The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1878, Page 6

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NIBLO'S GARDEN—Mazer: NEW YORK AQUARIU PARK THEATRE-Iv BROADWAY THEATR Ww MAGDALER, LYCEUM THEATRS—Josuva Winrcoms, GLOBE THEATRE—Macatureten. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR’S—Vantury. HAYMARKET THEATRE ST. JAMES THEATS GILMORE’S GARDE: KURTZ ART GALLERY—Tne Truxenose, TUEATRE BRIGHTON —Vaniety THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanuty, BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philateiphia—Rosert Hetue om as’ CONCERES. York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy in the morning, followed by increas- ing cloudiness, rains and brisk to high winds. Do-morrow it promises to be cloudy, with occa- sional rains, probably followed toward evening by gradually clearing indications, and the (empera- ture will fall very rapidly. Wat Srreer Yesrrrpay.—Stocks active and somewhat feverish, with an upward tendency. Governments steady, States dull and railways slightly advanced. Call loans 11g to 2per cent, and gold steady at 1001,. Wonpers Witt Never Crase—Canal ex- penditures were comparatively small during the past six months. Tne Most Gratiryinc point of the Vander- Dilt will struggle, which was resumed yes- terday, was that the contestants must finish their case within eight days. Ir Is Beavtirut for brethren to dwell together In peace and unity; but some of the officers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who met in Brooklyn yesterday, seemed to have had pecu- liar ideas of what peace and unity consist in. A Bic Sensation was completely spoiled yes- terday by the Coroner's jury returning a verdict that the shooting of Molloy by Allen was acei- dental; but the more of such sensations are spoiled the healthier will be the moral sense of the community. Mysteries of manslaughter are very dangerous as moral diet. Ocx Reporrer of the Billings’ trial bas ob- taiued from the prisoner some information which, though not of the legal nature of evi- dence, will be read with great interest by those who have followed the course of this extraor- dinary case. Tho foreshadowing of the points of the defence also add to the interest of the report. Ir Srems TnarSir John A. Mucdonald is to have a seat in the Canadian Parliament after all, having been elected for Marquette, Mani- toba. As leader of the protectionist party, which is now in the ascendancy in Dominion politics, his working ability will be iminensely increased by the right to participate.in legisla- tive debate, Nearty Twenty-vrive Husprep Doriars were carned yesterday for the yellow fever suf- ferers by the actors who gave the benefit per- formance at Booth’s Theatre, and not ahundred times as much money expended in the ordinary way by a hundred times as many stadesmen could have done so much toward drawing North and South together in that affection whichis the truest bond of union. Tue Carratn of the steamer City of Fitch burg, which struck and sunk a canal boat on Wednesday, seems to have mliar id of the purpose of an alarm whistle. This whistle was not blown because he could see no one on the “deck of the canal boat, whereas the simplest regard tor life and property should have prompted him to sound an alarm and call men ov deck to save their boat and themselves. Some IxtenestixG Pornts about the coming Mapleson opera troupe will be found in the re- port of an interview with Mr. Charles Maple- son, who has just arrived as the avant-courrier of his father’s company. Coming flushed with the provincial successes which they have earned en route, the artists who ntertain as will doubtless arrive in the fine spirits which have a0 much to do with the achievement of success. Tur Wearnin.—The storm centre is moving Tapidly over the lake regions, dominating the weather in all the districts south to the Alle- ghany Mountains. Its eastern margin is now over the St. Lawrence Valley and western sco- ‘tions of the Middle Atlantic districts. The ba- rometer continues high over the Atlantic coast, but is falling gradually in the Northeast. Rains have been very general in the Jake regions and the Northern Missouri and Mississippi valleys. They have also fallen in the Gulf districts. The avinds continue brisk in the northern lake region and the Central Valley districts, They aro fresh on the Atlantic coast and generally light elsewhere, The temperature has risen in the Middle Atlantic and New England States. It has fallen elsewhere. Steep gradients will be formed in the Middle Atlantic and New England States, and consequently brisk to high winds may bo expected in those regions. The rainfall will probably be very heavy, particu: larly on the New England coast, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be ‘warm and partly cloudy in the morning, fol- Jowed by increasing cloudiness, rains and brisk to high winds. ‘To-morrow it promises to be wloudy, with occasional rains, probably followed toward evening by gradually clearing indica. ‘tions, and the temperature will fall yexy rapidly. The International Silver Conference. We print in other columns a letter from Paris giving a very full history of the de- liberations of the International Conference called by invitations of the United States to agree upon a plan for the general re- monetization of silver. In respect to its main object the Conference was a failure, no plan having been agreed on and the Eu- ropean States represented dissenting from the view of the United States that concerted action is desirable. The decision of a majority of the European delegates that the subject ought to be remanded to the separ- ative action of each country of course fore- closed any discussion of the proper ratio of the two metals in’ the coinage of States which may think fit to adopt or adhere to a doublestandard. If no mutual arrangement is desirable there is no place for a common arrangement of the ratio be- tween gold and silver or respecting any other branch of the subject. Even if the Conference had been able to agree that a uniform arrangement is desirable, and had succeeded in uniting on a ratio, the most difficult part of the problem would still have remained to be solved. The assembled delegates were not, in the strict sense of the word, a congress with power to bind their respective governments, but only a conference, with mere authority to diseuss and confer and to make recom- mendations which the governments send- ing them were equally free to adopt or to reject. Even if they had been plenipoten- tiaries to negotiate a monetary treaty the treaty would not have been binding on the United States at least without confirmation by the Senate, nor even then considering that the subject is not within the province of the treaty-making Powers. ‘The consti- tution vests the coinage exclusively in Congress, which alone has power “to ‘coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and to fix the standard of weights and meas- ures.” Tho Silver Conference was unable to take even the first step toward success; it broke down by disagreement on the first proposition. In the proper order of se- quence the first requisite was to agree that joint action was desirable; the second, to decide what that joint action should be; the third, to get the agreement adopted by the authority of the several governments repre- sented. The first and easiest step having been a stumble neither of the subsequent and more difficult steps could be taken. But although the Silver Conference was an utter failure in respect to its proposed ob- jects it was not without value as an expres- sion of enlightened European opinion on a very important question. ‘he discussions of the Conference have gone very far toward demolishing the fetichism which would make gold the only material of money. The experience of twenty or thirty centuries should count for something on sucha sub- ject. . The innovation of making gold the sole standard of value is but little more than helf a century old, even in Great Britain, which first adopted it, and is not yet ten years old in Germany, which was the first considerable nation to follow the example. There is force in the scientific objections to 1 double standard in the same country, but there is a counter view even from the standpoint of science, The expediency of a universal demonetization of silver is an untenable proposition, and was admitted to be so in the European declaration in the Paris Con- ference. ‘The European declaration, which is very instructive and significant, was in the following language :— Tho delegates of the European Stat ented in the Conlerence wish to express their sincere thanks to the government of the United States of America for having procured an international ox- change of opinion upon a subject of ro much impor. tance as the monetary question. Having maturely considered the proposals o/ the representatives of the United states, they recoguize:— First—That It is necessary to matctain in the world the monetary functions ot silver, as weil as those of gold, but that the selection for use of one or the other of tuese two metals, or of both simultaneously, should be governed by the special position of each Stato or group of States. Second—T bat the quoation of t cornage of stiver should cqually it to the discr tion of @eh Stato or group of States according to ine particular circumstances in which they ma: themselves placed; and the more go in that tne d turbance provuced during the recent years in the sil- has variously offected the monetary situa- veral countries. riction of the the differences of opinion which have appeared, and the fact that ever some of tho Sta which bave the double standard find it unprofitable to enter into a mutual engagement with regard to the free coinage of silver, cxcludo tbe discussion of tbe question of the adoption of acommon rate between the two metals, This explicit admission that ‘‘it is neces- sary to maintain in the world the monetary functions of silver as well as those of gold,” should put an end toa great deal of cus- tomary declamation on this subject. The trath is that there is not a sufficient supply of either metal to meet the monetary wants of the world if the other metal should be excluded, Both are rieeded for monetary purposes; but whether it is expedi- ent to use ‘both in the same country on an equal footing is a dif- ferent question. In the present state of the discussion the preponderance of intelligent opinion seems to be that both cannot be successfully employed in the same country except by subordinating silver to gold and limiting its use to small transactions, There is no difficulty in maintaining silver coin at par with gold coin quite irrespec- tive of the intrinsic value of the two metals provided that the coining of silver be lim- ited and that its use be restricted to the needs of a country for subsidiary money. But the unlimited coinage of both metals with equal legal tender qualities must necessarily banish the dearer metal from circulation and make the cheaper the sole medium of transactions. And yet there can be no rensonable doubt of the possibility of maintaining gold and sil- ver at par with each other in spite of small variations in value provided, first, that the ratio between them is adjusted at the out. set with reference to the market value of the bullion contained in the coins; and provided, secondly, that this ratio is ac- cepted by the leading commercial nations in their domestic coinage. If the ratio is fixed on the average commercial value of the bullion the fluctuations in value will be confined within narrow limits, and such slight fluctuations would be rectified by the natural operation of international exchanges. That isto say—if in one country silver should happen to be less valuable than gold, silver would be used for the payment of debts and gold would be exported, But the abun- dance of gold in the country to which it is exported would reduce its value by the law of supply and demand, and the balance would be readjusted. \ But this could be the effect only when coinage in the two metals had been honestly adjusted on their approximate bullion value. At present, in our own national coinage, there is a differ- ence of more than ten per cent in the value of the gold bullion in a gold dollar and the value of the silver bullion in a silver dollar; whereas the difference should never exceed one per cent, and ought, if possible, to be confined within much narrower limits. Ifthe two metals did not fluctuate at all with reference to each other an interna- tional ratio would be of no consequence, because there could then, be no difference between coin and bullion, and both would be equally valuable for exportation. But such absolute stability is contrary to the nature of things, and it is therefore desira- ble that the effect of fiuctuations should be parried by a common ratio established by international agreement. But an international agreement would be futile and worthless except on a ratio founded upon the actual market value of bullion. It could rectify small differences, but not large differences. It would be competent to deal with a difference of one per cent, but not with a difference of ten or twelve per cent. Our present law for the coinage of silver is absurd (except for mere subsidiary coins) because it defies nature and reason by declaring that ninety cents’ worth of sil- ver has the same value asone hundred cents’ worth of gold. The International Confer- ence having failed our Congress ought to put bullion enough in our silver dollars to make them the real equivalent of gold dollars. The Delays of Rapid Transit. For some days there have been great holes in Tryon ‘row, where the principal downtown terminus of the East Side ele- vated road should be, but even practical engineers are unable to see why the work at this point should proceed so slowly, and Mr. Director Field's late statement that the Chatham street branch would probably be in operation in two months is anything but encouraging when the small distance to bo covered is considered. The delay at this most im- portant portion of the road is of great an- noyance to the larger body of passengers from down town, and the explanations given are by no means satisfactory. Another cause of delay, which is equally provoking and even more dangerous to the prospects of the company, is due to an insufficient number of cars during the busiest portions of the day. Any one who has attempted to get upon a train between five and seven in the evening at Canal strect or Grand street knows to what we refer. The crowd upon the platform, the packing of the cars, the difficulty of getting on or off through the crowded mass of humanity on the trains and platforms, and the foul air of the cars are not only destructive of human comfort and dangerous to life and limb, but they show the present inability of the company to do the work it has promised to do. The discomforts, dangers and delays of horse-car travel will soon seem to nearly every one to be preferable to those experienced on this ele- vated road, and if once a dislike to the road takes possession of its would-be putrons it cannot subsequently be overcome until the company has suffered considerable loss. The management of the East Side road is decidedly lacking in executive ability, and no time should be lost in making good the deficiency if the line is to be properly bene- ficial either to the stockholders or the public, Emigration from Canada, The consul of the United States at Port Sarnia, in Canada, has sent to the State Department a communication reporting the number of emigrants trom Canada to this country through that port for the year end- ing June 30, 1878. The facts are remark- able. The whole number of emigrants for the year through Port Sarnia was 30,610, and of these 16,183 were Canadians from the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec. They seemed to be a very respectable and well-to-do class, taking with them horses, wagons, agricultural implements, house- hold goods and in most cases money enough to purchase farms in our Western States. So large a loss of valuable popula- tion throws light on the distress and dis- content which have wrought the recent great political revolution in the Dominion. It proves that the suffering there is even greater than it is in the United States, and that the agricultural population can improve their condition by emigration to this country. If Sir John Macdonald should adopt the protective policy on which he has so triumphantly carried the Parliamentary elections there will be a still larger exodus from Can- ada to the United States. ‘The present emi- gration is a consequence of a restricted market for agricultural produce. The Can- adians cannot sell their oats and barley in the United States without paying duties which put them at a disadvantage; but by cultivating equally cheap land in our West- ern States they will enjoy unrestricted use of our markets. When Canada shall have adopted a high tariff its agricultural population will be still worse off, because they will have to pay larger prices for everything they have to buy besides getting smaller prices for everything they have to sell, Uuder ao zollverein, and still more surely under annexation, Canada would be on an equal footing with the most favored portions of the United States, and instead of losing population by emigration she would be a large gainer by settlers from this country. An Execution in Paris, In to-day’s Henratp is given in a letter from Paris a minute account of a public ex- ecution in that city. The persons executed were the two speculative students who mur- dered a milkwoman to secure for themselves the small amount of her little fortune, and who so heedlessly left a ghastly relic of their crime ina hired room, It is a story that indicates with how little consideration of the magnitude of such a crime two men will for a pitiful sum of money undertake murder, and it is probable that its early dise , covery and punishment have saved the fife of many a capitalist in a small way, for if the partners had found impunity in their enterprise they would have continued it. But the execution is for New Yorkers the most instructive part of this story. The artistic completeness of the. preparations forthe grand act of justice, the care with which these two wretches were launched into eternity, can only be compared, with any account of an execution here, to the complete conviction of every thinking person that our method is horrible and barbarous. Austiia in Troubl It is recorded on authority more or less trustworthy that a certain man of the chil- dren of Abraham was about to indulge his palate with a savory cut from the forbidden animal, when, as he contemplated the first juicy mouthful held for » moment at the end of his fork, there came a great clap of thunder, and he dropped his fork and hastily covered up the dish, muttering in his trepidation, ‘‘What a fearful fuss about a little piece of bacon.” Count Andrassy is in a position to sympa- thize with this worthy and to make a sim- ilar declaration, in view of the storm that is so rapidly gathering and likely to explode with such force over the poor little indul- gences asto forbidden pleasures that Austria ventured upon in accepting at Berlin the proffer of a share in the spoil of the Otto- man Empire. Hungary is to fulminate the wrath of an exceedingly noisy portion of the people of the hybrid and composite Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and the storm once up it may go beyond even what the Hungarians promise themselves. In the thirty-five million subjects of the monarchy there are of | Hungarians proper, or Magyars, about six millions, the remainder of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary being of other races, and of races that in a final analysis of sym- pathies wonld perhaps not be actively in favor of their nearest neighbors. But these Hungarians have always been as the Po- landers also always were—noisy and can- tankerous out of all proportion to their physical, intellectual or numerical impor- tance in the monarchy; and the Ministry that believed it could be indifferent to their objection in the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina—and which, in fact, could have been indifferent if its military opera- tions- had been crowned with a sweeping and brilliant success—is in a very delicate position, now that it is compelled to face them burdened with an exceedingly dis- graceful failure. It has shown them that it is not to bo trusted as to any pledges of respect for their sensibilities in regard to increase of territory; and it is naked before them as to an unpleasant state of the finances and a calamitous use of the army, and they will push it to the wall, They will compel it to reckon with them: relent- lessly. Austria is, as to the definite division of her people into parts whose interests are divergent, somewhat in the position we were in in the times of the ‘‘free soil” agi- tation that went before..the war.. Her Magyars are a minority equivalent to our minority in the people of the Southern States, who pretended to domineer and hector the whole country into continued and complete submission to their will and acceptance of their views on all topics of consequence in the life of the nation. In their case, as in ours, the spirit that sup- ports this temper is the same, and the motive is similar. The Magyars, like all isolated and narrow-minded races of men, believe themselves tu be personally superior to other human creatures ; and the South- erners had the same fancy. They are, in fact, good soldiers—hardy, resolute and of indomitable spirit—and the Southern men were the same; but they have not such confidence in their superiority as to trust to it their future in the monarchy, and they have taken as to additions to the territory of the monarchy a position sub- stantially the same as was taken by the slaveholders in regard to the Territorics. In fact, they have gone further; for the slaveholders did not declare that there should be absolutely no more free States, while the Magyars stand in resolute hostil- ity to the acquisition of even an inch of non-Hungarian country. Change of Ministry will be no great calamity to issue from this event, for the Count is not one of those miracles of politi- cal sagacity and force that it is an injury to a country to have sent to private life. But the Hungarians will try to push their case beyond that. ‘They will endeavor to force upon the government the abandonment of the position taken at Berlin in regard to the occupation of Bosnia, and that will make peculiar international complications. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Frenchmen shoot on Sundays, Mr. Theodore Tiltoa bas arrivod from Europe. Mr. D. G. Croly, of the Graphic, 1s at Newport, Ripe appies are sald to be a cure for seasicknese. M, Gamboita calls Lord Beaconsfield ‘Lord Brag.” Many midalo class Eoglish people are on tho bine. First class London physicians, asarule, charge one guinea as a toe, By an order in Indta Queen Victoria is hereaiter to be spoken of offictally us Her Importal Majosty. Sunsot Cox is still spoken of tor Mayor. This city, howover, does not waota man with a six-barrelled oar. A ball cozen young Mindoos have in London made the politics of the English Empire their especial study. 1n Switzorland there are many tra‘ and a dis. mal season, Ger ns predominate, and walters may no longer receive fees. Prince Lbri Hilney of Egypt will go to, Wool- wich apd live like ao ish gentieman, high in his military studies, London World.—“When ‘sentiment’ was in fashion there was a cant of sentiment, but now the tendency 18 Fatbor to a cant of insemsibility.”’ Lord Boaconsfield sat down nod told Queen Victoria all tho dotaiis avoat ihe Bulgarian atevcities on the had him write to the Ozar, At Bournemouth the grave ot William Godwin is beside that of his daughter, whose tombstone says that she is “widow of the lute Porcy Bysshe Shel- ley.”” London World:—«“The quarrels of lovers are tho re- nowal of love; the quarrel between a membor and bis constituents is almost toval Hy the absolutely cortain sign of impending divor Dublin teols hisalutin because the Empress of Aus- tria, the Duke of aught, the Princess Louise of Prussia and the Prince Imp: 1 of France wili go to the noighborhood of the Hill of Tara and attond the Ward huot this aatamp. The Dake d’Aumale having said that if Fraace tamely submitted to Gormany’s taking the Dutch He is very NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. ports he would give up his sword and become a monk, Bismarck is in an angry mood about him. The Duke commands « froutier corps, Chicago Times:—“Any combination would be prefer- able to theelection of Butler or the indorsoment of Kearneyism and the crozy currency delusion which the flatists are determiued to force upon the coun- uy.” London 7'ruth says:—‘*T'ne Alps, after all, are pleas- antest at adistance, A regular Swiss hi 18 intol- rable, with the crowd and the noise, and the scanty fare und high prices, and the impossibility of putting @ foot outside the door without immediately com- meneing to climb,” A Russian grand dake recently sstd to a distine guished French lady thut the royal family of Russia might betore long become refugecs im Europe, tho men of his country having been wken for war pur- Poses from the land which now refuses to supply the People with food, and social revolution being !mmi- nent President Andrew D. Witte and Professor Willard Fiske, of Corneli University, who returned from Ku- Tope yesterday, will be tenderod a reception and din- meron Monday evening next, atthe Uaion Square Rotel, by the Cornell Alumni Associution, of this city. Erastus Brooks, Stewart I. Woodlord, H. W. Sage and Alonzo 8, Cornell will also ho present, Cincinnati Commercial. “There bas been bo greater farce n American politics than the presentation of Ben Butler gan exponent of reform in anything, His greed of gain ta notorious. His urgency of the salary grab and bis enormous foe in the Farragut prize money award are illustrations of this character. istic.” Ho is less a true representative of the working. men than Horace Greoiey was of the democracy | 1872." London World:—‘‘Of all bores the sporting bore is perhaps tne most insufferable, ead aw (ete-a-tele with a man who will insist ov enlarging for an hour at a stretch ou the merits of his horses or his dogs ta a weariness to the flesh of the most unmitigated kind, No attempt to turn the conversation to politica: or social topics is of any avail, The horsey or doggy man cares for none of these things, and at the first lull ip the talk he is on bis hobby again”? Sir Cuarlos Dilke at his Provengal homo rises at daybreak, reads and writes until midday, when, uo- der a cloudy sky, he takes along walk. Ho never drinks wine, but he 1s a great smoker, His cigars are neurly a toot long, The house ig the one in which Yurat hidduring the *white terror,”? It was an an- cestor of Sir Charlies Dike, one Peter Wectwortt, who spoke il! of Queen Klizabeth and was com. mittod to the Tower, where he died. From tim Str Cbarlos gots bis radical spirit. “AMUSEMENTS. — EMMA ABDOT? IN ‘‘MIGNON.” A crowded addience thronged the Park Thoatro last evening to witncss the début of Miss Emma Abbott as Mignon. While the charming singer bad friends by the scoro it was ovident that hee talent lay io another direction than that of portraying the sympathetic, timid, Jealous and self sacrificing girl of Goethe’s imagina- tion. Indeed it would be hardly fair to Miss Abbott to say that sbo met with success in this dificult réle, for the reason that, she at- tacked a part for which neither her musical training nor cultivation in dramatic art had fitted ner, True, sho was at times heartily applauded, bat the warmth of good friends could scarcely overcome the fact that the young lady was lacking in many essential points—to wit, action, which wins even without vocalization, and that ap- pealing power of the mendicant with which we must ever associate the quaint end fascinating female Bohemian. The effort of Miss Abbott was not undeserving of commendation, bat there are other paris in which she might have ventured with more assured success, Favors were showered upon Miss Abbott last night, and in “Kuowest I'bou the Land” she meritei tho encore which was entbusi- astteally demanded, Unfortunately Miss Abbott took rather a bumoroas view of situations wheo her ire migtt naturally have been sroused. Leyond question Miss Abbott has @ good voice, but to win lyric triumphs she has yet some obstacles to surmount, As Filiua Miss Annio Mon- togue the famous “Polon as Wii Lothar! the part with credit. pertormance w: given by representa- tive of Laerics, whose voice, even at com- paratively quiet times duriog the periormance, rovoked the heartiest merriment. But it should not e forgotten that dirs. Seguin personated the some- what insignificant rd/e of Frederick, and, even in sharo allotted to ber,’ carried the The chorus, under the direction of 1M Operatic matters, was a Prominent and successful feature of the evening, day Mise Abboit appears as Arline in tho “Bone Fi. MUSIC\L AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr. Charles Pope will bogin an eugagement at tho Bowery Theatre on Moaday night 19 a round of Shakesperian charactere, “4a Fulse Title” is the title of a now comedy to be produced to-vight at the Standara Theatre in place of “An Open Verdict,’ which proved so disastrous a failure, The now piay is favorably spoken of by those who have heard it read, The cast ombraces the pames of Messrs. Piympton, Lovick, Maginiey, Le- clerq and Ringyold, and Miss Rose Osborne and Mrs, Poole and Mrs. Jordan, The “Schoo! for Scandal” wi!l be produced this evening at Wallack’s Theatre after months of prepa. ration, The play will be given in accordance with the promise made some time sinco by Mr. Wallack that tu tho early part of the season he would revive a number of tho works of Sheridan, Goldsmith, Hol- croft aud otber famous write f old Euglish come- dies, typical of the life, manoers and customs of tho last century, The revival of these ola plays has always been a feature with the management of this house, Ni every season bas witnessed somo of these revivals with an elaborateneas and accuracy of detail in actin,, settiog and costuming which bas wou warm pra! rom ail playgoors, Seven years have passed since the ‘School for Scandal’? was last played at this house. In that timo almost a new geoeration of playgoers has arisop, To tuem Sheridan’s chef @auvre as it will be tovaight will prove a fine intellectual treat, Mr, John Gibort as Sir Petor ‘Teazle will recall no doubt to the minds of many Rulus Blake to the samo part somo years ago, when Loster Wallack playod Charlies, Mr. Charles F, Coghian will to-night assame that role, and from what has, been seon of his acting in othor parts and the Ging reputation he brings trom the London theatres as the exponent of characters in old Euglish coinedy the success of bis Charies tay in @ moasure be anticip Goutal John Brougham will make bis first bow this season before the footlights as Sir Oliver Surface, abd 20 doubt will be grovted with a bearty welcome, Mr, Barrow, a new addition to the Wallack company, who made so marked «a hit os Jack Seleber tn “C.urissa Marlowe,” will assume the part of Joseph Surface. Mr. Beckett will be the Mosor, aad Mr. Floyd the Sir Benjawin Backbite. Lady Teus'o will be lotrusted to Mise Rose Coghlan, who tas already become a-metro- politan favorite, aad Mure, Ponisi 13 tojplay Atri dour, In chumerating the principal characters in the comedy with the names of those who will play them Mt will be soen that the cast Is brilliant and the revi- ‘val ul) of promu jor a eiccesstul run. ITALIAN OPERA. ARRIVAL OF CHARLES MAPLESON AND THE BALLET MASTER—SOMETHING ABOUT THE ARTISTS—THK PRIME DONNE, TENORS, DAN- SEUSES AND THE REPEKTOIRE, Tne City of Brusseis, which arrived at thie port yesterday, brought to this city Me. Charios Map!oson, son of the jamous director, and Signor Francesco, loader of the bullet. The Journey across the oconn bad not been an exceedingly pleasant ono to young Mr. Mapleson, aod he was greatly fatigued during the early part ot tho day, Inthe afternoon, howevor, he was quite willing to talk “opera,” and g) ed the H&RALD represeniative an opportunity of gathering, lor tho music loving people of New York, the various items of news connected With tho new operatic enterprise under his fatuer’s directorship, Mr. Charies Mapieson stated that be left the company in Dublin, where the suc of “Carmen” had beon extraordinary. Even the Queenstown journals spoke of th thustasm ated by this representation in Ire! capital as an event of importance 10 operatic anoal ‘ihe reporter asked Mr. Chatios Maplesom the objoct of bis coming over #0 many days in advance ol his father? “My ooject is,” he replied, ‘to obtain a goneral view Of things, operatic and otherwise, so as to inform ee Lannea’ f the state of affairs here on hisarrival, T intend to take = general gurvey of the ground, which will swe him a good deal of trouble after iunding. He eaves Quocns town with the; company on TacaJay next 9m tho City of Chester, When we engaged passage for all tbese poople nearly all the berths bad been take but the Inman Company wore considerate enough t¢ fit up special accommodatioas for (be chorus, which, 1 suppose you know, is quite large Arditl, the leader of tho orchestra, at first intended to come on witb me, but at the eleventh hour he cbanged bis mind and preferred to come along with father. He koews that bia work, that of collecting a good set of musicians, is being coretully looked after by his agent here. Signor Francesco, the chef du ballet came, however, along with me,’? "NO FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, “You must have beard of the various stories afloat about here about fnauctal difficglties besetting your father’s operatic enterprise, so far as New York 1# con- cerned,” said the reporter, “Yes, | have beard of them since my arrival bere and algo by reports whieh reached mo while coming up the harbor, You ought to know that my father’s friends wore not over anxious to him leave Old E nd, Hh institution’ over ther you call it, Neversneless, ho acted quite independently o! their desirog, as he had bis mind Oxed on tuts epter- priso long ago, “Tt there had been any financtal aiM- culties in the way-he would have foreseen thein there and then abandoned the undertaking, But, on the contrary, he saw that everything looked quite promising, aod therefore went right ahead, lan tell you just this—that before my departure from Qacenstown all the artists’ berths had bees engaged and paid for, so you thay make your mind easy as to apy difficulties on that score, I wish the people of New York, who are talking over such matters, ‘will please remember that father bas bad twenty-five years! experience as an operatic manager, and that so, him the arrangements to go to America, with the single cxeeption of the distance to be travelled over, ore just the game as if he were going from Londoa to Ireland or to any other part of Europe, Itie utteriy ubsurd to think toat there was or 18 apy diffoulty of that nature in his way. Let me add, further, that my father’s resources as a manager are really unlimited, He has a double company at bis command and you may safoly announce in the HERALD that he will bee gin the London seagon on the same day that be opens in New York. With the imniense array of talent ua: der bis’ control he can give London and New York constant novert nd pew artists, changing them and the réperloire whenever be pi “What is your offi connection with the company outside of looking after your father’s interesis?!? asked the reporter, “[ pave Leen acting manager of the Mapleson Opera Company dariug the pst two years in London aud in the provinces. 1 have been here before— namely, during the Centennial Exhibition, but spoot. most of wy time then in Philadelphia und at the watering places. I shall continue to act as business ae during tho coming operatic season in New ork, AMERICAN VS. KUROPRAN, AUDIENCES, “You ought to bave a preity good idea, tuen, of the current European appreciation of the artistic taste of our people#”” “Lt is reported Iu Europe that American audiences areas urule not so critical us European audiences, My father, howev: y durlog the Titiens operatic season, saw tor himself that American audiences were more uppreciative than European, applauding not only tho tenors’ and soprae nos? bigh potes, which always bring down the house, but be dixcovereJ, also, thut your audiences showed great tasie-and discernment in applauding the aurustic phrasing at singing «ef the arte jats—in tuct, the tout ensemble, He so stated emphatically) ut a dinner given bim at the time at the Lotos Club. samo opinion tu-day. Ho tuereforo feels perieatiy contident ta presenting to the American public one of the most complete operatic ensembics that has ever Visited this continent,” THE PRIMA DOSNA. “Did you Gersier, tue prima donns, and Cam- Panini, the tenor, before leaving? How do they feel wbout coming to 4 new country.’ My fatuer entertains the “You mast remomber that Gerster is married to Dr. Gardu neminont doctor. ol music “and a well koown Ituiian impresario, He was her <page Manager betore marriage. He does not like. ocean! all, but is cocdingly anxious bis wife’s success, und to see whether sho not ple: the Americans as well ag Nilss Lucca. Last season Christine Nilsson was not i gaged in London; bor place was taken by Gorstdr, and the London pubiic fully appreciated the change. She 16 quite anxious to come wad ts satisied that she will meet here witu the success she had jo St. Peters burg, Vienna, Beriin aud London. She ia of the Dionde Marguerite type, Das great mobility of feazure and 14 by ail odds u greater actress thay Christine Nilsson. Campan: you are aware, knows the He nivasiastic about bis retura to where huving been quite tri- 1s being brought satistactory to Are “You: that 18 the reason he was not harry to come aatil the eutire company leare:. M7 jetaate , tbinks of bringing over a good chef d'dttaque, to take the baton alter Arditl, Whsuever + sion requires. Ho may bring twochofs, 80 as Lo as: Arditi ag much us possivie, You hus no doabt x) beurd of the infant prodigy we bave In tue shape ol a pianiste, ouly seven years of age. Sne bas played be- fore the Queen, the Priuce ‘rincess of Wales, and also before ruch as Costa, Benedict, Hatio and rane tand that tho orch Kuhe, They w amozed at her periormances, ORUS. “We hav coming over, all of a are under the ey ure near; Iualiags, when they w go to Am America really was, but quito the largest numoer cured but little ubout America’s geograpur tion and were sausfed, as they had beard hat there wero clear, biu« ltatjan skies, under which they could sing With a8 much iospiration as in their native land, There are somo ex- cellent bass voices among them. Tnelr chiof Tellauce rests upon a mau named Signor Angeio, who bas visited this country with Ristori and Titieas, He kaows all about New York aud how their Southern nd apport cau be satis! T am told he clly where to ubtain pienty of maccaroat Flic at po) ulur prices in your American city.” PREMIRK "Yes, so itis. in uuvance to fill up the space: aware that my father bas establ dancing in London, where he brings up young enti dreu trom the re, 80 10 speak, into a position where ut th AS, twelve ey can Jair ipeome for themselves, and time receive u tolerably good education, ever, Lucy ure mostly juventies from six to years’ of aye it woald look somewhat out of Place to bring u valiet of diflerent sizes over. Francesca 18 going to Hil Up with 4s much talens and beauty— | ‘pretiy girls, as you call them—as pe city. dia thie T do’ not think he will bave mucti aiffculty ia ig What he wants. Our premizre danse: “ graceful daucer ot the day, woman of the true Italiag 1 named Marte Muller, @ London Academy of Daucing, ranks with Cavalazzias un exceliont dancer, 18 of Hert Mlle. Cavaluzzi, the im She ts a very hand: New York now, mea in London, that child promises to be a Tag! ooe of tuose days—a place which has been kopt vacant too long. Io the courso of tne reason hope to give a ovallet on short opera bigots between tho acts, so t ing’s cntorta:n:nent will mot fleg ia the least, Alto. gether we will bring out eight principal dansouses and one little voy, Who belongs to the In wiitile picco called “Les Papillons’’ (che butter. fle ), composed by Mine, Langer, the ie strengto of ibe batiet, numbering about thirty persons, will D represented." ondon Academy. THE LEADING ARTISTS. “Can you give the HekALv tbe names of your lead ing singers?” “We will issue @ prospootus in a very few days Still, 1 have 20 objection to give you some of the lead not the ing hames, Soprani—Gorster, Hauk (she does spell Ler name with wc pow), Saila and 3} latter a new addition not bereotor Contraitos—Trometit and Lal wicce of the great Labia | pt Bet. tint, Frappolt. Bassi—Det 2, Pyatt aud Fo i, the latter 1s of American extr: 28 anour mx.’? “Your first opera wil 4 Sonpamobule,’ will it Mi id < ‘show the pub- id passages in which she excels, 1s bound to,make w hit here. The ‘La Lyrae ong the purt of Am! the woaderlul ‘Carmen,’ howev: music ts bright and sparkling throughout, and Minnie Hank acts with that che peculiar ovly to French aod Awerican women, Uampaniol realy sarpasses him. ‘The climax of the fight aod when by Probably you are pot ‘B, was written by Bizet, wi brought out in Pare 1b 1876, and that the yo thor, whose previous work had gained bim little or no opalarity, sadd awoke to find bimself tamo ¢, poor foilow, vived the production of his piece but two months, 1 immense success baving compleiciy turned bis mind.” od after ‘Carmen ???? “‘Rovert Le Diable’ will also be among the early productions. Subsequent to this father will consult tue tasto of the American public aod produce what- ever appears uppermost in the desire ot the opera going pavlic, ‘Carmen,’ however, will have a tre- es eer} bn tt is jast what America wants’? "Your father will be here, then, dur week in October ?’? Rice or wie mr ‘Yes, anu 1 do not think be i delay long in open- land really ‘