The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-13
LETTER FROM MRS. RITCHIE.

London Rtots-Anecdote Of the Queen Of Hunooer
--A1Hunt Drdn0ttC Ce,ebTItiOR at Me DWlCtch
COUege-Much Ado About NOtbtRg-lHr. Rus
ktR-Mdnner IN 1ohicb the College tcds Founded
Mr. d. d. Homes Appearance at the NeU
-ROydlty Theatre G1tStdUe DOre'S Illustrations
OF He IdyHs of the -1ennySOR'S Hldtqna-
success Of HelL LOSnOpOtltIR-Brea Acddeny
Prize POenl-DecOrdtioa for Heroic Womea2
The Empress Eugente Among the Cholera Pa
He1ttS- HlctOr HugO'S Price, etc.
LONDON, July 2S.-The London riots have
been the one engrossing topic OF the week. but
you will doubtless receive so ample an account
IRON your political correspondent, that although
"a proximity OF our own residence to the scene
u, ~rbanCc has made us an eyewitness to
OF uls.- comic incidents, we torDear entering
soIle SOM s seri1> >rtalnly the English not con
sttU se,I orrv uatlon, bur we can bear
witness that when they d. isru in bi,a [aoI
their excitement takes sim -, race Tbe
form, and seems wholly free iron. ,7.Iv fear.
men and boys whom we saw lndustrlo.. mile
ing up the railing of Hyde PARK, for hall a ~
and trying to iorce the gales, and getting H.
mercifully pummelled by the police, and almost
crushed TO death in the crowd, seemed TO be
enjoying themselves excessively; they were
'Out on a spree "going in for lark" )" and only
in earnest so tar as they we're determined TO
prove, even to violence, that the working classes
mad as much right TO make use OF the park as
pleasure-seeElng idlers or wealthy arlstocrats.
We have Just heard an anecdote OIL the queen
Of Hanover which testihes to her almost eCcen-
tric kindness of heart. One OF her maids OF
honor in writing to an artist IN London, men,
tons that lust after the King lett tor the war,
lady who was visiting at the palace gave
imDromptu birth 10 an infant. 1t was necessary
that the mother should be at once removed to
her own residence. The Queen, who has strong
maternal instincts, chose to carry the babe in
her own arms to its home. The narrative states
that when she issued into the street 1--WE pre-
sumo to enter her carriage, though from the
lady's letter one might draw the Inference that
she walked), the people, Whohad Just seen their
monarch depart, cheered her enthusiastically.
She paused, and with the newborn infant lying
on her breast, addressed the crowd, and
thanked her subjects tor their sympathy-tner
devotion-their allegiance. Some idea OF the
beautiful tenderness which charaCterGes the
Queen may be formed from this incident, Tor the
facts come to us too direct to be questioned.
The annual dramatic celebration at Dul Wich
COLLEGE took place on the 25th OF this month.
Much ado About Nothing was (mls) represented
by the pupils; the herOnes being personated by
boys, as in the days OF Shakespeare. 1t will be
remembered that this college was founded by
one William Aleyn, an actor, and the friend OF
Shakespeare. The present performance took
place in the very nall built by this William
Alleyn, in 1915 As may be supposed, the at
temDts of the juveniles to interpret Shakespeare
were IN the highest degree rth-provoKing-
their cracked OF sepulchral voices piping, or
CrOaking out wltticisms or the exquisite poetry
OF the great bard-their unsteady movements,
the knocking OF knees, and sWaylng back
and forward OF bodies, as though all the actors
seemed TO fancy themselves standing on the
deck of a ship in a rough seattle uncouthly
odd gestures-the poluung with one finger al
the person addressed-the sPasmodc thrustlng
out OF arms, then holding them as though glued
to the sides-and especially the management OF
the female costume oy the large-waIsted, fiat
chested, hipless boys, convulsed the audience
with laughter, and converted Shakespeare's de-
lightul comedy into the richest burlesque.
But there was one grave, intellectual, high
souled man, seated among the boisterous specta-
tors, who could not enjoy the joke and evl-
dently wrlthed as though pins were being thrust
into his delicate iesh--it was John Ruslin. HIS
fine organization and his veneration Tor art
rendered such trayesty positive desecration
to him.
The climax of the ludicrous was capped when
after the performance, "Benedctn and "Bea.
trice,n "Heron and "Caudio," "Don John, q"
'sDogberry," and ''Verges" came forth, in their
costumes, bearing trays of ices, and strutted
about among the audience, crying, "Please pass
back the tray !" with the same sepulchTal or
cracked tones IN which they had Just uttered,
''Slence is pertectest herald OF joy-I were but
little happy If l could say how much ~ or
H'There was O star danced, and under that | was
born?" Or,
"BehOld how like maid she bushes there!
Can not that blood as modest evidence
To witness simple virtueP
. Or,
20, she is fallen
Into pit Of ink, that the wide sea
Hatb drops 100 few to wash her clean again."
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