The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-03

much faith In native art and its patrons. The
disastrous enterprise lie said to have cost over
f250.O0O to Carte and his friends. but OF this
f17O.OOG will go back TO them as purchase
money to DO paid by the new syndicate for the
opera house and the land on which It Is built.
Sir Augustus Harris is at the head OF the new
venture. for which the necessary capital has
been secured. Harris will be managing d.
rector at big salary. Eugene Tomkins. who
sailed to-day on the Mrurin. Is going to pro-
duce the BLACK Crook" at the Academy OF
Music in New York in September on scale
that will Guido any previous spectacular per-
Torrance.
Ludwig NJ Rubine. in conjunction with Ma
poleon Vert, the great London impresario.
has engaged Johannes Wolf. violinist. and
Joseph Holman. the celebrated violoncellist.
for q concert tour In America, commencing In
November In New York.
Nine. Melba has under consideration and
will probably accept an offer from Manager
Abbey. who ia prepared to pay this fortunate
prima donna $6250O for fifty performances in
the United States. and allowances for three
attendants. which will bring the total ND to
$4,000 for tho trip. THE Sun reporter has
reason to believe. BY the way. that the action
for divorce brought by Nine. Melba's Austria.
liam husband. and In which tho Duke of Or
leans is made correspondent. will not como be-
foro the courts.
Manager Twenning. who look cd after Kyrle
Bellew and Mrs. Brown Potter on their last
tour, has arranged with Mrs. Alice Shaw for a
whistling trim round the world. commencing
in South Africa in the autumn. Mrs. Shaw
gave her farewell concert in London at the
Lyric Club on Wednesday evening. with tho
assistance Of two American artistes. Miss
Nancy Mcintosh and Miss Elita Proctor Otis.
kna oil Exyrla Rail-
engagement, but Mrs. Potter is still resting.
Mr. Abingdon Baird has helped Mrs. Lang
try to take the Haymarket Theatre for a sea-
son OF ten weeks. beginning Sept. l with a
play specially written for her by Haddon
Cham bers.
There is little doubt that the balloon dis
aster at the Crystal Palace this week was
primarily due to tho rottenness OF the aerial
machine. 1t had been cut down from larger
balloon. 1t had been drenchingly wet the
previous week. and. when 1t was unfolded for
imitation on Wednesday. the material was ex-
| cessively heated. The balloon started with
the sky overcast. A second later the sun shone
forth with great power and there was an In
slant expansion Of gas. The strain OF the
skin Of tho balloon uron the cordnRe and the
| friction caused the fragile thing to burst. The
| material was Of the commonest. and the con-
| struction crude. 1t is tho public opinion here
| that machines making aerial voyages should
| 10 subjected to the same official inspection as
vessels navigating the sea.
There seems little likelihood OF Slavin and
Jackson meeting again in this country. No
club is disposed to put up purse OF $1,000
to arrive at what they consider q foregone
conclusion. The conviction has grown In
| English minds that Jackson Is Slavin's supe-
rior at all points OF the flstic game. and Slavin
In, RDA hoOk rim
| unless his Australian admirers determine to
give the big white man one more chance.
| THE SUN reporter looked In at the school
room in North Lambeth this morning to Wit
| ness the nomination OF candidates for that
| constituency. He found Mr. Henry NJ Stanley
and his wife sitting at one end Of a long school
| form and Liberal Candidate Alderman Cold
wells at the other end. with about half dozen
election agents sitting In tho middle appar.
entity with view to keep the peace. In that
position the rivals sat from 10 A. NJ. till noon
tho period fixed bv tho returning officer dur
ing which he would accept nomina
tons. 1t is remarkable that blood wa.
not shed during these two hours
for Alderman Coldwells. despite his name Is
fiery individual who has been saving mani
spiteful things OF 1.-The great explorer" ant
Mr. Stanley has frequently expressed a yearn
ing to have Mr.. Coldwells with him on tn
Congo or Victoria Nyanza for brief period
But the principals contented themselves will
throwing naughty glances ut one another
while their supporters whiled away the tim
in badinage
Mr.. Stanley spoke to no one but his wife unit
about l. 80 o'clock. when 1t was learned tina
a deputation OF malcontent Tories had gone II
search OF Gen. Fraser. the late Tory member
to induce him to accept the nomination agains
stanley. 1t seems that many Tories deslre
to have Fraser as a candidate. because he ha
served them well in the past: but the part
managers. believing that the magic Of Stan
lcy's name would attract many waverin
voters. unceremoniously threw the oil
General overheard and brought forward tn
traveller Stanley. however. has proved q dis
NAL failure. and II anything Is certain in Lon
don politics It Is that the Liberals will wres
North Lambeth from the Tories. Stanley him
self seems to be aware of the fate in store 70
him. and during the last few days Of the con
test his melancholy has been extreme
Rude boys daily roar after his handsom
patr-horso carriage and yell rude things Il
him In the strong Lam beth vcrnacuar. Work
} ingmen have evinced even less consider
alton for his feelings. and have show
! en- barrassing familiarity with his ex
PLOTS on the great African lakes years age
Mr. Stanley has undergone all these and othe
humiliations In the confident belief that he
! to DO member of Parliament. and for tina
dubious honor lie has also renowned hi
American citizenship and become more Eng
lish than John Bull himself. Small wonde
} then. that no became agitated at learning OF tn
Tory plot against him. and that his wife be
trayed hysterical symptoms. As noon drc'
! near he and his wife and his agents The ha
no friends In the room) regained confidence
At Ave minutes to IL the indictments sent OF
scouts to look for the General. and
~ O'Clock. whom tho returning officer declare
the nominations closed they vainly challenge
} the decision by claiming that the big clock Z
} Westminster had not sounded the hour. NJ
\ Stanley and his wife drove away looking q
most happy. But they have little cause &c
J congratulation. for II the malcontents hay
! failed to run their own candidate. they Gu
: and probably will vote against tho man VIII
helped In the mean conspiracy to Jockey ga
liant old Fraser out Of his rights
There has been lively work in Ireland tn
evening. There Is scarcely II town which ha
pot heap the scene of eleCtiOn fights of a VII