The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-11-29

ton and justice, Without iedninS loWdIuS TIC
unfortunate policy which broke down General
Harrison's administration, then we shall give them
some credit for discrimination, patriotism and
good sense.
The BUTLER CAsE-SINGULAR DEVELOPMENTS.
The first days proceedings on the argument in
the action of Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler against
her husband, now going on before the court in
Philadelphia, were given In our columns yester-
day /; and the second days proceedings will be
found in our columns to-day.
There has been great deal CT inquiry by the
public relative to the causes which led to the un-
pleasant differences that have taken place between
her and her husband The great fame and talents
of Fanny Kemble before her marriage very natu-
rally attracted much attention to her recent move
ments, embracing the separation from her family,
and her return to the stage. We fear, however,
that the mystery hitherto hanging over these mat
tiers will not be removed by the proceedings now
going on before the court in Philadelphia. Thus
far the proceedings and arguments are full of legal
technicalities, and only incidentally refer, now
and again, to the real cause of separation and diff
ficulty between the parties only one strange and
singular fact seems to have transpired In these
proceedings, and that is some mysterious cornec-
ton or acquaintance between Miss Sedgwick and
Mrs Butler, or the Sedgwick family and Mrs.
Butler, which appears to have createda great deal
of discomfort and dispeasure in the mind OF Mr..
Butler. AS this affair, however, now stands, it
would seem that the principal offence perpetrated
by Mrs. Butler towards her husband was the act
of simply receiving letter from Miss Sedgw'ck,
who Is a lady of literary turn of mind, and lives
somewhere in Massachusetts, There is good
deal said about the whole matter, but the receipt
of this letter seems as yet to be the principal cause
of offence.
Time may probably bring out the whole of the
mysteries but all is still as mysterious as ever.
FORREST AND MAcREADY.-The newspapers, far
and wide, are making comments and delivering
long, moral and literary dissertations on the re-
cent cards and speeches of Messrs. Forrest and
Macready, blowing each other up and accusing
each other of telling untruths.
What singular spectacle do the two great ira
gedlans OF the age-one the star OF the American
drama, and the other OF the Brltish-present to
their cotemporaries to the spirits of the past,
GLIDING Garrick and his associates, if they still
take an interest IN mundane affairs, and to those
also who may come after them and tread in their
growth who have received more than their share
of toys and caresses from fond parents, and who,
getting to loggerheads about the spolls, display
most magnanimous contempt for puerile etiquette,
and interchange those expressive and beautifully
laconic courtesies, =" You lie,'' "you lie, ''you
lIe," "yOu he."
1t seems, however, that these distinguished ac-
tors and silly men not satisfied with the noto-
rious prorunctanientos and cards which they have
given to the world, but that Mr.. Macready is going
solemnly, and seriously, and with all the gravity
of the tragic buskin, to commence an action at
law, for the purpose of ascertaning on which side
is the truth and which the falsehood in their con-
f1ictlpg statements. A case of this kind, before
any of our courts of law, will yield a rich har-
vest to the lawyers, and much fun to the CON-
munity. 1t will exhibit the two greatest drama
lists of the age IN light aud position very little
different from two ''loafers' of the Five Points,
who have been backed up by couple of pettifog-
gers at one of our police courts, In order to bring
out all the peccadoes OF which they can accuse
each other If Mr.. Macready had made no reply
whatever to MIR. Forrest he would have stood in a
higher point of public estimation than he now
does. with his recent silly card hanging over his
shoulders.
Alas Alas Macready and Forrest; and For
rest and Macready stand pretty much on the same
level. and that level is not the highest niche on
Mount Parnassus, or any where In that neighbor-
hood Whatever may be the ter 1inatlon OF this
petty and patry quarrel, which has for Its source
the envlous rivalry of the parties who are engaged
in it. it may do some good as an example to the
other respectable actors 4 the profession. We
should not be surprised, however, if 1t produced
such an effect upon the public, on both sides Of the
Atlantic as to necessitate a close OF the career Of
both these tragedians on the boards of England
and America.
For CALIFORNIA. second OF Messrs. How
land IL Aspinwalfs mail steamers, the Oregon.
goes TO sea this morning. Her destination Is San
Francisco, but she will touch at Rio Janeiro, Bue-
nos Ayres, and Panama. The third vessel In this
,ine leaves in the middle of January.
THE II. s. MAIL STEAMER NoRTHERyKR came
IN Yesterday morning, from Charleston, with the
great Southern mail We have New orleans pa
pers by her two days later than received by the
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