The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-05-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DRAMA AT THE UNIVERSMES.  A Cambridge gentleman, having asked Mr. Henry Irving's opinion with regard to the drama at thetUnitersities, has received the following reply : "I am not quite sure that I fully understand the question put to me, but if it refers to the unwilling. nese of,the University authorities to unction theatrical performances within their immediate jurisdiction, I can only say that they draw an arbitrary distinction between the drama, which in its highest form is the chief literary glory of our nation, and any representation of it on the stage. lam wholly tin; acquainted with any weighty argument in favour of the system which directs the attention al soder. graduates to the treasures of the classical drama, and denies to them the pleasures of dramatic inter. Pretation. It is no answer to say that the I plays of Shakspere are profitable to the mind, and many modern plays Sr. not. You do not cultivate a healthy and discriminating taste fee , fiction simply as an index expurgatcrius of worthI lees novels. The good of the singe, as of every ! other Institution, is appreciated by experience. To I keep undergraduates in leading strings and cotton ! wool lest they should become contaminated by • ! theatrical performance near their colleges is not Teri consistent when they are allowed to roam at will ! through the highways and by-ways very queer byways —of ancient literature. The stage is an ! indispensable reflex of human character, and is not to I be condemned wholesale because the reflection is , not always admirably virtuous. What the lJnivereity authorities gain by tabooing histrionic , performances I have never been able to imagine, especially as I undentand they sometimes licence I pertain music-hell entertainment., • form of intelligent diversion which as • substitute for the demote. lising drama is • truly remarkable adjunct to • Unx! varsity education."  A number of barbarous murders are reported from Nagy Egrery, in South-Eastern Hungary. A theft having been committed, three y oung peasinta seized a band of gipsiee, whom they suspected. At first they intended to take them to Sr-liver, but, passing through a forest, they killed the ginzies, two of whom were i women, n the most cruel manner. The pearsante have been arrested.  Mr. Justice Chitty reiterated on Saturday the complaint he ban often made about suitors writing letters to him on pending cameo. He stated that he had received a letter that morning, and asked the learned counsel who appeared for its author to tell his client that it was very improper conduct. At the Marlborough-street police-court on Saturday, a miserably-dreesed man, who gave the name of Thomas Walker, and described himself as a tailor, was chagged with breaking • sheet of plate-glass ist the Devonshire Club. It was stated that the prisoner said, upon being arrested, that he had been walking about all day without food, and would rather be in prison than in the streets. He had only just been discharged from gaol, where he had undergone two months' imprisonment for a similar offence. He was sent beck to prison for • similar period.  The Rev. finny Runnings, aged 43, the chaplain of the South Raids Royal Ihfirmary, received an official intimation that owing to his delicate health he would either have to resign his appointment or be discharged. This preyed upon him cc much that in the evi nine. during the sheence of his wife, he took, with fatal effect, some cyani.:e of potassium, which he had been accustomed to uso in photography. 51. Roche, the unsucomaul candidate for Paris, has gide back to gaol. The governor of the Ville: frauche prison at tint refused to admit him' and M. Roche thereupon threatened to continue the campaign amoog the miners, for which he was sentenced .to 15 monies' imp, iaonment. After telegraphing for ingtructiems to Ysris, the governor allowed him to . join his prieon mate, M. Duc.9uerey. A manifestotwo in favour of the Socialistic journalist fell fiat.  For Go aad Cheap Printing go to the Cambria eily Leader Oft lee Wind-street, Swansea.