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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1882.

We observe that there are no less than 23 retired Colonial Bishops living in England at the pre- sent time. This would appear to indicate that a colonial bishopric is a most desirable thing.

was no reason, if it was incumbent for the French to assume a more active control over the administration of affairs in Annam (which we do not by any means admit), why this could not have heen effected in a regular, diplomatic, and peaceful manner, and everything that has transpired since justifies this conclusion. As might be expected we have been at variance with our local contemporaries an$539,000,000. this, as we are on most important questions.

civilisation.

TELEGRAMS.

The following Reuter's telegram, which las been delayed by interuptions on the Indian lines, was received this morning-Mr. Gladstone zanounces that the British policy in Egypt is the maintenance of existing rights and the où- tainment of guarantees.

WE read that the three great, ports of the world are London, Liverpool and New York, During 1880 they reached their highest trade figures, the imports being at London about $700,000,000, Liverpool $600,000,000 and New

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Tute libel case Daniel Edward Bandmann, WE would remind our readers that the officers of tragedian, &c., versus Robert Fraser-Smith, pro- the Buffs will give their first theatrical perform prietor of the Flugkong Telegraph, tanic on ance at the Garrison Theatre to-morrow (Satur- this afternoon at the Police Court before Mr. day) evening, when "Catching a Mermaid," and Wodehouse. The charges were two in number, "Little Tockilekins" will be produced. From -one for having, on the roth instant, unlawfully what we have learned, we are induced to the and maliciously published a certain defamatory belief that the Buffs are very strong in amateur libel of and concerning the complainant; and talent, so shall anticipate an enjoyable perform the second, for having, on the 14th inst, untar- Although it has not been publicly an fully published a certain defamatory libel of.nounced we presume that the fine band of the and concerning the same eminent personage. regiment will be in attendance, The public interest in the proceedings was tuani-

ance.

have expected that it possibly could be. Othello is a difficult tragedy to repressalt, in fact so diffi- cult as to be far beyond the power of any scratch company to do anything like adequate justice to its great merits as one of the grandest of Shake- spere's works. Still there were certain points in the performance now under review which deserve a word of praise. It was certainly a bold undertaking for a modern comedy actor like Mr. D'Orsay Ogden to attempt such an exacting, role as the Moor, and it speaks volumes for that gentleman's ability that he suc

The Consul for Ireland, graph. Mr. Ilandmann for whom he appeared assaulting the cook, The details of the case are Shakesperean tragic part-in many respects fol.

quite unfit for publication.

for we conceive the Press. in this part of SCENE-the lobby of the Hongkong Hotel;fested by the large number of residents present In a remanded case heard before Captain Thom-ceeded so well, in consistently carrying out a the world especially, have a higher duty to dramatis persane--the Consul for Ireland, notwithstanding the downpour, the sitting space set this morning, in which a cook was charged very scholarly and intelligent conception. We perform than to blindly follow the lead of Jones of Arkansas, and a third party-name available in the Court not being sufficient for with committing an indecent assault upon a little have scen-and read of--many different concep

unknown subject of discussion-the comments

half of those there. Mr. McKean, who, in- girl aged to years on the 23rd May-the charge tions of the character of Othello. It is stated unreasoning prejudice which so lamentably in the Telegraph on the China Mail's criticism structed by Mr. Wotton, appeared for the

was originally rape-the tables were furned upon that Edmund Kean made the Moor wildly fierce prevails in our midst, and to applaud acts of Romeo and Juliet. Johes of Arkansas, in a complainant, said he appeared in the case on

the girl's adopted father, a shopkeeper, who would half tiger, half hunan; Kemble appeared as of violence and wrong under the plea that weak treble, suggestive of a full hand: "But behalf of Mr. Dandmann, who he believed, land appear to have instigated the prosecution, the

a man of ripe age, completely carried away by they are furthering thereby the alvance of why can't the fail get somebody who knows complaint against Mr. Robert Fraser-Smith, the Cook being discharged, and the shopkeeper the violence of his passion, and in later days

something about acting, and who can write publisher and proprietor of the Hongkong Tele-

tined five dollars or to days' imprisonment for Phelps-whose Othello was probably his greatest decent English uracularly, and in a strongly marked American accent: "Wal, dont yer know, there aint so much to and Gult with in my friend Bain's journal. Its principles air solid, if its diction is a leetle faulty and it knows how to appreciate a Consul who knows his business. Now that fellow of the "Tallygraph," why he actually kant write a sentence in the Inglish langwidge korrectly, and he has no more respeck for a Consul than he has for a cheer-coolic. He is a complete fraud, boys, you bet. Now during the war, when I was on a raid I met jest. sich another literary fellow as As emergency meeting of St. John's Lodge, No. this Tallygraph man."—The conversation com- 618, 5.C., will be held at Freemason's Hall, Zet-menced at 8.30 and at 11.45 the Consult was still land Street, on Monday evening next, the toth eloquently defending the literary character of instant, at 8 o'clock for 8.30 precisely.

our evening contemporary, and relating his AFFAIRS in Morocco appear to be getting alam-senal experiences of the other literary fellow, ing A telegram from Marseilles, dated May whom he met "on a raid during the late war." 10th, says that the British Minister has been stoned by a mob of Moors. The Sultan of Morocco has imprisoned beqmen for being conn- ected with the outrage.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Twy fishermen, charged with the larceny from a boat at Causeway Bay, on the 14th instant, of sundry articles to the value of $20, and being and with fan daggers, were this morning committed for trial at the Supreme Court, by Mr. Wodehouse. The prisoners reserved their

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was an actor of some considerable repute, and had acted in some of the largest theatres in Lon- don and other places. He was only a mere passer-by here, and advantage had been taken of his presence to libel him in two articles in a way to bring him into ridicule and contempt and injure him in his profession. He would even speak stronger than that and say that the charges made against his cliem if they contained a tittle of truth were sufficient to render him fiable to criminal proceedings, and unfit to belong to re- spectable society or to the Club in London," the Garrick," to which he belonged. The case.came under 6 and 7 of Victoria cap.96, Section 3. Under that section, before he could read the news- papers containing the libel, it was necessary to prove the publication. Ordinance 2 of 1845, amended by 6 of 1862, provided for that. He handed in a copy of the declaration made A CERTAIN M. St. Genest writes to the Paris by Mr. Fraser-Smith at the Supreme Court Figura giving his experiences at Aldershot, and

as to his being the printer and publisher tells in pithy but humorous language the station of Ordinance 2 of 1844 to the effect of the paper, and referred his Worship to sec of his troubles. Says le: "Scarcely are the in- troductions at an end when, the dinner begins. that production of a copy duly attested was valid. the gentleman after the other drinks my health, After drawing attention to the title at the head to which reply by bowing and emptying my

of the two papers containing the alleged Khels glass, with the result that, may hosts numbering. Mr. McKean said he would show read the whole farty, my brain soon begins to grow somewhat of the two articles. The Magistrate having asked confused. The toasts--a fears) trial-commence..if the papers were put in on dath, Mr. Fraser I cannot understand a word of the English !

Smith said the publication was admited. Mr. bear round me, and my entertainers canact un-

McKean then proceeded to read the article and

lowed Kemble's ideal; whilst Macready repre- AFTER the Magistrate's decision in the Baudmann sented the character as an Arab of the days of the noon, the great tragedian was requested by Mr. Kean, Walter Montgomery, and Fechter more y. Fraser-Smith case at the Magistracy this after Abencerrages-elegant and chivalric. Charles

Parker, the First Clerk to step into his office to sign the document binding him to appear at the Edwin Booth, and Henry Irving have taken or less followed Macready, and Barry Sullivan,

Supreme Court on the 18th of July next. The Phelps, or rather the traditions of John Phillip famous actor had just left the office, where Mr. Kemble as their model, of course aktering and Fraser-Smith was signing a similar paper, and modernising many important points in that knowing that gentleman was there, he put on his stately actor's impersonation. Salvini, who has Shylock look of virtuous indignation and observed justly earned a great reputation by his powerful to Mr. Parker, "Must I go in where that black-and impressive acting as Othello, would appear guard-scoundrel is, referring of course to the to have followed the ckler Kean's conception, Editor of the Telegraph. This reniark was made the Italian actor's Moor being a narvel of savage in the presence of four gentlemen, three of them ferocity. Mr. 1'Orsay Ogden last night in many clerks in the Magistracy. An information was at parts reminded us strongly of Phelps, although once lodged, but the Magistrate could not see his of course lacking the extraordinary power, and way to issue a summons against the polite and

finished elocution of that grand old actor. This accomplished-member of the Garrick Club. We lack of power, and a somewhat jerky style of are debating within ourselves whether it is good election, are Mr. Ogden's worst faults. In all enough to sue Mr. Bandmann for defamation of other respects his Othello was an admirable im- him manners in another way. Naus Verrons. character, or if it would not be better to teach personation, evincing careful study, and a thorough appreciation of the lights and shades of the car- A HOME contemporary remarks that vegetarians was forcible if somewhat undignified, and he made acter. In his address to the Senators, Mr. Ogden. who believe that we ought to pass our lives in

the Meor appear more servile in his manners consuming cabbages, lentits, and leeks, and who towards his very noble and approved good are as terrified at the sight of a good porter-house masters" than was altogether consistent with the steak or loin chop'as a long-tailed mouse of a meaning of the lines. However, these are only Cheshire cat would do well to emigrate to minor faults, which could be easily eradicated, Morocco. In that favoured North African terri-

and which have little bearing on the intrinsic

the State has caught the 'repressive spirit, and derstand mine. The others drink the health of paragraph, commencing with that of tortory vegetables grow apace, and are produced merits of one of the best representations, from an may be relied upon to co-operate with San Fran- the Emperor Napoleon, to which I respond with June on "Tragic Power." The reading of all the year round. The gentle, harmless potato artistic standpoint, of the present season.

this by the learned barrister created sonic amusement.

He said it would be hardly necessary to prove its connection with the next article as various repetitions, &c. would be found in the latter. He then read the paragraph of 14th June, which elicited considerable merriment and much suppressed laughter. Mr. McKean then said that having read the two articles he did no!

can be produced in such quantities that the favourite tuber sells at something less than one farthing per pound. Green peas may be raised cheap enough to feed the pigs with; fruits are plentiful enough, and walnuts are sold at the price of twopence per hundred-weight. In this charming region the vegetarian night live at his ease, and feed upon broceli, Brussels sprouts, grey peas, hariest beans, lentils, lettuces, mustard

are

two

It may be accepted as a generally understood the character is concerned, there stage doctrine, that, so far as the main idea of distinct and separate ways of representing Jago. One is that obtrusive presentment of diabolical villany, which makes Othello other is the accomplished hypocritc-a gay, light an idiot to be blind to such patent rascality; the hearted monster, a careless, cordial, goodnatured,

provided twelve seats to be place upon the with a sort of white bouquet, like a bride's, which I think it was necessary for him to say much more, and cress, horseradish, artichoke, kohl rabbt scheming villain. The latter conception, which

and that it was for his Worship to make up his mind as to how he would deal with the case, as

cisco in all lawful means to discourage the eng-

that of Queen Victoria. They talk about the playment of Chinese to the exclusion of white greatness of France; 1 point to the prosperity of labor. Organizations with that view are in pro-England; they eulogise Inkerman, I eite Bala- clava. In the midst of these toasts, this semi. $ess, and, if the effort is persisted in, cannot o'ha wise than be attended with good results.

drunkenness, I notice many remarkable things sweets with the fish, marmalade with chicken, LORD BRAZABON, says a London contemporary, mustard after the cheese, and then, when I fancy is a really kind and thoughtful man.

He has the repast is at an end, the servant presents me

Thames Embankment. Some are at Cheyne-accept mechanically without knowing very walk, Chelsea, some at Phnlico Pier, and some clearly what I ought to do with it. On examining opposite Millbank. Upon these seats the peace- it pure closely, perceive it to be celery! HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1882.

ful confiding citizen will be able to await the arr-Everybody has a similar banquet before him, ival of the Embankment rough, who will genially and after cutting it up into little bits, swallows it Tik pacific change which has come over

assault him, and possibly toss him into the river, in the most serious manner possible." If this the warlike drama recently enacted in while Robert looks after the comfort of Sarah be original it is delicious. If not, it is still very Tonking, and which dûr local contem-Jane a few "aireys" away. The Embankment good. poraries gloated over with so much delight had its terrors when people were compelled to has now fairly nonplussed them. But if walk. What will be the state of affairs now that worthy accound of the recent action of the French utterly disbelieving what Mrs. Roushy had alleged;

they can sit down we shudder to think.

As will be seen by an advertisement in another coloma, a new enterprise has been started in the Colony. The American Novelty Company, well known in New York, San Francisco, and Sydney

novelties in Marine House (ately occupied by

the information we have received be correct the explanation is to be found in the fact that the French Government at Paris have dis- approved the whole proceeding, indeed, have repudiated it altogether and ordered

We have received from a reliable source a trust

beetroot, sweet marjoram, mint, turnips, lemon

get beaten out of the field.

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no one could have the slightest doubt the articles thyme and mangold wurzel to the end of all were calculated to hold his client up to ridicule things created. The British dairyman, with his at contempt and injure him in his professes and butter and mild-cured bacon, would on. In reference to the charge made against have no cathly chance, while the butcher would his client of beatlug a woman at the Lyceum Theatre, he might state an action was instituted

'OTHELLO" AT THE CITY HALL, against Mr. Bandmann by Mrs. Roisby. The jury however, found Mr. Bandmano uct guilty,

Shakespere's grand tragedy, Othello, was re- tion at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, to "a beggarly array of empty benches," Το doubt account for the very poor audience; but it some extent the unfavorable weather would no

cannot be disguised that the miserably mean

we take to be the kind of man intended by Shakespere, belongs to Edmund Kean, and in modern times we have seen Fechter successfully following in the footsteps of that great genuis, Professor Moricy in writing of Fechter's Inga ob- served:"He is careful even to mark-what is 50 seldom marked in the acting-Iago's graduat though ready passage, led by circumstance, from crime to crire, until the climax of the tragedy he works. A thoroughly Italian quickness and been a character of Kean's lago, is also one Nobody can be more instant to obey a bidding, of the strong points in the lago of Mr. Fechter.

more animated in attention, quick in perception. When he leaves Othello in torment of mind hia

in Tonquin. It is generally understood in poll- against him. His Worship would no doubt, think presented by the Bandmann-Beaudet Combina vivacity of movement, which is said to have

lical circles in Paris that the Gambetta cabinet intended to have taken aggressive action in Annan, and that the present ministry were at first strongly inclined to carry out the high

especially as military preparations had been

that a gross lie and one calculated to injure his client, and he asked him to commit Mr. Fraser- Smith for trial at the Supreme Court. He begged to put in the information. Mr. Bandmann then

that the signature to the information was

was an actor now residing the general public, and alienated from Mr. Italian gesture of contempt, instantly followed by

He

restitution to be maile. This is nothing has opened a depût for the sale of American handed policy of their predecessors in office, took his stand in the witness box and deposed policy adopted by the management has disgusted angers cast at him behind his back a swift France, and we shall be glad to see the service to retail traders. This Company's busi.ieving that the instructions for offensive opera- Hongkong, By Mr. McKean, anw the article Bandmann the support of the most ardent servile obeisance at the threshold as Othello

more than was to be expected from an en-

Mr. E. Chastel) which should prove of immense made at Saigon. The Governor of Saigon behis. lightened vivilized government like that of

ness is entirely wholesale, and may be said to

report confirmed, We are somewhat comprise all kinds of fancy goods, musical in- dubious as to whether this programme struments, electro-plate, jewellery, watches, &c., Can he followed but completely, as &c. The enterprise of this Company deserves at this distance from the centre of support, and the advantages offered by them as Government so many plausible excuses Purchasing Agents of American goods of every

preciated. The establislument will be opened In a few days,

tions would arrive by an early mail, despatched

the expedition to wait further orders in Annanı

in the Telegraph of June toth and have no doubt

admirers of the drama, It must surely be

turns his face. Sometimes the vivacity of gesture leads to a questionable interpretation of a passage; but so much of what is new in Mr. Fechter's manner bears consideration, and may justify itself, while the whole reading is so juší, so free from tricks of interpretation, and so smoothly. coherent—as a part well played always must and prefer it to his Hamlet. "The passages we have underlined are respectfully commended to the native of Mr. Bandmann. Mr. Bandmann's Jago is not the Iago of Edmund Kean and Charles Fechter, but is more like a villain of the Ma

can be made, and time expended, in cont. description, will no doubt be generally ap. danger to his troops in the Annamese repairingot aware it was. Mr. Fraser Smith-Are you explanation offered why this necessary adjunct that I think it is far better than his Othello,

the

Horatio," a line of policy unfortunately identified with the great actor manager wherever he has condescended to shine resplendent as a sun. Whilst on the subject of orchestras, in com. mon honesty we are compelled to take back

phistophelian stamp in fact, the actor gets him. the operatic stage. Of course Mr. Bandmann's self up to closely resemble the Mephistopheles of Ingo is a powerful impersonation of its kind, but the conception we consider an unreal one, and the actor makes his villany far too apparent. He

is not sufficiently true to nature to disguise the fact that he is playing a part, and the whole time unfortunately fallen through at the last mo-reading so smoothly coherent, as to justify us in interpretation is not so free from tricks, nor the

it refers to me. Cross-examined by Mr. Robert

false economy Fraser-Smith. I have seen the article headed

which grudges a few The troops reached Hanoi, and were peacefully places where it was sent by Mr. Dave Carsun. the shape of an orchestra; however, Mr. Bland- Tragic Power" before, I have seen it in several

dollars per night to provide something in received. The French commandant, evidently fired with military ardour, and burning to distinticle was published in the Australia Dra

Mr. Fraser-Smith. Are you aware that ar- mann is presumably the best judge of what is guish himself, professed to discern signs of matic News and Society Journal on the

most advantageous for his own interests. At 3rd September 1881 ? Mr. Bandmann, am

any rate there was no pianist last night, and no ying with instructions in such a manner

their fortifications in Hanoi, and demanded that the citadel be handled over to him within 24 Mr. Bandmann,I am not. Mr. Fraser-Smith. It was, no doubt, a mistaken case of "Thrift, aware whether it was ever published in Calcutta 7 to a pleasant entertainment was not provided as to nullify the intentions of the central

hours. The chief mandarin refused to surrender Do you know that it was published in Government. Mornover history, we are SAYS the Philadelphia. Press-We have re- the citadel without the King's orders, and it was, Shanghai Courier within the last few weeks? sorry to say, affords us many similar cently bad brought under our notice a game that as related in our columns at the time, bombarded Mr. Bandmann. I have heard of it, but have examples of territorial agrandisement ac- two can play. Kwong Ki Chin, late a member and taken by storm. The Paris Government

not seen it. Mr. Fraser-Smith,-Might I ask why quired in a similar manner to the conquest of the Chinese Educational Commission to the have ordered the Annamese question to be hai Courier? Mr. McKean objected to the you did not take any action against the Shang of Tonquin by the French. However, we United States, fears, as a result of an Anti-Chinese managed without further offensive action, and question on the ground of irrelevancy, and said understand the French authorities there bill, that "American persons and property in consequently diplomatic measures are now in lie thought it was not a question Mr. Fraser-Smith certain expressions, severely censuring to are making a show of towing to the in- ignorant people, somewhat in the same way as

China may, suffer at the hands of an excited and progress to induce the King to allow the French

should put. Mr. Fraser-Smith told Mr. McKean gentlemen, professional musicians in Hong he knew his own business best. Mr. Wode-kong, which appeared in our critical notice of structions from Paris, and although no

to hold a more complete protectorate over the house said he did not see how the ques: the performance of The Merchant of Venice. the Chinese in Denver, Colorado, were attacked country, than previously has been the case. And tion applied. Alr. Fraser-Smith said the satisfactory, anemis can now be made for by a mob; but he hopes that nothing of that no doubt, they will succeed in this amended prosecution was a vindictive one and he was We then wrote:-"The orchestra was again un- the unnecessary bloodshed and sacrifice kind will occur. The Chinese are not lacking in policy.

justified in trying to show that it was so. He tenanted, the arrangements made by the mana- of life occasioned by the ruthless and high shrewdness, and in their native land they are not

should argue that the article and paragraph genent with a pianist having for the second THE Mexican correspondent of an American ask Mr. Mckean or his client to point out complained of were not libellous and would handed proceedings of their military, entirely ignorant of the saving grace of mob law. much can be done if they really wish Of course Americans in China will catch is in paper writes The street dress and the dress where they were so. Nothing specific was ment. Although the audience were the suffer- many a dark corner. In that event the Pacife worn to church by the Mexican lady is usually ted to put in three columns of matter to for this omission to Mr. Bandmann, Pianists had to restore the confidence which their

pointed out, and it was utterly unpreceers it would be unfair to attribute all the blame brutal actions destroyed; and it Is there

Coast may see fit to burn the whole of China in black, and her head-dress for church is almost without an exception the mantilla. Bonnets are

be answered as a libel. Mr. Wodehouse said been engaged both for Hamlet, and the Merchant efigy. fore with pleasure that we hear of

growing in favour here-quelastimar-but the into the merits of the case. He was of opinion of Venice, but for some unexplained reason failed the minor characters. Mdlle Beaudet gave a sym-

by Ordinance he was not supposed to go

Qur space will not permit us to dwell at lengthon Hanoi having buen handed back to the UNFORTUNATELY, observes the author of "Notes principal families still adhere to the Spanish lace the articles on the face of them were libellous, and on both nights to fulfil their engagements, with- Annamese authorities, and of the appoint-on News" in the Sportsman, the British public mantilla. Long may they do so. Nothing is so

so should commit the case for trial at the Supreme out giving notice of their intention to stay away and although at times inclined to exaggeration, pathetic and realistic impersonation of Desdemona, ment of the nephew of the king as its govern walking encyclopedias, peripatetic dictionaries, does it look so well as upon the Mexican or presumed his own recognizance would be sufficient seem to imagine that newspaper people are becoming, so coquettish, so graceful. On none

Cour. The cross-examination of Mr. Bandmann from the theatre. Such conduct as this cannot scored a legitimate success. Miss Fergusson, for so was beside the point. Mr. Fraser-Smith said he or. From the accounts which have reached and perambulatory compilations of legal statutes. Spanish woman, especially if she be pretty. A Mr. Wodehouse referred the matter to the pro-

be too severely reprobated, and we are sorry to us concerning this affair it would seem that in the course of our daily budgets of postal letiers lovely young girl just passed. Her bright, soft sccution, when Mr. McKean said he would leave Hongkong so little acquainted with what they the world has ever seen, have made a special

think that we have professional musicians in

young an actress, made a most promising Emilia, a character which some of the finest actresses the responsibility of those aggressive acts we frequently receive some curious epistles. Take black eyes, so adequate to express whatever he presumed the case would come on at the it in his Worship's hands. He added that restsentirely with the military commandant, the following, for instance, which we present ex-sentiment she wishes to reveal, her clear com-

owe to themselves and to the public." Before study of. This lady is exceedingly intelligent, who was a Colonel or Major in the "grand actly as it was received: Dear Sir I would be plexion, her rosy cheeks, and abundant hair, all claim the privilege of bringing evidence from ance in Hamlet, an apology was publicly made which spoil so many rising artistes. Although next sessions. Mr. Fraser-Smith said he should the curtain rose on the company's first appear and altogether free from the absurd traditions army," and who apparently was thirsting very much oblighed to you if you would tell ine for military renown, and laboring under the the meaning of During her Majesty's pleasure in black lace, drooping here, caught up there, falling the paragraph of 14th instant objected to the planist, and it was explained some exceedingly tragedy, Miss Fergusson will yet make her matk were enhanced in beauty by the soft folds of rich London to prove the centroverted points of from behind the footlights for the absence of a both in physique and voice unfitted for heavy' belief that he was doing something which to-morrow mornings Sportsman. I say that the about her graceful shoulders, and fastened by case being tried at the next Sessions. In the strong expressions being made use of by the in the more suitable walk of modern comedy.

should require time for that. He objected to the would add to the glory of France. We be let out But my Friend says it is not he says sometimes are?) to her black, luxuriant braids of the present, the defendant was bound over in

meaning is that when her Majesty's Dies he will large jet pins (or were they jeweled, as such pins Pitman libel case, much more serious one than gentleman deputed to perform the duty-that a Mr. Inmann was a fairly good Cassio, but the frankly acknowledge that we have too

well known professional had arranged to play, rest of the characters were but indifferently filled. sincere a regard and respect for the French or not please to say who is right as there is a bet change this for the stiff, and clumsy, and often the next sessions, unless Mr. Fraser-Smith turn up, thus leaving the company in the The scenery was hardly up to the mark, and the

that her Majestys can let you out when she Dies shining hair. How can she ever be induced to $5co personal recognizance. Mr. Wodehouse said than to wish to see their prestige resting about it and we are going by your judgement." ugly, and always awkward, fashionable bonnet? waived notice. Mr. Fraser-Smith not evincing The professional referred to, indignantly denies tragedy-with the exception of the leading ar-

it was too late to commit the case for trial and without sending any reason, had failed to on any such acts as: those recently com- As we are not yet "in," we fail to see how her How demurely she walked with her Ivory prayer any desire to doso, Mr. Wodehouse said he would the charges made against him, which he charac

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mitted in Tonking; at the same time we Majesty can let us out, "when she Dics or not? cannot shut our eyes that it does not say Possibly it may interest and further confuse our much for the boasted discipline of their correspondent to know that when persons are army. if it allows even the possibility of confined during ber Majesty's pleasure they are such ruthless proceedings being undertaken

incarcerated in consequence of her Majesty's dis pleasure, and that when a sovereign ceases to with impunity by subordinate officers. As reigh the pleasure or displeasure is handed down we have maintained from the first there to the successor, as the case may be.

that

at

book in Her hand, and her ducana at her side. commit it for the How slender! how girlish! how fair! Alas! as $500, Mr. McKean asked the Magistrate to com-

to be bound overing Sessions, the defendant terises as a parcel of lies. In plain words it is

rin his personal recognizance of years increase, the Mexican dame waxeth fat and mit the case generally, and not for any particular pianist at several performances, is owing to Mr. asscited that the reason why there has been no unwieldy, for the upper class of women are givenzessions Mr. Wodehouse asked if he had power bandmann having objections to pay for such ser to much case and little exercise, and such habits, to do so, when Mr. Fraser-Smith said he did not vices. Our columns are open for the tragedian's bring about the same results that "bonest Jack prove to his Worship that he had such power, think he had, and as Mr. McKean was unable to Falstaff" was wont to declare pertained to "sighing things were allowed to stand as first fixed by

denial to this charge. And now for Othello. and grief"

the Magistrate.

Jn its entirety last night's representation was not a success, nor could any reasonable being

accepting this Iago as a grand performance. It was intelligent enough in its way, but conven. tional in the extreme.

fistes-nost indifferently dressed.

his nights lonely, and always welcomed the mom ...When Adam was in his bachelorhood he for

with gladness Sill, for hil that he was nappler." when Eye came.

When an Ohio man was chawed up into, little bits by a threshing machine, his wife said there was one consolation. His corpse was safe from body-snatchers.