Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-26

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 uments, monuments of folly, ignorance an
 fanaticism. King Theebaw trusted to thes
 astrologers and their accomplices or dupes i
 making war with the English, and was as
 sured by them that he would annihi1ate thei
 forces. It is said that the Burmese are qui | etly adapting themselves to the new state 0 ! affairs and 'loyally" cooperating in effectin the restoration and maintenance of order 1 Whether it is right for England to quarre l with foreign rulers whenever English settler | get into difficulties is not question for m | to decide, but in this case | have no hesita l ton in offering my humble congratulations l to the poor Burmese upon being delivered 1 from the abject yoke of young bloodthirsty 1 hend, whose deeds have sent many thrill o1 l horror through the civilized world
 The new House of Commons will be de prived of it's most lively member, Sir Vii fred Lawson, the great advocate of water drinking, who is among the Christian heroes who have been defeated at the general cleo. tion. His failure will be regretted by ai] parties alike, because it deprives the new Parliament of an inyeterate wag It is said that the Irish vote has thrown him over board; his opponent was elected by major ity of ten votes. MT. Parnell might have exempted the merry baronet from the whole sale boycotting of the Liberal candidates contained in his manifesto, as he was one of the few anti-coercionists in the late Parlia- ment. Sir Wilfred is an honest and fearless
 politician, and general fayorite with all classes ot society except the public-house
 keepers, of whom he is of course the bitter
 est foe. His speeches sparkle with wit and
 humor and their charm consists especially in
 the method he utters them. He is a grave
 wit and quiet, dry humorist I fear we
 have seen the last of Sir Wilfred Lawson in
 the House of Commons. His health is very
 unsatisfactory and it is probable that he will
 not trouble himself much further with poli-
 tics. He had represented the town of Car
 1isle since 1S59
 M. de Lesseps, who celebrated his eight
 ieth birthday fortnight ago, has met with a
 very serious accident. He fell from his horse and and received some serious injuries on the face. But he will recover, all the world will
 be glad to hear, for fortunately ''he is young," as he says, and the only annoyance that he experiences from his accident is that of being kept quiet in his room for few days. l am afraid that he will not be able to stand that very long: He must have his ride every day in the Bois de BouIogne Be- sides he is now contemplating a great jour ney. He made Africa an island and he wants to see South America an island. He will not die before he has had Q sail through the Pan anna canal. What disturbs him little at present is that minislers, ambassadors celeb rites, friends all throng to his house to ob- tain news of his health. He is net ill., he says, and does not like it.
 Alfred Tennyson-I beg his pardon, Lord Tennyson q cannot get reconciled to that new grotesque appellation) )-has just issued a new volume of poetry called 'sTiresias." The poet laureate of England seems deter mined to maintain to the end the neck and neck race which he has been running for more than fifty years of public life with Mir Gladstone. "His life and labors,' said Mir. Gladstone of his friend after their famous yachting tour last autumn, 'fhave correspon- ded in time exactly with my own" In an 1 arf ic1A 1, Pall Mall Gazette recalls the different phases l of this interesting race between the two prob l ably greatest sons of Albion. MT. Gladstone, l 'efreshed with the sea breezes, carried the | new reform bill and added one more triumph 1 Q his political record. Lord Tennyson 1 replied by publishing his Beckett l hr. Gladstone since then has been down to | Midlothian and has fought an election in the l country, which, if it has not yielded all the | political results expected from it, has at all | vents been @ remarkable evidence of the | veterans yigor. The poet laureate is not to | 'e outdone, and he comes up neck-and-neck l 0 MT. Gladstone again by publishing a vol l he grace and the sweetness that he had half i tecdftsf art tt5 finn, ah6 IT ft is lbcssrrfs
 hing to add to his reputation this volume Is ure to do so. Lord Tennyson is seventy even years old. but genius has no age. Au- ger was eighty-four when he composed that OVeJY opera ''Le fTeltller JOuE uS DOALoul.
 should not wonder if at eighty MT. Glad tone were to solve the Irish problem and Tennyson give us a volume of new poems.
 At last things are beginning to revive. The election fever is subsiding and people be- tin to have eyes and ears for other things han candidates for Parliament. One of the ,laasantest signs of the recovery is the reap ,earance of MT. Toole at his little theater 1n | King William street, and the nightly feast of | nirth there enjoyed by his numberless faith ul ones What 8 favorite he is! It is no wonder, but it is almost pity in one sense :or the admiration of all that he does, as many of us think, prevented him from doing 1, still greater things. It is announced that l Mr. Burnand, the burlesque writer and the | editor of Punch, is engaged on a parody ot | Faust, in which Mr. Toole will be the Me l ohistopheles. This performance will be looked forward to with great eagerness by l those who remember "Stage Dora," the par l ody of ssFedora" It is likely to be on the | boards at the same time Faust at the Ly- ceum Theater and when we have been thrilled by Henry Irving's rendering of the ev ever-fascinating tale, we shall be able to go and have a hearty laugh at Toole's travesty and get our facial muscles put to rlgnts again. Whilst on the subject of Mir. Toole may mention that his daughter is engaged to be married to MT. Justin H. AcCarthy, son of the historian and novel writer and mem Der of Parliament. Mir. Mccarthy, junior, IS himself member of Parliament and the fortu- nate author of that most successful play .'Ihe Candidate" which has already been played two hundred and sixty nights consecuelVely at the Criterion Theater.
 All the events in Paris are eclipsed by the appearance of fGeorgette," M. Vlctorlen Sardou's new play. It is dramatic produc,, tion of the type of Denise, Alexandre Dumas
 last success at the Theater Franeals. II
 Denise, as you may know, M. Dumas posed the question whether 8 respectable man may
 take to wife a girl who has been seduced.
 This question he debated, as it were, through
 several acts, aiming at proving the a1nrma-
 tive People listened and were fasclnateo'
 but most of them remained unconVlnceo.
 NJ. Sardou, in his Georgette, discusses 1n
 four acts whether 8 man belonging to an
 honorable family may marry the vlrtuous and well-bred daughter of 8 woman who has bought footing in society with money amassed in an immoral youth. fractlcaliy NJ Sardou does not answer the questlon, al- though it is debated all through the play. The solution of the dilemma in which the hero and heroine find themselves is renun- citation on the girls part of a matrimonial al 1iance which would cut her off from the so- ciety of her own erring but devoted mother The play is full of pathos and IS physlo- logical study of the first water. Personally T do not care much whether demi- mondalnes l are praised or condemned, they are talked of | and there lies the evil to my mind In Eng l land this kind of woman exists, as she exists
 everywhere and has existed in all ages, but she is ignored as member of society, where as in Paris-I do not say in France-sAe en
 joys the freedom of the city. This state O l things is no doubt in great measure attribu ! table to that most pathetic picture of sen l timental demi- -mondaine that M. Dumas gav' 1 the world in his s'Dame aux Camelias." Tn
 chivalrous character of the French is jus
 the ground to SOW such seed upon. French
 men, looking at fallen woman, see in i ne
 the victim of men, and when they judge ne at all they are inclined to palliate her fault
 and look upon her as more sinned eans agales es | TOTS turn to her advantage. If she break
 her marriage VOWS it is not she who is coy
 cred with shame, it is her husband who
 covered with ridicule; and people lmmedl
 ately look for defects in him and excuses to
 her. Where Englishmen would see neth!n
 l but wiekedness Frenchmen will see noth1n
 l Int wa.lxness MAX O'RELL..
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