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LONDON CLUBS AND SOCIETY.

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LONDON CLUBS AND SOCIETY. (FBOM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) After the luncheon with the Lord M. or Mr. Gladstone looked into the exhibition of turnery at the Mansion House. For a man who is supposed by some people to be consumed with revengeful satisfaction over the incarceration of Mr. Parnell, he shewed a surprising interest in comparatively unimportant objects. Mr. Glad- stone is a member of the Turners' Company, and has reason to pride himself on his knowledge of wood. He critically examined the exhibits, and was much amused to find that one of the articles had been manufactured from a piece of wood taken from a tree he had himself cut down at Hawarden. The great gale was the most extraordinary that the majority of Londoners can remember. In the road in which I live a huge tree was broken off close to the roots, and fell with a terrific crash upon the roof of a house on tl e other side of the way. On the whole, the chimney pots manfully did their duty. Thete was a great panic in the Strand, however, when one of them fell upon the head of an unfor- tunate gentleman who, unconscious of his doom, was talking with some friends. After this every- body was afraid to remain stationary for a moment. The Metropolitan Railwav Company are laud- ably anxious to use the electric light in all their itations. They have come to the conclusion that two engines will be sufficient, the one to supply the light between Aldgate and Gower-street, and the other to illuminate the stations from Gower-street to Bishop's-road. It is no doubt a feasible project, but the experiments made the other evening had an unfortunate termination. One engine was prepared for use, the fire waa lighted, and everything went well till there was a sudden crash in th, boiler. Then it was dis- covered that there was no water in it! The Electrical Exhibition that is to be opened at the Crystal Palace in December as the second of the series of international exhibitions inau- gurated by the Duke of Connaught, will practically be the same aa that now being held in Paris. It is at least in- tended that the larger part of the Paris exhibits, or duplicates of them, shall be brought over here, and thus we shall have some opportunity of judging for ourselves as to the truth of the astonishing stories we have heard as to the telephoning of musical perform- ances and the illuminatory power of electricity. Mr. Oscar Wilde is the object of some rather cruel compliments on the part of his old Dublin tutor, Professor Mahaffy. The Pro- fessor is naturally anxious to have his share ot the credit for the fame of the bard, and de- scribes the latter as an illustration of the proposi- tion that a stupid boy is benefited more than a clever boy by a University training. If the Professor had not taken young Wilde in hand and advised him to go to Oxford, society would not now be dazzled by the genius whose poems have gone through three editions. The sup- position that a poet is born not made is a mistake. He is made by a professor. It may not be generally known that Miss Marion Hood, who some two years ago came into such prominence on the London stage by her successful appearance in The Pirates of Penzance," and who is now attracting considerable attention by her singing and acting in Claude Duval," is the Miss Marion Isaacs, who many years ago was well known on the music-hall boards. She sud- denly dropped out of notice, the fact being that while fulfilling an engagement at the Alhambra at Hull, she captivated one of the proprietors, Mr. Charles H. Hunt, and became his wife. She then retired into prirate life, but cultivated singing, both theoretically and practically, with such suc- cess that she soon became one of the best sought- after amateurs in Hull and the neighbour- hood. Her husband died nearly three years ago, bin after a brief widowhood Mrs. Hunt again married, taking to herself the name of Hessel- tine. It was almost simultaneously with this that she came out in The Pirates." Her ap- pearance was described as the first on any stage, and critics who knew nothing of her previous history naturally wondered at the self-possession and executive skill she displayed. In the cognomen of Marion Hood she still retains the first part of the name by which in her earlier professional days she was known. Theatrical enterprise is conducted on so large a scale in these days that one is not surprised to learn that in those theatres which yiel4 the largest profits, principles of economy are rigidly observed. At Drnry Lane, where the drama of Youth is nightly drawing crowded audi- ences, the receipts are said to be averaging jMOO a night, with an additional JB200 for the morning performance on Saturday. Mr. Harris has obtained a considerable repu- tation for managerial shrewdness, and is now shewing himself to be a business man of n" mean capacity. The smallest items of expendi- ture come under his notice, and there is not a farthing spent in the theatre without his know- ledge. He buys his own canvas for the scene-painter, and his own wood for the car- penter, and if at the end of the week the accounts are out of balance by the amount of a sixpence, they are overhauled until the aaiesing coin is found. An old actor of repute, whose theatrical experiences extend over ha f a century, says, when speaking of the jr.sent enormous returns, Sir, I have p'nyed in that house, with good actors, to about JE16 The appendix to the eighth report of the Royal Commission on Ancient Manuscripts con- tains some papers relating to Ireland hich are of special interest at the present time as shewing how the Irish were regarded and treated by the English in the reign of James I. The epithets commonly applied to them are "the barbarous Irish and "the natives." The process to which their land was subjected is de- scribed as "plautation," or "thorough planta- tion," and eeems, to use the words < f the com- missioners themselves, who have performed their work with singular candour, to hav.. been identical with that of the foundation of colo- nies in another hemisphere. In one letter, it appears that a priest was violently thrust out of his church while in the act of performing service, and in other letters we learn that the natives were discontented with the mode of plantation." Some light is thrown on mis- management, judicial, financial, and military. The army, in particular, was in a miserable plight, with its pay greatly in arrear. These manuscripts altogether are not pleasant reading. They shew that the English were not good planters," just as present events shew that the crop is something worse than wild oats. A new steamship enterprise is projected for the discomfort of the British farmer. It is proposed that a line of steamers shall he built to establish communication between Liverpool and Churchill Harbour in Hudson's Bay. The route is 114 miles shorter than that from Liver- pool to New York, and 64 miles shorter than the voyage from the Mersey to Montreal. It is part of the scheme that a railway should be constructed from Churchill Harbour to the great wheat centres of Manitoba and Dakota. The project looks well on paper, but it is doubtful whether it will attract any large amount of capital. The navigation between Liverpool and Hudson's Bay is not such as experienced seamen can regard with confidence, ■and the faot that the Bay is closed seven months In the year by the ice will scarcely facilitate the operations of the oompany. The new omnibuses are a great success—so great that the London Road Car Company have invited tenders for stables to accommodate a thousand horses. At present their vehicles have only one route, but it is evident that the company are prepared to compete with their rivals all over the Metropolis. th.ir omnibuses are always full, for they are in every way m re Mmfortable than the stuffy old contrivances nhich have so long afflicted us.

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