Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1873, Page 7

e i e e e e THE ENGLISH COURT. Queen Victoria's Drawing-Rooms--= The Prinoo of Wales' Lovees: Balls and Concerts at Buckingham Pal- ace---Royal Breakfasts or Gar« den-Parties. Press Worn on Theso Ocensions-=-Con» sploulty of the Costumo of Amner« ican Diplomats. From Lippticott's Magazins for Scplembar, Amoricons havo an improssion that the English think it o considerable distinction to Lo prosonted at court. But the coromony of pre- gontation Las entirely ccaned to havo ANY BOOIAL BIGNIFICANCE in Englend. Any young gentleman who imaginos that tho door of English sacioty will be throwa open to him on tho publication of his appesrauco ot o drawing-room hLad bolter save the exponse of adress nud carriago aud atay at home. Ifa 1ady bo ambitious of n socinl success, the monoy which o robo will cont might bo oxponded to oqual advantage anywhoro elso in London. Howover, o lady's drosn may be worn again, and men mey hire a court-suit for the day at s vory small cost. Your taflor, if you got a good deal of him, will patch you up something tolorablo for wory litilo; a0 thatsartorial oxpoenges are compara- tively light. One can get for tho afternoon o two-horso brougham, with a coachman and footmon, for a sum leas than ten dollara. S8till, going to court costs somothing, and its only possible advantago is that tho speotnclois a fino and interesling ono, One has theroforo to con- sider whelhor the sight {8 worll the fee. A presentation at court is of quite ns litlle ndvantage to an Englishman as to a foroiguor coming to England, Almost anybody can bo prosentod, and of those who are precluded from presentation, a groat many occupy higher posi- tions then many of thoso who Lave the privi- loge of going to court. Any graduate of a uni~ worsity, any clergyman, any ofiicer in tho army, g entitlod to go. A morchant, an attornoy, cvon & barristor, cannot; and yot In Eng- Liod o barrister, or, for that matter, & succossful morchant, is apt to bo & porson of moro couscquence than a curate or a poor " soldier, The court ing scarcely any gocial sig- nificanco in England. I ouce asked a young bar- ristor if presentation would help him in tho least in making bis way in socioty. Ho said, * Not a bit." In England the position of everybodyis so woll fixod that poople cannot well chango it by wishing it to bo changed. Thus, for & poor East London curate to go to court would simply make him ridiculous, The parsons in the West End do present themselves, but thero is no part of the Dritish Empire whero clergymon are of such consequence a8 in tho West End of London, Tho clergymen, oa thoy file in along with the gayly-accoutred limmg guardesmen, have a meok nod gontlo air which makes one feol that the: Liad bettor have stayed away. Thoy do not lool half defiant enough. No person who is not al- teady in such a position as to nced no pushing COULD BECOMINGLY MAXE IS APPEANANCE ot court. I remembor in Bhropshire to bave hoard of o family — who went down to London to be presonted mado the target for the ridiculo of the wholo noigh- hurhous. On o visit to London some yoars ago, tho writor was presented m tho diplomatic circlo, went to several of the druwing-rooms and lovees at Buckinghom and 8t, Jnmnes' Palaces, and was favited to tho court Lalls and concorts. Invita. tions to the court festivitios are given only to those porsons presented in the diplomatio circle. It must bo understood that there iu nt overy court in Burope o golect, and elogant, and ox- clusive ontrance, by which the diplomatiata como in. Along with thom enter also the Ministers of Btate and tho household oflicers of the Crown, The gencral circle, aa it is called, includes every- body else. Anothor entrance aud staircaso ara provided for it, and in thet way oll of Dritish gocioty, from a Duke to a half-pay Oaptaln, goius admittanco to the sovereign. "Whon one 38 in tho inside of Buckingham or St. James’ Palnco THE SAME DISTINGTION EXIBTS. The room in which the memboers of the Royal family recelvo the public is occupiod during thoe ontiro coremony by the diplomatic circle. Othor persons, after bowiug to the Quoon, pass into an antechamber. Though Isay it is of but small social advan- tage to an Englishman to bo presented, yot un- doubtedly the greateat people in tho Empire at- tond court, and are to be secn at the cersmonials and festivities at Buckingham and Bt. Jomes' Palaces. At presont the Queen holds drawing- rooms and levoos at Buckinham Palaeo, and tho Triuco of Wales at 5t, James’ Palaco, 'L'he Iat- ter are attended only by gentlemen, and, though not #o grand as the Queen's, ARE PLEABANTER, Trousers are allowod ivstead of the lknec- broeches and_ stockings Which raust be worn at ull court veremonials where there are ladies. At 2 o'clack—for the Trince is very punctual —the doors of tho recoption-room are thrown open, sud the diplomatists begin to file in. Firet como tho Ambagsadors. [t must bo ro- membered that there is a wide differeuce be- tween &n Ambassador and an Lnvoy and Ainistor Plenipotontiary, Tho original difforenco _was that ‘tho Am- bassador was supposed, by & sort of transub- stantiation, to represent the poerson of his sover- cign. Ho hud right st any timo to domand an audionce with the King, An envoy must oo the Foreign Sceretary. This, of course, has consed to have any practical aignificance in countries which have Conatitutions ; and no doubta Min- istor can at any time demand an interview of the govereigu, It1s still true, however, that an Am- bassador it accredited to tho King, whilo an_ en- voy is aceroditod to the Foreign Secretary. Prac- tically, TRE. DIFFERENCE 18 that an Ambausador represents s bigger country, bas botter pay, lives ina tiner house, and gives moro parties and grandor dinners, An Ambag. ssdor has precedence of overybody in the coun- try in which he rosides, except the Royal family, Thero are five countries which sond Ambassa~ dors to Lugland—Russis, France, Gormany, Austria, and Turkey, ‘These Ambasendors en- tor tho recoption-room at the Prince’s loveoin the | ordor of seniority of residence, The Turkish Am- bassador, Musurus, who had been twenty years in London, came first on the oceasions I epeak of, the othors following, I forget in what order. They wero oll porsons of distinguished appoar~ ance. Ono, in’ particular, wos uin%ulmy wiso end dignified-looking, with an sepect which was elther bland or sovere, one could searcely sy whioch. Anothor resombled strikingly _ Lhe typical diplomatist. of romance, having & manner suave and in- finitely Jclurnuthl, but oh! eo underhandad and insidious_and dinbolicall T'he Duc de Droglio wad tho Fronch Ambassador in Londoh at tho time of my visit, aud of all the corps his person snd countenanco possessed much tho mout dig- tinction, Iis wag a distinction of spirit and in- tellect : the distinction of the other Continental “gwells” was usuelly one of stomach and whiskers. Bohind each Ambassador mareh the Beorotaries of the Embassy, After the Ambassadors come the Miunisters, The wholo diplomalic corps moves from an anteroom into an upartment in which the Prince of Wales awaits thom, Tho Princo and soveral of his brothors, Lis cousins, tho Duke of Cambridge, aud the Frince of Tock, slaud up in a row like an OLD-FAHINONED SPELLING-CLASS, Next to tho Prince, on his right, stauds Viecount Bidnoy, the Lord Chamberlain, who onlls off each detachment as it npgmauheu-—" the Austrian Awlassador,” #tho Bpanish Ministor,” # tho United Statos Miniuter,” oto, ThePrince shnkes hands with the houd of the EmLussy or mission, and bows to tho Hooreturios, When tho diplo- matists, Cohinet-Miniators, and houschold ofii- cors linve nll made thoir bow, it is the turn of Driti-h society. The diplomatie cirelo, and such a8 have the enlree to it, remuin in the room ; the Englishnien paes out. The Lord Chamberlam [n & loud voicecelld off tho natno of each person as he sppeaty, 80 that each comer is, asit wore, laboled and tiokelod. 'Whs_obworver loarns quito as much ag it tho Lord Chamburlain was the vor- gor and was showing off hiw collection, One may ofton guoss tho rank or fmportance of tho courtier by tho MANNER OF 18 RECEPTION, Ithe ehakos bLands with the Prince, you ma know Lo {s somobody—if ho shakes hands wit &ll fivo or six of the Princos, you muay kuow he Is a vory great Bnman. Bub it ho gives tho Lrinepy wido basth, bors basilly and glances 1 tho royaltios, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, furtively at them, and runs h{ #kittishly, thon you may linow that ho is soma half-pay Colonol or inaignifionnt olvil soryant. Bomclfllug, too, moy be inforrod from the longth of timo tho Lord Ohamberlain takes to deciphor tho name of $ho comor on tho slip of papor which is handed him. Ifho seans it long and hard, and_holds it 8 good way from him and snys * Major To—e—o bosh—bow," then in a loud voice, * Mnjor To- bow,” you Will Lo eafo in thiuking that Mnjor Tobow {8 not ono of tho groatost of warriors or largost of landed proprictors, 'T'ho coromony lasts an hour and & half or two hours, and during the whola of it tho talk and hand-sbinking among the diplomatiats go on vory plonsantly, Thora i45 groat donl of esprit du corps amoug tliom, and porfeot oquality, Attachos, Socrotnries, sud Miniaters walle sbout throngh tlie room nnd oxchango grestiugs. ‘Iho Ambas- eadors aro rathor statolior; these do not mix themselves with the crowd of diplomatists, but atand up apart, il flvo in s row, leaning ngainat tho wall, chatting oasily, looking quite llke another row of Princes, o sort of aftor-glow of At all othor court ontertainments, ladios aro prosent. O course, thora are o gront muny vory protty ones, and their brilliant toilets increaso tho magnificonco of the speelaclo, 'Fhio Quoen's lovees ave vory much longer than thoso of the Princo of Wales, 'Then, ut all coremoninls wlora there are ladics, MEN ARE COMPELLED TO WEAR, a3 T have snid, vilk stockings und Lkuco-breoches, slippers, and shoe-buclkles. One can support this costume in tulerablo comfort ina warm rovwn, but in gotting from tho cnrvinge to the door it in often liko walking kueo deop in o tub of cold wator. A cold ball ora draught from an open door will givo vory unpleasant sensations, In many of the Ilarge rooms of the palacos Thugo fivoplacos, with great loga of wood, rour be- hind tall brass fondors. Ouce iu front of ono of theso, the courtior who isu't & Scolchmnn fools as if Lie would nover caro to go away. I'or tunately, most of theso ceromoninla are in sum- mor, Lut_the firt of thom come in February, and London is often cool well up into June. TIE OENEMONY OF A PRESENTATION to the Queen is quite tho samo as that ntn Prince of Walos' loveo. The epolling-class of royal Iadies stand up io a_rigid row. On_ the Queon's right is the Lord Cham- borlnin, who rends off tho names, Next to tho Queen, on her loff, is Alex- audra, thon the Queon’s dnuglters and tho Princess Mary of Cumbridgo. Next to thom stand the P’rinces, and tho whols ia a pbelanx which strotches_entirely ncross tho roum, De- hind this line, drawn up in battlo array, sland throo or four ranlks of court Indies. Tho act_of presoutation is vory ensy and eimple, Formerly—indeed, until within o fow yoars—it must havo beon a VERY PERILOUS AND IMPONTANT FEAT. Tho courtior (the term is used inaccurately, but thore is no noun to_describe n person who goes to court for @ single time) was compelled to welkup o Jong room, and to back, bowing, out of tho Queen's pregence. For ladies who had treils to managoe the ordesl must have been & trying one. Now it has been mnde quito ensy. ‘Chiere is Lut one point in which a presentation to the Queon diffors from that alroady desciibed abthe Prince of Wales' lovee. You may turn your back to (e Prince, but, afler bowing to tho Queen, you siep oIl into the arowd, still facing her, Thero (if you have hud the good luck to bo prosented iu the diplo- matio circle) you may staud and watch a most intoresting pageant. "To tho yonng royalties, surlmpu, it is not vel nmuuiuf:, though thoy evi- lently bave their little joke afterward over any- thing unusual that accurs. 1t is natural onough that thoy should, of courso, and tho fa- tigue which they sustain entitizs.¢hem to all the nmneoment they can get out of what must bo to thom o very monotonous and familinr spoctacle. There is plenty in it to occupy and intorost the man who soes it for tho firat or second timo, You do not have to ask ‘ Whols this #” and “ Who is that " T'ho Lerd Chomborlain announces each person ns e or shie appors, You hear the most 1EROIO AND NOMANTIC NAMES in English history as some insignificant boy or wizened old woman appears to represent them, They aranot all, b{ auy moans, insiguifieant boys and wizonod old women, Many of the Indies are hundsome cnough to bo well worth looking at, whethor their names bo Porey, or Stanhope, or Brown, or Smith, The youug slips of girlé who come to he prosented for tho Grat time, frightoned and palo or {lushed, one admires und fools o Bouso of instinetive lovulty to. Tho namo of each it valled_out loudly by the Lord Chamberlain: “The Duchess of “Fine castlo,” ¢ Tho Countess of “Lody Arabella Darling on hor marriage,” ete, The ladies bow very low, and those to whom the Queen gives her kand to Kiss noarly or quite touch their kneo to the carpot. No act of homage to the Queen over sBuoma exaggerated, her behavior being ao modest and the sympatby ‘with her so wide aud sincere; but LADIES VERY NEARLY KNLEL in shaking hauds with any member of the royal family, not only at court, but olsewhera, Itin Dorchester,” not ~ #o strauge-looking, the kneeling to = royal Indy, but to meo n state- ly mother or “some soft maiden ren- doring such an act of homago to o chit of n boy or & gross young gentleman impresses ono un- leasantly.” Tho ourtsy of o lady to o Prince or rincess 18 something botweon kusoling and that queer genuflection ono mects in the Euglish agricultural districts: the props of tla boys and gurls seem momentarily to be knocked away, and they suddenly catch themuelves in descending. It astonished me, I remembor, &t o court porty, to see_one “Ynmc!nn young womnu—“divine?y tall” 1 should doseribe hor it her decided chin aud tho ovidently Romun turn of hor nose and of her charncter lad not put divinity out of the question—shake lhands with n not very imposing young Frince, and beud her rogal knecs into this curious and sudden lit- tle crmnp. I eaw her, this adveuturous maid, gomo days afterward in 2 hansomo cab (shade of Thor grandmother, think of it!), directing with hor imperious parasol the cabby to this and that slop. = Itstruck mo she should buve bocn a Roman damso], aud have driven & chariob with threo atoods abreast. ‘Ihe lsvees and the drawing-rooms may be call- ed fthe court ceromoninls, ~'Lhore are, bosides the court fostlvities, the balls and conceris at Buokingbam Palaco, Thore aro fouror five of these given in o season—two balls and two con- corta. THE DALLS aro the Iargor and less select, hut much the more amasing. The bail-room of tho pulace in large roctangulay IY‘M"N!HQ. At ono ond is the or- chestra,—at the other o raised dais ou which the royaltics sit. On euch side, runving the length of the hall, are three tiors of beucles, which are for ladies and such gontlemon as can got o soat. The tiera on tho loft of tho dais nra for diplomatisto. English suciebg hog the tiers up- on the vther sida, By 10 the ball-room is ususl- Jy filled with people waiting for the appearance of thoroynlties, Tho band atrikes up, aud tho lino of Frinces and Princosses advances down the long hall leading to the ball-room, The Queen and I'rince Albert used formerly to pre- eido ab theso balls, ‘The Queen doos not como nfw; tho Prince aud Priucoss of Wales take her place, Firet entors o line of gontlomen bearing long sticks. Behind theny come tho Priucosses, bow- ing on each Land. Tho Princoss of Wales ad- vauces firat, with a nsive, faltoring, hositating stop, astrangs and quite delicious Dhlending of timidity and child-like confidence in her manner. Thon como, walking by twos, some daughtors of tho Queon, Then n)p;aucf:eu the Princess of Took (Mary of Cambridge), alarge and very jolly-looking porson, with vast goad-nature aud & profuso Amilo, wixlch shio seoms to throw all over everybody. A German Duclioss or Lwo fol- low her,” Tho curtsics of these German Prine cospes are indeod QUITE WONDERFUL, Aftor entering tho hall, one of them will espy (such, I supposo, is the fiction) soime persons to whom she withes to how, and she then' proceails to oxecute a per- formanco of some minutes' duration. Bofore curteying, she stops and secms to *shy,” and looks at tho ladies 88 frightened horse exun- ines intently the objecs which wlarms lim; she then sinks slowly backward almost to the ground, and recovers horsoll with tho samo slowness, It would seem that such a gonutlection must Do, of necessily, ridiculons, DBut it is not so in tho lenst; it is quite wpucoessful, and rother ploaging, Aftor the ladies come tho Prince of \ales and his suite. Uho royolties then all go wupon the atngo, and n(for ‘musio the ball Logins, _ ‘Plioro aro > TWO BETR OF DANCEIH, The Princes und Frincesses open the ball with the diplomatists and some of the highest nobili- Ly on tho spaco justin frout of the duis, ‘Tho rost of Lhe ball Is uceupied by the other dancors, who later in the evenivg flud their way into tho diplomatlo #et. The dancing in the quad- rilles and Lancera is of & yather stately and coremonious sort. 1n waltz or galop the Eng- Tish always danoe tho somse step, tho dews temps, ond the aim of the dancing couplo ls Lo go as much llke o spinning-top as possiblo. Lhoy make ocvasional efforts to introduce sling noveltios liko tho trols temps, tho Bust- i dip, te., but, I am glad to ay, without any success, The rosult ig, that onco fmv(ng lenrned to danco in England, you are safo, The great hall durlug the waltz 18 A BRILLIANT HPEUTAOLE, Thore aro many beautiful wowmen, aro dnzeling, and all tho mon are ‘ flaming in purplo and’ gold,” Thero {s overy vavloty of maguificont dress. Officors of a Rusaian body- gunrd naro gold from head to foot, Hungnrinng wear purplo and fur-trimmod robes of durk crimson of tho utmost splendor. ~Tho youn, men of tho Guardy' clubs in gold and scarlof coats, and in spurred boots which reach above thoir kneos, clank throu%h tho halls, Beoteh Lords sit about, nud exhibit legs of which thoy aro justly prond. Horo, with swinging galt, wanders tho Queen's pipor, n sort of poot- Inurente of the bag-pipes, arrayed in plald” and carrying upon his arm the roft, cuchauting in- strumont to tho neic of which, no doubt, the Quoen boroelf duncos, Tho music of the or- chestyn {8 perfoct,’ and ho must bo a dull man who does not feol tho festivity, the buoyancy, and tho clation of the sceno. Dosides tho ball-ruom, many handsome apart- ments aro thrown apon, through which people promenndo; and if you will but¢ push aside the curtaing thero aro balcontes whoro one can look doyn by moonlight on the lakes aund fountaina of the gardons, * the watory waya of palacos.” I do not think tho halcouies aro much oceupied ; thoy aro a triflo too romantic for Dritish mam- mos, But thove is PLENTY OF FLINTING in tho halls and alcovos. Ouo room I ramember very plensantly, tho rofroshuiont room, which was kept open during tho ovoning until suppor timo. Lhere ono could gat pondwiches, cold coflno, champagno, shorry, ote., without linving to baury or Le Errct‘yln the lfenst, I onn't uny #o much for thoe supper, though by wai\inf a Iittle one could elwayn got momething, 'Lho Princes went flyst, thon the diplomatisly, and then everybody olse. ‘Tho jostling was such thnt whou young lndios auked for a plato of soup you wishied thoy had wanted hnm and chickon. A young Amorican, I think, would very mmch dislike to ko up to atable and eet u solitary sup- per with ludies looking on, nud youug and procly ones, too. But I have teuh o young guardsmnn, with an cnormons helmot and bucts as big ng hiweolf, stand up at the ¢able and “ solitary and alono™ ‘worl’ iy Jaws with such elfoct ns to #hako and sob trombling the wholo of his para- pheinalin, Bohind him pressed olber hungry courtiors, whom Lis gigantic relmes shut out from even tho possibility of supper, and who re- vonged thombelvos by sarensiio” cougratulations nsiu? upon the leugth aud heartiness of hLis monl, * Concort" Is an expresnion which to n hungry man has o stroug suggestion of tes and waceas roous. Bub A COURT CONCERT gives you such a supper e only & night's - dancing is ordinavily supposed to oulitle you to. The concotta aro given in tho ball-room of the Imlncu, uud are much more He- Ioct than tho ballu, Tiio royalties occupy very slight =ilt chairs placed jusv bofors the orches- tra, 'There they sit with grace and an_appear- auce of comfort tiraugh the wholo of it, while happier and humbler wmortals mny walk about and whisper, or scek tho vofreshuoni-room, or look st tho piclures, They have very good musie, the beat gingers are provided, and somo protty fuwiliny songs, like ** Home, Sweot ome,"” aro sung. Wofore tho royaltien Tead tho way to suppor they stop forward to tho bar which” divides Lo otchostre from the audionce aud sy a fow civil things to each of tho prominent artists, who in their turn bow and look very much delighted, I wondor thut "\l tollat, singers who uro alwost «ueens whon thoy como to Amorican cities, who bave here any smount of praise aud atiéntion entiroly froo from pat- ronage, and who oven in Europeun capitals mny havo oxcellent sociely, should bs willing to put thomselves in Auch n position. While the social status of musical nrtists hos not been 1nived rela- tively in the last quarter of a century, and while that of the theutrical profession lins been, in- deed, in London nt loast, relatively lowered, renson is gradunlly curing tho old socioties of Lurope of nauy of thelr SAVAGE AND BILLY NOTIONS. The cord stretchod betweon the guosts and the ferTarmom 6ed t Do & Toatiro ‘of mmustosl oo terlainmenta ab private bouses. Grisi weunt once to alug at o concort givon by tho Duke of Wel- lington at his country-seat.” The old mau asked her when sbe would dino, On, when you do,” sho gaid. e saw hor wistalie and did not cor- rockit; o it happenod that sho dined ut the same table with tho fiuuulu, and the incident, it is naid, excited considerablo horror among poo- ple of the old sort, ‘Think how bnarbarous, how envage, how utterly uncivilized, is such an in- stinct! Women, of coutso, porsceunto each other, ‘but it seems inconcoivable that a man and & gen- tloman could hava entertuined such & seutiment. Of course, & supper at o concoert is just tho samo nsat aLall, only thero aro fower peoplo sud moro leisure, The Prince of Wales, aud to o less dogroo the other royalties, move among the throng and mako a poiut of speaking to auy one to whom they wich to be civi “ The Prince,” oy he is commonly ealled, takor-<dvan- tuge of tho suppers at balls and partios to make himuelf agrecuble. TIHE RULE 18, let mo remind the reader, to wait until the Prince addrosses you before speuking, und to wait alio for him, when in conversation, L turu pwuy : ib would be considored very rudo to torminute the interview yourself, A subject in talking with the = Drince is always expectod to oall him *“Sir Thoe Queen s ad- drossed a8 ‘‘Ma'am,” It is not under- stood in this eountry that tocall o man **sir” is o confession of your inferioiity to Lim, Butit 18 80 in England, and the fact illustratos the strong hold theso abaurd and uncomfortable egolivms liavo upon the Dritish mind. No gon- tioman in England euys **sic” to another, un- lous it ho o very youns person to au old one.® A subordinate in an oflice wight **wir" a suporior, Lut ho would not “sir” ‘u man of the same rank o8 his guperior with whom he had wo con- nection, 8" is the term applied by any Englishman of whalever rank to a membor of “tho oyl fomily. Our committces, when Princes visit Awmerica, usunily address thom in notos 88 *Yoar Itoyal Highe nosa.” But “‘Your Royal Highness" is not a veca- tive; it can be usedonly 1 tho third person, THowevor, the Princes aro thon in Amorien, and porbaps we are under no obligation to know overything of their ways et home. Should the ronder ever moot & Princo in that Princo’s coun- try, Isbould adviso him to do just as other Jma- plo do there. Ho will probably question, and not unreasonubly, if o should accept tho impliedin- foriority ; but the bust of all principles for ex- tempore action is to do what seems - TUE USUAL THING, unless wo havo proviously decided from mature cousidoration to do the nuusual thing. It is not tho Prince’s fault that ho1u o Prince ; he meaus to bo civil to you, snd you can do no good by making bim and youraclf uncomfortabie. In- daeed, a truculont person doos not succeod in ns- gerting his equality. ‘Fhe Prince hag boen so long in that Jund of life that ho probobly has thought through the mistuke under which the ropublican strangor is loboring, and cousidors him & gooso, Moreovor, an American umuy ro- flect that ho will probubly kave vory little in lifo to do_with Princes, aud that his intorview with a Princo has been an ** exporienco.” It would ho about as foolish Lo nusert onc's digaity with the Mammoth Cuvo, or tho Mattorhorn, Besidos theso balls uid coucorts thove aro yob the Queon's und Princo of Wales' BREAKFASTS OR GARDEN PARTIES, which como off ot about 8 p. m. ‘Ihose aro the most exclusive aud unnttuinable of all the court cutortainments, ‘Lhero aro two or three of theso in & senson, and out of nil London socioty only a couplo of hundred aro invited. Thore are cur{nlu persons who aro always inyited, and otliors who are eligible uud sre invited occasion. ally. Alurge part of the diplomatic corps_nro always present, Each Ambassador or Min- iter; with oue or two secreln- rios of legation, is invariably among tho guosts; buta éuuun‘u broakfast {s tho high- est point which = Becrotary of Logation can touch, No Beorotary ever dinca with tho Queon: tho Ministor himseit only gues once o year, sud o “not without shodding of blood.” THE DRSS WORN DY GUNTLEMEN at thoso brenkfnsts is a curious uno, and any- thing but protty : it conslsts of o dvess cont nud light trousers, ~ U'he dress which our diplomatio ropresentatives are now compolied to wear at (ho other court coromonivs and festivities neods n word of montion, Our peoplo in Americs are somowhat concoited, somowhet prono to bo confident, upou questions of which thoy know vary littlo, Congross, at & dis- tance of muny thousand miles from courts, thought itkolf competent to decide what sort of o court-drots an American diplomutist should woar, An ablo, though crotchiety muan brought forward o moasure, sud, once proposed, it was wovo to go through, Locause to uppose its poss- o would have boon to bo aristocratio and un- American, Mr, Bumuer's bill required Amori- cans to go in the * ordinary dross of an Amori- cuns citizen,” Thore Wwus no attompt to iudicate what that should bo, Up to that time, our diplomatists lind worn tho uniform used the nouemilitary diplo- niutists of othor countiien, This cousiels of a bluo cont with more or lers gold upon it, white Lreechos, eilk stovkings, sword, aud chapoau. An ateempt or two Lind buon mado betore by ‘e rulo, more correctly ktnteil, In, that “ulr? fu never ned oxeept to fuilivate u disieronco of age or positiun K0 grest ns L forbd Gamilisrity or to bu i compatiblo with sockl e 1t may ve omployed Dy thio elder in_addressing (b6 younger, und by the wnporlor {n addressiug thio fufirior, as 'wall us vico yeras. - Henco th eaylug, in English'soclety, that ouly Erincos aud scrvaute sry spoken 10 as “elr. 1873. UGS 38, 7 tho Btato Dopartment to interfero with the trap- pings of its sorvants nbrond, Nlnroy issued a ciroulnr roqueating Amorican diplomatists to go to conrt without uniform. his afforded Jnmon Buchanan an apportunity of makiug ono of tho bost spoeches altributod to Lim. “Choe clreular of Mr, Maroy THREW CONSTERNATION into tho broasts of cortain anciont functionarien of tho Iluropean courts, for shortly after its ap- poaranco the lord high fiddlostick in walting called upon Mr. DBuchanau, who was thon the Unitod Btatos Minister in London, and said that s certain very dinstingnished porson hiad heard of the recont wish which the Amor- ican Government had oxproased with regard to tho costumo of i1ts agents, and that while sho would bo happy to oo Mr. Buchanan inany dross in which Lo might ohoose to presont himsolf, sho yot hoped le would o Tar consult hor wishios a8 to consont to carry o sword, ¢ Tell that vory distinguished pertounge,” unid Mr, Buchonan, “ that not ouly will I woear n sword, 8 glio roquests, but, should occasion require ity will iold wysolf ready to draw it inlior dufonse.” “Thin strikes me us in just that tone of respectful oxaggoration and playful ncqulesconco which n gentloman in this couutry mny very bocom- ingly tako foward tho wholo quostion, Netther Ar. Buchsnan nor any one else, I beliove, hoeded the roguest of tlio Dopartiment, und M. Mavey himself, it io gnid, subsequently repudinted it. ut whnt was only o roquest of tho State Do- partwent in Alr, Marcy's tino 18 NOW A LAW, T had good opportunities to obeerve how very uncomnfortuble our puor diplomatists wore made by this piceo of legizlation, Lts objeot was, of courae, to give them n vory unpretonding and subdued nppenrance. ‘Lho result 1, thal withtho excoption of Bougnlese nabobs, the son of tho Mikado of Japan, nud tho Kban of Kbiva, {he Amoricon Logations are tho most nolicoable peoplo at suy court ceremony or festivity in Europo, Whion overybody elso is Hiuning in purplo and gold, the “ordinary diplomatic uni- lormis oxceedingly simple sud modest; bub the Yauleo diplomais nre tho MOST BCHUTINIZED AND CONSPICUOUY ILRSONS, 10 bo seon, One of tho Soctetuiivy suid to wo ¢ “Iam atraid to wander oft by myself awmong theye Indies ; they inspect mo us tho maids ot honor ju the palace of Brobdignag did Gulliver, I fool townrd Columbin us & crucl mother who wou't dreas me like theso other little boys.,” 1t would require more then ordinary courage to sitompt = to dumeo in this g should think thnt our ropresentatives would huddlo together in the most unconspicu~ ous portion of 8 room, and nover leave it, Baid tho Secrotary above quoted : “I always feol Luro thut Iaw of some use to my chief : [ aw ons more pair of legs with which to divido tho guzo of Brillsh society." Thedreas in which OUR DIPLOMATS ATTEND COURT at presont {6 o pinin dvess-cont aud vest, with knea-Lraochus, blaclk silk stockings, slippots,ete. 1t is diilicalt Lo sec in whab scnso this iy the ¥ ordinary dresp of an Amerlean citizen,” The dress is niot so ugly as it would scom to be; in- deed, with the holp of a white vest and liberal wateh-clinin, it might bo mado quito Locoming wore it not #o excessively conspicuous. An English Cabiuot Ministor at o party given in bis owu house usually wears ik, and all porsona invited " to tho Twmpress Eu- gonio's private parlies camo got up in thot manuer. Bulin London it was not till recently that American diplomatists iero sl- lowed to go tocourt even thus attired, Eyery- whero elus 10 Europe the Logalions wero admit- ted in evening dresy, tho concewsion of kuee- breochos not_ hoving beon required. But at Buckiugham Palaco vhore aro two or three very old mou who wera courtiors when Queen Victo- rin was & baby, and who still control the court eliquetto. ‘The aged functionaries, who can vory woll romember Waterlop, and whoso fathers remombored tho American Revolution, put down their foot, and would admit no Ameri- cang without the proper garments, The con- sequence was, that our Legation was compelled to stay at home. 'This slato of things contioued until Reverdy Jolnson came out, who asravged whut was callod * THE DREECHES PROTOCOL.” Owing to the unrensonable stale of the public mind during his term of ofiice, this wes tho only measure which that good and able man succeeded in _nccomplishing, The compromiso yhich Mr, Johnsow's yood-umor and tho friondly impulse of the Butish publio toward ug at that timn wrung from these nucient chumborlains and gold-sticks (for you may sn; what you wiil, public opinion iy irresistible) was to allow the Ministor and the two Socrotaries of Logation to appesr in tho breochos abovo de- seribod, Americaus who are presented at court, and who get iuvitations “to the festivie tics, are all required to wear & court dress. Of what good compelling the poor diplo« matists to make scarecrows of thewmsolves moy beI do not know. Mr. Sumnor's proposition way_just one of thoso absurditios to which men aro liablo who have cousiderable conscionce and no sense of humor. Senators and Congressmon foll in with it because they feared to beun-Amar- ionn, and becauso it 18 not thoir wont to bo very difimfled or (in matters of this sort) very seru~ pulous, —_— THE LADY ALICE, The Lady Alice found herself a widow One woesome sunrlse, wrestling with her grief., ilor wirite (hroat shook with sube, her swollen lids Fell nerveless over lier tear-blinded eyes ; Bhe ture her hair, and prayed slie might become A still, cold marblo statue ovormore, Aud, ero the sabled hatchment bud Loen missed Above her door, or sounds of waillug ceased, Within lir darkened portals, for Lier lege, Bho summoned to her sldo Goronino, A deft and cunning master, from whoeo okill In monumental art even Klugs lind drawn Wherowith to make their griefs outlive (hemevives, ITo camo, A stormy pralndo—tears and xobs, oo mwift for words—beld hiin awhile dietrat, When with her hankerchief, all lmp with lears Aud frottcd deep with Inco, pressed her brov, ‘Tl Lady Alco sirrad hor supolo i, And chucked the inwasd drifiug of heér thoughts, #0 eatch somo tnapiration from my woo My lord is dead, ond I would maks tho varth A mausoloum ; ‘turn tho troes, tho Lills, Tho ocenn, it marblo + maky the sky One roild arch 3 thon, ko the Carian Queen, Doyate my body to tomb for his, Build mo & shrine, that 1, o woo-diamayad, ‘A pligeim lost to Happinchs, may turn, And from a tasteless world ean cloister thete “Tho boges 1 gsthered anly i bia alght Aud lot no niggard thoughts of vulue stint Your richest gkill, and thus abridgy the task.” The sculptor bowed, and through his subtle brain, Uushaped ng yet to gny great desiyn, Rose carven vislons, coroualed and urned, Ilaif-hidden in o tricery of flowers, Such as, in drooping sympatby with death, Are planted ovor graves, Withdrawn from men, Whilo a moon wazod and waned, ho gathered thors Ly patieut thovglt futo a perfutd wholo, X plliared pils of marule elogics, All conterod in a cool and wondrous niche, Whorein a atatue, shrined from the ruds touch Of gazors, stood, Lta prico, a Priucess’ dower, T1i8 s0cond wolcomo was o sweet, sad smils From toatlosy eses, and ready words of pralse, Whilo Lie could #oo'that from her stricken Loatt. 1ts s0rrow was uprovtud, and ite placo Way budding with a new trausplunted Joy. #Wo wrong ourselves to mensiire grief with gold, ‘Wo wrong tho desd loat we could give them lifo § That elplo status, shorn of all itk gands, Would beat rovord lua virluos, and my logs,” Thus spake the Lady Alice, and agaln The artist bowed obelsanees to her willy Agaln o wrought for weeks in shieldod nook, Reclugo from all disturbing foes to thought, Until the unveiled wodel of Ler Jord Btaod out buforo bier, eloquent, though duib, But Time will valyot fingers had eraeed Enough of sorrow from Ler rounded chieek, Aud yot again her Ackle wish had chunged, And deemed a simple bust would better shirlne The mowory of her lord, 1In one sliort year, Yellod and eequestored from the aight of all, It toulk itn placo nmid forgatten things, I'lie Lady Allce fonud heraclf o bride Ono gladsome sunrise, playing withs her joy, Barno thousaud gulucas wpurkling ju her hafr, —Willian Ward'in the New Orleuns L'unes, dhisidid Havehiie ok LITERATURE. John Stuart ill's untobiography will be pub- lished vory shortly, by Mesers, Longnian, Groen & Co,, of London, —* Arrows at a Vonturo" ia tho title of the Rov. I DeWitt Talmage's fortheoming volume, The story of William Toll will not be repeated thorein. —Ilobert Browning has mado a bust of Bhal- loy, which crities pronounge admisublo, ‘—It was & ourions and inexplicable judgment of Lord Lytton thut Paul Do Kuek was tho first French novelist of the ago, —I'he ‘Loledo Blade having advertised n choice of boolt promiums to thase who would soud in snbucripeions, 700 roaders olose tho works of Tlavius Josephus, tha Jewish histoilan, —nT1es Braddon 1s writing u novel which is to Do printod at tho same time in cight newspupers, fssued in as muny differont parts of Bnglund, —Qov, Willlum Qilpin’s bouk on ¥ The Mis- aton of the North Americau Poople, Geugraphi- enl, Boclal, and L'olitical,” will bo brought out by tho Mesars. Lippincott, —Mr. Winwood Ronde has publluhnd' in two volumos, au “African Bketeh-Book," which forms a ourious ugglomoration of storios, advou- turen, history, goography, and erltiolsm, Still, it 18 ful of Intorest. ~ Liko fomo othor writors, Tir. Rondo discradits tho atatements of Mr. Du Ohaillu, When ho waa talking to n company of nativo hunters, * o ronr of Inughter,” ho snys, ‘followed my announcomont that Mr. Du Obindilu had shot gorillas himnolf,” —Ierbort Spencer’s * Bludy of Sociology” will ho complate in the Octobor numbor of the Contemporary Lieview, and published na an en~ tire work in Novembor, —A now history of Jamaica has boon writton by W. J. Qardner, and printed in London, It tolla tha story of slavery and _omancipalion, and bringe down thoe history of this British possou- slon fifty yenrs Iater thnn any prpceding work. —Anoy utory-hiol by Mfas Pholps, cutitiod “W'rotty's Wodding Lour,” is in pross by &, It Orgood. & Co. Lo somo firm bLavo alko in Brnnnmuun * Bounds [rom Eecret Chambors," y Loura O, Reddon (ilovard Glyudon), Tho suthor is both deaf and dumb. —1t ia atatod in the Kuglish _papers that tho Regius Professor of Modorn Ilistory at Cam- bridge, Drof. Beoley, s ongagod on n lifo of 8teln, the great reformer of Prussin, after its overthrow Ly the fitst Napoloon, —Tonuyson bns not aceopted n Darcnotoy for Tiwnelf, as bas heon reportad, but ban procurcd tho honar for bix eldest son, whu is now at_Ox- ford, ho younger Tonnghon s suid to Lave much of Lthe pootie nhility of hiy father, —Misy Cocilin P, Clovolund, davwhiter of Mr. Gurooley's 8l Mus, Jolm I Cloveland, hag beon sponding the wummer on_n book to Lo on- titled ** Journnl Leaves from Chappaqua,” Itis to contnin porsonal reminisconcos, skotclios, aud othor mnterial concerning Ar. Grealey, as wull a4 other mombers of the famiiy, It 'is to bo issued carly in tho nutumn, —=35f, Victor Hugo's * Qantro Vingt Troize,” with the sub-litle of *‘ 'remis. recit : la Guorto Civile," #o long announced, is to appear in Yebruary, 1874 The plob canies tho render Tor an Inlant to Pariw, aud th imposing figures of Robeapiorr, Danton, and Ifnras appenr upon the siage ; bub tho action takes placo al- most onlirely in the Vendee, 'Ilie relations of ho Yondoens Lo tho Lnglinh, and those ol tho Channel Islnnds to the Lrltou past, aro illustrut- ol Ly doouments hithorta hardly kuown. An oncounter Lolweon an English frizute and a Tronch sundron in said to bo grandly toi —'he Lointon Athenwuin deals unzently with S Tife Among the Modoes,” Ly Mr, Joachin Miller, recently published in'thuf city. It soys : é M. Millor's so-called book sbout the Mo- dozs Lurnaont Lo ba n monstrously dull vol- umo, in which o yelatos hig adventires al the Culifornia digzings and among the Shasta Ins 8 in cavly life. Wo do not besitato to call this a ¢ got-up” hovk on one subject, to which o scneation title, sngiresting suvlher and difforent subject, hnw beon given to mako it sell. Dir. Miller may romnuco at bis will ebout his early lifo, but o objeel to Lis lendiug the public to Lolicve that his Look throws avy light upon tho history of the particular {ribo of Tudians who have Intely ect the Amarican Government nt i Though Mr. Miller somelimes, by po- al licenre, eails the Shaste ndians ¢ Modocs,” thore is notaing in bis ook which in reality coucerns tho Modoca, oxeept o vory donbtful uce count of o mamacro of Modocs by whitea many which reuts upon the authority of n unay, and Lo agcoundrel by his own ad- ou. OWRERSHIP 1N WOREIL YWhat Dr. Holland Thinks Abowt it From * Tomes of the Time" in the Septeniber Scribuer, A mau was receutly hanged in Mussachusetts for taking vengeance on ona who had practically disputed big proporty 1o a girl. 4'ho man was a bruto, of courxe, but he hat an opiion that o girl who had given hierself to Lim, in the com- Dlotest sucrender that o wuman_can make, was in some souse his ; that her giving Lorsclf to an- othor involved his dishonor ; ana that his prop- @ity in hor was to be defended to the extremily of denth, A prominout unowspaper, whila re- cording the facts of thoe case, taien the occasion to say Lhat this idon of ownership in women is the same burbarism out of which gruw the evils and wrongs that the ** womun movoment " is intonded to romove. Ifwe wers to respond that ownership in women, uult' blindly appre- hended as it was by our bratal gallows-bird, is the oo thing that saves us from tho wildest doctrines and practices of the frec-lovers, and is one of tho strongest conservyative forces of so- cicty, it is quite likely that we ehonld be misun- dorutoa us we shall run the risk, and make . ingtinct in the heart of overy woman which tells ber that sha iy his to whom she gives herself, and bis alone,—an instinet which bids lier cling to him while she lives or ho lives—wlich identities her life with his—which makes of him and ber, twain, one flesh, When this gift is ouce made to n true men, hie recog- nizos it signifieance. Ieis to provide for her that which sho caunot provida for hereell; he in to protect hor to the extent of his powors shie is to sharo bis bome, and to Lo his closest com- panion, His ownership in lor covers Lis moat sucrad poesession, and dovolyes upon him tho gravest duties. If it wero otherwise, why is it that o wowman who givos herself away unworlhily foulu, whon olie 1inds nerselr decavud, that sho i8 lopt 7—that shio Ly parted with heself to one who doen not recognie the nature of the gilt, and thut sbe who ought Lo bo owned, aud, by Lemng owned, honored, i3 disowned nud dislion- ored? Thore is no trie, puro woman living who, when she gives Lorself away, does not rejoice in the ownorship which makes bLer furover the property of one man. Sbo is not his slave, to b tasked and ahuwed, bocause sho ig the gilt of love and not tho purchuse of money ; but she is his, in o uenso in which she cannol be anothor flmu‘nl lwiumut dishunor to him und damuation to eruolf, Onr gallows-hird was, in his bratal way, right, It To lind been Living 1n savage society, without Inws, aud with the nceossity of gunrding his own trousures, his set would bave Leen looked upon ay one of hereisin by all tho Lonutics and braves of his tribo. Tha wenk point in his caen wus, Uhat his ownorship {n what he was pleaued to call Lis girl " waa not eslablished uccording to the laws under which he lived. o was not logully maryied, ond had ncq\llln:d no rights un- der thie lnw to bo defended. What ko was pleased to considor Lis rights wero esiablishud conlrary to law, aud_bo could not appealito lnw for their dofense. 1le took tho woman'to hitgolf con- trary to Iaw, ho dofeuded his p\-dsxnrly in hor by mutder, and bo was banged: Ho Was served right. ‘Hemp would grow on b rodk for such as he snywhero in the warld. Thord iwno eur for thé man vho seduces sud sluys hut a broken neck. \ There is nothing more mm\ncing inthe nepect of eocial A in this country than'{he olfort amony a cortain class of refonnery m‘gran): up tho identity of interest aud feeling amdng men and women, Hlen wroaliuded to witl suéera nud biame, as boiug opposed to tho interests of womeh, as using the power in their hands—n owor uswped—to maintain tholr own pr atico it Lo oxpauso of woman's right woman's well-being. Alarringo, undor Lhi of teaching, becomes o compiel of conyeu into which wen snd women may euter, eash party takiug along the personal independency onjoyod in o single state, with soparate busincss intorosts and separate pursuits, In othor words, marringo i regarded eimply as the legal com- anionship of two beings of opposito voxes, who Fiivo thotx own ndepondent pussits, with which the bond is not pormitted to interfore. It con- vl tomplatos no identification of life and destiny. Thoe man helds mno ownership in woman which givos him a right to a family of ohildren, aud a lifo dovoted to the snorod dutios of motherliood, The may who ox- pectss such & sncritico at the hands of his wifo is regarded as o tyrant or o brute, Women are to vote, and wade, uud practice law, and pronch, and go to Cungross, end do overything that o man dooy, irrespoctive of tho marringo bonds, Wamen ato to bo just as freo to do unything out- glde of thoeir homes as mon are, ‘Lhey ara to chiooe their carcers eud pursue thom with just o littlo reforence to Lhe futernnl adwinlacration of their fomilies as their husbands oxercise, This s the aim and logical end of all tho modorn docttines concerning woman's rights, The identification of wowun with man, a8 the basis of tho iuntitution of tho family, is scolfed at. Auy ownotship in woman, that'comes of the gift of hersolf to him, nnd the sssumptlon of tho poy- gossion by him, with its lifo-lony train of ebliga- tions and dutles, is contmned, It is newuiod that intorests which ure, tnd must forover ro- main, identical, aro oppoted to ench other. NMen and women sre pitted against each othier in o strugglo for powor. Well, let it bo undoratood, then, that mon ara opposed to these Inttor-dny' doctrines, and thab thoy will remain 8o, ‘hoy are determined that the {dentity of intorestbetyweon mon sud women shall nover bio destroy and tho snered owuor= whip in womon, bestowed in ol true niarringo shull uever bo Anvrendered ; thut tho funnly sl Le maiutained, and that the uncold millious of true women in the world who sywpathize with thom phult be protected from the falso philozo- phies and deatructive ‘Iuli‘ e O their fow mis- puided pistors, who geel to turn tho world up- wde down, Tolitienl conventions may thiow thoir wups to clunoring rofurmors, but thoy mean nothing by it. Thoy never have redeomed & plodge to these reforacte, and wo presumie they hinve nover intended to do so, ‘Lhay oxpeot Ll sntter to blow over, ud, i wo du not mi tike tha slgnn of the times, it Ts rapaly blowing aver, will moro or less thundor aid with very littlo rain, In the meantimo, it the diseussions thot have grows out of thoso quostions baye | tonded to open a bLropdor fleld to woman's womanly idustry, or oblitorated unjust laws from tho statnto-book, let overy mnn rejoico. No qood onn como Lo womau thaé does not bone- it Lim, anduo harm that doos not burt him, Tumauity 16 one, and man and woman rise or 1ull togother. — A VIENNA SCANDAL. Amecricans vo, Austrians, Vienna (ug. © Corregpondencs of the New York ice, An affair hobween an American and an Austrian ofticer hins been causing much gossip hore in cer- tain circlen, ‘The socret had beon kopt thus fur from tho gonernl public. Gen, 0., sont here on an ofticinl misston Lo mako eoma Inquiries ralate ing to the Lxposition with a view to that of 1876, enlored the Exposition butlding one evoning last week, and, fy ho camo Lo the rolunda, somo Amorican indlcn, who lnew him, came to put themusolves undor his protection. 'Lhey eaid that thrco Austrinn officers had been fol- lowing them for two hours, and liad becn rudo and insolont to them. ‘Uhe General triod to Ynms the mattor off, remomberiug the frco bablta of tho Continont, where ladics aro_scen without an escort, when the eldeat of tho Indies tools him oue side, and said that the youugor la- dios had nob told all, nud tbat the “ofticors had tn_mel the younger Iadics upon tho shoulders with their caues, '['he General was angry then, and agked which of them had committed thia in- v, Ono vias pointed out, aud ho turned to faco tho group, thinkiug thoy would soo thoir mistake and go ewsy. Instend of doing so, howavor, the threo officers soaled themselves, ond thoone who had used his cano raiged his glass to his eve. end staved at the Geueral, as much oy to say, “And wint aro you_going to do chout it#" The look was regarded ag a picee of insolance, and was no intouded. Cen, 0. stepped toward the parly, sud the ofticer Indieatod rose to meot him, whon the Concral slapped hiy faco. ‘Lhe blow was not returncd, but the police £0on eame, mnd tho oliicor offored bis card, Gen, C. rofused to tako it, bocanso ho would have no further dispute about the ludics, but gave his own nume umd_referrod to the Amoerican Miniater for his address, The oflicor struck was an Austrinn Laron, 1'he noxt morn- ing lus Iriend waited upon Gen. U., who indi- catod tho nauma of his friond, ind thoro was & mooting, The friend was nled a galtant Con- oral, and-on henting the caso he stated that Lis prl_ucli'nl was rondy o givo ruy satisfuction ro- quired, but firat he wished to hiear their sido of tho story. 'Cho Austrians adwmilted that they bad followed the ladics, nob for Lwo, but for four Lours; that thoy wero mislaken in their chnracter, and that they wero about to go away when Gen. C. came up, Uho lattor's fuiend ro- warked that thoy hiad confessed to an outrago upon a party of American Jadios, for which thoy Yiad been justly punished, aud that they Lad no right to make such nustakos. Thoy pleaded the mauners of the Continent. ‘I'le response was ilat, whatever the manaers of tho Counti- nont might Dbe, Americon ladies visiting the Bxposition must Lo protected from insulf, oud that ho himsolf not ouly jus- tified his friend—sinco tlhey had opeuly cou- fesuod their error and acknowledged the insult— but should himselr act in the same way if spponled to under liko cireumstances. Beuides, Gon, O. held an official position, aud duolivg was not countenanced in our country, It wia evidout that the ofiicers fult thut they were in the wrong, for thoy at once said that this view of tho caso changed matters a little, and they would consult tho” Daron about it. At the noxt mieotingy this reason was accepted as a good one, but still the blow could not ba excused, for tho Baron would loye caste without o shot at bis as- enilant. Then, 8aid the Genornl, the ladios are out of the question ; I shall never conucut to a meeting about them; but my friend will be at tho Exposition building every evening to meet the Darou and to receivo bhis provoea- tion upon other grounds. But I must teli you, he continued, thut wohave laid thismatter boforo the Ameriean Ministor, and intend to carry it before your Govornmeut, in order to test the question whother or not American ladios visiting the Ex- position are to bo insulted with impunity, or subjocted to the loose cods of mannors prevail- ing thero, a8 ?cu assort, This view of the mat- ter did not ploase them, and they very candidly admitted that they did not want to mako a scan- dal about an affair in which they were cloarly in the wrong, and proposed to arrango by tnklng to the Baron an apology from Gon. C. That was not admittod, because the firat offense came from tho Baron, but if ho would apologize for his conduct, Gen. C. would exprees hua regrota that ho found it necessary to give tho blow. The matter rested thore, and meautime, I learn, it was lnid before the Secre- tary of War, What tho result was I cannot sry, Dbut nt the nost meeting tho nbove arrangomoit wug agreed upon, and the affair amicably settled, It is probable the Baron was ordered not to iu- Bist, or sinco the Americans wero detormined to }:nuh the 1natter to n seandal which would not zve been to the credit of Austria, it is likely Lo waa advised to let the matter drop. —_——— BY THE RIVER. 1 am sitfing nlone by tho river, And the willowa nrs sweeping Its brivk; The shudows of twiiight ara fulling, And T elt by the river and think, ‘Tl sindowr of the twilight grow deaper; The river is fading from sfght T cau eea tho gray willows o luter, And I am alone with the uight, In darkness and gloom, noble siver, “Thon nrt noisolcesly ftoating awn Injdarkness and gloom I zmn floating, ‘Aud whither, O'say | do I stray? The learning of Plato and Pascal 16 muily at worl in my bralu ; Tam sethilled nbout nothing, T fool aud I reuson in vain. Does Justicoexist 7 Oh, vwhere fu it? Sl tho Lieart of the tyraut is atou Btill his victimy are toilfig, despair Sl ho hoods not, ho hears uof, t "Ti3 valn that you tell me, horeafter "Theso thingh are 1ot to'ho wo; Wo are only ablo o resson ‘From that which we soe and we know, Tor centurios long hiave the cursea Qf the hear{-broken piarced Lo the skies § Tor centuried long has no answer Roturned to tholr desolate crivs, 1£ 1 call npon Nature for comfort, 1t f3 rilont and grim #6 the gra "Tio wlnds wil ol uton at 1oy No reply from tho long-soundi Aud thoe stars, as they glitter above me, Purs and ealmn an the Hakes of the suow, Look as cold on thesorrows of mortals “Au thoy looked iu the yeacs long ago, Oli give me! oh give mo my childhood, The unquostioning faifls thib wea thero, When I knolt at the feot of my wother, Aud gently sho taught wo my prayer, I am sitting alone by tho river, Aud the willows uro aweeplng? Ita brink ; T twilight bus doopened Lo midnight, Aud 1 slt by the siver aud thiuk, —Golden Aye, et L L Miraculons Conversion of o Dog. i M. TFruucisque Sarcey has just coutributed au- cther stinging arcicle to the X.LYme Siccle on 190 subjocts of tho panphlots with which the chrical party is deluging France, namely : vo- pudva litlle books about Marie Alacoquo, et audmaryolious anecdotos in roactionist Jourunls, Bhoss ju Mousignor Sngrot, who, according to tho Caurrier de la Lozere, has just converted a dog 01 {ho shophord breed. ‘The gzood Bishop, says tltg paper, bnd no sooncr whighted at tho station if Villofort than the animaleniffed at the Episcop robe and solicited n earess and & picco of breads', The story procesds minutoly to velate how MonSynor tried to get 1id of the dug but how the do} would stick o the Dishop. Whon tho Epiticopy earriage loft Villofort tho animal preceded it vith a proud and rosolute air. Fresh offorts wore '\l\du to drive n\\'n{ the dog, who, putting his £ bolwoon his legs In sign of pausiva obedieng, protendod to make off, but craftily nulnhlmh‘a ‘limseclf boforo tho altar of Haint Jean, wel, koowiug that Mousignor's journey wouldbudihore, 'T'his lnut triul of in- btinet ‘won the gawe, and from this moment, addy the Courrier, \*ihie dog is ouo of tho ser- vunts of the Bishop, sad tho ancient guardian of ou&fluflchu now lives with u now pastorof our souls —_— A Sure Solncu. * From the Uticy Herald. A roung Iady in & uoighburing town was dresss ing for a party the other evermg, Iler little niace was chowing gum and watching her. ‘Tho littlo ono usked the young lady if a cortain othor yoany lady, who was _going, had o beau, She Way nngwered fn tho anjmative, She then sskzd tho question with reforeuce to s gecond Iudy, recoiving o wimilar answer. Miss Curfos- ity thien asked ior aunt if she had & wan. Tho Intter ropliad in tho nogative, to seo what the 1itt1s ono would say. "Tho ohlld ktopped chowing thio gum, 1cmovod it from bor mouth, aud, alter gazng at it wintfally for a momont, held 1t out Wil 1w suddon gonerons impulse, saymg, Vol T gucus you hiad better tako this gum abug then, " Young ladiey, it your regular cworts fuil to appour when you need their sor- vees do not despair, but, following the quaint yiadom of tho child; tako'some guw along, aud sou will bo biappy. u\ fIASCULINE ESADVANTAGES. Yeminine Superiority as Shown in Traternal Infelicities. _The Hardships Men Endure in Business and in Love, From avery part o} theso United States there I8 coming up such o walling protost against tho lot of women, that it is high timo somebody ehould *rixo to explaln " matters In such u way that women may at last realizo their superior advantages, and mou be consumed with envy, MASCULINI DISADVANTAGES hogin in babyhood, Look at thoso long, flowing draporics,—lhoso tucks, flutings, ruflings, om- brolderies, and ribbons ; are not all thoso strictly fominino ndornments ? Thinik, then, what a hin- dranco in the raceof lifo it ia toa boy to spond the first threo or four years of Lis earthly axistenco trying to acconmodate bis movements and occu- pations to the wearing of petticonts, and thon hava to givo It all up, and begin life over agnin with the assumption of the unmentionablo in« signia of his sex. It {8 no wondor that mon always look younger than womon of the samo ago. It is all owing to loss of timo by that firsb faleo starling in lifo. Then como tho BUSERIES OF LOXLOOD. Daes tho boy hope, some cold wintor-morning, to economizo time by a basty toilet, and turn ‘himself ovor for o woe bit nap after tho rising boll, there comes a voico up tho stairway; “O Johunie! Jolm-n-i-6!” with lingoring poruua- pivenoss, ** Got right up. Your father says ho wauts you to havo all the paths shoveled beforo brealtfast,” It littlo Jennio is up and rendy for breakrast, that is all that iy expected, Sho bas nothing moro jmportant to do than Lreathing on tho fronly panes to get u view of Johnnie at worlk. Docy tho boy get up early to got his skatos sharpoucd—** Don't make thut noiso iu hero!” Docs Lo try on thoso idols of his heart to sco that overy strap and buckio 18 in order— “ Haven't I told you times without number not to put on your skates intho house? By noxt spring thore won'l be o rg of carpet loft,” How dues littlo Jeunio munage to keep hor skates in good condition? \Why, she nmmu.ls to the head of the houschold : *Ta, can't Johunio bore s lole in this strap for wme?"” ‘John, fix your sister's skales;” and they're fixed, 1f Johnmnie tries to play in the houso, he is told to put away that top or those marblos, asked if ho can't keop quict one minute, an advised to takea book and sit duwn, On the coutrary, just £o soon as lio hurries home, and snatches up “ Rubinwon Crusoe™ or ** Swiss Tawmily Robinson,” and beconion oblivious fora . time of his ushappy lot, he is roused aunow to it by the paternal voico, *“ Come, Jubnnie, put up that book, aud go find the cow. HSho hnsn't come home.” Jeunio, who i8 very busy putting her rofractory doll to bad, wonders how Fobunie knows which way to turn to look for the missing animol, Potlinps he catches n granddaddy- loug-legs, and ropeats that familiar rbyme which ~compels nbim to point out ‘the rond Johunie must take, Johnnio baing futerrogated as to that subject ou his return, slings hiis cap deflantly into” the corner, in the groundswell of bLis discontent, snatches up * Robiuson Crusoo " again, mutters something undor his broath about ¢ givls » and ' geoso,” and is ogain absorbed in his book. ¢ Come nos, Jolinnie,” snys tho mother, ** don’t go to roading again, Its8 o'clock.” Fivo minutes elapuce. “Jobinnie, did you hoarme? Jennie's gonsnp atairs,” I'lvo minutes moro on the desort islo and & childish voico is heard attho stai's land- ing: *2a, can’t Johunio coms to bed ? I'm alraid 1" * Now, Jolnnie, I shau't spenk to you again” A briof—a vory brief reapite, * Oh! only to finish this chaptor!” “Mua ! Ma 1" louder and angrier, ‘' I'm coming down if Johunie don't comel Mayn't he come 7’ Euter ths patornal, “Jolm, what wmre you up for at this bour? Shut ~ up that book aud go to bed! Why, Pussio, why aren’t you in bed?” I want to kiss you Gooduight ™ plends the sweet little fibbor,” “Bah! Bhe's atiaid of the darl; that's the matter,” defiantly retoris Jolnnie, going up etairs two stepy at & timo. " *1 ain't neithor. Can't lio stop plagueing nie?"” Come, John, lat your sister aloua.” Lhit's all the sympathy & boy gets! “Chen, aguin, look at & boy's BCHOOL-TROUDLES, Can he dodgo his calculus by complaining of a sicl-hoadache, and breakfasting on toast and ton in bed? Can Ao slide over his untranslated Vir- gil by putting on a new coat, his most bowitching cravat, and curling bis baik, sud looking down when the grumpy old Prof. growls at him? Can tearful eyes and quivering lipe, aud s sob or two, condone in his case for & forbiddon correspondence ? Then look at the partiulily ehown the * eweot girl gradunles.” = Tho rc- porters rhapeodize over their *gracofalnoss,” their ‘* quoonliness,” their ‘‘ musical voices," and give a reportorial pat or two to their inaudi- bla little platitudes ; and iu the next day's paper figure some bon-mots from their sparkling es~ BAYS. il Nobody dilates on the * majasty,” the * king- 4 lincas,” the © Apolla-like charing,” 0f the young- i| geutlemen graduates. They stand up there, und brsvoly addroes the audionce, couscious all tho timo, to tho very coutro of their boings, that their hands are big nnd red, that there is ono lock of Linir that will stick straight up, and that those blasted coat-sleevoes will pull up. There's horoism for you! Andall their reward 1s, that tho roporters say, * The specoh showed thought and study.” T should think it might ! ¥ ‘Thon consider what men have become hardoned o IN BUSINESS, What women would over consent to be a stroot- car-conductor, and slop her car at the uplifted purasol of every stuck-up piece” that chuso to ride? Or bow could she, 28 conductor on a rail- way, stoel Lerself agaiust her bntter self, and put off the train some impecunious Adonis? A woman can tako a wook to decide whother she will hwve hor bounet trimmod with “asge-groon * or “peacock-blue.” A man bas till 8 o'clock to- day to make up his miud whether he will buy that piece of property or not. But it is in the romance of life that masculine disndyantagos aro most plainly marked. Whera does the man worth taking ever find courage ta osk to bo took? What inspiration shull eunble him to put in persuasive phraso that sublimely- 4 ogotintical question : *‘ Madam—abem—am L not thie mun you would choose, out of all the world, for a husband? " Then, who pitics him if the lady changes hor mind the day boefore the wed- ;liug ?? Is there any balm in Gllead for a jilted ovar 1t i & popular delusion that men never envy women, Of course lhu‘)‘r do, Ln' they are too wise to confess it. Doulitless il wonld bo bettor naver to bo born at all; but, if that misfortune does occur to oune, it iy somo alleviation to Le born & womau,—t0 bo accounted nn angel hore, and prodestined to be an angol boreafter, Wiron azin. —_— Elenry 8, Footo’s Duely, Ex-Senator Fools's Reminiscences w the Washington Chronicle, A to my own persoual exumple in the matter of dueling, Ihave only o sny, in addition to what I have said already, that'L Lud the nusfor- tuno twice to be clinllenged to the tleld of houor; in Lwo othor inntanenw L ras fuulicls Guuuki W bo the challenging party. On tho first uccusion, in 1529, T was shot i tho shoulder by ono of tho colobrntod duchng pistols of Gen. Juckson, bor- rowed by my aniagouist from the venerable Tero of the Hormitnge, who, by the by, iad cur- tainly no hand in {ustigating this duel, snd who lived aud died my friend, beslowing upon me ui important offico “almost in the last days of s ovor-glorious administeation, ‘Iho last time L fought was in 1687, whon, after fivo shots haviug beon exchanged, the nfuir termiuated withous the least pernonal injury to myself, my adversary having beon disabled by my fifth shot, which bad eutorad his bip. ‘ i 1u tho winier of 1832-'03 T had a pu!'nulml dite puto at tho bar with the fumous 5. 5. Prontiss during tho trinl of & capital ense vf mueh bupor- tanco. 1is Janguago, though suciontly retuli- ated by mo ab the time, induced mo to ound him n chaliengo, which 1 ought nevor to_ thought of dolug, Hopromptly accopted, proved o far bet- ter shot than mysolf, and wounded mo very painfully in tho loft shoulder, Ve adjusted tho disputo boforo wo loft tho ground, Awindiscroot friond or two of his spoka. dispuragingly of my conduct on tho ascasion, L was bighly oxaspor- atod, wnd wrate bini a noto domndung whe.hier Tio hisd givon isls sanotion to tlin acbof Injus- tico, 1N at once denicd doing 8o, T publiied thie corrospondonce, 110 plucod such an inter- pratation upou my loteer to bim an guave him Thueh offouso. Ila proposed re-opening tho fight, wineh wo did on exceedingly desporata torme. Hlu uhot me down, giviug me B oxceed. ‘ngly dangerous wound, Ly threa months we woro good trionds, uaid fivad n tho routons uie ity und harmony up to the period of bis death, w{dvh happoned {u 1848,