New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-06

Miss Edwards, the young Engishwoman whose
disappearance from Liverpool some eight weeks
ago has created Il great deal of excitement. having
been found in London. her family withhods any
statement as to the reason of the young ady's dis
appearance and her father wishes the affair 10
drop as quickly as possible from the public mind"
This. to the English people, must be somewhat
aggrayating. Column after column has been writ
ten in the newspapers about the girl theories
without end have been promulgated detectives
have done q great deal of sagacous work which has
come to nothing Miss Edwards has been searched
for in different parts of the United Kingdom, and
particularly in Shrewsbury, Liverpool Brming-
ham and London; divers innocent persons have
been suspected of abducting her; some would have
il that she had been murdered; while Others thought
that she had eloped with Il lover. All this
time she kept in hiding in the great city ;
and now the public is not to know
why she hid herself. Ii is hardly fair. Similar
eyasions have happened here with the same deplor-
able lack of explanation. Mr.. Redpath, for in
stance. suddenly fled from this city with
out giving anybody the least notice Of bis
intention. He bothered the professional people
whom he had engaged he filed the bosoms of his
personal friends with the gloomiest apDrehensions
he occupied considerable precious space in the
newspapers; and now he has turned up, not
bleeding body, but alive and toerabiy WELL III Cali
fornia To say the least of it, this is not polite
considerable proceeding. We are not sure that mys-
terious disappearance should not be made statut-
able offence.
A London paper, writing of the departure of
Messrs Sullivan and Gilbert for New-YOrk, remarks
that the extraordinary success OF III. NJ. s. Pima
fore in the United States has not brought "a SIN
gle hai-pcnny as remuneration to author com
poser" and adds some severe reflections upon the
pratical reproduction of literary and dramatic
works over here. closing with the observation that
1.-THE Great Republic has surely ougrown the
green and salad days III which such Bcdoun
creed is essential to mental life" Our censor
breaches a sound sermon on the copyright question,
but he Is singularly unfortunate IN his choice of
text As matter of fact. the Messrs. Ditson Il Co.,
who publ shed "Pmaforc" in this country. and at
least one manager who made money by the perform
ance of it, voluntarily sent 10 the author and com
poser portion Of the profits-not large
portion. perhaps. but payment that did
them credit considering they got nothing in return
except the satisfaction of having done an honorable
action. And why. pray. should an English newspa-
per feel authorized to rebuke America for the defects
OF our dramatic copyright law, when the English law
is at fault in precisely the same wayi The very
article from which we have quoted refers to the
piracy" of Mr.. Bouclcaulfs plays by London man
ayers and it is only little while since play pur-
chased for the New-York stage was secretly played
once in London theatre so that the author could
make of the legal fiction of ITS having been first
performed" in England. protection against the
" BedOuin creed" os his own cCuntrymen.
Mr. Tilden will get valuable political in
formation and grea, deal of advice il he will only
read the ID. nocratic newspapers carefully tor the