The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-06

Spanish subject, and destined TO fertll1ze the
PLAINS of Valencia.
Three screw frigates were placed in Cadiz
harbor ready for sea in case of the appearance
of Chilian privateers.
The Atlantic Telegraph.
The books for subscriptions to the stock of
the Anglo-Amercan Telegraph Company we're
closed in London on the 18th March. All the
capital required to make and lay new cable
and to get up and complete the one about two
thirds laid last year has been subscribed. The
contractors are making nineteen nautical miles
Of the new cable per day, and it IS q great i'm
provement upon that of last year. The Great
Eastern was being put in the most perfect order,
and the 30th June is still the day fixed for her
departure from Sheerness for Valentia, Ireland.
Foreign TheatricaIs.
NOVEL BOUQUET TO A LADY PERFORMER.
From the London Post, March "a.
A case was heard before the Sunderland ma
gistrates on Thursday, wherein Patrick Dasy
was summoned for an assault upon Madlle
Mazoni, the principal dancer at the Lyceum
theatre in that town. On Monday evening
week, Mad'lle Mazoni's benefit night, during
the performance of the ballet, portion of
cabbage, with heavy stalk attached, weighing
altogether about a pound and half, was
thrown from the gallery on the stage, dis
tance of fifty feet, and from height of at least
thirty feet. Just at this moment the position
OF the dancer was altered, and dropping her
head as she saw the missile approaching
Mad1le avoided the blow, but she was in such
a state that she could scarcely finish the dance.
reward af five pounds was offered by Mr.. Bell
the manager, and girl came forward and
was sitting beside her IN the gallery, throw the
cabbage stalk. The Bench inflicted penalty
of ten shilhngs and costs.
TMusical Intelligence.
SPLENDID OFFER TO THERESA, THE SINGER.
According to the Paris Temps, the following
tempting offer has been made by NJ. Paul Du-
pont, the manager of the Alcazar, of Marseles,
to Mile Theresa, the new celebrated diUd of
Paris:-20,0 600 francs (fS00) for her services for
one month, or f4O per night; travelling and
hotel expenses in the first hotel in Marseilles
to be paid; carriage and pair, with livery
servants during her stay; iluminations in
the hotel on the evening of her arrival; a
serenade with torches; an official reception at
the railway terminus and grand saloon of the
hotel by the manager and staff of the Marseilles
Alcazar; an entry into the city in caleche,
drawn by four horses, which will be announced
beforehand by special qHctes; grand dinner
the day after her arrival; the Alcazar to be bril-
liantly illuminated and decorated during her
stay, and two hundred seats to be reserved for
the etlte of Marseilaise society.
TEMPTING as this offer is, Mad'lle Theresa has
declined it, and the Temps asks, what more does
she require-a salvo OF twenty.one guns; the
National Guard drawn up to receive her, and
the keys Of the city presented to her on silver
| dish? ',....
The Tribunal of Commerce has Just given
Judgment in an action for breach OF contract,
brought by the director of the Theatre du Palais
Royal against Mad'lle Louise Ferraris, under the
| following circumstances:-The defendant, in
| 1864, signed an engagement for three years with
a progressive salary of 24OOf, 3OOOf and 36OOf.
| with forfeit clause of l2,000f, ALI went on
well till the beginning of last month, when the
! Fore duT GToteSqteS was put in rehearsal. In
the part given to Mad'lle Ferraris, she had to ad
dress the following phrase to one of her fellow
| actresses: 81 have done well not to invite you
TO my oall, for you would not be able to come
IN IN 6co1 new dress, as you owe your drsssmaker
! thus apostrophized was deeply indebted to her
/ dressmaker, fact known to some of her COM
| panions; she therefore considered the language
| as personal insult, and complained to the
| authors, who at once consented to change the
| phrase. Notwithstanding this Mad'lle Ferraris
| persisted in giving the original words at every
| rehearsal, and ultimately refused to play the
part. After this breach of contract the director
took the present proceedings to get her engage
| ment cancelled, and demanded II, ,000f. damages.
| Before the case came on for trial, however, she
made an offer to play the part as altered, but
| the director declined to accept it, and she then
commenced a cross action, to recover II, ,000f.
After hearing counsel, the Tribunal cancelled
the engagement, rejected Mad'lle Ferraris' de-
| mand, and condemned her to pay the director
| 2OOOf. damages, with all costs.
The Royal Literary Fund Society announced
| at their meeting on the l4th of March, that
during the past year ten authors in history and
biography have been relieved to the amount oi
f325, nine authors IN science and art to the
amount of f360, seven authors in periodical
literature to the amount of f28O, four authors
in topography and travels to the amount of fl40
five authors in classical literature and educa
ton to the amount of fl55, four authors in
poetry to the amount of f65, eight authors In
essays and tales to the amount of $685. one dra
matte author to the amount of e20, one author
In law to the amount of f25, two medical au
thors to the amount OF $50, and one other tC
the amount of 920, making in all iIty-two cases
and the total amount of fl685. OF these twenty
had been relieved for the first time, but some
had been relieved several times, and one eleven
times. The grants varied in amount from Ell
to f10O. The Archbishop of Dublin and the
Duke of Devonshire were elected Vice -Presi
dents; Professor Owen was elected to the Coun
Gil; the Dean of Westminster, Mr.. A. j. Beres
ford Hope M. p, the Rev. Charles Merivale
B. D., and DR., Copeland we're elected on thu
General Committee.
The French Minister of Public instruction i
| about to reorganize the libraries of Paris, espe
cially with reference to the position and salarie
ofthe persons employed there, who have hithert
been insufficiently paid and their promotion
stopped by the introduction into the highe
| posts of men who had not passed the apprentice
ship of Librarians. M. Duruy proposes to esta
blish a uniform scale of salaries for all thu
libraries, and to give the subordinates an oppoI
tunity of rising. HH.r
The London Reader announces that Mr.
: Frederick Huth, a well-known book collector Il
England, who purchased at the sale OF the lat
Mr. George Daniels library the celebrated col
: lection of seventy black-letter ballads, printe
between the years 1869 and 1897, for f76O,
} | about to reprint them IN single volume, as hi
contribution to the Philobiblion Society, and tina
the impressions will be very limited and onl
| for private distribution. This will be an In
portant addition TO our collection OF old Englis
poetry.