Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-06
A DUSKYDIPLOMAT
Cetewayo, the Zulu Chieftain, the Sensa-
tiOn or the London Seas0n-His De-
parture for Home.

The Prince OF Wales About aPIayed Out,
-Gcunod's "RedemptIon"-The
WORLDS Harvests.
LONDON, September 5.-Mountsgue Der
nard, one OF the high commissioner vhc
slgned the treaty OF Washington of 1871, die
Saturday.
II HARvEsTs OF THE WORLD.
Etienne, the w~elI-known French authority
on the subject, has issued his estimates O
the harvests Of the world for 1882. His re
port Is on the whole decidedly favorable. in
dlcatlng no serious deficiency in the crops il
sny quarter OF the world, and general abun.
dance throughout Europe and America.
The Times publishes an exhaustive sum.
mary of this review, from which the follow
ing Is taken: AS regards French wheat. the
result Il already known. Maize ia good il
twenty-five departments and very good in
two, ss against good in seven department.
only last year. Rye shows a similarly favor
able contrast Barley shows 4 slightsr i'm.
provement- In Great Britain Ala inquiries
have been sent to formers asking their opin.
ion on the growing crops. The replies, TAX.
HS 1OO 40 representing tue average crop
show the following result: Wheat, 90
barley, 95.4; oats, 1851; roots, 1911; pota-
toes, 964. This may be compared with last
years figures, which were az follows: Wheat,
80; barley, ITO; oats, so; roots, so, and pota,
toes, 50. The wheat crop will probably be
I~O,OOO,OOO quarters for consumption, leaving
100000 quarters for which we shall be on
Tor supply. Spain is the only country from
which reports are unfavorable. Summariz-
ing the result, the Times says: "Neyer dur
ing the time since these reports were collected
has the harvest in the Northern Hemisphere
been so good all round. We usually have to
report a deficiency either in Europe or Amer
jca. The year there is absolutely none.
The world has over an average harvest; and
with such a harvest the year is likely 10 be
one of cheap abundance"
BoUCIcAULr's LECTURE.
American prices have given actors saIa.
ries in London a boom. Mr.. David james,
whose right name is Belasco, gets $500 a
week at the Haymarket. Mr.. Clayton, Bou-
c~icsult's son-in-1aw, gets $3.50 a week. MIR.
Coghlau's terms are $500. Nine. Modjeska
is now receiving $500. The son of a cabinet
minister is said 10 be greatly attached 10 a
fair melodramatic actress, and another
actress OF the same class rarely appears with
out $1,000 worth of diamonds. Mr.. Bouci-
cault delivered a lecture on "Acting Censid.
cred as an Art" to an immense audience in
London at the Lyceum Theater. He at.
tackled the English pronunciation of the
letter r." Veteran, he suggested, was pro-
nounced "vetewan." The critics made a meal
OF him. They say that he is unacqusinted
with the pronunciation of the language by
the best society. That language is a living
thing, and has long rolled past his ideas of
the old-fashioned Pail Mall English. as play
goers have wearied of his sham Irishmen, the
like whereof never stepped on Irish soil.
Then they gently went on to say that his
W rasping voice and hidsous accent made
his lecture very funny, and, combined with
the postures which he wildly ~imagines to be
graceful, sent the audience home in a good
humor. The coup de grace is administered by
saying That exhilsration was heightened by
his plagiarism as to the three aspects of man,
altered and adapted from The Autoc1ot Of the
Breakfast Table. ImpossibleI Boucicsult
plagiarize and adapt? Can two years have
changed him SO?
ABUSE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.
Politics have been quiet the last week, but
the Tory magazines are bursting forth with
the most violent abuse of the prime minister.
The following is not from a very cheap, vul-
gar, partisan newspaper which might have a
reputation to maze, but from the once
respectable BidckWood's Magazine. 1t thus
winds up a long diatribe of frenzied ~bludgeon-
ing: "Cainlike-hearted wood-splitter, grand
old ~libeller, INSCRIPTIONS old antagonist,
bitter and malicious old ~reviler, speedy re-
have not called Gladstone hoary villain,
wretched rascal, abandoned miscreant?" And
SO on for half a number Ichabod, the glory
Of the magazine is depsrtedi
The other monthly review VS. contain re-
markably good articles. Nine. de Novokof
drops her nom de plume in the Nineteenth Cen
Jury article on Temperance Reform in Rus
sia," in which she says much that is interest
Ing on foreign policy, snti-Semitism and
other subjects not remotely related to the
title OF the article. She asserts that the Jews
are to the Russians what the relics of The
Amorites and the Canaanites were 10 the
Hebrews Of old.
Mr.. Freeman's second instalment OF his
American impressions in the FoTtnighty Re-
Uiei0 will attract attention. He thinks that
the pendulum which before the war swung
dangerously in the direction of States rights
is now swinging dangerously in the other
direction. He is alarmed at the negro, Irish
and Chinese elements in the population, and
maintains the right 10 get rid OF strangers, If
they are a nuisance, whether they are the
Chinese in America or the Jews in Russia.
la November the Longmans will publish
LOngnaGn's Magazine, for six pence. The con-
tributors include Freeman, Froude, Lord
IJliOh, uoLin UICNdTtuy, oulilec, IhT5. OIl-
phanl, Huxley and Tyndall.
The title of John Morley's new magazine
probably will be The English Critic.
Kegan Paul paid Tennyson e200 for his
latt st effort in verse, "a Greeting to Virgil"
which will pass as a piece d. occasion, but it is
more calculated to illustrate Tenny sons
eagernes5 TO make q check than to maintain
his reputation.
GoUNoD's "REDEMPrIoN."
The birmingham musical festival was a
great SUCCESS. Three new c~antsiss were pro-
duced, Including a production by Sir Julius
Benedict, "Graziella." The words to this
csntata were written by Henry Hersee.
They are stilted twaddle and do not assist
the composition, which unsteady is
rather weak. The great work OF
the festival was Gounod's oratorio, |
The Redemption, for the copyright Of
which Novello gave $4,000. There has been
delssohn's Elijah in 1916. The Redemption
may justly be called the composers sacred
masterpieces. Beginning with the fall of man,
it ends with the miraculous diffusion of the
gospel, taking in the passover and the ascen-
sion. The piece naturally exhibits traces OF
music more suitable to light opera. For
instance, the Joy is the joy of lovers rather than
Calvary" is a grand composition, but the
critics question Its style on religious and
aesthetic grounds. The simple, graceful cho-
rus accompanying the march is worthy OF
Mozart. There are not many solos, and the
piece runs or continuously in Wagnerian
fashion.
H PRINCE OF WALES NEARLY "PLAYED
OUT"
Gan Englishmann writes to the New York
Tribune of the cause of the sudden determi-
nation of the prince 10 submit to the course
laid down by his medical advisers is stu
diously ignored in this country. Modern
journalists, at least those of any eminence,
are personally acquainted with the heir APP
parent, and are treated by him with marked
1t is therefore natural thai they
should feel som qualms in stating in b~rutally
plain English and in a sheet sure to be
to the priSce the next day the reasons
which have decided the clever physicians
and surgeons upon whom he relies to subject
him to a course OF diet and mineral waters.
Men of the professional eminence and social
popularity OF Sir William Jenper, Sir Will
liam Gull, and Mr.. Oscar Clayton are not
blind TO signs which easily escape less acute
Endowed with a very fine constitu-
ton, the prince of Wales has, it must never
be forgotten, suffered from a severe attack of
fever. More fortunate than many
by that insidious disease, he
the reargusrd of disorders which
often proves nearly as troublesome
as the fever itself; but still the
fact remains that he has had typhoid, and
not, for long after his illness, considered
TO have what life insurance people call "a
good life" Having, however, outlasted any
chance of a recurrence of that disease, his
health may be thought equal 10 any ordinary
strain put upon it. But the strain to which
it is subjected is not an ordinary one. From
one years end 10 the other he is allowed not
one moment of that rest which all but
the Wandering Jew and newspaper
appear to snatch at some period of
The year. Perhaps a life moving in such a
circle may appear to persons of Lord Fop-
way of thinking "one perpetual