New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-30
GOSSIP From THE OLD WORLD.
WHAT Is TALKED OF IN LONDON.
PRINCE NAPOLEON's HOUSEHOLD ART1cLEs-NoTE;
on VARIOUS TOPICS


on VARIOUS TOPICS.
LONDON. March 29.-Prince Napoleon (Plon
Plon) has privately sold his household effects at
Pranguis. dismissed the servants, and closed the
PTanguis house.
HOW ELEPHANTS FIGHT.
The presence of the Duke Of ConnaushtPfnce Arthur
at elephant fight, given by the Raah OF Bhurtpore
India will be made the subject OF question In Pana-
ment Elephants made to fight by giving them c0pi-
ous draughts of Some become so drunk that they
can scarcely stand while others arc rendered furious
RETURN OF WALLACE ROSS
Wallace Ross, the Ncw-Brun-wick Oarsman, who re
Gently the with Bubear sailed for America to-
day by the Guon steamer Alaska The handicap race to
test Ross rowing powers, which had been arranged by
number of Thames aud Tyne oarsmen, and which was
announced to take place April Il. had to be aban-
doned
SCIENCE TO BE DISCUSSED AT MONTREAL.
The officials Of the British Association for the Advance
ment OF Science already making arrangements with
tho steamship companies Tor the conveyance OF mem
hers to attend the meeting at Montreal in August
The Allan Line Will send special steamer from Liver
FOOL on August lG. The lines running TO New-York
are arranging facith To take parties by way Of the
States
"PLUNGEE' wALTON's DEBTS.
"Pungcr" Walton has made arrangements with his
English agent to settle with his turf creditors.
ITEMS FRoM TIE STAGE.
Minnie Palmer closes hcr English engagement August
TO- mt Liverpool She win then sail for America to fuhl
contracts which she has outstanding there and Will re-
urn to London to settle In the current week she IN
troduccd new songs into Ny Sweetheart" which were
successful.
Rose Osborne nm American actress made her debut at
the Gdcty Theatre ON tuesday I'm matinee perform
ance Of a 1ncodramo entitled Ter own Enemy and
met with only moderate She was badly sup
ported. and the play Hldly mounted The opinion
the critics however is t Miss Osborne is an actress
OF fair promise and some emotional poeWr
Another American at the Gai,yl4 Adelaide Mooro,w ho
appeared as J,dia IN the Hmchhback." Her style OF
ocingis crude sh, went through her part as though
set task with i'll disc liucd ygor which showed plainly
enough that she had lttlc OF no stage experience.
sailcr's wells Theatre opens at Easter with the ap-
pCiruoc OF Madame Rose an American she VIII play
"THtIni Night" Merchant of Venice" and" As You
Like IT," She has good company, but her success Is
deemed improbable.
The latest news in the Fortcscuc Gamoyc breach of
promise ease il that Lord Garnoyle has been summoned
deliver within month to he solicitors Of the plaintiff
an affidavit, stating what IL 'umcuts arc IN his possession
and at the time 10 answer certain intelrogatlons
W s. Gilbert writes TO 1he Era, in defence of Miss
Fortc>cues engagement at tho Cont Theatre lie says
il wa, not due entirely To the notoricty which Miss For
tc,cuc had gaiuCD He states that her salary at the
Savoy Theatre was $500 yearly At the Court her en-
gagecnt FOR only three months and her stipend Is SO
a wcrk-no' $50. ms had been stated She has been
rising actr-- he says for the last three years When
he selected Marion Terry for the original cast OF Doro-
I'M she Was fulfilling engagement rs walking lady at
must smn Ter salary than Miss FOrescue used 10 receive
at the Savoy Marion Terry has since attained high
rank IN the profession. Miss Forte,cue may attain the
same success.
Wilson Barrett will give next Wednesday at the
Langham Hotel q supper of welcome to Lawrence
Barrett. Leading actors, littelaeurs and dramatic
critics are invited
Tho biography OF George Eliot by her hus-
band Mr.. Cross will be based in the main upon three
sets of spondence OF which is now appearing
in the Journal des ebats Paris attended by critical
study by NJ Dan ,cter. The correspondence consists
OF 1T letters and extends April 1859, the time OF
the publication of Adam Bede' to April 1880 eight
months before her death
The concluding volumes of Mr.. FrOude's biography Of
Thomas Carlyle are ready. In lOn preface Mr. FrOude
replies to the criticisms which have been passed upon
his action rs Caryles literary executor.
Apropos of Matthew Arnods lecture on Eemerson
gwen few DAYS ago before the Royal Institution Vanity
Pair says: "Thc lecture was reeled of in yawning
lazy INDECENT fashion 1t was only interesting because
from some kind of critical mpudencc Mr. Arnold had
had the bad taste deliver It at Boston to those who
reverence the memory of the gentle New England phi
losophor-poct. The Lecture brought the Sage Of Oxford
into anything hut good repute. Where not duh tho
lecture was tissue Of captions contempt rather Of
analytic criticism"
\ new edition Of Poe. edited by John Ingram. widely
known for his writings about Poe will be published be-
fore long by Nmmo and Balm 1t will include an un-
edited fragment entitled the Journal of Julius Rod
man" and will be furnished with portrait Of the
poet
Henry Irvings Impression, Of America will I'LL two
volumes. They will he narrated in series OF sketches
aud conversations 10y Joseph HattOn. The work is an
uOuuccd to Dc ready I'm May.
PORTRAITS OF CARDINAL MANNING.
Two portraits Of rdinal Manning, by George
PciXOtto, Of Ohio, are private exhibition AT
the Cardinals house. mt Westminster. The smaller
portrait ktcat The Cardinal il represented In red
mazcttn kullcap The coors painted in natural tone
while the flesh tnts are tine and luminous. IN the
second the Cardinal Is in fail pOntihoa robes. The
rendering of the textures i, mastery and the cOorins
strong 1t altogether line piece OF work The artist
il now engaged upon iull length portrait for exhiDl
ton in the United states,