The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5,186 S

ward speech. To judge from the demeanour of
the crowd who gathered under the windows of the
Angel Inn, and who certainly were anything but
angelic in their manners, Sir STAFFORD NORTH-
COTE'S chance of a seat would appear to be very
remote indeed. Luckily, however, for the
Secretary and the Government, he is
already the chosen representative of this very
stormy constituency ; and as we must not accept the
noisy gentlemen who pelted the speakers with eggs
and apples, and endeavoured to enlighten each
other's minds by the agency of sticks, it is very pos-
sible that the new Parliament will still find Sir
STAFFORD NORTHCOTE M.P. for Crediton.

The borough, it would seem, prides itself on its
peculiar Liberal qualifications, but this is no reason
why it should eject its sitting member. Sir S.
NORTIICOTE has always been a consistent advocate
of Free Trade, and on most of the ques-
tions of the day he holds opinions more ad-
vanced than most of his colleagues. If
we refer to his own address on Saturday, we
find him professing his adherence to constitutional
Liberalism. "I have always said this—that true
Liberalism is the creed of England. I maintain
that it is impossible to govern a great country like
this upon any other principles than true Liberal
principles." To Radicalism, however, by which he
understands a thorough change in our institutions,

he declares himself to be entirely opposed. The
question, he says, justly enough, is not what is
suited to France or America, but what is suited to
England. "You may, if you please, admire the
American institutions, but you cannot make this
country like America. You might• destroy
what is good in America, but you cannot
bring in what is good in America and necessarily
would be good here." This is a truth which some
of our wholesale Reformers are very apt to forget,
and they also fail to remember that they look at
American institutions for the most part in the ab-
stract—as a matter of theory, and not of practice.
Reading written words describing what occurs in
another hemisphere is something very different
from living among and under the institutions they
admire. The Americans, like ourselves, find plenty
to criticise in their own country, and would
be very ready to admit that all is not perfect at
Washington any more than at Westminster. If we
could find a community in which every man was
perfectly satisfied with everything about him, and
had no desire to extend, or amend, or alter any of
his political relations, we should probably find that
such a people were either very dull of intel-
lect or sadly deficient in pubic spirit. Because
there are grievances to be redressed, abuses
to be remedied, and deficiencies to be sup-
plied, that is no reason for denouncing our
whole system and decrying our constitution. It is
only the evidence that our institutions are neces-
sarily imperfect, as all human institutions must be,
more imperfect possibly than. need be ; but until we
have each done all we can towards amending them
we have no right to turn aside in disgust.
Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, while opposed to the
disendowment of the Irish Church, frankly admits
that he thinks great changes are advisable.
Quoting an old farmer's proverb, he reminded
his hearers that " one year's seeding is seven
year's weeding ;" and that we must remember that
we could not bring harmony to Ireland in a day or
a year after the long course of misgovernment.
The land question, for his own part, had, he thought,
more to do with the internal peace and prosperity
of the country than the Church question. There
was, he remarked, a great difference between the
tenure of land in England and in Ireland. Here
the landlord generally makes the improvement ;
there, the tenant. We are glad to find Sir S.
NORTIIOTE strongly advocating the right of the
tenant to some security that the capital he expends
on improvements shall not be lost to him.
Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE affirms that the
present Government had in contemplation
a bill on this very subject at the opening of the
last session, but the pressure of other matters pre-
vented them from bringing it forward. At any
rate, whatever the issue of the struggle, it is en-
couraging to find that the real grievances of the
sister country are becoming more and more gene-
rally recognised by men of all parties. The new
Parliament, whatever school of politicians it may
accept as its leaders, can hardly fail to acknowledge
the importance of legislation for Ireland, and we
hope its members will approach their difficult task
with judgment and moderation, remembering, as
Sir S. NORTHCOTE observed of national education,
that such que.itions cannot be settled in a hurry.

Lord STANLEY has issued his address to the
electors of King's Lynn, in which he relies on the
" unvaried kindness" that has been shown him for
the last twenty years, and announces his intention
of seeking re-election at their hands. After de-
claring that their favour has been the object of his
Parliamentary life to deserve, the noble lord inti-
mates his intention of explaining publicly to them
before long his views on the leading questions of
the day. On Saturday the Hon. F. STANLEY, one
of the Conservative candidates for the North
division of Lancashire, addressed the electors
at Broughton. In the course of his obser-
vations he referred to the subject of the
Commission on the Irish Church, and said
that they had been frequently taunted by their op-
ponents on the subject, they being fond of declaring
that it was all an excuse for delay, and no good
could result from the matter in the end. This was
the more inconsistent on their part, because Earl
RUSSELL himself was mainly instrumental in bring-1
ing about the Commission, and his party at the
time laid great stress upon the importance of the
undertaking. Mr. STANLEY said very truly that
the length of time which had elapsed while the
Commissioners made their inquiries should be a
subject of congratulation to those interested in the
affair rather than otherwise, because it showed
that they were devoting their best attention to the
work before them. The unanimity which prevailed
among the Commissioners, with a trifling exception,
is also an encouraging sign of the spirit in which
they conducted their labours; and in considering
this part of the subject we must remember that
they were chosen from members of both political
parties, with the expectation that they would re-
port on the composition of the Irish Church as
widely and impartially as possible. Taking all
things into account, it certainly seems very unrea-
sonable that those who were once so eager
about the appointment of this Commis-
don, and so certain of the efficacy of i s
researches, should now seek to deny its merits, and
gainsay any advantige3 that may accrue front its .
labours. They might in common fairness have
allowed it to be laid before Parliament first of
all, but there is no reasoning with prejudice. Mr.
GLADSTONE and his immediate followers have out-
tripped the natural course of events in the career
they have taken, and thus they seek to put 'Olean-
selves right before the public by looking with in-
difference or contempt upon the very things that a
short time ago were • all engrossing with them.
Such conduct is indeed inconsistent, but the worst
of starting on such a hazardous track as the leader
of the Opposition has done is that it necessitates

all sorts of contradictions, and confuses those who
try to und.emtand the principles which guide lead-
ing politicians.

English purses are always ready whet a cry of
want or wretchedness makes-itself heard from any
quarter, and certainly there could hardly be a more
distressing or urgent appeal than the circular just
issued on behalf of the sufferers from the earth-
quake in South America. On the first shock of the
intelligence the public attention was naturally en-
grossed by the immense number of victims. When
we reckon the deaths of the sufferers by
tens of thousands it becomes difficult to
realise the full extent of the calamity.

But

since it was a whole vast tract of country
which was desolated by the destructive earth-
quake and its attendant calamities, it becomes
evident that the number of those who perished in
the immediate catastrophe must have been very
much less than the number of miserable survivors.
These unfortunate persons, inhabitants of the
,southern cities, towns, and villages, are estimated
at about half a million. They have been left not
only without home or shelter, but actually 'without
the means of subsistence. Not only have they seen
their houses and places of business engulphed or
overthrown, their property swept away by the terrific
waves which followed on the earthquake or consume
by the conflagrations which raged around, but the
very crops have been destroyed, which might have
appeased their hunger, and the streams have slaked
their thirst. The Government of the Republic, and
the inhabitants of those cities which have been for-
tunate enough to escape the shock, are exerting
themselves to the utmost to alleviate the sufferings
of this vast army of wretchedness and destitution ;
but the work is a stupendous one, and the Peru-
vian Ministers in France and England have done
well to bring the claims of these unhappy people
under the public notice. The attempt to deicribe the
picture presented by an important part of Peru, for-
merly full of life, gaiety, and commercial activity,
would, we are assured, be altogether useless ; but
the mere fact of the numbers of cities and towns
destroyed during the calamities of the middle of
August is sufficient to convince the most indifferent
of the exceptional nature of the case. The appeal
of the Ambassadors reminds the benevolent that,
'never since the discovery of America itself, has such
a catastrophe occurred. Earthquakes of lesser ex-
tent have, of course, been comparatively common ;
but such a calamity as the present stands out in the
records of human history. We cannot doubt that
the appeal for aid will be promptly and liberally
responded to in France and England ; and we trust
that some at least of the more pressing necessities
of the distressed population will be thus speedily
alleviated.

COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO GEORGE
CIIUIKSHANK.

The officers of the 48th Middlesex Rifle Volun-
teers entertained their late `lieutenant-colonel, Mr.
George Cruikshank, at a complimentary dinner at
the St. James's-hall Restaurant, Regent-street, on
Wednesday evening last, _on the occasion of his re-
signing the command of the corps. Lieutenant-
colonel C. B. Vickers presided, Major W. E.
Williams occupying the vice-chair. Among his
personal friends seated beside the guest of the even-
ing were Col. Chesney, R.E. ; Capt. Chauncey,
R.A.; D. Stobbing ; and W. Ed. Smith, F.R.S. ;
John Paget, Esq., Mr. Oswald Brierty, Rev. J. 0.
Haldane Kingoldrum, &c. The chaplain of the
regiment, the Rev. Dr. Rogers, was present. The
Honorary Secretary, Captain Roger, read a letter
of apology from Major-General M'Murdo, of the
garrison of Dublin Castle, expressing much regret
at his inability to attend the banquet to his friend
George Cruikshank, andalluding in strong terms to
the debt of gratitude due to him in having
been mainly instrumental in raising such a body
of Volunteers as the 48th Middlesex. Litters
of apology were also:receiVed from others of Mr.
Cruikshank's friends, who, through unavoidable
absence from town, temporary residence on the
Continent, &c., had been prevented from attending.
These were Col. Erskine, Capt. King Hall, R.N.,
C. 8., Lieut.-Col. Bertrand Payne, John Ruskin,
George Macdonald, Horace Mayhew, Mr. Tom
Hood, Mr. Chas. A. Howell, Mr. Francis Fuller,
Mr. Francis Bennock, and others. After the
usual toasts bad been given from the chair,
Colonel Vickers proposed the health of the guest
of the evening. He referred to the zeal and ability
with which Mr. Cruikshank
ae
k had conducted
on th
theeinci-
dentsaffairs
o f
of
eventful
in
career of the great artist, his
the
world-wide reputation, and his z3al in the cause of
social reform. By the power of his pencil he had
corrected abuses and mitigated the severity of our
penal code.
Speeches of much interest were delivered by Col.
Chesney, Dr. Stebbiug, Mr. Paget, Major Williams,
and others.

Mr. r CRUIKSHANK, in a rich and suitable man-
nea, acknowledged the many well-merited
compliments paid him by the leading members of
the company, explaining that though his patriot-
ism had in no way abated, he had been left
to the choica of one of • two alternatives—either
to retire from the command or abandon his.pro-
fession, and so resolved to hand over to his friend,
Colonel Vickers, his battalion, numbering on the
roll upwards of GOO men. He was seventy-six years
of age, and bad reason of thankfulness that neither
his mental faculties nor physical endurance were
consciously impaired.
Mr. IL Sydney, the gifted comic singer, de-
lighted the guests with some impromptu composi-
tions, illustrative of the occasion. The whole affair
passed off in a highly successful manner.

THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH.—The
London Scotsman understands there is every probability of a
requisition being made to Mr. Moncrieff to continue in the
representation of the city of Edinburgh. This, of course,
can only be done on the supposition that the hon. and
learned gentleman will throw up his chalices of being
sleeted by the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities for the
purpose of again contesting his present seat. The story
has given some uneasiness to the Independent party.

BREAKING A RULE.—FOT years past it has been
thelrule that direct commissions without purchase are given
only to those who pass a high standard at Sandhurst, or to
men from the ranks. youths with the most telling claims,
as regards the services of their fathers, have been refused
ensigncies without purchase, on the ground that all non-
purchase vacancies are reserved for these two classes.
How, then, are we to interpret the appointment of the
lion. R. Stapleton Cotton to the Scots Fusilier Guards in
last Tuesday's Gazette? Is it a mistake, or are we to tell
the old and deserving officers to apply for commissions
without purchase for their sons, notwithstanding the pub-
lished documents and usage of the last few years, which
clearly indicate that application is useless ?—Army and
Navy Gazette.

MUSICAL ITEms.—Verdi is writing an opera on
the story of Falstaff. The violinist Auer has been ap-
pointed a professor in the Conservatoire at St. Petersburg.
The civil tribunal of Milan has decided that, by an Act of
Parliament, the Government are bound to ma'ntain and
keep open the La Scala opera-house.—Musical Standard.

SAILING OF TILE GREAT EASTERN.—The Great
Eastern, which has been lying idle in the Mersay for
several mouths past, sailed for Sherness on Saturday.
She has been chartmed by a French company to lay a
cable between France and America, and will leave Sheer-
ness early next spring for that purpose. During the past
few weeks she has taken on bard between 4,000 and 3,000
tons of coal, and has been partly provisional. At Sheer-
ness she will be entirely " gutted," and will be fitted with
tacks for the pa!pl33 of carrying the cable. Sho was under
the command of Sir J. Anderson.

Aro-nu:cal:lEs' HALL.—Thc following gentlemen
passed th it examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
d.ty, the Ist inst.: -John Albert Bell, Rochester, Kent, of
St. Thomas's hospital; George Robinson; Spilsby, Liu-
C'OlnAllitt.,'6f the Loz.don netny Owolt Spratt,
M.11.C.5., England, Greytown, New Zealand, of the
Middlesex hospital. The following gentleman also passed
his first examination :—Walter Peel Yates, of Guy's Hos-
pital.

TiIEATR,E RO VAL LYIJEUILL

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Lord Lytton's New Play.
A New Play by a great author on Saturday even-
ng filled the Lyceum from floor to ceiling. The

weather, which was col.] and driey, went for

nothing. The deadness of the early autumn season,
when Loudon is still facee.ously spoken of as the
Deserted Village, went equally for nothing. Plhy-
goels, old and young, men of let`ers, artists, critics,
people of fashion and members of the middle classes,
the former in the drass-circle, the latter in the pit, or
what oar French neighbours term the parterre, the
polloi in the gallery, all thronged to witness the
new piece which had for some time been announced
for representation. And no wonder. For—that
new piece—was it not from the hand of one of the
greatest authors and (he must forgive us the phrase)
unquestionably the most versatile genius of our age
—Bulwer the Novelist—Sir Edward the Poet of
King Ai thur—Lord Lytton the Conservative Orator
and Statesman. Author and Administrator, Scholar
and ArCst in the truest and fullest sense of the word
—Bulwer Lytton, already by right of five plays of
sustained celebrity, had long since secured to him-
self a high and, a 3 it now happens (both Sheridan
Knowles and Douglas Jerrold being numbered
amongst the dead), a wholly unrivalled reputation
among living dramatists.
It is seventeen years since Lend Lytton's last
appearance before the public in that capacity,
namely, as a dram ..i3t. And then, namely, in
1851, it was in furtherance of a benevolent d
to wit the foundation of the. Guild of LitJrature and
Art, that Sir Edward. Balvver Lytton, as our author
was then, built up, with admirable ingenuity, an
altogether exceptional drama in five acts, entitled
" Not so Bad as we See:n, or Many Sides t) a
Character"-a drama iu which the 01i133 of those
typefied in the world of letters by the exquisite
creation of David Fallen was advocated with ini-
mitable persuasiveness, while at the Slm3 time
several mere or less appropriate characters were
called into existence for the express purpose as it
seemed of distribution afterwards for impersonation
among an admirable groupe of amateur actors,
brother artists, and eminent contemporaries, several
among them also personal frien is of the dramatist
—men of mark like Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold,
John Forster, Mark Lemon, Augustus Egg, Charles
Knight, and one or two others. Strictly speaking,
it is now nearly thirty years, it is at least eight and
twenty years since a new play entrusted to a regu-
lar company of professional actors (fier M ijesty's
servants as they were formerly called) was last
announced—in 1810—as forthcoming from the pen
of Balwer. Then it was th it there was represented

for the first time, on the boards of the 11 tymarket,
the brilliant and now classic comedy of " 'Money,"
a comely that has long since taken its plaea securely
among the masterpieces of the m)dera dramatic
among the most finished performances of
Wycherly, Sheridan, Murphy, Colman, Merton,
and but one or two others of more recent date.
Within the year prior to the one which witnessed
the earliest impersonation of Alfrel Evelyn by Mr.
Macready—(" Money" having been produced as we
have seen in 1810)—within the year 1833 two of
Bulwer's Five-act Dramas were brought out in
rapid succession —" Richelieu" and " Tne Sea
Captain." Only one year before that, viz., in
1838, "The Lady of Lyons"—struck off at a heat
in a fortnight—having signalized by an excep-
tionally brilliant success the protean adaptability of
its author's many-sided genius. Two years before
that, he had produced, his earliest play—one as
charmingly written as anything his dexterous hand
as ever achieved, the historical play in five acts of
"The Duchess de la Valliere." Reverting, how-
ever, to what has just now been remarked of the
year 1839, namely, when we spoke of it as one
within which the indefatigable creator of so many
works of imagination, threw off rapidly one after
another " Richelieu" and " The Sea Captain"—in
that last-mentionel play it is now especially worthy

of note that the root-idea of the dra natl.) master-
piece produced an Saturday evening is discoverable.
Not that "The Rightful Heir" is, by any means,
a mere modification of "The Sea Captain."
From beginning to end the drama now proluead is
a new work altogether. it is rewritten through rat.
And, but that the play of twenty-eight years ago
had merits of its own, which were, however,
anything but generally recognised at the time
of its production, the later work of art which
may be said to havt now grown out of it, is so

vastly its superior in every partimlar, that w,
might almost be tn-Ipt:;1 to echo, in regarl to it
the title of one of Lord Byron's least klown dra-
matic effusions—" The Deformel Transformed."

Although intensely and essentially a purely imagi-
native production, " The Rightful Heir" is a roman-
tic drama, the very atmosphere of which is historical
and patriotic. Its inci lents are recoant,e, 1 as oc-
curring in thereignof Queen Elizabeth. The precise
period is that, for ever memorable in our annals as the
epoch of the Spanish Artnadt. Referring as the plot
does to the almost startling abruptness of the final'
descent upon our coasts of that great naval arma-
ment, popular remembrance has been recently
called, not injudiously, as we conceive, t) a
passage in the " History of Eagland," in which
are related the events immediately preceding
the actual arrival, all on a sullen (and the
signal defeat thereupon) of the Grand Armada
sent out for the subjugation of England by the
Spanish Government. First came the unlooked-for
fate of the Marquis of Santa Cruz, the Spanish
Admiral--seized with a fever and rapidly deceased.
Then followed the departure from Lisbon on the
20th of May, 158 S, full of hope and alacrity,
of the magnificent armament which the very day
afterwards was scattered by a tempest and in
part destroyed. Consequent upon the tidings
received of those disastrous gales encountered by
the Spanish Armada in the English Channel—
' compelling the remnants of the fleet to put back
for repairs into the harbour of Corunna.—Lord
Howard of Effingham, then, in his capacity as Admi-
ral of England, Commander-in-Chief of the Eng-
lish Fleet, was ordered on July 8 to dismantle im-
mediately the four largest ships in the royal navy—
to wit, the Triumph, the White Bear, the Elizabeth
Jonas, and the Victory. Fortunately—as history
relates—he ventured to disobey, offering to bear the
expense out of his own private fortune. Hence—in
spite of the great Queen's ill-timed parsimony—
! England, when at length the dire emergency occur-
' red, found herself prepared to meet the foe at the
flash of the first signal gun, announcing the approach
of the invader. Under the Lord Admiral there were
then serving in the English fleet as volunteers the
Earl of Cumberland and the Lords Henry Seymour,
Thomas Howard, and Edmund Sheffield—Drake
being appointed Lieutenant of the Fleet, while
the best ships were, as is related on the autho-
rity of Murdin, allotted to Hawkins, Fro-
bisher, and other mariners, " who, in voyages
of commerce, or piracy, or discovery, had
acquired experience, and displayed that contempt
of danger, and that spirit of enterprise, which had
long been characteristic of the British sailor." Such
is the heroic situation iu which, such are the heroic
contemporaries among whom, Lord Lytton has placed
the hero of his new romantic play, Vyvyan, Captain
of the Dreadnought, a privateer. The impersonation
of this fine chivalric character cannot fail very
materially to enhance the reputation alrea ly won
for himself during the c3urse of last season by Mr.
Banimann, throagh his picturesque reading of the
central figure in the ah3ar.l dratal of '' S.Lreis3e."
i3efooo c)tnateating, ho Arever, any Eitrther upon the
perform Ince of Saturday evening, it will be as well
to ineutlon here at once that the following is the
cast of the principal characters in "Tae Rightfu
Heir" :
. LoM 133aufort
Sir Grey do MAlpAs
Wreckliff,
Sir G Afroy S,3y;nnir
Vyvyan ••• •.•
Faulkner ..•
aardins
Marslen
Alton ...
Lady Mentrcvillo
Evelino

Mr. G. P. NoviHo.
... Mr. aerartun
Ur. Frank Lawlor.
• Mr. G,0..g0 Pool.
▪ Mr. 13.1lidluaim.
➢lr. Liu liayrio.
• Mr. T. Aad)rson.
Mr. David Evans.
• Air. Basil-Potter.
• Mrs. llormala
• Miss Milly Palmer.
The subjoined, by the way, it may be interesting
to add here, was the cast of " The Sera Captain" in

1839,whca originally produce 1 on the boards of the

Haymarket :
Lord Ashdalo... Mr. J. Webster.
Sir Maurice Bcovor Mr. Strickland.
Norman Mr. Macready.
Faulkner ... ... Mr. Howe.
Onslow ... Mr. Phelp3.
Gaussen ... Mr. 0. Smith.
Luke Mr. Galiot.
Lady Arundel ... Mrs. Warner.
Violet Miss IL Faucit.
Mrs. Prudence ... ... Mrs. W. Clifford.
While the actors evidently vied with each other on
Saturday in their endeavour to do full justice so far as
lay within their capacities to the imaginings of the dra-
matist, it should be said at once that three of them
in particular are entitled to the highest commenda-
tion ; those three being, it need hardly be said, Mr.
and Mrs. Hermann Vezin and Mr. Bandmann. What-
ever the part may 1)3 that is allotted to him, Mr.
Hertnann Vezin always shows himself to be a true
and sterling artist. Ills impersonation of Sir Grey
de Malpis was in many portions of it vary fine in-
deel, was hare an I there startlingly effective, and
was certainly m)st tinughtf ally and conscien-
tiously rend3rel throughout. As to Mrs. Hermann
Vezin's L tly Montraville—the true heroine of the
piece—it was from first to last a charming represen-

Several of the scenes bstweea herself and
Vyvyan, more particularly the great scene of all,
the oae towards the closs of which her elde,t-b srn,
with his foot pla-stel uprn his anesstral hearth,
claims his birthright, an I bids his m st,her if she
lists command her menials to expel him by force
from the home of his forefathers, proved to be not
only effective in the highest degree but exquisitely
affecting. The only noticeable hitch of any kind
occurring on Saturday evening W 39 in the repre-
sentation of the fourth act, which—having (on the
first night) in parts been bungled through—comes,
as we cannot but think, to a conclusion so abrupt
as to be almost bewildering. The staggering of
Vyvyan's husband down the precipitous pass
looked more like an accidental stumble than

an intended catastrophe. Mr. Neville's inadequate
expresssion of anything like dismay at what thus
happens probably tended most effectually to bring
about this intolerable anti-climax ; but in this
the actor may be presumed to have been at least
consistent, seeing that his embodiment of the cha-
racter of Lord Beaufort was throughout chiefly re-
markable for its feebleness.

The plot, or story, of this new romantic play o.

" The Rightful Heir "is, as we have already observed,
nearly identical with that of " The Sea Captain."
But the structure of the piece, the structure of Vie
verse, the incidents, the dialogue, have been one
and all of them most carefully re-conceived and re-
modelled—have, in point of fact, with inimitable
skill and admirable dexterity, been re- elaborated
throughout. Touches of nature, there ar e scattered
lavishly through this minutely prepared master-
piece: but in reference to those spontaneous evidences
of genius, we might say, in allusion to the author of
this drama " Thy art"--(as Ban jonson said of
Shakspere's when apostrophizing the great Poet
in immortal words)—" must enjoy a part"—
" For though the poet's matey nature b 3
IE3 art deth ratite the fa.;h:Ja ; and that he
Wao casts to write' a living lin 3 must swat
(Snell as thine, are), and strike the seclad heat
Upon the muse's anvil ; tu:a the sane,
And hinnelf with it that he thinks to franc ;
Or for the laurel he ally gain a scorn ;
For a go3,lp3et's male a; well a 3 born."
It should be here mentioned, as affording
conclusive evidence of the triumphant success of
Lord Lytton's new play, that the nob:e author

was summoned to the front of his box at the
end of the sacoad act to acknowlAga the
plaudits of the audience, plaudits w'aich were
acc)rded to him by acclamation. The inci-
dent of so early a call for the author is certainly
most unusual, if it be not ialeal altogether unex-
ampled. It could hardly b 3 wondered at, however,
on Saturday evaning, s3eing th 3 enthusiasm that
was awaken3d at the close of that se3onl act by the
reading of Qu3en Elizabeth's h3art•stirring procla-

motion to her people oa the annoancam3n.tof th 3
approach of . th 3 Arad t proolam ttion ad-
mirably declaimed in every syllable of it by the
skille 1 voice of Mr. Ban laraun. Tha call for
Lord Lytton's appea':atica at so e trly a pe:iol of
the oveniag was so un3xpacted of its kind that it
was for a long time unanswcrel. Tire sumnons
however, became almost, one might say, imperative;
and when the author had at last bowed his acknow-
leigments, it was significant of the patriotic ardour
the above mentioned" situation" of his contrivance
hal awakened, that one enthusiastic voice was heard
calling to the orchestra. for " Rule Britauni k."
Again, at the conclusion of the piece, upon the All
of th 3 curtain at the close of the fifth act,
after the principal perorm3rs hal been called be-
fore the footlights to receive the approbatioi to
which they were entitled, another unanimpas and
long sustained call for the author, constrained
Lord Lyttou—afcer some considerable interval had
elapsA consequent we believe upoa his having
already quitted his box—to return to it and

thence bow h s acknowlelgine,nts once mare to the
applause of the crowded alai delighted 11)1133. Sac-
cess was never more legitimately achieved by a
dramatist, and could not certa'nly have been more
enthusiastically manifesto Everything that could
in reason have been done beforehan I t) ensure
the efficient production of the piece upon the
boards of the Lyceum—in the way, that is, of
scenery, costumes, and general appointments—was
done, and that, too, thoroughly well, under Mr.
E. T. Smith's enterprising management, and it
was therefore because of their recognition of all
this that the audience before their dispersal sum-
moned that gentleman, in his turn, before the
footlights to receive the evidence of their approba-
tion.

As showing the unanimous recognition of the
triumph achieved by Llrd Lytton's new play on
Saturday the following extracts are taken from th 3
chief of our contemporaries :

The Times remarks that " The Rightful Heir is
not a work writtu for the sake of scenery, but
essentially a drama, ainiirably constructed and
beautifully written, with a view to the employment
of strictly dramatic means." Adding that " the
success of the piece was proclaimed with boisterous
vehemence."

The Morninj Pot, after observing that in his
new play Lord Lytton " has achieved a triumph
which is worthy of the author of Richelieu' and
The Lady of Lyons,'" aids that " the presence of
his lordship in ono of the proscmiurn boxes was a
most welcome sight to the audience, and the en..
thusiastic cheering he received at the end of the
second act, and at the termination of the play,
afford° I the most gratifying assurance that the
poetical drama, of which he is one of the very few
exponents, still finds abundant favour in their
eyes." _

The Star speaks of " The Rightf al Ireir" having
produced, at any rate up to the cal of the third
act, an extraordinary impronioa ; ail remarks
upon Lord Lytton having at the termination of it
received a second enthu3ias',ic roar of walcom 3.

Tll3 Standard says that " it is no great venture
to prelict, that in both ELiglanl and Ana2rica,
Rightful Heir' will beco.ne a 3 popular as any of
the other plays with which it 3 author's natu: is
associated."

The Telegraph, in its cloiing sentence, thus em-
phatically proclaims the trinalphant SUCCOS3 achieved
on Saturd ty by the author and impersonators of the
new drarna—".Tne play," it says, " was throughout
halal with continuous plan lits, the recalls
wee,: nu nerous throng:lout the evening ; and both
at the termination of the second act and at the
010 ,e of the play the dem In I for the appearance of
the author was so vehemently raised O. tt on can
occision I-Ard Lytton ha 1 to how fro n his piivate
box amidst a roar of acclaim ations."

The Daily News in the 531113 way makes mention
of the principal actors having been received with
great enthusiasm by a full house, an 1 Lord Lytton
having t 3 133 w from his box more than onoa iu the
course of the evening.
The lilorniay Adcertiser-after referring to
Thackeray's awl Toni Tagoldsby's caricatures of the
" Sea Captain" nearly thirty years ago as having
seemed, until now, almost to verify the French
maxim that le ridicule tue—asserts positively
enough that the event has proved quite

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, 0c t , 2.

The. Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
and attended by Lady Churchill, went to the
Glassalt Shiel yesterday.

Oct. 3.

Prince Arthur arrived from London.
Prince and Princess Christian returned to 1131'
moral from Dunkeld yesterday.

LATEST INTELL ferENof,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)