NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2627, 19 July 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Home letters state that Mr Akhurst’s burlesque “ Ihe Grand Duchess of Camberwell” is to be produced at the King’s Cross Theatre, with the Messrs Tilley Earl, and Rebecca Isaacs as the leading heroines. Mr Clarence Holt is playing with great success in London in an entei’taiument entitled “Living Photographs from Shakespeare.’ Miss Julia Mathews is again attracting crowds to the Standard to witness her clever performance of the Grand Duchess. Lady Don has been debarred from following her professional engagements through serious illness. “ There is now in this metropolis,” say a late London letter,” “ a large number of the members of the Australian ‘ stock and buskin.’ Charles Wilmot is doing,very well at the Coal-hole. John Edouin and his wife are at present out of engagement, and so is J. H. Allen, the tragedian. H. Herberts, who sang ‘Belle Brandon,’ so sweetly with Smith and Collins’s Christy Minstrels when in Melbourne, is now at the Great Oxford, J, W. Turner, singer in operatic selections.” Mr and Mrs W. B. Gill and Messrs Charles Hall are notified to arrive in England shortly. It is curious, by the way, to note that the Vendome column, just destroyed, is just as big a humbug as everything else is in Paris. All the world believed it to be a bronze pillar, but it turns out to bo only stone and brick, with the bronze ornaments tacked on to it outside. The agitation of the Colonial question.again in Parliament has elicited from a colonist, Burning himself “ J. V.,” a valuable and suggestive letter on the “ Confederation of the Empire,” which he regards as a pressing necessity if disintegration and rupture at no distant date are to be averted. The letter appeared in the Standard a few days ago, accompanied by an editorial article endorsing and enforcing the writer’s views. The writer, it is no breach of confidence to say, is Mr Julius Vogel, the New Zealand Treasurer, now on an official visit to England. A most important adhesion to Dr Dellinger is announced in the Independance. Beige of April 20. That journal publishes an address to the excommunicated theologian from the profess >rs of thp Roman University, which occupies more than a column, in which the professors avow their unqualified acceptance of Dr Dollinger’s views, and protest against tho inference that Italian Catholics agree with tho Roman curia. They believe in the reconci'ability of modern science with Christianity, and insist on the necessity of a reformation of the Romish Church, which for three centuries, they say, has been really identified with the Jesuits. Wc also observe that the Vienna correspondent of the Ea» ern Budget says, writing on the 15th April “ The Municipal Council of Vienna has given a powerful impulse to the religious movement which has taken place among the Liberal Catholics of Austria in consequence of Dr Dollinger’s famous declaration against Papal Infallibility. One of the members of the Radical party, which under other circumstances is generally in a small minority in the council, proposed a resolution ‘ that an address should be forwarded to Dr Dellinger, expressing gratitude for, and sympathy with, his spirited and manly conduct,’ and this resolution was carried almost uuanqnqusly.” One of the subjects vylqch vpvy much occupies the public pniui at present is that of hblier education, and a scheme has just been put‘forth for a college for physical education at Nevvcastle-on-Tyne. It is really a production of the Durham University authorities, who arc manfully endeavoring to make their Alma Mater fit to cope with the times ; and it has been most warmly taken up by the merchants and leading men of Newcastle. Such an will have a great future before it. A large meeting was held a few

days ago to establish a woman’s college near Cambridge. There is already one at Hitchin ; but the distance from town and from Cambridge, whence the professors are derived, is too great to make the college self-supporting, so that it is proposed to move it to within three miles of the University. This is coming nearer to the reality of the “sweet girl graduates” of Tennyson, and I should not be surprised to see students of both sexes strolling along the banks of the Cam. TUB PETTICOATISD MEN. The Boulton and Park scandal has at last been brought into the Court of Queen s B.nch, amf it is a great relief to have the subject dismissed, and to find that the case does not look so terribly black. Of the eight young men charged with the conspiracy, four only appeared, in court, three not having surrendered or been arrested, and one, Lord Arthur Clinton, having died since the warrant against him was issued. The trial lasted for six days, and terminated in the acquittal of them all on the graver charge. The Lord Chief Justice emphatically warned the jury that no amount of misconduct, however repulsive or offensive, would justify a verdict against them on the first indictment, unless the purpose to commit a felony was proved ; and that while they took c:re that guilt proved should find no means of escape, they must remember that innocence, or even doubtful guilt, was entitled to the protection of the law. He also censured the Treasury for including Hunt and Fisko in this charge. The jury were absent from the court nearly an hour. Boulton fainted when the verdict was made known. Both he and Park had appeared at the trial sprucely dressed, with light kid gloves and bouquets—in effeminate foppery that no exposure can humble.