Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1873, Page 10

10 ANECDOTES OF NOTABLE TERSON. Farthor Exiracts from Mounsell B, Fiold’s Book. Horace Greeloy's Arrest In Parige- Hawthorne’s Shyness. Jenny Lind and Barnum--Presi- dent Lincoln, TIORACZ GREELEY IN TROUDLE. 1 had lesuied fnvitations for a dinner to my fol- low-Commissloners and other distingulshoed gon- tlomen from tho'United Btates, to take place al tho Trola Froros Provencaux, on Saturdsy oven- ing, June 2, at 6 o'clock, A littlo boforo tho ap- pointed timo I started from homo to koep tho congngoment. As I turned into tho stroob upon which tho Legation building wos situntod, I enw on ordinary fiacro, or streot-cab, drawn up bo- fore tho door, and Platt standing, in bis shict- slooves, tolking to its occupants. Thore woro throo in all, two of thom upon tho back and one upon tho front sont, As I appronchod nenror I rocognizod ono of those upon tho baok sont ag Hornco Greoloy, who was to dino with mo that dny. 'The othor two woro vory ordinary-looking TFronchmen, All wero talking and gestioulating violontly, aud, a8 Mr, Greeloy spoke no Fronch, and Mr Piatt vory little indeod, and the two Fronchmen no English, tho wholo was o Dabel of uniutalligible jargon. 'Tho moment that Mr. Grooloy enw wmo coming, his countenanco, which tind hithorto worn an oxpression of tho deopost dletrens, wae illumined by o ray of hopeful sat- isfaction. When I got near enough to hoar him, ho explainod to mo thot ho had been arrcsted at tho instanco of a French sculptor, who lind sent s'statuo for exhibition to tho World's Falrin Now Yorl, of which Mr, Giocloy was ono of tho ‘manngers, beeauso this atatuo, which ho valuod at 15,000 francs, or £3,000, hnd boen relurned to him in o mutilated condition. o claimed that tho managors had guarantoed tho safoty of all the articles oxhibited, and..4hat therofore Mr. Grooley waa rosponsibloto him for his loss. Honco ho had commenced a civil rotion for dam- agos against him, and ho hod obtained an order for his arrest. That he was talken beforo tho Judge who had granted the ordor, and that tho Magistrato had _consented that tho huissiors, or Dailiffs, who had him in oharge could rccompany Lim to the Amoricon Loiacion. ond I had or- dored that, if the officora theraof would ngree to become responsiblo for the amount in case judg- ment slhould go against Mr, Graeloy, ho was to bo fortlwith rolonscd. I translated this stato- ment {o tho bailiffs, who ndmitted its correct- noss in all reapect, oxcopt 2s to the conditions for tho rolonso, Thoy said that tho Judgd's lo- structions to thom wore not to lot Mr. Grooloy go unless some gontlemnn of thoTogation would consent to mako & deposil in money of tho sum atissue, Whon I told this to Mr. Grecley, ho emphationlly donied ita accuracy, and made an offort to olhow himself out of tho cab, in order to onforco hig oxplanations to me mora at his oago, ' Beeing this, the bailiffs supposed that ho was ondoavorimg to talo sancbunry within the Logation, whoro, by iutornational low, it would be impossible to arrest him. 8o thoy shoved him back with some show of foreo, and, golting out thomsolyes upon. tho oidowalk, tled thoir tri-colorod scarfs around theirwaists. At thisproceeding Mr. Piatt laughed sarcastically, which threw them into o torri~ blo passion. They desired to be informed if he intonded to *ridiculo the colors of Franco.! Pi- utt's_hilavily continued, and it was all that I could do to bring mattera back to tho basis of quiot discussion. In tho moantime, Mr. Gree- lay, paralyzed by the efforls which ho liud mado, was sitling back in the cab with tho most woe- ‘bogono look of martyrdom upon bis faco that can bo imaglied. . . . . When Icommuul- cated to Mr. Greoloy the failure of all my offorts to 6avo hiim from Clichy, the- apathy of "despair ovoreamo him, and ho_exclaimed, in that &lping troblo which o sll romember, “Fakome to jall, tako mo to jail|” Tho bailiffs' re-onterod "the cab, and it drove away. By this timo it was nearly G:30, and Mr. Piath wag not yet dressed, The first thing dono was to dispatch o messenger to Mra, Groeloy, at their reaidence somowhere outaido the Arc de I'Etoilo. “Thon Mr. . Piatt mado o hosty toilet, and wo Btustod for tho Trots Frercs. A roomful of an- gry gentlomon was waiting mo, indigoant thob tho iout was not only nob presont to roccivoe them upon their arrival, but Lad notually kopt them waiting throe-quarters of an hour after tho timo appoiuted for dinner, This necossitated n public explanation from moe of the causo of my delay, which I mado on the spot. In this way tho most prominont Amoricans then in Paria were informed that their expected follow-guost and distinguished countrymnn, Horace Greoloy, wag to spond thet night bohind tho bars of tho dobtors' prison of the Ruo do Olicky. The noxt (S8unday) morning,without any un- secmlr hurry,1 wont to Olichy prison at about 10 o'clock.. Upon prerenting my card I had no* an; difiieulty in ‘igouing admittanco into tho Warden's room, and thenco I wos gradually for~ warded to the interior of the prison, aftor o sovies of iunumorablo checks and recoipts. The prieonors were allowod to recoivo thoir friends on Sunday, but it was almost as dificult to got into tho plnco a8 to got out of it. It appenred that duribg all tho provious hour thero had boon o constant Btronm of vi 18 for Horaco Greoley, nnd the prison-authoritios wore bowildered to iwiagine who their singular-looking but ovi dently distinguished now charge could be, Tinally I penctrated to tho large common room in which (ho Erlmnnm and_thelr frionds woro eoeemblod, It prosented altogether a singular gcene, In tho corner squatted a laboring man in_Dbis blouse, surrounded by hig wife and ohildren, .who had brought him somo dolicu- cica for Lis Sundny dinner, In anothor corner Jounged o fashionably-dressed youug gon- tleman, ovidently of _tho genus fast, in conversation “with, o still moro fashionn- ably-dressed” young woman, a8 evidently of the gonus faster,” Tho voom was fillod with the ot strangoly-contrasted groups. Standing in tho middle of it, wearing his old whita over- cont, and with bis Lot on_the back of his hoad, his countenanco wroathed in smilos, flanked on cither side by s United States Ministor, stood Horace Greoloy. To refrain from langhivg was imposaibler ‘*Mr. Grooley,” I enid, “‘you irre- elgiibly romind mo of Parson Adams’in jail.” His Inssitude and alurm wero all gono, nud ho wag. in the vory highest spirita. ¢ Field,” he ropliod to mo, “this Llag beon @ ouo of the moat fortunnio incidenis In my life. Without it, I doubt if I over should havohad the upiortunity to sos good soctely. You know that I know nothing about it at home. 1 have novor associatod with the poo- ple who comporo it there, I darassy they ara very good people, bul thoy are not my peoplo. Now wo havo two clnssos of inmales hore—aris- tociata and ploboiaus, Bearcoly had I arrived last cvenivg, wheu I was was waited upon by a dalegation of the avistocrats, and invited to join thelr mess, Of courso, I nccopted. e bronk- fost at 10 and pay three franes, and dine at 0:30 for ~fouf francs. Tho plebeians breakfost and dino enrlior, and at much lower priccs. Last n\'onlu;{ at dinnor we had o Princa at tho hegd of the table, and I wad flanked on ono side by a Count and on the other by a Baron, If Iouly romain horo long enough, I shall learn not only the Freuch lau- guago, but good manners into the bargain.” And 60 ho ran on, his auditors hardly knowing whether they wero Isughing with him or at him, All our offorts to got him out that daywore, bowovor, fruitless. Wo sent for Iawyors in evory dircction, but all the lawyors wore smus- ing thomuclves, und_none of them could bo found at home, On Monday By, Greoloy wae reetored to liborty, s When Mr, Platt used to tell the slory, more 810, ho rolated thai as soon am Mrs. drunloy heord what hiad happenod, shio immediately pro- coeded to pack Mr. Greeloy's luggn;iu which conalated of o fine-foath comb aud o night-shirt, and then iucontinontly rushed to the prison, That tho moment she was introduced to tho presenco of her husband, she frantically throw up hior bands and cxelafmad: * ‘Why, fathor!" to which hio responded, withalike gesturo ** Why, motlor I I foar that this was an apocrypha joko of Piatt's, At the trial of his cuso, Blr. Greeley camo off viotor. MAWTIORNE'S BHYNESS, Ono day James aud I staried to eall upon Hawthorno, As we approachoed his dwolling o paw him-in o vogetable garden at tho sido of it, As Bocn a8 ho notiood our appronol ho conceal- od himsolt, like a frightonod school-Loy, behind hio houso, and whon wo asked for him 'at the door we wero told that b3 was not at lLomo, Tradition related that nobedy had succesded in interviewing him sinco ho was first rottled ab Lenox, A day or two afterward tho firat rehearsal took :{ Unut‘lvo Qnrden, and I attended it, Nover aud pevor slnoo las New ¥ork witnessod JENNY LIND AND BARNUM: Buch n farore ns tha duced. Mr, Barnum, with unoxamplod skill nrd: tnot, faunod the publio excltoment, which ho hidd }largoly -oronted, to fover hoat. Upon tho ocondlon of thin rohionrsal, tho entiro Battory: way coyorod with one ‘denso mass of Luman- ity. Whon tho porformanco wns ovor, Miss Lind took - my ‘arm. to roburn to hor car- ringe, which shio had loft standing opposito tho Dowling Groon. Immodiately aftor wo mado our oxif from tho Gardon, the crowd prossed upon us 8o wildly that the police had difloulty in forclng s paesage for us. Some ondenvorod to thruat potitions for oharity into hor hand, and the only objeot of othorawas to 'fmu{y their curlosity by gazing Into bor faco. 1o populace mado up lhofr minda that I must bo Barnum, and I was repentedly addrossod by that namo, 1t was with no smali difitoulty, aud aftor a gront denl of embarragsmont to mo, that we finally renched tho carringe and drove awny. After o timo Miss Lind bocomo dissatisfied with Lior contraot, aud I was sont for to reviso it. Mr, Barnum made the requived concensions. I preparod a substitute, sud this also was duly oxeouted. Tofore the first concort, cnmo oft it was an- nouncod i the nowspapora that Miss Lind in- tonded to inaugurate hor earcor in Amoricn by prunnnun;i hor sharo of the procceds to public charities in the Clty of Now York. I boliove that tho suggostion camo from Mr, Barnum, and it was o master-stroke of policy. Tho doy atter that concort, I again enw Miss Lind, and ro- coived from her about $11,000 for distribu-. tion, X asked hoxto what institutions [ wae to pregent It, and sho told mo- to. so- loct thom myself. Accordingly, I ocon- sulted with two or threo flfnnnnmen, and mado out a list which I submitted to hor. for hor ap- probation. Sho approved 1it, without hare ronding it, and I started upon my mission of ‘meroy. Hoforo I hnd got through it, I almost regretted that I had consented to bocome hor almoner. Bearcoly nnybody—thoro were o fow praigovorthy _oxceptions—was satisfied. . At nlmost evory cstablishment. at which I called, thoy tried to porsuads mo that n Iargor allotmont should Liave beon mado to their partioular insti- tution, and that its noods and desorvings were 80 much groater than thoso of such a sistor one, Of course, we bad boon strictly. impartial. We Liad no motivo whatover to bo atherwise. Now tho bost or it is, a8 Lhavo sinco had roa- son to boliovo, tho receipts of that firat concort foll far short of Mr, Barnum's oxpeotations, and that tho publio might. not suspect the faot, ho himsolf furnished o large portion of the mone) which figured as Mies Lind's sharo.. . J { Again and again Miss Lind dosired changes mado in the contraot to hor own advantago, and ovory timo Mr, Barnum . yiclded. Whatover his motive, ho was most obliging and complaisant; and salthough I havo nover seen him since, 1 have always ostoomod lim for the good na- turo and liborality which ho exhibited at this . time in his business rolations with Miss Lind, I bolieve that sho rococived every farthing that bolonged to hor, and that ho trontod hor with the most sorupufous honor, Miss Lind soon_removed from tho Irving Honso to the Now Yorlk Hotol, and it was thore that Ieaw her most frequently. The baritono of tho troupe which accompanied her, who was in tho same_house, was madly in love with her, ond ho used to lio' in bed all day, woeping and howling over his unroquited. affoction, . Tho way in which she was_hounded. for charity all tho timo was disgracoful to tho country, Do- sides recolving ncores of loiters, sho was daily ‘besicged by male and female beggars, who ob- tained necees to hor upon overy protoxt, and who tormented her for donations’ for thomsolves or others. Tho impudence of somo of theso, peoplo was nlmost inoredible. . ... I am eshamod to Do compolled to say .that meny Amorican Indiea mi(‘;ml thoir Ehcua in bebalt of objeots, somoe of thom undoubtedly meritorious, with an importunity which overstopped the bounds of propriety. 3 Miss Lind was a caln, gensible, conscientious womon of ‘high principlos, rather caloulatin than emotional. Bho detested Aumbug—n wor which was constantly in hor moutir. 1 was with hor when o tolegram was shown to her, men- tioning the onormous sum that was -paid in Boston for o choice of senta at hor firat concert, “What a fooll” she exclaimed, roferring to the purchaser, ¥ She liad an abhorrenco for nogroes, which sho could not overcomo. **Thoy are so ugly,” she usod to ay. i K * TITD BARNAOLE ’ AT WASIINGTON, Thero used to be & clerk in ihe Rogistor's ofiice who belongod to one of thoao Washington familles, which, ever siuce the foundation of tho Governmont, have considered thomeolves, by Pmncr{ptl\'u right, ontitled to bo provided for Dy it. At ihe same time, his father was chiof of one of the burenus in the War Dopartmont, and Lo had a brother who was cmployed in the In- terlor Department, o Lad nlso mnother Drother who had boen in tho army, but, ‘bo- coming disabled by illncss, hod beon horor- ably dischnrged. = For (ks brother, too, ho wai determined to secure a place in the civil sor- vico. With thia object ho went from de-' partmont to department, Lut always withont succesn. Finelly ho detormed to go direotly to the Prosident himself, and to appenl to him to intorvone in bolilf of the dischargoed sol- dior, Mr. Lincoln, it would scem, had heard of the case beforo the Treagury clork socured : the audionce with him which he sought, When tho_iotorview lad torminated, thoe disappointed clork rushed back to our degnrtmuut and into my office, and commenced in tho most indisorect and intemporate manner to expross his disgust with the President. It is a disgraco to the country,” ho said, *that such a boor should be Presidont of tho Unitod Statosl” X drew from him tho story of what Lad occurred bo- twoon the Prosidont and himsclf, and it was somothing liko this: Mr. Lincoln received him Lindly and listonod to his request. * Why don't you go directly to tho Bocrotaries ?" ho asked. “Z hava boen'to thom all, and failed with all,” was tho answer, ‘'Hnsn't your brother sufil- ciently rocovered his health to enable him to ro- turn to tho army?" inguired tha President. **No, sir, o bag not,” was thoreply. '‘Lot me soo,” continued Br, Lincoln, "I boliove that you yourself aro n clork in one of. ‘the departmonts —which one is it?" . Tho Treasury . Dopartment, sir)"- “I thought BO. Has your brother . as ood clorienl capacity ng you poesess? ™ ! Yes, eir.”” T think that I have somowhere met your fathor, Doosn’t he hold an oflico in Wasbing- ton?" “Yos, sir; ho is chiof of tho — bu- repu in the War Eannrtmont." 4 QOh, yos; I now rocolloet him very woll. Has your brother good referencos ns to character ? ¢/ Yes, sir; the very bost.” **Is thoro any other of your family holding office under tho Government ? " #Yed, sir ; I havo & younger brothor In the Tn- torior Depertmont.” * Well, thon, all I Lave to say to you M— ig, that there ara oo many hogs, and too liltle fodde TIE YALLING 8TARS AND THE UNION, But Mr, Lincoln did nos always deal exclus- ively in burlesque. e racoived once & oall from a dologation of bank Prosidonts, at ono of tho gloomicst poriods of the War, whoa do- prossion and oven discourngoment llmvnilad in many places. One of the finaucinl gentlemon aslced the Prosident 1f his confidonco in the fu- ture was notbeginning to bo shaken. ‘Not in tha lonst,"ho answored. * When I was o youn man in Illinois,” ho continued, “I boarde fora timo with = deacon of the Prosbytorian Oburch. One night I was aroused from my sleop by nrap at my door, and [ Leard thoe don- con's voico cxclaiming, ““Ariae, Abraham, tho dny of judgment has comel” I eprang from my bad, and rushod to tho windaew, nud thore I saw tho stars folling in o showor. But I looked be- yond thoso falling stars, and far baol in tho hoavens I snw—flxed, apparently, and immov- ablo—the fimnrl old constollntions with which I was 80 well acquainted. No, gentlomen, the world did not como to an “oud thon, nor will tho Uuion now." ‘ MR, LINCOLN'S DEATH, At Inat at Just 7:22, he consed to hreathe, ‘When it becama cortain to all that his soul had taken its flight, Dr. Gurley dropped upon his Lnaes by the bedsido and offered a forvent prayer. Never was n supplication watted to tho Orentor undor more solomn olrcumstancea, ‘Whon it was finishod, most of tho porsons as- sombled began slowly to withdraw from the chamber of doath, I, howover, with a fow others, remained. Wo olosod tho eyes completely and placed silver coina u{mu them, and with o pockot-handkorchiof wo tied up tha jaw, swbioh ad alroady bogun to fall, My, Btauton threw open the two windowa of tho room, Just then Potarson enterod, and rudoly drnwlns tho uppor,. illow from under the hend of tho dend, tossed t into tho'yard, BShortly aftorward we rotived from tho room. MNr. Stanton locked the door, and stationed o sontry in front ofit. I thon went into the front parlor, whoro I found Dr. Gurloy agalu praying, Muva, Linceln way lylug upon a sofs, moaning, and hier son Robert “was standing af hor head. When Dr, Gurloy had finished his prayor, Robort Lincoln assisted his mothor to rise, and togethor wo walked to tho front door. 'I'ho Prosidont'a carriage was stand- ing bofors the houso in the dripping rain, na it hiad stood thera all through-ihat terriblo night, As My, Linooln reachod the door-steps, sho cast o hurrlod glance at tho thoatro opposite, and throo tlmos repeated, *‘Oh, thot dreadful houso | " Bhe was then helped Into tho carriago, which drove away. Perhaps the most affooting inoident conneoted with this drama ocourred an Lour Iator. Alr, Linooln's bady, inclosed in a plain wooden boz, around which was wrapped the Amorloan flag, 'was borne from the housp by elx private -nq- llor : thon placed {n o gullitary. boaseo, bebind adyont of Jonny Lind pro- | ‘whioh thia soidiors mrotiod iko “monirnora i and- . 0 onrricd to tho- Executive :-Alansion,: :As: tho | cortngo pasacd along it attracted but 1ltilo alton-' | | tion, for but fow perons know what Lurdon wag | bolug oarried past. tholr doora.. It° was fitting ‘Ihnfihlu grent man of the poople,—plaln Unclo, : Abo thon, a8 in yoars gono. by In his Weatern homa~shoul pass through tho sllent atroots of ,tho capital undor the estort of common men; As Ivnw Mr. Lincoln {f‘mg in stato in tho Enst .Raom of the Exccutive Manslon, his appearance wns quite unliko what it had boon {mmediately aftor his denth. Tho black had gono from Lis oyos and his faco, which hind resumed o patural color, This, I was informod was tho woxk of an artist, Tho ponoil had boon- omployed to pro- duco tho chango: While his corpse was boing earried in procossion ihrough the oitics of tho land, boforo It was axposed to publio Enzc, the coffin wne oponed, the dust was brushoed .from tho face, and, .tho discolored paxts wero re- touchod. Aud so ho went to roat, 5 e " THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY. @rudgo not tho mean plitanco,—'tis not 5o {mmenn Oh, renson, truo patilots | bo pationt and gay | Truo, somo will complain on futila pretonse ; But mind not thelr murmurs,—thoy'll soon pass : away, ¥ Tor s only a small Afty thoitand o ear To him who did * gave * thisimperiled groat nattons Thotgh tho patrlots slain, thick on plaths far and near, Tiepose, for thelr frionds begglng raiment and ration, Dohold our great conniry, so,varied and vaat, | With {s wealth o iramionsoof thiomines and tho noil Lot our hopes never wane, nor our minds be o'srcast, For the thousands that hunger, thomillionsthat totl, For '8 scarce thirieen thousand a guarter; and then That smnil st s to keopfoul templations at bay ; And who would mako Presidonis kuow beggary, when ‘But a fow paltry doliars shall atand in the way 1t wo stick to economy In secking for men o iroot our great abip safoly onward to port, Wo moy sink; but doublo tholr salarios; then 0 ho safd gildos our ahip through {ho waves® wild- oat sport. . For tis only fotr thotsand a month fof » man ‘That can sposk of the currency, Cuba and Spain; ‘Con turu gold on tho markoet, thon grocnbacks, snd an; Thol ean smoko bis Havans, and—qulot romatn, To provent mon from thieving we surfolt with gold; i A plethorio dog wil not ateal a man's dinner; ‘Whero danger comos never, the coward 'a_mora bold; i " And the man soon to dio s nover & sinor, ‘But ons thousand a toeck for tha man at the lolm, Whilo {ho tax-riddon poor *!lesrmto labor and wailt,”. . 3 ‘Whero the Rings sre nnbroken and ruls tho wholo roul ; Whnsrt.lcn;mpuou doth wield all the powers of tho o.. ot ua tiavo duo zenpoot for L great and tho winey ~"And * speak well of o bridgo that carrles us over;” Frown not on s salary that comos an & prizo, " But ongerly olzo It a8 cows do fresh clovor, i i only ‘one Fundsed and forty adags " To chanicea como soldom ; tho time {a far spent; ‘And grent tnen cannot think mighty thonghta withion ; 8y, - ! Nor 1ndito learned messsgen st Aifty por cont1 Onco sgnin ot s reason, vovolvo, and refloct; Thovgh not lofty in thiought, bo romantic in pride; *And, a8 sll cannot bo groat Presidents clect, 5 Let us make ours n model, a guardian, and gulde, For his salary ' onlysiz dollars each hour, 2 4 i 8o we fill s lean Iarder, and Brussels hin rooms, Surround him with waiters, and feathier his bower, < And build for him stables, aud mupply faitliful vooms, o : ! In England 'is done n & taors liborel way ; America seoms not to fancy tho notlon ; For Liere office-holdars, whilo begging more pay, Wil dfo of moro pay in tho coming commotion, For \tia ten cents minute, aiake o asleen, Pulliug smcke from cigas, eotzing thoughts Trom " . the Drain, I Or wondoring whon people moré qiilet will keop, -~ Or whelhor is safo back-pay ot {ront to rotain, To conclude the whole matter, ’tis woll, thon, o state That an l1l-gotten dollsr, though in gold, *awng,” or 2 atraw, [ . . . S [Whother filchied by tho lowly or “grabbed” by the . great, e In oonjemed: iy tho Seriptures, by morals, and law. ‘Aud the poople declsre Aty thoussnd a year, g And'in T’nr uisites doubled, shall novermoro win ; For tle Iabor'a too light, or tho-prico quite too deat ¢ "Tis-ln greoubacke too thick, or in service too thin l Cirzaado, Doc. 19, I 55+ S ‘Thie Ex«Empress of the French, _An Eugfish npor eays that tho Ex-Empross lives at Chisolhurst in complete retiroment. The imperial houschold at the presont momont. con~ sists of only slxporsons, ithe Empress herself, Mile. L'Armins (Her hfnjesty’u companion), the Duo De Bassauno, Count Olary, Dr.tConnesy, oud Dr. Covisart. o Princo Imporial, how: aver, arrivos at Oamdon .placa overy Sature day : from !Woolwiok, with o his - tutor, 1 M. Flion, -and. romains .with, tho - Emprees | until’ Mondsy. Tho Princo is repoited to bo making most satisfactory progress with his stud., {os at tho Noyal Military Acndomy. Ono-of tho voluntary anb&ncls which ‘he gelocted - for study basg been the Gorman language, and. in, that ho has admirably succeodod. Tho Empross seldom tzdma abrond, but takes walking oxorciso within ho park, * Bofore tho Emporor's death she \was ncenstomed to drive a pair of ponies, but sho has novoer driven them ‘since. ‘Once or. twico Mlle. I'Armina hos driven‘ber Majesty out in tho favorite - pony chaise, but tho' Jmproas hoa ' genorally proforrod _aunother earriago, Offorings for ‘the Emperor's - shrine contindnlly arrive, one of ‘ihe Iatest boing abouquet from the market-women of Paris. The granito sarcophagus prosented by Hor Majosty to tho Empross Eugenie, as s ro- ooptacle for tlie romains of tho Iate Em) oror, has, unlrnml{ announced, arrived at Ohiscl- hurst from Abordoen, and boon placed in- the handsome wmortuary chapel which has boen orocted to cover tho Emporor's tomb. - i 1 Tho designs for the now building are by Mr. H. Clutton, aud the builaerd are Mosirs, Braes & Co. It is_similar in apponranco to thojmangoloum of the Duchass of ent,” and somewhat- resembles that of tho Princo Consort, st Frogmore. It is entirely of” muosonry, externally of Bath stone, lined with gtono brought:from . Fravco. . Tho carving is vory elaboate aud -bandsomo, ospecially ~the cnpitals of tho pillars, ‘ tho, roof is roined ' and arched. with much ‘eloganco,, ho design nof “the whole edifico being Qothio, ~ Tho' littlo cnapol has 'a carved altar and canopy, sud at .tho opposito ond is o snvutu doorway for tho Emnpress. Above tho oor i n rose window, and there aro throo other lights on tho sonth 'side. Theso' are tomporarily filled with plain glass, but tho windows aro sll to bo- stained, and-nn nrtist who has rocontly complotod tho windowa of tho Emperor's church at 8t. Clond has beon to Chisolhurst with desigus. Tho earcophagus will stand on a tessolated pavomont in tho cen: tre of tho now building, and will‘bo _approachs from tho interior.of tho thxoug,:h o donble bay divided by columne of jas- or. ‘Chis approach belng.always open, the omb will always remsin in view of the congro- gation. Tho work will bo complotad’ by Christ- s, and the coftin will then bo rlulufl romoved scrans tho church to its now resting placo, The translation will not be- attended by any ceremo- ny, bub will_bo conduotod in tho'presence of somo of the Fronch nobility, and ‘thore will be & solomn sorvico on_tho 9th of Janusry, tho first: annivorsary of the Emperor's doath. Thero has, indeod, beon a spocial ‘sorvice on-*the ‘Oth _day of overy month sinco that ovent, and the Fm- proes has nover fuiled to bo presont, < o —_— Arrest of n ogus English Lord. ~Iyom tho Philadelphia Press, " ' + The stenmship Ponnsylyania, of tho American Line, arrived,on Baturday sftornoon at hor pior, above Washington stroot wharf, A fow days ago 8 warrant, was. placod in tho hands of Defective Medra to arrest tho ‘notorious Frank Massoy, 'who, it was supposed, was o pnesenger on tho vosgel under tho namo of Frauklin B, Copo.- It will be romombered that Massoy orcated quite a sonuntion at Capo May Jast summor, as he atated tlnt he was tho only gon of tho Duko of Leads," and was on a mission of ploasurs to this coun- try. Ho ran up large hotoi-bllls, .and borrowed {from ovory one willlug to:lond,. His real uharao-, tor camo to light only when:his money was gone. ‘When the yessel arrived “on Buturday after- noon, Dotectivo Meara wont up to the acoused ugii placed him under arrest.’ Xe was considor- ably @ tho Oontral Station, whoro Lo had's hoaring boforo Ald, Boltlerr Mo gave tho name of Tranklin Copo, and wes charged, on & warrant issued by William_Whitohoad, Justico of tho DPeacs, Ohostor-"Connty, on the oath of Calob Qope, with obtaining tho sum of $20 by o cortain false protenso, “Lhers woro no witnossos exam- fued, and tho acensed was hold in $2,000 bafl Iu default of thishe wes ' committed for trial in Obostor County. Massoy said ho was 28 eard old, and oamo from tho County of Limor- ck, Ireland, whero his parents, who wero woalthy, left Lim 140,000, In high living ho gpent all but 89,000, with wiioh ho oama to this city and obtained employment from Calob Oope, of Wost Oloster, romnining thoro nino months, honestly aud faithfully, Io bn‘ym to drink, and after leaving Alr,” Copo, ained a largo sum of mounoy by roprosont] ngz' filmsnu as I'ranklin B. Cope, his gon, Lea summer ho went to Qape May, whero he passod himself off a8 Lord Massoy. 'Ator hoha spont all his money ho suddonly deoampod and worked his way to ¥ranco on o ship, and subsequontly went London, whero he defrauded o conven« tlonof Quakers by stating that ho was Cope's son. Thoy found Lim- out atlast; Massoy says, from the faot that thoy pald his passage on the Penn- sylyanin, and landod him inco tho aymes of Juatige. whoro Lo worlio church by tio steps ' risod .at ‘such a. recoption, and, after . Doing told what he was charged with, . taken' to’ “THE WAC CALLUM MORE. R |A Slketoki of the Duke of Ar. : gyl illls Caroer In Litorature and Politics, A Very Able Man—for a Dule. From the Galaxy for Jantiary, | 'Oan thoro be any position moro onviable for ita combination of comfort and dignity than that of nn English Duke? A King's is o wonry lito, ‘ovén though tho monarch be a dospot, and can do -whatevor. ko plonsos. ' A Princo fs: always opprossed by tho responsibilitios of his rank, and has always to koop thinking, if he boa ‘Trespootablo Princo, of whothor this, that, and the othor thing ia propor todo. Tho Iate Princo Albort was particularly fond of lounging nbont streots alono, and looking into shop windows, and ho found it a hard trisl to glvoup this harm- less and inexponsivo amusement ; but he hed to forogo , it novertholoss, for only think * of 'tho " orowd the Queon's hus- band would havo hiad at his hools if Lio hind von~ tured upon s esuntor along Piscadilly! I am now speaking of England only, for wo bavoe most of us moon Princos in other countrios strolling through the principal strocts of thofr capitals as froo and unmolosted as Gen. Grant when he walks along Pennsylvaniaavenuo, But in Englaud, tobe o Princo Is to be doomod eithor to porpotual state or tho uncomfortablo risks of an incognito, which makos tho moat harmloss excursion acom like s wild and Inwloss oncapndo. * The Duke of Edinburgh doos, in- dood, got into a Hansom cab now and thon and make s friondly morning call, but the Duke of Edinburgh could hardly venturo to stroll down the Birand and look into n shop-window. But nn ordinary Duke, a Duke who is not of the Blood Royal, WHAT A TIATPY POBITION I8 TS, Ho may go whore ho likes, and how ho likes, He might mount on the roof of a penny omni- bus if it pleasod him. Povertyitself is not more indopondent; *tho Bpartan, borne upon his sbiold, is not moro free.” Andthon, think of tho ‘position, the dignity! I wondor whother it would be possible -to convey toan American any ad- equate ‘notfon of tho , social ‘position of an. Epglish. Duke? , Hardly -any . words could \do it.- No ’gifts of ’genius,* elo- auence, statesmanship, success, could placo an English commoner on a soclal level with n Duko. A mon may bave eaved tho Biato, but that doos not, make him socially .equal toa Dalko. * An ordinary Lord is nothing. The Quoon makos guch Poers by tho half-dozen ; but within'my time thero has boen only ouo Duko added to tho Paorage, and ho, bofore Lio becamo n Duke, was a Morquis, with o titlo dat- ing back for about a century. A Duko can af- ford to bo ciyil to overybody, becauso presump- tion itself cannot make an inforior person, sup- poso tlat ho is cqual to n Duke. If ho {8’ & 'momber of Govornment,: he may bo 08 doforontinl as ho pleasos to tho Prime Min- inter, but for all that Mr. Giadstono or Mr. Diarnell knows well enough how vast ‘the gocial difforenco botween the Duke- and himself. The Duko may invite you or me to & dinner party or an ovoning party, and e may think him o very civil, kindly, and delightful poraon ; - but-wo do not get” any nearer to the Duko, nor doos’ tho Duko for o moment ontortain the notion that wo have the prosumption to thinlk of gotting_nosrer to him. Tho differonco between an English Duke and ru ordinary human creature is aa that Dotween o ot g | ' ALIONAND A DOMELTIOCAT. . The two beings may resomblo’ cavh other to some oxtent, sud scem as if thdy belonged to the same ' family, but thoy always remain o lon oud a cat. - Tho Engllnh Torics latoly were in want of o leader in tho Houso of Lords. Tho; haye'an’ Enrl“of gront influence, talont, ani Llul ment, son of a famous Primo h!mlfltnr—,thu Earl of Dorby. Thoy hiave the Marquis of Saliu- lmy o -mion of briflinnt %ms_na of stainlesa polftloal intogrity. But by tho nnanimous ngree- mont of tho pm‘ldy thoy choso for loader the Duko of Riohmond—n dull, respectablo, worttsy gort of man, without olitienl capacity or train- fog of any lkind, He wns chosen because, although ho lns noither brains nor knowledgo, HE 18 A DURE, There {8 & young man iin tho Houso of Com- mons, and iu tho Ministry, who has held for {um ‘offica of higher rank than ever wonld have oen given to Edmund Burlko, or' than has yot booa givon to John Bright. Ho is nota brilliant yourg man, . Ho is a solid, stolid, hoavy sort of porson—intollectunlly, I moan, Otherwiso he is & man bright enough. " Ho is not, or at loast waa not, a virtuous young mon. Tio first bacamo famous na..the patron of Anonyma. * In porsonal appenrance and stylo of address Lo reminds ono of Rawdon 'Crawloy, He was urgod 1nto politics as a monns of occupying Lis manly_ onergios and distracting himsolf from more directly baneful amusemonts.: He has not worked badly. He has charge now of onc of tho . most important .and oritical of our honie depertments. Ho ia listoned to with o cartain dogreo of attontion by the ITouse of Commons whenever Lo makos n speoch, nnd in socioty ke rathor patronizes Gladatone. Ho is the . ¢ . & ! BON AND HEIR OF ENGZLAND'S BICHEST DUKK. T happened to como Intoly on an old numbor of Vamly Fair,—I moan tho illustrated paper of that name. It containod n portrait, humorously exaggorated, of "a cortain English Duke who bonrs an illustrions namo, but who is himself supposod to bo rathor goampish in his ways, Tho fow lins of dosoription which ceompaniod tho portrait pralsod tho Dulo ‘vory highly for his good-nature and modoration, bocauso, astho writor put i, o man with o much woalth, in- fluonco, and power, might have done almost boundloes hinrm if holind been go inclined. Tho praiso, of course, was anrcaatio, nud the comment was vory significant. Our Dukes, to+do thom Justico, aro not half ko bad, or ovon 5o stupid, 28 might fairly hiave boon oxpected. Their titlos arc not nll drawn from tho most honorablo sources, howovor wo in England may revero them, " For oxanple, thero was not long etnce in tho Honso of Lords o sharp peraonal controver- 8y botwoon tho Duko of Richmond, ‘who londs {ho Tory porly, oud tho Duko of St Allns, wio Lolda undor Gtovernment the romarkablo ofiice of Caplain of the Yeomon of tho Guard, Both there ominont Poors derive theirtitles from ono sourco, Thoy spring from TUVAL MISTRESHES OF CHARLES 1T, What o divinity doth hedge n King! In private lifo peoplo would bo rathor ashamed to have it known that oven their ‘groat-gront-grandmother was a looss woman, But, whon o King can give o title, such'n pedigrae bacomes an honor, Wo havo’only somo” twenty Dukes altogother, and of-- theso = the' Dulio_'of ‘Buecclouoh, tho- Duko of Grafton,'the Duko of St Albaus, sud' the Duke ‘of Michmond sre all sprung from tho amours of Charlos II. Of tho twonty Dukes whom wo nro proud to posscss, thero aro not moro than two or throe who can be sald to havo made for themsoelves auy’ roputation what- éver for abillty, Two or throo arg renowned as soamps; two or throo have mndo a reapect- able ‘postion in - Parlinment; tho rest have nothing but_their- rank snd their wealth. Ia not that snough ? - What motive hns & Duke for exortion and ambition? Ho cannot raiso himself in tho world, ' A man cannot bo hlflmr Lhan s Duke in English sooiety, unless_he [ Prince of the Dlood Royal, f tho Duke of Tichmond hind writton *¢Oliver Twiat,” * Tho Nowcomos,” ¢ Bfiddlomarch," tho ** Idyls of tho King," and the ** Ring and tho Book;" if ho had rivaled Huxloy aud Tyndall fu scioncs, aud ox- colled Horbert Spencor in mental philosophy ; it ho had won tlio battle of tho Alma, and managed |m]eoanml]y tho national financos, ho would o 4 5 ’ ADOVE AND DEYOND ALL THIR, bo the Duke of Richmond. He could not by any morits or nchievemonts add o ocubit to his staturo i English sooloty. | Theorofore It {8 much to.the” honor of o Dulko when he trics to bo something elso as well as o Duko, Ho is o man 80 shut off’ from most of the tomptings of human ambition, thot if ho shows nng inolination to do suything oxcopt live aud be a Duke, it is positive ovidonce of somo gonuino and dislntereatod purposo, Therofore the Duko of Argyll 1a woll worth wrlting of, sud ought to be heid in honor, e s not, tobesure, an English Duke, but then -ho comos from ono”of tho proudent stoolis of n very proud Boofoh no- ility, Hols THE MAQ CALLUM MORE, & gon of the great Oallun (or Colln), thoe founder of the house, In Bootland bo'ls regarded as m sort of soverelgn over the region whero his ontatea lle, As evorybody knows, his oldest son is married to tho Princess Louiso, daughter of Queen Vistosls, o Duke of Asgyll might, PR | thorotoro, Tiotd himieclf . tioo from am nood to atriggle aftor persounl distinetion, nnd!{ i8 to hia grent lionor, morally na woll na intel- lootually, that ho las lod so busy n lifo, and worked hard in such yartad fiolds of Iabor. ' Ho' 8 not vory. rich; that.is, lio Is not among the rloh Dukon. ITin wenlth will not compare with | thnt of tho Dulko of Dovonshire, or indaod with that of soveral othor fgora; but ho is rich onnngh to maintain tho dignity of his, stntion, aud tho laborious dutios which hio undortakes ‘brlng him no gain that could bo worth his con- nldl?{‘ntllon. ! ?u flma“:.‘fh' aud apart ll;nm his political oplniona ans o gonorpl onlighton- mont, ho is, I think, tho 4 ey MOST HESPECTALLE OF ALL OUR DUKLS, moroly bocauso of his stendy lovo of work, DBat whon wo ndd to this consldoration tho faot that his political aympathion have always boon en-~ lightoned, and that almost every good cause hns found an_nornest ndvooato in him, I think wo may consldor that in- Sumnnnl morit he stands among onr Dukoes like Saul among hia brothren, R0 omz in motaphor and in merlt, however, that Lo thua ofertops his Lrothor Dukes, ' A lous lmmslnrg figuro it would not bo eagy to find. The Duke of Argyll is o small man, with a fooble framo ond o shambling wolk, s fair, frosh faco fu surmountod by o chevelura whiok veed to Lo of n bright rod tint, but now s bocomingly clinstonod by o tingo of soborizing gray, Ho throwa his hend ns high in air ns ho can while Lo walks, and gooms to sniff tho breezoe like one of tho stags ufion hisnativo mountning, Ho always giyos one the improssion of & littlo man who mnkes himeolf rather ridicnlous by fancyiug that ho is of gigantio staturo, and comporting him- solf nccordingly, Ho walke through the Iobbios and corridoys of the Iouso of Lorda with his bands in his waistcont poclets and his bat on tho baok of his “hoad, and loocks as if ho thought himsoelf & porson whom it would bo rathor dangorous to approach. Indeod, it is generally belioved that the Duke of Argytils NOT DEFICIENT IN BELY¥-CONOEIT, ‘Whon ke was & young man this quality nsed to como out rather strongly in him, Tho Duke of Argyll bogan lifo vory soon, IIo is now only 50* onrs of ngo, and ho has beon & prominont pube lo man for nonrly thirly yoars of that timo. Lord Houghton, in proposing his hoalth at o public diuner_some timo ngo, said good-lumor- odly that tho Duke * was, I think, 17 whon ho wrote a pamphlot called * Advico to the Poors,’ and ho has gone on advising us_evor since.” Pursuivg the carcor of his friond, Lord Hough- ‘ton wout on to ssy, * Soon aftor that ho got mixed up with ecclesiastical affairs and wna ex- communicated.” Tam not sufliciontly, woll ac- quainted with the history of the controversy in whioh the Dulko of Argyll engagod so oarly, as to 'kuow whathor ho undofwent at anybody's liands tho awful ban of oxcommunication. My impression was that dospite his youth, and the perfervidum ingeniun Bcotorum, ho contrived rather to hedgo and to oyndo the diffieultics on both sidos. The con- troversy was A FANOUS ONE. 1t concorned tho freodom of the Church of Scot- land from the logal nupumm:f of laypatronage ; and it lod to the groat eccesslon of upwards of 400 olergymen and a Inrge bodg of tholaity, who, under the leadership of Dr, Ohalmers, founde the Froo Ohurch. Into this controvorsy the Duko of Argyll, thon Marquis of Lorne, rushed with all tho onorgy of Scottish youth, bub in it ho maintained Liimself, I think, with & good deal of the proverbial Scottish caution. IIe wroto in 1842 (belng thon 19 years ald, nnd not 17, as Lord Houglton supposed), and his first contri- bution to the. controversy was ‘entitled, *' A Lotter to tho Peors, from a Pecr's Son, ou the Duty and Necoseity of Immodiste Legis- Intive Intorposition in Behalt of the Olmrch of Beotland, a8 Dotormined ¥ Considorntions of ~ Constitutional Luw,” This lottor rocommonded thnt loy patron- ago should bo abolished by legislation. ~Dr. Chalmers welcomed the young controyersialist a8 an_important and able adherent, Bat tho Mnrquis of Lorne was not propared to follow the great diviue and orator into actunl secossion, Tho heirs to Dnkodoms in Groat Dritain soldom g0 very far in tho way of dissont. Tho Marquis publishod anothor pamphlot in the form of “A otter to tho Rov. Thomas Chalmors on iho Proeont Position of Cliurch Affairs in Scotland,” in which, whilo retaiving his own viswaon the Iny-patronago principle, ho doclined to accopt tho doctrine of Uhalmors that lay patronsgo and the spiritunl indopondoence of tha Church wore, “like oil nnd wator, immiccible.” Tho Froo Chureh movomont went on, und the young Mar- quis drow back. Ho subsoquently vindicated his courso, and roviewed the whole i!lueatiun in on ‘““Eseny on' the Ecclosinstical Mistory. of Beotland,”—an ‘ablo trostise, into which, bow- evor, the ronders’of tho Galary would hardly caro to follow him. These wore TOE LITERARY BEGINNINGS of tho outhor of tho “ Reign of Law.” Whon his publishod tho * Essay ou Scottish Ecolesing- tical History™ ho was 25 yoars old, _ Moanwhilo, tho young controverainlist had bo- oomo Duko of Argyll on tho doath of his father, in 1847, Ho inherited a goat in the Iouso of Lords, not, however, as Duko of Argyll, but ng Taron' Bundridge in the Euglish Loorngo. A. Heottish Peer ducs not possoss tho right of sit- ting in tho Houso of Lords. Scotland eleots at the beginning of each Parliamont sixtcen Pears, who ropresent her in that Louee. Iroland sonds twenty-oight reprosoutative Poora thore, who, unlike thoso of Scotland, mo olegted for life, But a groat mauy Bcotoh and Irish Poors have Tnglish titloa ag woll, and by virtus of thoso titles sit in the Houso of Lords ; and ths Duko of Argyll .is ono of thoso, Nothing osn seem mora porplexed and complicated to a for- eignor than tho arrangements of our Poaragoe, Tor esamplo, maut Siranors aro acquniuted with tho genoral principlo that o Poor can only havo a sont in tho House of Lords, and caunot havo anylhing to do with the Houao of Com- mons. So far everything is cloar, But tho fiest timo a foroiguor listons to o dobato in the Houso of Commons, ho hears perhaps tho Marquis of Hartington mnko a specch. 1lo asks how this comes to pass, and he is told that the Marquis of Hartingtou'is in fnck no Marquis ot ajl, but meroly Mr. Spencor Campton Cavondish, “oldost son of the Duke of Devonshire, having, accord- ing to English usago, the title ‘Y _countesy” of Marquis, a titlo without any logal efrect, and whicl .\'?iunnt sorve a8 a deeeription of its pos- seasor inany formul documont. If the son of the Duke of Dovoushire haa to be doscribed formally, ho Iy spokon of as ‘“tho Ion. Bponcor Cnmpton Onvendish, commonly called Msrquis of Hutington) Ho thiorefore may Lo olectod to sit in tho Houso of Commons, which Houso in fact swarms with eldor aud Jounger aons of tho nobility, bearing courtesy titlos, ‘This mush, too, our foreigner oasily understands ; but ho suddenly remembors that” Lord :Palmorston was o momber of the Ifouse of Commons up to bis doath at the ngo of 81, and he asks in consiornation, was his teo only a courtesy titlo, and was Lord Palmorston's fathior living at that time 7 Ithas to be oxplain-. cd to him that Lord Palmerston wes o Poor with o geauina titlo of his own ; but then ho was . ONLY AN IRISI PECL, 4 not ontitlod, unless olocted o represontative Yeer, to sit in the Iouse of Lords, and thereforo quulified to bo chosren ng o momber of the Houso of Commons, Then porbaps ho iy puzzled about the Lord Rusaell, who ho knows sat in the Houso of Commons for s long time and now sits in the Houso of Lords, and who has not succcodod to any Peerago in the - menntimo, for {hio houd of tho Houso of Bedford ig alive and woll, and Lord Russell 1 far out of tho way of tho succonsion in any esse. Dut hore comes in'a now condition of things, The Quoon conforyed ' upon Lord John Russoll in 1801« -Paor of 10 own, and ha sits in the louso of Lords as Lorl Rasncll, In faot wohave at lonst : VIVE: DISTINOT CLASSES OF NOBLES who possesy or are courleouul{‘gmcfl with titles. Thoro.aro Pocra of England, Peors of Ireland, Peors of Scotland, 'eors of tho Unitod Kingdom (crented gince tho logislativo union of the threo countrios), aud the sons of Pecrs who.benr tities of courtesy. 'ho Peers of England and those of the United Kingdom sit in tho House of Lorda by right; and caunot ba cleoted to the Touse of Commons, The Irish and Bcotoh Peers sit in the Houso of T.ords only when they nre elected ns ropresentatives ot their order there, und when not 8o clected thoy may be choxen to sit in tho Monge of Commons if thoy .can rendor thomsolves accoptablo to o " constituency. Tho . bearors of courtesy titles may sit In the flouse of Commons, but nut in the IXouse of Lords, This dlfirnaulou.muy goom o little dry and woarisome,.but I thinkit will be found of advantage to Amorioun roadors in enabling themn to undorstand somo of our English Parliamen- tory. arangamonts which straugors geuerally find it AifMoult to mastor, 'ho Duko of Argyll, then, camo to sit in tho House of Lords ss Bavon Bundridge, I may montion perhiaps that thia lattor titlo Ia that une dor which his namo s formally recorded in the diviston lists, but that ho ia always spoken of and alluded fo by his Duonl title, Ho distin- gulshed himsolf Dy plunging slmost instantane- ously into tha thick of debate, The young Sootolunan MUCIE ABTONISUED TIIE STAID AND FORMAL TRERS. ‘I'hoy had beon acoustomod to debates condusted in moasured tonos aud with awful show of dof- erouco to ayo and politionl standing. The young Duke of Argyll spoke upon any aud overy aubjeot in a shurp and clonx voloo, with astonishs iug fluenoy, aud without tho slightost reverencoe for yoars or authority. Young as he was, he loolked still younger. With his small form and by thin, freali-oomploxionod faco, his bush of ‘of il parf flory bair, and his shrill tonos, ho somotimoes #oomad moro like a sanoy Beotcly schoolboy quasrollng over a rgamo of marblos, than 4 Peor’ of tho roalm dobating in the llouso:of Lords,- To, spenke the plain truth, tho goneral. lll:il on of .that Houso for's long’ timo ‘Was SIEER IMPUDENOT, and nothing elao, was the ohlof charactaristia of tho Eoung facOullum More, The Into Earl of. Dorby was londor of the Consorvative party.’ Ho woa ono of tho two or thrao really gmnl’l’m‘- lisontary dobators of tho timo, aud although not possossod of any remarkablo "c\muy 8 B slntosman, ho had won the supremo command ly by his enorgy, his forco of charao- for, his “wenlth and " torritorial rank, his long oxporionca of public aftairs, = and his " novor-failing command of inveotive and of declnmatory eloguonce. Thiy was the Earl of Dorby of whom Macaulay said that tho scionao of Parlinmontary dobate came to him by inatinot ; and ho'biad boen famous, when ho sat in tho House of Commons ss Lord Btanloy, by tho dprolonged passage of arma in which ho falrly held hio own agaiust that Titan of dobatep Dan- fel O'Conuoll, who biad crushed up Disraoll nun atonm-hammor might orush a coconnut, Tho {mm¥ Duke of Argyll had the tomerity beforo ong to mnako a slarp personal attack on tho Earl of Dorby. Tho Peors were as much ns- tonished as the apoctators round the tilt-yard in ¢ Yvanhos" when thoy saw tho strango young Knight strilke with Lis lance's polnt the shlold of tho formidable Templar. Lord Dorby himeolf waa at firat porfoctly bowildored by the unox- peotod vehomonce of his inexperionced young opponent, But he soon mado up his ‘mind, an FAIRLY WENT FOR MAC OALLUK MORE, Ho bore down upon the Duke Argyll with all .tho forco of scornful invootive which ho could summon to his ald. For the hour tho Duke of Argyll was ns com- pletely ovorthrown as if he lind got into the way of a charge of cavalry. He \qun metaphorionl sonno loft for dond upon the flold. Elder) Deors smiled gravely, ahook thoir honds, sais thoy know how it would bo, and congratulated themaolyes that there wns an end of tho impu- .dont young Scotchman, But they woro quito migtaken, MuoOallum More know of coursa that be had beon uo\m«lli bonten, but ho did not care, Ho got up agaiu and wont in just as if nothing \hadhappened. Hls cournge “was' not his golf-confidence moulted no feathor. +whilo ho bogan to show that thors was A GREAT DEAL IN UDL more than'soll-concoit. The Houso of Lords found that the red-baired lad resllyknew a gront donl, and had & wonderfully clover hoad, and thoy loarnod to onduro his dogmatio and pro- fossorinl ways. Ho nover graw to bo popular in the Houso of Lords, and I believa is not. pop- ‘ular nnlfwheru. Hi stylo is far too self-nssured and pedantic, his faith Io his own superiority to overybody clso {8 too ovident, to allow of his lmvlng‘mmficnthnalnauo admirors, Moraoyer, though the Duke of Argyll has shown himsolf & much eoundor and bettor man than most people ot first bolioved him to bo, he is h\rim]ce&) from holding the place which hls manner would seom ito claim a8 a right. Ho nover could be in poli~ tios more than & sccond-cings man ; and ho is 'not even a remarkably good sccond-closs man. Every commondation that is given him 3IUST BE QUALIFIED, +Ho haoa writton ono or two romarkable books— for & Duko. Ho has boen a very liberal .politician—for a Duke. Ho is a good spoaker— or one who has nover had any oratorical gift. Of all tho noblomon who have beon pus into of brokon}’ Aftor s Jhigh offico during’ my time, merely bocause thoy wero noblemen, ho is, I nk, on the wholo, tho ablest and tho bost, Dut he has nothing like tho ‘solid ability and general information of the presont Barl Dorby, who is now fnirly sot down aa only s sccond-class map, .In force and brilliancy he is not to bo compared with the Marquis of Salisbury, who now soems - unlikely, despite all his promige, over to attain o place in tho fivst class, The Duke of Argyll, however, soon got into high offico; * With hia .vank, his talonts, and Lis energy, suoh a thing was inevitablo, Ho joined tho Governmont of 'Lord Aberdeen in 1852 a8 Lord Privy Seal, an ;ofllos of gront dignity but no special- duties, the ocoupant of which thorefore lins only to give his. assistanco in council aund in'genoral dobata. Bince that timo the Duke of Argyll -has held .many offices, Ineod not follow him through his various departments. ' Enough to say thab whionever tho Liberals are in power the Duke of | 'Argyll always ns o miatter of course ., OLDS BOME MIGI OFFICE. Tho’ place he at present holds—that of Secre- tary of Stato for.Indin—is ono of tho highest and most important in the sorvics of tho Orown. ‘Wheu Hr. Gladatone becamo Primao Miniator, ‘in’ +1868, he offored the plnco of. Becrotary for Indis to John Bright, who had alwayas taken grest in- .torost in the Government of Hindostan, 'But Bright's views wero pecnlinr, and ho neithier saw Diis way to carry thom out, nor cared to take tho office if he could not renlize them, and, there- foro, ho declined tho offor. Mr. Gludstone thon tondered the oflice to tho Duke of Argyll, who accopted it, and has discharged its duties sinco | without discrodit, but without any marked suc- coss, I bnve alroady comparcd the Duke of Ar- gyll with the Mor:‘uls of Balisbury, whom ho re- sombles in o certain brusquoncss of sclf-gasor- tion, and who held the officc of Socrotary for Indin undor the Tory Governmont shortly be- fore it pnesed into tho hands of tha subject of this sketoh. . But the Marquis of Salisbury, Tory and ronctionist though ho bo, showed a capacity for government, and—what was least oxpectod of bim—a sympathotio faculty of undoratanding tho wants of a forelgn race, aud of seeing from their point of viow, such na I do not supposo the Duko of Argyll has ever displayed. Dospito tho tranquillizing dignity of growieg yoars, the Duko of Argyll still ‘burats out every now and thon into ono of those EBULLITIONS OF FERYOR which astonishiod tho House of Lords eo muck in his younger ys, “Tempostuous elo- uonco * was tho epithet bostowed upon one of ho Duke's speeches not long since by tho claver Tory lawyer, Lord Cairns, DBut the spoocch— whioh I Lheard—was rathor like that part of ‘the tempost which is mado up of the endden and and chilly binst that_soon dies away. It was a specch in which tho Duke of Argyll 8o far forgot himself, the place, and tho respect.duo to.a bigh office and a groat Judge, as to apply the oxpres- gion ‘ribald” to 8 very just and tem- porate .remonsatrance urged by the Lord Chiot Justico of Lingland ngainst & cortam unlucky law-appointment made by My, Gladsione, Tho Dulke of Argyll apola- gized dlmost immediately after for tho unparal- olod rudencss of his languago, and poople on the wholo wero rathor amazod than othorwiso ab tha unoxpected display- of the old vohomoucs roturning ot uo inconveniont and inepproprinto. & limo, When tho Duke of Argyll is not veho- mont ho iy 3 . MATHER AN UNINTERESTING GPEAKER, | Ho ig fluent, but formal and podantic, aud hia speoches aro not brightoned by fancy or humor. As n after-dinnor speakor ho'is eapeciolly inof- fective. To bo hLeard to advaningo, Lio should Lo taken either in the sudden heat of somo Par- liamentary contost, or olse whon addressing from the Iccturcr’s platform soms sciontifle or.philo< sophicnl soclety. In political lifo hio hns *given his moasure,” and I think wo may safoly assume that ho will nover ba a groat statesman. 1t is truo that many English publio men reached an ago for exceoding that of the Duke of Argyll without having given any . evidenco of tho re- markable capucity which they aftorwards dis- plnyed, Tho Duko of Argyll is ouly G0 yoars, old, snd not many of our public men have 1uch chatce of dlatln&uishlhu thomsolves in tho higher paths of statesmanship bofore that ago. Of ourrising men, those whom o considor our * oungor mon, those who are only now boginning {o be tostod in high oflico, the majority are older than the Duke of Args)l._ Mr, -W. E, Torator is sovoral.years older ; Alr, Stansfeld, Bir Btafford Northeote, and many othor men of the. snmo political rank, aro likawise older. * But tho Duko of Argyll was in offico of the highest rank yeurs and years beforo, most of thicse men woro In Parlisment at oll, e bogan his public’ lifa by Btopping st onco into highor places than almost auyof these hao yot attained. Thereforo, wo oy fairly considor that wehave secn the Duke ot Argyll . FOLLY TESTED, . and ¢hst we know tho wholo oxtont of hia politi- cal capneity, 1o suffers porhaps uudor the dis- advantago which presscs on the moridinn yoars of n beauty who has como ont- into soclety too young. Peoplo remembor Lor a bolle for so many ronsons that they sot Lor down as posl- tively passco while shoe Is yeb );o\mg. In the samo way we oll remombor the Dulo of Avgyll 08 o publioc mnn for moro than thirty years, and l‘::“ cnln]nut holp agsuming that ho must bo grow- old, ; fi:\'nryhm]y Lknows that the Duke of Argyil hne sought, and, to some extent found, distinotion as o writer, Ee has boen o rather froquont con- tributor to tho l‘:«llnburgjh Revlewn, ond, ono or two of our graver waeokly poriodicals, aud ho s writton ¥ I'ho Reign of Law" aud ¢ Prime. val Man.” I am not now nerlmml\n; tho part of a oritio, and ju any caso it would be -quite suporfluous to onter into nni/l olaborato disquisition upon works whioh bave alvandy boon & carefully reviowed by tho orltios of jour- nalg of the United Btates and Lngland. " But whilo I rocognizo the amount of thought and roading shown in each (**’Lhe Reign of Law” Bsoems an espeolally olovor attempt {o bring to- gether the iiroconcilablo), . 1 CANNOT DELIEVE that elthor book would bave attracted much at- tontion if iv bad bopn Waltion by 4R angymous author, Thero aro passsgos of both In which | tho solf-rolinnt composuro of the author in donle [ {og with gront thoorios and groat names brings ' baok tho momory of - tho-enrlior daya whon the satonishiod Poors hoard tholr strongost cham- + piona ssdailed and tholr; most venoiable convone tlonalitio sot at naught by tho intropld young Duko from Bcotland.. “The Rolgn of Law " 13 liko ovorything olse the Duko of Argyll doos. It is far sbovo average -work,--It would bo anro toborend with nttention ovon if it wors not writtan Dya Duko, Butit is not ono of the books that forco . thomeolves upon tho publio. It s ono ‘of ° tho. books. that, ale thofigh good enough in thomsglyos and worthy of caroful reading -whon onco tho{ aro found out, stand in noed of somo oxtornal Impulso to puafix thom into notlco. The name of the Duke of Argyll did this for *Tho Reign of Law," Tho book is like its author. 'T'he Duke of Argyll has undoubtedly made & vory good Unabinet L‘X‘ln- ister, but ho would probably nover have boon a Cabinet Minister if he Lad not boon Duko-of Am{x“ to bogin with, - - -~ - 1 have heard tho Duko of Argyll spoken of by oricans a8 - ¢ TIIE NADIOAL DURE.” He is Radical in o manner, that is, for a Dnko. DBut ho Is not what Americans would serionsly onll Radical if thoy wore to comparo his political opinions with thoeo-of any Englishman of tho advanced party, Ho may bo called Rndlcal whon compared with oxtromo Tories and rosctionists, . Moroover, he has o groat dash of tho philoe cophical Radicalism which is so_much onl. tiyated of Iato, and which any nobloman may adopt, it, like tho Duke of Argyll, ho has intolli- i gonoo and culturs; for at tho present momont it | renlly moans vory littlo in tho way of positive chauge. ~Agcording to Maj. Pendennis, Re- publicanism * sits prettily cnough on s young patrioian in early lifo," Ho philosophical Radi« caliam sits &mnfly onough on a Pecr in matare ‘lifo. In either cnso it is only an ornamont or & foil ; ‘care will bo taken that fz is put asidoif auy . ocopslon shall arigo for doing roal work. . The Duko of Argyll has, howover, always shown him- nfi%n stondy Liberal, and gono properly with his oliféts. Ho doserves groat credit for having boon better than some or most of his ohlofs dur ing tho American civil war, for ¥ I HE TOOK TAE RIGHT SIDE and hold to it manfully, One of tho best speech- es Levor hoard thio Dake of Argyll doliver was -made in honor of that right sido aftor it had suo- ‘coedod 2 and the Duke was ‘ontitlod to joinin celsbrating its succoss, for ho was ono of the few who had bolleved it whon failure. seomod posal- ‘blo, and who had upheld it when such upholding was in England o task of somothing like odium. Tho specch to which I rofor was made on the ao- -sion of & (Yubllu brealfast given in'Bt. Jamos' Hall, London, to. Mr, William ‘Lloyd Garrison, of -Boston, . The_ occasion was romarkable in itsolf; it was made still more 8o by some of the men who wora_presont, Mr. Bright was in the ohalr, and deltvored—it was not voty long bo- fors his illness and breakdown—tho last roally reat gpoach of that- Iong chaptor in his carcer. t was woll deecribed by tho London. Spectator, 08 “one of those graud and mpssive, spesches, ,in which méro woight of moral patsion is con- contrated thnn any othor living orator is capable™ ,of exprossing.” It wasdoliverod in a low, thrill-) ing tono—nlmost » monotono—nas smothored as; if the orator. feared tho atrongth of his own omotions and the forco of his own 'words, and kopt both down uundor & -continued restraint. Every word foll with measured emphasls on tho: oar— . s, ST - : .BLOW, BOLEMN, MUSICAL, . Earl Rugsell was thoro, nnd spolte with quito.uns :wonted enorgy ond vigor, whon ho rotracted and Imanfully exprossed rogret for his mistaken- judgment of Presidont’ Yinooln_and tho polic of the Amorican Gavorament.. John Etunnlllfl 1 dolivered ono of those marvelously touchin, i speoches, 80 foobls in thoir delivery, so vacant of rhotorical graco, but which becomo positively ;eloquent by tho" virtue of ldréy thought, gonoc~ ‘ous feoling, and puro lucid English. Tho lato {Rov. Froderiok Maurico was thero ; so was Prof, (Huxloy ; 8o was Horbort Sponcer ; 80 were over 4o many other distinguinhod men who do 10t toften .make nn apponrance at political demon- :strations; Tho Duko-of Argyll: epoke, and ;8poke admirably... Tho ocoasion to bo commem- ‘orated, the victory to be colebrated, were suchas to ongnga ot oncoe his: intelloct and bis foolings, and _thero scomed to me to bLe 'mo- .meonts ‘whon ‘ho almost rose to. somothing liko oratorical dignity. At all ovents, ho came noarer to that height than I had aver known him to_do Jbofore, or have over kuown him. fo do BIN08, & s by s e oo * Will it seom ungracious if, after having said 80 muoh, I romark that novertioless most Amore Jcans ‘who visit. this ‘country appear to me to - i : AN.EXTRAVAGANT OPINION . of the influonco and,intellect of tho Duke of Argyll? On- the very occagion which I have boen doscribing, my esteemed friend, Me. Garrls son, whom -nobody’ can suspoct-of any voneras tion for more rauk, deliverad o specoch in which ho placed tho.Duke of Argyll firat and foromosk —* without & poer,”. ho-said—among the En« gllahmon who, during the 'American civil war, “ywara able to understand its nature, and to give aolear and unequivocal- testimony in bobalf of the right." Then,. aftor.him, . Garrison wont on to say, camo_“ our, respocted- aud hon- ored Chairman, Mr. Bright,” and so on. I am sura this wasMr. Garrison's sincere couviotlon, — .that the Duke of Argyll roally was tho political and intellectual loador of the party wha stood up for tho right .in England. during that struggle, and that Bright, Cobden, Btunrt Mill, Goldwin Smith, Francis Nowman, Prof. Calrne, and oth- ‘ers, loyally followad tholr loader. ‘This is & sorb of mistake that only o stranger could _pnuslb)lly mako. It would be as reasonablo to say that M, Thiors bas been led by the Princo de Joinville, or that tho Gormans conquoered the Fronch by the genius of the Crown Prince, who dircctod tho movemants of Moltko, . The Duko of Argyll deserves high honor for the part ho took ab that memorablo crisis ;:but his ‘influenco upon En- glaud ) . ® WAS BINPLY NOTHING when compared. with that of Bright or Mill, or ovon that of . Goldwin Smith or Prof. Cairna. I-am. glad tho Duko of Argyll was on the right side, but it “would .mnok v havo mattored much even if ‘ho hnd' not beon. Our Dukes, be it always undorstood, aro only ornamontal for the most part.. The Briton ia contont to bow down to thom, and oven to ndoro thom soclally, and ho. likes to have.a Duke as tho nominal leader of cvery movement. But ray do not fall into .tho mistake.of supposing hat we in England really think our Dulkes are nocessarily groat mon, or” that we beliovo them onpable of moving the.political world. - Theirsis o 8tato of groatnoss, nsocinl greatnoss altogoth- or. When the renl political struggle cowes, we Y only think about tho roal politicians and states- men. The Duke of Argyll is COMPARATIVELY A SMALL MAN in politics nnd in thought. There .18 no way of mensuring him_ by such :mon” a4 Gladstone, and Dieraell, and Mill, and ' Carlylo.. . A Duke i8 tho most accoptable figurohead oven in polities, 28 in tho caso of the Tories-and the Duke of Richmond. But the figurokead docs not lmpel the voagol, or keep Ler in:.Lier courss, or brinj her into port.' Tako an incxorable tost of polltica {mportance’ in ' England,—tho . manner .in whi ullxlnpuunlll(ul tm‘n raportgfl. Imf.“\‘.uo Duk:iol: Ary spoak ab -somo publio meeting at whic! ngy(}lmll;lono. or Mr. Disraeli, or Mr.%rl ht (It 1o wore once more o figure on . platform) were “to sponk, and whioh the papors hind not. spaco enougly fo report In full..” Would they divido the spoils equally, and givo a similar condensstion of Dulo and statesman ? Not at all. Thospoech of the statesman would bo given in full, and the Duko’ would- get whateyer space was left. Tho English oro o practical people, oven in thoir do- votion to rank, They will not lot their dovotion cost them too much, They will bow to'thoe idol, put for instruction and work .they turn to the ! groat'mon. AT ¢ To sum up, then, tho Duke of Argsll is, inmy opinion, by far tho (e 3 i * ADLEST AND THE DEST OF-ALL THE DURES, Ho would o » man desorving of respoct.on hia own merits; in' nny osfes - If ho hnd been born’ in- the middlo olusa: he would prob- ably have ' mnde ‘quite: = . respectabla namo 88 ‘s contributor to roviews and all tho bottor class of periodical literature, and ho would, perhaps, if ho had somo money, havoe found a soat in tho Iouse of Commons, and in time have boon appointed the Under-Beorotary of » dopartmont. Ho would have boen rospeot= od, u8 ho {8 uow, for his high privato characlor and his pttontion to business, and poople wonld nerlinps have smilod o littlo more undisguisedly hian thoy do now at his occasional *¢ bumptious- noss ’ and habitual tondouoy to magnify his of= fice, Boyond this I do not think ho could ever bave got, if ho had bogun life as Mr, Campbell. It is to his oredit thnt ho lLas not studied, strivon, and snooceded any the less, althoughhe * was boin to a Dukedom, §m 7 ¥ JusTmy MoOAnTaY. ) e e HER BEAUTIFUL EYES, Ta 1t fn depth, in colar, or slxo, ‘Tha charim which lca in thoso lovely eyes, . Bluo ay the summor-aky? A bab's, a child’s, woman's {n one, 3ty hoasl is disuk up, an tho dow by the sun, y thie glance of her beautiful oye, Boftly, Umidly glanclog w Unnl"inn tia 1 ko a vioiat-cup, Tooks wondrously sweet and sliy; Qazing into it dopths, I know Tho ofiarm which sots fmy et o 8 glow 1a thio soud in Liex beautitul oye, = Vero Egerlon, . ‘