The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

Reduced Prices as usual.

11. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
LESSEE—MR. E. T. SMITH.
In consequence of unavoidable circumstances, the Lessee
takes the earliest opportunity of informing the subscribers
and the public that the PRODUCTION of ROBIN
HOOD is POSTPONED until Thursday next, October 11,
and has the pleasure of announcing that he has arranged to
give, in lieu, on Monday next, October 8, IL TROVA-
TORE, with the following cast :
Manrico .. Signor GIUGLINI
Il Conte di Luna • . Signor FRANCESCO BniANI,
(His first appearance in this country.)
Ferrando.. • . signor VIALETTI.
Un Zingaro .. Signor CASTELLI
Azucena Madme. LEMA.IRE.
Inez Mdlle. Bonsr.
Leonora .. Mdlle. TITIENS.
Conductor .. Signor ARDITI
After the Opera will be sung the NATIONAL ANTHEM
by the whole strength of the Company.

OY AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
I'' GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA
PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS
EVENING will be presented the opera of LURLINE ;
characters by Messrs. I. Wharton, 11. Cord, G. Kelley, and
W. Harrison ; Miss Lefll2r, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa
Pyne.—Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Eight.
Doors open at Hal-past Seven.

rrHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstqne.
THIS EVENING the performances Will mum(
THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs.
Followed by DOES lIE LOVE ME? Messrs. Howe
Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg.
wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF
Frr zs)lY THE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and
Rogers; Mri. Wilkins and Miss Henrade.
Followed by A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. •
Commence at 7.

with

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
MONDAY, October 8, First Appearance in England of the
young and celebrated Comedienne Miss JOSEPHINE
GOUGENIIEIM, who is engaged for a limited number of
nights.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. The
Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, having been
newly Decorated and Embellished, is Now OPEN for the
Winter Season THIS EVENING, Oct. 6, with a Comic
Drama, entitled DELICATE GROUND.
At ttr which, a New and Original Drama, written by Tom
Taylor, Esq., entitled TILE BRIGAND AND HIS BANKER.
Principal characters by Mr. George Vining (his 6th appear-
ance here), Mr John House, Mr. Villiers, Mr. 11. Watkins
(the popular American Comedian, his 6th appearance in
England), Mrs. Keeley, Miss M. Ternan, and Madame
Celeste.
To conclude with MAGIC TOYS : Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompsun. The talented Comedienne, Miss Josephine
Goughenheim, of the principal Theatres in America and Aus-
tralia, is engaged, and will make her first appearance in
England on Monday, October 8.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
-I-X. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BcnJ. Webster.
Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq.,
"The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even-
ing.

THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W.
Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss W oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly,
and Mrs. Billington.

After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boureicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.

To conclude with MUSIC lIATII CHARMS. Mr. David
Fisher. •
Doors open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes:II.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. •
Pit Stalls, 25.; PA, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery,
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ASTI EY'S ROYAL AMP
rHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager, M. Wm. BATTY.
Last Six Nights of "Mazeppa."
Notice.—Speedily will be produced, with great nil.r7edori a
Grand and Original Equestrian Spectacle, In TI
written expressly for this Theatre by the popular authorclT
FITZBALL, Esq., entitled "110111. 1100'x," with
entirely
new Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments.
This Evening Lord Byron's splendid Flippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of ht.-lily-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day.
Doors open at half -rast 6, performance commence at 7.
Bog-office open daily from 11 till 1.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.

CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NOR3IA.

Norma ... ............... Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ET II lOPIAN S, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Neg•ro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Nezro Artistes, 3lessrz. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Arr. ( TGIIMANS.

Balcony, ls, Hall. dd.

TUE PRINCE
the Prince OF WALES AND BLONDIN.—When
off, the .arrived Blondin bowed to the Prince and started
' ace watching him attentively through a tele-
scope. Prince
The Prin had a seat in a rustic pavilion, the
Duke of Newcastle and suite sitting in the rear, with Major
Teesdale and o
regard to dressthe. sorne Sitlng crosslegged in front, with no
that the Prince and suite dress will be
surprised to see
in clothes very plain and
give a
neat, and which would
and
dandy the horrors.
Blondin crossed and returned,
applahe Prince complimented
him by clapping his hands in
prepared to carry a man over. To this'3°; and then. Blondin
nwhouidbahcekallow Blondin
the Prince objected,
and only after repeated assuranceso
to start with Colcord, his agent,
with
to have a photograph taken. The Prince,Nl:paaeltircishoiineig only
breathless interest, commenting much on the
Many people were disappointed, as they thought thatnacne.
din would carry the Prinea on the rope. We state this in-
all seriousness, as the affair was freely talked about by the
spectators. For the first time Blondin returned on stilts,
the Prince also having put in a protest against this per-
formance. It was a most arduous and masterly feat, but
did not please the Prince, who thought it foolhardy. 'When
Blondin reached the shore, the Prince and suite had a long
conversation with him in French, complementing him, and
asking him about the stilts, and his feelings while on the rope.
As the Prince left ho said, " Thank God, it's all over."
Observing Farini's roe further up the river, he asked what
, as."A path for another fool," answered Dr. Kirwin
Tin Prince laughed aloud, and nodded his assent to this
~.pigramn .
like whleatic reply. The sensation on seeing 131endin is
York irersatg the execution of a man by hanging. New
In COnse
eetfroenee of the death of setjee Jej the late Sir Jam-
present barond:,bßaaronet of Bombay, his eldest son, the
Legislative Coimeii:%l3y virtae of Act No. 20 of 1860 of the
India, assumed the names of Jam-
setjee Jejeebhoy, in
Jamsetjeo JejeebhoT, lieua4f his former names of Cursetjee
_ :will henceforth be known by the
name of Sir Jamset e
Augiet, 1860, 3 ° jeJeebh°Y, Baronet,—London, 25th

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1880.

Another phase of the Road Murder mystery has
passed away, and we know but little more than
previously. Yet it cannot be denied that the
endeavour to fix a charge, in some form, on ELlza-
BETH GOUGH, has fixed, somewhat more definitely,
our attention on several small facts and circum-

stances, and enabled us better to estimate their
value. The public, perhaps, will be curious to

know what was the real design of this prosecution

Mr. SLACK, and all to whom he communicated the

result of his examinations, must have been fully
aware that no jury would convict the young
woman from the evidence adduced; for of her being
the actual murderer there was not a shadow of

proof ; and of the only other possible charges,
those of being an accomplice before or after the

fact, beyond the circumstance of her being in the

room whence the child was taken, the grounds of

suspicion were of the most doubtful character.
The result of the whole inquiry before the Magis-
trates was more unfavourable to some of the wit-
nesses than to the young woman, and it is diffi-

cult not to believe that the real object of the pro-

ceedings was to place GOUGH in a position in

which she might be induced by confessing all she
knew to save her own life.
That the girl does know who the murderer
is, it is difficult to doubt, The child was a very
heavy one. No person could well have held him,
and have adjusted at the same time the bedclothes
of his cot with such exactness as had been used. A
man, according to the surgeon's description of the
violence used, seems, probably, to every one, to have
been the inflicter of the wounds. But no man would
have laid the bedclothing in the order in which it
was found. Either therefore a woman and a man
entered her room and bore off the child; arranging
first the clothing, as GOUGE( says she found it, or
its arrangements must have been her work, in which
case, she, of course, was privy to the whole transac-
tion. If Mr. SLACK had little doubt of the latter
being the truth, his strong suspicion is, perhaps,
shared, justly or not, by the majority of those who
read the evidence.

The probable manner of the child's death, from
the later reflections of the surgeon on what he had
seen, appears somewhat clearer. The darkness
about the mouth was so considerable as to make
him almost certain that if death had not been ac-
tually caused by suffocation, the pressure applied
to the mouth had caused pulsation to cease, before
the dreadful cut on the throat was inflicted; at least
the appearance of the mouth, coupled with the
fact that the blood had not spurted about,
rendered it almost certain that the heart had
ceased to act. The stab was undoubtedly
inflicted after death. The bloody part
of the work was certainly perpetrated out of the
house. But, why resorted to if the child were
suffocated? Was it to make sure that by no acci-
dent it should recover breath, and even from the
watercloset make its cries possibly heard ? But one
or two unknown mortals can answer this sad ques-
tion.

The chief points against the nursemaid, relied on
by the prosecutios, were, First, the necessity of
two persons to leave things as they were found,
the improbability of two persons entering her room
for the purpose, and the strong presumption hence
arising, of her guilty knowledge. Second, the
discrepancy between her own statements as
to the time when she knew that the
blanket was removed from the bed. Thirdly,
the piece of chest-flannel fitting her and apparently
belonging to her, which was also found inside the
water-closet. Fourthly, The discrepancy between
her statement and Mrs. KENT'S—as to her having
tapped at her door an hour before the time when
she found her awake. Perhaps, we may add, her
statement that she saw into the cot while kneeling
on the bed, though to us this seems very trivial.
Some persons will think more of some ef her own
casual remarks, most of which, however, if not
all, receive a sinister interpretation only from her
presumed guilt or complicity.
The blanket story was the most striking one of the
discrepant statements. To two policemen, FOLEY
and IVoLFE, she said that she had not missed the
blanket till she saw it brought in with the body of
the child. But she told MORGAN, the parish con-
stable, before the body had been brought in, that
she had missed the blanket. The bedclothes, more-
over, were of such a form that, as they were found
in the morning, it could not have been apparent
to a person by looking at them that a
blanket had been removed. If she knew
it was missing, how did she know it ? If she
contradicted herself respecting the time of
her knowing of the loss, why did she do it ? Could
she have ever thought of its being evidence against
her that she knew it had been taken ? This would
have been astute forethought indeed.
The most striking faet, however, to ns, in the
whole evidence, is that of ELIZABETH GOUGH and
Mr. KENT having both of them made discrepant
statements respecting this same blanket ! Mr.
KENT went off to Trowbridge before the body was
found. Yet he gave evidence that he knew the
blanket was missing—that Mrs. KENT told him of
it. Hew aid Mrs. KENT know ? for she says she

did ; but she does not tat us how sha came
by the knowledge, and the evidence tends to show
that she had not examined the clothes in the cot.
Had GOUGH told her ? But now the strange dis-
crepancy occurs in Mr. KENT'S also, that he twice
told FOLEY, the policeman, that he did not know
of the blanket being missing till after his return from
Trowbridge. There seems no reason to doubt Fo-
LET'S veracity. And if he spoke the truth the re-
sult is, that ELIZABETH GOUGII and Mr. KENT
resembled each other in having both of them denied,

and both of them affirmed, knowledge of the miss
ing blanket before the body was brought in.
The single denial and affirmation of either might
well be set down to temporary confusion of recol-
lection. But that two individuals, and about the
hour, should concur in making the identical incom-
patible answers about the same thing, is one of the
most mysterious of the mysteries of this painful
business. It ought to be most rigidly scrutinised.
Some stress has been laid upon the assertions by
the accusod of the innocence of Miss CoNsTAIICIE
KENT and of Mr. KENT; of her being cer-
tain that nothing more would be found in
the soil of the water closet; and of her

....
telling ELILA DALLIMORE that though the
chest flannel fitted her, it was n 6 reason why she
should have done the murder. But we cannot like
the manner of this witness, and strong expressions
of opinion as to how the murder was done, and by
whom, were, as the Chairman observed, nothing re-
markable when all around her were expressing
their opinions. And her manner, he remarked,
was altogether that of an innocent person, being
neither sullenly reserved, nor officious in making
communications.

Mr. KENT'S own conduct and statements are,
perhaps, as perplexing as any, Not only
the strange coincidence of contradictory assertions,
identical with the self-contradictions of GOUGH
already noticed, but his passing the parish constable
and policeman, and setting off to Trowbridge. One
of the sons, however, went for URCH, the nearest
policeman ; but whether by his father's direction is
not said. Then his locking up the police whom he
had in his house for several hours, while he walked
about, the night after the murder, so that, though
they could get out of the house, they could not get
into any other part of it; his refusing to allow a
plan of the house to be taken ; the Newfoundland dog,
though comparatively old, not barking that morn-
ing, as he almost certainly would have done at a stran-
ger's footstep or scent—these are singular and im-
perfectly accounted for facts; and, when to these
we add the almost divining where the body would
be found by one of the two men, they induce us to
think it possible that the inquiries may, as yet, have
taken a wrong direction. The case does not remain
quite as it was. Suspicion must yet rest on one or
more inmates of the house, and may do so till the
judgment day. At the same time the supposition
of co-operation from without is not utterly without
I support. More it were not just to say, at present.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE has acted with admir-
able tact and discretion throughout the whole
route traversed by H. R. H. the Prince of WALES
in the British North American possessions. His
grace is understood to have received, in regard to
the exercise of that tact and discretion, a carts

blanche (so to speak) from her Most Gracious MA-
JESTY, before H. R. H. started upon this deeply in-
teresting and unprecedented expedition. And his
grace, we must all of us admit, has justified to the
full this signal mark of the Royal confidence. The
task entrusted to him was one of exquisite respon-
sibility. It was one, moreover, in the performance
of which he could look for guidance at moments of
anxiety to no single precedent whatsoever. Upon
his own unaided judgment the onus of every suc-
cessive doubt or difficulty devolved. And though
it might have been presumed by the more sanguine
before starting that all would necessarily be, in nau-
tical parlance, "plain sailing" before the heir to the
Crown, and H. R. H.'s entourage, the late disgrace-
ful proceedings of the Orangemen of Kingston and
Toronto have proved by this time directly to the
contrary—they show that the PRINCE'S pathway
was not strown uninterruptedly with flowers—
that his Royal Highness could be, figuratively
speaking, pelted more indecorously with the
oranges of bigotry, than with any of the ordinary
mud and brickbats commonly
,darkening the air
at a brawl among the roughs in one of the back
slums of Billingsgate. 'throughout the entire
length of the progress made by the Prince of
WALES in our British North American possessions,
from the moment when his Royal Highness first
set foot upon the opposite shores of the Atlantic, to
the time when he paused upon the frontier line
dividing the two Canadas from the United States,

his grace the Colonial Secretary has exercised an

adroitness of discrimination beyond all praise, in
conducting the proceedings of this unexampled pro-
gress of the Prince of WALES along the eastern
borders of the North American continent.

There, for the first time, the Duke's tact and
discretion seem to have suddenly left him for awhile
altogether. No great harm has come of it we ad-
mit. But it is none the less, to our thinking, a
grievous error of judgment on the part of the Colo-
nial Secretary. Allusion is made, of course, to the
circumstance naturally enough arising in the in-
stance of the Prince of WALES himself out of the
motives of simple CURIOSITY—the circumstance of
his Royal Highness countenancing, by his presence,
the foolhardy buffooneries by which that rope-danc-
ing mountebank, M. BLONDTN is latterly in the habit
of desecrating the sublime spectacle of the Falls of
Niagara ! It is hardly less than lamentable, we
cannot but think, that his Grace the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE should should have consented thus to allow
tho dignity of his Royal Highness's character
to be derogated from, by its public asso-
ciation in this manner with one of the
most puerile, and at the same time one, of the
most flagrant instances ever upon record of the
One Step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous!
Does any one want an illustration of that One
Step, he may recognise it upon the instant in the
first nimble foot-tread taken by M. BLONDTN, the
French rope-dancing mountebank, along the cord
stretched above the rapids of that stupendous series
of the Niagara cataracts. The outrageous incon-
gruity, the monstrous and indefensible indecorum
of this utterly ludicrous exhibition at the Falls of
Niagara, the limes' correspondent has admirably
expressed where he writes—" To leave the study
of these eternal cataracts to witness the feats of
any rope-dancer, however skilful, is very much like
shutting your prayer-book to go and witness a pan-
tomime." The correspondent might even have said
that it is rather like shutting your prayer-
book, and while holding that prayer-book still
in your hand, turning to witness the per-
formance of a pantomime, " got up" "by
particular desire," within the immediate precincts of
some sublime temple dedicated to the worship of
GOD—uuder the shadow, let :us say, of our grand
old Abbey at Westminster, or of Notre Dame in the
Isle de Paris, or of the world's wonder among sacred
edifices,the glory of the Eternal City, the matchless
Cathedral of St. Peter's ! In the mere sound
of that everlasting voice, going up cease-
lessly from the Falls of Niagara, by night and by
day, year after year, generation after generation,
century after century—from the first hour of the
subsidence of the Deluge until now—in the mere
sound, we say, of that everlasting voice of inarticu-
late adoration there seems something like absolute
impiety in the plaudits accorded to the nonsensical
freaks of this preposterous acrobat in his parti-
coloured tights and spankled jacket ! It is like
grinning through a horse-collar by the side of a
death bed ! It is like turning somersaults to the
organ tones and the choral chant of the " Halle-
lujah" of the Mount of Olives of Beethoven
"'Tread lightly—it is holy ground !"—is heard in
the roar of those everlasting falls—is visible in the
spray of those eternal cataracts. And yet there, in
answer to that bidding of nature, M. BLONDIN has
the drum and the pan dean pipes and the little strip
of carpet—" treads lightly" upon chalked soles—
deems the " ground" so " holy " that he quits terra
firma to tremble above it, if not " upon the suspen-
sion 'of a hair," upon the tightening of a two-inch
rope. Ask a mind, a heart, a soul like that ( f
CHARLES DICKENS what are the emotions excited
by the presence of those sublime Falls of Niagara
'—and then see, in 'your imagination, M. BLONDIN
'claß Bring upon his rope-walk over the cataract !