Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-31

l Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL CoUR- All Rights Reserved1
 l LONDON, Oct. IF. l To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 Tell me if was guilty of exaggeration when wrote: ''An Englisnman has not a | doubt that the whole world was made for I him.'' I find the following in one of the
 leading English papers: Diplomacy should be set at work to restrain the French from l touching Burmah, which land must inmedi- ately be ours. If France gets hold there l King Thebaw will make an alliance with her 1 against us, and our empire will be weakened. France must be warned off. It may be some years hence, but the time must surely come 1 when Burmah will be English" And what next, John?
 1 Those who do not know what the Theater l Francais is to France must feel little puZ- ! zled to understand the importance attached l to the loss by death of M. Emile Perrin, it's l administrator. The Theater Francais has all the dignity of university; it's male mem
 bers are most of them scholarly men, it pos l sesses library of rare manuscripts capable l of exciting the jealousy of the British Muse ! um, and the finest collection of theatrical ! pictures in the world; besides which it's prop erty room is richly stocked with historic cu-
 riosities, among them being a bell said to be l the very one which sounded the signal for
 the St. Bartholomew massacre. This estab- lishment is the home of the highest histronic | art. Its actors and actresses are gentlemen and ladies of refined tastes and good breed l ing. A French mother takes her daughter to the Francais to learn how to sit and stand, l to enter and leave room as well as to hear the masterpieces of French literature. In
 these degenerate days of opera boufe and
 parodies the House of Moliere is the nursery of all that is best in French dramatic art. The late M. Perrin was not only an able ad-
 ministrator of this august sanctuary, but man of kind heart and as firm in his attach ments as in the discharge of his duties. His devotion to his wife and her memory, was
 very beautiful. While they were engaged to
 be married the poor girl took smallpox and
 rose from bed greatly disfgured. She lost no time in going to Paris to show her altered
 face to her lover and propose the cancelling ! of their engagement. But he for all answer took her hand and said: '!Since you are in Paris, dear, let us rather hurry the wedding" " He made her devoted husband and ex- l pressed last wish on his death-bed that his
 body might be carried through the Trinity
 church, which was not his parish church. be-
 cause his wife's coffin had rested there on it's
 way to the grave.
 Many persons must remember the stir
 caused five years ago by the elopement of 1 Mademoiselle d'Imecourt, romantic young l French girl of high family, with M. Paul
 Musurus, son of Musurus Pacha, the Turkish
 ambassador in London. The young lady was deeply enamoured of her swarthy swain, and
 aided by her governess, left Paris without
 her mothers knowledge and got married at q ! registrars office here in London. But after
 three short weeks of welded life she was | oI- hoo +o Inv Stra | up in a convent. The husbands belonging l to the Greek church was Madame dime
 courts chief objection to the alliance. Be | sides he had neither noble birth nor noble | fortune, and she never rested until she got the marriage annu1led by the Pope. But 1 alas for the consistency of woman! this lady I has just married her daughter to Protes-
 tant. Whether Desdemona has forgotten her l Othello during her sojourn in the convent
 does not appear, but she has for several days | been the wife of Prince Frederick William ' of Hohenlohe. Such is the unromantic se- l quel to tale, the romantic details of which | excited such interest in all circles when the 1 poor. forlorn bridegroom was moving heaven l and earth to recover his lost bride. Fra1l- | ty thy name is Woman"
 l After the reception MT. Stead has met I with at the meetings he has addressed in
 London and the great northern towns, it is
 very doubtful whether jury will be found l to condemn him. A cry is being raised |
 using government authority and public mon 1 ey to prosecute this new reformer. England ! is aroused. The newly formed National Pur- ity League is large institution already and l bids fair to rival the Total Abstinence 1 League. I have not heard whether its mem
 bers have adopted badge yet, but it cannot
 be long, fancy, before every other unmar- ried Briton to be met in the streets will wear bit of white ribbon or some other emblem
 of the orange blossom kind. Then will the l streets of London be truly edifying.
 l In the new instalment of Charles Grevllle's famous memors, published by Messrs. Long
 mans & Co.,, find the following lively de- l scriptien of the English Court of Exchequer
 and its barons: ''Parke settles the law, Rolfe
 settles the fact, Anderson settles the bar,
 Platte settles nothing, Pollock unsettles ev- | erything." Thus is tine court described in a | nutshell.
 The Court Circular announces that the Queen attended divine service in Crathle ! parish church last Sunday morning She
 was accompanied by Prince Henry and Prin- l cess of Battenberg, the Duke and Duchess ot
 Connaught and the Duchess of Albany. The l Rev. James Williamson, of the Dean church, l Edinburgh, preached the sermon, choosing l for his text: F'Lav not up for yourselves
 treasures upon earth" Whether Her Majes-
 tv is going to mediate on this text is not an nounesd, but methinks the reverend gentle
 man will not, for some time to come, be l asked to preach again before Her Majesty and
 the royal household.
 The richest Englishman is the Duke ot ] Westminster, who is the owner of nearly the
 whole of the land called in London w. c. l West Center) The most ancient family is
 the Howard family, whose head is the Duke I of Norfolk, who receives in rent alone the | annual sum of e219, ,365, and whose revenue
 is about $500, 900 year. His young son the Earl of Arundel, is poor, deformed i'm beetle and this proud family threatens to be- L | ic ct t0 rAfiaot , the name of Howard, thus belonging to the haughtiest of Britons, is but corruption ot : Hog ward, which proves that some of thei1 ancestors must have been in very humble position.
 MT. Balguv, the magistrate at Woolwicl Police court, will not for long time be helG in odor of sanctity by the ladies of Grea , Britain. An amorous lodger had elopec t with his landlords wife, which was very wicked, appropriating at the same time some , of the goods and chattels of the Menelaus which was quite illegal. During the pro : ceedings the worthy magistrate thus ad dressed the male prisoner: "You, Saunders
 have committed the most serious offence, al , though I cannot help thinking that the temptation was on the part of the woman l I may be wrong and harsh in my opinion but it seems to me that in every case of this
 kind it is the woman who tempts and the man who falls' True for you, Mr. Balguy 5 Where should we not all be but for that fact l Too many of Eyes daughters are doubtless | chips of the old block, and the Potiphars wife type, it must be owned, is not extinct although Josephs are perhaps getting more } scarce. In spite of his opinion Mir. Balguy
 gave the tempted three months imprison
 ment and the temptress only one.
 r Mrs. Weldon is decidedly remarkable 9 woman. She is now turning her misfor F tunes to account and impersonating the stage the different parts which she hal played in that greatest of all farces, whose | name is Life. This clever and versatile lady had great success last Monday in Birming [, ham, when she appeared for the first time il a s'new and original lunacy drama in fv acts, of which she is part author, whole her 5 oine aud central figure. In this sensationa n play the heroine. Hestef Stanhope (who- i
 another Mrs. Weldon) is unjustly declared
 dangerous 1unatic. For some time she i @ confined in lunatic asylum, but eventuall.. : succeeds in proving her sanity I SOFT, n that she omitted to put on the stage her las Q trial at the Old Bailey, scene or two at Hol 0 loway Gaol and her triumphal exit from it