The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-16 00:00:00

ENGLISH ACTRESSES IN AMERICA.

The New York Times rejoices over a great achieve.
ment. British burlesque has made its exit. The
troops of actresses and dancers from England and
France, whose contortions and liberal exposures
gave such annoyance to the moral people of New York,
have been finally got rid of. " A single theatre now re-
luctantly prolongs the existence of British burlesque in
this city. All doors, excepting those of Niblo's Garden,
have been closed upon it, and at the end of this month we
shall have the satisfaction of recording its dismissal from
this last stronghold." The news is highly satisfactory.
Only it is to be hoped that, now New York has been
freed from the indecency and extravagance imported from
England, it will set to work to get rid of its native stock,
which is not small.

CANADA.
The Canadians have chosen the Ist of July as tne
anniversary day on which the formation of the Dominion
is to be celebrated every year with rejoicing. One of the
American journals thinks this choice unwise. It will rejoice
the Orangemen of Canada, since July Ist in the old reckoning
was long their anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and
it will in the same degree disgust the Irish Catholics,
who are the majority. This paper recommends the
4th of July instead.

SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.
The more enlightened portion of the South American
press loudly complain that the speech lately delivered
by the Brazilian Emperor contained no allusion to the
great question of slavery. In the Imperial speeches of
the two preceding years distinct promises were made that
measures for the emancipation of the three million
slaves in Brazil were in preparation. In the
speech just delivered not a word is said in
connection with this subject. The Anglo - Brazilian
Times says it is impossible that his Majesty can have
changed his views as to the existence of an evil which he
has long desired to remove. " Nothing but the strongest
pressure could have produced this silence, and the Ita-
borahy Cabinet will be universally held responsible for a
course which mist be held to be a most unhappy and ill-
advised retrogression in Brazilian policy."

gi 711 E QUEEN'S MESSENGER."

(From Me Anglo-American Times.)

The Queen's Messenger is a well-written weekly
paper, which brings out in each issue a sensational
biographical sketch of peers and people of distinc-
tion. It does for the moral character the pen and
ink work that Vanity Fair does in sketching with a
pencil the persons of statesmen ; though the one is
in the nature of a malicious libel, and the other in
that of a caricature. When Vanity Fair intro-
duced its pictures it began to sell, if not before;
but what the Italian artist with his brush did for
Vanity Fair, Lord Carrington with his stick did
for the Queen's Messenger. It was very kind and
considerate of his lordship, for the Queen's Messen-
ger sadly wanted to be advertised, and this the
noble lord did much more effectually than if he had
made a sandwich of himself and walked down the
Strand between posters, announcing the Queen's
Messenger and its sensational article, " Bob Coach-
ington Lord Jarvy." His lordship, being under the
impression that that article referred to his late
father and his family, awaited the supposed writer,
Mr. Greville Murray, on the steps of the Conserva-
tive Club, of which he was not a member, to strike
Mr. Murray, which he did on the bat, as the latter
states, " in a womanly way," when going out about
midnight. However feeble and feminine the assault,
Mr. Murray retired precipitately, seeking shelter in
the club, the more so as be saw a fighting "party"
with a stick peeping out of his pocket behind the
young lord, wbo had followed him into the hall, call-
ing him a scoundrel, and announcing that be was the
Lord Carrington whose father Mr. M urray bad libelled
in his paper. Under these peculiar and unpleasant
circumstances, to any but a newspaper proprietor,
whose skin is too thick to care for a cow-hiding so
long as it aids the sale of his paper, Mr. Murray,
restraining the ardour which impelled him to anni-
hilate his assailant, consulted his attorney, as is
usual with Englishmen in trouble, through whom he
addressed Lord Carrington. Therein he denied
any knowledge of the family of whom he never
wrote one line, to whom he had never offered any
discourtesy, alleging that be was neither the editor
nor the proprietor of any newspaper whatever. The
solicitors of the peer replied that his connection with
the Queen's Messenger was matter of public noto-
riety, admitting of the clearest proof, and that his
Lordship acted in the full belief that he bad

made an infamous attack upon his family. In
this corret3onelence- was a -letter from the Sec-
retary of the Club, calling for satisfactory expla-
nations, in the absence of which an extraordi-
nary meeting would be convened to take into
consideration Mr. Murray's conduct, and his
reply thereto, in which be explicitly denied
having written the articles, and denounced
his assailant. These he despatched to the daily
papers, when he and the Queen's Messenger be-
came the talk of her Majesty's subjects, and the
journal began to sell like hot cakes. It is advisable
to strike while the iron is hot, and on the investi-
gation which took place in the Marlborough Police
Court on Wednesday a further sensational interest
was imported into the case by a gallant attempt to
capture Lord Carrington's solicitor, papers and all,
in court. "Never before was seen in an English
court of justice," was the commencement of various
leaders next morning, and before night every
edition of the Queen's Messenger bad run out,
and all the back numbers were bought at a
high premium. We may quote this case to show
how infectious is example. Lord Carrington had
commenced by beating the wrong man, if Mr.
Greville Murray is to be believed, and Colonel
Campbell followed suit, by attacking and flooring
an officer of the court in plain clothes, under the
impression that he was one of the party endeavour-
ing to deprive the solicitor of his box, and was
brought up on the following day to answer for the
assault. Mr Murray was cross-examined, and the
lawyer discovered a connection persons of ordinary
capacity could not see between the rent he paid
for his lodgings and the Queen's Messenger. Were
he the registered proprietor (who is his son) no
doubt the rapid sale of the paper and his rent
might be connected, while Lord Carrington has a
right he might fairly urge to a commission on these
profits. Mr. Murray when shown some of the
MSS. extracted from Mr. Newman's tin-box, de-
clared they were not in his handwriting, and that
headed the Duke of Farebrother he would sooner
have struck off his right hand than have written.
About these documents, we are puzzled to under-
stand how papers, purporting to be the originals
of articles, could be preserved in a solicitor's desk.
Ours are written on pieces of whitey brown paper,
which go into the compositor's hands, are cut UPI
and seen no more ; and we might as well ask for
the bottle of champagne we had consumed the day
before at dinner, as for the " copy" the compositor
had disposed of. Perhaps they do things differently
in the Queen's Messenger, and the author of such
articles as " The Duke of Farebrother," probably
anticipating great renown, preserved the originals
as valuable property. We have no desire to criticise
Mr. Murray under cross-examination, for Lord
Carrington being committed, the case will come on
for trial. The English papers say that the scene 10
court was worse than American rowdy ism, and one
is good enough to state, " It would be an insult to
the Americans to say that the scene which took
place in the police-court during the hearing of the
Murray-Carrington charge was to assimilate our
courts of justice with theirs, as much an insult as It
is to the four-footed animals to call a drunken wife-
beater a brute." It is the cool impertinence of such
comparisons which annoys sensitive people on the
other side of the Atlantic, although we are at a leas
to see why they should care, for one section is pretty
sure to compare itself in this way with the other
most closely resembling it ; and neither in America
will the comparison be favourable to Britain nor 10
Britain to America. The sins are ascribed to the
following of a bad example set by the other, while
anything good is derived from the native element
only.