Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1873, Page 9

7\ bl 'THE CHICAGO "PAILY{ITRIBUNE 9E’fd1VDAY,‘"‘DECEMBER ‘21,- 1873, FRANCE. &he Politieal Situation, How the Provisional Govern- ment Was Organized. Mlottings in the National Assembiy for 2 Restoration of tho Bourbons. The Oount do Chambord’s Famous Letter, and Its Effect, HacMahon Placed in Power as a Tool of {ho Monarclists and Clergy, France Not a Republic Now, and : Never Has Been, » Spectal Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune, Panus, Nov, 24, 1873, After Franco wns complotely beaten in tho war with the Germans; aftor Louis Napoleon wag dothroned and ‘s prisoner in Gormany, and the Empross an exiloin Engiand ; aftor Paris hnd enpitulated, and Bazaine surrondored his army 8t Motz; aftor ono-half of the country was in actunl possession of tho invador, aud all reaist- ance had consed, and poor France lay, bruised, bloody, and balt-doad, at tho feet of the * Alle- magno,” 5 NO NATIONAT, GOVERNMENT somained in oxistenco to whom tho victors could dictato tho terms of n ponco. Franca had not ouly succumbed, but Ler National Government was oxtinet, Even tho various Committeos of National Defonse woro dissolved, and tho mem- bors fugitives, The grand army had disbanded, and overy man had fled tohis own tont. Tho land was given up o tho epoiler, and to the sn- archy and plunder of the Commune. In this erisls of nffairs, Bismarck stated to Thiors, Julos Favre, tho Duke do Broglio, Bayes, and other prominent Frenchmen, that, boforo torms of poacd could b proposed, it was nocessary to CREATE A POVISIONAL GOVERNMENT with authority to accopt conditions and bind France to thoir fulfillment., The Gor- rans had an olepbant on their hands. The nations of Europo would not pormit thom to reduco Franco to tho condition of n con- queraed proviues, to bo ruled as o colony of Ger- many; aud thore wasno logal Government in existenco with which to treat. Tho only solu- tion of tho situation was to improvize o Govern- ment, and compel it to sign, in the namo and bohalf of Frauce, whatever terma tho conqueror might dictate, ‘With thia purpose in view, Bismnarck granted 8n armistico, and acling through the name of Thiors and other leading Fronchmon, issued an order for the holding of an election on the 8th of Fobruary, 1871, to elect 730 membors of AN ASYENDLY, or Parlinment; this body to have both constitutional and logislative powers, and to comist of but ono branch. Bls- marck nuthorized olections to bs held in all tho provinces and citios occupled by the German army, iocluding Alsace and Lorraine, which dlected and sent to this F'rovisional Assombly thirly members, who took their seats, acted and voted, until aftor these dopartments were torn from Froncd aud thrust into tho ombraca of Germany, in disregard of tho tears and protesta- tions, not only of the people thoreof, but of all France besides. Tt was tho most shocking ' case 0. international rapo ever committed iu modern times. But there was no help for it. Tho will ©f tho conquoror was law, nnd must bo obeyed. Thig Provisional Parlisment was elected for " o sPECIFIC LENGTI OF TIME, Joterm gf offico was fixed in the mandato for their rppofutment. The universal undorstand- ing was, however, that, as soon as torms of peace wero concluded and law and order ro- established, the finances restored and the Gor~ man indemuity provided for, and somo form of Provisiounl Government crected for the en- Zorcement of the laws and proservation of do- meatic poace, this emorgency Legislative Cham- _shiould be dissolved, and & regular Corps agislatif bo elected by the constitucncies for ' dofined torm of oftice. When the people camo to mako choico of dol- egaton, thoy elected thoso porsons who had beon opposed originally to the declaration of war ngaiust the Prussinus. Tho caucus-commit- :“fl put in nomination men who woro supposed 0 be . LEAST OBNOXIOUS TO THE CONQUENOR. Poruons of Communietio sentiments were caro- fully oxcluded ; mou of. radical opinions waro, B4 far as possiblo, loft out ; Bonapartists were rigorously ignored ; politicians of extrome views Woro rojeoted ; and mon of wealth, social stand- ing, aud persongl respectability were sought for, -Iho instiuctive fecling of tho country was, that casier terms could bo obtained from Bis- marck sud the Gorman Court by o Conservative body of ropresontatives, who waro opposed both to the ¢ Empire™ and 'to the Democracy, than by a body which renlly roflectod tho views and opinions of the Frenclipeople on political ques- tions, Tho Ironch hoad was in the tiger's mouth, and the most important quostion was how to got it out. The constituemoios, thoreforo, elected a body of mon ta nogotiate for thow, of what in England would be clfi?fll "Tories, butt who wore actually Bourbons, aud in favor neithor of nf(ix;:;sm‘vnhvo Ropublic norof the Empire, but o RESTORATION OF THE OLD BOUREON DYNASIY, na roprosentod at dprusuut in the porson of Count de Chumbord, and, after Lis death, by the Count do Paris, of tho Orleanist branch of the Bour- ons, . This body of Deputics, clected for an emor- pusrand sslected purposely to misreprosent tho real sontiments of Frauce, but to e zccept- 8blo to the German autocracy, assemblod at first In Dordeaux (afterwards roturning to Vgrenilles) early in the spring of 1871, nud ATTOINIED THIERS TEMPOUARY PRESIDENT, or rather Chairman, of the nution, with un- defined powors, IIe retained his seat m tho body, and ncted ns & sort of Prime Ministor. Hoond Jules Favre entered into negotintions with Bismarok for terng of ovacuation, obtained the best from him that ho would concede, re- turned to tho Adsbmbly, and had thom ratified by that body, A nationsl -subscription was opaned to raigo tho money to pay the * indemui- by,” which was three or four times more than snough to reimburse the Germans for all thoir EXpORE0E. Tho appes! to tho nation was successful, tho money was subscribed, and the first installment rompily pld; whereupon Bismagek and tho ulic of his army murched home in trinmph, llo bad hinrdly crossed the border beforo an intriguo wes set on foot to RESTORE TILE. DOURIONS to the throne of Irance. ‘Lhiers In‘unnnnved in bebalf of a Conservative tepublic as tho only form of government the Freuch people would willingly endure; wheroupon tho Royulists in tho Chamber began io muke waur on him, und throw obatructions in his way at overy stop. 1le threntened several times {o resign ; aftor which they would lot up a little in their hos- Slify, " ms ho could _mot {Bb Lo apared from the public lolm,—his great administrative ghilitios being considered indis= eugnble, But, us soon sk Lo had fuirly rostored *he fiuances, and brought thn roveunos up to an squilibrium with the oxpendituves, aud had paid uff all the Gerinan flue oxcopt the last install- ment, the Royuliuts votod Lim out of his Prosl- ilency, and v t . YOTED IN MARAUAL MACIAMON, ¥ho is & pilable instrumont in thoir hands. MacMahon was sounded ut an ourly dato, and onud ta I fovor of.{ha rostoration of ho Bourbous, Notwithstanding his woalk gon- sralhip at Bodan,.whore ho uwllowed his army to bo cooped up like rats in a trap nud enptured, ho Is_still popular with the Fremch soldiory, 18 woll as with tho priosts and women, lie la bold in popnlav estimation in France very much a8 Gon, McOlollan was in Aworles bofors his defont for the Presidency, MoClollan was ILe idol of the Domocrasy, very popular with Mo army, and atood highor in the est¢om of the fobels of tho Houth than any othor Northarn Gensrals Lniors went oud. of, aud lemhhon_ . L camo into, the Presidoney in tho Inat days of Muy, 1878 ; aftor which tlie Assembly ndjournea to meot in November, and spent the vacation in plotting tor the rostoration of tho oli Bourbon dynnsty, ‘I'io Hirat thing to bo done by tho iutriguauts was to bring sbout a COMTTOMISE OF TIE MVAL PIETENSIONS of the older and youuger branchen of the Bour- hong, ropresented rospectively by the Count do Ohombord aud the Count de Tnris, Thin wan soun accomplivhed. 'The formor was much the oldor muu of tho two, and childless ; so it was agroed thnt o shiould ive tho first turn ot tho throue, and, whon his snuds of lifo had run ont, tho Count do Paris and Lis family wore to bo- como his muccessors and helrs to tho Royal dig- nities, Afior tho family-cispute had boon thus compromised, o now and somewhat unforescon difiiculty presented itsolf to tho advacates of rale “by Divino Right. It bogan to bo brulfed in the Radical pnpors that the Count de Chambord woull not accept the flag of the Rovolution, the tri- color; nor would he lfim’ to rulo over France a4 o Constitutional King. Tho Monarchical |m‘|mrs genorally dented theso roports. Bat thoy thickened notwithetanding, and gathered body and substance. The partisans of Chambord be- camo greatly disturbod. Whoy know that tho peopld'of Francg, however humblod by the lato war, and arxious for poace aud quiot, * . WOULD NEVER SUBMIT to Chambord as King on tho terma it wae re- ‘posted that he demanded. The Royalists woro awaro that {t would be idlo to placa the crown ot lus headif o rofusod to recoghizo the events of the past ninety years, as it would quickly be torn ufl’l.] Ono of thoir nmmber, M, Clfesnelong, mado a pilgrimage to the Count, who was living in Gormany in ““oxilo," to tall ovor tho matter with Litmn, “llo profossed to recolve assurances from tho Count that ho would nccopt tho tri- colored flag, but spanglo it with llics ; and tint lio would alio rulo as o Constitutional Monaren, with o Parlismont to muke lnws, and a Ministry responsiblo to it. Thus;?nncenulnnu ho publish- ad, and proclaimed, and trimptod all aver I'ranco. Tho Thiers ‘lm'ly did not crodit the story, but were ovidently impressed with the bellof that Chambord would be voted King by tho Assombly when ft met. Noses had beon counted, and it was ascertainod thut ho bad at lorst twelvo' ma- Jority, with fourteen vacancies purposely kept unfilled. But o fow days boforo the timo fixed for meeting, Chambord published b f’l‘a‘lfl FAMI‘RJS Lflflmlln the trath of oxplanatory of hia position, denying the trath o b roporied intorview betwoen himself and Chesuoloug, lotting tho fattor down nu oaxily as possible, and, in the wost conrteons terms, toll 1ng the public that b lied whou ho roporzed tha Count as agreoing to accopt tho tricolored flag of tho Tevolution, or myrecing to reign asu Qonstitutional King. 1Io insisted on hiw Divine right to tho Throno, refused to accopt it asan oftico nt the hands of the Assembly wit any con- «ditions attached, but claimed it by a titlo higher than tho Assombly could bestow,—by such o title s Can heir would claim bis patrimony under, who bhad been kopt out of hia estate for n timo by tho quat- tors and thioves. Mo nccopt tho flag of tho Rovo- | Iution would bo to rocognizo tho legitimney or conatilutinuulitfi of the Rovolution, which ho donled, cluming that the rules of the Ropublic and ‘of tho Bonaprrios wero illogitimato and usurpations of tho Divinely-appointod order of thinga, He haugltily told tho .French people that they woro sboard a rudderless sbip, toused ino tonipest, in dangor of porishivg, aud thal he was the only living p\iut who could bring them safely into port, becauso it was his Divine mission to bo their pilot. But, as tho letter Las been published in the American papors, I need not oularge uponit. Suflics it to renrk that it fell like o bombehell ,on the Roy- alise party, and instautly oxtinguished their Topes in Chumbord ss thewr King, sud saved Trance from civil war. Ho was . DROPFED DY COMMON CONSENT, and is scarcoly referred to in tho Assembly. Aftor thid finsco thoro wag nothing left for " thom to do except to fix the term of Darshal MacMahon, who sont to the Assombly un ex- traordinary meseago wheu it mot, domanding that Dictatorial powors bo conferred upon Lim, or ho would rosign. It was first proposod to make him Dictator for ten yoars, without limita~ tiou of authority ; but tho ** Loft ” (the Ropubli- can opposition) flercoly rosisted it, nud downud ed that ho should be called President of tho Ropublic, and his term of oflico not exceed fivo yenrs, and that his powers should be dofined in the proposed Constitution. The *Right" (Hourhon and Uliramontanc), upon tho request of MacMahon bimuolf, consonted to the title of the ofiice and tho abbroviation of the term to soven years; but thoy rofused to define his powers or limit his arbitvary. suthority, so that JE I8,c1N REALITY, DICTATOR OF FRANCE, and may do whatever he pleases, provided it meots tho views of tho Royalisis; that is, he must do whatover they bid bhim, bLeenuso, if ho goes contrary to thoir wishon, ho is lefb without supporters, and_ falls, Ho is, thon, nothing moxe than the tool of the Bourbon party, who, in turn, aro inlugncod by the clorgy, wlio got their_indpiration from Infalliblo. sources, Nobody supposes that o will eerve as Dietat for seven years, which is & long time in Franco. But ko is tho most available iustrument which the Bourhon and Ultramontane me can find for their purpoees, The army is obedient to bim, and ho has disclosed, in Lis messago to tho Assombly, that ho will; employ milicary foreo, as well s politigal patronnge, to suforee suthority and order. It is well understood what this threat comprehonds ; that it means ho will use the army to - CHUSH REPUDLIGAN ATANIFESTATIONS, and fo cram Bourbonism down the throsts of tha people of France. . The uppointment -of MacMahon as Dictator will give the Monarchist party timo and oppor- tunity to swrmount tho obstacla thrown in their way by the Count de Chambord, It is thought by mony that ho will be inducad te recousider aud modify his determination, now that ho per- coives Lio can moyar mount tho Throno on tho terms o domanded, Others think that he will bo discarded nltoguthnr; and the Orown will bo offored to Count do Yaris, who, it is belioved, would accept it on such terms as would be pro- posed, If aKing s chosen, MaoMahon will bo requifed to surronder thé unoxpired part of his Dictatorship, and bo expected to employ tho military forces of tho nation (o maintain bim on tho Throne; and it is not doubted that ho will do both quito willingly. BUT THERE 18 NO TELLING what change may como over the mind of the plain_soldier sud Lis wifo. aftor thoy have tosted tho sweots of power -antl teedived the ilntterios of courticrs, " MacMahon would not bo the first mon who chouged his mind, and con- cluded to tarry longor iu tho palaces of Rogally, aftor breathing the intoxleating atmosphore of the Court, - But the Bourboo parly are willing to intrust him, and tako tho chaucos of his sur- rendoring tho keys when thoy cail for them to bo handed over to the King. “Tho settlemont of tho problom of & rulor without convulsion or bloodshod gives joy and satisfaction to tho peo- plo, and Fraunce breathes easier, Tho exeite- ment hos been very groat for the last four mouths, and especially for tho last fow wocks, It was folt on all sides that it would be a national disgrace and calamity to plungo the country mto civil war about tho Chiof "Execcutive; and, had Chambord accopted the Crown on the torms which his pactisavs desired, it is doubtfut whother it would have caused o revolution immodintely, It would have de- pended very much, however, ou tho temper of the army. TIE TEASANTUY HATE TIIE BODRBONS, and four o Royalist reatoration. It was tho Revo- Iution'that gave them their farmg, and thoy fear Royalist ronction may take them awny, Lofore the Rovolution, one-third of tho lands of Frauco hiad been absorbed by tho Churah.. Tho Repubs licans of the Revolution couflucatod it, and sold it to the tenant-farmors, and, with the money recoivad, carried ou tlo war ugainst all Europe, Tho other two-thirds of the land belonged to the nobility, who spont _thelr days in Paris and Vor- sailles in gayety and dissipation, while their ten- unts_spent” their lives n poverty and misory. "Ilio Ropublicans algo confiscated tho estates of the nobles, dud oxiled thom from Franco, and then sold the cstates in smull farms to the len- antiy, sud,usod the money as they did that de- rived from the Church lands, : From thoso doys to theso, tho nobles and pricsis have been looking with longing eyes for Bome turn of tho wheol that might repossess thom of their lost baronios and globos, On the other hand, the possantry are ovor watchful und nuspiclous of overy politleal movomont that by any possibility might deprive thom of tholr frage holds. 'I'lie appointment of Murshal MacMahon Prosidont of tho Republio givesa TAUSE 'f0 AUITATION AND PLOTTING, The title itsolf is o strong guarantoo of peaco and good order, bocause millions of Frenolmen will roally think tuu{ aro oujoying s Ropublican form of govornment, notwithutunding the new President uttorly disrogards freo pross aud froo spooel, und crushos the oo und represses tho other 'without compunction or " hesitation, Auy nowspanor thut uttors an offonsive oxprassion sgwinst the oxlsting Dictatorship is ¢ warned," and, on a repotition, is fined, or itw edisor throwa [nto axrlvmu, and the ppblica- tion suspended. ‘Chig s liborty of the pross in France, No political meoting dare be held in Fruuco to disouss the Governmont, or puss reso- lutions in rospoct thereto, as may bo donoin tho Unitod 8tatos with fmpunity, Tho crowd that might gather would be dispersed by the bayouot, sud tha speakers bo awmostod sud thrown into prison, Thin ie Uberty af speeoh and political | ) mx&?n“ In France, under what s dubbad n Re- publie. Tho truth Iy, the Froneh peoplo have a very . RUADOWY AND IMPEN] CONCEITION of what constituton n Ropublican form of govern- ment. Thoy have never 0t boyond the iden or' arbitrary forco. Thelr model of n govornmont s tho military form, oud “their governmont has always boen adminlitered on that plan. Fronoh perties are wholly intolerant and domingoring whon fn power. Thoy nevor admit that the 0|1Fnumm| party hing suy rights which the Administration” parly is bound to respeet, but rido rough-shod over .it, axpocting to bo treatod in tho samo way whon tho othior side comos into power. 'Thoy ‘ara lo- wards ench other like hostile Indian jtribes, sud ruthilessly tnke each other's senlps, and_oxcoute 8 war-danca ovor a fallen oppongnt, ~ Frauco is always governod ot despotio principles, no mat- tor what may bo tho titlo of thio roghue, whothor Kingdom, Empire, or Republic, It is only noe- easary Lo striko out one namo nnd insert anothor, the absoneo of solf-governmont is tho samo in all of them,- The military or dospotio form in ns absolute fn tho vne as in'the other, Sinco the eapturo of Louls Napoleon at Sodan, ond tho collapso of the ' Empire," Amoricans hnvo beon accustomod to calling L'ranco lo- public, and wnnhn%much sympatly on this ‘¢ aister Ropublie.” "But it Is ALL A MISTAKE, The Government has been, and is now, nothing morc nor less thun a contralized dospollsm. Everything in detatod in Paris, and the ordors ara issuod thorofrom. ‘I'lie Muyors of the cllies and towns, tho Profects, or Governors, of tho Dopartmonts, the Judgos and Magistrates, the Buoriffs and Constablos, nro all appointed by the contral authority, and removablo nt its plensure, If a City Councll anywhora doos anything to displeneo tho Dictator, it iv aguelehod, and nuow Board of Aldermon appointad by tho’ sutocratic suthorlly in Parls, A cnso of tho kind oceurrod in Orloans the other day. ‘The people have novor Leen taught how to managoe their local or municipal aftalrs, nor pormitted to try, Indeed, thoy Lave but a faing idon of what it menus.” Llioy dopond on the Contral Govarnmont to tako tho iniliative, to direct, to command ; which it is not roluctant to do. Self-rollanco is not {aught or practiced by tho magsos. 'Uho citizons never conveno in town-meotings to diecuss the municipal afairs of tho township or county. 'Ihoy have no olec~ tious for local ofiices 3 thoy give no instructions 1o thom ; thoy do nob prescribe the percentage of taxatlon thoy are \vmhug_ 80 pay, uor divcet hov it is to bo oxponded. Civil oflicors arc not “ gorvants” of tho people,—nre not responsible to thom for their conduct,.—~but aro MASTERS OF THE PEOPLE, men in authority set over them to rule, tox, and direct tho pooplo in accordanco with tha will and wishes of the appointing power. “The whole structurs of intornal* govornment is tho exnct reverso of that which oxists in thoe Unitod States. 1f this systom in France is Ilo- publican, then yours in the Unitod States isn despotism ; but, if your form {s Ropublican, then this ono here ia a despotism, and tho titlo it goos by & misuomor ; for thoy aro just, tho antipodes of ench other. Dut it may bo arguod that Franco is governed by Inws enacted by o Parhiament whick iy olected by the pooplo, and therofore it {4 & Iopublic. So are Germany and Groat Britain, to a much greator degree than Frauco, governed by Inws mmu%d?hy legislutivo Lodies ; but aro thoy Ite~ i * publi The Assomblyof Francowns clected somo threo years ngoto perform nn omergoncy-nct, but not to restore the Bourbons or croute u Die~ tatorship; yot thoy have attompted tho ono and done thoothor, Thoy claim the right to oxer- cercise the powers of” ¢ Constitutional Convon- tion ns well s thoso of . legislativo_ body, and thay aro proceeding to frame n Constitution for Frouce which WILL NOT BE SUDMITTED to the citizens for acceptanco or rojection, but wll beimnosed on them by tho power of tho trmy under ordors of Marshal MacMahon. At present, and for twonty-flvo yeara past, all native-born Frenchmen ovor 21 years of age aro voters for membors of the Assomly, and ina plobiecitum, But this Provisionul Assembly, which should have mlfum‘ued sino die o yenr ago, i8 propuring a bill to reduco the suffrage by oxeluding all men uader 25 yonrs of ngo, and requiring o proporty-qualitication of the othors. "Tlie abjoct i to disfranchiso ONE-IALF OR TWO-THINDS of tho presont voters, thiuking thut thereby they will 8o woaken the Anti-Bourbon party as'to se- oure a majority in future oloctions. Other pro- visions are proposed to be insorted in _their new Coustitution, aqually undomacratic and doapatic, ‘When they will udjourn sine die, no man_not in their secrots can _kuow, Whon thoy had detor~ mined tomike Chombord King, overy Royalist in the Assombly.know that throe-fonrths of the votors of Franco were opposed to the act ; but they woro utterly indifforout to the popular eon- timent,—belioving that MacMahon possessed sufliciont influenco with the army to forco the Bourbon upon the pnorlo of Franco, after thoy lud voted him to be King, Tow can o, Government thus constituted, thus administered, bo cutitled to thié nume of Ropub- lic? How can o logislativo body thus cronted, aud thus digrogarding the wishos of its crontors, Lo called o Ropresontativo Assembly of & Ropub- lie? Tow cau the Chief of the stauding army, when placed nt the Liead of affairs by such an Assombly, with Dictatoriul r.owers as domanded by him, bo calted the “ President of the Repub-~ lic#” But, if MacMahon had roceivod his ap- pointmont by popular vote, o would still not bo Prosidont of n Ropublic, becauso Frauce J8 NOT A WEPUBLIC, never was, and, until _tho fandamental ideas of 4ho people aro chianged, can never be a Republic. Tu o country where the politieal lifo aud man- agomont of affairs aro_formed aud oporated on tho model of a standing army, & Nepublican form of govornment is a sheer impossibility. e Boy YWho Would o Monikey e, My, Franlé Buckland mado s sigular discovory a short time since. While mspecting a salmon river ho noticed & remarkably active and intol- ligent littlo boy playing about the weir, whose atory, related Dy his father, o commends to Darwin's consideration.” Last Christma® tho lit- tlo follow was taken to scon pantomime, in which monkeys porformed s gyeat part. The acone #o impressed tho child’s mind that tho noxt morning ho imaginod himself to Le a mounkoy. * ilo would not apeak; no kindncss or threuts would meke him say u single word ; bo would not sic at tho tablo with his brothers aud sistors at meals, but would only oat out of & ?Inm placed-on the ground, being on all foury, f suythivg to eat was presented to him ho ways put it to his noso and smelt it just ns o monkey doos bofore eatiug it. e was contin- nally climbing up trees and throwing down boughs, and grinning at the people below liko moulkoys in tho cocornut trees in the pautomime, When ‘his father tried to correct him, the littlo fellow, still on all-fours, ran aftor and bit him ou tho leg. Mo would sorve Lis sisters and brothors the same if they teaged him.” Fortue uately the freak hos passed off ; bub it will be necossary for tho parouts to oxerciso cousider- able caution: iu his education in thontrical mat- tora, Cortninly tho caso is an extraordinary one aud Mr, Darwin's opinion on the subjoot would Lo intorosting. ——— A Curious Ceremonial. Bir John Duke Coleridy, tha now Chiof Jus- tico -of England, took part, on the 26th ult,, In o curious coromoniul, A Londou paper says: On tho last doy of tho Nichachnas ‘Porm, Sir John Duko Coleridfo, who has been appointed Chiof Justice of tho Common Pleas, and hes at tho samo tine becomo n momber of Sorjeants' Tnn, took farewoll of the Honorablo Socicty of tho Middlo Tample, of which for many yours ho Lind boen o Bonchor, 1o prosided and tond proyors at the usual dinner in the hall of the Afiddla Temple, und the ocoasion was honored by the B:nmncn of a large number of the Benchors, sidos i very numorous gathoriug of barristors ond studonts,® As tho Bauchens left the hall, headed by Bir Johu Coleridwo, Lhero was o warm choer givon for tho new Chief Justico, In no- coraance with the ancient covemony, 8ir Johu was led to the enirance of tho hall amid the clsnging of tho bell in the clock-tower, and was —ar supnoged to bo—ojectad from tho Inn with which ho hey hitherto Deon connected,” e Singutar Aunospheric Phenomonon, Tho Now Huven Paltaditm recdrds o singular atmosphorlo phenomenon whicli ocourred in that city last Wodnesdsy sftornoon, At the timo referred to the sun for n short timo shono through thoe hieavy clouds that had obseured his raya for two days, and dnsrallnd the-blue, smoky atmonphoro, Tmwmedlatoly over the Collego Groon no puch chunge was noticed, By eome unaceountablo foreo, 1t seemed as thongh tho mist and fog of the surroundiug atmosphiore had boon drawn into thls u[mn spuce and condensed, mnking piller of eloud imponetrable to tho vislon and percoptible to the touch, This mans of vapor searcely oxtendol to the limbs of the troon In doplhy, and prosonted to the sun's ruyy o croat of dnzzling brightnous, Thoso on tho out- skivts of thiy misty bank could olenrly dofine ity limity, and as thoy stood admiring the bonutiful display of naturs thelr wopder and porploxity ouly Inoronsed, while thoy trled to doduco & eatis faolory vonclusion ok to ite oauso, " foreshadowings of actual events soon to follow, LITERATURE. * THE SPTRITUAL DELUSION, Its Mrrions, Tracm- 1808, AND EETEOTH, THE PINLOROPIY ARD Vitke NOMENA ORITIOALLY EXAMINED, By Dyen D, Lux, Thiladelphin: J, 1, Lipplucolt & Uo, Chieaga t Tnusen, McOlurg & Co, Tho author sooms to hinve made himsolf prac- tenlly and thoroughly nequainted with * Bpiritn- ollem,” or #Bpirltiem,” ns ho onlls it, In all Its phasos, Not ohly did o attond circles " and “*gonnees ' almost without number, but Lo studied tho hlstory of it as rovenled to us by thoe most loarned mon of the past, and ho gives » great varloty of quo- tations and facts from them, illustrating tho difforent phasos it Lias assumed in anclont and modorn times, ‘Pho firat half of tho book ia de- votod to tho philosophy of thesubject, Aftor ex- nmining tho protendod rovelstions of tho spirits of departod statosmon and ¥ngos, Lo concludes chaptor 1 s follows: Savngo nud primitive in ite forma of thought, fyno- rantaud imbecilo In its coneoption of wniformity in nalues, arrouunt wnd projudicial iv ts fovestigatious Jartinland tlogieal n its colloction of {esiimony, and nferonces therefrom, and conterpliblo and ridichlous in 1t vapid contrlbutions to relentific knawledge, Bpire itisin stands justly ehinrgod with belog, in - every senso of tho term, unscientifio, The noxt chaptorfa dovoted to tho unphilo- #ophical charnotor of its tonchings. We quote the conclusion reached : Spiritism, thongh claiming to bons yet but a child in years, ia rmlgy on old friend, of extromely antl- quated apposrance, belng aa old 0a human ignorance, Whon 3t {a critieally oxamined, we' dfscorn’ it to be Mtrlctly inborrowed clothing, tnd betraying, by fia confuson of thought, moro afiilintion with tho wide polytieiatio cotceptiond of _anclont Greoce, Torno, aud beraln, than with tho annlytio philosophy of our day; aud hence, notwithstanding its high protonsions, un~ ptlosophicsl and gross insdta teachings, Wo need scarcely ndd that this conclusion is renched ofter n full and very claborato collee- tlon of historical facts, and o comparison of thom with {ho claims of modorn Spirituntism, The second and largor part of the boolk Is devoted to tho phonomona of Bpiritism, as pro- sented by its votaries. Mental dernngement, somuambubism, tho witcheraft-dolusion, mental epidomics, the nnconscious nction of the brain, uroll_clabaratoly disoussod. Undor tho licad of “Montal 'Lelographing aud Provision,” ho concedes womo vory curious qualitios to the human mind, He mays that * Idens aro com- municated from mind to mind without tho con- solous use of the physlcal orpans of sight, hear inm, ov speech,” IIo lllustrates this a8 follows: “1 mew a worthy gentleman who was peeuliarly suscoptiblo to montal impreaslons, froquontly forotelling tho arrival of guests, howover unex- pected their coming ind bosn ; and on mora than ouo ocoagion he wat conveniently absent whon a “dun’ was moditating n descent on the house.” An immonsely conveniens quality, osreclun for those whoso ** financial affaira” are always fiable ff!llln‘im( onat any moment tho '‘crisis” of o un,” Dronma and presontiments aro disenssed with Rome very ourious illustrations, aud tho author seoms to admit that they sometimes aro the real Iie says that ho himself could onco describo the ‘fcnu\rusl personal appearance, and chnracteristies ¥ of persons unkmown to him, Ly holding o "lock of their hair in his hands, o was once ina room whore, many years bofore, ihere lhad been-n funeral, of the circumstancesof winch ho knew nothing, Howrys: “Tgavo an rceurato deacription of the grouping of tho guests, the location of tho romning, tho position of the officiuting clergy- man, and various other particulars. I hnve this described, in the presence of their friends, por- #ons long dead, and who woro ontirely unknown tome.” Zow ho was ablo to do this, ho did not kimw,-—ln fact, kaew as fittlo about itas auy ono else. Theso phenomena aré about the samo s those oxhibited by tho young man DBrown, who showed boyond “a question that, taking another’s hand, he, (Drown could rond or tell what was going on in that other's mind. For instanco, & person might hido anything, and Brown, withont knowing- what it was, would lead the porson dircetly to it. This e did o score of times nt a littlo sociat gathering in this city, The wholo party were thoroughly convineed that there wns no sham about it. Ho did just what he professed to do, but ho assorted Lis cutive lfinnm\lca as to how he did it. Friends negure ns that other persons have told what was golng on_in their minds without porsonal con- tact. TFor instance, they would think of mo dopartod friend, aud the “gpiritist” would gpmive the mname ac- curately, and deseribe tho person. But, ns soon a3 the convorsation wag reported from fho spirit claimed to bo present; it was evidently guess- work and humbug. The facts given by the author, and all that hava come under our own observation, show that the persous possessing the npparently-supernut- ural gift of mind-reading can simply toll what you aro thinking about, Thoy know ouly what you know, The moment you ask for the future, or for tho unknown, thoy ure as ignorant a8 any ono, Into tho darkness that is before us no oyo is pormitted to seo; no mind can to-day grasp tho mysterios of to-morrow. ‘I'he nuthor also adnuts that © Solid substances may bo sot in motion without muscular exortion or porsonal contact, and, in obedionce to nn ox- preesed dosiro from porsons presout, will move m o raquired direcijon.” ‘Thus he mdorses tho whole supposed wnomens of table-moving, which he professes 8 have scon himself muny timos, and which also was proved by tho inves- tigntions of n higlly sciontific committos who wero appointed to {nvestigate it, “Table-rap- pluga” aro also conceded; but thoy are of no Practical value, for thoy resolve themsclves into tho admitted facts of mind-reading ; thub is, thoy rovonl only what porsona present already kuow. Wo havo aimod to givo some of the teachings of Mr. Lum's book; not to indorso thom, ex- cept those which aro quoted from tho first Lulf of it. It will ndd much to the knowledgo of most of those who read it, and, es an attompt to givo us facts on the obscuro and unimportant subject of which it troats, thepublic ehould give it n"cordial welcome, Poetry. BHELLS, Dy ELra WursLen, & Starney, ‘This is o collection of very creditablo pactry, coming, as wo understand it does, from quito a voung lady, With caro and closo study, it gives promise of a respectable—porlaps wo should oy 8 very promiunent—position in the futuro, For this tho best wiskes of many friends will attend hor. Periodicals RReccived. Atlantic Monthly for January. H. 0. Houghe ton & Co, Boston; Iwrd & Hoaghlon, Now York, Contouts : *“Prudonce Palfrey,” by 'F, . Aldvich; »The Golden Wedding wood” (poem), by Johu G. Whittior; ** Fox- ]IL\HHII$ in_England :" by Goorgo E. Waring ; ! The Y'wo Homos” (poom), by Bayard Taylor ; “Lida Aun: An Adirondack Skoteh ;" Dy T. Domi * Chaneed” (poom), by Louisn Bushe noll 3 addecls aud thist Sort of Thing—L.," by Gharles Dudloy Warner ; “ Mose Evans—Part I," by Willism M. Baker ; * In Kittery Church- yard” (poom), by Colin Thaxtor ; * Tho Lhoory and Prastico of’ Loenl Taxation in tho United States ;" David elis; ' Tho Lust of tha Valotli—A Romance ;" by 'If. Jamos, ¢ Tho History of tho T'wo Pillaw,” by W. L. Faw- cotto ; “ Lvolution and Pormanonce of Typo,” L, Agnssiz: “ An Old Year Song” (poom), Oli- ver Wendell Holmes; editorinl dopartments. Scribner’s Monthly for Junuary. Seribnor & Co,, New York. Contents: *The Singer's 1ills ™ (poem—fllusirated), by IL. IL; The Great Air-Lino to tho Moon™ (adapted from Jules Vorno—illustrated), by Frank R Stockton; + Boudoir-Prophagics " (hoem), by John Hay ; Tho Haunted Iouse" (poem—illustrated), by Gnml'w MucDouald ; * Enrthen Pitchors,” Chap- tors VIL., VIIT,, ‘1X., by Robeeea Hridiug Davis; Milwaukes: Houser o glhxcnu & Co., Philadolpl; Contontat “Tho 0w Uvrnrkm: VII.—Tho Beductions of Badon-Badon * (illuntrated), by Bdward Htrabaug 0o Trinnon Palneos " (ilinstratod), by Mario Howland; “Tho Necklnco of Pearla™ (pocm), by R. 1L Stoddavd; A Wile's Rovengo,” h‘v tho author of “ Dlindpits” and ** Quixatars; " * Japanoge Fox-Myths,"” by Willinm . Graflis; ‘* Choster MMardiug, tho Helf-mado Artist,” by Osmond Tiffany ; *' ‘flio Whito Doo " (poom), b Will Wallago Ilnnoy, “ A Princess of Lhulo” Ccontimed), by Willlan_ Biack; My Christ- mes Dall," by Tiney 3, Hooper: “A Statuo of Bhiakspoare,” by William R, O'Donavan ; “'I'hroa French Marriages,” by Mary I, Blair; editorinl doportmonts. Catholic World for January, Cotholio Pub- llention Houwo, New York. Contonts: * Tho Drinciplos of Roal Boing 3 # Tho_sorious * Vive In Bogatollo’" (ponm); ¢ The Form of Mul- ceron i * Qrulnandus " (poem); * Ono_Chap- tor from Hestor Hallam's Life;” ** An English Clristmns Btory ;” *Tho Song of Roland ;" * Vonito, Adoremua” (poom); **Tho Yur- ‘Frador; ** Archbishop” Spuliding ;" * Travels with o Valotudinarian;” *The Child Iic- utorod " (puoqu 4 Madame do Staol 3 ¢ Fathor Sobnatian ,Itafo, 8. “Trom’ Egypt to Chonaan ' (poom) ; * Tho Year of Our Lord 1878 4" cditorisl dopartments, Jllustrated Journal for January. Amorican Publisbing Company, Chicngo. illustrations: ' The Vinfi. of tho Magl;” * Gnmo_on the Zam- Leel River;" *‘Scene in Dadagnscars” # Tirst Losson in_Duucing ;" *Balt Lalko City " (sovon angravings). Sanitarian for Janunry, A, B, Barues & Co,, New York and Chicago, American Naluralist for Docomber, Penbody Acndomy of Hoionce, Salom, Mas. Aquaiio Monthly for Docombor, Auguet Bron- tano, Now York. frican Reposilory for Decombor. American Colonization Hocloty, New York. Lllinois Schoolmasler for December, Aaron Gove and Edwin Q. Hewott, Chicago and Nor- mal, 1llizols, Literary Iteinn, Guizot, who Js quita woll, will publish another book in January, Mrs, Mary Clemmor Ames fs abont to con- tribute au original novel to Enery Salurd r. Bugouo Schuyler, of the Amorican Loga- tion at St. Potorsburg, fs writing & work on Contral Asis, which Wl appear in England i Hrs, Linn Linton, tho Saturday Revieter, ia writing o new novel, in which woman's cducation ‘will bo dealt with. M. Mossts, Macmillan will iseuo, carly in the spring, Mr. Samucl Baker's account of hia rocont expedition, in two large volumes. Bir Arthur Halps hns o now story in pross, ‘which denls in Russian conspiracies arid Siberian oxilo, the charactors beiug all trausported to that hylmrhnrunu clime. “Tho Putunms will issue, carly noxt year, o worlk on *Iron Oros of Missouri and Michigan,” tho most important two Western States in this kind of mineral weaith, by Prof. Pumpolly, T. B, Brooks, and Adolf Schmidt, who have boen cannected with Btato survoys, Joln Tisko's now work, of which chapters were publjshied in tho North American Review, will be iiblished simultancously in London sud Toston, under the titlo of ** Outlines of Cosmic Thilosophy, Based ou tho Doctrin of Evolution.” Ho is now abroad. ‘Iho following is tho curions anuouncoment of London Sociely's Christinas numbor: *'Uales of 'Woys, and all tho fun of tho Chvistmas fair! Tlorence Marryut bogs to aunounce that hor stall in London Sociely's Christmns fair will ho opened omly in Decombor, well stocked with all the latest noveltics from the domain of dolls,” at Tdinburgh publish- “Iho momoir of the or, Archibuld Constuble, the publishor of the Waverloy Novols, and whosoe namo is assoclatad for all timo with that of Walter Scott, iv ona of the most intoresting of lato English booke, It 18 written by his son, A “Iistory of Jepan” has becn compiled, chiofly from native and official sources, by Mr. T. 0. Adams, formorly Acting-Ministor of Greab Britain av Yeddo, Tho first volumo brings tho history down to 1864, sud tho wo.k will, it is snid, bo the most complete thnt has .co: iseued, Miss Charlotto AL Yonge, says o Lundon cor- respondent, must Lo the most industrious of women, In hor fertility she almost rivals tho grest Dumas himself, Sho has ouly just fin- ished o four-volume "novel, und to-day there come two huge volumes of somo six hundred pogos each, of a memoir of tho good missionusy uwhop John Coolidge Patterson, who wnd killed in 1871° by some Polyncsinn Islandors, Ar. James 'l ields, in his new lecture on “Tiction and Its Authors,” sayy that Dickens told him that when he was writing * Marlin Chuzzlovit," Mre. Gamp kept Lim in much paroxysms of laughtor by whisporiug to him in tho most inopportunc places, somotinies evon in church—that ho was compelled to fight her oft by main forco when he did not want hor com- pany, and threaten to have nothing more to do with her unless she could behnve bettor and como only wheu she wes called, 'The discussion botweon Ar, Richard Grané White aud Dr, Fitzedward Hall is liftod out of its droary pungency by that wagor. If Dr. Hall ¢hn find 1n twonty leading authors named by My. Whito 1,000 distinct new words, not names of new thiugs, that woro not used by contempo- raries of Shakeponve and King James' wannlat- ars, then Mr. Whito pledgas” his publishors to pay 31,000 to nuy charitablo institution dosig- ‘_finlnd—-nn asylum for punished puudity, por- apd, “I'o rumar to which our Boston correspondent gavo curroncy thnt tho Atlantic was about to be- come a Methodist organ has not the least foun- dation in fact, wo are authoritatively informod. It is truo that ono of tho flrm of Iurd & Hough- ton is a Motbodist, Lut one is an Episcopalian, ono is & Congrogationalist, and ono is u Uni- turian, Tho fact is, that the Atlantic will not Do the orgen of any siect or party, cithor in ro- 1igiéou, titeraturo, or polities,—Jlariford Courant, Edmund About writos to tho Atlhenaum about & prolific Frouch novelist named Ponson du Per- ratl, who* imitated the defacts of Dumas nnd Eugeno Sue." His stories, whichhe would drive in pairs, or aven four-in-haud, from day’ to day in tho big journals, aud also in the littlo ones, delighted for twonly years tho loss educated por- tiou of the Frencl public. very morning he usied to soat Limaclf_boforon pile of paper oithor at home or at tho oftice of the nearest journal, and there bo knocked off, one after tho other, two, three, four fouillotons, belonging to as many differont works, e passed from tho Middlo Ages to the prasent day, from the Court to the Mabulle, from the boudoir to the hulks, with incredible veraatility, olthough somotiumes Lo made u slip and inadvertontly pot a porsounge of tho eixteenth century into a story of the ninoteonth, A work on “Thoe Education of Amorican Girls," edited by Miss Anna L. Brackett, will bo published by G. . Putnam's Sons, It will con- tain papors from reprosontutive women toachors throughous thoe country, including reports upon tlio roaults of womun's work in Antioch, Oberlin, and Yassar Collogos, and in tho University of Michigan; and contributions aro_expeoted also from Aiss Blaria Mitcholl, Mrs, €. H. Dull, Dr, Alary Putunm-Jacobi (who will treat nflpucinlly of tho subject broached iu Dr. Clarke's *“Sex in Education™), and other well-known women load- ors. The tonor of tho book will be to show that, under s scientifle systomatization of study, witl proper saporvision (of fomalo tenchors), womeon are competent, physically and montally, to enrry on exteuded courses of sfudy up to the musou- lino staudard, — ‘Pho Lower Cluuucs in Spain, The dross of the lower clesses is very varied aud pioturcaquo, The women woear o ghort akitt of somo gaudy color, espocially gaudy ou holidays; a red, yollow, or suowy-whito hand- korchiof ovor the hoad, which fors their ouly pratection (save their maguficontly-thiok tresa- es of bound-up hair) against tho burning, al- mogt tropical wun, Gonorally thoy hayo small, 4 Teropavablo ™ (ponm}, by ichard Honry Stod: daxd ; “ Annals of an Bnglish Abboy,” Part 111, by James Anthony Froudo ; *Bpecel-Making In Cougrass," by Alberl Rliodas *'Pho * Chirlstns ™ (poom), by “Julin O, R, Dorr; *‘he Creat South ;' Glimpses of Toxng; I.—A Visit to Ban Antonio " (illusieated), by Edwird Kiug; “Tho Duko's Stratagom ™ (poem), by John G, Suzo; » Oharles Dudloy Warner® (with portralt), by Thomas Wentworth llig}:iuuon; It Used to 1ig in tho Olden Timo™ (poom—lustintod); **Kuthorino Earlo,” Chaptors VI, VIL (illus- tratad), by Adeliiio Crapton; A Monto Flat Pautoral: Tow Old Man Plunkatt Wont Ilomo," by Brot Ifarte; *'lhoughts Suggested by Mr, TFroudo's ‘ Progrous,’ ' by Clinrles Dudloy Warnor; * Captain Millicont, by Gall Hamllton ; editorial dopartmonts, Lopular Solence Monthly for Juuusry, D, Apploton & Oo., Now York, _Conteuts: » Con- corning Borpents™ (illustruted), by Elins Lowis, dr; “'Phe Theory of Moléoulew,” by Irof. Clork Muxwoll, INI38, ; * Vast und Futive of n Constollation * (illustraiad), from tho Fronch of Comillo Flammarion; * Replies to Criticiums," by Horbert Sponcor; ¥ Quioker than Lightuing® (munh‘s\lm])( #Tho Buotioual Langunge of the Yuture;" “ Gonosls, Geology, sud Evolution,” by the’Rev. Goorgo Hoyslow, T8, I(HE; **Growth and Docay of Aind;" * An Episodo woll-formed fuct and hands, on the lattor of whith ono or twomunusive bruss or sllver rings avo soon ; on some of theso I have uoticed thoe simplo word **Recilbindo ” (**Ttecoivod”), on othors **No mo olbidos ¥ (* Forget mo not ), while othors aguln wenr » ving with the image of the wamt on whoso (lx?' thoy were born, Fhese rings can bo bought at the various ** feriny,” or annual fuiry, for sums vurying from two ponco up to two slillings. ‘The dress of the men con- sista of u colored shirt, n short Jacket, and u pair of coarso woolon trousors, ‘L'hoyido nov wear boats, a8 o 1ulo, but wandals bound with string round the unkle ; theso sandals aro of unblouch- ed leather. Many of the worien wear sandals of enparlo grags, costiug about four ponce; wmany, agnin, are burofoat, ‘Lhore ure, however, two wrcieles of drens williout which no mnw's toilot Is complate—tha “manta,” or rug, used at homo to sleap in, and a8 w covaring from rain, or s hed, whon on n journoy ; aud {he “faju,” or waist- Dolt, pronguncod * facen” This Tast is wholly indispensnblo; w muletoer, gurdener, minor, or brioidayor wonld gladly do Nis day’s Work withe out hiy * sombrero™ or'thivk folt "pork-pio hat, but without his “fna)a™ {i wore usoless o ex- poct it. Lot mo doscribo this nocossnry rticle of clothing. Tt s & fong piceo of vory Lhin oloth, in longth about 8 feot, in width about 9 Inch- on Nats” (illustrated) ; Primary Coucopts on N ud“"‘b Plysleal Solonco: 1V.—Iuertia und 1 1 Toroo,’ J. B, Stallog Bkoteh of Dr,J, W. Draper;™ editorial dopartmonts, Lippinoolt's Magaxine for January, J, B. Lip. os; In color, always biight scarlot, Diack, or crimson, Ono cud ia tucked iuto tho trousers Just at tho walst, it is then wound ronud aud round the walst tightly, forming an olastio ban- dago about § or 10 “inches wido, tho rouialulng ond {n tucked In tightly, and thon tho * faja” is comploto, ‘o support of this to theback, lols, ond nbdomon i marvelous, and whether your calling foreo you to walk, ride, lift, sic upright, or dig, it 18 oqually a comlort. Onco jrot used to it, ond fmll cannot disnonso with it. . 'Che cheap- odl of theso costa about four pesotas (n pouctn 18 equal Lo ton ponca), nud a nilk ono abont fHi. Theseare worn In many cnses by the bottor classes also, Nor fn this tho only use of the “taju.” It gorvonns tho holt for tho rovolvor and knife, which are carrlod by ovory Spaus fard—* Why do you earry o knifa?" T aokail of n vory intolligont 8paniard,- aud the neswor was n very significant one, I do not know whom I may meat,"—and fn_fts smpla folds the littlo purao{s_kopt concealed. 'Fhe poorer clags of bpmtlnl‘du carry the wholo of thelr worldly goods about with them: tho richer keop nil their wealth eonconled sbout thoir houso, In tha towns of the intorior no ono makos use of n bank ; If yon nsk tho reason and romind them that they loso iutorest, n Bpanish gontloman will say, ¥ Yog, but that is botter than to loso the principnl,” heir fave In tho vory simplost. Bread end_fruit, aud fruft and brond, with now and_thon, for the men,a '‘copa™ ((wlucghms) of Val do penns (the rough red wine of the country), is tho staplo of thelr sustonance, "Tho ouly thing about which tho Spaniardsghigh ond low, nro really partidular, s their wator. In acountry whero tho women_ drinle nothh|5 Lut agua (water) from yoar's oud to voar’s on ond the men littlo elso, it Is quite necessary to hove that litle good; and good It is, in’ ail cases, Qo into tha poorest hut, only tenantod by o fow wood-cutlors or ftinerant minars,and ask for acup of water, and tho lijtle ** jarro,” or porond four-monthed water jar, will boun-~ hoolked from tha pag whore 1t Liangs in tho aun, anud you will have s driuk of the purest, coldest watdr, from tho cholcost sprlog—water perliaps bronght from a distanco of throe miles by tho water-carrier. Only e sure you hold the_jarro up abovo your hond with both hands, and {:mlt tho water down your throat in s refroshing stream, for your manners are voted simply it dacent if you touch the brim with your lipy. As rogards education, the lower olnsses havo'abso- lutely none. Boventy porcont cnu neither read nor write. Thero are aro no sehools to spuak of in tho interior ; oven for tho higher classes thero ate no governesuos, and it isno wnecommon thing to find s well-born lady not very woll up to writing & lottor. The lower orders aro, of course, Kmsnly guporstitions, Fortune-tollors sbound. Thora s, howover, o vast donl of nat- ural courtosy, natiral wit, natural intolligenco. Uneulturod avd uneducatod as ho is, the Span-~ ish poor man _has tho mannora of & thorough gontloman.—Afaemillan's Magazine, MEN AND WOMGN AS PUBLIC SPEAKERS. The two things that combine to make womon less accoptuble to tho public as lecturors than men aro, we beliove, two rarely considered : VOICE AND DRESS, 1t is totally uunecessary to go over fallow ground, and try to prove it is because thoy aro not sufciontly logical, when ovoryhody knows that thero aro ab lenst a few womon whose powors of logic aro better doveloped than thoao of most men, and, what is still bottor, thoy know that & man's logle has littla or nothing to do with making him o popular spesker, QGivon, thon, an oquality in sll othor respects, the lack of thess two roquisltes alone is onough to spoil any woman's chanca for superi- ority. Wo Liave, all of us, tho rudest, the most uncultitated, an innato senso of the fliness of things, that makes us shrink from incongruity wherover we find it, and, sbovo sll, we shrink from its display upon tho platform, Who can tolerate for an instant tho masculine woman or the offeminate man,—each neithor ono thing nor the other, but o hidcous apology for both? When, then, A WOMAN TERSONATES A MAN, strives to imitate his voico and manner, wa in- stinetiVely turn away with disgust at a miserablo failure, or rogrot at n success woll-nigh achloved, Look at Charlotte Cushman, grand in her concop- tionsasin kor portrayal! When,inherassumption of masculino characters, hor voico ringa out in its fullest strongth, tho highost praiso wo sccord is fonud i the words, * How like nman!" Yot the most partial critic dares not assert that a mau with an equally powerful conception of the charactor would ba no bottor. ‘The old, time-honored {den of woman ie in the main correct, and we have the embodimont of that iden In the mode of dress adopted 8o long ago and still followsd. The drapary that clothos Ler, softoning overy outline, giving delicacy aud hermony, secms but tho outward manifestation of the wmward thought, where beauty, rather thanstrengtl, prodomitiates. Thig vory drapo- 1y, admirably fitted to tho purpose it sorves, 18 AN OBIECTION wea ro apt to underweigh. While there are many subjocls on which s woman may spoak as well and offectively as o man, they uro assurodly nok those in which all tho variod ocmotious have full play, but, rathor, quiet in_their tone, iutal- loctual or pathatic,—uever sticring, novor heroic, in_the rquosl aud bost aenge of these torms, It is folly to talk of training;—no power on carth could train 8 woman's voice to tho cry of war or vougeanco that it would strike an anawor~ ing note in_the hourts of listening thousands. 8ho may toll of lonoly flresides, far-oif graves, aud dagy of sulloring, sud overy man's lisac may sti within bim ; but it is tho Woman speal- ing to tho man,— TIHE WEAK TO THE STRONG— the dofenceless to the dofender; and, in his God-givon strength, e goes out to bnitlo for tho right, Man, by his eloquouce, may movo thousauds; ono who teols the porsonal inagnet- iam of tho woman st his eide stronger than auy other influence, can liston coldly as slie uppenls to tho mass. Ouo touch of Ler haud malkes him hor slove; o singlo word, for Lim alono, gives him ontivoly to her; but, it is again tho woman to the man,—tho senso of porsonal nearno+s,— tho mognetism of n closo prosence,—tho con- sciousness of o man’s right to & wowman’s favor, —that is lost "mid tho throng. Did you ever think how much tho legs and foet of the publio spealer, as well as his head, his hands and faco, Luve to do with his success ? "Test it, thon, in the futuro, Sco if you haven’t to conquet o prejudice boforo you give unguali- flod nsseut to u really good epeaker whose tailor bus feiled to do whub Divinity Lins neglectod ? AN AWKWARD FIGURE is ono of the worst anemios & publio speslkercan have, evon with o roputation to procodo him; ha isn compolled to oxpend o large share of *his physical enorgy in overriding firat impressions, —in uudoiug, by moans of npxlllunl to tho enrs of bl nudicucs, tho injury douo him through thelr oyos, A commanding prosonce, n graceiul figure, & composed mauuer, e effoctiva man- ugomont of liauds aud foet, and, before they are nware, the audionca is applauding tho artist in- stead of tho wau, : ‘A uinglo suggestive poso doos infinitoly moro for all thun u hundred spavkling words. Now, IMAGINE THIS MAN IN BKIRTS— low much of tho effect is lost 2 Tho wholo, of course, It is not alono the absurd spectnelo of man in woman'y clothing,—it is moro ; it is an imorlgonmerft of the man himsolf, Whore now are the brijlinnt effects of postire, tho fascinnt- ing froedom of movement, tho caroless disposi- tion of the foot ? Wo lavo loft, it is true, the mobile fontures, the flashing oyo, tho dilatod nostril, the quivaring lip, the arm, the hand ; but the man is not there,—tho glorious whole is Lanished,—and, in the tranuneled gosture, ho soomn trylng (0 burst tho fotters that bind bim, Tho chinvui of the woman 1 LOST UPON 'THE PLATFON ; tho man is i his elomont. Hoo, in her own home, tho woman that at timas stands cold, impassive Lefuro you,—borself, with nll the tondernoss and sonsibility nutural to her sex; while the man, boreft of the inspivation of the time, tifo thiome, and tlio crowd, oyator-liko, ehuts hhmsolf in an ntmosphioro of rodorvo that you would not ruuntmw if you could, and could ot if yon would. b 1t is probublo that tho lecturors of either sex, it successful, nro like suscoptiblo to the feolings of an sudience,—boing vastly more s Lhoir onse it thoy aro what is termed on yrapport with their henrers ; but, inaginuch as tho audlonce is com- posed of both xoxes,—woman boing moro cupa- ble of rocolving thode mugnotio currents and ba- ing swayed by thom,—tho man 1AS THI ADYANTAGE, if ha understands the fowale heart sufliclently woll to play upon its emotions ut the outsot, rsting asavod that as, fu the mujority of in< atuncas, the ladios ara nitonded by nnlo ascorts, thu effoot will Lo insensibly communicated, aud, without knowing why, tho mon will bo favorably inclined towardy tho'lectarer, Ifo has made no appeal to thelr Intollact, 80 it can't bo that; hus in no way flattered thele vanity, honew that ia uot tho souree, Wheyo ik it thon, if not In the uotion and resction of mind upan mind, projus dicing the hearors in favor of ‘the spealker, and thuraby luylng o foundation for a close sympu- thy ? “An angulur mun hus to CONFEND AGAINBY IMMENGR ODDS,— lines of Leputy ave truly in curves, as o speaker too often leari to Lis cost; whilo one ol thoso gracoful, easy follows, with more flesh than brainm, comos out rrom tho ovdoal with flylug colura, Ho undorstauds tho boauty of motion sud its powos, e turns his knowladea to zood acconnt, and, with a well-directed movement of the fioad, is master of tho situntion. Tlion, too, o man can say things that o woman could not with dignily, What o word that In. linmporing w6 all at nimost ovory step! A man may bo liumorous; it I8 not in woman's noturo; 8lio moy o witly, UL REVER JIUNOROUA. Bho can nover tell, to fllustrato n point, a story with o Jittlo odor of o lack of sanctity about It, Wa loudly applaud o man who gives ns n small doeo of irrovorenco ; it makes s fool on proty tiearly tho samo level, and that's quite ngreea- bla when thoe e Includes tho 1Ton, Mr, —, mau may rush madly about ou the stage for tho Yllrpunu of adding forco and point to lils remark. nagine that performance from o woman, rant- ing and tearing furlously all tho timo| On tho wholo, wo think thore’s ‘n wonderful advaningoe in belng a man If you proposo to bo a public spealkor, aud somotimes if you don't. Vansex Wesr. A NEWSPAPER-WOMAN. ; Of the youngor feminino journatiats of to-day, MISS KATE FIELD hag perhapn tho bowt renson to bo satisfled with tho suceens sho bas mado, Holding tho acquaintanco of the best artists and tragedians known to the stage, udmitled to tho Intimacy of the Republican coteric of Englaud, contributor Dy specinl invitation to the London Athencum and other lending forcign maguzines, favorod correspondent of tho Now York Zribune, and ap- pointed to an editoriul position on the Zerald, gecond hardly to that of tho brilliaut head of jts DYavis burenu,—s most striking mark of ecatoom from {hnt nowspa- por, which, as o gonersl (hing, docs not beliove in woman,—usho lLag reached tho summit of & woman's smbition in journaliem, uniens glic aspiros to mannge one of the chlef dnilies, or toedit the North-American Review. Hor advantages of pomtion were decided for the profession she chose, but it was NATIVE TALENT showed her how ‘to mako prompt and judicious uso of them. Iler falhox's position as theatrical manager gave hor tho entres to the best socioty of nctors, and sho bad musical gifts which were firat put to use in aid of the limited resources of tho family at lor fathor's desth, TFor n while sho was soprano in the choir at Dr. Bollows' clurch, Lll hor attontion was turned to writing dramatle criticisms, brief, pic- torial, and pungont, which sho did go much bet~ tor than anything elso, or than anybody olso nt tho time, that her succoss drow her nwany from other venturen. Ior happy choico of suibjects in which people felt tho most interest for tho moment, no less than her trontmont of themn with light und sldlltul fingers, caught tho car of her audionce. Hor papors ou kistord, in tho Allantic Monthly snd tho daily papers, wero #0 well received ns to feach lier ab onco tho soerot of urrosting attontion, whioh she fotlowed up in her Pou-Photographs of Dickens aud her cnthusizsm ovor Fochtor. Inntead of launching liorself, us most fominine ritors do, into spuco aftor ' their topies, then to shine in thoir awn vagueuoss, she put tho poiut of hor pen througlhi n star, and 2 JUER INK WAS ILLUSTRIOUS, Shionovor wasted herself_on any bat fie popular intercaty of the day, and had “tho uncommon 1onso to oo the nocossity of kuowing nomething of o subject before she bogan to writs on it, Sombra eritics complrinod of hor asgushing, but thoy never find fault excopt with too freely- Howing praige. Bpurting is the word for thoir flueney whon somothing fs to blamo; for in~ stance, the last attack of Mr. Nym Crinkle, the Korgootus and malignaub eritio of tho New York 1orld. After Aign Tiold's visit abroad,when sho sailed with Ristori, and Lor succoss 08 o writer was us- sured, the stop sho ook of . GOING O TIIE LECTURE-STAGE wns oppoged to tha wishes of her rolatives. She preferred independence, however, aud r placo of hier own choosil n tho world, to a Liome in tho family of hor wealthy uncle ac Newport, whero sho was, and is, n b favorite. Ib was not, howover, & lurking passion for the stago which sho gratified in this profession. Lecturing with hor Was umeans to an end, which, hnving suc- cessfully smorved it, was lid aside for the luigurely labor of polito journalism, and tho rolo of o womun of sovicty,—tho nwbition of overy nowspaper femiuine from tho lowest @p, Handsomo opartments, her box ot the opors, novor without its eitendnuco of brilliant literary men, hor name onthe dist of Indy-munagers of charity-balls, summers nbroad with titled Inglign Jtadicals, and autumps on tho Continent with 2 prima douna or &Tor company, form tha vists of many ndream of the nowspapor-neophyte. Boyond this lies the charmed 1ifo of the ‘salons whick iring women are trying to trausplant into Louscs of seventeen-feet front. ‘Lo influence tho questions of the time in art, poli- ties, 2ud social customs, i & temptation to any woman with brains, Miss Field kas thrown hor- golf ardontly into the COMPLICATIONS OF EUBOPEAN FOLITICS, Meoting tho beads of tho Itadical party in England ing her sengons at the houso of Mir Charles Dilleo, of coursio sho has como to boliove in the uctual rexolution of tho English Govern- maut into a high-toned Jeffersonian Democracy, with porsous of distiugnisedtasto roturned for il the principal oflices. It is diflienlt for u womsu not to be partisan, but it is unworthy of Miss Ticld to allow pultry fltngs in her Tribineletters, jilio her quizing tho Queon’s mauuers in taking brown-stout. end saudiickes at @ raview, as any ofd lady would, and for not _offoring them to tho Czarowich und tho Shab, ma if euy mun would porl his _sppetito for din. nor by ftaking luncheon, unlees he wero dem»nmll;iufi. Such cansoless satire in thiugs grentor and loss bus lost frionds and mude exitics for Miss Liold, It 1s noticed whon Ler opigrams are overlooked, like thio capitnl ono on the Portsmouth review, that the British omblom, iustend of o liou and nunicorn, ought toho & horso and o doiphin,—alluding to tho aatioual Jove of field and uaval kports. Sho ig CAPANLE OF IDMOR s thet bears ropeating, as woman's wit scldom does, ny when, ut & ball-suppor, sha deolavesthat, sbo Plives ou uir, somotimod this ‘ore, ued somotimes that 'oro;” which was worthy of Henry Clapp himself, or invitation to write for the Merald was de- cidedly her crowning lnurol, roticent nu sho Loy been as to her conncction with that papor, for tho Herald ohice has been sort of St. Soverus' islo in its horror of ‘women and their work. Whon it grow fashionebla to have a “lndy edi- torial” In the fourth column, mud some light work of this sort was indisponsablo to the com- pletoness of a large papor, of corso tho Herald would laok for the best, ~ Mr. Beunnett applied for DMies Iteld's sorvices, but sho at first do~ clinod. his only eubancod her value, aud Mr, Donnett sont word to her to namo her own prico tor erticlen. Of courno sho kuew how to maloe it enougly, and, 1 consequonco, between difforent journuly in making 5 AS MANDSOME A SALARY a8 many maneging-wiitors havo to show. Who suys woinan's work is undoryalued in tho n pupor-line ? Hosido hor *Freo Lanco o cisms und lier correspondence, Miss Fiel@ writos regular oditoriuls for the Jerald,—its gonerous oditorials on tho Cuban_question, especially, coming from her pem. Her quick sympnthio aro warmly enlistod—and why not ?—for Cubn Libre, the Alluntio Italy, that Romo withont s puat, but with o glorious future, From Marguros Faltor to Panline Girardin and Kato Field, thero lins been no woman’s pen in journalivns that was nob sacred to the interst of “an opprossed peo- ple, and no heart coupled with brixht brain that Was not true in its friendship for them, Whnt- ever faults wmeybo urged against ther, tho trditions and tho typos of feminine journlism nro sonnd to the core for Ropublicanlsm agninst tho world. Toxt Diex, —_— Carbolic Acid Not o Disinfectant, The Southorn cities that have sufforcd from yollow fover, or boen threatoned with it, thiy Tull, havo, of courso, resorted ton profuso ude of disinfoctants, Principal nmong those usad has beon carbolic reld, which, necording ta populnr consont, in tho most offective of ull the romedies sgainst infection, Now, lowover, Trof, Cocliran, of the Alabmma Medionl Collego, writes n loug totter (o the Mobilo Register, in which tho eflicacy of carbolio ueld is questioned —nay, more, condemnod as boing conducivo to tho epreed of diseayo rdthor than its suppres- slon, The Profossor says, ufter watching tho effocls of its uko in tho lowpituls of Mebilo und New Orlenna: Not only o tho facts and ex- atuples uddiiced in proof Tuil to ostublish tho cf- flewoy of earboliv ucid ns s prophylnetio aguil yollow faver, but without any " violonce, and without any sophisticsl In!ml;l‘olnllnu, they go vory fur fownrd tho establlshmont of tho sua- pivion that ity influenco hnsbeon tho very 1ovorsa of praphylnotio ; that if it has not contrilmutod to increnso tho oxtonsion of tho diseaso, it liau ar Tenst nddod o its malignity and ineronsed the wmortality to a fearful ratio, T'ho experimen I beest mudo, and it has fodled 5 undit is du to the eauna of . truth and eanitary scionce, an {ho Interontn of tho publio Licalth licroaftor, thi no falso and mislonding ostimnto of what it ha svcomplished should Do allowed to faston ateel i tha nuhila mind,