The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Orders have been received at Woolwich to hold
in readiness a supply of mountain service guns and
equipment for disposal in the event of an expedition
being resolved upon by the Government for the
liberation of the Abyssinian captives. The expe-
rience gained during the past few years in which
this species of artillery has been in use has called
the attention of the War Department to the neces-
sity of its improvement. The guns are now being
considerably reduced in weight, and their system of
transport has undergone a searching investigation.
One of the guns, made of brass, and formerly a 31b.
smooth-bore muzzle-laoder, was on SatUrday
mounted on the pack saddle on the back of a mule
purchased by the Grdnance. Select Committee at
Woolwich for experimental purposes, and was pa-
raded in marching order :for their investigation.
Thclweight of the gun is now 2001 b., having
been reduced by cutting a piece off the muzzle
and paring down the outside. It has al:o been
rifled on the Woolwich principle, and the calibre
has been increased so as to fire a projectile of 71b. A
number of photographic sketches were exhibited to
illustrate the various modes adopted for the moun-
tain service in India. Capt. Fenn, a cavalry officer
of much experience attached to the Military Store
Department of Woolwich Arsenal, late of the 10th
lluaars, who was present, suggested that . the
method now in use of carrying the gun lengthways
on the back of the animal was inconvenient, and
should be discontinued. lie proposed that the pack
saddle should be slightly readjusted, and the gun
should be carried crossways. The weight, Ile said,
would be thus brought down nearer the back, and
the animal would be much relieved. The proposi-
tion was favourably received, and the alteration was
ordered for consideration. Lieut. D. M‘Mahon, of
the Military Train at Aldershot, has been ordered
to attend at Woolwich by the Quartermaster-Gene-
ral, with i,he view of superintending the manufac-
ture of some pack saddles on his expanding prin-
ciple, adapted to the backs of animals of large or
slntll size by siu'ply adjusting a screw in the frame-
work.

The depot companies of the Ist battalion of the
14th (Buckinghamshire) Regt. arrived at Chatham
yesterday from Ireland, having landed at Gravesend
from the Irish steamer which conveyed them from
Cork. The strength of the depot is 5 officers, 159
non-commissioned officers and men; with 21 women
and 50 children. On its arrival at Chatham the
depot marched into quarters at St. Mary's Barracks,
and joined the 3d battalion of Infantry, under the
command of Col. the lion. J. J. Bourke.
The flying column from Aldershot left Bourley
Bottom on Friday, and returned to quarters in
camp. 'The tents were struck at half-past 7 o'clock,
and a quarter of an hour later the men breakfasted.
At half-past 9 o'clock the whole 'formed up fur
their march to quarters, and at 10. o'clock were on
the Inove: The incidents of their short campaign,
however, had not quite terminated, for, as they
reached the top of a hill, a battery of the Royal
Horse Artillery disputed their progress, and opened
a heavy fire. The C battery of the Royal Artillery
attached to the column immediately responded,
covered by the 54th and 70th Regiments. After a
fire had been maintained on both sides, Gen. Renny,
in command of the column, made skilful dispositions
for a retreat, which was successfully accomplished,
and the force reached camp shortly before 11 o'clock.
The column had the advantage of beautiful weather
during the whole of its sojourn in the open, and not
a single casualty occurred either during the marches
or field operations.
In accordance with a divisional order issued at
Aldershot, recruits in future will be put through the
course of musketry instruction after having been
two months at the gymnasium, returning for the
third month's training after the completion of
musketry instruction.
The non-commissioned officers and men of D com-
pany, 44th Regiment, stationed at Aldershot, have
presented.a silver cup to Private John M'Garth, of
the came company, as a token of esteem, on his
leaving the regiment. Although presentations of
the kind are common enough in all regiments, there
were some circumstances on this occasion which
render it worthy of notice. M'Grath is referred to
in the Times' Crimean correspondence of the 24th
of October, 1854, as the man who assisted Dr. James
Thompson in his humane endeavours to alleviate
the sufferings of 700 wounded Russians left behind
after the battle of the Alma at a deserted village on
its n9rth bank. At what risks this task was per-
formed is related not only in the correspondence
alluded to, but also in Carter's Military Records of
the 41th Regiment. M.%Grath has served 22 years in
the army, has five good-conduct badges, a medal
fur distinguished conduct in the field, a medal for
good conduct and long service, and the Crimean
and Turkish medals.

The sailing Indiaman Bolingbroke, Capt. C.
Pryce, 11.N.R., arrived at Spithead on Friday even-
ing from Madras with 41. invalided soldiers, three
women, and 18 children, from various regiments.
She sailed from Madras on the 22d of March, and
called in at St. Helena on the 23d of June. The
troops were transferred from the ship at Spithead on
Saturday to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley,
and at 2 p.m. the Bolingbroke sailed for London.
The sailing Indiaman Surrey, Capt. J. Marshall,
arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from
Calcutta, with 102 invalided soldiers on board, four
women, and 16 children. The officers on board
comprised Lieut. Marshall, R.A., commanOing ;
Lieut. Hadden, Ist battalion 23d Regiment ; Lieut.
Wynter, 104th Regiment ; Lieut. Lawless, 97th ;
and Assist.-Surg. Wikely, Ist battalion 19th Regi-
ment. Her dates of sailing are—Calcutta, April 29;
Sandheads, May 2 ; and St. Helena, July 2. The
troops were disembarked on Saturday, and at 3 p.m.
the Surrey left Spithead again for the Thames.
Three prisoners tried by courts-martial at Devon-
port on. Friday and Saturday last pleaded " Guilty."
William Wilcox, corporal, Royal Marine Light In-
fantry, charged with neglect of duty when sent on
shore from the Lion in charge of an escort, was
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Lewes
gaol. Mr. H. G. Dominy, carpenter of the first
class of the Indus, appointed for service in the Agin-
court, charged with being drunk, forfeits his seni-
ority as carpenter of the first class, and is admonished
to be more careful in future. W. Wright, private,
Royal Marines, on board the Royal Adelaide,
charged .with using insubordinate language, was
sentenced to receive 48 lashes and to be imprisoned
12 months at Lewes. There were five courts-mar-
tial at Devonport last week, and it is probable that
there will be at least two more this week.
Orders have been sent to Rio de Janeiro for her
Majesty's ships Spiteful and Dryad to proceed to
Bombay from the Brazil station.
Navigating Lieut. A. Hamilton was appointed on
Saturday to the Fisgard, for surveying duties.

News from Bombay, dated July
.24, states that
the crew of the Sacramento have been forwarded to
America in the ship General Canfield. Double
rates are in future to be charged on all telegraphic
messages front Kurrachee to Great Britain and
France, containing groups of figures, when the com-
modity to which they refer is not specified. During
May over 89,000,0001b5. of cotton, to the value of
upwards of £3,367,000, were shipped from
Bombay.
ELIDVEnTISEMENT.J— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious,
st Mach and liver complaints is every stage are only aggravated
aeeelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly
by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food,
as proved by thousauds of cases which had :been considered
(dyspepsia,), cough, asthma, con-
hopeless ; suuh <s indigestion
sumpiien, ita,ntual cors'aintion, diarrhmt, all gastric derange-
-mts, hieni )rrholds, liver comilaints, flatulency, nervousness,
bitionme::::, fevers, sere thrJats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in-
fli.tenza, nokes in the head and ears, rheum ttisrn, gout, impu-
'oel, creptions, hysteria., neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness,
palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy,
, ,;easms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at
i„ Sin:iOng tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest,
pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c.
We quote a few.—?'he Pope's health restored by Du Barry's
Food. Cdre NO. 63,113.—"Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of
the holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other teme-tics, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
waiente. .kiabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful
at every ra.,af. It ' has pro bleed a surprisingly beneficial
effeet on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this
e7feellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi."
Ju!y 2i. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer-
chant, of Fri-alley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
seifting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—
C:tre No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Vecies, Lord Lieutenant of
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and
vomiting.—Maria Je I y." Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and nv,ra than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Lieble's name is most audaciously attached.
In tins at is. lid.; 1 lb.. 2s 9cl. 2 lbs., 4s. 64.1.: 5 lbs., lie.
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—Banav Du BAURY and Co., No. 77,
:Ltegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ;
and at 61, Gracechurch-street• 4, Cheapside; 68, 150, and 289,
Oxford-street 330 Strand; and all grocers and amigo,

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Miscellaneous roreiga News.

The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 15,
says :

The city of Rome and all the neighbouring
places have been smitten by the cholera. It has
now reached the epidemic stage. Since my last
letter the approximate number of deaths is reck-
oned at 300 in Rome itself, and as many in the
country. The greatest number of cases have oc-
curred in the town of Albano, which, since the 6th
instant, has been literally ravaged by the pestilence.
A body of persons, numbering from 1,000 to
1,500, had fled from Rome to Albano, which is
celebrital for the healthiness of its air. They
thought to be perfectly safe there from the cholera.
A great many of the visitors had, during the sth
and 6th, been partaking of social and festive en-
joyments ; others had amused themselves with
walks on the borders of the lovely lake. All at
once, on the night of the 6th, the temperature sud-
denly fell, and without further warning the epide-
mic broke out. When people rose from their beds
on the morning of the 7th above 140 cases had
already occurred in the town. The confusion and
panic were indescribable. The authorities sent off
to:Rome in hot haste for medicines, doctors, and
priests, the supply of these in Albano having
failed. The aspect of the place was most distress-
Every minute a window was thrown open in
some house or other in the street, and a terrified
inmate besought the passers by to send a priest or
a doctor to some member of the family who had
been seized. But what could eight or ten con-
fessors, and a couple of medical men, do in such an
emergency ? People literally seized hold of them
whenever they showed themselves in the streets.
The single apothecary's shop in the place was be-
sieged. On the 7th, by twelve at noon, that shop
did not contain a single drop of castor oil nor of
solution of camphor ; and-the people had already
obtained all that was to be obtained from the
neighbouring one at Ariccia. Women ran hither
and thither with dishevelled hair and terrified
looks, supplicating the Iloly Virgin to come to
their aid and to appease the anger of Heaven, and
at least to obtain the grace of a good end for the
dying. "To Rome !to Rome !" they cried ; " oh,
for priests! oh, for doctors !" But the inexorable
scourge redoubled his violence. We do not even
now know the full number of his victims.

ing.

The Cardinal Bishop of Albano, his Eminence
Monsignor Altieri, usually resides in Rome, where
he has to discharge the offices of President of the
Cons Ulla of State and of Arch-Chancellor of the
University. When he received the telegraphic
despatch informing him of the outbreak of the
pestilence he was assisting at the annual examina-
tion of the Clementine College. He rose up and
said, with that calmness which only true courage
can give—" Gentlemen, a more urgent duty than the
present summonses me to Albano. Godihath smitten
myflock. Pray to Him with me that the life of the
shepherd may suffice." He instantly entered his
carriage and drove to the residence of his noble
family, took all the money he had at command,
gave orders for all the medical aid and medicines
that could be obtained to be forwarded at once to
Albano, and then, without taking any refreshment,
started for Albano by a special train. In one hour
his Eminence entered the ill-fated town. The
people flocked round him just as if they looked for
some miracle to be wrought for them by their
zealous pastor.
Alas ! he could work no miracle ; but he did his
duty like a true priest and like a hero. For four
days he was continually occupied in going from
house to house, hearing confessions and giving
medicine, assisting and comforting the survivors,
attending funerals to the cemetery, and, in some
instances, actually helping with his own hands to
carry the corpse to the grave.
The members of the Town Council are all either
dead, or sick, or in flight. The infirmaries have
broken down under the extraordinary pressure
on their resources. Even grave-diggers could
not be obtained. The Zouaves of the garrison
worked as infirmarians and as grave-diggers.
Three of their number are dead, and several have
been seized with the malady. On the Bth, at
noon, the Queen Dowager fell ill of the cholera
as she was attending to her two children, the
Princess Pia, and the Prince Januarius. The King
was at the bedside of his illustrious stepmother,
holding her head between his hands, and praying
for her. At six o'clock the royal sufferer received,
from the hand of the Cardinal Archbishop, the
last Sacraments, and the Benediction in articulo
mortis of the Sovereign Pontiff, which was asked
and sent by telegraph. At eight o'clock her Ma-
jesty breathed her last, just as she had besought
her royal stepson to take care of his own health,
and exhorted him to forgive all his enemies.
A few hours afterwards there arrived at Albano
Monsignor Borromeo Arese, Maggiorduomo of his
Holiness, who was unable to come in person, but
had sent his high officer of State to console the royal
family, and to convey to his Eminence the Cardinal
Bishop the sum of 3,000 francs for the relief of
the poor of Albano.
On the 9th was announced the death of the
Princess Colonna, chief lady of the illustrious
family of the name, and of her youngest daughter.
On the 10th and 11th, the violence of the pestil-
ence seemed to have reached its climax. On the
11th it snatched away the beloved and heroic
Cardinal Bishop from his loving and admiring
flock. He expired at 3 p.m. The good shepherd
gave his life for his sheep. He was only ill about

ten hours. The news spread consternation at Rome,
where the Cardinal was held in great esteem ; so
much so, that he was commonly spoken of as the
probable successor of Pius LX.
In five days after her death, the Prince Janua-
rius followed his young mother to the grave. The
Holy Father (it may be easily conceived), is in
great affliction. He has, in addition, been seized
with severe pains in his legs, which have pre-
vented him from visiting the hospitals, and it is
still uncertain whether he will be able the day after
to-morrow to assist at the Mass of Requiem for
Cardinal Altieri.

The Iron Age calls upon Mr. David G. Wells,
United States Commissioner of Revenue, to contradict a
report circulated by the London Engineering, that his views
and policy, as expressed to the editor, are that too great
protection is already granted for the truo interests of
American manufacturers, and that, lower duties should
prevail. Ths Iron Age very naturally expresses the hope
that the _Revenue Commissioner will authorise it to con-
tradict this statement.

On the Ist of October Commodore Joseph Lau-
man will succeed Rear-Admiral Bailey as commander o
the Kittery navy yard.

A record of all his mercantile acquaintances
kept by Amos Lawrence, of Boston, during his long life,
shows that of every hundred of those who entered busi
ness 97 failed of success.

Mayor Norcross, of Boston, has appropriated his
salary to works of charity, having given $2,000 of it to
Old Men's Home, and smaller sums to various other chari-
table institutions.

One day the last week in July George Papen-
dick was drawing the cork from a bottle, when it burst,
and his hand was badly cut. Inflammation set in, and on
Saturday, the 27th, he died at his summer residenco at
Milton. Mr. papendick was a German, the consul of
Mecklenburg at the port of Boston, and a member of the
banking-house of Metcalf and Papendick at the latter city.
He leaves a wife and three children.

Rev. C. H. Ilanaford, of Athol Depot, having
been obliged by ill heath to resign his charge, has opened
in that town a wholesale and retail boot and shoe store, a
line of business in which ho has had experience in the past.
Ex-President Day, of Yale College, now near the
close of his life, s.ys he is going on the eight-hour prin-
ciple, rising at eleven and going to ted at seven.
The late Capt. John Gilman, of Stanstead, C.E.,
one of the (Erectors of the Connecticut and Passumpsie
Rivers Railroad, bequeathed $5,090 to found an academy
at North Derby, just over the Canada line.
Henry Stevens, a distinguished citizen of Ver-
mont, died at his residence at Barnet, Tuesday night, July
30. his age was 73.

Rev. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of St. Louis, has been
elected president of the New Hampton Institute at Fair-
fax, to succeed the Rev. J. Upham, now ono of tlw editors
of the Boston Watchman and Afiector.

The Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, has recently re-
ceived from the Rev. Mr. Corning, the boating clergyman
of Poughkeepsie, a present of a beautiful shell wherry, of
the same pattern as that in which the latter has made seve-
ral trips clown the lludson and Connecticut rivers.
In making his will the late Paschal P. Pope of
Boston romemberod, out of his $700,000 estate, Qs iusti-

tutions of that city in the following gifts :—To the Boston
society of natural history $20,000, to the temporary home
for the destitute $lO,OOO, to the Boston dispensary $20,000,
to the Sailors' Snug Harbour $30,000, to the Howard
benevolent society $20,000, to the Boston provident asso-
ciation $lO,OOO, to the home for aged men 530,000. He
left also to Harvard college $50,000 to found the Pope
professorship of the Latin language and literature. James
Haywood of Boston, who died worth $200,000, besides
his private legacies, left $20,000 each to the American
institute of technology at Boston. to Harvard college for
an astronomical observatory, and the American Unitarian
society, $5,000 to the Boston young men's Christian union,
$2,000 to the Arlington-street church, and $l,OOO a-piece
to almost every charitable institution at Boston.

Colon3l Nathaniel Davi, of Sutton, formerly
High Sheriff of Merrimack County, died suddenly at
Contoocookvire on Sunday, July 28, while on his way
home from Concord.

Mr. P. Fiske Reed, an artist, of Chicago, is
about to publish a volume of poems.

Joseph Smith, the Mormon, left a translation of
;he Bible, which, it is said, will be published in the fall.

After returning from a professional call the other
day, Dr. Zalmon Hall, one of the oldest physicians of
Stepney, Maine, was taken ill and died almost instantly.

A complimentary dinner was given .at the Parker
House, Boston, on Tuesday, August 6th, to Mr. John I.
Blair, president of the Sioux City branch of the Pacific
Railroad.

Walter Brown has finally consented to accept
Hamill's challenge to pull on the Hudson for the cham-
pionship of America.

Miguel Lopez, the ➢lexican traitor who sold
Queretaro and betrayed Maximilian, went to Puebla to see
his wife. She called him a base coward and traitor to his
face, and told him to take his son and leave her presence
fur ever.

The Rev. Robert G. Chase, of Philadelphia, who
with his wife and six others was drowned at Mount Desert
recently, was insured for $ll,OOO, a policy of $lO,OOO being
a gift of his vestry.
Romero, who has been Mexican Minister at
Washington for eight years, has resigned his office, and
will return at once to his native country. The Ministers
of Nicaragua, Honduras, and New Granada, at Washing-
ton, have also resignsd.

Major Rodman is enaged to_Miss Dahlgren, the
daughter of the admiral.

In M. Pierrepont's speech in the Surratt trial on
Monday ho told the story of a premonitory warning of
disaster that Mr. Lincoln had before his assassination. On
the morning of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln there was
a Cabinet meeting. Tho members of the Administration
were joyous over the surrender of Lee. Mr. Lincoln ex-
pressed anxiety about Sherman, and when Grant assured
him that Sherman was all right he replied by detailing a
dream which ho had had previous to Chancollorsville,
Stone River, and other defeats. Tho recurrence of the
dream led him to dread the recurrence of disaster. It
came ; but, instead of calamity to our armies, it was his
own assassination.
Dr. Prime represents the United States at the
present session of the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam.
At the conclusion of his address on Monday last he gave
a hearty invitation, in the name of his American brethren
to the Evangelical Alliance to hold their next conference
in New York.
The Austrian Consul-General in Hamburgh has
received the necessary instructions for forwarding to their
homes the former soldiers of the Mexican legion, who are
shortly expected to arrive here.

FLATTERING POPULAR DEMONSTATION TO MR

ELIAS I10;17E, JUN.

Recently our city was the scene of a popular demon-
stration, such as has not taken place for many years.
The occasion was the return of Mr. Elias Howe, jun., from
Europe and the Paris Exhibition, bringing with him the
gold medal awarded by the commissioners for his inven-
tions, and the decoration of the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, presented by Napoleon 111. The honours and de-
corations, however, had little to do with the welcome that
greeted Mr. Howe on his arrival here, but rather the univer-
sal respect for his upright private character, his compre-
hensive benevolence, anil his marvellous inventive genius.
The fact, too, that he had been announced iu the public
prints as very sick, and indeed as dead, added an extra
zest to the pleasure with which his friends and fellow-
townsmen generally saw him return among them
again. The demonstration originated with the em-
ployes of the Howe Sewing Machine Factory, who
took the occasion to show their respect for their
employer, and gratitude that he had so far reco-
vered from his illness as to be able to return again to his
home. Learning that Mr. Howe was expected on the
steamer Bridgeport at 4 o'clock, the employes in the
factory petitioned the managers to bo "KT:flitted to stop
work long enough to pay their respects unitedly to him,
and urged the matter so strongly, that the committee
finally obtained the following order from headquarters:—

NOTICE.

Mr. llowo will arrive on the steamer Bridgeport to-day

about four (4) o'clock. At the request of tits enz-
ploy;s who wish to tender their respects to him, on his
return, the engine will be stopped at three (3) o'clock for
the remainder of the afternoon.— Per order of
E. W. HowE, Supt.

Accordingly the factory was handsomely decorated with
flags, and a few minutes before the time of the steamer's
arrival, a procession numbering about 200 men—all em-
ployed at the factory—headed by the Bridgeport City
Band, marched to Naugatuck wharf. By the time of the
boat's arrival some 1,500 persons had collected on the dock
and surrounding wharves.

On the arrival of the steamer a portion of the committee
boarded her, and paid their respects to their guest, the
band appropriately playing "Home, Sweet Home.
Mr. Howe, leaning on the arm of h's wife, and a mem-
ber of the committee, for he is still quite feeble, left the
steamo • and entered his barouche with his wifo and Mr.
Simon Howe and his lady. The procession, now number-
ing about 252 men, divided ; and, thus escorted, the party
were driven to the factory. As they approached the place,
a salute of 18 guns was fired from a brass cannon, under the
direction of Capt. W. S. Hotchkiss. The young ladies
employed in the shop, numbering about fifty, arranged
themselves in a line in front of the factory, and thus
seceived Mr. Howe. A general shaking of hands took
place. Soon after the lino was reformed, and the pro-
cession escorted the party to their home at Iranistan.
On the whole, this reception was most pleasing to Mr.
Howe, more so than was the p`audits by the Emperor and
commissions of France—for it told him more strongly
than words could convey the esteem in which he is held
by those who have served under him. It spoke volumes
for the liberality and generosity which has always
governed him in his treatment of those in his employ, in
fact was a greeting that would cause the heart of any
man to swell with honest pride and honourable emotion.
The committee of arrangements appointed by the em-
ployes was as follows :—Messrs. Charles Inglish, D. S.
Cole, W. Ingraham, M. Dimond, G. S. Hotchkiss, W. S. Dar-
ling, Marshal, W. S. Hotchkiss (secretary), E.W. Lawrence.
Mr. Howe is still quite feeble, though looking much better
than was anticipated. May the pure air of his own home
restore him to health and give him yet many years of use-
fulness and happiness.—New York Paper.

THE "TIMES" O.V THE NEW YORK STAGE

A Now York correspondent of the Times has commenced
a series of articles on the stage in New York. The
" Etglish Playgoer," as he terms himself, commences by
remarking on the ignorance in England of the standard
by which Transatlantic theatrical fame is measured. Some
years ago London was a common place of resort for
American actors of inferior note, which tended to the
formation of an unfavourable opinion there of histrionic
talent in the New World. Lately, however, the American
" stars" who have shone in England have been veritable
" stars" in their own country. bliss Kate Bateman at the
Adelphi reflects a triumph at all the leading theatres in
the United States. Mr. Jefferson, the excellence of whose
acting in Mr. Boucicault's "Rip Van Winkle," also at the
Adelphi, was admitted, is a great man iu Now York. Mr.
John S. Owens was unfortunate in the selection of his
piece, for the old uncouth farmer of New Jersey, his re-
presentation of whom is pronounced by competent judges
to be absolutely perfect, was a typo of character no Eng-
lish audience could appreciate. That actor is really ot,e
of the magnates of his country. Till such actors appeared
the Londoner was slow to believe that anything thea-
trically good could come from the opposite side of the
Atlantic, with the exception of those purely national de-
lineations of character which were given with such ad-
mirable spirit by Mrs. Barney Williams, and her sister,
Mrs. Florence. The writer observes that the amusements
of one civilised nation are intimately connected with those
of another.

The link between the stages of London and Paris is
notorious to everybody, and can be minutely observed by
any one who will take the trouble of conning over some
French theatrical newspaper, and now and then stepping
across the Channel. The link between the stages of Lou-
don and New York is likely to become stronger every
day, but the step across the Channel becomes a stride in
the case of the Atlantic.

Theatrically speaking, New York is as much the capital
of the United States as London is the capital of Great
Briiain and Ireland. Boston and Philadelphia hold a high
rank, but they are not inclined to regard with enthusiasm
an artist who has not already made a namo in the "Empire
City." Before the war a particular renown attached to
New Orleans as a place where "no end of money" was to
be made, but Now Orleans, like the northern cities, re-
quired a New York testimonial of talent.

The theatres of New York differ from those of London,
resembling Astlev's as remodelled by Mr. Boucieault, who
took the American typo as his pattern. The Americans
go further in their encroachments on the pit, having no-
thing like one in the accepted sense of the word, but the
portion of the ground area, which is not occupied by
chairs, is appropriated to reserved seats, and bears the
French name "parquette," which, however, is invariably
pre/gnu:iced "parquet." lh trout of the parquette are the

all-important orchestra stalls, which hold the same rank
as a row of stalls placed in front of the dress circle, and
called the "balcony." The seats in the dress circle behind
the balcony hold the same rank as the body of the par-
quette. A tier above the dress circle contains the cheapest
places in the house, and the price of these is sometimes
stated in largo letters at the head of the programme, as if it
were the charge for admission generally.
The gods by this arrangement are kept out of sight, and
among the rest of the audience little difference can be de-
tected. If there be less of the brilliancy of the London
occupants of the stalls, there is none of the dinginess of
the frequenters of London pits—the assembly generally
presenting the uniform character of an opulent, highly
respectable body. "The demeanour of the audience is quite
in keeping with their aspect. They are decorous to a
fault, and frequently so utterly undemonstrative in their
approbation that a person newly arrived from England,
observing the effect of a play upon the sp-.:etaters, would
declare that it was a complete failure, though the treasury
books would probably show that a thorough success had
been achieved. When the English roar, the Americans
merely smile, and even their smiles aro sparingly be-
stowed, as if they would not commit themselves lightly.
That this stoical repression of hilarity indicates superiority
of judgment lamby no means prepared to assert. The
right s:nile does not always come in the right place, and
even when an exceptional roar is at last produced, it would
be hasty to infer that the best joke is its cause."