Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-15

Of charge could be raised and settled def
nitely. He hoped 10 be able to give such in
formation az would enable Parliament TO
fully discuss the subject when the estimates
were presented. He also hoped soon 10 be
in position to give information regarding
the cost of the expedition.
Sir Stafford Northcote expressed his di--
satisfaction at the mesger character of the
statement.
Bourke asked whether the convention
would be submitted TO the House this session.
Gladstone was unable TO say at what date
the convention would be completed and
ready 10 submit
Gladstone further replied that the govern
ment had not decided whether any claim tor
war expenses should be made on Egypt.
Mr.. Yorke, Conservative, moved for a
committee to inquire into the Kilmaiuham
treaty.
Gladstone declined to agree to dscuss a
motion put in those terms. He declared
that there was no Kilmainham treaty.
Yorke Withdrew his motion in order to
amend it to meet the objections OF Gladstone.
The C, mmIttee appointed TO inquire into
the imprisonment of E. Dryer Gray re-
ported that Justice Lawson did his duty in
the case.
A PROTEST AGAINST THE CLOSURE.
A meeting of delegates of the London
Radical clubs to-day passed protest against
the passage of the closure resolution.
NEW BOOKS.
Although the number OF new books of
merit continue unusually small, the literary
journals are fully occupied criiicising the
bad ones. Haweis's foolish essays on Amer
tean Humorists get their deserts in the Safur-
dog ReuieU and the Pail 1fcH Gazette, the lat
ter describing them as dull, unappreciative,
devoid Of taste, literary knowledge. judy
meni, grammar and com mon sense. Farrsr's
Early Days of Christianity is severely handled
in most of the leading reviews Tor has
work, self-confdence, incorectness, turgld
style and indulgence in feminine gush, out
the Saturday Reviep kindly says il is not so
bad book as his Life Of Paul.
HARPER's TREATMENT OF BRITISH AUTHORS.
The AHeneuH continues 10 publish letters
about the Harpers' treatment OF British
authors. Follett Syrge, an unknown writer,
acknowledges the receipt OF payment, while
Mr.. Prim, the editor of The Journals OF Caro-
line For, says the Harpers, without permits
sion, payment. or previous communication
with the English editor or publisher, issued
vile reprint. Clark Russell leaves uuno-
lIced Sampson LOWS extraordinary statement
last week.
THE HAMILTON MANUSCRIPTS.
Vain regrets over the sale of the Hamilton
manuscripts continue to be expressed, but
The fact comes out that the museum author
tiles absurdly uadervaluod the collection
and refused 10 treat for its purchase a
whole, while Mr.. Lippman, chief of the
Berlin Library, had cfts blanche from the
German government 10 pay any price, and
had liberty TO dispose of later manuscripts
not wanted. The price paid was 100000.
THE ILLNESS OF Mr.. TRoLLoFE.
Mr.. Trollope's illness is paralysis, compli-
Gated by apoplectic symptoms. He re-
manned speechless from Friday till Thurs
day. Now he is improving slightly. His
physicians are hopeful of ultimate recovery.
His illness is due to persistent overwork.
He has had great number of calls and ex-
pressions of sympathy.
''The Promise OF May"
The Herolds cable letter says: "Alfred
Tennyson's new prose play, The Promise of
Nay, was produced Tonight before crowd
ed and brilliant audience at the Globe Thea
ter. II is impossible 10 treat seriously play
which deals with narrowing story of seduc-
ton and death, and sends the audience home
convulsed with laughter. But such is the
melancholy fact. B fore the rising OF the
curtain Mr. and Mrs. Gladsto ie and Miss
Tennyson entered box. The audience i'm
medlaiely burst into applause, to which the
premier bowed his thanks. The gods lis
tened impatiently to the orchestra's prelude,
being evidently in no mood for descriptive
music. The cast of this ''new and original
rustic drama" emitting the minor parts, was
as follows: Farmer Steer Mr.. Cameron;
Beere; Eva Steer his daughter, Miss Orms-
by; Farmer Dobson, Mr.. Chas. Kelly; Philip
Edgar Mr.. Herman Vein. The story can
be told in a few words, and the fewer the
better. Philip Edgar young gentleman
with atrocious, Socialist, free-thinking senti-
ments, comes to Steers happy homestead,
and, despite the suspicious hatred of Farmer
DobsoD,' Dora's' admirer, seduces Eva and
abandons her. She disappears, leaving a
letter expressing her intention of drowning
herself Six years elapse, during which
'Dobson's' suit to Dora has not improved,
when Edgar with the addition of a slight
mustache and beard, grown during my
travels abroad returns to the farm, and
gives himself out as a Mr.. Harold. He
shows newspaper TO Dora announcing the
death of Philip Edgar ''Tis true (he
says aside), sit is my fathers DEATH He
makes love to Dora whom, in violation OF
his pronounced objection TO matrimony as 10
all effete institutions, he intends 10 wed by
way of compensation for her sisters seduc-
ton; but Eva who had not drowned her.
self, has returned, and overhears the free
gentlenan's declaration of love to
Dora recognizes him, and, having pre-
viously informed the audience that the
doctors say her health is affected,
falls dead, exclaiming that she for
gives him. 'Dobson,' whose pre-
vious attempt on Edgar with a pitch
fork, was frustrated, now appears with big
stick, and is told by Dora that he is, after
all, the better gentleman, and is requested to
see the freethinker off the premises. Such
is the main plot OF the unfortunate piece,
which, from first to last, completely missed
its aim. Mr.. Vein, as the free lover,
sort of socialist Hamlet delivered appal-
ling soliloquies against matrimony, future
stale, and the whole existing basis of society,
regardless of the hilarity OF the audience.
Mrs. Beer and Miss Ormsby did their utmost J
TO invest the luckless rustic daughters with |
tenderness and charm. Mr.. Kelly gave
foe and manly delineation of the honest |
farmer, but all struggled In vain against the
weakness of the incidents and total
lack of dramatic construction of a play
which not even the authors illustrious name |
preserved from failure"
They Fail to Catch On.