The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-12
LETTER FROM LONDON.

inc Royal Albert H0ll--Vhc Princess
Louise, Marchioness OF Lorne-"CaIxe,
Wine, and n Banquet"-G -Gunboats-Mun
della and the Trades-Unton Conference
No More strilxes-The Higher Education
of Women Post Cards 400 Americans
Before the Pope-Heart-Disense Maps,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Special Correspondence Of The Euenirg Telegraph.
LONDON, March 30, 187l.-The event of the
week is unquestionaby the opening of the Royal
Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences by the Queen
In person yesterday, in a bitter northeaster of
our true March kind. Why the hall was ever
built no one Except perhaps, the contradictory
seems to know. Now that it is arealzed fact,
prodgious coliseum of red brick aud terra
Gotta, looking for all the world like Bro9dig-
nagian game-pie, everybody Is trying
to imagine uses for it. The Cooper
Institute in New York is dedicated ito
art and science" but the Albert Hall clearly
does not aim at being Cooper Institute. viii
"art," mean monster concerts and sciences"
experimental lectures? AS it is important that
the big place should pay its expenses, its mana
gers will, l fancy find it hard TO keep to the
loftiest class of entertainments only. Already
we hear that the building is occasionally to be
utilized a cattle show! The private owner
ship of boxes is an original feature of the hall.
To procure funds for building, boxes we're sold
out-snd- out at least for 999 years s-to private
iuuNluualb, Jne price OF the DeSb DelnS tlUUU
apiece. The owners are now fitting up their
tenements each according to his fancy, and the
question is already being raised whether each is
not entitled to claim the electoral franchise in
respect of his costly fragment of leasehold pro-
perty.
The telegraph will no doubt have told you the
dry acts of last weeks royal wedding, so l will
not say much about it, was in the crowd of
Eon boys who dragged the carriage of our
Princess Royal (now Imperial Princess of Ger
many) up Windsor Hill ON the marriage-day,
and can safely say in spite of the dowry agita-
ton, that no one of the royal weddings has been
so nationally popular as this of the Princess
Louise, Marchioness of Lorne Gas her title is to
be.) Many of us would have preferred its post
ponement till after Easter as the particular date
could be of no particular moment, but we
shouldn't care to initiate the egregious uucharita-
bleness of certain Scotch minister, who has
come out with the suggestion of service of
mourning and humiliation by way of protest
against Lenten nuptials. Hugh Suther-
land, tailor of Dundee, hit a much more
practical and praisewortby nail on the head,
though his protest has whimsical sound. To
the sheriff of his county this doughty tailor ad-
dressed formal document, in which, stating
that sgt was averred" the corporation of Dundee
meditated treating themselves and friends, on
and banquet" aud that the cost of all this
would come out of the borough rates, to which
he as a ratepayer objected he wound uS by re-
curing the sheriff to that the felonious cake,
ETC., be countermanded. In justice to our local
authorities it should be said that, as rule,
they have learned bv this time that corporate
funds are not meant to be Incorporated Gn
material sepse) by their administrators.
Parliament is hankering after gunboats, and
envying you your legacy of them from the war.
For years we have been laying down iron clad
line-of-battle ships and frgates with precau-
tionary eye to France. Now all danger from
that quarter is past at least pro tenn, and the
ineffective promenades of the French feet last
autumn have demon trated the necessity of
having lighter vessels If you, reliable to want to
work in shallow waters FIFTY gunboats in
stanter !" cries one member" "a hundred in
three years !" another; but Mr.. Goschen, eX-city
merchant and now First Lord of the Admiralty
wisely answers that gunboats there must and
shall be as part of our naval stock-in trade but
few other articles as well.
] have been breakfasting with Mundella this
morning. He is very full of the importance of
the resolution passed last week by the Trades
Union Conference in London. And indeed its
importance can hardly be exaggerated. This
conference representing no less than 700, 600 men
the country has solemnly resolved that, for the
future, recourse shall In no case or place be had
to strike but that all disputes shall be referred,
as they arise, to joint delegt tiops of employers
and employed, presided over by an umpire.
have already told you how happily this plan has
resulted at Darlington, where Tom Hughes was
umpire, and there seems every reason TO hope
that by it's aid the old antagonism between capi-
tai and labor NAV be finally put to rest.
The higher education of women movement
is steadily progressing. We shall not for long
time have anything like your city's Normal
School Indeed the simple statement that in
Philadelphia, nearly fifteen hundred women earn
their brt ad by teaching is received with incre
dulous establishment. But courses of lectures
for women are being organized in most of ouI
important towns. Oxford and Cambridge senG
examiners far and wide through the country tC
examine girls and give certificates of merit, an(
in my own alma mater, Cambridge, house i
to be opened next October for the special &C
commodation Of young ladies who may wish Il
learn from the lips of enthusiastic graduates o
the university. The ''sweet girl-graduates witt
their golden hair" of Tennyson's Princess" ar
in fair way TO be realized.
The circulation of post has risen to
million a week, and the stationeTs are in hig
dudgeon, because, forsooth, the Governmen
supplies writing material (the card) gratis, an
the public buys less letter paper in consequence
fear they Will have to "griu and bear it." Th
public having once tasted postcards, wor
readily forego them.
How pratided the 200 American visitors whC