Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1874, Page 4

I s e RO 4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1874A-TWELVE PAGES. ENGLAND FROM 1818 TO 1830. Anecdotes of Kings, Queons, and Co- lebritics, Extracts from “The Greville Mo- moirs.” London (Qct, 23) Corrcopondence of the New Xork Herald, Mr. Honry Reove, the editor of the Edinburg Revicto, has just given to the world in throe vol- smcs o book called ** Tho Grovillo Momoirs,” of which overybody 18 talking, and which contain moro piquant ancedotes of royaland distinguish- ed porsonsges liviog ot tho commcucnmen} of tlus century than havo over haforo been publish- od. Mr. Groville, whoso dincy {8 hero ropro- ducod, was s man of birth sud education, who, for forly years, hold tho peeition of Clerk at tho Council in Ordivary, and, _hclng Do~ pdes in oxcollent socioty, Lad} opportuni- tiies of ecolng and hearing all that paesed. His disry commanues in 1818, nnd 18 continued to tho yoar of bin deail, 1865 ; but tho throa volumes now published do not ox]tl::d d 1830, Mr. Itcovo profosses somo o Do L. aid to. (ha publication of com. menta on our own Limes ; but from tha tone of Liis proface ono may infer that it will not ba long before tho Iater volumes seo the hight, Mean- timo wo ought to_bo grateful to lim for thoso plrendy fsaiod. It ju mot proposed to roview them, but simply to pick ont some of the most wiriking and amusing pacsIges GEORGE THE TOUNTI, H{n Majesty keops overybody et groat dis- tanco from him, and all about him aro afraid of him, though Lo talka to bis pages with moro openness aud familiarity than nn,vha&v;. Rad- ford (who s dying) is_not in such favor ea lie wes, though ho s alwoys thero, Of O'Reflly, tho surgeon, who eeos thoe Kiog ovory day und carrien him all tho gos- sfp ho cen pick up, Bacholor speaks with very little ccremony. Tho King told them the other as¥ that ' O'Reilly wes the damnodest liar in tho world,’ and it scoms ho i3 often in the hulit of l-“fic\\fl!hlfi poople in this way to hits valsts do chambre. : Of Sir Willlam Xnighton, who Lkept tho King's puree and mnnaged his affairs, wo ars told: “His (tho King's) languago shout Knighton is gometimes of tho most unmeasured vialonco,— wisbes he was dead, and ono dnf‘ whou tho door wos apo 80 thal the pago could hioar, ho sid, *Iwish to God nomubnd{‘ would eygassinnte Inighton” In this way healways speaks of him and ueos him. His “groatest dolight is to mako those who have businoss to trane- act with him or to lay papors before him, walt in his ante-room while ho is Joung- fog with Mount Charica or snybody, talic- ing of horaco or any trivial matter; and when ho is told, *Sir, “therois Watson waiting,’ &¢., hereplics, ¢ Damn Watson ; lot him wait.’ Yo doos it ont purpose end likes 1t This account carrespouds with ali Ihavo beforo heard, and coutirms tho opinton I have long had that a mora contemptivle. cowardly, eolfish, unfeoling Qog does not exist than this King, on whom sucl flaitery is constantly loviebod. ifo liua a sort of envricious good nature, arising, howover, out of 1o good priueiplo or good fecling, but which is of uo ueo ta him, ua it cancels in o moment and at small cost a long scoro of misconduct. I'rincen Liavo only to_behnvo with comuon decency and prudenco and they aro sura to be popular, for thero s o great aad gonetal disposition to pay coutt to thor, Idouot know anybody who it yproof agiinst their seductions whon thoy think 11t to wso them in tho £liapo of civility and con- doscansion, ‘Tho groat:consolation in all this is that, ko far from deriving huppiuces from their Elrsnduur, thoy aro tho most miserable of man- ina.r TUE DURE AND DUCHESS OF YORK. The Dulic of York was brother to King George the Fourth and Commander-in-Chiot of the army. 3ir. Greville wont to stay with Iim at Oatfands House, and thus writes of it: *There are almast atways the same poopls, sometimes r.orosometimes less, Wo dinc at 8, and nit ot {oblo titl 11, In sbout a quarterof an hour aftcr wo leave tho dining-room tho Dulto eits down to lay at whist, and vover tirs from the tablo s ong n anybody will pley with him. When any- body gives & hint of being tired he will loavo of; Dbutif ho sees any sigon of wearinegd in othera he will nover stop hinselt, The Dnchoss gen- oraily plays, also at balf-crown whist. Tho Ducliess seldom goes to bed, or if so sho doos only for a8 hour or two. 8ho eleops dressed upon # couclt, sometimes in ono room, somotimes in another, Bho frequently welka out vory lato at nigbt, or ratherearly in tho morning, and she alwnya slosps with opon windows.” AN ATROTOS HTORY. © A certain Righop in tho 1ouso of Lords rose to gpealr, avd anvounced tbat bo sbould divide what he had to sy iuto twelve parts, when the Duke of Wharton interrupted him and begged he might bo indalged in a fow minntes, us be had a story to tell which ho could only introduce At that monment. * A drunlon follow was passiug by 8t. Paul’s at night sud heard the clock slowly shiming 12, Ho counted tho strokes, and, whon It had tinished, looked towarda tho clock] knd #aid: ““Damn you, why couldn’t you give us that . sllat ouce?’ "~ There was anend of the Diskop's aory.” TOPULARITY OF GEORGE 1V. *The King wenl to the ploy Jzst night for the firat time, tho Dules of York und Cluronce and & reat suite with him. e was received with immenso acclamation, tho whole pit standiog up, burrahing and waving their hats, Lork Hort- Tord dropped ous of tho candles as Lo was light- Ing the King in and made a grest confuslon in ho box. A Tew people called, ¢ 'The Queen I’ but yery fow, A man in the gallery eculled out, *Whore's your wife, Georgins' " TUE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND GEORGR IV. “When the Duko was at Lrighton in tho winter ho and the King ad & disputo about tho army. It bn%im by the Iing's saying that the Rusgians or tho Prussians, I forget which, were tho best infantry in the world, Tho Duke eaid, *Excopt Your Majesty's.’ The King then said tho English cavalry wore tho best, which tho Duke denied. Then that an inferior number of French regimonta would always beat s suporior number of English, and, in short, that they wero not Inlf &o offectivo, ‘The King was very nngry, the diaputo waxed warm, and ended by iy Majeaty rising from the tablo and sayiug, * Well, it i not for me to disputo on such o Rubject with Your Grace.’ " AT coumr, ‘41 wan lodged in tho Lavilion und dined with tho King. Tho gaudy rplendor of tho placo amuged mo for u hittlo and thou bored meo, ‘The dinuer was cold and the ovening dull boyond all dullness, Thoy say the Kiug isanxious that form aod ceremony shonld bo banished, and if 8o it ouly proven how imposible 1t ia that form aud covemony ghould not alwuya ifvbabls & paluco. The rooms aro not furnished for oclety, and, in tact, sociuty cannat flourlsh without easic, and who can feol at ezgo who is under tho olernal tonstraint which etiquette aud respoct impose? The King was in good laoku and good plrits, xud Aftor dinnor eut his jokes with all tho conrae mor~ timent which i churacteristic. Lord Wellesloy did not seem to like it, but of conrse he bowed und pmiled liko tho rost. I was curious to sce tho Payilion aud the life thoy led there,” ond I gow ouly hopo 1 muv never go thore again, for !hn novelty by peused, and I should bo exposed to *he whola Woight of the bore of it withous the aimulus of curiosity,” WELLINGTON WOUNDED, ‘+Tho Duko #xid Lo had Loen stryck down by a musket-shot while roconuolteriug the onemy ay Aoy wera rotreating in the Pyrenecn. Tho pooplo cound himy thought ho was kilied, Lut ho got wp directly. Tlo I8 of opinion that Mussenu was the hcut}‘rouch Goueral to whom ho was ovor op- posed.” - NOYAT, MUNIFICENCE, ¢ MeGregor told mo the othier day that not ono of iho pbysicians uud tho surgeous who attended the Duke of York through his long and painful Mnees bad ever raceived the smallest remunera. Hou, slthough their nunies nnd sorvices hud boon Inid beforo the King. 1e told me In addition that, during sixtoon years that ho uttended tho Duko aud s wholo family, ho never recalved mvcb,mg by wayof foo or any paymont what- ever.” ., GEONGE 1V, ON MIASELY, * Ono day ho was talking of tho late Ring, and aavorted that George IIL. hind srid to himself; f0f all the men I huvo ever kuown, you ars the ono on whom I have tho greutost dopundence, aud you sro tho most perfoct gontlemen,) An- othor day ho said thut ho recollectod old Lord Chosteriléld, who onca said to bim : 'Blr, youare tho fourth Prince of Wales 1 have kuown, und £ must qiw your Royal Highnoes ono picce ol advico: stick “to your fatborl Am fong ag you sdbiero to” your father you Wil bo & great and happy man; bub if You woparato yowrsolt from hima'yon will be nothing, and an unbappy ono. Aud, by God,! added tha Hing, * I nover forgut that advice, und actedupon Yall'my life.” * Woall,' said the Duke, *looked A& cachi othor with astonishment.™ UIKA YANNY KENULE BUTLEL, “*Ysaw Miss Fanny Komble for the firat time ‘on Yriday, and was dleappoited, She is sliort, W-made, with large Liands aud feot, and oxpreve uiYe gountonauce, though nop laudsome ; fine ogen, tooth, and linir ; not devold of grace, and with grent ‘enorgy and spirit ; bor volco good, ;.llmugu #bo hias & little of tho drawl of hor fam- 5 TOMMY MOONE, "' Moors sang in tho ovoning, and was vory agreeablo thio wholo day. 1o #ald that Byroi thought that Crabbo aud Coleridgo had the moat onfus and foellug of auy living poots, How 5n|1(:emus it 18 to bo a story-teller, howover Agreecablo the mesning or amusing tho budgoet, for Mooro to-day told a story which ho told Lote taat week. Iowover, thoy all laughod just tho same, oxcopt me, aud I moralized upon it thus," WABHINOTON INVING, W o in lively and unassuming, rather vulgar, vory good hwiored. ITo wants sprighitiiucas an moro rofined_mauncrs. ilo was fn Spain four years, at Mladrid, Novillo, and Gravads. When 1o retutned to Franco ho'was utterly uniuformed of what was pnssing in Europe whilo he was in Bpain, and ho pays he now cnnnmmlfi hears ovonts alludoed to of which ho knows nathing," TEAY BRUMMEL, “'Dotainod at Calaig Lill 7; howover, I hnd s long convorsation with Bruminel about hie coun- #olorship, aod wan moved by his ncconnt of his own distress to writa to the Duke of Wellington and nsk him what ho could do for him. I found him in hia old lodging, drossing, Somo protty plecos of old furniture in tho Toom, an entirs tolct of wilver, and a lnrgo f'ruon macenw porched on tho back of n tattored silk chalr with faded gilding, full of gayety, imoadence, and nusery." WORDSWORTI, * Wordsworth mu{ bo hordering on 60 5 hord- featitred, brown, wrinkled, with prominont teeth and a fow ecattored gray bodry, but novortholess not & digagroeablo countennuce ; and vory choer- ful, merry, courtoous, and talkative, much moro 80 than I should bave ozpocted from the grave and didactio charactor of his writing, e held forthi on postry, p-inuni:, ¥almcs. and mota- physics with a good doal of eloquenco ; hio i mioro conversable than Southoy, Ho mentloned that ho nover wrote down as ho composed, but composed walking, riding, or in bed, and wrate down after; that Houthey composed at his deals," XIXG WILLIAM IV, “The King's good uature, simpllcity, and affability to ail sbout him are coriminly very striking, and in his elovation lo dous not forgot any of his old fricuds and com- panfone, o was in no hury to take upon himself the digulty of King, nor to thirow off tho habits and” mannors of & country gontloman, He sy ho doos not want luxury and wegnificonco, fing slept in & cot and has dis- milaged the Kivg's cook. Altogethier he seems n kind-hearted, well-meaning, not atupid, bur~ losyue, bustlivng old reliow 5 2ud if he dovs not go mnd may mako o vory decont King; but ho oxbhibits oddities." QUEEN ADERIAIDE, *¢ The Queen camo to Lady Usthurst’s to sos thareview, and held a sort of drawing-room, whou tho Ministors' wives wero presoutod to hor. She ia vory ugly, with a hurtid_comploxion, but hna good manners and_did all tus, which sho liated, very woll. 8h6 said tho part ns if she were set- jug and wanted tho gresn curtain to deop.” ROYAL AMUSLWENTS, *The'King (Willinm 1V.) contluues very aot- ive, bns immcuso dinners every day, aud the san10 pooplo two or tareo days ranning, Ho has dismissed the lato King's band and employs tho baud of the Guards every night, who aro rendy to die of it, for they got no pay and are provont- el earning monoy elsowhero. Tho other night tho King had a party, and at 11 o'clock hoe die- missed thom thus’: *Now, Iadics sud gontlomen, I wish you good night; I will nut dotaia you any longer from your amusoment, aud shall go to my own, which ia to go to bed; 8o come along, my Queen Yeaterduy morniug, or tho aven- ing bofore, Lv ammounced to the Duke of Wol- lington thnt bo should dino with Lim. _Accord ingiy the Duko was obliged, in tho middle of lus propnrations, to get & dinucr roady for him, In tho morning o took tho Xiug of Wurtemburg to Windsor, and just at the bour when the Duko expocted im to dmner bie was driving through Uydo Park beck from Windsor, three Lerouches oud four bhorses dead knocked up in tho Iront, Lbo two Kings, Joysey and somebody clso, all covored with duot. Tho whole mob of ear~ riages and horsemen assembled nesr Apsloy Mouse to sco bim pass and to await till hio ro- turned, The Duke, on henrlng ho wns there, ruskied ous without lis hat aud stood in his gate in tho midst of servauts, mob., etc.” “Tho talk of tho town hins boon about tho King sud tho toasts he gavo at tho great dinner at 5t Jamos’ the other day. Mo had ninoly gues(s, oil his Miniators, all the grent peopls, and g}l the foroign Ambassadors. Aftor dinner ho mado s long, rambling speceh in Frencl, and euded by giving us s * sentimant,’ as ho ealled it, *Tho Land Wo Live In.' his was bofore tho Jadies left tho room, Aftor they wero gouo ho ‘mado another specch in Fronch, and endod with & very coarae tonst and tho words, * Zloni soil qui mal g pense.' Softon, who told it me, said ho nover folt a0 ashamed, Lord Grey was ready to gink into tho carth. Everybody laughed, of conrse, aud Sefton, who sat next to Lalloyrand, said to him, * £l bien, que pensez vous de cela ¢ with his unmoved, imovable face. Ho an- awerod only, * C'cat bien remarquable I' " UACAULAT. MIb was not until Dlacaulay stood up that I w3 aware of all tho vulgarity and ungumbiness of hia apposranco ; not s rayof intclloct boams from hit countenanco ; lump of more ordinury clay never inclozed a more poworful mind and lovely imagination. Iy manner atruck mo as not pleasing, but it was uot assuining, unembar- rassed you ot casy, unpolishod yot bot coarse ; there was no kind of usurpation of the convarsa- tion, no tenacity as to opinioh or facis, no as- swnption of superiority ; but tho variety and extent of his Information was s00n npfinl‘eu!, for whatever subjoct was_touched upon ho evincod tho utmost familiarity with it; quotation, il- lustration, or anecdoto, scomed ready in bis hand for every topie.” PALMERSTON, “ Madamo de Livven told me it was impooaible to deseribe the contempt, as well as the dishike, which the Corpe Diplomatique had for Palmer- ston, They have tho meanest opinion of his capacity and his manners, roverso of concilia- tory, She csunot imagine how his colloagues Tiear with hini, and Lord Oroy supporta him vo- Lemontly. 1lia unpopularity in Lis own ofilco is quite a8 groat 21 it is among the foreign Minis- ters, and ho doea notbiug, Ro that thoy do not make up iu rogpect for \vfinc they want ininclina- tion, Goorge Villiors complaina that for above threo months he has mot received a singlo line from bim, and be is a young Minister, unprac- ticed in the profeesion, to whom is committed tho mogt dolicate and dificult mission in Eu- ropo.” BIR RODERT PELL'S COUNAGE. “ Peol wroto a lotter to Huwo demunding an oxplenation of cortain offonsive expressions he had mado use of in tho Houte of Commons, and got au susner which was sullclent, though not vory civil, It was rather unnccessary that ho Abould tako any notico of tywhat lumo gaid, but Pool is » wman of very high rod prowpt courago, nnd seems to havo mudo s rulo to hisolf uover 1o suffer impertinence from any quarter to pass unchecked. It is cem\ml{ of groat sorvics to a public man, and it largely inorousoy tho catima- no;x in which ho is Liold to establish such a ctiar- actor, TUC KING'S RUDENESH TO THE DUCOFES OF RENT. ‘*The Duchess eat on ove uide of tho King and tho Princeps Yictoria opposite. After dinner, by iho Queen's desire, *His Majeaty's Loalth ' was ivon, As soon o it wea drunk ‘ho mado & vory ong speech, in tho courss of which ho poured forth tho tollowing oxtraordinary and_foudroy- anfe tirado: ‘I trust in God that my lifo niny bo cpered for nine months longer, aftor which pori- od, in ths event of my death, 1o rogency wonld tako placo, I aliould then havo tho satis- faction of Joaving the royal authority to the por- doual exercito of that young lady (poiuting to the Priucoss), tho Loiross prosumptive of - the Crown, sod uot in the hands of a person now near me, who is surronnded by evil advisers, aund who {8 horsel? incompetent to act with propri- cty in the statfon in which she would be luced. Ihavono hesitation in saying that I have boen insuliod—grossly and continusly in~ #ulted—by that peraon; but I determined to endure uo longer a courae of behavior ko disre. specttul to me, Amoug many othor things I Lva particularly to complain of tho manner in which that young Indy Lus beon kept tway from 1ny Court, “Sho hau been topeatedly kept from my drwing-rooms, at which sbo ought always to hive been prescat; but I am fully resolved that this sbull not Lngpon sgaly, 1 would have her kaow that I am King, and I am detesinined 1o make mf authority rospected, and for the fu- turo I shull insist and command that the Prine cess do upon_nlt oceagions appenr at my Court, on it is her duty to do.) 1le tormninsted hig speech by on alluslon to the Prucess and Lior future roign in a tono of patornal interost and affection, whioh was oxcellont in its way, his owful philipple (with n groat desl nore which f forgot) was uitored with & loud voico and eseited mavner, Lo Queen lookiod i doep distross, (he I'rincoss burst Iuto toars, and the wholo compusuy woro aghast, Lhe Duchess of Keut sald not a word, Immediatoly ufter they rose und retired and o terrible seono ennued, The Duchess sunounced Der hnwndito doparture und ordered hor cars ¥ings, but n sort of reconciliation wuas petehed up and sho was provailed upon Lo stey until the noxt day, Tho followiug moruing, whon the King suvr Adolphuy, bo asked him what people uid Lo his sposcli, ITe replied that they nmufibz the Duohesy of Kent moritod Wi robuko, bub that i ought not Lo have baon glveu thore § that Lis ought to liave kous for ker tutolis closst aud havo srid nli that ho folt and thought tharo, but not at tablo bofore & bundred peoplo. o ro- plied that o did 1ot ears whero hio sald 1t or bo- foro whom ; that ' By dod lio hiad boon jusultod by hor in a mensure ‘that pnased all onduranco, and hio would not stand it auy longer [ " THE YOUNG QUEEN {vmmum)‘ “The Kiug died nt twonty minutos aftor 4 youtorday morning; the young Queon mot the Qonnoil at Konsington Palaco at 11. Never was anything like tho fitat impreselon sle produced, or the chorus of pralse and admlration which ls raised about hior mannor and Lohavior—and cor- tainly not without justico. It was vory extraor« dinary, and somothing far beyond what was looked for, ler oxtreme youth and inexpori- once, and fgnorance of tho world conconing hor, naturally oxcited intonso curiosity to ses how sho would act on thia hxh)g oceaston, Tho doors wore thrown opon, and tho Queen entorad, sccompaalod by hor d uncles, who advauced to moot her. She bowed to the Lords, took her weat, and then read hor spoech in a cloar, dia- tnet, and sudiblo voice, and without any ap- pearanco of fonr or ombairasement, Bho was (fiu(tu plainly drossed, and m mourning. After sho had read her spoech, the rivy Councillors wero mworn, tho two Ioyal Dukes first, by themsolves: ond as thoess two old men, hor uns clos, knolt boforo hor, swearing alleginnoe and kinsing bor Land, I ensw hor blusa ap to the eyos, as if she folt the contrass botweon thoir civil an thetr nntural rolations, and this was_the only sign of emotion which sbe evinced. Hor mau- ner was very gracoful and ongaging, Bhio kieaod them both, and rose from Ler chair aud moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who waa_farthest from her and too infivw to roach Lior. I partion- latly watchod hor when Melbourne and the Min- {sters and tho Duke of Wellington and Peel ap- proached kor, Bho went through tho wholo coro~ mony, m:cnmcmnu[yl looking at Molbourne for {n- structions whon sho had any doubt what to do, which hardly over occurred, aud with porfoct orlmposk and aslf-poscession, but at the samo time with porfect modosty and proptioty, par ticulatly futorosting and ngratiating. Tho young Quesn, who might woll bo either dismnyed or confornded with tho grandour and novelty of ber wituntion, soomed noithor the ono nor tho other, and bohaved with n decorum and prapriety boyond Lior yenrs, aud with all tho rodatancss sud dignity, the want of which way a0 conspicuous in Lier uncle.” THE DRESDEN GALLERY. Eistory of tho Colloctions~Some Specinl Stories. Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazeite, My enjoymont of tho rich gallory at Drosdon I almost oqualed by admiration for tho eathotio- ving Rings of tho little province of Baxony. ‘I'ho Inbor thoy underwent and tho monoy they oxponded to bring togothor all those treesuros of art rodounds greatly to thoir erodit, As carly as 1660, undor thoe Blector August 1., were somio of Cranach's, Duros's, and otlier German mastors put togelbor, In 1722 s colloction of Italinn piclures was added to tho gulory, The first roows wero in & tablo, tho roundation of which was laid undor Clyistain I In this buld- fug, Dbesidos stalls for 130 horses and closets ‘for ‘cartlages, sleighs, barnoss, wero a groat hail aud o Londsomely docorated room, which was used for tho ontartninment of hionored guests, Tho second floor was arrangod for the gallory. Uho most brillisnt picturcs, and those which are to-day considercd tho jowels of tho collection, wero _purchused in the timo of Augustus I1, nnd 111, under the euporvision of tho favorito Ministor, Count Von Lruhl, and his secrotary, Narl Vou Heinokon. Only the groat euthusinsm of tho King for art, the artistic per- coptiou of Heinoken, and the munificence of Yon DBruhl, could havo cslled into existonco such n gatlory ns Dresden posseseca. ‘The most important aud cousidorable purchaso mardoe at ono time was the buyiug of the Modena gollery, ‘Through n serics of unfortunate cir- cumsfances, the Duke Franz von Lsto Modena found bitmself in great ncod of money. King Angustus, taking advavtago of his necossities, offered him a fair prico for the pictures, Tho Dube and his Minister felt tho great sacrifico they were making, and tho nogotiation was car- ried on secrotly, As tho tirao to doliyer the pictures grew nosrer, tho opposition of tha citi- Zous grow atronger. Rousi, tho Saxon agent, collocted them undor falso names, aud to got possession of thom cost mauy s #sum of gold vot included in tho iixod price of 100,000 zecchina, Finally, by payiog another 100 zecehius to the Duke's Mivister of Finance, Bondigh, Rossi mauaged to pot tho already pucked plctures into his houso at Padua, which'was neutral ground, but betore lic could get iy purchuss out of Lizl- ian torritory Bondigli demanded 1,000 ecudi more for tho frumea, which had not boen included in the original 'contract, and aléo exncted o from Ropsi that a copy of Cor- *La Motte” wnould bo sent to bim in Modens, Ttossi cougralulated bimaell not alittio that, as a sharp purchaser, bo had succeeded in including iu tho bargaiu the famous Blacdalena of Correggio; thouglt with a natural national foeling bo regretted deoply tho loss bis country was sustalning in the truusfor of tho Hodeun gallery. It is told that ha said of him- self and the German bankor, Rachel, in Modenn : *“We uover brezthed freely until tho five woll- packed wagons hod loft Venice, and, with & pass frum tho King, woro on the way tbrough Vieona to Drosden,” "Tho banker's troubles wore not yeu quite ended, for bie wrote to his brothor: * It was not dificult onongh for mo to gat the 100,000 zec- chins in baro gold, but each pivce, oven the nowly coinod ones, musy bo woighed, tho slightest dit~ foreneo mado good, and Eont ten timos back and forth, {ilt I waz truly thankful when tha duy was over aud the last piecs out of my handa,” Bon- digli's avariciouances was not soon forgotien by Herr Rachel, but tho Duke’s Prime Alinister Xiangoni, who throughout tho affair conducted bLimself like 5 noblomau, was prosented to Count You Brubl as boing worthy o present of Meiusen chitin, which accordingly waa manufacturod and geut to him, +Tho acquiroment of almost every picture in that gallery bas o histoty connceted with it that would mako aw ontertalving book, Tho vicissis tudes of tha Lolbein Mzdonna i fike & page of fletion. Tho mmiable Queen of King Augustus UL adopted tho pleasant custom of gratify ing lior royal busband’s esthetic tastos by pre- gonting him on hig birthdays and othoer fehtivals o contly pieturo that at last found its wayinto the gallery, - After soveral yeurs' continuanco of the practize, the Queen thought to make o chaugo iu hor presont. Tho Court jeweler had roceivod from Paris a handsome Spanish caus, the ourved handle being set with raro and precious atones. ‘Ihe price was moro oven than & fino picture, but the Court Marshal ndvisod the Queon to takoit. Bhe did £o, aud presented it to ler busband ou his baptismsl nonivorsary, ‘fhe Riug sceepted 1t in great good humor, examined it on overy side, but white expressing his aduir- ation, eurprised hia wifa by suddenly exclaim- ing in a paive voico, *“But wiere, thou, i3 my pittura? " 111789, thres pictures, Corrogrio’s Magdalone, tho Decuion of Parls, by Vou der Wertf, and a picturo by Boybold, woro stolen from tho gallory. i(hio Inapector, filled with tho deopest Korroyw, reposted ono morning to tho Count Mlurcolinl that duriog the past tempeatuous night some ouo had broken tho jron Lara protecting the windows, taking out a pano of glasy, en- terad tho gallery, and abstracied tho thres pictures. 'The Count immediatoly orderod notices posted fn all public places, offaring 1,000 ducats for tholr ruturn, Great oxcltoment pro- vailed, and many artitices wero recomwmonded to digeover tho thiof, Among the rest, tho incon~ rolablo Inspootor received a loitor from Gera charactoristic of tha times, rocommending as an infalliblo means of fiuding the porpetiator that the words, ** Agmoet Molach, Aglat, Aglat, de- lny," bo placed ovor tho broken window of tha door of tho gallery. Dat it was not necessar) to try tho experiment, for tho reward had al- rendy bad ity effect, The lamp-lightor, on his Tounds to oxtinguish the light at 4 o'clock one morning, found Lwo of tho pictures with an nuonymons loiter in & possngo lending to the gal- lery. Thess he delivered to tho police, ‘The lotzer appoiutod a plseo whoro the 2,000 ducats should ho placed, in & holo nour o nulestone on o travoled road, promising laler to loave tho third pleturo iu_the kame place, An unde- clded nuswor wia laid in tho desigunted spot and o sateh stationed near. Hofore the lettor wag takon out, summons reached the polica that twe inon hud beon heard discussing thoe worth of the srones in the frame of the Magdalone, Ono lived on the roud whoro tho money was to bo liid. A veeslpt given by him while In miltary seryico wou comparod with tho anonymous letter, aud tho haudwritiug found to bo tho wsnte. Ho was nrreated, but bitlesly donjod the accusstion, A cnvetul kearch of his bouwss, howover, rovealed the lost picturs. As it was brought forth ho Tointed, and aftersvard mado full contosslon, F'ho coucenlod picture wus rogeived with shouty of neoismation by the overjoyed publie, who shuddored to thivk of this™ Leautiful work of axt boing dostroyed by ruthless hands, e costly framo was thon yemoved frum tho Mogdalone, a8 it doubtless was tho tomptution to the costly thate, Tho oulprit, in his conlepsion, #ald, lad he succeeded in hiy thet, he intondod to noll his Lousohold goods uud go immedintoly to Amories, Lhivin 1788, Verlly, the * goodold thnes" wero not 1auch better than now, In 1810, » smull picture in tho style of Hol- Doin wok tutssod, and nover found, After ths, all of conveyabla size wore nailod fast to tho wulls, Insplto of this procaution s womau, 1 1810, oueccoded in wbstracting vue, hut wis diy. covored while uA‘mlusbu for wale iu Lol pale, At tho solge of the Dresdon lu the sevon yoars* war, {ho ohofcoat plotures of tho gallory wore removed fo the frontiors of Koniguteln. Only five of tho remaluing aves woro injured by o bomb-aholl, that pouetrated tho building, * It bocamo necossary, tn tho courso of time, to have many of the pictures cleanod. Palmraok, from Romie, was eungagod ta do the work. Tor his Inbor for ans yoar in Drosdon, he waa pstd 6,613 tholors, and 100 thaters for matorials. 116 10- celved more for rentorings tha ** Lin Motte " than Corregplo did for tho original, the artint racolv~ fl'g only 140 thalers for this wonderful procros- on, T'ho pama varied fato followed the rink tapes- triea nftor Raphnel'a cartoous that hung in tho round liall, Appoaring and dissppoaring, hiddou nud found in n{:l chosta aud garrots, thoy uow, 1iko tho paintings, have n beautiful:homa o the " Zwinger,” where, lot us hopo, they mil hang for agos undisturhed, To tha expensivo tastos of Count Von Drull tho gallery {n in {udebted for ons room of ox- quisito postiles, Ilohad engaged Canaletto to bonutify hie palnce. = Aftar his doath thoro was not onowgh of the ostato loft to tomunorato tho paluter, and tho Bax- on Court bought tho paintings. Among tha portraits aro tho celobratod porsons fn tlio Court of Augusatus the Strong aud Augustus tho Magnlficont.—the brave Maurico of Suxony and his boantiful sinter, Orezolnka, the first lovo of Frodorick the Groat; old Istacl Mengt, with his colobrated son; and the well-known *chocolate rirl)! who was lator o Countoss Dietriclstein (tho pleturo is woll known from the numborloss coplos); tho daurouro ard Countoss Cocooll, whio shona later ut Ban Soucl; Annibali, tho fino singer aud pet of the Indien; Mingoti, tho fa- moun primn donna, and mony others, * Yes," enys the chroniolo, * thoy muat be painted fn astile. Dnetilo waa tho color of tholr century— uttorlly dust for the fluttering buttertlios, vo- luptuous moths of day and night. Who could hve delinaated thom in oll, or molded thom in tho ruggod stylo of Giottiz" THE VON ARNIMS, Who They Are and Whenco They Cumes Derlin (Oct, 22) cbyr;inon;l'emu of the New York erald, a Noarly bialf a contury beforo the then Duchy of Brandenburg had cloakod itaelf in the trap- pinge of & full fledged Kinzdom we read of an Armmin tho servico of the *‘ Groeat Elector” Yrodorick William, who ruled contemporaugous- Iy with the **Lord Protector” and the * Morry Monaretr.” ‘T'uo npmoof von Arnim was not entirely un- Lnown to fama bofore the presont ** unplonuant- neas” botween tho Count Ihr:'y von Arnim and the *‘man of blood and iron* who wields tho powor of both the Prussian Kingdom aud tho Gormon Empive, Thoro was o von Arnim_on- gogod in the diplomatio sorvice of tho Hobon- zollern monarcuy about hsif acontury ago, whose rocord of travols is still a model of cleny nud por- spicuous Gormnn, aud his work upou Napoleon 1.’s conduct toward Prussis, writton by bim in Engtinh, shows that ho was hiot altogothior de- void of political ivgight. IIo wad o courtly gal- 1aut, and, like Sir Philip Syduoy, ho nepired to Do all things to all men, and to” mako every do- purtmont of kuowledgo his province, and fu con- Bequenco boonmo tho wuthor of woveral rathor Indifloroue poems and of one thoroughly oxe- crable play which has damnod him to presumably 1ot overlaating ridioulo. Almost contompuraneously with this Arvim of many parts thoro ilourished wnother Arnim, whogo momory is uo doubt doar to those of his countrymon and wowen, whose youth was in jta primne & quarter of a century or moro ago. His romancos possoss all tho grace and unreality of those ot Balzao, with o tluvor of naughtiness un- happily but too common 1 tue litecutare of Lis country, and his wifo, Lkuown ny *Botins,” ‘whose correspondeuce with Goothe is about as agraeable reading an ono can wish on s summer’s duy or winter's oveniug, buw been made famous by ber own writings, and by Ler not altogoiber Linnioleus connoction with™ the greatest among tho poots of tho nineteontls contury. TFollowing him—De died in 1831—the next Ar- nim of apy prominenco was tho fathor of tue Count who has fallou uudor tho disploasure of DBismarck. o held various diplowmatic positiona in the Prussinn sorvice, aud, before tho advent to power of Bismarck, in 1852, heporformod the duties of Ministor of Forcigu Aifaira to tho satis- faction of tho Junkor, or high tory, patty. 1lia namo will probably be but lttle remombored ton years hence; in fuct, if it had not boen for his Bon's present notorioty, the oblivion which had 2imost enshrouded bim would never Lave been raised. 1o was a mau of fair, but not grout or brilhaut abilitioy; » man who performs tho rou- tino of his dutics seatisfactorily enougly, but who can neither conceive nor execute enterpriges of gront pith and moment, and who is ot asido for same boulder, atoutor, and ablor stutosman as Boon as clouds appear on tho horizon and dangor thireatens tho ship of stote. Count Honry von Arnim, who lately had the lionor of occupying quastors in the Borlin polico station, is now ahots 60 years ago. He outorcd the diplomatic servive, and, aftor baving held a number of minor posts nbrosd ko was sent to Ttomne at tho olose of the Austro-Prussian war of 1860, It was geuerally belioved that ho wasa favorito of Bismiurck, sud, consideriog that Lo way seut to Paris at & moat critical poriod it doss wot require nny very gront strotch of credulity to supposo that tho Cfancollor looked with 2 kind- Iy oyoupon tiim. 116 is & man of fine_presouco, o fluont gpeaker and of considorablo talont, Le- sides, bo was and still is very popular ot Court and in *' gociety,” rod Bismarck, gruf? and self- aufliciont a8 ho 8, kuows woll enough that * go- cioty " and tho Court have still coosiderable in- fluence in sbaplug tho courso along which tho Btato must travol. Belf-interost, if nothingmore Rouerous, probabdly induced him to win von Ar- nim to his side, 'Che Jatter was, no doubt, to a cortain extent made tho confidunt of the loimer's plang, snd, 68 always happens whon two inti- mato friouds fall out, tho prescut quarrel is os- coedingly bitter, and von Arnim’s chauncos for {urther political advancoment are very slim in- deed, 1t i3 truo he is rolated by marriago to the Itoyal family, but that, stranye’as it may soom, will ot help bim wmuch. Very mauny of the Arvims aro wenliby sud occupy” good “positions under the Government, but thoy are not going to run thoir necks into a nooso to sorve an in- disereot relation. The nama of the “State” iy o tower of strength in Prusuia, and, as Bismarck Lias invoked that name, 1 docs nobseom at all probable that the lnte Ambassador at Paris will come out of the fight otherwise than as & politi- cally ruined man. His fathor-in-lnw, Count Arniw-Boitzenburg, Governor of Alsaco and Lot raine, came post kiusle to Berlin on learning of his son-in-law’s nrrest, but a day's sigy thore convivced bim of the advisability of roturning to his post and waking no further fuss about tho mattor. If hio cau do nothing who of all tlo Arnims 18 to do anythiug ? Jeff. Davis for President in 1876, L'rom the Washinglon Chronicle, As strangoly a8 the above caption may strilte tho ears of loyal peopls, it is by no mesus im- possiblo af reslization. The Coustitution pro- vides that ju caco no candidale sball roceive a wajority of all {he electoral votes, the Houso of Ropresontatives shall procead to olocs ono from tho throe candidates having rocoivad tha lnrgess number. Insnch an eloction the mombors will vote by States, each Btate boing _eutitlud to ono vote. Houco a majority of the Reprosentatives from oach State will bo able to cast its vote for President sud Vice-Presidont, Of tho Btates Which lavo elacted Roprosontatives in the Torty-fourth Congress, it iu olaimod by our op- pouents that nineteen are Dewocratio, with & possibility of socuring still othors. Ninctoen, Lowever, {s & majoaty of sll the Btatos luthe Union, Being sure of the House, tho Domo- cratlo Jeaders moy deem it prudent to endenvor to provent an olootion by tho psople, and run tiwo Democratic eandidutes, ona in the outh nud one {n the North, Inthat coutlugency Jotferson Davis might provo to bo their most available Houthorn candidato. In tho nbsonce of the exo- cutfon of the Inforcomant law lo could carry every Southern Btato of the Unlon, Should the eloctoral votes of o fow Biutes of tho North aud Wast bo cast for somo othior Democratic candi- dnte, sud the residuo, being loss than half of all, Do cast for o Ropublican cundidate, the elaction would go to the Houso, whera thae vote, as we suld, would bo oot by Btates, and, of courso, for oue or tha other of the Demuctatic esndidates, aud by pacty courtesy, and in fairnosy, should be givon to tho one whiom » anjority of said Domo- cintio Congrossional dologations might profer, aod this would unquestionably be My, Davis in preforauca to nuy wan that could bo uemed in tho North, boceuie the controlliug wajority of #aid delegations would, in the contingoney wo have sapponed, be from the Bouth, Buch & proposition wowld not, na somo may suppose, Bhock the Novthern Domocratic sonto of propristy. It would bo diflieult to asslzn any roason for rofecting Mr. Davis which would nos apply fo moutly overy othor Dowocrat of tho wountry, except that his political disabilitios have not baon removod, and that ho partieipated por- sovally in the Warof the Rebollion ; wud even Ropublicans could not, and Demacrats would not, weist upon the latter abjeotion us a yulid obstruction, becsuse they fins been yloldod In the Coustitutions] Amendmenta, in tho statuton, and hy tho practice of iwvo Rapublican Aduinis- tratlons: aud Demaorats could ol be oxpostod o roguyd the formner ans iusuporable, for Mr. Davis did nothing in the vecont War which the great loadors of the Damocratic perty of the North havo not inslsted wil uloug he wud Lis awsociates Lisd tho constitutional right to do, Wo axo, therotore, unable 1o peroiivo any aule clont ronson which a Democrat could nsaign for refuslog ta voto for Mr. Davis for tho Chiaf Exgcutive oflico. THE BEVEN SLEGPERS, The Logend Explainad—\Who They Wore, What They Did, and Sow oy Siepte Ren, G, U, Wenner in the Lutheran Home Monthly. Yor more than 1,000 yoars tho logend of tho Hevon Bleepora hias bean told 1o plous song and story. Who were thoso Soven Blooparu? Is it ouly s monkish legong, an inveution of the *‘dark agos 2 Or ls tho story truo, or Las it at lonst an historfenl basls 7 1t was in the year of our Lord 250 that Doclus, {hio most inhuman of ll tho oman Emporors in bia poraccution of tho Ohristiany, in making & tour through Lis Provincos, arrived at Ephicsus, in Asia Minor, Christianity had siroady obtaine od n foothold hioro, although tho gront majority of thie peoplo atill adhored to the boathon relig~ fon. Upon his arrival, tho Emperor ordercd o sacriflcial fortival to bo held iu honor of Jupiter, Apollo, and Disua. In thia foatival ovory ona was commandol to take part, nudor ponaity of Incuwrring lhnIm‘mrlnl disploasuro in caso of ro- fusa). Among tho Ohristiaus of tho city wero #oven youths, degcondants of noblo families, Tho names of six of them woro Maximilian, Mat- ohuy, Dionyaius, Joannes, Serapio, aud Conysiua, Thouo determinad to dio rathor than to oboy the mandeto. As soon s Docius heard of thoir do- tormivation, ho commanded thom to bo brought before him. **Go," enld he, **ant procurs in- censo that you may offer to tho higbest powers,” “Tho liigheat Power,” they ropliad, * has His throuo in the honvans, and s the living and Al- mighty God, who hathi croatod beaven and earth, Him wo worshp, Fathor, Bon, and Holy Spirit, sud we ean never again bow down to dumb idols that aro nothing." With tornblo glanco the Emperor moasures tho youthful confessora. Thon guddenly chavg- ing bis manner, ho endeavors to win them by his promisos aud bis argamonts, Tor ho know well that martyrdom wonkd pour oll on fiames bo was trying to quenoh. Faillug tootinin his object by thireats aud promisce, hio tells them that ho will graclously accord thom timoto consider tholr res- olution until ho should again return to Ephesus, sud informs thom of tho torrible consequences If they should mill coutinuo their stubborn ro- slatanco, Withi & oaim courago the young men departed from the presenco of the Emperor. 1y the citi= zony of Ephesns they woro prescribed ; by many, however, secretly admired. Dotermined not to renounco thelr “faith, they, however, docided to avoid the monater ss much ag posalble. With this object they betook thomselves to a rango of - mountaing in” the usighborhood of Epheuus. Thero they discovered a cave, tho ontrance to which was conconlod with thick follage. In thia cavo thoy lnd themselves, and one of their num- bor, Meichus, the ono least knownin the city, was sppoiuted to supply them with food. Tho day of the Emporor's relurn arrived. One of tho first quostions was coucarning ** the stub— born youths.” “‘Thoy Liave escaped,” was tho reply. Dut their concealment had been discov- ored. Spies had followed them, and purchased the Emperor’s favor by rovealiug tho placo of concealment, Docius, knowiog well ‘that he could not bopo to change tho purposo of the youths, gave commaud to close the mouth of the cave with o wall, and thus close thom in a living tomb, No sovucr eaid than done. ‘I'iero was ono man, howover, who, though still » heathon, Lad hieard tho Gosps!, and was not far from the Kingdom of God. esiving that fur- ther gencrations might kuow whoso bones rested thero, hio took & roll of parchment, and, writ- ing on it tho names of tho youths and nn ac- count of their courageous bearing, inclosed it in an iron cagket, and, unobserved by the work- men, alipped it into the cave, and then quietly withdrow. Mauy s scoffiog ** good night * was called aftor them by tho brutal populace that evening iu the streots of DEphesus, Many a tondor *good night ¥ did tho Chiigtians &end after them in thoir prayers. Anud Ho who proscrved David in the cuvo of Adulbam, and rescued Daniel from tho den of lions, heard thoir prayor, The Light of doy had for them faded away. Dut thoy re- mowbered, *“Ho giveth Iy beloved slecp.” They lay themsclves down and sleep, Softie thelr slumber, and no danger is nigh. Itis as though holy angels had encamped roand about thiom, Wo will leavo thom to their Jsloep, and writo over thow on tho dark rock tho words of Dayid ; * How excellont is thy loving iindnoss, 0 God! therofora the children of meu put their trust undor tho shadow of thy wings.” 'Tiino passes on wwilt wingd, Gouerationscome and go like phantom spirits, About 187 yemrs Iater we aro again in Ephosus, Lut how chang- ed is tho sceno! Decius, tho tyrant, is moulder- ing in his grave. The world is complotely clinnged. i A wealthy land-owner desires _to moke some improvements in Lis estate. In senrching for suitable building materisl ho finds an old wall with large aquaro atoncs. The blocks ero essily romoved, and tho mouth of & cave is revealed. It is the cavo of tho Soven Slooper, whoss his- tory had long sinco passed into oblivion. Tho rays of light enterlug for the flst time aftor so many yeais awakened thoyouths. ‘Chey thanked God that doliverance ind como €0 soon. For they supposed but & einglo night had passed sinco thoy woro imturod. Malohus was again sent to tho city for bread, But the way soamied very strange to him. And what was his aatonisbient to find over tho very ates of tho city o glitteriug cross, Intho city fiuzlf ho can ecarcely trust bis sensos. Them- agos of tlio gods wore romoved. In the place of tno Leatben temple ho uotices building with proud domes and glittoring crosaes, avd in tho forum by Lioars tho witnesden swoar by the om- nipotent God, yes, even by tho nane of Christ, inytead of Dinua and Apollo. o thivks it in s dream. Accosting a mun on tho stroet, ho asks Lim tha name of thto city. *‘Cha name of the city ls Bphesus,” way tho reply. * Canit bo that this is Epbesus, whore but a fow days ago wo wero proseribed by the Imperial odict,” was the thought of Malchus. Iut mindful of his er- rand, hie ontered a baker's shop and offers in poyment for bread a silver coin, Tho baker took the coin and carofully examined it: *Thig is & very suciont coin,” said bo; ** why, it Lears the Imapo of Decius, _Whero did you obtain it?” “Whero iy Deciug ?" waa the reply of Malchus, ¢ Haa Le loft tha clty, Rud if vo, whon " Tho baker and the crowd that had gathered in the meantime, looked at Mulelins, and scomed to ro- gard him as one who had lost his renson, One of them domanded to know wiore he bua diecover- ed the liddon tropsure, TFinally Malchus was takon bofors tho Bishop of tha city. "Tho Bishop wan n raverond and dignified man, In o kind manuer ho asked Maichus who lio was wud whonce ha came, Malchus replicd that ho was ono of the sevon youtks who had recently hoen immured in the gratto at the command of the Emperor Decius, but that tho Lord their God hiad agaiu given them light and freedom. *Tha Emporor Decius? It s nearly 200 yoars eince Declus sut upon the throne, Many Em- perors have reigned eince then. Theodosius now roigns by tho graco of God, Ifeathondom has long elnco fallen. Tho cross is overywhere vic- toriouy, But tell me, where aro your six com- paulon? Bhow us the cava,” ‘Thus gpoko tho Diskop., And Malchus led Llim to tho cave, followod by an immonsa con coureo of Olristizos, Inihe cave they found tho iron casket with tho parchment rol), coatain- ing & full account of thoir history. For twa ceu- turies tho youths had slept, and now they avoko to 4ce & ragoueratad world, ‘Tho Biohop hastenod to spnd an scoount of the matter to ‘Lheodoains at Constantinople, Tho Emnarur bimuelf hastoned to Ephosus to Dehold tho wonder. But the youtbw, obedient to an tnner volee, 1n tho sumo hour that AMglchus rawnned, bind agaln lald down, and the Lord took their souis to hoaven. —_—— Atent Mummicss Dr. Dall, of tho naval expedition northward through Bolring’s Btraits, describes some Aleut mumiuies found on the lsland of Four Moun- tuing, Soveral havo beon brought away by the Alagka Comuerclul Contpany. In o cave tivelve mummiea in good coudition wero found, besides rude carvings and woapons. The bodies wore slwply oviacorated, stulfod with grass, dried haid, and covered with mattiog and eecal-skio, They aro probably not more than a hundred years old, The body of au old chief was moro curefully wrapped thnn tho othora, It hadas dyosy of fur ovor 4 Wooden armor, such sa the Alouts formerly wore, aud wora placed in a sit- tiug posture in o baslet, coverod with water- yruo( sldns carefully sown togotbier. ‘L'his sud 1o other bodion axo aupposed 1o hava beon af lleat susponded from the roof of the cave, 'They gul h(n vrosented to tha Ban Francisco Holoutitlo Society. . Monster Pitce, Mr, Frank Buckland writos in Land and Water: ‘' His ]lfl{ll Uighness Prince Olristian was so vory kind, on Weduendey laut, a8 to send o, in chavge of Mr, Xeone, hoad fishormau {n the Windsor Parls, tho niost splandid pllie £ over be- hold. Huving undorstood thet Raploy Luke, noar’ Bagsbot Parks, which belongs to tho Toyal domain, bnd not boon dragged for upward of 1ifty years, Mr, Koens put i the uots in order to ropors tu tho Filneo what wtook of tlsh Lo bad there, ‘he not brought out & number of cap, tenoly, ete. Keouo thought from the commotion in the net that he bad caught un uousially largo flsl, Whon the net shosled he was deliglited to find a monster pike In it 'The flsk ran Em.»uon Liis logs aud noatly upwet him, Ilo took hie piize ot 9490 10 Cumberland Lodge to tho Princo, who was pood enongh to gend it on o mo imme ldntely. ‘Ting magnificent flsh wolghed no_lces than 05 pounda ; Jongth, faot 103 nclics; girth, 4 faot. 1 novor saw & flah fn such porfec candition bofora ; tho oye was excoodingly hul\u: {iful, the Liond n‘muo like mmokod iuther-o'- poatl, evory senla wan perfoct, and fing us rod ng o porch; four black bars oxtonded romo distanco from tho tatl upward, plving the fish n zebra-liko nppenranca, Mr. Koono anked mo what I thought wna tho ago of tha fish, I guonsed off-hand from 12 to 16 years, and it really appears that I wan not vory far wrong, for about twelva [ycnm 8go Bir Jnmos Clark’s butler put sx or elght jack, \mlahlng apout 114 pounds each, into Rapley Lnko, 'Whis grest piko was probably tho lnst of thom, who lind very likely euten up “all the_rent. The figh was & fomals: " the roo wolghed afig founds, and contalned ovor 48,000 ogys, 'I'ho only rogrot I hiavo fa that thin frophwator shark was not kopt aliye and uent to Brighton Aqua- rium, . Ho shoutd havo baoon tothored by tho gilla 111 T eamo vith o carrlor for him, Thnt this part of tho loyx! domain ia woll adanted for growing DLig piko {5 ovidont, innamch a8 not many yenrs 050 4 Ind, who had gono Into Buglomero Pona (near Ascot Honth) tobathe, was attacked and goveroly worrlod by & pike. I have meds two molds of this grand fisk, Thin pike is undoubt- adly tho largost pike in my colloction, and the w0 noxt approaching in sizo are a pike from tha Norfoll Broads, 83 pounds, and 3lr. Rooper's colabrated piko, which he was fortunato onough to entelt with rod and lino in Lock Awo, in 1863, 1 nood hardly fay that Tand tho public in gen- ornl aro_much obliged to his Royal Iighuces Prince Christian for preserving this fish, aud en- abling me, in tho interest of seienco, to perpotus ate ita magnificent propoitious and wnusual welght,” TUE OLD FRENCH NOBLESSE. The Prince of Wales Among the Grent Fomilics of Frances From the London Speetator, protty roproduction of & Wattean fn color and rcix-m.hbut the background did not l.\nrmnnl:: }\' zull 0 gavoly, Tha backaronnd wan atoopod i the binck shadow of tha Itevolution, Tho company could not bo very asy whon thoy did not “'9]}' whnt political ovont might turn up noxt, whon llm{ koow that n suddon chango of governmant mlgnt asnteneo somo of themt to exilo, and when bullsting wore coming to them respeeling th remult of the cleotions in thio Pase de-Calaly, tue Alpoa Maritimes, and tlio Belno ot-Ofo. Tho correapondant of 'tho Times saya thot they wore much troubied aftor dinnor gy tho nows of the Republican victoricn, All tha avaty flod, ard they seemed 1o havo forgotton tholr visitor for & momont, 1t the Drinco had & turn for philosophioal rofleation ss well ne for [llwnnnul-ahoullug. bo nay have thought thay lio gayaty of Vonatlan lanterus wantod ayot: of hieatt to mako it hatmonlous, and that gnél\ { spiit cu%l;tifhonl:lfly o withia the reachof noblos. who aro in] atd ngatust a st ko to bolmetvugm‘;. SHiamiich sy o Prinoo fs fond of taking s of cupbonrds, Lo will Lave lonux:l ‘;n:,e‘::fiu‘:?‘ grim spocimon at Ohanilly. That Glann e, ouce nmoug the grandest in Frauce, aud it vias typieal abodo of foudal glory, The Groat Conda Who was its owner represented all that wasg most brilliant in the noblesso, bofaro they foll victims ta the enervating atmosphiero of tho Court, Dat for mich mon ko, thoy would nevor liave fillgd 80 great o place i history, aud Richoliou would not biava nocded to brealk their powar, Tha des cendant of {he Gront Conde, tho iastof the Dues Do Liourhon, who iwas, liowaver, nat lens. otriklag o typo of 'tho montal feobleness into which the novles foll in thelr later days, Tho Tiovolution geemod to havo smitten him with moral paralysis, and his vast wonlth holped ta choin h™mggwn to a ntate of_sploudid misery, Through the reigns of Louls XVLIL, and Charles X. bo livad at Ohantilly and ather housea alinost lko s Lormit, and during his later yoara ho was w0 despotieally ruled by lis mistress, 2 low-born iehwoman, 1t the visit of tho Prince of Wales to the Duo Do La Rochefoucauld-Bisncela, the Duc Do T're- mouille, the Duchesse Do Luynes, and the Duc D’Aumale hus not tho alightost politionl signifl- oauce, it shows, at loast, that tho old French noblotse still keap up fuch of the statolinesa which markod their lives boforo ths Kovolution tried to sweop them nll nway, Tho Prince visited nothing less than a Duko or Duckesse of tho grandost linesge, Iis first entortainor boars & ueme whick cannat bo cut out of Frouch hustory. The La ftochofoucaulds woro groat names beforo tho Prioce's own family bad reachod tho English throne, Wo cannot go through auy literary or plotorial gallery of the xaign of Louis XIV, with out meoting at evory tura tho splendid sud heoghty noble who bore that nomo. 3L De La Rochefoneauld, au bio is painted for us by tbo Duc Do Suint-Simon,is alwoys making astirat Court by the favor which he receives from the Xing, snd by tho fidelity with which ho ropnys his masto:'s bounty. o 8carcely ever quita the Court, oven to poy a visit, ond Lo never doos 8o without ask- ing leave from the Kiug. Although he is shovi~ sightad, o always goos with his moster on bis hunting expeditions, Tho frankest ond the houghtiest of men, ko seys to Louis what no otlior porson dares to whisper, and tuo Mimstor Louvois doos hia the honor {o fear bis comity, Although lving m the most veluptuous of Conrts, ho hates all womon, aud Lo is bimself bated by Mmo, Do aintonon., Mme. Do Bevigue, who ofton spenks of him, seomed to think it & marl of his real goodnesd, Lowever, that ko shonld have keoniy feit tho death of his mother. A splondid and lordly noblo, b is vet &0 caroloss as to bo the pm{,et Lis valota, Bue- cess haa como Ro easily to bim that he cannot measura its value, aud yot Lo is filled with envy when tho Kiug gives away an abboy or a Bishop- ric at tho bidding of ony otlior courtior. At last ho commits thio unpardonablo sis of woary- ing Lonis, and, when many robuffs bring tho fact to bis mind, ho anita the Court to bury him- golf 1n o country house, in much'the same spirit as Mmo. Do La Valliore takes tho veil whon sho loses tho favor of Louis througli the newor fas- cinations of Mma, de Montespun. The absolute dovotinn of 80 baupbty a noblo as M. Ds Lo Rocliofoncauld to the King, nnd hia Dersous! abasemant in the prosence of majesty, Lelp to mako us understand tho feelings with which the Due Do La Rochofouenuld-Bisncel still fights for tho restorztion of the Comts do Chambord. And it needs some ofort of the imagination to callup tho stato of mind which counld thus havo made ono of the proutost men that ever breathad Le tho abject servant of another mau not a whit better brod than himsolf, go through lito in the attitudo and with the soul of a boatified lac- quey, and nb]cnfi]r fool that he was hou- ored'by tho pormission to an upper mepinl, Such a ateto of mind hos ted a0 [far away from Englapd that it is difficult for us to furm auy coucoption of it, aithough wo kuow the biatorical fact that it wad ouca an enormoua Hocial and political forco, It rogombles a van- ished fortm of roligioua faith, like that which, 500 years ago, mado tho raost bighly odueato men beliovo that their path through lifo was be- ot by witches aud deaons, Logalty was a re~ liglan to the courtiera of Louis XIV., the only roligion that most of them had; nud somo of their descendantd have beon able to keap it aliva by jealously eotting againat the blasts of enticlsm the adamauting Larrier of prajudica. Sowe of tho Trouch ramilies have ponrished their loyalty as tendorly as some of the old English nabloa have retainod their anciant Catholicism ; and just as Howard might say that his family bad never been utaived by & horady, 6o might & La Rocliejscque- lin boast that his houae had never harbored trea- don to its King. The sccret of loyalty, ns well na the secret of religious faith, ~can be transltted from fathier to son likes & rmautal instinet or a physical capacity, Tio Duc Do La Mochefoucauld, it is true, hes mixed too much with the warld, and los felt tho rough prossura of political forces too keeu‘{: to chionuh tho mora heroie detuatons of the Logitinists. Wo must go to such men os Gan. Cathelinoan or M. Do Blacuy, men who bave bound the Comte Do Chambord up with the broviary, in order to find tho old, passionate, reckless self-obasoment of loyalty, But the Princa of Wales will hava seen quite enough of that devotiou to muke him retloct ou the immonso distanca whicl the Lu- glish peoplo hayo traveled from tho worship which they alao'gave to their Kiogas fu other days. Thoir loyalty wau at one time' almost as sentimental and Dlivd ay that of the Fronch thewsolves. Drince Charles Stuart ca doylight an astonishing amount of fre atey for Kings, aud the mowary of it still lives in many stirting traditious snd sowmo prokty songe. Bat the Stuarta had bofore that time freed tho magss of the nadon frow its roligious loyalty, aud tho House of Hanover was haply not flttad to spread the malady snow. Our loyalty isas differout from the cuciont poctical product 88 our ristocracy iu from tho Crueaders, It s strictly dotlued by act of Parlinwent, and it is, iu fuct, the fruit of n_hard bargaiu which wo have driven with our Kings. All "the moro in- terosting ia it to rea the real, old, gonunine article mooeting the Princo of Wales in chatosux which are ¢o uany historio rocords of tho immanse place that it ouce flied in tho saclety of Luropo. ‘I'ho P'rince wont to see anothor gravd noble, thie Dug do Tremouillo, whose namo slio lits through the tocords of thetime whou the Qourt of Krunco wna muost splendid and most recklens, ‘'le corvospoudeut of tho Times gives a very protty picture of tho propurationy that wers 1ondo for tho arrival of the visitor. ‘The cssllo way to be decorated with tlowera and Venotian lantoros, and nll the noble cowpnuy ot about tho task, T'he Duo do Clurlres, who is a grand- gon_of Kig Louis Pml[{:pa: tha Duchass do Chartred; tho Comte de I'hzjames, & descond- ant of tho Stusrts, and tharcfors s far-off kiugman of the Prince, helpod other nobles to put up tho Wroaths and the lights, amid much laughtor. Tuo scono must have boou vory like onu of thoso exhibitions of guyety about which the Duc Do Saint-Bimons sposks in Lis gowsip- ing way, on which Mme. Do Sovigna qasts tla wparkle of hor pen, und which live ou tho cunvas of Watteau. 'T'he Court-life of Frauca has Leen largely handed down to us in the fonm of theso plotures, Yho clironiclors do not tell us much about busincss ; thoy say nothing about tho come nion people, except it bo to wouder at aud ourse {hoir growing sullenuoss und insubordmatiou ; they speak ofton and muck about the sermond in which the Pare Bourduloue and Mgr, Bussuet did thomselves and the Gospol the Lonor of proechiug to tho Court; buc they say most of all about gayety. Life might elmont scem to have movor had A werious busiuesa for tho youpln that weo meat within tho pages of Muwe. Do Sovigue, ‘Thic gravest event uppears to be tho doatl of & cowrtror o the displeasuro of tho Rivg: and in (rath, hor corronpoudants and hor frionds aro all ao high in rank, and the vleboian throug is so far out of aight, as ta leavo uo room for wondor that tho eruphic throvg should bave lud nothing ta do, oxcopt ta drosa, visit, goasip, tuake ropurtecs, hunt, studv the caprices o laie, Do Maintenon, aud worship Louis, ‘They woro tho most Lelllaut set of triflers evar acou in this aillictod world. Generations of pawpared easa und the fascinationy of the Court Lad wade them unfls to do auything better with thefr thne {han to form oty subjects for tho pictures that Lave coms ciown to un on Bovres-ware, Awmong thow, of courye, wero men of strong in- tolicet aud farco palmona ; tnou who, when tried by advereity, would dovelop into such Lorotg, ctuel fauntics ra Victor llugo Loy drawn with exaggurated lincs iu tho Marquis De Lantenco. But it ju the splendid tntling of the Court which hau cbioty wrilton isolf upon hia- fory, aud wo effert can bring the spirit of that telillug buok again, The group of Duken sud Dughiooses st Hambouiliot may Lave buou s vesy Engli that ho hind uo will of his own, ugn Wwag pore suadod to leavo his woalth to tho Duo D’Aamale, aftor & otlen of nogotistions i1y which tho mis: trogs had 8o largo A nbaro that they do not form an edifying chaptor of domestic diplomacy ; and thentho DusDoBourbou banged himuolf ononight wlith tho window-cord of his bedcoum, At firet, Li valet aud oven i mistross wore suspooted to have murderad bim, but thero was no sufle clont evidenco to prove that thoy wors guilty, and the Iast of tho Princan of Condo must, ba held to havo porished by Lio own Land beesuse hio was bored with oxlstenco. A pictura of theold nobleese 85 o Ao them in theso dayaof theie sliattored glory wonld bo incomplote it ¢ did not find raom for tho louely, idls, listloss, minorabls Dua Do Bourbon, a8 well as for tho Legitimiste who have boen giving the Princo of Wales s aight of such pomp s thoy have resouod fro of tho Novolution, e —_—— ;fw;: Stories Mixed, Arom the Dayton (0.) Denocrat, Unela John Sholby, an “kl) backwoods hunter, ona night undertool 'to_entortain & company of bar-room sitlera with the narration of bis ap~ pearance in “running down" a door, The grouud, he said, was covered with 6 inches of Buow, on which the rain lad falien and boen {xoznnl&fur_min;: & crust sufliclontly stroug to Bear his weight. In the moining ho discovered tho tracks of o doeer, and started afler it, with tho doterminsiion of rauniog it down, Aftor describing tbe courso takon, and dotniling the diffevent incidents that occurrod during the chago, Lie said that sbout noou ha folt somewhat woary aud hungry, and, standing his gun against o fauce, Lo jumped iulo o corntleld nnd pulled somo roastiug-oars, on which ho proposed to meka 8 meal, **What, Unclo Johu, snow on tho ground, and ronsting oara?—that won't do,"” eaid ono of ths compoy. ** Hald on, boys," eaid Unclo John, “I’ve made o littlo mistake, and got tvo stories mixod 1 1t oceura to ue that tho Democracy hava gob two fluancisl stovies slightly mixed,—tbst thero is u wnow in Now York and ronsting-ears in Olto! —_— Cavitics in the Lungs. A peculiar method of treating pulinonsry eav~ aties in phtbisie, pursuod by Prof, Mosler of icsbaden, ie described as consisting in the in- jection of cortain drugs throngh tue wall of the chiost, and leaving the canuls iy, 80 08 to repeat tho oporation at discretion. o bas even made 8D incivion into the wall of tho oavity, inserted m silver tubo or olastio catheter, and sueceeded in drawing awey the secretion nd in disinfocting tho pyogouis wolls by moans of wonk carbolie acid lotions. It ia stoted that no dificulty was oxperionced in tho oporation, and the condition of tho patiout was fmproved, tho cough becom-~ ing less troublosomo aud the febrile symptoms epparently moderated. Ouo point ob Juast1a ro- garded ax gottlad,~and it is cortainly one of EBreat importanco,—so far as conld be by & few experimouts of this character, namely, that tho Jocal troatment of puimonary cavities isun- doubtodly practicablo, ang that the Jung is really mole toloraut of external intorforence than beon gonerally bolisved, —— England to Australin vin Americad Tho Euglish ship-owners have found the vaye ago betweon Engtand aud Australia can be mudo #0 much rore rapidly by way of the Pacifio Rail- road and the steamera connecting San Franclsco with Auatralia than it has bithorto boen made by tle English Australian steamors, that they have undertvken to meot tho compotition of the Amorican route by bullding steamers of uousual spoed. Tho St. Oayth, which has rocently left London, is expocted to reach Australia in fcrg- fivo dayw. Inorderto do this ehe carrics sufile ciont coal to avoid tho necogsity of stopping to coal at Cape Town. It I quite posaiblo that the St. Osyth moy make the voyage in forts-fiva days ; but, i order to do thiy, sho carrics 2,000 tona of conl, and 60 bas vory little spaco left for freight. Vessels can hardly afford to be keptin tho Australian trade which dopend wholly upon thoir passongors as o sourco of fucome, The shortest and quickest route will command the freight traftic, and no profitable effort can ba mado to overcome this inoxorable law of com= morco. What Came from Opesing = Core respondences The Binghamton (N. Y,) Times ssya: ¢ Misa 8. M. Poliatd, of thms cily, who formerly cou= ducted tho extousive millivery ostablishment on tho corner of Court eud Water stroots, recoived a fow dsys since from tho executors of tho will of her uiiclo, hor father's brother, recontly do- coaued in San Iranciaco, Cal., » letter informing her that sho was montioned o thenwill a8 tho #olo beir of hor uncla's estate, ‘Lhe latter fusthor informad_Licr that tha catato way valued at upward of $200,000, $100,000 being mvgalcfl n londu aud real estate, and abont $105,000, conklasing of cash, on doposit In various banks in Ban Franoisca, Mr. Pollacd, wo aro iutormed, wout to Californis gnnx;y yanxsu:m,u :r:ld t:: la I nts Woro ) e b “h?r':llz olu the Postmaater &t San Lia hicce, by Wi : Yeatotses, “sacoriaiaed hor unole's addross and Throvgh corresponded with Lim. m;pux}dnucn, which revived ofd 1omories and routored family rolationship, it i0 supposed tha decoasod was actuated in making this boquost. —_— Qurlous Superstition. stition prevails ou tho Isle of A P te.offect” that childron may b presorvod from whooplig-cough by being plme in tho hopporof s mal ' \Whooping-cough,* saya tho Manx Times, “is at the prasont ime excoodingly provalont in tha aouth of the island, 2nd on Smidsy & Jarge numbor of tho childron were takon to the Grenatiy Mill, {u the Parish of Malow, S miles from Castlatowa, in order tobs Bubjeeted to the ‘charnt’ Ewo loppers of the mu? wero crammmod 1itll of cinldron, uud as soon oa thoy were comfortably aud eafely sottled, the Toilter caused the whael to ravolyo threa times, the parents of tho childron boing praseat at the timo. In ordorto bo oficactous, tha coremony must ba gono through at a time when tho minis- tora of the dlutrict are engaged in presching in their pulpits. For this readon, about noon on Bundaya s generally the timo chosou for the par fosmanco of this curious rite.” ———— Womnn in Poltics, f'be woman iu politics has twico wado Ler 8pe pearanco, duriug the racent olections. One time way in au obgaure Alabama town, whore Lalf-a~ dozou negro women, ploncers o’ the advance- ment of tholr dox, put _themselyes into pantas 1oous and Yoted, und wora subsoquontly Jsilod forit. ‘Tho other was jn Poughkvepsio, Whore Mre, Hanks, of Drooks' Sowluary, beaiing the bauner of the cruaado In the wlspe of a white apron, on which was the logend, *Yoro for 170. Dibition snd Tomporance,"—and baeked up by fivo atber womon, mado tho rouud of the polls, and distributed tomporanca tiokets, They wero joored and Jaughed at, aud tho temperance anue‘n, unfortunately, got litlo good by their wotiou, —— Gov. Dix and the Ecl-Pots. “lrom the ANWany Jaurual. Durlog s recent visit to lns homo on Long Twluud, the (lovernur was told by oue of hin farm-bands of & conversution with one or two of the tishermen, e had wskod them how itey wore goiug to volo. ** Well,” oua of them auswerad, 1 hardly know. 1'like Goy. Dix. I think ko Lms beou a good Governor, but times ara liard ; businoss ja dull, Wae don't syoyss now wore thau half xn ecl to a pot, sud I doa's kuow Lub thexs Lad boties be o