The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1869.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1869.

Earl Gem', in this matter of the Irish Church, is
determined to thrust himself to the fore. His amend-
ment in regard to the preamble he announced be-
times last evening. As to his opinions in reference to
the measure generally, it will not readily be forgotten
how very obtrusively those were forced upon the con-
sideration of the House of Lords, and, through the
House, upon the notice of the country at large. So
obtrusively that Lord GREY'S insistance upon his
right to resume the discussion, upon the renewal of
the debate after its first adjournment, involved in it
the greatest possible disappointment to the House of
Lorde itself, and afterwards to the whole community.
One thing Lord GREY is always resolved upon—
though as a rule little or nothing ever comes of it—
! timely, that he must be heard. Scarcely a soul in the
Hou-e is ever found to agree with him. He identifies
himself with no political party. He sits significantly
enough upon the cross benches. And whereas some-
body has said jocosely, that if two men can make a
political party Lord GREY seems always to be de-
cidedly of opinion that to that end one person—him-
self—is clearly sufficient. His position in the House
of Lords is peculiarly and conspicuously isolated. He
stands so absolutely apart from all the rest of the
peers that one might almost fancy the only effectual
way to induce him to abandon any one of his own
crotchets would be to agree with him in it. Directly
he finds himself trending towards concurrence with
anyone, he is instantly and instinctively—
off at a tangent. The facility with which
he can, in this way, at any moment, diverge
from Lis own line of argument, so as to maintain at
all hazards his complete isolation from everybody
else, arises, as one might say, from his never remain-
ing in any of the old grooves. The flange of his
erratic wheel of fortune, to speak fantastically of it,
as though it were actually like Herr SCHNIZERL'S one-
wheeled velocipede—the flange of his wheel of fortune
never drops into any one of the old ruts, but leaves
him as free in movement, as ready in deflection, to
the right or to the left, as the most practised skater,
as one capable at any moment, either upon the inside
or the outside edge, to take the back turn or the front
turn at his own free will and pleasure. So little
is he in accord with any one that his administrative
experience may be referred to, now, as remote—
though, during is continuance, it was in somerespects
various. Since 1852 he has had no seat in any Cabi-
Immediately prior t) that, he had been Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies. He first held
office as Under-Secretary of that department in his
father's Administration. For a brief period he
occupied the position of Under-Secretary for Home
Affairs. And in 1835, on the formation of the MEL-
BOURNE Government, he had been nominated Sec-
retary at War. Under his courtesy title as Lord
HAWICK, he represented successively in the house
of Commons —in 1826, Winchelsea —in 1833,
Higham Ferrars —in 1.831, No. thumberlaud —in
1841, Sunr:prland. Within four ye_►rs after the last-
mentioned date, namely in 1815, he took his seat in
the House of Peers (upon the death of his father) as
the third Earl GREY. It was in the year following,
namely, in 1846, that he was appointed Secretary of
State for the Colonies, upon the formation of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S first Administration. Resigning with
his colleagues about six years afterwards, that is in
1852, Lord GREY published in two volumes an elabo-
rate Vindication of his Colonial Policy. Since that
time he has never taken his seat in any Govern-
ment. Even upon the construction of the celebrated
Cabinet of All the Talents, Earl GREY was over-

net.

lo.le 1. lie was conspicuous by hi 3 absence from it.
Lord ABERDEEN gathered together his heterogeneou a
forces, but among the varied leaders of those forces
Earl GREY was nowhere discernable. Especially,
and p:culiarly since that date, it that Earl
GREY has fought for his own hand in the
PatFamentary lists. De bon servir le roy is
the loyal motto of his house—emblazoned under
the device of a sealing-ladder. If not crest-
fallen, his device leads nowhere-- and as for
his motto, it might now, in his own instance, De bon
vouloir, servir luimerne. We cannot pretend even to
conjecture what good there is in an insolatel " poli-
deal party," such as is formed by Lord GREY'S own
individuality. It simply expreEsez the odi ideas of
one man. But it has at least the merit of expressing
those right out and quite unreservedly.

that report or the evidence, which has just been '
printed in a substantial volume of nearly 250 pages,
without acknowledging the magnitude of the evil
wherewith it deals. The clergy can henceforth have
no excuse for neglecting the subject. Hitherto too
many of them have held aloof from it through
a somewhat ignorant idea that the tem-
perance question was, somehow, identified
with dissent. They will now see that there is no
subject in which a parochial clergyman is more
deeply concerned. The next point will be to bring
this report to bear practically upon the evil with
which it deals. We heartily rejoice to see that the
first step has been taken in this direction by Arch-
deacon DENISON, who, living in Somersetshire, and
being, therefore, well acquainted with the evils
of the cider-truck system, has carried the following
resolution :—" That the practice prevailing in many
parts of the country, especially in the cider districts,
of the sale of drink by persons having no licences of
any kind, is also commended to the notice of Convo-
cation, and the attention of the Legislature called to
the necessity of providing a remedy for an evil
having so close a connection with the subject matter
of this report." We trust that this will be an effective
blow against the iniquitous system by which agri-
cultural labourers in the West of England are com-
pelled to receive a portion of their wages in a
beverage that is utterly useless for food, and is often
a noxious poison.

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Caen

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 21.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High.
ness Princess Beatrice, walked and drove in the
grounds this morning.
Princess Louise also went out.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

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AMERICA.

NEW YORK, June 21.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1378 ; the highest quotation dur-
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PHILADELPHIA, June 21.

In Kansas, in a fight between the Government
surveyors and the Indians, four Indians were killed
and several wounded. Two whites also were

wounded.

The Sioux and Reis tribes having quarrelled,
there was a skirmish near Fort Bufort. Eeven
(chiefly Sioux) were killed and forty wounded.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Juue 19.—Three o'clock—The market
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

AIARLBOROUGI-I-STREET.

" GIVING THE TlP."—John Thropp, a black man, was
charged with begging in Great Portland-street.
Peoe-coustable James Swaine, 14 E, said that he saw
the prisoner lying on the ground in Great Portland-street,
begging, and saying "Pity a poor cripple," and a well-
dressed young man standing opposite ready to give him
the "tip" when the police were coming, After being at
the place some time the prisoner took the young man into
a public-house, and called for half a pint of old and bitter,
and a pennyworth of gin in it for him. The prisoner hav-
ing become noisy he took him into custody.
A witness named Alexander Smith watched the pri-
soner for three hours, and saw him begging, and a person
giving him the " tip." The prisoner went into a public-
house and called for some gin, saying he wanted " Old
Tom," as fiVepenny gin WAS not goqd enough. The pri-
soner, while on the ground, was continually shaking, and
pretended he could not walk.
Committed for a month with hard labour.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The production of a new and original domestic
drama by Mr. Tom Taylor would of itself have been
quite sufficient to have insured a crowded audience,
but the additional fact had become public that the
play had been written for Miss Bateman, and that
she would sustain the leading part, last night filled
this elegant and favourite theatre to an over-
flow. The title of the drama is " Mary War-
ner," and we may as well say at once that the
admirable actress has been fitted with a part
that probably will rival in success even that of
" Leah." The author has taken a homely incident
for illustration, and working out the plot ha hag
cleverly introduced a number of telling yet simple
illustrations of the longsufferings that virtue for a

time may have to undergo; but which in the end only
tend to show how much a true-hearted woman will
suffer for the object on which she has set her pure
and unalterable affection. That Miss Bateme n infused
into such a part the most intense pathos no one can
doubt ; and great as the estimation of her powers
undoubtedly is with the majority of playgoer; those
who had the good fortune and privilege of being
present List night spontaneously bore fresh and
enthusiastic testimony to the truth of her inimit-
able acting. The plot of the piece briefly told is as
follows :—Georga Warner, a young engineer,
clever and talented, becomes graatly dissatis-
fied at the treatment he has received at the
hands of his employers, Messrs. Dutton and
Downes, engineers and contractors, who have on
former occasions immensely benefited by the ingeni-
ous inventions of George without making him a
further reward than a few small gratuities, who is
desirous of emigrating to America, where genius and
brains, he has been told, get better appreciated
than in the old country. Downes, not willing to
lose a good and clever man, but unwilling to
give him the slightest share in the product
of his inventions, refuses him a loan of
£2O, which so enrages George that he
makes use of observations that induce Downes to
make reference to a cash box, to which George re-
plies that he has, he believes, as good a right to a
portion of the contents as the master. He, how-
ever, quits the office in disgust, and then, without
his knowledge, Mary,his wife, seeks her husband's
employers, in order that she might solicit that aid
which she thinks her husband's high spirit will not
allow him to ask. She likewise is refused, and
whilst engaged in conversation with the wife of
George, Downes is called from the office, from which
he hurries, without locking the drawer containing
the cash box. Mary, having learned from Downes
that George has made the request and received a
refusd, also quits the place, and then Bob Levitt,
an idle fellow-workman of George's, with a mind
above bard work, and who hasbeen discharged, enters
and carries into execution a plan he has had in con-
templation of robbing the firm. He steals the cash
box and makes off with it, resolving to give George

the £2O he requests to get to go to America. The
robbery is discovered, Mary and George Warner are
the suspected parties, and the police are at once put
on the track. Bob, to carry out his intention of

lending George the £2O, calls at his lodging, but,
finding all from home, takes the opportunity of
opening the cash box with George's chisel, and
having wrapped four five-pound notes up in an
American packet list c3nceals the box in George's
room. The police enter, and on their return Mary
and George are told of the robbery, and the strong
suspicion that attach to one or other of them, which
thefinding of the property strongly confirms. George
becomes indignant and dangerous, and Mary,
thinking that her biisbaud has yielded to
temptation, declares that she is the thief.
A trial takes place, M try is sentenced to
five years' penal servitude, and George for a time
becomes a broken man to think his Mary
should have degraded herself so vilely. Time
wears on, Mary serves her sentence, and resolv-
ing never to live with her husband more after bis
cruel treatment, she seeks work of the hardest de-
scription, and is compelled to live in a not very re-
spectable neighbourhood. George, in the mean-
time, has become a wealthy man, and in his desire
to relieve the distresses of au almost frantic
woman he gets robbed of his purse. The
police suspect Mary, she is taken into custody,
and the first meeting of haiba,l4 and wif,.3,
after their five years' separation, is in the
police-court, George sitting on the bench beside the
magistrate, Mary being at the bar. it is shown
that Mary is not the thief, and she is discharged,
but George is driven almost to madness at the dis •
covery of his wife, and takes steps to ascertain tier
retreat. Remorse and drink have driven Bob Levitt
almost mad, and he determines to confess the
robbery. This he does, and then in the last scene,
the drawing-room of the wealthy engineer, George
Warner, Mary his long suffering wife again receives

the deep and devoted love of her husband and child.

Of the acting of Miss Bateman we can only say it was
truth itself. Throughout the play she had carried

the deep sympathies of her audime.e with her, and
in the last scene, her interview with her child after
an absence of five years, she again touched the
deepest chord of affection, and drew tears from
many, who certainly thought their crying days were
over. Mr. Howe acted with great ability, and
Mr. Compton and Mr. Rogers, the one as
the over officious poli3e.man, and the other the
kind-hearted warder of Brixton prison, each sus-
tained their parts to admiration. Mr. Kendall played
the part of Levitt very well, and Miss C. Hill Ls
Milly Rigg deserves the highest commendation for
the taste and pathos she infused into the part.
Little Miss White, who appeared as the child of

Mary and George Warner, acted splendidly, and
many a fond mother amongst the audience envied
Miss Bateman the privilege of hugging and kissing
her. The scenery is more than ordinarily good—
the interior of the prison at Brixton, the West-
minster Police Court, and Plum Tree Court, called
forth the loudest applause.
All the principal characters were called for at the
close of the drama. Miss Bateman received quite
an ovation, and Mr. Torn Taylor also had to bow
his acknowledgments for the applause bestowed
upon this his last and, we might almost say, his
best work.
Mr. Buckstone announced that the play would be
repeated on every evening of Miss Bateman's en-
gagement, and in the most confidential and private
manner he informed the audience his benefit was
fixed for the 10th of July—a secret he hoped they
would not fail to keep. Both announcements called
forth the loudest applause, amidst which the popu-
lar manager and favourite actor retired.