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10 NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1878—QUINTUPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BFOADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR WEEKLY HERALD—One collar per year, tree of post- are. FROTICE TO. SU BSCRIB York or Post Office money 4 where neither of these can ve procured send the 'y i a reyistered letter All money remittes at risk of sender In order tw insure Attention subscribers wishing their address changed must heir pew wddress. Telegraphic despatches Must D. hd packager shonis be properly sealed, Rejected communications will net be returued. pa ea Sat PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. “ . LONDON OFFICE OF 1HE NEW YORK HERALD— DO. 46 FLEET oT REET. PARIs OF ICh—49 AVENUE DE L/OPERA. “American exhilator» at the International Exposition can have Men tier and addicased to the cure of our Paris NAPLES UFFICK—NO. 7 STRADA PACK, Snbscriptions ani aavertixemente will be received and lerwarded on the sume terms usin New York. ACADEMY OF MUSIC GRAND OPERA HOt NEW YORK aQuak ep Honsrs LYCEUM THEATRE—Josiva Wuitcomn, PARK THEATRE-Lotta. GILMORE'S GARDEN—Bauxow's Snow, ACADEMY OF DESIGN—Loay Exiuttion, FIFTH AVENUE WALL—Biaxp Tom GERMANIA THEATRE —Die Diet Lancuaunse BROADWAY THEATRE —Mxssatina. BOWERY THEATRE—Two Onraans. BOOTH’S THEATRE—Fuxacu Orena Bourre. WALLACK’S THEATR Rivas. UNION SQUAKE THEATR—Voruxr axp Sox STANDARD THEATR ca IONY PASTOWS THEATH AMERICAN INSTITU SAN FRANCI*CO MID HAYMARKET THERATH MEN, Kank or Savor 81. JAMES THEAT THEATRE COMIQUE—Vantety. CHICKERING ‘Tint0x's Lecture. BROAD sr, hiludelphia. QUINTUPLE SHERT. NEW YORK, SUNDA TOBER 27. 1878. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy or partly cloudy, with light rains, followed by falling temperature. To-morrow it will be colder and cloudy Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and strong. Gold was steady at 1003g, government bonds strong, States dull and railroads firm. Money on call was easy at 5 a6 a3 per cent. A Hien Jewtsn Iprar is ably presented in our abstract of Rabbi Jacobs’ sermon yesterday. Ovt-or-Door Sports were as numerous yes- terday as political games, and a great deal bealthier. A Larcre Never of bankruptcy cases have gone into the hands of assignees this week, but the mass yet awaiting the attention of registers is enormous. Two Morr Arrests have been made in the case of the great forged check imposed upon the Union Trust Company. If all the persons sus- pected in this affair are guilty the share which each one received of the ill-gotten money could hardly have paid for the risk incurred. Eprson’s Latest is a talking machine, which competent authorities pronounced perfect yes- terday. It is not expected to articulate dis- tinetly until about two years hence, but there | can be no possible doubt of ite volubility after that time—there never is abeut two-year-old babies. Where is tHat ‘‘Bioopy Cuasm” of which we have heard so much since the civil war? A gold mounted sword at the Cathedral fair is to be presented to the soldier for whom the greatest number of subscribers vote, and at present the gallant Confederate Joe Johnston not only leads the list but his vote exceeds those of all the ANOTHER ASSOCIATION is re- ported — this The impetus which Creedmoor has slowly but surely been giving to this diversion is making itself generally felt throughout the country this season ; so that it is not unlikely that the next American team in an international match will be representative of the whole country, instead of New York alone. morning. Ir Axy Preacurr has the parable of the loaves and fishes for his text to-day be might remind such office-seekers as are in his con- gregation that the age of miracles is past and that only about five thousand were fed by the supernatural distribution anyhow, whereas a far greater number are now looking hungrily toward the seanty public larder, and the very reverse of divinity is trying to manage the affair. Tue Natioxnar Linerat League, which opened ita second ‘national congress” yester- day, has ent ont enough work to busy ordinary mortals a great deal longer than the short time which the congress proposes to consume. Per- haps thisi# the reason why topics aggressively moral are so inconspicuous in the list; besides, liberalism (so entled) is generally too busy in finding fault with organized morality to devise any reepectable substitute, As Exrness Messencer, and later Jndge Otterbourg, interfered yesterday with the plans of one of the despicable women who traffic in the lives of young girls. Whatever may be the issue of this particular case, it is certain that innocent girls constantly being Inred or toreed to ruin by women as characterless and heartless us Satan. Society should be on the lookont for such wretches carefully as any other thiev d watch them as and murderers. Tue Weatner.—The general barometric pressure continue mean, but a rela- tively low area oceurs iv the region from the lower Jakes southwestward. In the Northwest the high pressure continues and extends across the Rocky Moun North Paeifie const. Rains light snows have fallen in the Upper Missouri Valley avd toward the lakes. Elsewhere the weather been dry and in the Eastern districts clear or fair. nove the ains toward the and has The temperature is bigh along the Atlantie | const, but falls rapidly westward and north westward of the Central and Upper Mississippi valleys. A special cable despateh from London announces the exact fulfilment of our pre- diction of a storm for the British and Freneb coasts for the 26th. It is sutisfactory to know that the foolhardy custom of going to sea, no matter what may be the danger threatening, does not prevail with all the French aud German and other captains. Prudence is the best seamanship when a storm is announced as approaching, and in observing it the commanders at Havre show a praise- Worthy consideration for their passengers and owners: ather in New York and its vicinity today will be warm and cloudy or partly cloudy, with, probably, light rains, fol lowed by falling temperavure. To-morrow it will be colder and cloudy. The ¥ Remit in drafts on New | 0. 3 00 | in the Municipal at. | The True Issue ¢ | Every local election deepens our convic- 1 | | | | tion that it is idle to expect any substantial improvement in our municipal government so long as the affairs of this city are made subordinate to the polities of the State and the nation, As one step toward effecting a separation the Heraxp has strenuously ad- voeated for many years the holding of our municipal elections in the spring of the | | year, when no other political contests are pending. Governor Tilden’s Municipal Com- mission adopted this, among their other rec- ommendations having the same tendency, but, although aiming in the right direction, they overshot the mark by recommending a | different basis of suffrage in municipal elec- | | tions. There can be no question that such a change would contribute to that divorce of city politics from general politics which all enlightened and impartial judges think | | necessary, but it was nevertheless a blunder for the Municipal Commission to embody it in their plan, Their deep sense of the im- portance of the end led them to underrate the difficulty of restricting the suffrage, and this error caused the defeat of their | whole plan. But how strong must have been their conviction of the necessity of the divorcee when they ventured to recommend a different rule of suffrage a means of separating city from general politics! The failure of their plan in consequence of this blunder | has thrown us back into the same condition in which we stood several years ago when | the Henazp began the agitation for a spring | election as a means of rescuing our city government from the maelstrom of general politics. Although we have thus far been rolling the stone of Sisyphus we shall never give over our efforts for municipal regeneration by the only method which can ever be effectual, which is a separation of city from State affairs. The necessity for such a divorce is so self-evident that a mere statement on the subject is as good as an argument. The duties of a» Mayor, City Judge or Board of Aldermen have no legitimate connection with questions of State or na- tional administration. Candidates for mu- nicipal offices should go before the people on the sole ground of their personal merits. The only questions should be, Are they fit? Have they the requisite moral and intellec- tual qualifications? Unfortunately candi- dates are rarely selected with a sole view to their integrity and capacity. The ques- tion is not so much how they would dis- charge the proper duties of their respective stations as what effect their election will have upon the scheming of Senator This for Governor or Governor That for Presi- dent, or the control of the Legislature by this or that political party. As it is the tendency in such matters to de- generate more and more our municipal election has at Jast sunk into a contest for the control of the next Democratic State Convention, As to candidates for minor city offices their merits or demerits are quite lost sight of in the absorbing contests of conspicuous characters who play fora higher stake. The application of these remarks to pend- ing controversies in this city as to who shall be Mayor, City Judge and District At- torney is sufficiently obvious. Look be- neath the mere surface of this controversy and what.appears? Why, Governor Tilden onthe one side and Comptroller Kelly on the other, each scheming and striving for the control of the democratic organiza- tion of the State, with a view to make ita potent force in the Presidential elec- tion. Whether Mr. Cooper would make a better Mayor than Mr. Schell, or Mr. Cowing amore impartial judge than Mr. Bedford, or Mr. Phelps an abler District Attorney than Mr. Smythe is not the real question at all. The true issue is seen to be that Tilden, a self-defeated candidate tor the Presidency, is anxious to defeat Kelly, the autocrat of T:immany, in whatever Kelly may desire to do, because the defeat of Kelly means the control of all the city as power and patronage by Mr. ‘Tilden and his supporters for State or national purposes. Admit that Mr. Tilden has also the interests of the city at heart (and we desire to be very courteous and considerate in speaking of Mr. Tilden), that will not change the fact that a false issue is put before the people. It makes little difference whose puppet the Mayor is if he isto bea puppet. It is of no consequence whether he is labelled Schell or Cooper or Punch or Judy. The reasonable part of the public is contemptuously indifferent whether Mr. Kelly pulls the strings to his Punch or Mr. Tilden pulls the strings to his Judy. It is equally a farce either way. What the public wants is an opportunity to vote for responsible candi- dates on their personal merits, for candi- dates who will be really responsible to the people and bear true alleziance to them, and not to either Tilden or Kelly. Men who are nominated on a combination ticket, merely because they are pledged to use their power in behalf of Mr. Lilden for President, or Mr. Green for Comptroller, or Mr. Somebody for Police Commissioner, are not the sort of candidates our citizens can ever support with heartiness or enthu- sinsm as against men nominated by Tam- many from no higher motives. Now, what ye desire at this time is to strip away the thin veil of disguises and placo beiore the people the trae issue, Why is it better to elect Mr. Cooper Mayor in order to carry out some private purpose of Mr. Tilden than to make Mr. Schell Mayor in order to perpetuate the power of | Tammany? If that is the sole qnestion to | be answered, are there not some good rea- sons for supporting Schell rather than | Cooper? Ifthisis merely a row between | Mr. Tilden and Mr. Kelly what has the | pnblie to gain by fastening that row upon | the local administration ot our city affuirs? Would not the result be a mere revival of | the discord and mutual obstructiveness that existed in our municipal government | | under Mr. Green? It must be borne in | that Mr. Kelly will continue to hold the office of Comptroller until near the | | end of the next Mayor's term, and thata per | | petual jangle between the Mayor and Comp- mind | sition? troller in the Board of Apportionment would | realize General Grant's figure of hitching half the team at each end of the wagon to pull against one another and waste their strength. Objectionable as Mr. Kelly is as a party manager it is the general verdict of the public that he makes a good Comp- troller, and since his term does not expire until near the end of the term of the next Mayor, is it for the advantage of the city that its two most important officers shall be at loggerheads for the greater part of two years in order to afford Mr, ‘Tilden a desperate chance of recovering his lost con- trol of the democratic organization of the State? Would it not be easier to fix respon- sibility for bad government with the Mayor and Comptroller in harmony than if the city government were blocked and par- alyzed by their mutually obstructive oppo- May it not be better to leave the whole municipal government in the hands of one party and see what will come of it? At least we should then know where to fix the responsibilty for bad government. The Henarp is on record as a stanch and persistent opponent of Tammany’s dicta- torial power, and of its practice of putting forward mere puppets for the suffrages of the people. The Henaup is always ready to unite with its contemporaries in such a cause. Butit will not lend itself to any scheme for deceiving the people when the only real issue is a choice of dictators, Against most of the candidates on both tickets we have nothing to say, there being no such conspicuons difference between the two as would justify any citizen in blinking the real issue. A Crush of Advertising. For several weeks we have been compelled to publish the Sunday issue of the Henatp in quintuple form, consisting of twenty pages of closely printed matter, in order that the demands of the advertising public might be fully met. Each successive Sun- day we have printed from fifty to sixty columns of advertisements, ranging from two lines each to nearly a page, until to-day we present our readers with no less than seventy-three columns of notices, embracing every branch of trade and mercantile necessity. Taken as a ba- rometer of the condition of business in this city—and there can be no better one—these twelve pages of solid type show that the fall trade is in a most prosperous con- dition, though it has probably not yet reached its maximum. The Heratp to-day is an evidence of the progress of the age. Business men in these days are not content to wait behind their counters for custom- ers, but they go out into the world and by the aid of the newspaper cry out their wares to thousands upon thousands of people who can be reached in no other way. That it is profitable to advertise is shown by the steady increase of such no- tices, and it has now become one of the maxims of mercantile life that success in business can only be attained by judicious and persistent use of the columns of the daily paper. ‘Though so large a share of our space to- day is cceupied by advertisements the im- mense size of the quintuple Herarp en- ables us to give all the news of the world by telegraph over the land and by cable under the sea. This is the invariable policy of the Henarp; for, while we are willing to afford the public an opportunity to increase their business or supply their wants, we never tail to make the Heratp an epitome of the time by noting all the leading events of the day, no matter where they may happen or what expense is necessary to obtain the news. - Judicial Nominations, Of all the leaders of the ‘‘combination” only ex-Sheriff O'Brien has shown a proper appreciation of the judiciary. Judge Bed- ford being nominated on the Tammany ticket, and being an undoubtedly fit and proper man for the City Judgeship, Mr. O'Brien proclaimed in advance that, whether he was nominated also on the “combination” ticket or not, he would in any case support him. This course of Mr. O'Brien is manly and commendable, and we are sorry the other lenders of the ‘‘com- bination” did not take the same high ground, They ought to have placed Jndge Bedford on their ticket, and thus shown that, while for merely political offices they would make a contest, they would not drag the judiciary into politics if they could help it. There was no occasion or excuse this time for their nomination of a candidate for City Judge, for the Tammany candidate is an unexceptionable man. Judge Bedford has filled the office to the general satisfaction already ; he was an impartial and conra- geous judge, of high character; his con- duct in refusing to bail Tweed gained him general and deserved public approbation ; and we had hoped that the ‘‘combination” leaders would see the wisdom of indorsing his nomination, as formerly the nomina- tions of Judges Daly and Brady were in- dorsed under similar circumstances, 6o that there might be no political contest over the judiciary. We say nothing against the combination candidate for the City Judgeship, but it was a mistake to nominate him. Judge Bed- ford has and deserves the support of all good citizens who know him. He is in every way fitted for the important duties of the place. He ran ahead of his ticket the last time he was before the people, and he will do so again, because it is very well known that the chief opposition to him now comes from certain old triends of Tweed, who labor for his deteat because when ho was City Judge be‘ore he made it hot for the Ring rascals. But such opposition is an honor to him and must win him many votes. The combinn tion leaders would gain public credit for sincerity if even yet they would withdraw their candidate and put Judge Bedford on their ticket. Monsieur Anderson Come Again, When the Potter Committee summoned James Anderson, of Louisiana, the Henatp thoroughly exposed the man's character and warned the democrats that his evi- dence, no matter what must be worthless, and the fact that they used him as a witness would injure them. We may as well warn the republicans in their turn, for Anderson has just offered himself to it was, them. They had better not touch him. Nobody has ever believed what he said, and nobody will believe him hereafter. “The Prophetic Conference.” This is the title given to a Conference which is to meet in this city next Wednes- day to discuss certain promises and prophecies connected with the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is -in fact, though not in name—a convention of Second Adventists. The believers in this doctrine as a fact of prophecy are numer- ous in all the churches; they differ, how- ever, in details, ‘There is a scattered church organization in this land based upon this doctrine, but they affect to fix times and dates for an event of which Christ Himself said that no man could know the day nor the hour of His com- ing; that it is an event known only to God. There is another, but a very small class of Adventists who firmly believe that Christ came, according to the Scriptures, A, D. 70, when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Koman army under Titus. They insist that His coming is spiritual, and not visi- ble, and that “the sign of the Son of Man in heayen” was seen at that time. Another class of believers, also spiritualizing the Saviour’s appearing, assert that He comes personally to every believer in the hour of death, and that this is the second coming affirmed and prophesied of in the Scriptures. These are called non-evangeli- cal by the evangelicals. But besides the foregoing there are two other divisions of this grand army of Ad- ventists who divide themselves into pre- millennialists and post-millennialists. The difference between them is simply one of time—a thousand yeurs only. ‘Those who shall convene in this city on Wednesday hold the former view. They are the pes- simists, and those who hold the other view are the optimists of the doctrine. The pre-millennialist believes that Christ will be visible to His saints, whom He will gather into the air as Enoch, Elijah and Jesus Himself were caught up. The pre-millennialist bases his belief on more than three hundred texts of Scripture which refer to Christ’s second coming, The chief trouble with the inter- pretations of this class, however, is their confusion of two advents spoken of in the Bible. During the period of one thousand years, when Christ is to reign on the earth, true religion will spread until the world will in the main be converted. This theory of the advent is not new. Puapius, Justin Martyr, Irenwus, ‘Iertullian, and other fathers of the Church tanght it. Luther and Bengel ; Edward Irving, the founder of the Catho- lic Apostolic Church, and William Miller, the leader of the Miller- ites, taught it, the latter, however, in an exaggerated form. Dr. Cumming, of London, has aided to bring the doctrine into ridicule by fixing so many dates for the coming of Christ, not one of which for the last thirty years of his prophesying has proved correct. In another column of the Henatp will be found interesting letters on this Conference from eminent Christian ministers in different parts of the country. Sharp Kuives and Dull Eyes. The stabbing of Alderman Morris is the second case of attempted assassination by stabbing that has happened within a month. The affair of the woman who was brutally stabbed in St. Francis Xavier's Church was clearly one of mistaken identity, and a similar theory is the only one which appears plausible to the wounded Alderman or any one acquainted with him. These two cases illustrate distinctly the utter blindness of rage that is strong enough to be murderous, and thus indicate with new force the severity with which all persons convicted of dangerous assaults should be treated. A curious fact in connection with the Morris case is that for several years tho Alderman has been endeavoring to have the Board force the gas companies to keep the street lamps lighted until sunrise. As he walked np Sixth avenue yesterday morning the lights had been extinguished, although it was not yet daylight, and the darkness which he has striven to prevent was the principal shield of the would-be assassin. The only present clew to a theory other than that of mistaken identity consists of 1 threat dropped by one of a gang of pick- pockets arrested in Sixth avenue last week and committed, the Alderman being on the bench with the committing magistrate, that they would ‘‘fix” Morris. The vindictive- ness and cowardice of the attack were fully in keeping with the nature of this order of vermin. Ruin in Glasgow. Onur special cable despatch continues the story of the Glasgow calamity. In Scot- land, as in England, there are two sides to the relation of shareholders with the banks in which their money is invested, in which respect shareholders in those countries are less fortunate than 1n some others, In some countries the sharchulders pocket enormous profits in the days of prosperity—profits that return the fall value of their shares three or four times over in ten years—-and their loss is limited to the value of the shares if calamity comes. ‘‘Limited” liability is also enjoyed in Great Britain by companies organized under the terms of the act for that purpose, but where not so protected the shareholder who enjoys the abuan- dant profits of prosperity must him. self stand the brunt of calamity and answer to the extent of his means for the dishonest use of his capital and the credit based upon it. It will require upward of thirteen millions of dollars to make up the deficiencies in the accounts of the Glasgow Bank, and that sum of money must be paid by two hundred and forty-four persons who are holders of shares to the amount of one thousand pounds snd over. Small holders are ruined already by the loss of their shares, and have no property with which to respond, and the rich holders must therefore pay for all. From two men named in onr special the percentage de- manded on the shares will take more than half a million dollars each. -If on the first call less is realized than has been counted upon, then those whose fortunes hold out will be taxed even more than the sum now laid uvon them, Safety of the Flerence. Since the announcement was made that the Arctic schooner Florence, under the command of the now famousCaptain Tyson, had left St. John, N. B., on her return to the United S:ates, the gravest fears have been entertained for her safety. The tem- pestuous weather that has been experienced on the North Atlantic during and since the latter half of September added to the doubts that the Florence would ever reach port, A difference in the reported dates of her sailing from St. John made it difficult to deter- mine her position during the recent storms, so that the alarming rumors in circulation regarding the vessel passed freely {from mouth to mouth without any contradiction. The arrival of the Florence at Provincetown Harbor, Mass., leaking badly, and with an exhausted and almost starving crew, shows how great has been her escape from destruction, and must cause the utmost gratification to the many friends of the gallant ‘lyson and his crew. After encountering the terrors of the Arctic storms among the ice and being reduced to the last extremity by the failure of the pro- visions the safety of the party is now a certainty. Indeed, our reports describe the men as being in good health and spirits. Our special despatch giving an outline nar- rative of the cruise, which we print to-day, will be read with the deepest inter- est, as it shows the calibre and resources of a man who has been the hero of many peril- ous adventures in the icy Arctic seas, Few ean forget the terrible drift on the ice of Tyson and his party who were separated from the Polaris on the return voyage after Captain Hall’s death. The experiences of this last voyage have not been less trying and filled with danger. We must there- fore heartily congratulate Captain Tyson and his companions on their return to the United States. They have performed their duty nobly. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, How politicians can lie! Butler will soon discover that the flat’s in the fire, Mr. Gladstone, betore making a long speech, takes sherry and egg. Some of the drinking saloon keepers in Now Jorsoy ‘sre in a tight place. “Lawn Teaolsonians” is what tbe poet of the Lon- don World calls‘ them. Simmons is a drummer for a Western house. always receipts bis bills *‘per Simmons.”? A Dew singer just annouoced {8 a Mr. Fish, or ashe will be billed, Signor Ficht. He is probably a bass, When a man writes hisname with an X we sup- pose that X equals the unknown quantity miaus why. Old song:— He 0 what can the m: Hayes is so long at the fairs? Mre. Langiry, the London beauty, is to have two of her portraits exbibited at the next Academy exbibi- ton. Webb C. Hayes, accompanied by the administra- tion, will visit unother county fair to Maryiand this week. A Pennsylvania exchange says thatthe democratic party is going to have a grand kick-up. You mean hick-op. Queen Victoria has conferred the Order of St. Michael and St. George upon Hon. © A, P’. Pelletier ana T. C. Keefer, the Canadien Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition. While Rev. W. H. H. Murray was entertaining a party of ladies and gentiomen from Boston on Friday with duck shooting on Long Island Souna, in Con- necticut, his gun burst, badly shattering nie right hand, it is feared 1t will have to be amputated. AMUSEMENTS. be, PARK THEATRE—LA CIGALE. 'd known as Lelia de Latour,.....Lotta jek Kol Count de Hopp Edgar, Viscoun Careasonne, Manager and Clown of the Limperi Bi Bi, Vere! Filoche, Lig ial Circus, r. Ke Countess 0 ccc cMes. Chine Aueie, « Parisinn eoquette, aflerward a model Misy Aun| No. 6. M No. 7 Sree Av adaptation of a fanciful dramatic conceit by those experienced playwrights, Messrs. Meiinac & Halevy, was presented fur the first time here last night, with Sliss Lotta in the titie ré/e, La Cigale, Messrs, Metl- hac & Halevy never lent their names to a more trivial piece of work than this so-called coo- ceit.? The plot may be summarizea ina very tew words, Ihe Countess do Lxtour having lost her only daughter during her tntancy ascertaius that sho ts living and 18 pursaing the calling of » circus per former with an itinerant company. She sends her at- torney to follow up the clew, and, alter ex- amining various applicants, be finds the missing heiress in the person of La Cigale, who bas fled from her too amorous macager, She has beca protested trom further insults trom {bis mao by Marigoan, ao artiat, and, naturally enough, falls in love with ber protector, wno is, however, quite uncon has inspired, his devotion upon ot Mariguan, and a terribe qu thrown out of a buat imo to a realizing sense of Cigale, who bas by ber cards 18 cinted by (hix discovery. Sno denounces Ades who leaves the chateau of the Countess, where the wrecked boating party have taken shelter, jollowod by Marignan and Micha. Carcusonne, woo turns ap atthe cod as the good genius of La Cigale, beings ber to the staato oF M under having the portrait of bright nod seldom reflned. mov ot aud the characterization weak. The charucter ut Lu Cigale tho name (‘The Grassbopper’) suggest that the authors contenipiuted av extravagant ovo: eorge Sands’ creation of “ihe Cricket.” ous purpose they may have bed bow. 1 allogotber lost im the Kiglisn version, 1s simply @ variety farce, serving & jo imifodacing Lotta’ specialues of which purpuse bavjo pinylng, jix dancing, buriesque singin like, All of ths 18 vastly diverting $0 poople who go bo (u@ theatre merely (o be winased, and Lotta’s rol. 1 cking periormanee red nimuly throacn her rometime ed with uprorious de: woliment oF toe part s ing to portray, The support, so ta M neerned, Wus better thun emed pitiable to see an Sind such surrounuings, performance the bit of tue Beuvety , entirely misconceiving the character. erobatic brio we Marbio, Bradley and Percy, give '& good imiuation of Mr. Sothern aw the Viscount, The lvdies of the company were tube in tue slender ries useigned to them, The play was weil mounted, save the bad taste displayed in the kaletdoscopic colors of the upholstery in the second uct, which quite rained the effect of ihe elegant totlet worn by ihe Countens, There was ® Jarge audience im attendance Inst night, and Lotta was ened before the curtain afer each wet, The piece will probably achieve « popular succoss and 4 good ran. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—‘'LA TRAVIATA.” Signor Frapolli wees DIRHOF Gatassi cbignor Fennee: Signor Biznardi <ignor Grane Signor Py act <dienor Bott Mie, Kobintt Mile. Filomena Minuie Hawk Tho frat 8 Halian Ope eta Company drew an exe audience, principally Of ladies, to the Academy of Masic yesterday alter ee noon. The performance was even smoother and more satielactory 2 when the same opera, ‘I! Traviata,” Was given onthe opening more at their ease and ia betier understanding with the orchestra, Dramatically, the réle of Violetta in “Ll Traviata® Must be an annoying one tos prima donna, for ite actual idemtity with the part of ‘Camille’? pro vokes constant comparisons {a the minds of the audt- ence, whereas the diflerences in tho stage Opportunities of the two heroines are largely in favor of tbe latter, Yet Mies Hauk yesterday cellent acting when occasion allowed, 4 appreciated by those who realized that the piece was an id not wholly a play. Ia Vooulizution she st evenly excuileat {rom be- ginning 10 only a single flatted noe intruded itself unple hoarers, walle she was entirely equa! to the dei Yet aiMculs vocal trag- ments with whieh the score for the heroine avounds Contrary to the expectation of those who had noted her u im Carmen,” sbe failed to render the aria Sempre Lib with spirit whict the lines and music sugg: Her greates! ot tbe Audience, was in the duet with Germont ta the second act, alihougn botter work appeared in the last act. Frapolli as Alfredo, sang as charmingly as over, though frequently wituout sufficient teres, while Galazzi was thoroughiy satisfactory as Germont, the favorite arta, ‘11 Provenzs, ” casiou of a reoall. The chor to Le still weilin band, the gratitude of h good singing marred aod ruived by uniticellr; strum *ntul accompaniment, One of the pactially down in the third act, ag if to ities of the death scene, but suce THE OLD COMEDIES aT WALLACK'’S. October brings a gift 1n its train as dear to some of us as its cloar, bright mornipgs of sunlight Srappé and its companionable evening over the Orst fre, Entbustasiic lovers of the drama bave been kouwa leave the autumn delights of Newport or the placid beauties of the blue intee rior lakes to come and see one of the good old comad! which at this time, almost ry year, aot Wallack’s, make the commencement of tne orthodox theatric:! season and there are fow such who would not, tothe loves of Mr, Hardecastie “oid friends, old times, old mauners, old books, old wine” add vld comedy at Wallack’s, To the more ree fined of our playgoors these classic comedies are aa ever recurring pleasure. They look on them with to the same delighted smile with with which they read a favorite ode of Horace, or listen, ag on the otner evening, a to the “Nozze di Figaro” of Mozart. fo the more uneducated public regard them ewhat of the tevling of that Mayor of Strat. who, in @ speech at the time of tne |, Said, “1 do not know a great deal about soure, but L tbink itrightto keep him up tor the good of the town,” In truth, it is good to kees up these old comoutes at Waliuck’s as schoi art io which young and ambitious actors may tind for their study the resourcet of the very highest development of the dramatic art apd a stage business whicn, inherited irom the original, bas been transmitted from one great repro sentative to auother, receiving like the ivory of tne statue of Pygwulion, some tresh beauty In each new successive touch. jor the works by It is good to Keep them up induite delight, unbroken like weaker time or repetitiea, which they ait. intetligent of people and % that New York im which these old, { tnd «complete and perfect represeu- good even to keep them up im gravetul senso of tho services renuered to art umoug us by who the elder country a native x improved by lab In that nighest school vf that Wailack, and under the eye of th: of comedy, Sueridau, who ma: institution of our country. Ludeea, tue stage w avery low state of degradation when Mr, Wallack frst ut the old theatre in Broome street undertwok its renovation. Even the talent avatiabie bad lost ali force and eifect for the want of that rare artistical combination wuich, us experience bas since SvOWD, Cav alone set it Jorth to edvaDlage, Aad this was the first and most cssential requisite breught by Mr. Walluck to Dis tne a By combining scatiered talents in a comple! 3 of cast, by new and application of — the art trictly ‘apgement 4, he for the al spirit of pach play inte Ol each performance. Hoe ound je welcome, Ils pliu was not under. stood, and, save from the New York Heraup, he ro- ceived but scanty and churiish assistance from those whose duty it should have been to deciare %& to the puviic, The public, however, in-me fount it out ‘The circle of his audiences became grad ly wider of “ne Sebvol tor Scaudai” or apy other olu uy in the play bilis was suillcient to rally crowds of eaper anit delighted appreciators, And from Wat huur these oid comedies seemed to bee long to tue eluer Wallack waile living and to be ine heriied at bis death by tbe present, the younger Wal- luck by divine right, 60 mach experience, so much love, #0 much tase hove they expended on thei We suy | ““they,’’ for it ts well Known that Mr. Les: ‘allack hus mot only irom the start beon nis iasher's avie i Girst minister, but that during the closing years of 10 118 ound Held wholly the laboriug oar. In- sensivio was the eluer Wallack of irom vanity was nis pride but ho often conveyed. 1n spi juts in the mouth of Mor were we are grat of the towu,” as the worthy Mayor of Stratiord would ay, those Old comedies uightly continuing, even af this period Of theatrical depression, to draw full Now that ihe starring #ysem absoris ale ry artist whose eur rises for the moment the levet of tue other coro in the feid we know not how long we may ve Abie to enjoy them. The prospect beiore us is dreary, jor second rate comedy is triste, Not even the wit aod vivacity of Sheridan aud Congreve and Far can «harm from the mouth oi a dull opera Pluyer; we sco the grub insiead of the buttertly, ihe race of generous uumorists, whether in oid fellows fine geatie tb bred galiant, full of spirit and viv, of 4 mau ot sou and the world an Eimsoo a Char Kemble. also a young \ Doricours or Young Rapiu obo Gilbert, cau we find the Vid e Sir Peser Teazie, tne Lord Ogievy? All tl ure but the mummies of an old beau. 1m the female cast more drst race artists cau ve found, but Miss Rose Coghlau seema to possess that Joyous flow of animal spirits, the giltot Bature aud bue product of art waco 14 not piped from a reservoir but leaps from a spring which bas been a stranger to the stage sincy (bat jocuud soul, Mra. Nisbett. So let us crown, tnen, the seasou of comedy at Wailae! with crowds, aud be lovers of Ane good oid come: MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr. and Mrs. J. C, Willtamson commence thotr ene gégement in this city pext week, Mr. Theodore Tilton delivers a lecture on “Hoart’s. Kase’’ at Chickering Hall to-morrow evening. Attho Grand Opers House the second of Gilmore's popuiar con s will be givem to-night. Levy, the cornetist, Mile, Buzzetti, Mile, Montezo and Mr. A. Ry Carrington, the drummer boy, are smnong ,the por- formers in addition to the famous band. The tragedy in five acts by Adolph Wilbrandt, en- vitled ‘““Arria aod Messalina,’’ will be performed at the Germania Theatre to-morrow (Monday) evoning; aiso on Tuesday and Thursday. Owing to a mass meeting in fammany Hall this theatre will ve closed on Wednesday. Costa’s grand musical drama, “ine Corporal,”’ in five acts, will be performed on Fri- day and Saturday evenings of this wees. “Die Dret Langhacnae’” has kep: the stage of the Germania daring (he past week. The second representation of “Carmon’’ will be given atthe Academy of Music to-morrow, night vy Mr. Mapieson’s opera company, with the same cast ou the inaugural night) Mr. Mapiee son's jatest addition 18 to be an organ, whien is now being built by Roosevelt. ‘fhe bass has been i sed mn Order to Kain more effect and give the true pitch. This orgen will be vet up in the leit band corner of the stage, “Unrmen" will also be re. pented ov Wodnesday. The receipts at the matings yosterday were over $4,000. Vio Ball appears in Poiladelphia to-morrow night for the first time since his revurn to America, The voterap violinist was never in better form, and during his absence in various countries of Europo has se cured much of the and popular music that is giving pleasure in the great European musical coutres, No member of whe protession po oa such an extensive répertoire, or witu greater image betic power can catch (he public ear and toucn the public beart, He will oot reach New York uot about tho middie of November, whou we shall aaa listen to the exquisive cunning of the art which since 1831 Ole Ball bus everywhere made familiar, Mrs, Jobn T, Raymond (Marie Gordon) will produce “pat Lass 0’ Lowr: "a dramatizition of Mra Burnett's popular novel, made by Mr, Julius Magnus, tn Phuadolptia to-morrow night, Mre, Kay mond bag paid Mra, Barnett a handsome sam for the right to produce thie play iu America. 1t wil] be rombered that {t bad @ saceessial run in Kngiand last exson under the name of “Liz,’’ and that Charles Reade has ma alization eatitled ‘Joan’? tor Miss Rose ‘The company about to produce the play is A Birong One, and ewbraces among other woll kKaown of Junias Bratas Booth, Willem Davidge aod Geraldine Maye, Mre, Raymond will onact tue role o{ Joan,

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