The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 30.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

4 per Cent.
End of month... Italian Loan —
3 per Cent - 7 l 7l 60 End of month...
End of month., 71 44 Mexican Loan ... 24
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 291 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1521 Home Debt —
End of month... Deferrod —

MULWA'

s. Cash.
... 912

Orleans ,

Northern ... 7202
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 640

572 i
570

Western .
Eastern .
Sardinian
Austrian 641
Lombard 4131
North of Spain 73;
Saragossa
Roman 47!

MR. AND MRS. BOUCICATIL7'S FARE-

WELL OF THE STAGE.

Among those events not likely to be discussed in
connection with the fate of empires, but which yet
possess an amount of interest amply sufficient to
warrant the attention of the journalist, we may
include the retirement of favourite actors and
actresses who have brightened for the com-
munity the evenings devoted to theatrical en-
joyment. When a familiar face disappears
from the stage we lose with it a host of plea-
sant acquaintances. The mere record that on
Saturday night last Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault
bade adieu to the playgoing public of the Theatre
Royal Dublin, conveys the intelligence that Eily
O'Connor, " Arrah of the Kiss," Myles-na-Coppa-
leen, and Shaun "the Post" have departed from
amongSt us. It is quite possible that these popular
personages may reappear with other features and
with other forms, but there will always be some look
or tone missing which only memory can supply.
That Mr. and Mrs. Bouccicault have passed into
retirement when their histrionic popularity was
at its height, ample testimony is supplied in the re-
markable success of their last provincial tour.
The final representations of " The Colleen Bawn"
and " Arrah na Pogue" were received by the
Dublin public with as strong an expression of inte-
rest and enthusiasm as when those admirable
dramas were first produced in the Irish
capital. The announcement that Mr. and
Mrs. Boucicault would appear for the last
time before the footlights on the Dublin stage
was only made a few clays prior to the event.
Although the warm-'heartel countrymen of the
distinguished dramatist thoroughly appreciated
the implied compliment, there could be no
doubt of a strong feeling of regret, far exceeding
any amount of gratification to he thence de-
rived ; and the crowded audience who reluc-
tantly took theie farewell of the popular per-
formers expressed their sentiments on the
occasion with so much fervour that it must
have been difficult indeed for those who had elicited
such enthusiasm to maintain their resolution. Since
their return from America, eight years ago, Mr.
and Mrs. Boucicault have been constantly before
the public, and the various characters they have
" created" during that period will be readily asso-
ciated by the London 'playgoer with some of the
most delightful of his recollections. No such truth-
ful pictures of Irish lite in its brightest phases
have been presented on the stage as those they have
so graphically drawn and so artistically coloured,
and the beneficial influence thus exerted over the
minds of thousands of spectators in every part of
the globe, cannot be lightly estimated. To com-
pensate the theatrical world for the loss it has thus
sustained, Mr. Boucicault will have to give the
stage that support as a dramatist which he has with-
drawn from it as an actor.

THE CATTLE SHOW.--The great Christmas Cattle
Show next week will, as usual, draw visitors from all
parts of the country to London. Next to the show itself,
no place will present more attraction than the Royal Am-
phitheatre and Circus in High-holborn. The management
have prepared a programme of unusual excellence and
novelty, and particularly suitable for the show week, in-
cluding, beside the aptestrianistn, Miss Carrie and Cap-
tain Charles Austin in their Lightning Zouave
which is unequalled, and has created groat excitement
wherever introduced. Without a visit to the Amphitheatre
no one can form any idea of the magnificence of the stud,
or the perfection of the training which the animals exhi-
bit. Every lover of horses should make it a duty to wit-
ness their Performances, which aro deservedly the theme
of general admiration. The programme will be varied,
and replete with excitement and amusement, and visitors
may depend upon securing the most enjoyable evening's
entertainment to be found in the metropolis.
DUEL BETWEEN JOURNALISTS.—A hostile meeting
took place near Paris two days back between M. de
Keekeren, and M. Bogat, the latter a writer in the Evene-
meld, and better known under the name of Coviello, as
correspondent of the Nord. The place of meeting was
the Isle of Croissy. The seconds of the first-named gentle-
man were M Henri de Vivien, a military officer, and M.
.Alfonso, while M. Rogat'a friends were M. Paul de Cassag-
nac and M. Bertrand, of the Nord. M. Heekeren was
wounded in the shoulder, but the combat continued until
his adversary was pierced in the abdomen, when the duel
ceased. It lasted only four minutes.
DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT.—Mr. Hills, under
cook of Magdalen College, Cambridge, who had been
working very hard at the election, and had been much
excited, died suddenly on Wednesday. In addition he
bad been much depressed iu anticipating that his services
would no longer be required at Magdalen. The counter
excitement was too much. On Wednesday evening ho
went home (having received the notice), sat down in a
chair, and, with the exclamation "My heart is broken,"
suddenly expired. Excitement operating upon a diseassd
heart was the cause of death. Mr. Hills had been at Mag-
dalen many years.
THE YORKSHIRE STATUTE FAIRS.---The last of
the great annual fairs for the hiring of farm and domestic
servants was held at Melton on Saturday, after having
lasted three weeks. During the whole of the period the
hirings have been slack, mainly owing to the forward
state of agriculture, from the flue season, and the reduced
number of live stock kept, the meat supplies having suf-
fered so severely from the last summer's drought. Far-
mers also make a dead set at the high wages, and
most engagements, except for female servants, have
been on lower terms. A large proportion of farm ser-
vants are not hired, and probably will not be till spring.
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