Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02
OUR LONDON LETTER.
MARY ASDERsoN's SUCCESS IN TIE
WORLDS METROPOLIS.
Practical Benevolence-English and amer.
lean Journalism-Dynamite Scare
Condition Of Temperance Work.
LONDON, January u, 1854.

LONDON, January u, 1854.
What l wrote you in advance respect
ing the outflow of benevolence which forms
so prominent s feature of the days and
weeks Immediately following Christmas,
my observation has since convinced me,
did not do justice to the subject. Gifts
to the poor l find to be the universal fash,
ion at this season. There are fewer ex-
changes of tokens between equals and
| friends than in America, but in the mat
ter of bestowing doles upon dependents,
and of extending substantial Christmas
cheer to that large section of the popula-
ton TO whom. otherwise, the recurrence of
this happy season would be only a sad
mockery, the United States might with
advantage pluck leaf or two from the
annual record which merry old England
| piles up. find, too, that with universal
impulse the Christmas and New Years
| charity of England reaches out toward the
! two extremes of youth and age. There is
! hardly parish church in the whole land
that has not some system of blessing its
| cid people, especially the cid women, at
this period, and private individuals who
have money at command seem to vie with
each other everywhere in Frightening the
lot OF both the aged poor and the destitute
| Juveniles. Not the least conspicuous of
the
ACTS OF GENUINE BENEVoLENCE
That have marked the holiday season in
London are those of two prominent per.
sonages in the theatrical world. The kind.
ness of actors and actresses to members of
their own profession, is proYerbial the
world over, and signal proof has just been
afforded that they are not Indifferent to
the wants and woes of the needy multi
tudes outside. Edward Terry, popular
comedian who plays side-splitting pieces at
the Gaiety, gathered 200 street urchins
about him on Christmas day, and surprised
their Juvenile stomachs by treating them
to q beautiful dinner of roast beef and
plum pudding; and on New Years day
this example was followed by
MISS MARY ANDERSON,
Who gave a feast of fat things to about
$50 school children in the low neighbor-
! likely, l may say in this connection, that
Miss Anderson will be married to the
Duke OF Portland, but it is net surprising,
as human nature is constituted, that she
should have captivated His Grace. She
has really made conquest of this whole
metropolis-her name, her portraits, her
| beauty her virtue, sorely tempted, but
| still abovs suspicion, having been the alb
] Al 8 l.. l..
! since her debut at the Lyceum. By her
! last act this fortunate young lady seems to
/ have extended her conquesta into religious
| circles. Clergymen have lsuded her in
public, and she is affectionately patted on
| the head by religious newspapers. One of
/ the most Influential and most widely cir
culated OF the latter, a leading organ
among the dissenters, says Of the occur.
renee: 1.-The dinner was a good old
| English one, TO which the boys did ample
! Justice, and it shows, VI hat il-natured peO-
! pie sometimes doubt, that actresses do not
contine their noble sentiments to the stage,
/ but reduce them into practice as well +;
that, in short, they are 90 benevolent as
ladies perhaps more happily placed. This
paper adds that it is pleasant to record
/ this princely act of an American actress,
| as it helps to show how much, in spite of
| the Atlantic and the Irish, America and
England are one.
! ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
1t is reported that syndicate of Ameri-
can capitalists have purchased several
English newspapers to influence political
measures here. What God-send will this
| American investment become to the Eng.
| lish press if it only introduces into its man.
| apement modicUm of American enterprise
! and vim. There is not daily paper in
| London that could live a year in the
United States, for they are al so insuffer-
| ably dull that people there could not be
| hired to read them. l have often wondered
why some adventurous Yankee has not
come over long ere this, and established e
| great English paper on principles akin to
| those in vogue under the stars and stripes.
But, of course, if the papers already in the
| field can be bought up and converted, that
| plan, being less ostentstious, would be
| preferable. 1t seems to me, too, that in
! this latest freak of American enterprise
there is a suggestion of how, eventually,
| England might be converted to republi-
canism, and the United States of Great
Britain be brought to join hands with our
selves in the subversion, by like peaceable
means, of ali the effete monarchies of the
Continent for is not the press the great
moral engine that propels public opinion,
and with that controlled universally by
syndicate of American capitalists. woul
not the redemption of these benighted people
from the error of their ways become, by
every principle of logic, a simple question
of time? Possibly, too, our Hlbernian
fellow. citizens may see in this plan of pur-
chasing the English papers a new way of
helping on their schemes with regard to
Ireland. But the field opened up is SO vast
that must leave it to those having more
time and space at their disposal.
THE DYNAMITE PLOTTING.
The mention of the wrongs of Ireland
brings to mind the prevailing dynamite
scare. People in London imagine them
selves to be walking on the crust of vol
cano. Everybody is surprised that some.
thing has not happened before this, but no
one regards the three weeks of grace al
lowed us since O'Donnells execution as
any pledge of security for the future. It
is looked upon rather as the calm before
the storm. Threatening letters are flying
around in all directions, and the amusing
feature of the case (if one may be pardoned