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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2219, 17 June 1870, Page 2

.The Sax Francisco Mail.—There was no appearance of the Maori when w.: went to press, and as she was to call at Akaroa and Tiniarn, it is not likely that she will arrive until a very late hour this evening. The Gaol.— Messrs W. A Tolmio ami J. T. Thomson, J.Ps., have been appointed visiting justices of the Dunedin gA ° !- . . ... Embezzlement. Frederick Lange, rate collector to the municipal corparatiou of Lawrence, has been committed for trial for embezzling some LS, moneys belonging to the corporation. Masonic Hall.—Wc trust the fine night will induce a, good attendance at the Masonic Hall. We can insure a treat to all who go. Concert. — We hear there is a probability of the concert of the Dunedin Private Musical Society being repeated next week, in accordance with numerous requests. If so, we should suggest under the circumstances it should be an invito to all classes at popular prices. Sax Francisco Mail Service.— An Auckland telegram says:—“ Latest advices from San Francisco state that the American Government only vote a subsidy to the American Hue. Webb is directed to get it. Hall has arranged to furnish the colonies with a semi-monthly mail, to leave Honolulu every fourth Saturday after August HO. New arrangements commence .September 20, when the steamer John L. Stephens will be. laid on between San Francisco and Honolulu. Mayor’s Court.—ln the Mayor’s Court to-day Michael Straughan and Charles Stuart were fined 10s each for drunkenness, with the alternative of 24 hours imprisonment. Z. D. Patterson, for conducting himself in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, and on a further charge of using profane language in a public place, was lined lA, or to be imprisoned two days. W. H. Couzeus, for allowing a chimney to take lire, was lined os and coats. Harry Ellis, on a similar charge, ss. W. S. Drummond, for allowing gambling in his licensed house, 40s and costs.

SPIRITUALISM. — Dr. Carr bus announced Ids intention of delivering a lecture on this much vexed question in the Princess Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) evening. The doctor ia opposed to the thought of there being anything marvellous or supernatural in Spiritualism, and is prepared to prove that the phenomena exhibited in spiritualistic seances can be accounted for by natural laws. lie will also give some somnambulistic experiments. As the doctor has written a pamphlet on this subject, those who attend his lecture may reasonably expect to find him well posted up in the matter. Pushing Business, —The following is from the Aryua of May 20 : —Something very like carrying the pushing of business to extremes was revealed .at the District Court yesterday, in a case in winch Messrs Thomas and Alfred Hall, trading as Hall and Son, dentists, Melbourne, summoned Mr J. Mar tin, draper, in Carlton, for L 3 10s, alleged to he due to them on account of four mineral teeth mounted in gold and vulcanite, made for and supplied to Mrs Martin, the defendant’s wife Mrs Martin stated that she went to the complainant Hall to have some back teeth filed, but that instead of filing them only he whipped one right out against her will. She gave him a sovereign, receiving in change Os 6d, as Hall said ho would have to owe her sixpence, bis charge being lUs fur the filing down, &c. He then advised her to have :r me artificial teeth put in, but she said she did not want them, and he then asked her to allow him to take a model in wax of her mouth, so that if she should at any future time wish to have any teeth put in he could make them without delay, and he assured her that it was not necessary to pay him at once even if she got the teeth. She yielded so far as to allow him to take the wax cast, but told him she would not have any teeth from him. Subsequently four teeth were sent to her house, but she scut them back, without even stopping to examine them. Hall now summoned her’husband for L 3 10s, which he claimed for the making and delivery of those teeth ; but the husband stated in court that he knew nothing of the matter till he was summoned. Hall explained that when he was chipping off the hack teeth for Mrs Martin one was so loose -that it eauio out suddenly. The Bench said that the case was not sufficiently dear to justify them in making any order for the money claimed, and they therefore dismissed the raise, but without costs, in consequence of C*e defendant not having produced a witness whose evidence, it was said, would have made the case much stronger for the defence. Theatricals in England.—A London correspondent of the Australasian writes One of the great e%'ents of the month of March has been the arrival in Dublin of Mdlle. Schneider and her French opera troupe. On the more announcement of their intended visit to Ireland, Cardinal Cullen in his Lenten pastoral thus alludes to theatricals in Dublin, and in language more strong than choice to La Schneider : “We cannot .conclude without calling your attention to the insult to public decency with which our Catholic city is threatened. Theatrical exhibitions which would receive no countenance even in Paris, and which the Protestant ’press -of London denounced as aln min at ion, aro it would appear from our public journals, to be produced on the stage of Catholic Dublin, and in the holy time of Lent. Surely it cannot bo that our people will tolerate, nut to say sanction, such scenes, which arc at once an insult and a scandal. The parent who allows his child to resort to such demoralising scenes will have a fearful account to render to God. And the brother who could encourage by his company a sister’s presence at entertainments where the modesty for which our countrywomen were always celebrated is outraged, must have lost every finding of love and regard for one so cloudy related to him.” The effect of this fiilmlnation (says my correspondent) had the effect of acting just reverse to the wishes of the divine, the Theatre Loyal on the opening night to witness “ La Grande Duchesse,” being crowded in all parts. On the following night the house was miserably attended, the yeucml opinion being that the

company, from La Schneider downwfttds, are not equal to Julia'? Matthews, .and her musical troiipc ; tHe-rendition of thesongs’in Offenbach’s sparkling opera by Miss Julia Mathews is considered far and away superior to that of the vivacious Frenchwoman. Mr W. H. Mumford, husband to Miss Julia Mathews, who, in my last letter, T told you was very ill, has, I am happy to say, recovered sufficiently to get about again. While writing of musicians I may tell you that it is stated in circles supposed to know, you know, that the honour of knighthood is to be conferred on Mr Brinley Richards for lus new national song, ‘‘God bless the Prince of Wales,” and on Mr J. P. Clarke, a military composer, for another piece, entitled “ Hail to the Duke,” while another English author, whose lyric works appeal to the hearts of the nation, L allude to Mr Balfc, is not noticed at all by Royalty. A thorough Englishman stands a poor chance of Royal patronages in England. As a contrast, it is notified that the Emperor of the French, in consideration of his great musical attainments as shown in his opera “The Bohemian Girl,” a translation of which is now performing in Paris, has conferred upon Mr Bale the title and position of a Knight of the Lemon of Honour of France. _ A new sensation was got up some short time since at the Hoiboru Amphitheatre, a very clever and daring lady, yclept “Fraulien Laura,” after performing a number of really wonderful feats on a wire not so thick as your little linger, concluded her performances by carrying a child on her back across the -wire. CnSfcJs- Hocked from all parts to witness this somewhat dangerous performance, which, however, so far as the child was concerned, was immediately stopped hy the police authorities, acting under instructions from the Homo Socrelay, whoso attention was drawn to the matter by Dr Lush in the House of Commons. Professor Risley, who some years hack was performing in Australia,, and latterly was connected with Mr Lonton in the management! of a troupe of “Japs” in England, has organised one of the largest and moat varied combmitions ever known, for travelling through America, and with the greater portion through Australia. Among them will be found a Spanish ballet troupe of 1G members; Madame Azella a treated trapezienne ; M. Henri Agoust, a Parisian prestidigitator ; M. Gorbi, with his performing dogs, monkeys, and ponies, from Paris ; Mr G. W. Lester, the ventriloquist and talking hand ; Mcsdamcs Emma Alford ami Clara Vernon, Lelia and Florence ; ‘Sydney Franks (comic singer); W. Hamilton, conductor and vocalist; the Lawrence troupe, for tahkan nrenu ; Mr Tanner and his dogs ; and an English ballet troupe. The company have nearly all left for Now York. Mr llisley does not intend them all to appear together in one town, but ia divisions, one portion to succeed the other. It will bo a plucky thing if he can manage such a company, but grave doubts are entertained here of his success. Mr Reid’s dancing classes as announced in the advertisement, commence to-morrow