NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2108, 7 February 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The Holborn Valley viaduct cost upwards of two millions sterling. The terms arranged between the author and the manager with regard to “ Formosa, 5 ' which is at present having such a run afe Drury Lane, are said to be that Mr Boncicault receives half the takings after the first LIDO. Now as Drury Lane will hold about LSOO when well filled, this will give an average of L4OO per night to divide, making a total of about L1,2U0 per week for each party ! The Russians are remarkable for the enthusiasm with which they receive danseuses. Recently Mdlle. Grauzow made her debut in St. Petersburg in the ballet of Lys. The audience were mad with delight, and showered bouquets on the clever artiste. The performance was stopped for ten minutes to enable the corps de ballet to clear the stage of bouquets. On being counted it was found that there were 400 !

The “Byron controversy” has, fortutunately, almost entirely expended itself. It will probably be revived before long, however, as it is understood that Mrs Stowe is preparing a rejoinder to her antagonists. One of the most damaging replies that has been given to her statement appeared in the last Quarterly. Letters from Lady Byron to Mrs Leigh, written just after her separation from Byron, were published there, which seemed to dispose altogether of Mrs Stowe’s charges. Jf the letters are genuine, and the dates correct, there must bo an end of the scandal, but apparently there is some flaw in them, for the New York papers publish a “card” from Mrs Stowe, requesting the public “to suspend their judgment on the letters published in the London Quarterly, until they meet them in their proper historical connection in her forthcoming volume. So for this “forthcoming volume” we must wait. , , , ~ The Toronto Globe says that, so far as the British American Colonies are concerned, the circular convening a Pan-Colonial Parliament in London has been well received, and that a large attendance of delegates is likely to be the result, . . , A woman living on the property ot oir Watkin W. Wynn has presented her husband, a labourer, with five children at a birth. Three days ago they were all alive. The Queen has sent her L 7. Twice she has had three at a birth, all of whom have lived. The poor woman has had twenty-two children.