr. Halliday's play suffered, to
any painful degree, at all. Her lines are not cast in
altogether unpleasant places, although the anthor7-and
we cannot honour him too highly for d3ing so—follows
Mr. Dickens's steps so accurately as to allow the old
grandfather's angel and the old grandfather him-
self to die at • the end of the piece. The
portraiture of the grandfather, entrusted to Mr.
Belmore, is exquisite, and nothing can be more truly
pathetic, nay, beautiful, than this actor's soliloquy in the
snow-clad churchyard, after his grandchild's death.
Crazed, the poor old man treads lightly over the snow, lest
the sleep of his tiny guide should be disturbed even by his
steps. Standing bareheaded beneath the falling flakes,
he observes that the robins are still waiting to be fed—the
robins Whom she used to feed. In a gleam of wisdom her
loss dawns upon him, and falling at a grave, he sees a
vision (represented also to the audience with every effect
that can make the scene impressive), in which she whose
feet were " Imaged and torn" in leading him through life,
is being borne to heaven. The grandfather cries out,
"Take her not from me, oh angels, take her not from me!'
and as the chorus of the angels comes on the air back to
him, the climax is reached, his soul follows Little Nell's to
heaven, and at this stage Mr. Halliday most appro-
priately brings down the curtain. We have to
speak in eulogistic terms of Mr. Fisher's delineation of
Dick Stvivelleu and of Mr. Clarke's Quilph. Mr. Fisher who
became famous as Micawber, will become twice as much so
as the lover of the " Slavey," " the Marchioness," and the
" Rosy." We have in his impersonation apparently every
action, look, and speech, of the original character. The
only scene in which he figures in the novel, omitted in the
play, being the ever to be remembered " supper party."
But Mr. Halliday has, made Dick Statuetter so important
and so lively a personage in all the other celebrated inci-
dents of his original career—in Brass's office, in the
palace of the Marchioness, and the black beetles ;
and ,we cannot omit to praise the performance
on the " Hon. Richard Swiveller's own private
band," a flute, an execution, which " will be
chronicled in the Morning Post of to-morrow," in the
latter place, and in his sick bedroom, where the devoted
Marchioness appears to her best advantage, that the whole
significance of his worthy and ludicrous character seem
most fairly given to the audience. The scenes, " The
Curiosity Shop," " The day at the races," and that last
spectacle of all, where
" Old Saturnus, with his frosty face,
With chilling cold had pearst the tender greene ;

And winter's wrath, where with each thing defaste,
In woeful wise bewayled the sommer past,"
and where Little Nell and her grandfather die, tended
and cared in th3ir last hours by the pitiful " old bachelor"
of Mr. Dickens's narrative, are very magnificently pictured
upon the stage. The sensation scene, the burning of
Quilph's home on the banks of the Thames, was hissed by
the gallery, but the ebullition was levelled more at the
apparent ill-necessity of the sensationalism than at any
imperfection in the representation. Miss Florence Terry
(Little Nell) received a shower,of bouquets on retiring from
the stage at the end of the play.

THE BLACK SEA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The Government are urged to declare war against
Russia because she seeks relief from a disability which
nine persons out of ten admit ought not to be imposed
upon her. We are therefore to fight, not because Russia
has done a wrong thing, but because she has not done it
in a diplomatic manner. She boldly declares that she
will no longer submit to the degrading condition imposed
on her by the Treaty of Paris, which prohibits.her from
maintaining a fleet in the Black Sea. She has a perfect
right to set aside the conditions of that treaty, subject to
the right of any of the contracting parties to fight for its
maintenance. The question is simply whether it is
worth our while to engage in another Russian
war in order to maintain the supremacy of
Turkey. The disappointment which has resulted since
the last occasion on which we interposed on her behalf
ought to be a warning for the future. In protecting
Turkey we are upholding a worn-out despotism which is
crushing more vigorous nations who would quickly assume
the position to which they are entitled, but for our
interference. This evil, it seems, is to be perpetuated, and
a European conflagration is threatened because Gortscha-
koff told us in a straightforward way what he intends to
do. No doubt a Bismarck would have accomplished his
purpose in a different, if not in a more honest man-
ner. The honour of England is not involved in the
maintainance of a treaty which every one admits ought
to be modified, mainly because we take exception to the
mode in which its correction has been sought.
No one denies that Turkey has infringed the provisions
of the treaty, and if Russia raised the question by asking
for a conference, it is probable that in the present state of
Europe a conference would have been declined. Turkey
would have still more increased her fleet, and prepared
herself for blockading her ancient enemy in the disputed
waters upon which Russia is prevented from pveparing
for a defence. _ _

Would any other great Power submit to such a dis-
qualification as has been imposed upon Russia one moment
longer than it was unavoidable, and are the flames of war
to be lighted throughout the whole of Europe on account
of a question which, when it comes to be discussed, will
be yielded to Russia, if justice and moderation are allowed
to prevail ?—Yours truly, W. S.

Sr. JAMES'S THEATILE.—H is Royal Highness
Prince Arthur, accompanied by the Marquis of Lorne,
and attended by Major Elphistone and a distinguished
suite, honoured this theatre with his presence on Saturday
evening. _ _ _

CRYSTAL PALACE.--Half--a-crown dad•, Saturday,
November 19th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets
4,755 ; ditto on payment, 956 ; total visitors, 5,711.

CRYSTAL PALACE.--Weber's "Der Freischutz "
was produced on Thursday last with so much success that
it is to be repeated to-morrow (Tuesday) and Thursday.
The clever athletes, Gonza and Romah, appear to-day and
Wednesday.
ft is rumoured that the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, having carefully noted the points of the Naval
Retirement Scheme which press hardly on some classes of
officers brought under its operation, is about to modify
the same.

The London Scotsman is informed that it is
proposed to nominate as Moderator of the next Gene-
ral Assembly, the Rev. Robert Horne Stevenson, of
St. George's, Edinburgh. The next Moderator of the
Free Assembly will be tho Rev, Robert Elder, M.A.,
minister of Itothesay.

We regret to learn that the esteemed master of
University College, Oxford (the Rev. Dr. Plumptre), is
seriously ill, having been taken suddenly indisposed on
Wednesday afternoon. The advanced age of the rev.
gentleman and the serious nature of his illness, render his
recovery extremely doubtful

Amongfat the names of those who have been called
to the English bar this term is that of Mr. George Royle.
This gentleman has been a navigating officer in the Royal
Navy, a master in the mercantile marine, and a Trinity
House pilot. We understand that he left her Majesty s
service with the intention of practising in the admiralty
courts.—Solicitor's Journal.

The Orchestra says that the following are the
titles and subjects of some of the London Christmas
pieces :—At Drury Lane, " Mother Shipton and the
Dragon of Wantly ;" at Covent Garden, "The Sleeping
Beauty in the Wood ;" at the Princess's, "Little Gil
Blas, and How He Played the Spanish Deuce;" at the
Adelphi, "The Mistletoe Bough," a conglomeration of
the stories and personages of many English ballads, such
as Lord Lovel, Lady Nancy Bell, Simon the Cellarer,
Philip the Falconer, &c. - -

The decrease in barometrical pressure which had
commenced has continued, especially in the west and
north of the British Isles. Temperature has risen a little
generally. The winds are still light to moderate,
except in the west, where they blew a gale in the north
from south and south-west, and continue to blow fresh to
strong, with squalls from north-north-west at Roche's
Point, and from south at St. Ann's Head. Rain has
fallen in the west, heavily in the south of Ireland. The
sky continues very cloudy, with fog in places. The sea is
disturbed in the west of these islands, but calm else-
where.

THE u.-kRIBA.LDIANS AND THE PRIESTS.

Writing from the head-quarters of Garibaldi at Antnn
on the 14th instant, the correspondent of the Daily News
says :—To tell you that the wearers of the red shirt, and,
in fact, every one serving under the orders of General
Garibaldi, are looked upon by the priests as the apostles
of the devil would be nothing new ; but this being the case
it will not be difficult to form an idea of the sensation (if
such it can be called) that the Garibaldians have caused in a
town like Autun, which counts no less than nine con-
vents, and which is literally choked with priests, who
possess a tremendous influence both in the town and
the surrounding country. I have now been here
several days, and during that period I have had
numerous opportunities of talking on this subject with
the townsfolk, more than two-thirds of whom, I am
sorry to say, are completely priest-ridden. Many of the
tradespeople seem perfectly astounded to find that the
Garibaldians pay for everything they take, and that they
neither rob nor assassinate the inhabitants nor carry off
their wives, for it appears that so soon as it became known
that Garibaldi's head-quarters were to be established
here, the clergy sent abroad reports that were calculated
to persuade the people that the Prussian invasion even
would be preferable to the occupation of the town
by Garibaldi's army, which they insinuated was
nothing lees than an undisciplined band of brigands
whose principal aim was pillage. One of these gentle.
men, a village curd, having been denounced by some of
the peasantry, was tried a day or two after our arrival
by court-martial on the charge of inciting his
parishioners to rebel against the military authori-
ties, and his guilt having been proved beyond a
doubt, he was, in accordance with the law, condemned
to death. A memorial, however, was presented to
the Minister of War, who thought fit to sign his pardon.
You can easily conceive that this affair has exasperated
the clergy against us. They dare not attack us openly,
but the Bishop appears to have undertaken the task of
annoying us as much as possible, and as he is supported
by a great many of the townspeople, he finds almost
daily an excuse for complaining about some trifling matter
or. • other. Since we have been here the staff has
carried on quite a voluminous correspondence with the
reverend father, who every morning has something new tp
say. It is, however, only fair to mention that the Bishop's
last complaint is to a certain extent well-founded. It
appears that the night before last a party of thirty men,
commanded, it is said, by a captain, went to his palace
and demanded admittance, upon the pretence of search-
ing for concealed arms and a Prussian spy. The
worthy Bishop, without dreaming to ask the officer for a
written order, allows him and his troops to be admitted,
and while his house is being searched quietly remains in
bed. After the party hadretired, the Bishop misses two
watches, and thereupon draws up a complaint, wherein
he accuses the Garibaldians of having broken into his house
and robbed him. An investigation has been commenced,
and it is now almost proved that the outrage was
perpetrated by a party of Francs-tireurs, who will natu-
rally be-severely punished. This matter was discussed
this morning by the committee for the defence of Autun,
who also took into consideration the decree of the under-
prefect, whereby certain cafés (the proprietors of which had
given liquor to people in a state of intoxication)
were closed for a certain number of days, and sentinels
were posted before the houses of ill repute in order to pre-
vent them being frequented by the soldiers. The
committee, probably with a view of shewing that it
sides with the Bishop and disapproves of the measures
taken by the under-prefect, acting possibly with General
Garibaldi's consent, to maintain public order, has,
I am told, resigned ea masse. If the priests are very savage
with the followers of the great red-shirted hero, who has
always been the bugbear of the Roman Catholic clergy,
I am in justice bound to say that this ill feeling has in a
great measure been increased by the unceremonious man.
ner in which his troops have turned the convents and
churches into barracks.

GERMAN FEELING AGAINST ENGLAND.
The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing
from Berlin, November 15th, says :—Not a single news-
paper in the Prussian capital not even the most
Liberal and anti-Governmental—has one word to say in
favour of a people whose good intentions cannot be
doubted by the unprejudiced, and whose active benevo-
lence has been proved by the subscription of more than
a quarter of a million of pounds sterling. The fact is,
the Prussians are at this moment violently prejudiced
against England. They ascribe her intervention to the
most selfish and basest motives. They attribute our pro-
posals to jealousy, and maintain that we are possessed by
an overmastering dread Of German ascendancy.
Whether the newspapers make public opinion here,
or merely reflect it, is a question not answered.
The Berliners pretend to ignore or despise
most of their own papers ; but it seems to me
that those writers whom they affect to slight easily lead
them by the nose. It is by no means in the journals
alone that one meets with this growing animosity. An
Englishman hers is personally free from insult. The
people are too educator and too self-respecting to visit,
after the manner of their ignorant and vain-
glorious enemies, the sins of a nation upon any one of
its sons. But the feeling leaks out on every occasion.
Your friends here will remind you with a smile or a sneer
of the commercial advantages England gains by this war,
although the sale of a few thousand weapons, manufac-
tured in one small district, is no compeisation for the
injury inflicted upon the whole community by the closing
of England's principal market. In cafes and places of
public resort the exasperation boils over, and from every
table one hears indignant complaints of England's double-
dealing. Inthe low-class theatres,—again, an actor finds
the most vulgar abuse of England the safest "gag" in
which he can indulge. TO say " Englander —die Lumpen,"
is always enough, to bring down the house.