The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, IH6.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

that the prisoner, who had been wearing a hat, was wear-
ing a cap. He noticed the prisoner pass something to a
man, with the remark, "Good night," and believing it was
his watch he followed the prisoner and charged him with
stealing it. The prisoner denied having done so, and he
then gave him into custody.
Benjamin Bishop, of No. 2e, Upper Rathbone-place,
proved seeing the prisoner and another man, one on each
side of the prosecutor. The prosecutor complained of
being robbed, and ho (witness) sew the prisoner pass some-
thing to the man, and then they made off. He went after
the prisoner and stopped him, and was struck by some of
the prisoner's friends,
In answer to the prisoner, thf witness said ho did not
see any exchange of hats.
Sergeant Cole, C division, sail the prisoner was a ticket-
of-leave man, the term for which he was sentenced not
hav:ng yet expired.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

Agricultural Prospacts.

The week opened with a most unfavourable day,
much heavy rain falling at intervals, with a gale of
wind. Early on Monday morning the rain was
again heavy; wind, west ':o south-west; thermo-
meter, 58 degrees ; barometer, 29.80 inches. The
day was more favourable, but no harvest work could
be proceeded with. On 'Tuesday the morning was
fine and autumnal, cold and breezy, with slight rain
at 3 p.m., and again in the evening. Our advices
on that day were as follows :—From the West
Riding of Yorkshire-4' Since Friday, the weather
has, on the whole, been better, and some carrying
. was done on Saturday. Sunday afternoon was very
wet. Monday and to-day fine until 4 p.m. ; but
rain now comes freely again, so that but little pro-
gress can be made in clearing the ground, and the
grain shakes out with moving. Our farmers will
therefore have plenty of work to make ends meet
and tie again. Turnips look well, except where
they have been flooded ; but they want dry weather,
as well as the potatoes, which are now taking
harm." From the East Riding—" Weather during
the week has been very unsettled, with more or
less rain almost daily : on Sunday it poured down
in torrents for several hours. Harvest opera-
tion. have, in consequence, been much impeded,
and the bulk of the grain still remains
in the fields, while what has been gathered
must necessarily be in wretched condition ; to-day,
however, is rine, with a rising barometer. Most of
the grain in this district will be sprouted and other-
wise deteriorated in quality by the long-continued
untoward weather." From Norfolk : " The weather
since Thursday has been more favourable, and har-
vest is almost completed in the marshland district."
From Suffolk : "More corn yet to be secured in
this district, and weather unfavourable." From
Northumberland : "The weather on Wednesday
was dull, but without rain. Since it has been fine,
with occasional showers : wind varying from S.W.
to W." Wednesday was a favourable morning,
but rain followed about three p.m., with occasional
showers afterwards. From Lincolnshire, on that
day, it was observed : " The weather the past few
days has been more favourable for the harvest, and
the farmers have been busy with their crops. Should
the weather continue fine, the fields will soon be
cleared. Both wheat and barley have sprouted."
From Nottinghamshire : "We have had finer
weather this week, and the harvest has been pushed
forward as much as possible around here. There
are complaints of barley having sustained consider-
able injury from the late rains. Wheat is not so
badly damaged as vas expected." From the west
coast of Scotland: "The weather has been fine from
Friday up to yesterday forenoon, when heavy rain
again set in." Thursday was a cold, boisterous
day, with scarcely any sun, dull and gloomy, yet
seine corn was got up in the north. Our advices
from Worcestershire on that day ran thus : " Har-
vest operations continue to be much impeded byrain,
which we experience more or less daily. Farmers
appear to take every opportunity of carrying be-
tween the showers, and thus at least three-fourths
of the crops in this district are now secured, a large
portion being in wretched condition." From Buck-
inghamshire our advices stated :—" There is still a
large breadth of barley and oats and the weather
anything but settled." On Friday there were occa-
sional showers, and where such was the case little
work could be accomplished. Our advices were as
under :—From the West Riding of Yorkshire—
" Since Tuesday the weather has enabled our fartners
to gather a fair portion of their crops even in better
condition, from drying winds ; but rain came on
heavily again last night. To-day is most dry thus
far, but the sky looks unsettled." From the East
Riding—" The weather for-the past-week has been
still very unpropitious, much rain having fallen at
intervals, which hinders harvest operations, and the
crops, a great part of which in this district is still
in the fields, are in a critical condition," From
Lancashire our advices state—" Much rain has con-
tinued falling, chiefly during the nights; but with
breezy days a considerable breadth of the crops has
been hurried off the fields from the fear of still
further damage being sustained. Notwithstanding
the temperature is cool, there are very general com-
plaints of sprouted grain." From the northern parts
of Lincolnshire The weather since my last has
been very unpropitious, scarce a day without rain
during some part of it ; but in spite of this, owing
to good winds, much corn is being gathered, and
the bulk of the grain will be got in by a few days
hence. Much wheat will be found seriously
damaged, and barley equally so. The reports of
the yield of wheat are not up to the expectations of
the growers." From Devonshire, in the neighbour-
hood of Exeter, our advices say : " There appears
a good deal of both barley and oats still unsaved
on some of our hills, but we see nothing out on the
line of rail. The wet weather for the last fortnight
has stopped thrashing, and the supply at market
has been in consequence small. With dry weather
I expect much larger supplies." Early on Saturday
morning a heavy rain set in, with a cold north-
easterly wind, which lasted until the afternoon,
when the wind veered round to the north-west, and
it ceased raining for the remainder of the day. The
week, however, closed with a most gloomy aspect
for the farmer, and there bids fair to be a most dis-
astrous finish to the northern harvest, as well as to
all late districts; while, without a favourable
change in the weather, the next trouble will be that
the land cannot be got ready for -the sowing of
wheat. It is difficult to foresee the result of this
long procrastinated and very expensive harvest.
The low temperature has been the means of pre-
servation from germination up to a certain point ;
but beyond this, it has been too wet for such injury
being avoided.—Mark-/ane Express.

THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR.--The Daily News
is of opinion that
,Presiclent Johnson has acted
foolishly, and offended the sensibilities of the
American people by his tour through the States.
His journey to lay the corner-stone of the
Douglas monument wears the aspect of a politi-
cal pilgrimage to the shrine of his new political
faith. In every Northern city there is a large
minority who belong to the Democratic party, and
who welcome Mr. Johnson as a new'and powerful
leader with all the enthusiasm of renewed hope.
But neither the enthusiasm nor the loud shouts of
triumph will have much effect upon the polls. When
the shouts have passed away, and the boasting has
effected its temporary purpose, Mr. Johnson's
speeches will remain on record, and the doings of
Mr. Johnson's friends at New Orleans and elsewhere
will be exerting their effect, and the electors will be
quietly resolving, in the terms of a motto displayed
in the loyalists' convention now sitting at Phila-
delphia, that "Treason defeated in battle shall
not rule by ballot." The Northern people have
known how to defeat hostile armies in the field—they
know how to beat a hostile party and a President who
gn. The President has
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them, they will rebuke and defeat it, as the best in-
terests of their country and humanity demand.
The Electorad ofless fortunate than the
Kingt
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Saxony,
loses his Crown and his
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recently
intimated, on abdica2
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ting ; he retains all his.private fortune, plus an income of
600,000 thalers (2,200,000 f.) eharned on the State domains,
the annual receipts of which exceed five millions of thalers.
The Elector is besidos authorised to resido wherever he
may please, saving in the neighbourhood of Oassol, his
old capital,

French Theatricals.

• LYRIQUE.—The good people of Paris—for who
shall say that there are any bad people in so plea-
sant a place ?—well, the Parisians are frequently
reproached with their excessive capriciousness and
their bad taste in dramatic matters. They have
drawn down this reproach upon themselves by flock-
ing every night to the Biche aux Bois, the Famille
Benoiton, and other dramatic representations of
questionable merit. But. Paris is not altogether
peopled by the foolish and the frivolous. It con-
tains a vast floating population whose taste is be-
yond reproach. See how they run to the Theatre-
Lyrique. Faust always . fills the house, from the
poulalier to the extreme verge of the orchestra. Does
not their constancy thus loudly testify to their good
taste ? Are they, then, powerless to appreciate the
boundless beauties of Gouuod's style, and the artistic
groupings, the admirable arrangement of colours
which are combined upon the stage so as to make
pleasant pictures in the fancy. To Gounod and to
Mme. Carvalho exclusively appertain the honour of
attracting the multitude, for all the rest is sorely in-
different. M. Carvalho has substituted Monjauze
for Michot, Cazaux is the new Mephistopheles, and
Mlle. Cornelia plays Siebel. If Michot played the
devil with Dr. Faustus, what can be said of his suc-
cessor ? M. Carvalho has all Caisar's predilections
for obesity. " Let me have men about me that are
fat; fellows who have a lean and hungry look cannot
hope for an engagement." Now, Monjauze and
Cazaux are no disciples of Banting ; they are the
fattest artists that ever grunted in Epicurus
stye, and a fat Faust is an anomaly ; so is
an obese Mephistopheles. The envoy from the
realms of Plutus should be as lithe and nimble
as the knight of La Mancha ; and the Faust
whom Goethe drew should be a philosophic
maypole. We could however look over these
abdominal protuberances, a feat which neither of
those artists could themselves perform, had they any
voices, but they have none. Monjauze seems to
regard the entrance to Marguerite's cottage as that
seat beneath the shade, " for talking age and whis-
pering lovers made," since he whispers the exquisite
melody " Laisse-moi contempler ton visage," in•
notes so gentle as to be inaudible. Is this the im--
passioned love-song with which Faure and Mario-
electrified us 'and made us wonder whether any
woman could resist such special. pleaders ? The
Falstaff who plays Mephistopheles is the same "stout
party" whom you remember at the Opera ; he is a
well-meaning painstaking singer, but, like Words-
worth's primrose, he is " nothing more." The same
may be said of Mdlle. Cornelia. But Mme. Carvalho
is perfection. See her clad in complete chastity, walk-
ing "in maiden meditation fancy free" across her
garden, panoplied in all the pride of virginal purity,
and mark the beauty of her decadence after the love-
lorn girl has fallen before the tempter. How sweetly
does her mind wander on the " Seigneur" who had
accosted her as she sits at her spinning-wheel
chanting her ballad, and then mark the maiden's
bound into childish glee as she decks herself out in
the jewels, the seducer's lure. It is all beautiful
from first to last.
VAUDEVILLE.—This theatre has had another
fiasco, "The Confessions d'un Enfant du Siecle."
Jean Jacques' confessions were not particularly
palatable, but they are so charmingly told, that
we almost forgive him when his reflections upon
Madame de Warrens drove him to those excesses
into which even Horace fell when he journeyed
to Brundusium. The confessions of the enfants
of our age are, however, nasty and stupid, far
more Irish and less nice than those of either
Rousseau or 'Horace. M. Labreteche is a highly
respectable bourgeois, a model husband and
father. A snake bites his finger at a menagerie ;
the doctors tell him that he must die, the virus
is already coursing through his veins, whereupon
he makes a clean breast of the Augean stable. This
respectable gentleman's death-bed confession is as
edifying as Addison's. He sent for young Lord
Warwick, to let him see how a Christian could die,
but unfortunately he died drunk. M. Labreteche,
the moral model husband, admits that he had been
shockingly immoral in his habits ; he had even in-
troduced Mile. Verdurette under the toit conjugal,
where, by the way, Asmodeus might find many Ver-
durettes in the model menages of Paris. He tells how
he has defrauded his friends, swindled, cheated, lied,
and when he asks for absolution, the doctors find
.that the cobra capella was but a common harmless
snake, with no more venom in its fangs than Sir
Toby Belch found in
...Sir Andrew Ague Cheek,
Whatever genus the snake may have belonged to,
this new failure at the Vaudeville is of the same
genus as the constrictor.
NOUVEALITES.—The Pays de la Gaudriole will re-
pay yeti for your pilgrimage to this little-out-of-the-
way theatre ; the place is not easily found, you
drive up to some unknown regions in the Faubourg
St. Martin, you ascend to the third storey—pre-
nziere Torte a gauche, and there is the theatre. There
you will find yourself in the Pays de la Gaudriole,
and had O'Connell seen its indigenous population
he might have waived the Emerald's claims to the
" finest pisantry" in the world. A right pleasant
country to live in must be this same Pays de la Gaud-
riole—the plot baffles all description, it has even
mastered M. Charles Monselet, whose droll sketch
of the Gaudriole, in the Etendard, is confidently
submitted to those who don't object to the Gaud-
riole of the old Gaulois. M. Monselet'S critique is
even far more amusing than the play itself.

Many of the theatres are making ready, awaiting
but the words "Present, fire !" from their colonels.
Much is expected from the " Parisiens it-Londres,"
at the Porte-St.-Martin. " Je tape dans le tas " is
the chiffonieresque title of the piece now in prepa-
ration at the Delassements-Comiques: M. Sardou
has got a piece on the stocks at the Gymnase, " Nos
bons Villageois," promised to us on the 2d October ;
and the younger Alexandre Dumas will put " Ma-
dame Aubray" on the stage next month. "Don
Carlos" is detained behind the scenes because the
singers can't settle their little rivalries. Verdi is said
to be very angry, and well he may. Why does not
M. Perrin launch out his quos ego at these refrac-
tory artists ? The " Nouveau Cid" has gone the
way of all such too solid flesh—putrescence set in
before its appearance on the stage.
The purveyors of al fresco entertainments have
had a bad season. They display considerable inge-
nuity in imagining devices to attract the people to
their trim gardens on the Forum, but even the moat
intrepid quail before the meteorological impedi-
ments to pleasure, for who would care to listen to
music in a macintosh ? Jacques loved to sit and
muse under the shadn' of melancholy boughs, but
would his philosophy have sustained him under the
shade of a melancholy umbrella ? M. de Besselievre,
the entrepreneur of the concerts in the Champs-
Elysees, presents his customers with their photo-
grAphs. Acquit us, gentle reader, of the imper-.
tinence of attempting to :make you poser ; the
photographer will perform that part of the business
for you,- and you can hear some' good- music to
boot, and all for a franc—c'est pour rim. At Aspierea
they have Blondin. At Mabille and the Chateau-.
Rouge they have all the amusements, or some of
those which Horace loved, though the fair habituees
might not perhaps come' up to his idea of the
Nymphasque decentes." And as to the Hippodrome
you can see Sara l'Africaine much in the same cos-
\tume as decked the lovely limbs of Hugo's Sara la
Baigneux, and a wonderful Nubian is this swarthy
ecuyb-e; so black that charcoal would make a white
mark upon her face, and she bounds overand under,
on and off her flying steed with wondrous agility,
so that we found ourselves following the Bedford
motto, and shouting out " Clic Sara, Sara." There
is a wonderful biography about her. She was sold into
slavery, and passed with a batch of other chattels
into the possession of the Emperor Theodorus. But
her adventurous spirit enabled her to break the
bounds of the harem ; she escaped to the desert,
caught a horse from the wild herd that never needs
a fold—" Oh, give me but my Arab steed"—and
without saddle or bridle, or even a halter, she gal-
loped across the desert to the Hippodrome. The
sneering smile
in of the sceptic is suggessive of Bar-
num's finger this biography—but avaunt ye dis-
believers ! It must be all true, since the most
vivacious of all chroniclers, in the Gazette des
Etrangers, gives the high sanction of his authority
for the facts.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

LONDON, Sept. 25.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; light, pleasant breeze, and very fine, clear
weather.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—His
Imperial Russian Majesty's steamet:Grigen, from Cronstadt ;
Fearful, from Sunderland.
BRISTOL, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Trinidad,
from Havannah ; Elizabeth M'Lea, from Newfoundland ;
Ocean Pearl, from Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-Colurn-
binci, from Quebec. Sailed—Earl King, screw steamer;
for Melbourne.

GLOUCESTER, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—lndus-
trio, from Nov York; San Francisco di Poalo, from
New York.

CARDIFF, Sept. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Condor, for
Shanghai ; Ilealman, for Buenos Ayres ; Ludvig, for Rio
Janeiro.

FALMOLTII, Sept. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—John
Henry, from Newcastle for Madeira.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 24.—Fyenoord, steamer, from Rotterdam ;
Thos. Snowden, steamer, from Cronstadt ; Dolphin, steamer,
from Antwerp; Seine, steamer, from Boulogne; Sydney,
from Rangoon ; Isabella Heron, and Argus, from Riga ;
Edel, from Petersburg.

Arrived, Sept. 25.—North Star, steamer, from Chris-
tiania ; Camilla, steamer, from Patras ; Panther, steamer,
from Boulogne.

DEAL, Monday Morning.

Anchored.—Kelpie, for Bathurst; Fanny Fern, for
Swansea ; Eumore, for Barbadoes—all from London ;
Fanny Scott, from Shields, for Rio Janeiro, has been
supplied with an anchor and 15 fathoms of chain, in lieu
of others lost.