The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-22 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS .NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American 2 imes.)
Madame Ristori sailed for Europe from Now York
June 27. She performed on the 25th June at a farewell
entertainment, and, in response to an enthusiastic call,
came forward and spoke this farewell verse :

"The end has come ' • the last words must be spoken ;
From great and free America I part ;
But never, never can the spell be broken—
For-memory 1 take—and leave, my heart!"
The Spirit of the Times gives the following items
Parepa was enthusiastically received by the Californians.
She was serenaded, and her opening night was unusual
even for the impulsive, go-ahead Californians. Fanny
Brown, whose erratic fascinations have charmed half
a hemisphere, is in California playing Mazeppa. George
Ryland, of circus eminence, has married the daughter
of his partner, Lee. The family combinations in busi-
ness are always pleasant and safe. Relatives never gouge
each other. George Coes, the banjo celebrity, at-
tenuated and famous minstrel, has returned to California,
where first he gained his laurels E. L. Davenport opened
in San Francisco to a splendid house. He is universally
accepted by the critical fraternity there as one of the best
actors who ever visited the Pacific coast. Manager
Hooley, of the celebrated Hooley's Minstrels, in Brook-
lyn, sails for Europe for novelties and recreation•
Mr. Crocker, of Moore and Crocker's Christy's Ann-
strel Troupe, London, is in New York for a brief visit.
Mrs. Clara Jennings, of Wallack's, was married to Mr.
Kingsland, a son of the ex-Mayor Kingsland. They are
in the White Mountains on a bridal tour. Tho Babylo-
nians talk of building a theatre at Babylon, Long Island.
Manager Wheatley and wife are at their country Sea
Coney Island. Manager Wallack and family are at Long
Branch. James Wallack has enlivened Long Branch.
Billy Floyd also. Joseph Jefferson has retired for
the summer to the mountains of Pennsylvania. The
Convention helps the " White Fawn" materially.
There is a very interesting article in the Players' Monthly
for July on ' The King of Actors.' Theatricals are
dull„ duller, dullest, everywhere. Shir Campbell, the
handsomest and sweet-voiced_ singer, is in the city. Mr'
John M'Croary, theatrical manager and agent, and at one
time a journalist, died recently in San Francisco. Charles
T. Parsloo disfigured the countenance of a Boston
manager by way of recreation from his arduous histrionic'
labours, and was fined ten dollars by a magistrate who
admires Charles more as an actor than a pugilist."
The Nation has taken a quiet but effective waY
of punishing some criticism without knowledge, of which
the Boston Transcript of June 1 was guilty, in ascribing ig-
norance to the writer in the Nation who reviewed Profes-
sor Stowe's paper on the "Talmud" in the Atlantic MonthiP
The Transcript thus comments on the Nation's remarks
—" The astute critic says, 'Meir, for example, is spelled
in three ways ; it never appears twice alike, and it never
appears in its correct form.' The critic evidently does
not know that' the names are quite different, there
being six, to wit—Mair, Maier, Mayer, Meir, Meyer, Meier'
and in every instance Professor Stowe gives the right
name. The critic also accuses the professor of translat-
ing certain German (and Hebrew) letters wrong, whereal,
the professor always follows the true German mode.
The Springfield Republican picked this up on June 3, r-
peating the words of the Transcript. On June 8, 10W-
ever, the latter paper having discovered its error, acknoW"
ledged it in these words :—" The Nation and Professor
Stowe.—On the first of this month we denied the correct-
ness of a criticism in the New York Nation on Professor
Stowe's article in the lastAtlantie on the " Talmud." it ap-
pears, on further examination that the Nation was right,
and that we were wrong, though our remarks were
based on the assurance of a Hebrew scholar whose
judgment in such matters, and in this particular case;
we had every reason to suppose accurate authority.
But the Watchman and Reflector of June 11, determining
to have the benefit of consistency in being behind the
times, although published in the same city as the Trans:
cript, came out with the following :—The Nation makes 'l_
ridiculous display of ignorance in criticising Professor
Stowe's article on the " Talmud" in the last Atlantic. The
very points made by the astute editor are so many proofs
of the Professor's accuracy. " A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing." The Nation, now under the heading
"Criticism without Knowledge," gives these papers the
benefit of an advertisement.
Know-Nothingism is reviving. Messrs. Moorhead,
Simpson, and Bond have just published a book of travels
by sea and land by a thorough Know-Nothing. 11",,-
author objects to the whole system of immigration and t,
the importation of low foreigners, and more especially
the Irish. He denounces universal suffrage, and arguef
forcibly against both it and immigration. lie is a thorough
English hater, which is unusual in a native Amerilu
with those ideas, but he seems to despise the Irish
to whom he denies even the possession of wit or humour'
except of a certain very coarse kind. The party took ?its,:
rise in Massachusetts in 1855, and an attempt is now beingmade to re• establish it on its old basis, and with its olvi
object, to keep naturalized citizens from office. Such A fuss
has lately been made in the United States about nate-
ralisel citizens that it is high time for a reaction.
Connecticut has abolished its Rate Bill, and
children of the poor have now no barrier between thelte
and education in the public schools.
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Weather.—The sultry summer days strain the nervesfe
the feeble and decrepit, which state eventuates in diseaV)
unless some restorative, such as these purifying Pills' ,a
found to correct the disordering tendency. Hollowell()
Medicine gives tone to the nervous system, which is t„„..
source of all vital movements, and presides over every
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tion which maintains the growth and well-being of ity
body. No one, therefore, can over estimate the necess,to
of keeping the nerves well strung, and the ease no
which these Pills accomplish that end is borne witness
by thousands dwelling in hot climates, whose livers he
been saved and whose lives have been spared.

Births.
HALL n the 18th inst., at 5, Clarence-parade, Soutl?Seoll
the wife of Captain Hall, R.N., H.M.S. Octavial -
a son.

SMITH—On the 21st inst., at 38, Kensington-garacr;
square, the wife of William Henry Smith, Esq., °
daughter.

Marriages.
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BULLMORE—G lIY On the 18th inst' rat St. Paul's Cbl-141,,,
Bristol, Charles Forrester Bullmoe, Esq., of Hell
,;%,
Cornwall, to Edith Jessie, only daughter of Henry
Esq., of 33, Portland-square, Bristol.
S lIARPLE IC—RUSTON —At the parish church, PidloYleiT,
Fenton, Henry, youngest son of the late Croft SbarPiio,
Esq., of Althorpe, near Louth, Lincolnshire, to Alll- of
youngest daughter of the late Robert Ruston, Bsq"
Norden House, Chatteris.

Deaths.
BLACKBURN—On the 18th inst., at Ramsgate, Jas. 47.
Wormwood-street, London, aged
TAYLOR—On the 16th inst., James Ducker Taylor,
St. Ann's-lane, St. Martin's-le-Grand, aged 42. in
Wn.xxNsoN—On the 16th inst., at the Rectory, F°°;11111-
the 58th year of his age, the Rev. Alfred Nv, "
son, M.A.

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