The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-18
ORR ErRopBsyLErTER.

London Topics. Light Vhdf
Electricity qciUfdo. - The Irish Bard,
Tom Moore.--A grand temperance
Scheme. - The " sensation beauty
coming. o-o
LONDON, June 20, 1879.
Since writing last week the report OF
the Tendon School Committee. upon
electric lighting has. been issued, ana
proves TO he document OF unusual iu-
cidity, although commercially briet.
The views heretofore expressed OH the
subject are strengthened in remark
able manner by the conclusions of the
committee, not only as regards the ligh'
but also in regard to the industrial de-
yelopments likely to be brought about,
the economy of force, or, in other words,
the working power of electricity. Ii
was conclusively shown by some of the
scientific witnesses who were called by
the committee, that the same wire
| which was used to transmit power IN
the DAYTIME may be used to transmit
light ut night, thus not only bearing ou
the truth of the experiments in France
to which referred last week, but actu
ally going beyond those startling re
suits. Incidentally, the report affords
some very valuable information fol
consumers of light. The committee ar
of opinion that the gas companie
have no claims whatever to be consid
cred as the future distributors of cleo
trio light. DIR. Lyon Playfair, who
D understood to have drafted the report
, which was adopted unanimously, terse
ly says that gas companies possess n
: monopoly of lighting either streets o
4 private houses, beyond the power the
9 have of laying pipes in the streets. Thi
home-thrust ut the the great distributor
of light, at whose mercy the public
SO absolutely placed, will not be YER
: palatable; but consumers will rejoic
g at the prospect of an alternatel supply
however remote, which will dclive
them from their present thraldom.
The hundredth anniversary of tn
birth of Tom Moore, the Irish minstre
# has been very generally and enthusia'
# tically celebrated throughout the Eng
= disappearing world. The bright Bar
of Erin has suffered no eclipse from hi
@ successors. What Byron wrote MOI
r than fifty years ago is truer than eve
J. to-day:
9 They say, Tom Moore, your songs are sung
. (Can this be true, you lucky man y
l. At midnight in the Persian tongue,
Along the streets of Ispahan.
y Some twenty years ago, when on Wis
# TO Bowood, in England, the venerab
8 Marquis of Lansdowne drove me out
b the border of his grand old park, OIL
fine October afternoon, to call on Tol
IL Moore's widow, then upwards of eight
is years of age, and had the pleasure I
% seeing, though then but o withere
j. flower, his Gloves young DREAM" IL
: beauty of his life, and the " Bettie" I
c his songs. The good old Marquis nevt
is tired of talking of the brilliant wit al
d genial humor of his past-protege, ali
k of the wonderful effect, the rapture q,
. delight, produced in the drawing-rool
= of Bowood when Moore sang 40 chic
4, and ladies bright" his own songs, s,
le to his own music, and accompanied /
Halls" " She is far from the land whel
y her young love sleeps" and 80, Il
II days are gone when beauty bright,
=, sung with all the eflusion of an impr'
q visation, and with an expression of loo
and manner that thrilled mems hear
II and melted women's, made the ev,
nings of those days at Bowood VIII,
Christopher North called nOctcs ambrt
It SidnG. Byron, who was often preser
II at these poetic feasts, wrote his Z" AZ
dress on the Reopening Of Drury Ian
Theatre" in the very room happene
II to occupy during the visit above mel
l. toned. Alas how the lights Of othe
h days arc fadedl