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London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

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Charles, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. W. C. Temple; Miss Heath, Miss Edith
Stuart, Miss Fanny Addison, and Mrs. Frank Matthews.

To conclude wits a Grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMiNT.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—In consequence of the
great success of the new Play on Saturday last, " THE
RIGHTFUL HEIR" will be performed every Evening until fur-
ther notice. All was enthusiasm throughout the night, and a
greater success could not have been achieved.

LYCEUM THE A.TRE.—
TUE RIGHTFUL HEIR.—E. T. Smith respectfully an-
nounces to his patrons and the public that he has been honoure.l
by the distinguished Author of "Richelieu," Money," •` The
Lady o' Lyons," &c., to produce a new romantic play, in which
Mr. Baudmann will appear. He has also the pleasure of an-
J uncing an engagement with that established histrionic favouriie
a.nd celebrated actress, Mrs. Hermann Vezin; also Miss Milly
Palmer and Mr. Hermann Vezin, who is engaged to sustain the
character of Sir Grey de Malpas.
rills EVEN !NG, and during the week, the performance
will commence at Seven with Stirling's Farce, entitled NICE
YOUNG LADIES.

After which, in five acts and eight tableaux, at a quarter to 8,
TIIE RIGHTFUL HEIR. The picturesque scenery painted by
Mr. Charles Brew and Mr. W. Brew. The music composed and
arranged by Mr. John Barnard. And the piece produced under
the direction of Mr. E. T. Smith and Mr. T. H. Friend. Lord
miurt, Mr. G. F. Neville Sir Grey (le Malpas, Mr, Hermann
Veziu; Wrecklyffe, Mr. Frank Lawlor; Sir Godfrey Seymour,
Mr. George Peel; Vivyan, Mr. Bandmann ; Faulkner, Mr. Lin
Rayne; Harding, Mr. T. Anderson; Marsden, Mr. David Evans;
Alto, Mr. Basil Potter; Purser, Mr. Everard; Servant, Mr. W.
Templeton; Lady Montreville, Mrs. Hermann Vezin; Eveline,
Miss Milly Palmer. Synopsis of Scenery: Act I. The Decayed
Mansion of sir Grey de Malpas; the Garden's of the Castle of
Montreville.—Act 2. A Gothic Chamber in the Castle; the rattle-
ments of the Castle.—Aet.3. A Wild and Precipitous Headland;
the Castle of Montreville.—Act 4. Lady Montreville's Private
Apartments: St. Kinian's Cliff.—Act. 5. St. Kinian's Cliff; In-
terior
of the Castle; a Feudal Hall.

To conclude with THE LYCEUM BALLET of Fifty Ladies.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. H. Friend.
Mr. C. Nugent has the entire charge of the Box-office. Places
can be booked by letter or telegraph, addressed to him at the
Theatre.

riIHEATRE-ROYAL, Winter
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Sole Lessee an:l Manager,
THIS EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR.

After which fat 6 o'clock), Dion Bou,icault's new drama, In
Four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life.
Mo,.3srs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt,
J. CF. Shun; Miss Trassy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclercq.
Entlrely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds an -I assistants.
To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY.
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open
daily from 10 till 5.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
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THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE. Messrs.
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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1868.

QUEEN ISABELLA has sent a violent protest from
Pau, in which she inveighs against the overthrow
of the Government, and this will probably be the
last communication that she will make to the
Spanish authorities. The day has gone by when
any of her wishes can prevail, or her opinion be
studied. One satisfaction is that the country ap-
pears quite tranquil, and therefore there is no need
to look for fresh disturbances just now. Of course
there is a great deal to do before thiHgs can be
called settled, but even already there is so much
evidence of unanimity that it encourages us
to hope, in the absence of anything like
ill-will among the men who are in the ascendant.
Marshal SERRANO has arrived at Madrid, which is
a fortunate circumstance, as some uneasiness pre-
vailed on account of the armed multitude. Efforts
are being made by the Junta to organise the armed
populace. All accounts agree that order prevails iu
Madrid, and it may safely be affirmed that seldom
if ever has there been a revolution taking :place
which caused so little disquiet in the capital of the
country which it affected. A most enthusiastic
reception was given to General SERRANO, and he
was received at the station by the members
of the Provisional Junta, and also by po-
pular deputations. He afterwards made a
speech, in which he declared that ho had
communication with General ESPARTERO and
placed himself at his disposal. In all proba-
bility the Provisional Ministry, which will be
composed to-day, will consist of Marshal SERRANO,
General PRIM, and others. General ESPARTERO
has not alluded to his coming to Madril in the
answer be sent to Marshal SERRANO. In order to
show their indifference the Government will, it is
said, have the protest of Quee❑ ISABELLA printed
and posted up all over the country. The Ministry
will rule the country until the meeting of the Con-
st.tuent Assemby. Some doubts appear to prevail as
to whether Gen. PRIM will join the new Government
or not, but it is most likely that he will. As yet
there has been no defection to complain of in the
plans that have been so rapidly formed.
Meanwhile people are busy iu their surmises and
expectations as to whether any of the exiled
claimants to the throne will succeed.
These unfortunate victims of the ill
fate which sometimes overshadows high as
well as humble personages came to life in a
disturbance like the present, and flutter about the
scene of confusion in the desire of bettering their
prospects, and perhaps of exchanging the cold shade
of exile for the sunny splendours of a throne, un-
stable though it may be, and devoid of all real
satisfaction as its barren honours may be. One
thing is very certain in all this, which is, that there
is no ghost of a chance for Queen ISABELLA ever
being restored. Amid all the different sections not
one is in her favour, and nowhere is regret ex-
pressed for her precipitate downfall. No sovereign
ever left a land over which she had held sway for
more than a generation, after having given rise to so
little favour or friendly feelings, as Queen ISABELLA
has done. She seems to have kept power by suf-
ferance for a long time, and at last by the mere
patience of her worn-out subjects. It is easy to
find in France and Italy many who still adhere to
the fortunes and advocate the claims of departed
rulers, but even in this early stage of her defeat
ISABELLA appears to the world in the mortifying
character of a fallen ruler without friends to con-
dole with her, if they cannot fight for her. If she
has any private councillors they had better use their
influence to persuade her into accepting her
position with the best grace she can, and not to
create new difficulties for herself, by making despotic
attempts to do what is impossible, but which may in
its very failure complicate her position still more,
and aggravate the evils from which she has to
suffer. Any European country almost may be
her refuge if she knows how to keep quiet, but if
she expends her resources in fomenting strife and
promoting the progress of sedition, the Powers of
Europe will agree that she is no very pleasant or
profitable visitor to their territories, and that
the sooner she seeks other quarters the
better. Sad has been the fall of the last
rulers of the BOURBON line in Europe, but it will
not undo the past or remedy their future position
in history if they occupy themselves in vain endea-
yours, and exhibit zeal without discretion. So far as
we can see as yet no successor is likely to be put
in ISABULA'S vacant place, an will not be for
some time to come very likely. The Spanish people
will be very cautious how they again entrust so
much to one ruler, and they can hardly be blamed
if they exhibit some distrust after the specimen
they have bad for so long before them ; but when
once a change has been made, it is easier to keep
to the safe line of policy.

Notwithstanding the uproarious disposition of
the good folks at Crecliton, who are much more in-
clined to hear their own voices than those of the
rival candidates for their suffrages, the right hon.
the Secretary of State for India contrived on
Saturday to make a very sensible and straightfor-

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 NORTII-
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 NORTIICOTE 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. .1 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, ne 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
Atneran institutions, but you cannot make this
country Lire 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 public 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 SFAFFORD NORTHCOTE, while opposed to the
disendowment of the Irish Church, frankly admits
that he thinks great changes are advisable.
Quoting au 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. llere
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 NORTIICOTE 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
s'ster 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 questions 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-
ing about the Commission, and his party at the
time laid great stress upon the importance of the
unlertaking. 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 onco so eager
about the appointment of this Commis-
tion, and so certain of the efficacy of its
researches, should now seek to deny its merits, and
gainsay any advantages that may accrue from 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-
stripped the natural course of events in the career
they have taken, and thus they seek to put them-
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 understand the principles which guide lead-
ing politicians.
_

English purses are always ready when 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 wiiss natnrally ens
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, Rut
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 consumes
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 describe 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 spsedily
alleviated.

COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO GEORGE

CR UIKSHANK.

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.i ; 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 Diiblin Castle, expressing much regret
at Isis inability to attend the banquet to his friend
George Cruikshank, and alluding 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 Middles 2x. L otters
of apology were also:received froni 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 had 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 had conducted the affairs
of the regiment, touching gracefully on the inci-
dents of the eventful career of the great artist, his
world-wide reputation, and his zeal 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 interestiwere delivered by Col.
Chesney, Dr. Stubbing, Mr. Paget, Major Williams,
and others. . _

Mr. 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 choice 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 600 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. 11. Sydney, the gifted comic singer, de-
lighted the guests with some impromptu compoai-
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 chances of being
elected 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.—For years past it has been
thelrule that direct commissions without purchase are given
only to those who pass a high standvd 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 intarprot 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 maintain and
keep open the La Scala opera-house.-3lusical Standard.
SAILING OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—The Great
Eastern, which has been lying idle in the Morsoy for
several months past, sailed for Shereoss on Saturday.
She has been chartered 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 board between 4,000 and 5,000
tons of coal, and has been partly provisioned. At Sheer-
ness she will be entirely " gutted," and will be fitted with
tanks for the purpose of carrying the cable. She was under
the command cf Sir J. Anderson.

APOTHECARIES' lIALL.—The following gentlemeu
passed th it examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
d+y,
the Ist inst. : -John Albert 8011, Rochester, Kent, of
St. Thomas's Hospital; George Robinson, Spilsby, Lin-
colnshire, of the London Hospital ; Henry Howell Spratt,
11.R.C.5., England, Groytown, New Zealand, of the
Middlesex Hospital. The following gentleman also passed
his first examination :—Waltor Peel Yates, of Guy's Hos-
pital.