The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-18 00:00:00

Sailors' Home.

The annual meeting of the friends and supporters
of this institution took place yesterday in the new
building, Well-street, London Docks—Admiral Sir
William Bowles, the president, in the chair. A report
was read which gave a very satisfactory account of
the progress of the institution; and aftersetting forth
the advantages it offered, stated that the experience
of the past year proved that the annual increase of
business had more than trebled. Furthermore, the
gratifying fact was established that, even at the pre-
sent moment, the receipts from the additional num-
bers of one year very nearly, if not entirely, made
the institution self-supporting ; and the directors re-
joiced in being able to produce so convincing a justi-
fication of their final appeal to the public companies
and mercantile firms for the further assistance re-
quired to clear off the remaining encumbrance on
the building fund account (£300) which would effec-
tually remove all. financial anxieties. Bearing in
mind that no leas than 213 boarders have been vic-
tualled daily during the past year, it might easily be
conceived that the high price of provisions had not
tended to relieve the directors from anxiety, thorgli
the charge for board had b..,en raised and cheerfully
acquiesced in. Nevertheless, the directors fully an-
ticipated that the " home" would meet the expendi-
ture of the current year. The report of the Desti-
tute Sailors' Asylum was also read. It stated that
precedingekdn
olmm destitutiono nths, was a
greater
a decrease in numbers,. compared with -those of the
;towh
demand
htfi sorfreasscuat
lityr
sailors
otokenu
ebeot
tf,
thetdhime increasedwineisllh and growing tonnage of the merchant
navy had materially contributed. To whatever
cause, however, this effect might be traced, it was
still painfully true that the asylum had been called
upon to dispense the work of mercy to 713 destitute
sailors since the Ist of May, 1865 ; nor during the
lapsed period had the most obstrusive or least de-
serving of its applicants knocked in vain for admis-
sion. The demands of trade, the greater facilities
for re-shipping, and the want of employment else-
where, all tended to swell the number of incomers
to this centre of industry; and even here the market
was sometimes overstocked; which fact had mate-
rially helped to make up the total number (49,901)
of destitute sailors to whom, since the year 1827,1 the
asylum has been a welcome harbour of refuge. The
reports were adopted, and resolutions were agreed
to in furtherance of the objects of the institution,
expressing a senseof gratitude for the signal success
which had attended its operations, and thanks to
the Prince of Wales and other benevolent friends
who had contributed to that result. Directors were
then elected or re-elected for the ensuing year, and
a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman concluded
the proceedings. The chairman, on behalf of the
directors, then presented a handsome gold watch to
Captain 'Webb, the secretary, for his valuable assis-
tance in promoting the welfare of the institution.

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occurred from cholera, eight in the workhouse, and 23 on
shipboard. The sufferers were all emigrants, or in some
way connected with the Helvetfa. It is not true that it
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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1866.

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EIZRATIS3I.—By what must have been recognised,
of course, upon the instant, as the result of a purely typo-
graphical error, arising from an inadvertent but most vexa-
tious transposition, au advertisement appeared in this part
of our imprint of yesterday.

While warlike preparations still continue with
unabated vigour, we find that all parties are more
less disposed to discu-s the probabilities of a settle-
ment, though how it is to come about is more than
can possibly be determined. The Constitutionnel of
yesterday published an article which set the case
before its readers in a very straightforward manner,
and aptly described the particular difficulties that
stood in the way of a final adjustment. "The
neutral Powers, " it says, "could neither induce
either of the different parties to concede the de-
mands of the other, or usefully recommend to them
the maintenance of the status quo." They might, it is
admitted further on, find a middle course by which
a eompromige could be made. How to discover
this middle course is the difficulty, and how to per-
suade the parties concerned to act upon it will be
another work of surpassing magnitude. The fact
is that the task of the neutrals, who are seeking
to promote the interests of peace, would be far
easier if there really existed some cause of dispute ;
but the truth is that the danger lies in the inimical
feelings of one state against another, and this ob-
stacle will be very difficult to remove. It is said
being ceded by
Austria,ts for the rumour of Venice
and of the Austrian troops
having been partly withdrawn from that city, for,
on the contrary, as many as hundred thousand
are there, and upon a warfootrngo . The Paine of yes-
terday mentions that the basis of the programme of
Conference have been settled by Earl
Baron BUDBERG, and M. DRom,sl de L'liy e°s LE
Only
three questions are definitively included
namely, Venetia, Schleswig Holstein,Federal
,it—
u•
and ueral
Reform. Certainly these are all that are most i
portant, and that demand immediate
attention.
M. DROCY. de L'iILTYS is to draw up a despatch and
to forward it to the Court of Vienna, Berlin, and
Florence. Austria, according to accounts, does not
seem likely to interpose many obstacles in the way
of an arrangement, but every one knows that the
Chief trouble will be to get Prussia to come to terms.
No one can possibly complain of the Vienna Go-
vernment for objecting to the plan proposed by
Prussia for the basis of a Reform of the Federal
Constitution. Ab for the other points of dispute,

The official report of the American Commodore
respecting the bombardment of Valparaiso does not
tend to remove the painful impression which the
first receipt of the intelligence left on the public
mind. The fact that the ships of the three most
powerful nations of the world should quietly move
out of the way to allow a power like Spain to destroy
a defenceless city, after they had protested against
such a proceeding as barbarous and unwarrantable,
is, certainly, so startling and discreditable as to
admit of no satisfactory explanation or excuse.
Commodore RODGERS himself appears fully sensible
of this, and is evidently grieved and mortified
that no effort was made to arrest the attack.
His account gives a singular contradiction to the
statement of Mr. L.kYARD in the House of Com-
mons the other evening in which he said that no
proposal had been made by the American com-
mander to co-operate with the English vessels in
resisting the attack. Commodore RODGERS dis-
tinctly states that he had told the English Admiral
that he would not only join him in preventing any
sudden bombardment, but that he would go as much
farther as he chose. The Monadnock alone, he said,

would dispose of the Numancia, and the wooden ves-
sels, English and American, could look out for the
wooden vessels of the Spaniards. In making this
offer, the American commander does not deny that
he exceeded the strict letter of his instructions, but
he adds with great force and justice, "I acted upon
the supposition that neutrality among the nations
did not preclude all well-directed efforts to keep the
peace among them ; that as a peaceable citizen is
not obliged to stand inert while another is suffering
from the unlawful violence of a third person, but
may justly interfere with force to prevent an in-
fraction of the laws—a murder for example—so a
nation witnessing a like disturbance among her
sister nations, need not rest absolutely impassive,
but with sincere neutrality might interfere, with
force if necessary, to keep the operation of belli-
gerents at least within the law for the protec-
tion of neutral persons and neutral property."
This is a reasonable application of the non-in-
tervention doctrine, which, in these days, it has be-
come the fashion to strain to an extent which par-
teaoknedsneatliwkheieoh, on h
of cruteletyparat ofnd pusillanimity. The
great and powerful
nations is applauded as the acne of pru-
oinoddiv.dpollicy,
not woluledx,posoenhinathtoe
pdeanrteeof aapnrdivatge
saes
aviesrtei
acge ntshuer e ,e r
ibrau
ntaol a u a
ws,
eplanf
as
only
piionf
nndyntdhe Americansus
commander remarks, proposes to burn the
property and destroy the towns along the
Chilian sea coast. " Is it right," he asks
with honest indignation, " That she should
thus exercise her power of destruction unrestrained
along the shores of this continent?" Such pro-
ceedingF, he adds, are calculated rather to excite
private animosity than to subdue the national will,
and are therefore not directed to the legitimate
ends of warfare. The English Admiral, however,
consulted the English Minister at Chili, and they
were afraid of undertaking the responsibility of
action. If the fleets of the several European
powers, however, had refused to leave the port,
it would have thrown the onus of attack upon the
Spanish Admiral. He would scarcely have ven-
tured to quarrel with England, France, and
America at once. Even Spain, with all her
" dignity," might feel a little alarmed at the
prospect.
We cannot but think that in this
case, as in so
many others, a little decision
?maces' appeals, an I queries, the
at the
subsequent disasters
right time would have prevented great
Eofnaglllisthh eanredmAmonset and complications. If, instead
American commanders had sent a joint
! note to the Spanish ackairal giving him due notice

that in case of an attack they should feel it their
duty to. protect the city with their united
fleets, there is very little doubt that Valparaiso
would be nOc standing unhurt, much valuable pro-
perty saved, and the Spanish Government itself in
a very much better position. It is perfectly useless,
if not ridiculous, for us to be at the expense of
keeping up fleets and foreign stations, if they are to
be of no possible service to ourselves or our fellow-
subjects abroad. We are glad to see that the mat-
ter will not be suffered to rest here, but that *
meeting has been held at Literpool, a deputation
from which is already in Lon&)n. Unless the papers
to be produced bear a very different aspect from the
present sources of information, it will be difficult to
remove the stigma from the English name.

CORRESPONDENCE FROG PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.

The Moniteur, cautious ever, but more so at the
present crisis, abstains from giving publicity to the
many alarming fabrications about " wars and
rumours of wars." The Cabinet Councils continue.
That which was held yesterday lasted more than the
usual time. I often abstain from sending you the
so-called news of German and French papers, simply
because on inquiry in official quarters I find that
there is no foundation for it. At the present mo-
ment fabrication of intelligence is so rife, and pro-
ceeds upon such an organised system, that the fol-
lowing sensible commentary from the Siecle deserves
attention :

" The gravest positions have their comical side.
If important events were not to be feared, if the
whole of Europe were not threatened with long and
terrible agitation, one would laugh at the succession
of contradictory news brought by the telegraph. In
the morning we are told that Hanover has
quarrelled with Prussia, who orders her to disarm.
In the evening the account is that they are on the
best possible terms. Yesterday the news was that
all the military preparations were suspended. To-
day the statement is that they have not been inter-
rupted for a moment. (The Siecle then contradicts
the report of the arrival of the Archduke Renier at
Berlin with proposals of peace, which news, I told
you yesterday had no foundation in truth.) Would
not one say that all these telegrams have but one
object—what is called, in the slang of the Bourse,
a coup to raiss prices or a coup for decline ?
Our fellow-citizens who go to the Bourse not
to speculate, but to invest their capital, would do
well not to attempt to make a profit by these oscil-
lations. Gambling at rouge et noir is less dangerous
than that species of gambling in which the chances
of loss or gain vary at the will of the inventions and
informations of a few anonymous correspondents.
What may be considered as certain, in the midst of
so many incoherent rumours, is that both Germany
and Italy persist in arming."
Letters from Italy announce that another warrior
of note, Kossuth, has arrived at Florence to aid in
the supposed coming struggle against Austria. As
to Garibaldi, although his acceptance of the com-
mand of volunteers has been officially announced,
the Unita Italiana says that the following letter has
been received at Parma from the General :
" Caprera, May 8, 1866. I have not given orders
to anybody at Parma to enrol volunteers. Young
Italy knowns it duty, and will know how to avoid
disputes (brouillons). At the call of entire Italy I
shall assuredly not fail. GARIBALDI."
The following is from the Constitutionnel :—" The
armaments proceed with extreme energy, both in
Germany and Italy. The armies approach the
frontiers. From instant to instant war seems im-
minent. But in proportion as the situation is
aggravated, in the midst of those levies en masse
and reports of guns, public opinion in Europe is
occupied in considering, with a feeling becoming
more and more earnest, more and more pressing,
what means can be adopted to preserve peace."
Another eminent politician and man of letters
has been " gathered to his fathers"—M. Ferdinand
Flocon. He died in exile at Lausanne, after a long
and painful illness, in his 67th year. M. Flocon
took an active part in the Revolution of 1830, and
the Democratic patty confided to him the editorship
of a Radical paper, the Tribune. He was after-
wards chief editor of La Refoi me, during which
period he steadily opposed Louis Philippe and his
Government. At the Revolution of 1848 the people
hurried him from the office of the Reforme and pro-
claimed him a member of the Provisional Govern-
ment. He became Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce, in which capacity his labours were well
appreciated. Popular feeling, however, changed
and turned against him ; and although he had, in
1848, 128,000 votes for the Legislative Assembly,
he was afterwards rejected, upou which he retired
to Colmar, where the malady which caused his death
first made its appearance soon after the coup d'etat.
In his retirement, however, he wrote many works
which have increased his literary reputation.

The following are the arrangements for the ensu-
ing races. The Versailles races are fixed for Sun-
day next. On Monday next the Military Steeple-
chase will take place at La Marche. On the 26th
and 27th inst. the races will take place in the Bois
de Boulogne, on which days the grand prize of
£4,000 sterling will be run for.

The Journal des Debuts says it has no news about
the war, but adds :—" In the States of the Confe-
deration there appears to be little sympathy for Prus-
sian policy, and public opinion pronounces itself
against it."

I am sorry tosay that the cholera has re-appeared
in France. It has made several victims at Guerande,
in the department of the Loire, and has since broken
out at Nantes. The cases at the hospital, however,
are not numerous. In general the patients are
women, whose indulgence in drink rendered them
susceptible of the disease. In the Rue de la Bastille,
at Nantes, a workman died in two or three hours
after the attack.

The trial has commenced, before the Court of
Toulouse, of M. Aspe, the keeper of a drinking
house in that city, for the murder and mutilation of
his servant woman, named Marie Guillonet. I gave
you some particulars of the case at the time. The
murder took place in January. The head was severed
from the body, and portions of the trunk were
found in the Canal du Midi. The prisoner Aspe is
a married man. The supposed motive for the crime
is that being in embarrassed circumstances he wished
to get rid of the woman, who had lent him money
to the amount of between £3O and £4O.

The weather is becoming gradually more settled,
and the wind has abated ; but it has been very cold,
although the sun has been shining brightly all day.
This morning the gardens in Paris and the fields in
the country were covered with white frost.

There have been races at Angouleme and Poitiers,
but they are hardly worth notice, except that at the
latter Viscount Talon's Grand Clos was killed in
jumping a bank. -

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday at the so-
ciety's house in Hanover-square, the Right Hon. Sir
George Clerk, Bart., president, in the chair ; Sir George
Armytage, Bart., Major-General John St. George, C. 8.,
R.A., Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. G. Dawkins, Lieutenant-
Colonel Henry Hardinge, Colonel G. Gambier, C. 8., R.A.,
Major Kerr, Captain the Hon. John F. B. Elphinstone,
Captain Richard Coote, Captain Walter C. Wingfield,
Captain Forbes, RN., the Rev. C. Fryer, Mrs. Henry,
Mrs. P. I. Salomons, Mrs. C. H. Jay, Miss A. Braham, and
Messrs. H. W. F. Bolckow, E. F. Davis, S. Saunders, H.
J. Turner, F. J. Underwood, C. E. Stubbs, R. Dames, E.
Langton, C. J. Mander, Nathan Meyer de Rothschild, M.P.,
M. %,‘ yatt, Roger Eykyn, Alfred Charles de Rothschild,
Stephen Dowell, J. H. Jonas, V. Hampton, C. Weguelin,
Robart Fowler, T. Usborne, M. Herrmann, P. H. Berthone,
C. H. Fe; H. Herbert, B. Wontner, C. H. Dashwood, E.
Westby, B. C. Greenhill, Montague Guest, lon Trant
Hamilton, M.P., F. Claudet, H. W. Scott, A. Beauclerk,
S. T. Cooper, J. Weis, G. C. Douglas, W. H. Allies, W.
J. Whyte, E. H. Blackett, H. Mandalay, Hector Essex,
find M. D. Wyatt, were elected fellows; and Mr. Wm.
Sweetland Dallas, keeper of the Museum of the Yorkshire
Philosophical Society, and Herr Otto Freisch, curator of
the Museum of Natural History, Bremen, corresponding
members of the society. Seventy-five new candidates
were proposed for election at the next meeting in J use.
On the sth of June there will be a grand dinner
at Willis's Rooms to present Capt. Maury with a testimo-
nial, which will take the monetary form of 3,000 guineas.
SLY Min. Pakinto wi4 _

THEATRE-ROYAL PRINCESS'S,

Mr. Charles Kean is Wolsey.
Mrs. Charles as Queen Katharine

In Shalupere's Tragedy of Henry VIII.

A magnificent reception—almost the noblest re-
ception we remember to have ever witnessed—was
last evening accorded to Mr. aid Mrs. Charles Kean
upon their re-appearance, after a three years' absence
from England, before tho very pick of the world of
London playgoers. Many circumstances combined
to render the occasion one of a very exceptional cha-
racter. And that it was so recognised was suffi-
ciently well attested by the in every way exceptional
enthusiasm o: the audience. The house itself,
which eleven years ago was the scene of many of the
grandest triumphs achieved by our great Tragedians
—was, as a mere matter of course, crowded as
thickly as the space could permit, from floor to
ceiling. Boxes, pit, stalls, gallery, and slips were
crowded, moreover, with their respective occu-
pants long before the play of the night com-
menced—the majority of the seats thus filled,
having been wisely secured several weeks ago
in anticipation of a more than usually numerous
attendance. An anticipation that will be recognised
to have been more than justified when we add that
many others less provident in the way of thus
taking time by the forelock, were denied admit-
tance, to their manifest disappointment, purely be-
cause of the want of room for their accommodation.
By a most judicious selection, Shakspere's Tragedy.
of " Henry VIII." was the play chosen for the in-
auguration of these notable performances—that
drama affording alike to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Kean, the opportunity of signalising once more be-
fore the most appreciative of all their audiences,
meaning of course those oldest and staunchest of
all their friends, the playgoers of London, the
possession by each, in 'absolute , maturity of
the rarest gifts as historical artists, and this
simply and obviously by reason of the fact that
that same great tragedy Of King Henry VIM
comprises, within its dramatis personce two cha-
racters, long since numbered very high indeed
amongst the very finest of their impersonations—
Cardinal Wolsey and Queen Katharine. Anything
partaking of the nature of a studied analysis of
either the one or the other of those remarkable
impersonations would, by this time, be not only
a matter of supererogation, but it might even be
said would be little less nowadays than an im-
pertinence. So familiar are all those who are
in any way acquainted with the large diversiity of
the powers no less than with the wide range of
the repertoire of both of our world- famous ar-
tists—who may be spoken of now as artists li -
terally and not merely figuratively world-famous
—so familiar we say are the vast majority of
playgoers not only here in this metropolis, but
far and wide throughout the country, on the
one hand, with the consummate excellence, the force,
the subtlety, the passion, and the pathos of Mr. Kean's
interpretation, personification, very incarnation, so
to speak, of the form and character of Cardinal
Wolsey no less to the mind's eye than to the bodily
eye of the beholder ; and, on the other hand, with
the pathetic and impassioned solemnity of Mrs.
Charles Kean's realisation to sight and hearing of
all that is most touching in the remembrance of the
mournful history of Katharine of Arragon. Never
was either of these two truly remarkable imper-
sonations given more effectively than last evening—
and this in spite of the manifestly profound emotion
with which both actor and actress, the hero and
heroine of the night, came to the commencement
of the interpretation of the familiar text. The
enthusiasm of the reception accorded to each in
turn upon the moment of the first reappearance
of each before the footlights hardly admits of
exaggeration. It expressed the cordiality of a per-
sonal friendship. it implied, moreover, by its very
intensity, the poignant regret with which the
audience bore in mind at the very moment of wel-
coming back their old favourites, that their return
was merely preliminary, and that at no very distant
time, to their final retirement. When the gorgeous
pageants of the procession advanced on to the stage,
at about the middle of the opening scene of the
Tragedy—ushering in the great Cardinal, Arch-
bishop, Chancellor, and alter ego of the King,
arrayed in his pontificals, having an emblazoned
canopy held over his head, his scarlet train carried
behind him by pages, the crosses, the mace, the red
hat, the great seals, and the other pomps of his
abundant dignitieS born before him by the various
officers of State—the welcome given t e the
great actor upon the instant of his
recognition was as loud, prolonged and
umistakable as any welcome by possibility
could be. The roar of applause that greeted him
upon the instant of his advent was renewed again
and again, and yet again—until, in fact, had
it been renewed any longer, it could hardly
have failed to have proved simply tedious and in-
considerate. There was no mistaking its cordiality.
it was a welcome that any man might have been
proud of. And yet seemingly extravagant though it
aynetces_it was oounee ocfa
pAalbrl. e
of Charbeliensg Kf
uel al
yn '
jsuspteifir feodribny-
might have appeared to any one than who had never
witnessed
his artistic performance of that one h c aracter of
Cardinal Wolsey, more particularly in the
second
and third acts. Above all, beyond all, by his every
look, word, and gesture, to the profoundly affecting
close of the third act from the commencement of the
famous soliloquy. In that soliloquy—ghat
force of
wondering indignation in the Cardinal's ejacula-
tory allusion to Ann Bullen, the newly created
Marchioness of Pembroke__

• • . . A knight's daughter,
To be her mistress' mistress ! the Queen's queen
Adding thereto immediately, with a significant
muttering to himself
This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it,
Then out it goes!
Words so significantly muttered that they were
greeted with a burst of acclamation. It is in his
bye-play, however, more even than in the utter-
ance of any words, even though the words to be
uttered are the words of Shakspere, that the genius
of the actor is most clearly recognizable. Instance
this—when he has no words at all to utter—
his sudden alteration of manner, when Lovell
touches him—him the Lord Cardinal !—upon the
shoulder to direct his grace's attention to the fact, of
which the Cardinal is not aware at the moment,
namely, that the King is present—his abrupt alte-
ration from the haughtiest glance of scorn at the
over-familiarity of Lovell to the courtliest suavity
of loyal recognition when, upon turning round, he
beholds himself to be face to face with the Sove-
reign. Later on, when repelling the foul and
in a double sense the wanton insults
directed against his head as an annointed prince
of the Church by Surrey—the Cardinal's gaze of
lofty and withering indignation, blighting his
assailant, so to speak, from head to foot, renders
almost superfluous the utterance afterwaads of the
wards that come then as little else than a self-com-
muning explanation of the look preceding them—

How much, methinks, I could deprive thee
But that I am bound in charity against it.
As for the passion capable of being thrown into
articulated syllables, what could go beyond his pre-
vious exclamation to the same peer—
Proud lord thou hest, _

Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
Have better have burnt tha tongue then said so.
Or his earlier reference to Cranmer as one who—

"Rath crawled into the favour of the King,
And is his oracle."
It was in the closing scene of the third act, however,
as already remarked, more particularly in that por-
tion of it in which he communes in tender and tear-
ful solemnity with Cromwell that Wolsey, as im-
personated by Mr. Charles Kean, is realised the
most exquisite by the genius of the last of our
true Shaksperian actors, to our appreciation.
Just as it is in the great trial scene before
that and finally at the close of the fourth act judi-
ciously completing the tragedy, as it is now repre-
sented that the more winning and affecting beauties
of Mrs. Charles Kean's interpretation of the part
of Queen Katherine are brought most vividly and
effectively to our recognition. Judiciously, as but
just now remarked, the green curtain descends
upon the apotheosis, so to speak of the sainted
Katherine--when the visible dream of the angelic
throng descending the expiring %Ile=