The New York herald., 1876-01-16

groves, founding scholarships and giving
audience to learned pundits, thus winning
the native intellect as well as the heart, and
thereby securing double triumph.
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE.
The Secretary of the London Missionary
Society has received an offer of $4,000 to
establish mission at Lake Tanganyika,
where Stanley met Livingstone. commit
tee has been appointed to carry out the
project.
THE DEUTSCHLAND.
An interesting controversy has arisen be-
tween the Illustrated London Neaos and other
journals as to the truth of the sketch OF the
wreckers on board the Deutschland. The
editor writes to the Globe, quoting the letter
to the HERALD, describing visit to the
wreck, and corroborating the truthfulness Of
their artists sketch.
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
The past week has been prolific for the
production of new pieces at the theatres !;
among which are English versions of Offen-
bach's Madame PArchiduc" and Vasseurs
''Timbale d'Argent," under the title of the
Dukes Daughter. The audiences have
been noisy, unruly and tumultuous, and they
have hissed Offenbach's operetta. The
'"Timbale d'Argent" Jared very little better.
The journals think that taste for French
operettas is dying out
SIMS REEVES AND COSTA
Sims Reeves is convalescent, but Sir
Michael Costa is still suffering.
Tonight is the last appearance of Sothern
and Emmett Nelson appears as Juliet on
Monday at the Haymarket. Irving's Othello
is fixed for the 5th of February. Sothern
will leave by the Celtic on the 2Sth.
Carl Rosa has finished an extraordinarily
successful season in English opera at Liver
Nilsson will enter into an engagement for
English opera with Carl Rosa for an Ameri-
can tour. 1t is stated from Germany that
Richard Wagner's opera, "Percival, second
holy grail subject similar to 'Lohengrin, is
nearly completed and will be published in
Vienna.
BoUCIcAULT AND THE FENIANs.
Boucicault still engages attention. The
Saturday Reuie,o styles his address "Theatri-
cal Fenianism," and speaks of Boucicaults s
amusing audacity, and thinks that he has
proved the censorship irrelinquishable.
The Spectator is the only London journal
that believes Boucicault is in earnest, and
Fenian prisoners. 1t admits that Boucicault
has done much to elevate the Irish character
on the English ssax1 gAe .'shaughrsun" has
been withdrawn, and next Saturday, at the
Adelphi Theatre, the peep O. Day" will be
revived.
GREEK GEMS AND MARBLES.
Another exquisite collection Of Greek
gems, jewelry and marbles, are offered to
the British Museum by Castelloni, to be a.
hibited there. The press favors the acquisi-
ton by England, and deprecates the idea OF
its going to America, like Cesnoli's collec-
ton from Cyprus.
THE EXCAVATION AT OLYMPIA.
The German excavation at Olympia gives
immense satisfaction to European anti
qnarians and all lovers of art. The torso OF
the figure of Jupiter, originally on the east
ern gable of the great temple, has been dis
covered, also the grand and beautiful figure
ofvictory, the very statue mentioned by Pau
sanias also an exquisite life-sized head of a
satyr in terra Gotta, which is interesting as
proving that the Greeks worked that material
for larger statues aswell as smaller ones.
FAMINE AND DISEASE
News has been received from Weimar that
at the village of Wankenheim there is fear
full and widespread suffering from hunger,
with consequent epidemic of typhoid fever.
Forty persons are dead. Sixty have been
attacked out of population of 600.
swINBURNE's NEW TRAGEDY.
Swinburnes new tragedy of "Erechtheus'
has appeared, and is welcomed as a iper
and nobler companion piece of ''Atalanta in
Calydon."
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
In financial and commercial circles the
business of the week has been somewhat
animated, although the differences in prices
are wide. Dulness, however, attaches to