The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1861:

11701111NA770N OF SLIE.RIFFS. -

Yesterday being the morrow of St. Martin, the
ceremony of nominating the Sheriffs for the several
counties of England and Wales for the ensuing year,
Cornwall and Lancashire excepted, the nomination
with respect to which devolves upon his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, took place in the
Court of Exchequer after the ordinary business had
concluded. Shortly after 2 o'clock the Lord Chan-
cellor, accompanied by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, wearing his robes of office, Chief Baron
Pollock, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Williams,
Mr. Baron Channell, Mr. Justice Keating, Lord
Granville, Sir G. Grey, Mr. A. Helps, and. the offi-
cers from the Privy Council-office, entered and took
their seats. The Queen's Bemembrancer then ad-
ministered the customary oath to the members of
the Council, and the Judges having presented their
returns of persons liable to serve the office of She-
riff, the Queen's Remembrancer read aloud the list
of nominations as follows :
ENGLAND.

BEDFORDSHIRE.—Crewe Alsten, of Odell, Esq. ; Benja-
min Helps Starey, of Milton Earnest, Esq.; and Robert
Henry Lindsell, of Biggleswade, Esq.
BERKSHIRE.—Robert Campbell, of Buscot-park, near
Faringdon, Esq. ; Jas. Blyth, of Woolhampton-hall, Esq.;
and Richard Hall Say, of Oakley-court, Bray, Esq.
BUCKINGIIAMSHIRE.—Wm. Pennington, of Fernacres,
Esq. ; Philips Cosby Lovett, of Liscombe-house, Esq.; and
the Hon. Percy Barrington, of Westbury.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HUNTINGDONSHIREe—JOhII
Richardson Fryer, of Crow-hall, Downhara-mark,;;., Esq.;
Henry Martin, of Littleport, Esq.; and Sir Henry Peyton,

of Doddington, Esq,
CHESHIRE.—Thomas Aldersey, of Aldersey-hall, Esq. ;
John Ralph Shaw, of Arrow-hall, Birkenhead, Esq. ; and
Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley, of Somerford-park, Bart.
C EMBERLAND.—SamueI Lindow, of Cleator, Esq. ; Wm.
Nicholson Hodgson, of Newby-grange, Carlisle, Esq.; and
Thomas Brocklebank, of Greenlands, Esq.
DERHYSIIIRE.—Haughton Charles Okeover, of Okeover-
hall, Es 1. ; Sir Henry Flower Every, of Eggington, Bart. ;
and Sir Henry Des Vooux, of Drakelow, Bart.
DEVONSHIRE.—Major-General Edward Studd, of Ox-
ton ; Sir George Stucley Stucley, of Hartland Abbey, Hart-
land, Bart. ; and the Hen. Mark George Kerr Rolle, of
Stevenstone.

DORSETSHIRE.—Joseph Grundry, of the Hyde, Brid-
port, Esq. ; Charles Wriothesley Digby, of Studland, Esq, ;
and George Whieldon, of Wyke-house, Gillingham, Esq.
DURHAM.—George Henry Surtees, of Dinsdale, Esq. ;
John Hildyard, of Horsley, Esq. ; and John Robert West-
garth Hildyard, of Horsley, Esq.
ESSEX.—Joseph Samuel Lescher, of Boyles, Brentwood
Esq. ; Sir William Bowyer Smijth, of Hill-hall, Epping,
Bart. ; and George Palmer, of Nazing, Esq.
GLOCESTERSHIRE.—Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, of
Eastwood, near Berkeley, Bart. ; Philip William Skynner
Miles, of Kingsweston, near Bristol, Esq. ; and Godwin
Charles Colquett Craven, of Brockhampton-park, near
Cheltenham, Esq.

HEREFORDSHIRE.—John Hungerford Arkwright, of
Hampton court, Esq. ; Stephen Allaway, of Courtfield,
Esq. ; and Thomas Reaveley, of Kinnersley-castle, Esq.
HERTFORDSHIRE.—John Hodgson, of Gilston-park,
Esq. ; Samuel Richard Block, of Barnet, Esq. ; and Money
Wigram, of Much Hadham, Esq.
KENT.—Henry Bannerman, of Hunton -court, near
Maidstone, Esq. ; Samuel Long, of Bromley, Esq. ; and
Wynne Ellis, of Whitstable, Esq.
LEICESTERSHIRE.—James Beaumont Winstanley, of
Braunstone, Esq.; Edwin Burnaby, of Baggrave-hall,
Esq. ; and the Hon. Henry Littleton Powys. Keck, of
Stoughton.
LINCOLNSHIRE.—Thomas john Dixon, of Holton-le-
moor, Esq.; Rowland Winn, of Appleby, Esq.; and George
Charles Uppleby, of Barrow, Esq.

MoNmounisHlßE.—James Jamieson Cordes, of Bryn
Glas, near Newport, Esq. ; Joseph Davies, of Tyisat, Bed-
was, near Newport, Esq. ; and John Best Snead, of Chep-
stow, Esq.

NORFOLK.—Robt. John Harvey Harvey, of Brundall,
Esq.; Henry James Lee Warner, of Little Walsingham,
Esq.; and Joseph Stonehewer Scott Chad, of Thursford,
Esq.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—WiIIiam Smyth, of Little
Houghton, Esq. ; George Ashby Ashby; of Naseby, Esq. ;
and Alfred Rush, of Farthinghoe, Esq.
.NORTHUMBERLAND.—John Cookson, of Meldon-park,
Esq. ; Watson Askew, of Pallinsburn, Esq. ; and Charles
Cuthbert Shafto, of Bavington-hall, Esq.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Thomas Blackborno Thornton
Hildyard, of Flintham -house, Esq. ; John Henry Man-
ners Sutton, of Kelham, Esq. ; and John Chaworth
Musters, of Annesley, Esq.
Ox-ronnsninE.—Edward Mackenzie, of Fawley-court,
Esq.; Emilius Watson Taylor, of Headington, Esq. ; and
Charles Edward Thornhill, of Woodleys, Esq.
AUTLANDSRIRE.—The Hon. Wm. Chas. Evans Freke„
of Bisbrooke ; the Hon. Henry Lewis Noel, of Exton-park;
and Charles Ormston Eaton, of Tixover, Esq.
SunorsnmE.—Sir Vincent Rowland Corbet, of Acton
Reynald, Bart. ; Thomas Charlton Whitmore, of Apley-
park, Esq. ; and David Francis Atcherley, of Marton, Esq.
SO3IERSETSHIRE.—RaIph Neville Grenville, of Rut -
leigh-court, Esq. ; William Speke, of Jordans, Esq.; and
George Treweeke Scobell, of Kingwell, Esq.
SOUTHAMPTON (COUNTY).—Sir Henry Bouverie Paulet
St. John Mildmay, of Dogmersfield-park, Winchfield, Bart.
Melville Portal. of Laverstoke-house, Mitcheldever Station
Esq. ; and Jas. Winter Scott, of Rotherfiald-park, Alton
Esq.

STAFFORDSHIRE.—IIenry Killick, of Walton-hall, Esq.;
Newton John Lane, of Elmhurst, Esq.; and Ralph Thos.
Adderley, Esq.
SUFFOLK.—Sir john Ralph Blois, of Cockfield-hall, Yox-
ford, Bart. ; John Wm. Brooke, of Sibton-park, Esq. ; and
Sir Geo, Nathaniel Broke Middleton, of Nacton, Bart.
SURREY.—Joseph Godman, of Park Hatch, Godalming,
Esq. ; Sir John Andrew Cathcart, of Cooper's-hill, Egham,
Bart.; and Lewis Lloyd, of Monk's Orchard, near Croydon,
Esq.

SUSSEX.—The lion. John Jervis Carnegie, of Fair Oak,
Rogate ; Herbert Mascall Curteis, of Windmill-hill, Rye,
Esq.; and Wm. Leyland Woods, of Chilgrove, Chichester,
Esq.

WARWICKSHIRE.—The Hon. Chas. Lennox Butler, of
Coton-house, Rugby; Chas. Marriott Caldecott, of Hol-
brook-grange, Rugby, Esq. ; and Joseph Townsend, of Al-
veston-house, Stratford, Esq.
WESTMORELAND.—Lieut.-Col. Fred. Gandy, of Heaves-
lodge, Kendal; Wm. Wilson, of High-park, Esq.; and
Matthew Thompson, of Kirkby Stephen, Esq.
WILTSHIRE.—John Elton Mervyn Prower, of Purton-
house, Swindon, Esq. ; Thos. Fraser Grove, of Fern, Esq.;
and John Lewis Phipps, of Leighton-house, Esq.
WORCESTERSHIRE.—Sir Edmund Anthony H. Lech-
mere, of the Rhyd, Worcester, Bart. ; Richard Hemming,
Bordesley-park, Bromsgrove, Esq. ; and Harry Foley Ver-
non, of Hanbury-hall, Esq.

YORKSIIIRE.—Wm. Frederick Webb, of Pepper-hall,
near South Cowton, Northallerton, Esq. ; Godfrey Went-
worth, of Woolley park, near Wakefield, Esq. ; and John
Hope Barton, of Stapleton-park, near Pontefract, Esq.
WALES (NORTH).
ANGLESEY.—Robert Davies, of Bwlchfen, Esq. ; the
Hon. Florence George Henry Irby, of Llanidan ; and
Robert Lloyd Parry, of Tregaian, Esq.
CARNAIWONSIIIRE.—David Williams, of Llanerch, J.
Gert, Esq.; John Wyatt, of Plas Gor Garth, Esq. ; and
John William Jones, of Hafod y Llan, Esq.
DENBIGIISHIRE.—Boscawen Trevor Griffith, of Trevallyn
Hall, Wrexham, Esq. ; Sir Hugh Williams, of Boddllewyd-
dan, Bart. ; and John Lloyd, of Rhagatt, Esq.
Flax rsinaz.—Philip Pennant Pennant, of Bodfari, Esq.;
Charles Butler Clough, of Llwyn Offa, Esq.; and William
Barber Buddicom, of Pembedw-hall, Esq. •
MERIONETRSHIRE.—CharIes Ansell, of Glanrhiardr,
Esq. ; Samuel Holland, of Plas-yn-Penrhyn, Esq, ; and
o°ll tao
Howell Morgan, of Hengwrtuchaf, Esq.
l‘ ONa
sT GBOr Mo
\n
Ey R
e Browne,
YSI I -
f Miten j , x,
E
Of
sßq o.dfaanchd,vEaiscqn.
Thol m.
,
tine Vickers, of Brimford, Esq.
WALES (SOUTH).
BRECONSHIRE.—David Watkins Lloyd, of Aberllech,
Esq.; John Dillwyn Llewelyn, of Pantycorred, Esq • and
Thomas de Winton, of Keffa Cantreff, Esq.
CARDIGANSHIRE.—Herbert Vaughan, of Brynog, Esq.;
Pryse Lewes, of Gwastod, near Lampeter, Esq. ; and J. G.
P. Hughes, of Alltlwyd, Esq.
CARMARTHENSIIIRE.—James Price William Gwynne
Ilolford, of Cilgwyn, Esq. ; Colonel John Stepney Cowell
Stepney, of Llanelly-house ; and Sir 'William Robert
Clayton, of Alltycadno, Bart.
GLAMORGANSHIRE.--Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, of Sully-
house, Bart.; John Whitlock Nicholl Carne, of Dimlands
Castle, Esq., D.c.L, ; and Henry Thomas, of Preswylfa,
Esq.
PEMBROkE
sIIIRE.—James Bevan Bowen, of Llwngwair,
William Rees, of Seoveston, Esq. ; and
Newport, Esq. ;
Thomas David Lloyd, of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, Esq.
RkDNORSIIIRE.—WaIter de Winton of Macallwch Castle,
Esq.
E,' ; Henry Thomas, of Pencerrig, Esq., and Sir Joseph
Russell Bailey, of Glanusk-park, Brecanshire, Bart.

The news that Garibaldi had been elected grand
master of the Italian Freemasons was contradicted by an
Italian journal, which asserted that M. La Farina was
chosen; but now the Italie of Turin publishes a commu-
nication from the grand lodge of Italy, stating that the
choice of the craft has fallen upon M, Nigra, the Italian
ambassador in raris,

AUSTRIA AAr BUNG',ART

In as sunning his office as Lieutenant of Hungary
General Palffy made the following speech :
" Gentlemen, Members of the Council of Lieutenancy,—
Ills Maje sty the Emperor having appointed me his Lieu-
tenant in II ungary, I consequently assume the direction of
affairs, and am happy to find myself amidst men whose
loyalty to th e Emperor and whose good intentions for the
real welfare of our country do not admit of doubt. Speech
Ims been m uch abused of late; the confidence of his
Majesty and. the interests of the country invite us to acct.
Therefore, a few words let me say, you will know me
by my acts, al., I shall judge you by yours.
" I understand the difficulties you have hitherto had to
contend against, but I expect that while the constitutional
powers of the Royal Council of the Lieutenancy of Hun-
gary are modified, even temporarily, you will zealously fulfil
your duties as devoted councillors and officials of his Ma-
jesty. Moreover, each of you, gentlemen, and every one
who, faithful to the character of the nation transmitted to
us by our forefathers, endeavours to co-operate with me for
the welfare of the Sovereign and of the country, for the
security of our own interests an .d of the national interests,
can communicate with me per.s..onally or by letter on any
subject whatsoever, giving me counsel or expressing a wish,
and every one may confidently rely that he will be frankly
received, and his requests fully considered.
" You will find that in me you will have not only a just
chief but a sincere and a kind friend. Ry a firm will, sin-
cere intentions, and united efforts, we will succeed, with the
support of the reasonable majority of our compatriots, in
restoring the confidence of his Majesty in this country, and
public order, that has been shaken in a larnscntable manner

in the course of a year, to the artriment of numerous IR
vate interests.

"I hope that, under the inspiration of -the reasonable
spirit in which enactments will be made, we shall bo able to
prepare the ground for the interests of our• country to be
settled in a durable manner, with the co- operation of the
Diet, and that I may be able to return to my- military duties,
to which I am devoted, and which I hav e relinquished
from respect to my master and from love to my country.
The welfare of the country has always been., and ever will
be, in proportion to the fidelity and confiders, co of the people
towards the King.

" Let us then unite our efforts to attain tli o object I have
just indicated, and let us endeavour to revive , in every class
of the population, the ancient spirit and the staid character
of which our ancestors were so justly proud, for it is only
on those conditions that the paternal intentions of his Ma-
jesty relative to the constitutional regime cart be realised."
Bullier's lithographic sheets publish, the follow-
ing letter from Pesth of the 7th inst., which con-
tains some particulars relative to Count Palffy, the
new Governor-General of Hungary :--.
" I wrote to you to say that martial law was inevitable
under existing circumstances. From this day Hungary is
placed under that regime. Field-Marshal Count Maurice
Palffy-ab-Erdod, who has been appointed to exercise the
dictatorship in Hungary, is a descendant of one of the most
illustrious families, which has produced a great number of
patriots, statesmen, warriors, and, under the, reign of Maria
Theresa, Palatines of Hungary. The present possessor of
the title belongs no longer to the country, except by the
name he bears. He has proved himself tb,e enemy of his
country, and he fought against her in 1549, as aide-de-camp
of Prince Windischgratz. Ho is known to be a man of
a coarse, obstinate, and arrogant disposition. He is hated
by his subalterns for his supercilious conduct. He has
quitted the army twice in consequence of having a difference
with officers of high families, though holding inferior rank.
Although all the decrees of the Governme n t are accepted
by the people with the greatest indifference, because every-
body knows that the present system cannot last long, either
because the Government itself will retrace its steps, or that
a revolution will overthrow the existing institutions, it was
thought that the appears nce of a constitution would have
been maintained ; but the extensive powers granted to the
military governor constitaticnally in Hungary was an
empty phrase by the very fact that the positions through
which the constitution might enter are occupied by abso-
lutism. A military dictator with absolute power, not re-
sponsible to any but a dead body, such as the Hungarian
Aulic Chancellery, concentrating, moreover in his hands
the political administration, that of justice and finance, will
extend his authority to the trial of all offences. The press
likewise, is placed under his jurisdiction. Three newspapers
were seized yesterday."

complete fiasco. There were a great many more
sympathetic calls of " Graziani" than there were
antipathetic shouts of" Preobrajenski ;" and so voci-
ferously are the favourite singers summoned before
the curtain by the Russians that a stranger to St.
Petersburg and to the Italian Opera might have
fancied that " Preobrajenski" was the name, not of
an unpopular regiment, but of a very popular
vocalist. In the meanwhile a great many officers
of the other regiments of the Guard are not pleased
at the part played by their Preobrajenski comrades,
and say that, if enacted at all, it should have been
left to the gendarmerie and police.
The official journals of yesterday contain an ac-
count of the attack of the soldiers and police upon
the students, also on the 24th October, at Moscow.
I was not in Moscow on that particular day, but was
there a few days afterwards, and spoke with several
persons who had witnessed the whole affair. The
students of Moscow appear to have behaved less
peaceably than those of St. Petersburg, and this
may partly be explained by the fact that in the for-
mer capital, whether rightly or wrongly, the pro-
fessors did not support them, and, consequently,
could not with any effect advise them. Neverthe-
less, in a country so proud of its order and of the
prestige of its government as Russia, it is scanda-
lous that no means could be found for dispersing a
few hundred young men but such as were em-
ployed on the occasion in question, when from 20
to 30 unarmed persons were wounded by infantry
and cavalry. According to the Government news-
papers the greater number of wounded were found
on the side of the military, and, as if to give some
look of possibility to this most improbable assertion,
it is stated that on the place of conflict three swords
or daggers and 58 sticks were found. The police can
find daggers whenever it chooses to drop them, bu
it can never make reasonable persons believe tha

500 students assembled in front of the Governor•

General's house with the intention of fighting the
army of Moscow, or that, in a collision between an
unarmed crowd and a body of Russian soldiers,
three of the latter to only two of the former could
be wounded. This is like the Wilna story of two
months since, when we were assured that a few
stones thrown by the Poles did more harm than
discharges of musketry on the part of the Russians.
The Moscow Police Journal admits that several
students were arrested on the 24th who happened
to bo passing along the Tverskoi, and who had
nothing whatever to do with disturbance in front
of the Governor-General's. The fact is, the police
acted on that day as if seized with a sort of aggres-
sive panic, and went wildly about arresting students
who were quietly walking or . driving along the
streets, as if merely to punish them for belonging
to the University.
The official list of wounded at Moscow includes

two students, one of whom was hurt by a horse,
and was sent off to the hospital, and two gendarmes
who were wounded in the face, and of whom one is
also in the hospital." The third of the injured gend-
armes received a severe sword cut on the belt of his
caftan and lost his brass buckle. Hopes are enter-
tained of its recovery.
The number of arrests effected on the 24th
amounts, according to the Moscow Police Journal,
to 340. A special committee was formed the same
day, and decided that 39 of the prisoners, including
22 students and 17 lecture frequenters and persons
not belonging to the University, must be detained.
The remaining 301 were set at liberty after they
had been identified and their names taken down by
the police.

At St. Petersburg it is difficult to ascertain the
exact number of students confined in the fortress.
A placard, bearing the words " University of St.
Petersburg," was posted the other night on the
fortress gate, but the author of the inscription was
caught and shut up in the new University himself.
It is a dangerous game to endeavour to temper
Russian despotism even with epigrams. Accord-
ing to the official accounts, the number of students
removed a few days since from the fortress to the
prison of Cronstadt amounts to 283. There were
about 70 students in the fortress a week b; fore the
arrival of this last batch, who were seized in front of
the University on the 24th ult., and during the last
two or three weeks a great many arrests have been
made privately. Of the 400 students who sent in
their petitions for readmission too late all have had
their names inscribed on the police-books and in a
special register, while a certain number have been
ordered to leave St. Petersburg. Those only are
allowed to remain who have parents, or a married
sister, or a big brother established here, and willing
to become answerable for their conduct. lam told
that this measure will have the effect of sending
away a great many Russians belonging to the pro-
vinces, and nearly a hundred Poles.
There are now two commissions appointed to
examine the imprisoned students, and find out what
they can against them. It is just possible that they
may be all liberated, for it is said to be very diffi-
cult to prove a serious accusation against any of
them. The Cronstadt Commission has shown much
ingenuity in dividing its prisoners into as many as
27 categories; There is a category for students
who, on the 24th ult., went to the University with
the matriculation-books in their pockets, a category
for those who had left them at home, a category for
those who had asked for them and had not yet re-
ceived them, a category for those who had never
asked for them, and did:not want them, &e.
The St. Petersburg Commission has to deal with
three classes of offenders—those who were present
at the last assembly held within the University
after such assemblies had been forbidden, those
who joined in the procession to the house of Gene-
ral Philipson, and those who collected in front of
the University after the University had been
closed. It is said on behalf of the students that it
was never notified to them formally and officially
that the University assemblies were no longer to be
held ; that they went to General Philipson's house
without any pre-arranged design, and simply to
ask him why the lectures were suspended ; and that
the meetings outside the University were at least
very far from being riotous assemblages. lam told
that the students, when questioned as to the part
they took in the procession, answered one and all
that they knew nothing about any procession. "I
found the University shut, and naturally went to
the curators to ask the reason," is what each of
them replies. " A good many of my fellow-students
seemed to be going there at the same time. If wo
happen to have walked together it was for the sake
of conversation."

Fortunately, it is quite impossible any longer to
charge the students with the publication of the
journal, or series of "proclamations," called Great
Russia. A new number of this mysterious, and
now quite revolutionary print, has just appeared,
while the suspected editors of it have for the last
three weeks been in the fortress. From this we
may form some notion of the value of the secret
police in Russia.

The present position of the St. Petersburg Uni-
versity is this :—lt is open, but the majority of the
Professors are too ill to attend. Those who are
perfectly well find the lecture-rooms, for the most
part, deserted. One eloquent Professor held forth
last week to an audience of two. In the midst of
his discourse it suddenly struck him that it was
producing very little effect on his supposed hearers.
He questioned them on the subject, when they both
replied by signs that they were deaf and dumb. Of
the G5O students who sent in their petitions for re-
admission, or whose parents sent them in for them,
at least 200 are now in prison ; and cut of the re-
maining 450 (if so many) not 50 attend
t. or even
make a semblance of attending such lectures as are
still delivered.
The late Minister of Public Instruction, M.
Kavalevski, has been elected by unanimity Pre-
sident of the Economic Society,—a very important
association (founded by the Empress Catherine), to
which are affiliated some of the best charitable and
educational establishments iu Russia. This, at the

PRICE .4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

present moment, is a significant mark of esteem
towards a Minister under whose direction the Rus-
sian Universities made considerable progress.
Another proof of sympathy for the Universities
has been given by the Alexander Lyceum, which
was founded by the Emperor Alexander in 1811,
and which held a few days ago its first " jubilee."
On this occasion 6,000 roubles were subscribed for
a new scholarship at the University of St. Peters-
burg. The Alexander Lyceum is, after the Univer-
sities, the most important educational establishment
in St. Petersburg. As there had been some talk of
assimilating the Univcrsities of Russia to those of
England, I may say, for the sake of comparison,
that the Alexander Lyceum is in certain respects
the Russian Eton or Harrow. It is, above all, a
school for the children of the Russian aristocracy,
who are being brought up with a view to State ser-
vice. The poet Poushkin, his friend and associate
in many literary enterprises, Baron Delvig, and
most of the distinguished statesman and diploma-
tists who have appeared in Russia during the last
40 years, were educated at the Alexander Tir—m.,m.
At the jubilee banquet nearly all the Min' mere
present, and it is said that General Iguatiett ex-
pected an invitation, which, however, he a not
receive.
All the letters from St. Petersburg that hail) re-
cently appeared in the Mites have passed tl-a i•en-
sorship, with the obliteration of only "ree
short paragraphs- (theseld -which the"-&'Ed-ilitke
Nicholas is spoken of, and in which the contents of
the secret journal are given) in the whole correspond-
ence. I have heard it remarked that Count Putiatin
ought not to be considered answerable for the new
University regulations, inasmuch as they are not of
his making. At least, however, he undertook the
responsibility of carrying them out. In a letter
about the University of Moscow, which has not yet
reached St. Petersburg, I have spoken of the late
Professor Granoffsky as having been appointed
during the present reign. This is an error. He
received his appointment as Historical Lecturer
under the Emperor Nicholas, and was the chief sup-
port of the Moscow University at a period when
the position of an independent Professor was one of
great difficulty and danger.

MR. BOTICICAULT AND TB.E _FRENCH
ADAPTER OF "COLLEEN BAWN."

The theatrical critic of the Opinion Nationale,
M. Francisque Sarcey, publishes two very piquante
letters written to him respectively by M. Dion
Boucicault, the author of " Colleen Bawn," and M.
d'Ennery, the well-known dramatic writer, who
adapted the leading incident of that most successful
drama for the French stage, in a piece altogether
re-written and produced, about a month ago, at the
Anabigu Comique under the title of the " Lake of
Glenaston." The "Lake of Glenaston" did not find
much favour at the hands of the French critics
generally, and it was in particular very severely
cut up by the writer of the theatrical articles in the
Moniteur, who treated it as the joint production of
M. d'Ennery and M. Boucicault. Thereupon M.
Boucicault wrote to the Illoniteur (which did not
insert it) the following letter, now published by the
Opinion Nationale:—

Hereford House, London, Oct. 28.
The lloniteur of October 22 contains an article on the
"Lake of Olenaston," a new drama by M. d'Ennery. In
reply to your censure of my part of this work, I am under
the necessity of stating that the drama which you have
analysed is altogether M. d'Ennery's, with the single ex-
ception of the drowning scene, which is of my invention.
The manager of the Ambigu Comique Theatre proposed
to me to play my " Colleen Bawn" in Paris, and offered
me M. d'Ennery's assistance for its production. I cheer-
fully availed myself of this opportunity of being presented
to the Parisian public, and I sent a French translation of
my drama to the theatre. M. d'Ennery never allowed me
to take any part in the composition of the "Lake of Glen-
aston." He did not even show me his manuscript, and never
put himself in communication with me in any way what-
ever. I went to Paris for the purpose of arranging the
drowning scene, aid in the hope of seeing M. d'Ennery, or
at least of obtaining some news or my work.
Having learned that my fellow labourer (collaborateur)
had resolved to depart entirely from my drama, I protested
in writing against this Injustice. My protest met with no
answer.

I can accept no part in the merit which the "Lake of
Glenaston" may have, and you will allow me therefore to
decline any part of your criticism concerning it.

Accept, monsieur, the assurance of my most distinguished
sentiments, DION DOUCICAULT.

Before inserting this letter M. Sarcey thought
fit to send a copy of it to M. d'Ennery, with a re-
quest for an explanation, and he received from
that gentleman the following reply :

Monsieur,-1 send you in great haste the information
you ask for. The manager of the Ambigu romique lately
saw a piece in London, which seemed to him far from good,
but which contained a situation and a tableau that all
London admired. People rushed and struggled and fought
at the door of the English theatre to witness this scene in
the water, and the French manager conceived the idea that
he could make something of this dramatic situation.

He applied to me to adapt it for our stage. His opinion,
which, after reading M. Boucicault's piece, I entirely shared,
was that it should be completely remodelled, only the lake
tableau and two or three other scenes being retained.
The rest of the work appeared to us to be written in such
a way that it would have obtained no success before a
French audience.
The task which I was to undertake constituted what the
international treaty calls—l don't very clearly know why—
"an appropriation mado with good faith," and in such a
case M. Boucicault would, according to the treaty, have
been entitled to no share whatever in the author's profits.
however, told M. Chilly that I would not so treat the
matter.

Upwards of 100 of my works have been played in Lon-
don without even so much trouble being taken as to change
the name of the characters; and nobody ever took the
trouble, either, to call upon me to pay any money. But
France has an old habit of responding to English ways of
dealing (nzauvais procales) by delicacy and courtesy, and
I would not depart from this honourable tradition.
Our ancestors, when the English and French were about
to fire bullets at one another, said, " After you, Messieurs
les Anglais." In these days, when disinterestedness and
gentlemanly feeling aro in question, we say, " Before you
Messieurs les Anglais."

I therefore told the manager of the Arnbigu Comique
that I must be at liberty to rewrite the piece entirely in my
own way ; but that I should certainly make over to M.
Boucicault the half of that proportion of the receipt which
according to the stipulations made with the committee of
authors, falls due to the author of every piece played at the
Ambigu. I wrote the piece accordingly; you, monsieur,
know what it is; and, to enable you to judge between M.
Boucicault's production and mine, I cannot do better than
send you the translation of the English drama which was
sent to Paris by DI. Boucicault himself.
Boucicault complains that he was not able to see me
and had no opportunity of working with me.
If DI. Boucicault had taken the trouble to address him-
self to me directly—if he had asked me for a meeting, I
should have been delighted to see him, and to have made
the acquaintance of the fortunate writer who has succeeded
in fishing up 900,000 f., of author's rights, from the bottom
of our lake.
If he had asked me to work with him—if he had proposed
that we should reconstruct together the drama which he
himself borrowed from a novel, my answer would have been
that tho translation which ho sent to Paris,was his part of
the labour.

And to reassure him as to the way in which I should deal
with his piece, I should have added this Emile de
Girardin did not hesitate to confide to me a play of that
eminent authoress called Madame de Girardin, and he did
me the honour to trust to my experience as to all the altera-
tions to be made.

Mr. Edmund About, whose "Germaine" I adapted for
the theatre, would not see the piece until it was played,and
the compliments which he was pleased to pay me would
haN e embarrassed a humility more humble than mine.
I wrote a drama from Eugene Sue's " Wandering Jew,"
and the celebrated novelist was so satisfied with my work
that in my absence he insisted upon a larger share of th
profits than I had required being set apart for me.
To conclude, I had the happy audacity to re-arrange a
work of our great Baizac, a piece which the manager of
every theatre in Paris, from the Theatre Franyaise down to
the Ambigu and Gaite, had pronounced to be unrepresent-
able. You know that for the last 12 years the public has
never ceased to applaud " Mercadet."
Such names, I think, might well have reassured the Eng-
lish author, and M. Boucicault would perhaps not have re-
fused to join such company,
Accept, monsieur, my warmest salutations.
A. i),EssErty.
The critic of the Opinlon Nationale,having read