The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1874, Page 6

—_— 8 VON ARNIM IN COURT. Prussian Judicial Proceedings Against the Ex-Minister. CHARGES OF TREASON. Did He Furnish News in Cipher or Writing to the New York Herald? THE PRISONER IN GREAT PERIL. BERLIN, Nov. 9, 1874. vount Von Arnim has again been interrogated by Herr Pescatore, the Examining Judge who acts for Prince Bismarck, Herr Pescatore isa man who bas been younger. He was formerly a lady- killer in good society, and is a person of consider- able experience in the ways of the world. He does not quite hke his present dusiness, but has to goon with it as he can, and not without mis- Givings, for tt 1s generally believed that Count Arnim will be Prince Bismarck’s successor as Prime Minister of the German Empire. Now, Herr Pescatore 1s an official gentleman of many ambi- Mons, and he may see various reasons why it ts mexpedient for him, Pescatore, to Dadger a noble- man who may shortly have all the Is8 of patron- age in his keeping, THE EXAMINATION IN COURT, Nevertheless, I am enabled to give a faithful account of the latest examination of Count Aruim; and those only who are acquatuted with the wearisome and senseless forms of oMctal pro- cedure in ail countries Will not be astonished at its absurdity. “My Lord Count” (Herr Graf), said examining Pescatore, with an uneasy bow to the accused nobleman, Then he cieared bis throat and began again. “\y Lord Count, will your High Wellbornneas re- late the history of your past life ?”” The history of Count Arnim’s life is Known to al) Berlin, and to all well informed persons in Europe. He married a daughter ot Prince Au ruscus, 0! Prassia, and has held high diplomatic oMces. Secondly, he married a daughter of Count Arnim-Boytzenburg, formerly Prime Minister of Prussia, He has one son and several daughters, He livesat No. 4 in the Pariser Platz, and pos- sesses considerable landed property. All thisis known to everybody present, and especially well | to examining Pescatore, but the Count nas to re- peat it with tedious minuteness, one side, as though he deliver Limself of a poser, bornmess Know anything certain SPATE PAPERS PRINTED IN The Couat replies, with some dignity, that he was ip prison when these papers were published, and that, therefore, he could know nothing of the manner in which they were sent to the HERALD. @imining Pescatore, acting on instructions trom saperior authority, opines that tails answer is not satisfactory, and repeats his question with | variations, As, /orimstance, he wishes to know “if the State papers reierred to were sent to the | HERALD With the consent, expressed or under- stood, ot His High Welibornness, che accused?” | Count Arnim replies, sternly, that be ts unable | to comprehend in what way the publications of the New YORK HERALD reiate to the allegations upon which he has been imprisoned and ts now ander | examination. They propose, therefore, to travel Oat of the record and import new matter into it, evidently acting on the aavice of experienced friends not ualamiliar with oMicial procedure, and its inveterate propensity tor banging back till it las smothered lacts under mountains of rubbish. THE JUDGE POSED. Examining Pescatore is bafled by the Count’s answers, but proceeds as well a8 possible under these difficult conditions, his performances being Qs good as could be expected. The dialogue goes on thus:— EXamining Pescatore (fisherman with a hair line pursuing his art ip troubled waters)—Your High Wellbornness obtained three days’ leave of absence from your post while you were employed as Am- bassador of His All Highest Majesty the Emperor King at Rome? Couat Aroim—Possibly. Examining Pescatore—Will Your High Well- bornness give tne precise date when you received your leave of abseace for three days? Count Arnim—! think-——. Examining Pescatore—I require to know the day and hour on which you leit Rome, and the exact time of your return. Count Aroim—I do not remember them. Examining Pescatore makes a note of this and 1ook3 grave, as though bis bair line were getting entangled among weeds, but continues thus:— Your High Wellbornness again obtained leave of absence fora week upon anotuer occasion. I de- ‘ire to Know for what reason ? Count Arnim—I cannot remember, Examining Pescatore—Not remember? Bethink you, Lord Gouat. Count Arnim—The fact, if tact it be, bas alto. felt he were about to ow,’? says Pescatore, putting bis head a little | “Does your Bigh Well- | of the publication of | THE NEW YORK HERALD? | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. | quent interviews” with Count a’Arnim with an | befall him, and though broken down with sorrow | opera at Cincinnati. The town cbronicies aver object hostile to M. I'mere and to Prince de Bis- she kept on seeking. marck. 1 should not attach any tm) is story if the present situation of the for. | mer Ambassador of Prussia did any sort of reiation, either direct or indirect whether beiore or after May 24. in thanking you deforetiand for the publicity which your excellen’ journal will Kindiy give to Ubis deuiai, 1 beg you, Sir, to uccept the assurance of my affectionate and very devoted seutments. OH. EMILE, Bishop of angers. | Dia Not Talk with Him. The editor of the Gazette de France bas received the following letter: — 7 Pars, Nov. 4, 1874, Deak MONSIEUR Janicor—Wul you give the most compiete contradiction to the foreign letter which attributes to me certain conversation with Count @’Arnim before the 24th of May, Accept, &c., Duke DE LAROCHEFUUCCAULD-BISACCLA. LITERATURE. ° | | A Life of Christ for the Young. | Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, of Berlin, has ready for the press—to be publisned by J. K Osgood & Co., of Boston—a work upon which he has been ene gaged for Lhe past two years, and which really is the product of the studies and travels of thirty years. Its title is “Jesus of Nazareth: the Story ‘of His Life for the Young.” [tis not an attempt to tell this story in child’s talk for little children— there are enoagh of such books already—but to give to youth, from say twelve years upward, such a view of the life of Curist as shall forestall them against the objections raised by Strauss, Rénan | and their school, Such objections the rising gen- eration will be certain to encounter, and the surest antidote will be a clear and positive convic- | won of the reality of the life of Jesus as | given inthe four Gospels, It is the aim of this | book to make that impression—to set the life | im {tg natural surroundings of scenery, geo- graphy, nistory, manuers and customs, &c., 80 sharply and strongly that it shall be feit to be real and trae. The author has had in mind the dimceul- | tles rutsed by negative criticism, aud has written | so a8 to opviate these from the positive side with- | out formally stating them or entering into con- | troversy. The style 1s simple and easy, even for | where the subject calls for depth of thought and precision of statement, and American youth trained in the Knowledge of the Bible wil! have no trouble on that score. Some parts of the work are pictorial in tneir description of scenery and places, | and the book will instruct the young in the geog- raphy of Palestine and inthe manners and cus- toms of the Jews. Wale firmly holding to the supernataralin the | fe and works of Jesus, Dr. Thompson does not | force miracles to do service in meeting dificuities | where the Gospels themselves do not speak of a | miracle—as in the star of the wise men. So, too, while believing in the divinity of Jesus, he does | not force this‘in as a theological dogma where the Gospels themselves do not hintacthe divine. Ina | word, the book aims to make the life of Jesus so actual, so true and so naturally self-consistent that the young reader, filled with the reality of what He said and did, will say at th? close, “Truly this was the Son of God.” The whole work nas been read chapter by chap- | ter to @ select circle in Berlin, composed of youths, | Of parents and of critical scholars, American, Eng- | lsh and German, A young miss was willing to | Cut short her school vacation rather than lose one | of these readings; and an educated German, some- | what tainted wita the views of Strauss, said, “Ir 1 continue to attend these readings I shall become @ believer in spite of myself, and just because the author 1s not trying to make one of me.” Subjoined are a few extracts from this forthcom- ing book, which is likely to arouse great attention among the theologians of Europe, and which will assuredly do mach to strengthen the faith of those ! well meaning though uadeciaed persons who are still halting between two opinions touching the divinity of Curist. The soliowing is a deseription of Mary after her | babe had been blessed by Simeon :— As Mary turned to go down the steps of the | Tempie with the cousecratea cnild in her arms we | nay well imagine tuatsne had iu her eyes that | wonderiul iook which Raphael has given her, in | the picture o! the Sistine Madonna, in tne gallery | at Dresden, which ts Known all over the world vy | copies, engravings and photographs, She saw | nothing of the splendors of the remple—its snining | walls Of marbie, its glittering gates of brass, of | | Silver and of goid, its rows oi loity pillars, carved | with branches and flowers, und toat wondrous golden vine twined over the great porch, witn closters ol jeweis sparkling under its leaves; she saw nothing of tae palaces and gardens that fay at | her feet across the ravine from the temple gate ; | nothing o1 the aqueaucts and jouatains, the thou- sand cupolas, lise tents, upon the house tops, the | gateways and towers o1 the city, that made Jerusa- lem the joy of the whole land; she saw notnng | | Mvuntains round about the city, that seemed {to roll away in billows westward to the sea, | southward to the desert, eastward to the Jordan, the green Mount of Olivet overlooking the Tempie, the valley of tue Kedrou blossoming velow ; nothing | of the earthiy, nothing of tue human did Mary see, as, with a face subdued with awe, tender witn love, beaming with hope, she came forth irom the | sanctuary where she had given ter entla to God: | buc as she looked towara Bethlehem sue seemed to | step upon the clouds and to be surrounded with a choir of cherubs greetiag the cherub in her arms, Yet at ths moment of her heavenly exaltation the pang of a mother’s griet passed over her, and her eyes meited at the thought of the sword that should smite bis head and pierce her soul. But in the same instant there shone irom the eyes of the child a lignt as irom heaven, chasing all pain and sorrow and sin away; a dow oi mercy and of peace springing out of an infinite love, reaching over the world and time, to end tn an infinite Joy. Here is a pictare of the lost boy that is set in the customs of Eastern travel:— The parents of Jesus were s rict in the duties of thelr religion, and hence they went to Jerusalem a the feast of the Passover; ana when gether escaped my me.nory. Examining |escatore refers to his notes and | *miles uncomfortably, as though these detects in ' the Count’s memory were very serious things in- deed. “I have to inquire,” he resumes, “into the | exact date of this second leave of absence, and it | 1s @ very extraordinary thing that the memory of | your High Welibornness snouid have slipped over | $0 important an occurrence.” | Count Arnim—I cannot suppiy you with the date, It wil! probably be found in the archives of | the Foreign Office. | Examining Pescatore appears to think that this is quite a new view of the case, and subsides gradually into a heap of papers, whence he fishes but some telegrams purporting to have been ad- dressed by a special correspondent of the New YoRK HERajD to the HeRatp London Bureau. Having accomplished this piscatorial feat, he flourishes the telegrams fore the eyes of tne accused nobie- man, #3 who should say, “Here, my Lora Count! Here, Your digh Wellbornness, is damning evidence! Woat have you to say to this correspondence with the New YorRgE HERALD and she London Bureau »" Count Arnim—I have nothing to say, How can these telegrams affect me? I was in jail when ‘hey Were sent. Read them. Ido not even know what they contain. ‘The telegrams are declared to be in cypher, and Aso it is stated that they contain matter relative so Bismarck’s expenditure of ten millions of the secret service iund, Count Arnim again denies all knowledge of the | Watter which is contained tn the telegrams. REMANDED, The Court of Examination ts adjourned by Pescatore, and the prisoner remanded to jail. | IN PRRIL, Indeed the Count bas been placed in serious veril by the action of the Prince Chancellor. Whatever the sorms of law through which his case {8 made co pass he will doubtiess find in this blood wud {rou age of ours that ne nas oo appeal but to the Meroy of the Crown, Here, too, it may be said that there is good provability of the exercise of the royal prerogative in Count arnim’s favor, Man. {From Galignani’s Messenger, Nov. 10.) 1t is known that the Duke de Broglie and Baron Je Larcy have contradictea the fact of their nav. ing bad interviews with Count d'arnim on th 7 before May 24, Mgr. Freppel, Bishop of Angers, now does the same in the following letter sent to the ont ANGERS, Nov, 6. 1 Monsieur Lz RepacrEcr:. ching 101 roduced b 'veral French jour. falta of some Ger- that £ bad “fre. | pany, triumpnantiy be- | twelve years oid wey took Him with At such times Jerusalem was crowded to them. excess; every tamily in the city opened its doors not only to iriends but to strangers, and yet for Want of room in the houses many visitors were obliged to sleep in tents, sv that the savuros of the city had the appearance of a great camp meeting. Tne people irom the country came up to the feast in caravans; all the neignbors ina village, and sometimes all the inhabitants of a district, Would arrange tO travel im one com- because this was so much saler and cheaper than to go alone. They enlivened the way with the songs of Zion, “turning the Valley of Baca into a well.” ‘Ube greater part wou.d go on {oot, Others upon asses, horses or camels, which were also ased to carry the tents, baggage and provisions, Of course such a large body would move siowly and could not gO many miles in A day, aud it had tu march with sumething of the oruer Oiaparmy. It is the custom in tie Eastiora caravan to begin its Journey about noon, and to gO only one or Lwo hours—say jour or five miles— the first day, Dalting so as to make sure that noth- ing ts misaing and that everytaing (sin order ior | the march. At the close of the feast everybody was in a hurry to start for home, and Josepn and Mary joined a large caravan for Gaulee. usy geting tueir things together they did not miss Jesus until they ba tuey supposed, of course, that he was some- wuere im tue caravan, and that they snouid find him at the end of tne day’s journey, whica would 80 s000 oe over. Jesus was cha thoughtiul, gentie aod obedient boy, and there were so many relatives and acquaint- ances irom Nazareth in the party, that his parenca did not once think of any harm to lim until after @ couple of hours the caravan came co a nait, and they hunted fur him among their iriends and could bot find him, There was but one thing lor tnem to do, and that was to barry back to Jerusaie nd so they tarned about with lear and sorrow, searcn- ing (oF aim along the wayside, im the streets of the city, at the quarters they had just eit, and wher- ever they remembered to have taken him. or | thought it pussibie that be couid have wandered. | | They asked everybody they met, but noone bad seen their boy; they enlisted Iriends to heip them in their search, umt nobody orougnt them any tidings. The city Was still very crowded, the Streets were fall 0: confusion and hurry trom the | breaking up of the feast, and every nour added to their iear that some evil had happened to their chud. Mary was so troubled that sne couid heither eat nor seep. Ste never belore knew bow much she ioved her boy. Could it be that the angels tad 1orgotten him, and would leave nim to some dreadiul fater Had ne been saved from the cruel Herod by that long ey into Exypt ouly now to be crustied to death im the crowa or to be stoien by one of the roober bands that hung around tue | hag | and carried of where she shvaid never hear | of him again? Was ¢ the sword” that good | oid Simeon had toi r snouid ‘pierce soul Ah, how sadden Was the stroke anu how anarp the aio | ie Two days were passed in this terribie suspense. The ‘was lost afa no trace o1 him couid be found. The iriends with whom te fad stayed in Jerusalem supposed that he had started with uis | parents; he had told no One where he was gotng, | and ue had not come back to eat or sieep at tueir | house. There were no such arrangements in Jera- | Salem ae now exist in Jatye ett | coildren by the help of the cewspapers and the | police, and every moment of delay maue tt iess and Ukely that they shouid gec any (omg! of the boy. Bat through ali the weary hours, there was sometn! deep in M: Lay find Bim; thas be had been sent into | me fof some Great good and nO eT should portance to | hot onlige me to declare tnat | never had with that diplomaust | even of the beauty o! the earth and the sky, the | As they were | started, and then | for finding lost | r ‘gs heart that told ter | The author then desertbes the eorridors of the Tempie, in which the rabbies were accustomed to teach—the ratic Method of teaching by asking + | Questions, the custom of Jewish boys of twelve t Years to be enrolied as pupila of the law, and the . @ase and safety with which pupils could jodge in the warm and sheltered corridors. The actual ume during which Jesus was lost was but litte more than one day. He was missed in tho after- hoon of the first day and found on the morning of the third, 80 preoccupied with bis new school that le had not thoughs of going nome; yet he did go home, with a prompt and loving ovedience. | Literary Chit-Cha: That pearia may even nowadays be thrown be/ore swine 1s evidencea by the rejection of a do- nation of thirty-six volumes of Swedenborg’s works by the Free Public Library of Leamington, Engiand, After an animated discussion tt was re- solved to retarn the books to the Swedenborg Society. Mr. G. A, Salais writing ‘Echoes of the Week” for the /Uustrated London Nets, Mr. Henry Blackburn 18 the London director of an association to remove the copyright embarrass- ments of English and American authors and pub lshers, There is to be a completely new edition of Bos- worth’s great Anglo-Saxon dictionary, wholly re- je Written and illustrated by quotations and transla- tions of passages. Professor Ruskin’s next lectures on art at Ox- ford will be on the School of Florence and the Paint of Giotto, A pamobiet, signed Emile Lambert, entitled “The Marshal, the Tarpeian Rock and the Capi- tol,” published abroad, bas been seized on the French frontiers by the authorities, The author ig said to be the famous M. Regnier, The next early English publications to be reis- sued, with copious notes, in London, will be Sir Jon Mandeville’s “Travels” and Gower’s “Poeu- cal Works.” Those very admirable articles on finance, con- tributed to the Revud des Deux Mondes oy Victor Bonnet, the French economist, will be issued in a volume entitled “Le Crédit et lea Finances.” The London Publisher's Circular saya:—‘Edl- tors’’ will be required to be six men instead of one soon, a kind of double Cerberus. Here before us 13 an advertisement for one who is to be thus gifted:— 1. A thoroughly good managivg editor, 2, A ver- batim shorthand reporter, 8, A good descriptive reporter, 4, A thoroughty sound accountant. 5. An experienced sub-editor, and, (6) we presume, when things are a Itttle pushed, a neat compositor and vigorous pressman. If this gentleman 1s to be met with, and 1s a sound olassic and mathema- ticlan, and knows several languages as well, he must have made good use o! his time. AMERICAN LDEAS OF AUTHORSHIP,—Fraser's Maga- zine for November has the following note:—‘ ‘A Professor Extraordinary,’ which appeared in our July numoer, with the signature ‘B. T.,’ was re- printed in the New York semi-weekly Tribune for September 1, with ‘By Bayard Taylor’ added to the title. The paper in question, however, as well ag ‘Intellectual Wild Oats,’ in our May num- ber, was written by an English lady who basa perlect right to those initials.” The principal new Engilisn books appearing now- adays are in the field of poljtics or religion. COULISSE CHAT. Aimée goes to Philadelphia for two weeks. When will Bret Harte’s new play be produced at Daiy’s? Bankers store their specie in vaults, bat Stuart nds bis in Sellars. Two-thirds of the opera chorus are engaged as chureb choristers “Angot’s Daughter” has proved @ great success witn the Soldene Troupe. itis rumored that E. L. Davenport is about to join the Fitth Avenue Company. Mile. Heilbron will be the solo vocalist at the first Brooklyn Philharmonic concert. Would Talmage approve ofthe “Requiem Mass?’’ The City of Churches is wila to hear it. There are more Soldenes than one. | Vesey 1s a sister of Miss Emily Soldene. Miss Clare | Sir Jules Benedict, the composer, will celebrate his seventieth virtnday on November 28. “Kit, the Arkansas Traveller,” is going through the country witn “The Ticket-of-Leave Man.’ Mme. Ristori plays at Lima until the 9th of De- | cember, when she leaves for a season at Havana. There are but three branettes inthe Soldene troupe, and they have not declared their inten- tions, Clara Morris has insured her dresses, which she will wear in the “Hunchback” and “Macbeth” for $12,000. . The Gate Tower scene at Wallack’s is moved by | carpenters inside the wall, who push it along ata | @iven cue, Verdi’s “Mass” required twenty chorus and six | orchestral rehearsals before Muzio was satisfied to | produce it. £very part in the “Shaughraun” has been ander- Studied, so that in case of accident tt can be filled | without delay. | | | | | than any author since Lope de Vega. Look at the list and wonder. Behrens believes in Sunday concerts, and only grieves that he cannot get the Academy of Music ior such purposes. Dion Boucicault’s get up as Con, the Shaughraun, | is adopted from the picture of Joe in “O’Dono- ghne.” as drawn by Phiz. ~Davidge, the comedian, has presented a copy of his work on “The Stage” to the Rev. Mr. Talmage. | It has been sent by express. | It is probable that the Onest representation of “Don Giovanni” this year will be given the last night of the season—Sunday next. The joints of Ala, the gymnast who performs at the Metropolitan Tueatre, are so flexible that he can roll himself up into a round ball. | Boucicauit has lent Harry Beckett the coat he | | was wont to wear as Miles-Na-Coppaieen. Ie {tan | omen that his mantle shall so descend ? | Maurice Grau and Mrs. Rousby sail (rom England | on the 24 of December, The iady will appear in | “Twixt Axe and Crown” early in January. | “Lohengrin” will be produced next Wednesday, | with Albani, Cary, Carpi and Del Puente. Albant and Carpi play their parts for the first time, New Orleans 18 not a good place tor the profes- sion these times. Fechter played one night toa house of $48, and shook the dust of his feet next | day. Mr. Daly announces a revival of “Le Rot Oa- rotte,” under the supervision of Mr. Max Mat rek, The theatrical world are somewhat aston- ished. it is probable that Geoffroy, Mineily, Gandon and De Quercy wiil give “Girone-Girofa” in January at the Park Theatre; that is 1 Mr. Raymond ta ready to move, ~The amazon armor for the “Black Crook’? has been replated and regiit. Four men are continu- ously engaged in keeping the breastpiates, hel- mets, &c., in good order, Miss Clara Morris conceives Lady Macbeth as a woman who fears nothing until the sense of retri- bution breaks her down, We are expectant to see how she wili embody ner ideal, Boucicault’s new comedy, “The Brida! Tour,” which has been tn the bands of Mr, Daly, of the Fiith Avenue Theatre, for some time, is anderlined for production during the winter, Mise Clara Morris will play Lady Macbeth dur- ing ter Brooklyn engagement, The event will Probably come off next luesday night, and Mr. Robinson will support ber as Macbeth, “The Barber of Seville,” with Carl Pormes as Don Bastilo, will be given at the Academy 01 Mu- sic on Thursday evening. In consideration of | Doliday umes the price wil! be redaced, The Clocinnat critics think that the rugged harshness of McCullough's voice in excited pas- sages adds to the force of nis words but detracts from their beauty. ‘Tis @ discovery most un- | | lookea for. Gazzaniga ts in ecstastes over the suce favorite pupti, Alice Maresi, who has ou’ the expectations which natied this young giri of twenty-two years. Maresi is @ Swede, and her é 18 Spaak. Georgia Minstreis are tn better favor than eraad Dion Boucicault bas written more acting piavs | | that the Minstrela obtaimed wine and wassaill, | while poor Lima di Murska was leit out in the cold | of popular negiect. | “Le Rot Carrotte” will be brought out in gor- | geous style shortiy the Fifth Avenue Theatre. ; Miss Davenport, Miss Jewett, Mr. Louis James, | Mr. Lewis, Mr. Hardenberg and others of the com- | pany will appear as vocalists. | Russian courier races, where the competitors | Tide two horses and drive two more, are coming | hoveities at the Hippodrome. The jadies’? bardie | Faces will be revived, and some vig monkeys are | to appear, who are said to be very clever. ‘There's likely to be an tuternational war for the possession of Rossi, the great Italian tragedian. Russia, Germany, Poland and Brazil all want him. In order to prevent bloodshea we would urge him to take reiuge in the bosom of Uncle Sam. The Italian opera in Paria bas been a tailure so far, Mile, Pozzoni being the only favorite. Great things are expected of Mile. Belocca. who makes her début in “Sonnambula.” She and Alboni are the only contraltos who have ever essayed this role, An Ohio critic declares that he prefers Cal Wag- ner to Shakespeare. He thinks Romeo ana Juliet sad and sanguinary and to be made enjoyable by Mercutio’s wit nor the Nurse’s oddities. There 1s @ moral courage about this critic worthy of all ad- miration, “The Black Crook” wiil be produced simuitane- ously at the Grand Opera House and at Fox’s Theatre, Philadelphia, on Monaay, Novemper 23. Miss Eliza Wethersby will play Stalacta in this city, and Miss Lizzle Kelsey the same part tn Phil- adeiphia. Robert Stoepel, so long known here as a musician and orctestra leader, 1s now conducting the band at the Lyceum Theatre in London, under H. C, Bateman. He will shortly produce there an opéra douse of his own, entitled “Little Hunchback.” It 18 understood that Mr, J. S, Clarke, the comedian, will open at Booth’s on the 30th inst., appearing in two characteristic parts, His en- gagement is hmitea to two weeks. Mr. Clarke 1s a brother-in-law of Edwin Booth. He 1s very pop- ular in England. Carpi, our latest tenor, receives 10,000 francs week in gold, and has to sing at four performances for this salary. He sbould not carp at his compen- sation. Carpi is young, unmarried, and has all the passionate fervor of sunny Italy. Tuis is a fine chance, young ladies, in these times of a tight money market. Poor Halanzier, of the Grand Opera, Paris, has got into a delightful row with Faure, Patti and Nilsson, three great favorites with the public. The old adage, ‘‘an ili wind,” &c., may be fulfilled in this instance in our behalf, 1! Strakosch keeps his weather eye open and 13 ready to bag one or all of the contestants, The Orphan Benefit at the Academy of Music was a great success, and proper attention was paid to the artists who generously gave their ser- vices. Too oiten the people in charge forget 10 do this, and it is awkward when Dan Bryant and his merry men cannot get water to wash their faces, as has happened on previous occasious, General Dix has a rival as a classical scholar in the person of William Stuart. The latter gentle- man, us will be seen bya letter published in the HERALD some daya since, numbers among his “bosom iriends’? Moses, Job, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Sophocies, Dean Milman, Scipio Africanus and that eminent local dramatist, Little Johnny Daven port. Some say that the story how the ’Squire’s mare Stole the Shaughran is the gem of the play; but, to our mind, the best passage is where Moya tells Con that abe had better leave him where he is and not gather him to wither, like the faded flowers In her bosom, and he replies, with poetic extravagance, *‘What, ‘or anotner girl to makea posy ot If you were to leave me like that, dar- lin’, shure but I'd piuck myself and walk afther you on my own stem, Moya, darlin’.”” “The Fete at Pekin” is to be a great spectacle, but nobody seems to know exactly what it will be. There are to be some five hundred horses and nine hundred performers introduced, including a great moral ballet 2 la Chinoise of two hundred dancing girls, Ling-Look, Satzuma, All-Right, the Jakley Troupé and a host of Chinese will take part. There will be several brass bands and a choice as- sortment of Chinese lanterns. The pageant has been three months in preparation and will be pro- duced under Mr. Barnum’s special supervision. A new play by G. F. Rowe, written from a story by Paul Féval, will be produced at Booth’s Theatre on the 12th of December. The play is not yet christened, but is of the romantic school, and is laid in the age of Richelieu, Matt Morgan and Voegtlin are engaged apon the scenic effects, | which will be unusually fine, one representing tne escape of the hero down the Seine, when a moving panorama of Old Paris is displayed, with bridges projecting out over the boat in which the fugitives are. THE SHAUGRAUN AND THE SELLERS. To THE EpiToR OF THE H&RaLD:— The confict between Latinism and Saxonism, which is now raging in Rurope in the religious and political world, is at length coming to a Cli- mex on the stage of New York. The Shanghraup, who, by the way, bears a striking resembiance to Celtic minstrelsy with all its poesy, drollery, tat- ters and sentimental vagabondism, and Colonel Mulberry Sellers is the great type of the Saxon in his latest development in the Western Hemisphere, Both are dnique; the one the mercarial clown, typifying the Irish element; the other the pro- gressive clown, the exponent of the American ele- ment. % Shaughraun imparts for the Orst time to the Sellers renders some service to tne latast gastro- nomical phenomena tn turnips and water. Shaugh- raun’s tricks and jokes are 38 redundant with wit and romance as Colonel Sellers’ turnips aud water are savory in hamor and merriment. By a strange | bond of narmony between the irish and American heroes both patronize liquids, with the only differ- ence that Shaughraun threatens his mother to | acquaint the world with her confidential acquaint- ance with the whiskey vottle, wnile Sellers ad- monishes his wife not to reveal the secret of their domestic turnip and water cure establishment, Sellers treats his wife with greater respect tnan Siaughraan shows to bis aged mother, but the latcer is more -sentimental in bis bearing towards his relative, thoagn chaMng her all the time, Sellers, on the other hand, has all the American deference for women, and even in his Shaughraun mood of liauoring he ali of a sudden transiorms himself into a model of soo:ety and courtliness in the presenve of ladies, But Shaughraan has a great :caavantage over Sellers. He typifies a Celtic condition which ts still linger- | Ing on and which 18 associatea with milions of | rows and wakes in the past as weil as in the | present, while Sellers nas ao past atall. Heis a pure Adamite, the first of a histrionic race just | dawning on the world and dimly toreshadowing hosts upon hosts of Wagners of the (atare, | brimful of native iun ana mettie and brag and Without the smallest ingredient of alien ad- mixture, ws out and out ao American as Shaughraun 18 uo oOut-and-vct Celt, The latver pie bis pranks in the days of Bismarck aud israel as he did in those O| St. Patrick aud the O’Brieas, though gathering arvand wim exquisite modern appliances of elegance agd uwrace io reconcile the American oj the present day with the wakeful traditious of the past; and thus te m0! on With au invisible doz, a perfect fairy scene of poetry, murder, whiskey, love, blarney and brogue, Colonel Sellers, on the other oand, moves With an invisible Senator, representing 00 | traditi , DO Mediwevalism, no Olid World ditties, | no dynasty of Ceitic monarchs, n0 Pentan mystery, no acrimony against the motuer country, uo Wake, no viaruey, NO brogue, noluing of the dead past or Oo! the moribund present, Heis a life conundrum of | the present bey ADU Spriags ireah (rom thei ins jumbia. He presents the most puzzling of mysteries O! heraidry, of a being Without pedi- He never commi's tue dumestic sin 01 per- y DoKINg io ayainst the aurhorol his uwn nd this ts the worst part of Shaaghraun, gre petuall; ben e198 tov Wwuch o! Lis mamma, Mrs, Staugh- 0 18 AL eXcellent old jady, but there are thou. of wasierwomen and cooks who are just Sellers’ domestic relations are shrouded | hike in mystery, like those oi my nological heroes; tis | Wife appears tu counection With turnips ind water, an theo; but he has no chiidreo, while 8a etd by Marrying Moya lays himself open co thet pacation 01 meditatiag a ong line o/ progeny rogaisaly Sontemprating. the creativd of gemeretions of vagavouds lor tue | serving the interest of the “bulls” in the whiskey | market, buying large quantities in advanee for the | future consumption of the litte Shaughrauns. Seliers ends without uny maie or female or any | manveér of issue, and thas metaphysically symbol- | wes tne contrast between the prolific race of Shaughraun and the more chary and dainty pro- ductive results of the purely American stock, ‘The ladies whom Sellers gathers round kim are also ful blown aborigines, Miss Gertrude Kel- logy ts (ar more than au incipient Charlotte Cush- | man, She is superior to the latter in tprellectual | refinement ava atrractiveness. Her profile is that of the Massachusetts Woman in the highest per-. | fection of wutelligence, free from all meretricious characteristics, genuine, solid, homespun and as wtrs naive American and New England in her | Way as Sellers in his, But Shaughraun nas already attained a brilliant position and Sellersis on the path, The senti- mental portion of New Yorkers and the partisans of sentiment, blarney and brogue, will rush to see Sbaughraun while the vigorous American manhood and womanhood or the remregels will flock round tueir own native Sellers, AN OLD MANAGER. THE LONDON THEATRES. The New Hamiet—Complete Success of Mr. Henry Irving—Great Excitement im the Theatrical World. Monpay, Novy. 2, 1874, On Saturday night “Hamlet,” which has been for some time in preparation, and the production of which has for months been looked forward to with the greatest anxiety, was brought out at the Lyceum Theatre, with Mr. Henry Irving in the principal character. The desire to obtain seats was something extraordinary. The box office and the libraries where stalls are to be obtained had been besieged for weeks beforehand, brt the in- variable answer was that ‘nothing was to be had.” Mr, Bateman, the American gentieman the late Senator Westcott, of Florida, represents | Iris wake a dramatic existeace, while Malberry | parpose of | who manages the Lyceum, is a snrewd and long- headed man, and ne knew perfectly well that as it would be considered the “correct thing’’ to be present on such an occasion the stalls and boxes would possibly be filled by a crowa of fashtonabies, who would not understand the performance and would probably talk to each other woile it was going on. He determined, therefore, to reserve such portions of tue house for those literary men and artists, those Shake- speare worslippers, those supporters of the drama of the orain as distinguished from the drama of the brothel, whose verdict would carry conviction throughout the length and breadth of the land. It was @ bold step to take, but Mr. Bateman’s faith in Mr. Irving has never waned for ap instant; he has always declared that the bighest laurels of the profession were within Mr, Irving's grasp, and he had backed the rising actor witha heartiness and liberality which have done him great credit, and which have now reaped their reward, ‘here were other portions of the house, however, which could not be reserved, but the manager was pretty sure of them. With the regu- lar British play-goers who crowd into the pit and gallery, and who, after all, form the backbone of @ theatre’s success, Mr. Irving is an enormous favorite. As eariy as half-past three in the alter- noon there was a crowd before the theatre doors; acrowd which remained patiently for more than three hours, and which, on entrance being granted, rushed in and seized every available place, The denizens of stalls and boxes, too, ar- rived during the periormance of the preparatory farce, and just before the rising of the curtain tne aspect of the house was very remarkable. It is very long since such a CROWD OF CELEBRITIES was gathered together witnin the walls of a theatre, Novelists are there galore. In the front row of the stalls sits Mr, Charles Reade, bald- headed, bland and genial, now and again raising his hand to his ear to assist his hearing. Within a short distance of him Miss Thackeray, Mr. William Black, Mr. G, M. Fenn and Mr. Dutton Uook. airs. Casuel Hoey 18 at one end of the back row of the stalls and Miss Braddon at the other, while Mr. Percy Fiizgerald isin the box-s. Journalists so Mumerous that you can scarcely count them, from the white-haired veteran John Oxenford, who for five and thirty years bas wielded the dramatic thunder of the Zimes, to young Mr, Mowpray Morrjs, who is winning bis spurs on the same journal Among them George Augustus Sala, who is seldom to be found “a guilty creature sitting at @ play,” and who only comes on great occasious; Arthur Locker (editor of the Graphic), Clement Scott, Henry Blackburn, Charles Dickens, May, Thomas Knight, E. L. Blanchard, Justin McCarthy, &c, Among tue dramatists are Frank Marshall, James Alvery, R. Reece, Palgrave Simpson and A, W. Dubourg. The REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICA were Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Smalley, Mr. James Me. fieury, Colonel Forney and (he Chevaiter Wikof, With the exception of Mrs, Boucicauit and Mr. Coleman, manager of the York and Leeds theatres, 1 did not see one “pro.essional” among the audience, MR, IRVING'S IDEA OF THE CHARACTER 1s wholly new, the outcome of deep thought ana conscientious study—wholly new to this genera- tlon, L sould rawuer say, ior there are one or two points tn it wiich are guid to resemble tne view taken by Garrick, ‘Lhe periormance of ‘Hamlet’ igs0 aniversaily acknowledged tobe the touch- atone Of dramatic art, the teat by which au actor makes Or mars lis suture career, that every mid- die-aged playgoer must have seen scores of suca attempts. But two, however, remain on my mind— those wade by Mr. Charles Kean and Mr. Fecnter, Mr. Kean made Uauilet a sulky, disagreeable persun, WhO regaraed the whole world as inimical to bim, abd took all opportunities oi letting every one see bow much he hated them. Mr. ‘Fechter represented Hamlet as a peevisn, passion. wr. Irving’s view differs from ooth of these, and, while more effective, 18 far more patural. in nis rendering the question of Hamlet's betug really insane ts Ob Loleraced vor an tostant. Maduess 13 counterfeited, an “antic manuer’ 13 | Pat on for a purpose—nothing more. He was | never loud, never biatant, bat rarely passionate, He took (ne view of William Hazlitt, the dramatic ess and melancholy, but there 1s no harshness in nis uature; be 13 (he most amiabie of misan- thropes.” ‘The knowleage that he was the chosen imsirument for vengeance upon tie king does not make him .orget that he is @ prince and agentie- mau; until he unmasks their treachery he treats Kosencranté and Gulidenstern with the frank, | aMectionate courtesy of Old days and tue cutting speeches to tiresome old Polonius are delivered wituout any rudeness of manner, | Lhe ever-present sense of inexorable impending | duty is shown, not by raut or raving, but by a Strange unrest, by the impossibility of ever belug abie to Hx his attention thoroughy on augut else. He changes his positidu constantly, now sittng, How standing; ats hand ts forever | Wandering over wis face, now plucking at his | chin, now pusuing vack Mis hair. The “out and | moat unnatural murder” bas to be avenged, and untit that Vengeance 13 accomplisned nis brain ex- eludes every Otuer thought. s “POLNTS.!7 The average actor will teil you that the charac- | ter or Mamiet is jull Of Waat are teciinicaliy called | “points,” and that ie who does not make them | knows nothiag of tis art. Such, for tastance, are tue suilioguy begiunidy, “Oh, What a rogue and peasant slave aw 1!" wuien should be rusned Utnivugh at the top of one’s breath, anu ended 1n a wiuriwiud of passion; tue question, “Is it tne King?” after the kiliug of Poloatus, in the closet scene; the “Get Uiee Lo a Guonery,” Which 18 gen- eraily bellowed at poor Opuella as though she were a drunken street walker, und the “advice to the players," Which ia usually delivered ore ro- tundo, 48 though the Prince Of beatiark were a provessed elocutionist giving @ lesson. Mr, Irving's Whole periormauce seemed to be ascadica reversal Ol tue vid traditions aud a total ubnega- tion of pots. It wasasu ve had formed nis un pre-sious irom the thongetini essay of Ue alore- named Willam Hazlitt, Who says that ‘“rhere auouid be as uuch Of bhe geutiewan and scholar 43 pussiole iniused into the part and as litte of it is bard in so remarkabie a per- ce tO Make A selection, but three things SITUCK Me as OLIN 50 eXquisitely rendered that | caunot avoid referring to (aem. The first 18 (he larewel: to Ophelia, the “Get thee Wo a nunnery,” Which i8 generally Soranted, Anytuing like the expression of lis long pent-up agony iu this scene Ido oot recoilect—the deey love and passion for tue girl; the aching fear that she bas been ‘augnt to belool hin; the Knowledge that her tather and the King ace in tiding behind tue arras to apy Upon vin; ail these eelings found vent in the cougiomeration of soft, eXpostulatory and woes, in Which the ‘speech the secoud is tie “udvice the players,” whice Was given with the exuet Kind of dignited tamthanty wuich one Would expect (rom &® prince. There was no SWaggering assumption either of Sucial position oF of (he KuOWledge of art, he saggesuons weie solely tuose of au amaceur who had studied the subject, and Who saor sto the pro- fessional artist. The iebrated speech ip the Queen’s cluset; “Loox on this picture and on this.” Here Mr. [rving’s conception was Wholiy original. Vise: the ot reading, in Waich the portraits were suspeuded from the Hecks of Hagiet and the Queen, ald the gor Wiouert ones in Which they are worked on tapestry, be boldly does away with everytilog materisl, Od lakes them mental portraits seen with coe mind's eye ouly, The efect was 80 Whoily satisfaccory Chat I doubt if the former reading Will ever ve reverted to, RESCLT. Shortly summed ap the resuit ts am enormous Anccess, such, pertiaps, as | scarcely recollect. ‘The aadieace were frantic with delight and full hoases are (usared for weeks to come, Then wil come sour caro Ww America, tor Mr. Irving's vislt to sou cannot oe long delayed, petulant person, luble to constant outbreaks of | critic, Who Wrote of Hamict, ‘He 1s /uil of weak- | CLEARING THE SLUMS, The Saturday Night Raid on the Dens of the “Bloody Sixth” and Fourth Wards. | The Appearance of the Prisoners at the Tombs Yesterday Morning. 4A WOMAN WITH A HISTORY. Yesterday morning the Tomba court room was packed to suffocation by one of the worst crowds that ever graced that memorable spot. Men, women, boys and giris were all hustled togother* in one confused jumbie, and their chattering was as awful as their hideous looks. Brazen women Maunung their charms to brutal, aegraded men young women deep in the consciousness of their degradation, @nd young men with bravado smiles of indifference, were the characters which went to make up the crowd, at once disgusting and pitiable, At mine o’ciock the Judge took bis seat, and as he looked around he plainly saw that he wasin for a good day’s work. The cause of THE GRAND crown was the ratd made on Saturday night by Captain Lowrie upon the dens in the slums which com- prise part of his new charge—the most dangerous locality in the city. In Baxter street, “Chinese Poke’? and the immediate vicinity of Donevan'’s lane, there were, previous to the raid, some of the vilest resorts in toe metropolis—saloons and cellars where professional lawbreakers lurked in daytime and from which they stole out during the early hours of morning to raid and plunder houses previously surveyed. Here also the most degraded women, wretches whose poisoned lives have led them to war on society which branded them for fist offences for wich, perhaps, they were but half to blame. They slield the offenders for whom the officers of the law are in search, and many ao asbarp detective has been thrown off the scent by the pre- tended confidences which they have imparted, Every Saturday night the occupants of these dens have what is called a ‘dance,” at which all tne rowdies of the “Bloody Sixth” and Foarth ward attend. Of the wiid orgies enacted at these dances no idea can be formed, the actuality outstrippiug anything that the imaginationcan frame, Tnou- sands of citizens who pride themselves on their knowledge of the city live in happy ignorance o! this ‘dance’? insytution, Detectives aud their cu- rious friends u1 *he only ones outside the regular habitués who bave the privilege of seeing this phase of life, known to the generality oi mankind only through novels and romances, In these places “art- iul dodgers” are manulactured by the dozen and wayward girls are iaught worse than indiscretion, PLANNING FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION, When Captain Lowrie was transferred iro.a the Twenty-seventh precinct to the sixth he made 1t his business to acyuaint himself with ail these ul- cet spots, aud, having satished himself that they shouid be abolished, he speculated as to tne pest time to make a aescent ou them. Saturday night being the one on which the greatest gathering took piace he decided to walt until they were in full blast, and then poance in on them with a body Oi his best men, ‘That this intention was carried out in strict coniormity with its conception 19 proved by the fact tuat from the Sixth precinct ulone 145 prisoners were brought to the Tomba yesterday morniog. The detid exhalation irom this reeking crowd made the air 01 the court room noisome and strong. Policemen felt its sickening influence. Gin souden men and women whose braius have vecome alchoholic sponges stared in arunken misery at the Judge and answered in an inconerent way the questions put to them, and some did pot know ‘the nume they had given at the Station house, aud many did not rememver anything of the arrest, there being @ hiatus In their memories reaching from the tme they ene tered the saloons until their arraignment. A large number of gallors were among the prisoners, but these the Judge discharged, upon registering their promises not to go to such bad places to tha port again, eyerare they are likely to keep if there are no bad places to go to. MOLLIE FANCHER. Among the women arrested in the saloon of Louis Batlanato’s, of No, 14 Baxter street, was & Woman named Molhe Fancaer, whose pistory 1g an interesting one. She is fiity years of age, and an idea of the strength of her constitution may be formed When it 18 stated that there 1s not @ po- iceman ineiher the Fourth or Sixth precinct who cau rememoer ever having seen Mollie suber, Asober breath would, it is (eared, give Mollie the pneumonia, drunk which she exhibited yes. verday was, according to the best information, begun some time in 1849, when she was twenty. five years old. At that time she had been acquit- ted on acharge of murder. it appears tnat the captain of the brig Sea Foam was in her company on the night of December 24, 1848, and being anxious to get to his ship, which was lying at the wharl in Peck slip, she accOwpanied bi to the water front from her house. She was seen with him going in the direction of the river, but uo one saw her recarn. On Christ« mas morning the captain Was found in his cabin a corpse, having been stabbed to the heart, evi- aeutiy while sleeping. The folks in her house swore (hat the captain had leit the nouse alone, and the conclusion set up 1D her desepce was that he had picked up another woman on nis way down to the smp. When Moilie got out of jatiehe began to drink, and has not yet stopped, save Wita slight interruptions of ten days each, which her presence on the Isiand necessitated. Among the prisoners included in the 146 from the Sixta precinct were twenty-seven notorious street+ Walkers, Wbo Were fined $10 each, and having no dollars they got ten days. THE OWNERS OF THE SALOONS. Michael Maun, forty-five years of age, the pro- Tietor Of the saloon No. 37 Muloerry street, was | held in default of $1,000 to answer the charge of | Keeping a disorderly house. Louis Battanato, twenty-eight years of age, @ Dative of Italy, Was heid jor a like reason, he bee ing the proprietor of No, 14 Baxter street. Katfalo Dehouse, twenty-seven years 01 age, also | an Italian, was uéid for Keeping No. 41 Muiberry stree THE FOURTH PRECINCT RAID, Captain Williams has nearly cleared his new precinct, the Fourth, but there are stiil abused which he intends to stop. On Saturday night ne arrested Tuomas Farrell ior keeping a disorderly house at No. 4 Mott street, He wiso closed No. 114 Roosevelt street, He had twenty men and six women priaoners. Farrell, Iike the prisoners from the Sixta, was held co answer in $1,000. A DARING ROBBERY, A Merchant Assailed and Robbed im the Street. A bold robbery on the highway was perpe- trated shortly alter dark on Saturday evening. The victim of the outrage was Mr, Brainard T. Norris, a gentleman Well known in the upper part of the city, Who basa place of business in Fortye first street, between First and Second avenues, , and resides at No, 110 West Forty-seventh street. Mr. Norris started tor his hvuinme shortiy beiore seven o’clock, He had passed througa Forty. third street and was pear the place where it intersects Fifth avenue when four men suddenly assuuited him, One of them struck him ou the beau With some instrument that tficted a severe wound, ihe biow stunned him and fell almost imsensible to the pavement. Wuile he was prostrate his assailants took bis pockets book 10m him and fled. When he had partly ree covered irom tue dazing effects of the biow he bad received he tound & policeman and was con. veyed by im to the stutiou house in the Grand Central Depot. There he announced that the pucketbouk of Which he was robbed contained $10 1 ready money, tWu Checks, one 10r $10,000, ane other tor $260, and some papers very valuavle to tim. Mr. Norris said ne ad oven so thoughtiess of danger, and the attack Was so sudden thas ne did hot see the robbers, distinctly enough to be able Lo describe them, or even to ideatily themif he should meet them again. Mr, Norris’ hurts were dressed at the siation house, and he was accome panied to nis home by an officer, EARTHQUAKE IN UBYLON. A smart shock of earthquake was experienced in Central Ceylon early on the morning of the 19th | of September. | The following account is given of it by an Eng lish press correspondent :—"''his morning I awoke, aud looking ut the clock found tuat it was just three. Returaing to bed | {eil into the’ sound sleep that generally precedes sunrise, but wi waked suddenly by an unusual, tremoling sen: tion, This Lat Once perceived was created oy tne vibration of the irtu. The vibration increased, accompanied by @ dull rumbiiag sound, aatl the bed vegan to sway viviently, with a regu: larly increasing motiou, until tne cartaina waved, and it was apparent that everything around Was similarly agitated; the windows rattled, und the rods in the Preach window volt clauked loudly; this iasted ior a few seconds, when the rocking suusided as gradually as it hud , come. The sensation was most pecuiiar, Toe mo- | tou Was irom to west apparently (but, of course, It might have been from west to east; the | rumoling, however, was decidedly iu the east), | and Lt was roileu backward and ‘orward in bed, | feeling poweriess to steady myself. Agsoon as the | Wave bad sabsided 1 rode and noted the hour ag | five A. M. precisely.” Several ovner currespondents give af account of the occurrence. The shock ap: pears to have vee leit in che centre of the island ony. partnanaces in verion greaceh age events @ good de. al wom LT towed pea it *